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		<title>Uncle Miltie</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven G. Atkinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[He was the first Superstar of Television and in the late 40s/Early 50s he was the one of the most watched, with people scheduling their evening around his show. Uncle Miltie was Milton Berle and June 12 is the anniversary of his birth. He was born Mendel Berlinger in New York in 1908. He spend [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>He was the first Superstar of Television and in the late 40s/Early 50s he was the one of the most watched, with people scheduling their evening around his show.  Uncle Miltie was Milton Berle and June 12 is the anniversary of his birth.  He was born Mendel Berlinger in New York in 1908.</p>
<p>He spend nearly all of his life in show business becoming a child performer after he won a contest at the age of 5.  He claimed that he performed as a child actor in a few Silent Films, including the serial <em>Perils of Pauline</em>, but since records weren&#8217;t kept on who appeared in the films this has been debated.</p>
<p>What is known is in 1916 at the age of twelve he enrolled in the Professional Children&#8217;s School and made his Broadway debut in Florodora. This lead to his long career.  He took the name Milton Berle at the age of 16.</p>
<p>Berle&#8217;s first appearance on Television came not in the 40s, but in 1929 when he emceed an experimental closed-circuit telecast to 129 people in Chicago.  In 1948, NBC moved the Texaco Star Theater from radio to television. In its first year he was one of the 4 rotating hosts and in its 2nd he became the lone host.  </p>
<p>Berle is credited with selling many televisions.  As the new decade began his show owned Tuesday night.  But Television hosts didn&#8217;t seem to have the lasting effects that Radio had and by 1956 his show had lost its audience, although it did have two appearances by the young popular singer Elvis in that year.</p>
<p>At the age of 93 he died died on March 27, 2002 in Los Angeles, California.</p>
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		<title>Elvis is Back</title>
		<link>http://6thingstoconsider.com/2010/06/29/elvis-is-back/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 12:03:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven G. Atkinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the fall of 1968 The Singer Sewing Machine Company developed plans to sponsor a Christmas Season Special for Elvis Presley. The show ended up not being a Christmas Special, but a special featuring Elvis as a singer. The show aired on NBC TV on December 3, 1968. Now this special is called the Elvis&#8217; [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the fall of 1968 The Singer Sewing Machine Company developed plans to sponsor a Christmas Season Special for Elvis Presley.  The show ended up not being a Christmas Special, but a special featuring Elvis as a singer.  The show aired on NBC TV on December 3, 1968.</p>
<p>Now this special is called the Elvis&#8217; &#8217;68 Comeback Special, but at the time is was simply Elvis Presley NBC-TV Special.  The soundtrack album released at the same time had that name.</p>
<p>When first aired there was one Christmas song &#8220;Blue Christmas&#8221;.  The Special was repeated in the Summer of &#8217;69 and the Christmas song was replaced with &#8220;Tiger Man&#8221;.</p>
<p>The special has a running time of 76 minutes and fit into a 90 minute time slot.</p>
<p>Some of the special featured live performances by Elvis. He began recording live sessions on June 27, 1968.  Two one hour shows were performed on that day and another two on June 29th.  These live performances were the first ones he had done since March 25, 1961 at an arena in Pearl Harbor.</p>
<p>The Special was a one man show, one of the first ever featuring just one performer.  It was a rating success and was the highest-rated television special of the year.</p>
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		<title>A Dancer is Born</title>
		<link>http://6thingstoconsider.com/2010/06/23/a-dancer-is-born/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:17:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven G. Atkinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robert Louis Fosse was born on June 23, 1927 in Chicago. He was the youngest of six children. Fosse moved to Hollywood with the ambition of being a dancer in movie musicals. In 1953 he found himself choreographing a sequence in Kiss Me Kate. Because of premature balding he was limited in the roles he [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Robert Louis Fosse was born on  June 23, 1927 in Chicago.  He was the youngest of six children.</p>
<p>Fosse moved to Hollywood with the ambition of being a dancer in movie musicals.  In 1953 he found himself choreographing a sequence in Kiss Me Kate. Because of premature balding he was limited in the roles he was offered and with an offer from broadway producers he moved to New York.</p>
<p>In 1954 he choreographed his first Broadway musical, The Pajama Game.  His style was a jazz dance style that exuded a stylized, cynical sexuality. Other notable distinctions of his style included the use of inward knees, rounded shoulders and body isolations.</p>
<p>1972/73 was a very good period for him.  He was the director of the movie Cabaret and the television special Liza with a Z.  With Cabaret he won the Academy Award for Best Director and won an Emmy for Liza with a Z.</p>
<p> In 1979, Fosse co-wrote and directed the semi-autobiographical &#8220;All That Jazz,&#8221;.  The movie won four Academy Awards and earned Fosse his third Oscar nomination for Best Director. The film was also nominated for Best Picture,</p>
<p> Fosse was in Washington DC with a revival when he died of a heart attack on September 23, 1987.  He was a heavy smoker, at times 4 packs a day, and had a history of heart problems.  He was only 60 years old.</p>
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		<title>Margaret Hamilton</title>
		<link>http://6thingstoconsider.com/2010/05/16/margaret-hamilton/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 12:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven G. Atkinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nearly everyone&#8217;s vision of a wicked old witch comes from the Wicked Witch of the West from the movie Wizard of Oz. The role of the witch was played by Margaret Hamilton who was born on December 9th in 1902. Even though her most famous role has frighten many children since its release in 1939, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nearly everyone&#8217;s vision of a wicked old witch comes from the Wicked Witch of the West from the movie Wizard of Oz.  The role of the witch was played by Margaret Hamilton who was born on December 9th in 1902.</p>
<p>Even though her most famous role has frighten many children since its release in 1939, she loved children and for awhile was a teacher. She served on the Beverly Hills Board of Education from 1948 to 1951 using her legal name Margaret Meserve.  Hamilton was her birth name.</p>
<p>She once appeared on an episode of Mr Rogers neighborhood explaining in the segment that it was an act and showing how a sweet old lady could be turned into a Wicked Witch through the use of makeup.</p>
<p>She spent many years as an animal activist working for animals rights and welfare.  </p>
<p>In the 1960s and 70s she appeared on many television programs.  She played the part of Morticia Addams&#8217; mother Hester in The Addams Family after having turned down the role of Grandmama.  And sold many cans of Maxwell House Coffee as Cora, the shopkeeper.</p>
<p>She died of a Heart Attack at the age of 82 on May 16, 1985 at a nursing home in Salisbury, Connecticut.</p>
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		<title>M*A*S*H</title>
		<link>http://6thingstoconsider.com/2010/02/28/mash/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 04:14:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven G. Atkinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The final episode of the television series M*A*S*H first aired on CBS on Monday, February 28, 1983. It was a 1 1/2 hour episode and was the 16th one of its 11th Season. It was the 251st episode and the only one that was not originally broadcast as a 30 minute episode. The show was [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The final episode of the television series M*A*S*H first aired on CBS on Monday, February 28, 1983.  It was a 1 1/2 hour episode and was the 16th one of its 11th Season.  It was the 251st episode and the only one that was not originally broadcast as a 30 minute episode.</p>
<p>The show was about a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, the 4077, during the Korean War.  The series lasted for 11 years.  The war itself lasted for slightly more than 3.</p>
<p>Alan Alda was the only actor to appear in every episode.  Loretta Swit was contracted for all, but missed one during the series run.  Jamie Farr as Corporal and later Sgt. Klinger, a role that was originally introduced as a bit character of a soldier who was trying to get out of the Army by wearing women&#8217;s clothes, appeared in 215 episodes, the third most.</p>
<p>The characters of Capt. Benjamin Franklin &#8216;Hawkeye&#8217; Pierce, Maj. Margaret &#8216;Hot Lips&#8217; Houlihan and Lt. Father Francis John Patrick Mulcahy are the only ones that were in the Pilot episode as well as the final.  Father Mulcahy was played not by William Christopher in the pilot, but by George Morgan.</p>
<p>The series was based upon the Robert Altman movie M*A*S*H released in 1970.  The movie was an obvious Vietnam war protest movie and other than an opening title text stating that the movie took place in Korean, there was no mention of when the war was taking place.</p>
<p>Gary Burghoff played the role of Radar O&#8217;Reilly in both the movie and the series.  He was the only person from the movie to reprise their role in the TV series.</p>
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		<title>She May Have Acted Dumb</title>
		<link>http://6thingstoconsider.com/2010/02/17/she-may-have-acted-dumb/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 04:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven G. Atkinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paris Hilton was born on February 17, 1981. Her father is Richard Hilton. Her mother is former actress Kathy Richards. She is an heir in the Hilton Hotel fortune. At 19, she signed with Donald Trump&#8217;s modeling agency, T Management and has worked with modeling agencies such as Ford Models Management, Models 1 Agency, Nous [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Paris Hilton was born on February 17, 1981.  Her father is Richard Hilton.  Her mother is former actress Kathy Richards.  She is an heir in the Hilton Hotel fortune.</p>
<p>At 19, she signed with Donald Trump&#8217;s modeling agency, T Management and has worked with modeling agencies such as Ford Models Management, Models 1 Agency, Nous Model Management, and Premier Model Management. She has appeared in numerous advertising campaigns, including Iceberg Vodka, GUESS, Tommy Hilfiger, Christian Dior, and Marciano.</p>
<p>In 2001, Hilton began to develop a reputation as a 19-year-old socialite, being identified as &#8220;New York&#8217;s leading It Girl&#8221; whose fame was beginning to &#8220;extend beyond the New York tabloids&#8221;</p>
<p>In late 2003 she appeared in the Fox reality series The Simple Life with Nicole Richie. The show was to take two seemingly spoiled socialites who have everything, and put them into an atmosphere where they have nothing.  At this same time a sex tape that was made by boyfriend Rick Salomon was released.  Many feel that it was a deliberate publicity stunt.</p>
<p>In late 2006 she was arrested not once, but twice on DUI charges and sentenced to 45 days in jail.  While in jail she suffered a breakdown and in early June her troubles were headline news. On June 8 she moved nearly all other news of the day aside.  It was a day when she went to court to determine if she had to go back to prison.  Other news for that day included a computer glitch that left air traffic in the East at a snare, the end of the G8 conference and a shuttle launch.</p>
<p>Shortly after wards she made a public announcement that she would stop acting dumb.  Maybe acting dumb was the reason for her fame.  Since that time she has fell out of the public eye.</p>
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