He was a member of The Actor’s Studio and won an Academy Award in 1968 for Best Actor in Charly, a film adaptation of Flowers for Algernon. Some of Robertson’s better known films include Picnic, Autumn Leaves, Gidget, Sunday in New York, 633 Squadron, Devil’s Brigade, Too Late the Hero, J.W. Coop, Three Days of the Condor, Obsession, Class, Star 80, Malone, Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken, and Riding the Bullet....
Hodgson was drafted #10 by the Vancouver Canucks in the 2008 National Hockey League Draft. He played for the Canucks from 2010 to 2012 before playing for the Buffalo Sabres since 2012. He has also represented Canada in international competition and won Gold Medals at the 2008 Under-18 championships and the 2009 World Junior Championships. Hodgson was named NHL Rookie of the Month in 2012 and was selected to the rookie All-Star Game....
Early Life Haim was born on December 23, 1971 in Toronto, Ontario. His mother, Judy, was originally from Israel and was a data processor, while his father, Bernie, worked in sales. He also had an older sister, Cari. When Haim was 11 years old, his parents divorced. His father later remarried, and Haim gained a half-brother, Daniel. Haim had a number of interests when he was young. He played competitive ice hockey and was scouted for a minor league hockey team....
Early Life DaBaby was born Jonathan Lyndale Kirk on December 22, 1991, in Cleveland, Ohio. He is the youngest of three sons, and in 1999, the family moved to Charlotte, North Carolina. DaBaby graduated from Vance High School in 2010, then he spent two years at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He has said of his college experience, “I didn’t even have a major decided at college. I only went to school for my parents....
Early Life and Education David McCormack was born on October 25, 1968 in Brisbane, Australia and grew up in the suburb of Kenmore. He was educated at Ipswich Grammar School. First Bands McCormack began his music career in 1986 as a vocalist and guitarist in the band Who’s Gerald?, which also consisted of Paul Medew, Glen Donald, and Cathy Atthow. The group released a cassette in 1986 and a single called “Wrestle Wrestle” in 1988....
Derek Jones was born in Fountain Valley, California in June 1984 and passed away in April 2020. He played the guitar and bass guitar and also sings. Jones was the guitarist of the band A Smile From the Trenches and played on the band’s EP A Smile From the Trenches in 2007 and album Leave the Gambling for Vegas in 2009. He served as the rhythm and lead guitarist as well as co-lead vocalist for the post-hardcore band Falling in Reverse....
That is, if the Dodgers want to keep the best pitcher in baseball, Zack Greinke. At 31 and with three years and $71 million left on his current deal, Greinke is going to be opting out of his current contract in order to renegotiate. Should the Dodgers want to bring him back, they are going to have to give him more than the $24.5 million a season his current contract averages....
Early Life and Education Donal Logue was born on February 27, 1966 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada to Irish Carmelite missionaries. He has three sisters named Karina, Deirdre, and Eileen. The family moved a few times before settling in Calexico, California. As a teenager, Logue attended Central Union High School in nearby El Centro. He also briefly attended St. Ignatius College in London, England during his junior year. Logue went on to study history at Harvard University....
Sprayberry has starred in the films My Father, Soccer Mom, Land of the Lost, Old Dogs, Bedrooms, and Man of Steel. He has also appeared in episodes of the TV series MADtv, iCarly, Criminal Minds, Tracey Ullman’s State of the Union, Glee, and Common Law. Sprayberry was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Performance by a Younger Actor in 2014 for his role as Clark Kent in Man of Steel....
He did a car commercial, news, and sports and was also a weatherman. He sold personalized .wav files through his website. Edwards has worked as a news graphics supervisor, general manager, operations manager, production manager, senior director, and announcer. He has had voice roles in the movies Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, You’ve Got Mail, and The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle. He also did voice work for an episode of the TV series The Simpsons in 2000....
With the win, Floyd’s record improved to 49-0. That ties the great Rocky Marciano for the best career record in boxing history. And despite the fact that Floyd has stated over and over that this is definitively his last fight ever, many assume he will eventually make a comeback, just to break Marciano’s record. When the Berto matchup was announced, people thought it was a joke. Berto had lost three of his last six fights....
Early Life Francis Ford Coppola was born on April 7, 1939, in Detroit, Michigan. He is the son of Italia and Carmine Coppola, and he is the middle of three children. Born into a family of Italian immigrant ancestry, his paternal grandparents hailed from Basilicata, and his maternal grandfather (famous Italian composer Francesco Pennino) from Naples, Italy. The family moved to Queens, New York, when Coppola was two years old. His father was working as a principal flutist for the NBC Symphony Orchestra....
While the league is still figuring out how to monetize sports betting for now, that day will one day come. And when it does, it could create a huge spike in the salary cap. That means a huge pay increase for its players. In 2016, the NBA signed a $24 billion television deal. The influx of revenue resulted in an increased salary cap. Rather than creating a system that artificially smoothed the cap out over several years, the NBA Players Association opted to just let a spike happen....
She was the third person to be eliminated from the competition. She also appeared on “Big Brother’s Bit on the Side” in 2012. Salpa was part of “FHM” magazine’s list of the 100 sexiest women in 2012, coming in fifth. She has been in several editions of the magazine, including a handful of international versions appearing in France and Indonesia. She covered the magazine’s 100 sexiest women edition in 2013....
She launched the clothing line Christensen & Sigersen with Leif Sigersen, and she created the lingerie collection Helena Christensen for Triumph. As an actress, Christensen has appeared in the films “Ready to Wear” (1994), “Allegro” (2005), “The Christmas Party” (2009), and “The Reunion 3” (2016), the TV movie “Inferno” (1992), and the shorts “March of the Anal Sadistic Warrior” (1998), “Enchantement” (2004), “42 One Dream Rush” (2010), and “Away We Stay” (2010)....
Weird Al Yankovic, also known as Alfred Matthew Yankovic, was born in Downey, California on October 23, 1959. His father always said to make a living doing whatever made him happy, so when he discovered a love of music when he was in elementary school, “Weird Al” knew what he wanted to do. He began playing accordion when he was six, and took lessons at school for three years. He was very smart for his age and started kindergarten when he was four, instead of five....
He first gained fame as a member of the groundbreaking hip-hop group N.W.A., where he was one of the primary songwriters. With lyrics that were both incisive and controversial, N.W.A.’s albums played a crucial role in popularizing gangsta rap and had a significant influence on the hip-hop genre. After leaving N.W.A. in 1989, Ice Cube embarked on a solo career that would further cement his status as one of hip-hop’s most influential figures....
Career Earnings Over the course of his professional baseball career Jeff Kent earned a total of $86 million in salary alone. He also earned several million from endorsements. His biggest annual payday came in the 2004 season when he earned $10 million from the Houston Astros. Early Life and Education Jeff Kent was born on March 7, 1968 in Bellflower, California. As a teen, he went to Edison High School in Huntington Beach....
Early Life Jill St. John was born Jill Arlyn Oppenheim on August 19, 1940, in Los Angeles, California. She is only child of restaurateur Edward Oppenheim and philanthropist Betty Goldberg. Jill’s maternal grandparents were of Russian heritage and partial Jewish descent. Her paternal great-great-grandparents were from Germany and Amsterdam. St. John grew up in Encino, and she danced with the Children’s Ballet Company. Stefanie Powers and Natalie Wood were also members of the company; Natalie would go on to marry Robert Wagner, who would wed Jill nearly a decade after Wood’s tragic 1981 death....
Joe Gebbia was born in August 1981. Gebbia graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design where he met future co-founder Brian Chesky. Chesky and Gebbia moved to San Francisco, California in 2008. They found many hotels to be overbooked while planning to attend a conference and purchased three air beds to rent out their place and make some money. The subsequently created the website Air Bed and Breakfast which eventually grew into Airbnb....
