A Dream Vacation to Italy
As the mini-tour bus pulls into this quaint little Italian village, my husband and I exchange glances of excitement. Approaching the village from the south, we'd caught glimpses of beautiful…
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Bittersweet...Colleen McCullough's Life
The financial success of Tim and The Thorn Birds novels gave best-selling Australian novelist Colleen McCullough the financial freedom to give up her medical career as a neuroscientist medical researcher…
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Tippi Hedren - The Birds, Big Cats & Babylon
Before Tippi Hedren became a critic of keeping exotic pets in homes and successfully lobbied Congress in 2003 to outlaw the traffic of big cats between states, the actress kept lions…
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Peter Rabbit & Benjamin Bunny ...and Beatrix Potter
Feeling nostalgic for Beatrix Potter's classic children's stories of Peter Rabbit and his friends? This episode of the 1993 TV series The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends combines live action…
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Don Harron - Much More Than Charlie Farquharson
Canadian comedy entertainment legend Don Harron, perhaps better known as his recurring sketch comedy character, Charlie Farquharson, on TV's musical-comedy-variety series Hee Haw. (Don Harron 1965 12 O'Clock High) Nee Donald Hugh…
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Remembering Donna Douglas
Donna Douglas was a real-life tomboy before she arrived in Hollywood and played animal-loving, beautiful tomboy Elly May Clampett on The Beverly Hillbillies. (Donna Douglas 1961 Thriller Screenshot) Doris Ione Smith…
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BFGW & Room 222's Michael Constantine
He was best known to baby boomers as Principal Kaufman on Room 222, or as nostalgic tourist Jack Harmon in If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (1969), but newer…
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Remembering Joan Crawford
Joan Crawford (nee Lucille Fay LeSueur) was born March 23, most likely in 1904 (or possibly as early as 1903 or as late as 1908, according to various sources). (Joan…
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TV Trivia: The Twilight Zone
Q1: What was the name of The Twilight Zone's series creator and principal script writer? Q2: Four directors (Steven Spielberg, John Landis, Joe Dante, and George Miller) each directed segments…
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Back in Time with Rod Taylor
Ruggedly handsome Aussie actor Rod Taylor's first big movie was the sci-fi adventure movie The Time Machine (1960). Regardless of the film genre, Taylor always came across as a man…
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