Now I've Heard Everything

Jerry Parr

29 Mar 2021

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40 years ago this week, a young would-be assassin put a bullet in President Ronald Reagan. The man whose quick thinking likely saved the president's l...

Iman

26 Mar 2021

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Born in Somalia, and raised in East Africa, Iman first caught the attention of the fashion world soon after she turned 20. And very soon, she became a...

Barbara Corcoran

24 Mar 2021

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She's been a top New York City real estate broker for many years, but you may know Barbara Corcoran best for her role that's one of the investors pitc...

Cheech Marin

22 Mar 2021

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if you were in high school or college in the 1970's, as I was, you undoubtedly are familiar with the comedy of Cheech and Chong.  Cheech Marin we...

Roger Mudd

19 Mar 2021

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If you were in network TV news 50 or 60 years ago, the place to be was the CBS News Washington DC bureau. CBS was long considered the gold standard of...

Frank McCourt

17 Mar 2021

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Happy Saint Patrick's Day! As I was mulling over all of the Irish or Irish-Amerian people I've interviewed through the years, one name kept coming to ...

Mia Farrow

15 Mar 2021

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ia Farrow may have been born to be a star. Her parents were both major Hollywood figures, and she grew up amongst big stars. By the time she was a tee...

Adam West

12 Mar 2021

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In January 1966 a new TV series premiered, unlike any we had seen before.  Even though it only ran on the ABC network for three seasons, it chang...

Larry Flynt

10 Mar 2021

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Larry Flynt is best known for Hustler magazine, which he founded in the mid-1970s, and for the videos and cable TV channels the grew out of the Hustle...

Ivana Trump

08 Mar 2021

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She was Donald Trump's first wife, from 1977 to 1992. Ivana Trump is the mother of Don Jr, Ivanka, and Eric Trump. Ivana Trump has also been a profess...

Dick Armey

05 Mar 2021

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Economist and Texas Republican politician Dick Armey was first elected to Congress in 1984. By 1995, he has risen to the post of Majority Leader, as t...

Sonny Bono

03 Mar 2021

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Long before she was a successful solo act, Cher was half of Sonny and Cher. Perhaps no married couple in music was popular in the mid-'60s as Sonny an...

Raymond Kurzweil

01 Mar 2021

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It can be fun, informative, and educational to go back and revisit the things that futurists said years  ago. Just, you know, to check and see if...

Short Takes

26 Feb 2021

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February is, of course, the shortest month of the year. So it occurred to me it might be an appropriate time to share some of my shortest interviews w...

Margaret Cho

24 Feb 2021

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Margaret Cho rose to prominence in the mid 1990s, with her TV sitcom All-American Girl.  Since then, she's established herself as not only a tale...

Jane Goodall

22 Feb 2021

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Most of what the scientific world knows about chimpanzees comes from the work of anthropologist Jane Goodall. She first went to Tanzania in 1965. &nbs...

James Cameron

19 Feb 2021

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Warning: What you're abiyt ti gear is a true story, told by the suvivor of a violent and horrisying  attack. You need to know that some of the de...

Joan Lunden

17 Feb 2021

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For nearly 20 years Joan Lunden was the co-host of ABC's Good Morning America.  Millions woke up every morning to her cheerful, reassuring, and p...

Doris Kearns Goodwin

15 Feb 2021

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Happy Presidents Day.  Now, if you're old enough, as I am, you may remember that this day was traditionally celebrated as Lincoln's birthday. &nb...

Erich Segal

12 Feb 2021

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Happy Valentine's Day weekend! I thought this would be an appropriate time to bring back an interview with the author of one of the great love stories...

Andrew Young

10 Feb 2021

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Was the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 60s a social or political movement? It was, but it was also a religious or spiritual movement, says for...

Mildred Muhammad

08 Feb 2021

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For three weeks in October 2002, the Washington DC area was terrorized by a series of sniper attacks. Someone was randomly shooting and killing people...

Bart Starr

06 Feb 2021

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The Kansas City Chiefs are meeting the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Super Bowl LV. The Chiefs were also in the very first Super Bowl, in 1967. But it was t...

Charles Osgood

04 Feb 2021

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A few days ago on Now I've Heard Everything, I featured an interview that I had done many years ago with one of my broadcasting Heroes, the late Larry...

Ronnie Spector

01 Feb 2021

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They may have called her "the original 'bad girl of rock and roll'," but Ronnie Spector was nothing but nice to me, when I met her in 1990. Spectre wa...

Larry King

29 Jan 2021

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I listened to Larry King on the radio long before I first met him, in 1988.  That was actually the first of several interviews I did with King, w...

Grace George Corrigan

27 Jan 2021

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Tomorrow is January 28, and if you are old enough, you undoubtedly have a clear memory of exactly where you were 35 years agp, on January 28, 1986. Th...

Chuck Barris

25 Jan 2021

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Do you remember The Dating Game? Or The Newlywed Game?  How about The Gong Show? They and many other TV game shows were all created by e same man...

Norma McCorvey

22 Jan 2021

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In 1969, a young Texas woman sought a legal abortion. But when she was unable to obtain one, she turned to two young lawyers for help. Those lawyers t...

Bruce Laingen

20 Jan 2021

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In early November 1979, a group of students and militants stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran, taking everyone inside hostage, including the chargé d'...

Rosa Parks

18 Jan 2021

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Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the U.S. So I wanted to revisit an interview I did nearly 30 years ago with a woman whose actions helped propel...

Leonard Nimoy

15 Jan 2021

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Many people may think Leonard Nimoy's career started with Star Trek. But he was a serious actor for a number of years before that.  He even appea...

Ann Richards

13 Jan 2021

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In the summer of 1988 leaders of the Democratic party invited Texas State Treasurer Ann Richards to deliver a prime-time address at the Democratic Nat...

Carroll O'Connor

11 Jan 2021

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It was on January 12th. 1971 -- 50 years ago -- that situation comedy changed in a big way, with the premiere of a controversial show called All in th...

Erin Brockovich

06 Jan 2021

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In 1993, a single mother with no legal training, no experikence as an attorney, helped bring a major corporation to its knees. Erin Brockovich joined ...

Don Knotts

04 Jan 2021

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Don Knotts is perhaps best know as Deputy Sheriff Barney Fife from The Andy Griffith Show. But you also remember him as Ralph Furley from Three's Comp...

Season Two In Review

23 Dec 2020

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As we look for a place in the history books to put 2020, we also are taking a look back at Season Two of Now I've Heard Everything. And stay till the ...

Mary Lou Retton

21 Dec 2020

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Did you know that December 21st is National Short Girl Appreciation Day?  Ever since 1984, one of America's favorite short girls has been Olympic...

Egil Krogh

18 Dec 2020

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Next Monday, December 21, marks the 50th anniversary of a very strange day in White House history. It was on December 21, 1970 that the king of rock a...

Kitty Carlisle Hart

16 Dec 2020

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Regular listeners of Now I've Heard Everything know that I don't often get starstruck. But this was one of those times. If you grew up in the '60s, as...

Graham Nash

14 Dec 2020

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Graham Nash is actually in the Rock and Roll Hal;l of Fame twice - once as a member of the '60s pop group The Hollies, and again for his work as a mem...

Molly Shannon

11 Dec 2020

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While Molly Shannon may be best known for her six seasons on Saturday Night and her many many television and movie appearances, it turns out she is al...

Ed McMahon

09 Dec 2020

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Ed McMahon had a career in broadcasting that dated back to the 1940s. But perhaps nothing he did on television was as memorable as this: his 30-year o...

Julia Baird

07 Dec 2020

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One night, 40 years ago this week, a young man approached musician John Lennon outside Lennon's Manhattan apartment building. The young man appeared t...

Dom DeLuise

04 Dec 2020

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Today we're wrapping up Celebrity Cookbook Week on Now I've Heard Everything. On Monday, we heard from actress Dawn Wells (Mary Ann from Gilligan's Is...

Isaac Hayes

02 Dec 2020

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It's Celebrity Cookbook Week here on Now I've Heard Everything. We continue today with a man who my younge listeners may kknow best for his work on So...

Dawn Wells

30 Nov 2020

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It's Celebrity Cookbook Week on Now I've Heard Everything.  And we start with not only one of my favorite sitcom stars, but also one of my favori...

Berke Breathed

27 Nov 2020

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Berkeley Breathed is perhaps best known for his comic strips "Bloom County," "Outland," and "Opus."   But he's also a gifted children's book crea...

Cissy Houston

25 Nov 2020

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In the music business, backup singers often fade into the background.  Few achieve much fame on their own.  One who did was Cissy Houston. A...

Neil de Grasse Tyson

23 Nov 2020

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Alexa stopNot since Carl Sagan, perhaps, has there been a professional stargazer as engaging and as popular as Neil de Grasse Tyson. A witty, Charming...

Gerald Blaine & Clint Hill

20 Nov 2020

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If you're of a certain age, you remember where you were when something big and historical happened. For my parents, it was Pearl Harbor. For my childr...

Joe Theismann

18 Nov 2020

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Very few professional athletes are best remembered for the game, or the play, that ended their career. But Joe Theismann maybe one of them. It was on ...

Paul Orfalea

16 Nov 2020

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Tomorrow, November 17th, is National Entrepreneurs Day. And perhaps no one better embodies what the day is about that Paul Orfalea. Back in 1970, the ...

Al Roker

13 Nov 2020

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Not all funny people on TV are comedians. Some are weathermen, like NBC's Al Roker. For years, Roker has been a fixture on The Today Show. And in 2000...

Phyllis Diller

11 Nov 2020

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Like many of my fellow Baby Boomers, I grew up watching Phyllis Diller on TV and in movies. She was one of America's first female stand-up comedians, ...

Alex Trebek

09 Nov 2020

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By now you've heard the sad news that Jeopardy host Alex Trebek passed away early Sunday. So today, we'll be revisiting my interview with him from som...

Chris Jericho

06 Nov 2020

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For nearly two decades, Chris Jericho was a fixture of the WWE. In fact, he was widely considered one of pro wrestling's best. But since the end of th...

Leah Rabin

04 Nov 2020

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It was an iconic White House photo. Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, shaking hands on a peace deal at the Wh...

Bob Dole

02 Nov 2020

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Tomorrow is the presidential election. It's been a tough campaign, with not a lot of humor. But politicians, and their constituents, need a good sense...

Lorraine Warren

30 Oct 2020

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It's Halloween weekend, so, I have to give you a little bit of a scare, don't I? If you've ever seen the 2009 movie The Haunting in Connecticut, you k...

"Cousin Brucie" Morrow

28 Oct 2020

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Some of you, if you're old enough, grew up listening to Cousin Brucie on New York City radio from 1961 to 1974. Others remember him from the movie Dir...

Jimmy Carter

26 Oct 2020

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Next week is our presidential election, so I thought it appropriate today to hear from one of our former presidents. I first met Jimmy Carter in 1987,...

Robert Bork

23 Oct 2020

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As the U.S. Senate moved closer to confirming Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, we're reminded that not all nominees have such an easy ride. In ...

Rita Rudner

21 Oct 2020

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I first saw Rita Rudner perform her comedy on an HBO special in the mid-1980s. And I immediately fell in love with her, and her comedy. Her routine is...

Marvin Hamlisch

19 Oct 2020

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What comes to mind when I say the name Marvin Hamlisch? You may think of The Sting. Or Tthe Way We Were. Or A Chorus Line. Certainly Hamlisch is known...

Anatoli Gribkov & William Smith

16 Oct 2020

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For a few days in mid-October 1962, the world teetered on tghe brink of all-out nuclear war between the United States, led by PresidentJohn F. Kennedy...

Wendy Williams

14 Oct 2020

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Every day millions of American TV viewers tune in to the syndicated Wendy WIlliams Show.  She's been a fixture on daytime TV since 2008.  Bu...

Nando Parrado

12 Oct 2020

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Tomorrow, October 13th. is the anniversary of one of history's most famous plane crashes. It was on October 13th, 1972 that a Uruguayan Air Force flig...

Janis Ian

09 Oct 2020

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At a time when her high school classmates were studying for exams or preparing book reports, Janis Ian was giving concerts, and appearing on televisio...

Geraldine Ferraro

07 Oct 2020

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Tonight, October 7th, Senator Kamala Harris will meet Vice President Mike Pence in their one and only debate of the 2020 election campaign. Harris is ...

Johnnie Cochran

05 Oct 2020

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You may know defense attorney Johnnie Cochran best for his participation in OJ Simpson's dream team in his 1990s trial. But Johnny Cochran had a long ...

Bob Keeshan

02 Oct 2020

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Sixty-five years ago this week, a new children's television show was launched on the CBS networok.  Its creator was a man who had actually been p...

Julie Andrews

30 Sep 2020

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Julie Andrews made her debut as an actress and singer in London in 1948. She first appeared on Broadway in 1954. But to audiences of all ages around t...

Roger Ailes

28 Sep 2020

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Tomorrow night, September 29th, is the first debate between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden. So today on Now I've Heard Eve...

David Cassidy

25 Sep 2020

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Fifty years ago today, a TV show premiered on ABC, about a family that had formed a rock band. It was called "The Partridge Family,: and its star was ...

Mickey Rooney

23 Sep 2020

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In nearly thirty years of interviewing celebrities and big names, I didn't often get very Starstruck, but this day I did. It's hard to overstate how b...

Kitty Kelley

21 Sep 2020

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Journalist and celebrity biographer Kitty Kelley first rose to prominence in 1978, with her biography of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, a book called Jac...

Dave Thomas

18 Sep 2020

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If you've ever eaten that Wendy's, and most of us have, you probably know that the chain was founded by a guy named Dave Thomas. He needed a first dau...

Kazimierz Wierzbicki

16 Sep 2020

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-------------------------- In the US, we take labor unions for granted. To many, it seems like they have always been around. But in 1980, labor unions...

June Lockhart

14 Sep 2020

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Today's episode is for my baby boomers. Because we all remember June Lockhart, whether it's from Lassie, Lost in Space, or even Petticoat Junction. Ju...

Richard Picciotto

11 Sep 2020

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Do you remember where you were 19 years ago today? Richard Picciotto will always remember that as the day he thought he would die. Indeed, he almost d...

Whoopi Goldberg

09 Sep 2020

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Whoopi Goldberg has been entertaining us for almost 40 years, in movies like "The Color Purple," "Ghost," and "Sister Act" as well as TV's "Star Trek:...

John Sweeney

07 Sep 2020

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Happy Labor Day!This is the national holiday set aside to recognize the efforts and contributions of America's Workforce.  So I want to revisit m...

Cal Ripken

04 Sep 2020

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In 21 seasons with his hometown Baltimore Orioles,Cal Ripken racked up some very enivable numbers: 3,184 hits. 431 home runs. 1,695 runs batted in. &n...

Melissa Anderson

02 Sep 2020

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It was 46 years ago this week that NBC TV viewers first heard that theme music introducing a series called "Littel House on the Prairie." For the next...

Reeve Lindbergh

31 Aug 2020

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What is it like, growing up in what some say was the most famous family of the twentieth century? Reeve Lindbergh knows. She was born in 1945 to Charl...

Stan Lee

28 Aug 2020

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By 1991 when i met and interviewed him, Stan Lee -- the genius behind Marvel Comics -- was a legend.  Almost royalty. And as he told me then, the...

Sydney Biddle Barrows

26 Aug 2020

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As public scandals go, this one might seem pretty benign, by today's low bar.  But in 1984, it was a big story when it was revealed thatthe autho...

Barry Goldwater

24 Aug 2020

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Last week Democrats nominated Joe Biden for president. This week, Republicans will renominate Donald Trump, for a second term. Let's go back 56 years,...

Tipper Gore

21 Aug 2020

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Years before her husband Al was elected vice president of the United States, Tipper Gore established a reputation of her own, as a social issues advoc...

Wolfman Jack

19 Aug 2020

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Tomorrow, August 20th, is National Radio Day. Yoday, we're going to revisit my interview 25 years ago with one of the greatest radio personalities of ...

George McGovern

17 Aug 2020

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The 2020 Democratic National Convention is getting underway this week. It'll look a lot different from any past convention, though, because of the cor...

Maureen O'Hara

14 Aug 2020

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Irish-born redhead Maureen O'Hara knew from an early age she wanted to act.  After years of training, she was finally "discovered," if you will, ...

Vladimir Pozner

12 Aug 2020

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or decades the USSR -- the Soviet UInion -- was a major world power, but it was held together largely through force and intimidation. Things began to ...

Tracey Ullman

10 Aug 2020

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She burst onto the American television scene in the late 1980s, when she hosted her own show on the fledgling Fox network.  And Tracey Ullman has...

Debbi Fields

07 Aug 2020

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Mrs. Fields Cookies can be found in hundreds of cities across America, and around the world.  It's one of the largest names in the snack food ind...

Bob Greene

05 Aug 2020

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Tomorrow, August 6th, is the 75th anniversary of the first-ever use of a nuclear weapon in war, when the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Jap...

Barack Obama

03 Aug 2020

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A few years before he was an Illinois state senator,  long before he became a U.S. Senator and years before the nation elected him our first Afri...

Noel Neill

31 Jul 2020

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One of the most popular, and most iconic series from the early days of television was "The Adventures of Superman," which ran from 1952 to 1958. Georg...

Denny McLain

29 Jul 2020

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In all of major league baseball history, going back well over a hundred years, there has been only a handful of pitchers who have won30 or more games ...