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Old 12-09-2024, 05:22 PM   #3249
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We have watched Territory. We enjoyed it. Who's going to take over the business seems to be a popular theme currently.

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Sally Kristen Ride (May 26, 1951 – July 23, 2012) was an American astronaut and physicist. Born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978, and in 1983 became the first American woman and the third woman to fly in space, after cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova in 1963 and Svetlana Savitskaya in 1982. She was the youngest American astronaut to have flown in space, having done so at the age of 32.

Ride was a graduate of Stanford University, where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in physics and a Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature in 1973, a Master of Science degree in 1975, and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1978 (both in physics) for research on the interaction of X-rays with the interstellar medium. She was selected as a mission specialist astronaut with NASA Astronaut Group 8, the first class of NASA astronauts to include women. After completing her training in 1979, she served as the ground-based capsule communicator (CapCom) for the second and third Space Shuttle flights, and helped develop the Space Shuttle's robotic arm. In June 1983, she flew in space on the Space Shuttle Challenger on the STS-7 mission. The mission deployed two communications satellites and the first Shuttle pallet satellite (SPAS-1). Ride operated the robotic arm to deploy and retrieve SPAS-1. Her second space flight was the STS-41-G mission in 1984, also on board Challenger. She spent a total of more than 343 hours in space. She left NASA in 1987.

Ride worked for two years at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Arms Control, then at the University of California, San Diego, primarily researching nonlinear optics and Thomson scattering. She served on the committees that investigated the loss of Challenger and of Columbia, the only person to participate in both. Having been married to astronaut Steven Hawley during her spaceflight years and in a private, long-term relationship with former Women's Tennis Association player Tam O'Shaughnessy, she is the first astronaut known to have been LGBTQ. She died of pancreatic cancer in 2012
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We recently watched the Territory series. Thought it was pretty good. It was strange to hear Robert Taylor speaking in his native Australian accent after watching the Longmire series. Speaking of which, I saw a news blurb that the producers are thinking of reviving the Longmire series again.
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Well, son of a gun... we were mentioning to one another when watching Territory that he looked familiar. We started watching Longmire a few years back and for some reason got interested in something else but never went back to it. Not that it was a bad show at all... but just a squirrel moment, I guess. It's on our list to go back and watch it again.

Yeah, succession. We're doing that right now in this household meeting with the attorney to set up a family trust. Ugh.. Speaking of succession, we're finally streaming Yellowstone season 5 part II now that it's about 5 days from dropping its final show. Taylor Sheridan... where does this guy get the time to write and produce all these successful shows of his? Now we need Part II Yellowstone's 1923. Looking forward to eventually watching his new series that hopefully will be released someday: 6666.

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songwriter, and actress who performed for four years in the first cast of the stage musical Jesus Christ Superstar. She scored a number of hits in the 1970s and achieved a US No. 1 hit with "If I Can't Have You". The song also reached No. 9 on the Adult Contemporary chart and number 4 on the UK Singles Chart. Her cover of Barbara Lewis's "Hello Stranger" went to No. 1 on the Adult Contemporary chart, and "Love Me" was No. 5; at the time she had 3 top 10 singles. After a long hiatus in the 1980s and 1990s, during which time she left music to be with her family, she made a comeback album as a singer-songwriter in 2004.
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[QUOTE=TexasJeff;6914714]Well, son of a gun... we were mentioning to one another when watching Territory that he looked familiar. We started watching Longmire a few years back and for some reason got interested in something else but never went back to it. Not that it was a bad show at all... but just a squirrel moment, I guess. It's on our list to go back and watch it again.

Yeah, succession. We're doing that right now in this household meeting with the attorney to set up a family trust. Ugh.. Speaking of succession, we're finally streaming Yellowstone season 5 part II now that it's about 5 days from dropping its final show. Taylor Sheridan... where does this guy get the time to write and produce all these successful shows of his? Now we need Part II Yellowstone's 1923. Looking forward to eventually watching his new series that hopefully will be released someday: 6666.

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There are other Taylor Sheridan series in the works. The Dutton family history will continue in 1944 and another series set in the 1960's. And, a related current day series, The Madison, is about a New York widow who moves to Montana to run a ranch there. It may absorb some of the Yellowstone characters.


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1857 - 1915 Newell was a dwarf who toured with P.T. Barnum and appeared as General Grant Jr., and Major Edmund Newell. He was married to another dwarf, Minnie Warren, whose dwarf sister Lavinia was married to General Tom Thumb.
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Diane Lane (born January 22, 1965) is an American actress. She made her motion picture debut in George Roy Hill's 1979 film A Little Romance. She had already been professionally acting on stage since the age of 6. Later she acted in the movies Streets of Fire (1984) and The Cotton Club (1984). Lane returned to acting to appear in The Big Town, Lady Beware (both 1987) and western miniseries Lonesome Dove (1989), for which she was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie. Lane earned further recognition for her role in A Walk on the Moon (1999), for which she was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead. This was followed by several film roles of varying degrees of success such as My Dog Skip, The Perfect Storm (both 2000), The Glass House, and Hardball (both 2001).

Lane received critical acclaim for her performance as an adulterous wife in the erotic thriller Unfaithful (2002), which earned her Satellite, New York Film Critics Circle, and National Society of Film Critics awards for Best Actress. Her performance in the film garnered her Academy Award, Critics' Choice, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations for Best Actress. She acted in the romantic comedy-drama Under the Tuscan Sun (2003) which earned her a second Golden Globe Award nomination. For much of the rest of the decade, she alternately appeared in romances such as Must Love Dogs (2005) and Nights in Rodanthe (2008), and thrillers such as Fierce People (2005), Hollywoodland (2006), and Untraceable (2008).

She has appeared in four films directed by Francis Ford Coppola: The Outsiders, Rumble Fish (both 1983), The Cotton Club (1984), and Jack (1996), and appeared in one film directed by his wife Eleanor Coppola: Paris Can Wait (2016). Lane had a recurring role as Martha Kent, the adoptive mother of Superman, in Man of Steel (2013), and subsequent films of the DC Extended Universe.

Since then Diane Lane has remained in demand for highly prestigious movies and shows including lead roles in the thriller Let Him Go (a box office Number 1 in 2020) co-starring Kevin Costner, in the Ryan Murphy epic Feud: Capote vs. The Swans (for which she won a further Primetime Emmy nomination), the Scott Z. Burns anthology series Extrapolations for Apple TV+, the animated Pixar sequel Inside Out 2 (reprising her role as Riley's Mom), the Netflix show A Man in Full, based on the Tom Wolfe novel of the same name, and most recently, the thriller movie Anniversary set to be released in 2025.

She gave an exceptional performance in Feud: Capote vs. The Swans. It is streaming on HULU and is worth your time watching.
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Husband of Gloria and member of the Miami Sound Machine. Estefan is credited with paving the way for the crossover explosion of Latin music of the late 90s, mostly through artists that Estefan himself brought to the forefront of the US music stage, including his wife Gloria Estefan, as well as Jon Secada, Ricky Martin, and Shakira.
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1906 - 1975 Nelson in most famous for his radio and TV series The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. He grew up in New Jersey, was active in scouting and became an Eagle Scout at age 13. He attended Rutgers University and earned a law degree there in 1930. In 1957, Rutgers awarded him a doctorate of Humane Letters. While in college he made pocket money by playing the saxophone. During the depression, he turned to music as his full time occupation. He formed his orchestra in 1930, and they recorded prolifically throughout the 30's and 40's under several different record labels. When his vocalist, Rose Ann Stevens, left the band to get married, he hired singer Harriet Hilliard. They were married in 1935. In 1945, in order to spend more time with his family, he quit touring with his band and started the radio show featuring his family. The show moved to TV in 1952. It lasted until 1966. He died in 1975 of liver cancer at age 69.
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Eddie Nash (April 3, 1929 – August 9, 2014) was an American nightclub owner and restaurateur in Los Angeles, as well as a convicted money launderer and drug dealer. Nash was allegedly the mastermind behind the Wonderland murders, but was never convicted, despite multiple arrests and trials.

Nash was allegedly involved in the quadruple Wonderland Murders in 1981; the suspected motive was as a retaliation for the robbery of Nash's home perpetrated two days earlier by three to five men. A key player in the incident, adult film performer John C. Holmes, was later acquitted of the murders. Nash and Holmes were well acquainted with each other; Nash enjoyed introducing his countless houseguests to Holmes, who was infamous for playing the X-rated movie character "Johnny Wadd."

However, by 1981, Holmes had become desperately addicted to freebasing cocaine, and as a result, his career had declined due to chronic impotence. In order to settle a substantial debt to drug kingpin Ron Launius, leader of the widely feared Wonderland Gang which dominated the Los Angeles cocaine trade, Holmes helped the group plan the invasion. Holmes went to Nash's home on the morning of the attack to leave a sliding door unlocked so the Gang could enter the home. On June 29, 1981, the Wonderland Gang entered into Nash's home via the unlocked sliding door, held Nash and his bodyguard at gunpoint, and stole Nash's drugs, jewelry and money. At one point, one of the Wonderland Gang's member's guns went off, grazing Nash's bodyguard's face. Nash was then made to beg for life on his knees, an act that he found humiliating. Nash quickly suspected John Holmes was involved in the robbery as he had been at Nash's home the morning of the robbery. The following day, a friend of Nash's confirmed his suspicions after telling him he had seen Holmes wearing some of his stolen jewelry.

On July 1, two days after Nash was robbed, Ron Launius, Billy Deverell, Joy Audrey Gold Miller, and Barbara Richardson were found bludgeoned to death at their home at 8763 Wonderland Avenue in Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles. Susan Launius, Ron's wife, was critically injured but survived. Officials from the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) remarked that the Wonderland Murders were particularly brutal, noting that the crime scene was bloodier than the Tate-LaBianca murders.

Nash was believed to have planned the murders that were committed by three of his henchmen. Nash planned to kill John Holmes but later decided to spare Holmes' life and use the Wonderland murders to "teach Holmes a lesson". Holmes later told his first wife, Sharon, he was forced to accompany three gunmen to the Wonderland Avenue home. He claimed he was then held at gunpoint and forced to watch the quadruple murders. While police believe Holmes likely took part in the murders, Holmes would maintain that he never killed anyone.

A police search of Nash's home days after the murders revealed a large amount of cocaine. Nash was sentenced to eight years in prison, but a judge released him after just two, purportedly due to Nash's poor health. An associate of Nash later admitted that they had bribed the judge with about $100,000.

In 1990, Nash was tried in state court for having planned the murders; the trial resulted in an 11–1 hung jury. Nash would later admit that he had bribed the lone holdout, a young woman, with $50,000. The retrial ended in an acquittal.
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He reigned as the undisputed champion in the cruiserweight division in the late 1980s and at heavyweight in the early 1990s and was the only boxer in history to win the undisputed championship in two weight classes in the "three-belt era", a feat later surpassed by Terence Crawford, Naoya Inoue and Oleksandr Usyk, who became two-weight undisputed champions in the four-belt era. Nicknamed "the Real Deal", Holyfield is the only four-time world heavyweight champion, having held the unified World Boxing Association (WBA), World Boxing Council (WBC), and International Boxing Federation (IBF) titles from 1990 to 1992, the WBA and IBF titles again from 1993 to 1994, the WBA title a third time from 1996 to 1999; the IBF title a third time from 1997 to 1999 and the WBA title for a fourth time from 2000 to 2001.

In 1996 he defeated Mike Tyson and reclaimed the WBA title, in what was named by The Ring magazine as the Fight of the Year and Upset of the Year. This made Holyfield the first boxer since Muhammad Ali to win a world heavyweight title three times. Holyfield won a 1997 rematch against Tyson, which saw the latter disqualified in round three for biting off part of Holyfield's ears. During this reign as champion, he also avenged his loss to Michael Moorer and reclaimed the IBF title.
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1858 - 1913 Diesel was a German engineer who invented the Diesel engine which burns Diesel fuel. Both are named after him. He was born in France, and his parents moved to England when he was young. When he was 12, his parents sent him to live with an aunt and uncle in Germany. While there, he was awarded a scholarship to the Polytech University of Munich. He graduated with honors, and began work with one of his professors to design and build a refrigeration and ice plant. A year later, he was named director of the plant. His work in refrigeration led him to research thermal efficiency and fuel efficiency. Eventually, he built a steam engine, and then an internal combustion engine. That work then formed the basis for his invention of the Diesel engine in 1897. His engine was an immediate success, and he became very wealthy. In 1913 he boarded a ship in Belgium enroute to a company function in London. He attended dinner on board and then went to bed. That was the last time he was seen alive. His bed had not been slept in, and his hat and neatly folded overcoat was found beneath the ship's afterdeck railing. He had left a bag with his wife with instructions that it should not be opened until a week after his departure. The bag contained a large amount of cash and records that showed their bank accounts were virtually empty. Ten days after his disappearance, another ship found the body of a man floating in the English channel. The body was in such a state of decay that the crew retrieved the personal effects and returned the body to the sea for burial. The effects belonged to Diesel. The reason for his death remains unsolved. Some suspect suicide, and others think he may have been murdered, given that he had refused to give German forces exclusive rights to use his engine. And others suspect his death was a ruse, and that he defected to Britain and was relocated to Canada to work on a Diesel engine for submarines. Five months after he disappeared, his wife went missing in Germany.
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Frank Lucas (September 9, 1930 – May 30, 2019) was an American drug lord who operated in Harlem, New York City, during the late 1960s and early 1970s. He was known for cutting out middlemen in the drug trade and buying heroin directly from his source in the Golden Triangle in Southeast Asia. Lucas boasted that he smuggled heroin using the coffins of dead American servicemen,7] as depicted in the feature film American Gangster (2007), which fictionalized aspects of his life. This claim was denied by his Southeast Asian associate Leslie "Ike" Atkinson.

In 1976, Lucas was convicted of drug trafficking and sentenced to 70 years in prison, but after becoming an informant, he and his family were placed in the Witness Protection Program. In 1981, his federal and state prison sentences were reduced to time served plus lifetime parole. In 1984 he was convicted a second time for drug offenses, and was released from prison in 1991. In 2012, he pled guilty to attempting to cash a $17,000 ederal disability benefit check twice, and because of his age and poor health, received a sentence of five years' probation.

Lucas said that he made $1 million per day selling drugs on 116th Street though this was later discovered to be an exaggeration. Federal judge Sterling Johnson, who was the Special Narcotics Prosecutor for the City of New York at the time of Lucas' crimes, called Lucas' operation "one of the most outrageous international dope-smuggling gangs ever, an innovator who got his own connections outside the U.S. and then sold the narcotics himself in the street."

Lucas trusted only relatives and close friends from North Carolina to handle his various heroin operations,[6] believing that they were less likely to steal from him and be tempted by various vices in the big city. He stated his heroin, which was sold under the street name "Blue Magic", was 98–100% pure when shipped from Thailand; since he did not cut it like many of his competitors, the product was extremely addictive and could be sold at higher prices. Lucas also has been quoted as saying that his worth was "something like $52 million", most of it in Cayman Islands banks. Added to this is "maybe 1,000 keys [kilograms; or, 2,200 pounds] of dope on hand" with a potential profit of no less than $300,000 per kilo (2.2 lbs.).

This huge profit margin allowed him to buy property all over the country, including office buildings in Detroit and apartments in Los Angeles and Miami. He also bought a ranch of several thousand acres in North Carolina on which he ranged 300 head of Black Angus cattle, including a breeding bull worth $125,000.

Lucas rubbed shoulders with the elite of the entertainment, political, and criminal worlds of his time, stating later that he had met Howard Hughes at one of Harlem's best clubs in his day. Though he owned several mink and chinchilla coats and other accessories, he was known to dress in inexpensive suits and clothing so as not to attract attention. When he was arrested in the mid-1970s, all of Lucas' assets were seized, as he later recounted:

The properties in Chicago, Detroit, Miami, North Carolina, Puerto Rico — they took everything. My lawyer told me they couldn't take the money in the offshore accounts, and I had all my money stored in the Cayman Islands. But that's BS; they can take it. Take my word for it. If you got something, hide it, 'cause they can go to any bank and take it.
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Interesting play Chindog - I had just finished reading a book by Megyn Kelly's husband Doug Brunt. Great book! Brunt goes deep on Diesel's history. He knew a whole lot of famous people such as Busch (Beer family) and others. He made some enemies for sure in the German government. The Kaiser absolutely could have had it out for him. And Brunt puts a great finishing touch on the book by covering the "coincidental" advances in Diesel technology coming out of Canada from people who had not had any technical achievement in the past. It absolutely turned the tide of WWI in favor of the allies and against the Kaiser's mighty naval fleet. Here's a link if you guys are interested:

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American actress and singer. She is known for playing Peggy Bundy on Married... with Children (1987–1997), Leela on Futurama (1999–2003, 2008–2013, 2023–present), Cate Hennessy on 8 Simple Rules (2002–2005), Gemma Teller Morrow on the FX series Sons of Anarchy (2008–2014), for which she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama in 2011, and Louise Goldufski-Conner on The Conners (2018–present).
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Lonnie "LeeRoy" Yarbrough (September 17, 1938 – December 7, 1984) was an American stock car racer. His best season was 1969 when he won seven races, tallied 21 finishes in the top-ten and earned $193,211 ($1,407,350.77 when inflation is taken into account). During his entire career from 1960–1972, he competed in 198 races, scoring fourteen wins, 65 finishes in the top-five, 92 finishes in the top-ten, and ten pole positions. Yarbrough also competed in open-wheel racing, making 5 starts in the USAC Championship cars, including 3 Indianapolis 500s, with a best finish of 3rd at Trenton Speedway in 1970. His racing number was 98. When asked about his passion, Yarbrough described racing as "what I call my life."

Yarbrough was admitted to a mental institution on March 7, 1980, after trying to kill his mother by strangulation. All attempts to rehabilitate him (both in Florida or in North Carolina) failed and LeeRoy eventually died in 1984 after a fall. In 1990, he was inducted into the National Motorsports Press Association's Hall of Fame at Darlington Raceway in South Carolina. LeeRoy Yarbrough is not related to NASCAR champion Cale Yarborough.

On April 22, 1970, Yarbrough suffered head injuries while doing tire tests for Goodyear at Texas World Speedway. Yarbrough blew a tire between turns three and four and impacted the wall at over 160 mph. Yarbrough's head hit a roll bar inside the cockpit with such force that it cracked his helmet. He was released from the hospital that evening, and at the time, was not believed to have been a serious head injury. He was picked up at the airport by Cale Yarborough, but later had no memory of the crash, hospital, or meeting with Yarborough.

After competing in three Indianapolis 500s in 1967, '69 and '70, Yarbrough was driving a Dan Gurney Eagle in practice on May 9 for the 1971 Indianapolis 500 when he spun and crashed hard in turn one, suffering head injuries. Cale Yarborough was at the track hospital when LeeRoy was brought in. "He was burned on the hands and neck, and he was woozy from another lick on the head. He was the palest live man I've ever seen." Yarbrough spent the next few months, June through November, in and out of the hospital with many different ailments and memory problems. He was rumored to have contracted Rocky Mountain spotted fever from a tick bite, and also drank alcohol heavily. He most likely suffered brain trauma from the crashes in Texas and Indianapolis.

(A couple of weeks ago we finished watching all of the Jesse Stone movies. My wife really enjoyed them.)
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I just checked, and the Douglas Brunt book is available at my local library. I think I'll pop over there tomorrow and pick it up.


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Born 1961. Highmore is a former actor best known for playing Leo Howard in the BBC drama Howards' Way. He also appeared as Malkon in the 1984 Doctor Who serial Planet of Fire. His wife, Sue Latimer, is a talent agent whose clients include Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe. His son, Freddie Highmore, is also an actor, starring as Charlie in the 2005 Johnny Depp film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and more recently Shaun Murphy in The Good Doctor.
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Mine as well. I'll admit I do like most of Tom Selleck's movies in addition to being a fan of the long-lived Blue Bloods.

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Born 1961. Highmore is a former actor best known for playing Leo Howard in the BBC drama Howards' Way. He also appeared as Malkon in the 1984 Doctor Who serial Planet of Fire. His wife, Sue Latimer, is a talent agent whose clients include Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe. His son, Freddie Highmore, is also an actor, starring as Charlie in the 2005 Johnny Depp film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and more recently Shaun Murphy in The Good Doctor.
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Born Edward Kennedy Ellington, his childhood friends noticed that his casual, offhand manner and dapper dress gave him the bearing of a young nobleman, so they began calling him "Duke". Ellington credited his friend Edgar McEntee for the nickname: "I think he felt that in order for me to be eligible for his constant companionship, I should have a title. So, he called me Duke."

Though Ellington took piano lessons, he was more interested in baseball. "President Teddy Roosevelt would come on his horse sometimes, and "stop and watch us play," he recalled. Ellington went to Armstrong Technical High School in Washington, D.C. His first job was selling peanuts at Washington Senators baseball games. In the summer of 1914, while working as a soda jerk at the Poodle Dog Café, Ellington wrote his first composition, "Soda Fountain Rag" (also known as the "Poodle Dog Rag"). He created the piece by ear, as he had not yet learned to read and write music.

Ellington died on May 24, 1974, of complications from lung cancer and pneumonia, a few weeks after his 75th birthday. At his funeral, attended by over 12,000 people at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Ella Fitzgerald summed up the occasion: "It's a very sad day. A genius has passed."
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