Veteran horror movie director, producer, screenwriter and actor Wes Craven has died at the age of 76 on August 30, 2015 from brain cancer. Best known for his Scream, The Hills Have Eyes, and Nightmare on Elm Street movie series, Craven specialized in horror movies. (Wes Craven 2010 Photo: Bob Bekian | Wikimedia CC 2.0) Born … Continued
8 vintage live tunes from 70 year old septuagenarian Van Morrison – Brown Eyed Girl, Moondance, Into the Mystic, Domino, Bright Side of the Road, Someone Like You, Keep it Simple. (Van Morrison 1972 Album Cover Photo: Piano Piano! | Flickr Some rights reserved) Born August 31, 1945, baby boomer Van (George Ivan) Morrison was … Continued
I think I spend about three hours a day in my kitchen. Just when I get a meal or snack prepared, served and cleaned-up, it seems to be time to eat again. I guess that is the norm for busy families that are constantly on the go. Yet, while the kitchen is one of the … Continued
Sean Connery Part 2 of 2 – World’s Sexiest Man, Senior (Sean Connery 1971 Diamonds Are Forever Photo: Rob Mieremet) Leaving the James Bond franchise behind him, in the early 1970’s Sean Connery went on to star in movies like: The Anderson Tapes (1971) co-starring Dyan Cannon, Martin Balsam, Alan King, Christopher Walken, Margaret Hamilton, … Continued
Q1. The Dick Van Dyke Show won 15 Emmy Awards during it’s 5-year run from 1961 to 1966. How many of them were for the show’s creator and supporting actor Carl Reiner? Q2. In the 2004 reunion movie The Dick Van Dyke Show Revisited, which of the original primary cast members – Dick Van Dyke, … Continued
Maureen O’Hara continued to act steadily in movies throughout the 1950’s and 1960’s, including baby boomer favourites The Parent Trap (1961) with Hayley Mills and Brian Keith, and Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation (1962) with Jimmy Stewart. Brian Keith and Maureen O’Hara were paired again onscreen in The Deadly Companions (1960). Below, Maureen O’Hara and … Continued
Maureen O’Hara was born Maureen FitzSimons on August 17, 1920 in Dublin, Ireland. Along with 4 younger siblings (she also had an older sister, Peggy), she studied at the Ena Mary Burke School of Drama and Elocution. From top left, the FitzSimons sisters Margot, Maureen O’Hara, and Florrie. (1947 Photo: Modern Screen | Wikimedia Commons … Continued
Steve Martin: 1980 – 2015 (Steve Martin 1982 Photo: Towpilot) In the 1980’s, Steve Martin’s focus on his movie career intensified. He began to take acting lessons from Herbert Ross (a director), and learned how to tap dance for his role in the 1981 serious musical Pennies From Heaven (1981), a flop in which he … Continued
Steve Martin: 1945-1979 Stand-up comic, actor, writer, musician and baby boomer Steve Martin was born August 14, 1945 in Waco, Texas. Steve Martin grew up in California and while still in high school, sold guidebooks in front of Disneyland at age 10. (Steve Martin 1963 Garden Grove High School Photo: Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain) … Continued
Blonde bombshell baby boomer Loni Anderson was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota on August 5, 1945 – and she becomes a septuagenarian senior citizen today, in 2015. (Loni Anderson 1992 Photo: Alan Light) When Loni was a child, both her parents were heavy 4-pack-a-day smokers (they had started smoking before age 15) and as a … Continued