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Ichiro Suzuki Sets Record with Ninth-Straight 200-Hit Season

Ichiro Suzuki, the All-Star right fielder of the Seattle Mariners, established a Major League Baseball record for most 200-hit seasons in a row when he singled in a game against the Texas Rangers in  Arlington, Texas on Sunday, September 13, 2009. It ...

From JON C. HOPWOOD, Associated Content,  14 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Texas Rangers,  Major League Baseball,  Willie Keeler,  New York Yankees,  Ty Cobb

Barack Obama & the Establishment: Is He More Ronald Reagan Than FDR?

Franklin D. Roosevelt was the hero of Ronald Reagan, who originally was a Democrat Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward, in their 1971 book Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare, claimed that President Lyndon Baines Johnson's ...

From JON C. HOPWOOD, Associated Content,  10 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Ronald Reagan,  Barack Obama,  Robert F. Kennedy,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Franklin D. Roosevelt

Bowie Kuhn: The Fifth Commissioner of Baseball

Bowie Kuhn's plaque at the Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, New York Bowie Kuhn was Commissioner of Major League Baseball (MLB) for a quarter-century during arguably its most important epoch aside from the founding of the two major leagues, as he ...

From JON C. HOPWOOD, Associated Content,  8 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Bowie Kuhn,  Major League Baseball,  National League,  Jim Bowie,  American League

Nipsey Russell: African American Comedian was Hailed as "The Poet Laureate of Television"

The opposite of pro is con, That fact is clearly seen, If progress means move forward Then what does Congress mean? -- Nipsey Russell (1924-2005) Nipsey Russell, the pioneering African American comedian known variously as Harlem's Son of Fun, The Poet ...

From JON C. HOPWOOD, Associated Content,  8 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Nipsey Russell,  U.S. Congress,  Redd Foxx

Carlo Fiore: Actor & Screenwriter's Career Revolved Around Friendship with Marlon Brando

Carlo Fiore was a relatively unsuccessful actor who now is remembered only for his friendship with cinema legend Marlon Brando, he man many cineastes feel was the greatest movie actor of all time. The two met as young men in New York City during World ...

From JON C. HOPWOOD, Associated Content,  8 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Marlon Brando,  James Baldwin,  Elaine Stritch

Lee J. Cobb Achieved Theatrical Immortality as Willy Loman in "Death of a Salesman"

Lee J. Cobb earned his first Oscar nomination playing Johnny Friendly in Elia Kazan's "On the Waterfront" (1954), a classic that won the Academy Award as Best Picture Lee J. Cobb, one of the premier character actors in American film for three ...

From JON C. HOPWOOD, Associated Content,  7 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Lee J. Cobb,  Elia Kazan

Abraham Polonsky: Oscar-Nominated Screenwriter and Director was Victim of Hollywood Black List

Writer-director Abraham Lincoln Polonsky, one of the most prominent victims of the Hollywood blacklisting of communists and social progressives in the post-World War II period, was born on December 5, 1910 in New York, New York.  An unreconstructed ...

From JON C. HOPWOOD, Associated Content,  7 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Abraham Lincoln,  Sterling Hayden,  Robert Rossen

Bobby Astyr: The Clown Prince of Porn

Bobby Astyr, the "Clown Prince of Porn," was one of the pioneering generation of actors who made a name for themselves in blue movies in the 1970s, thriving in an industry where -- aside from the legendary John Holmes -- women were the star attractions. ...

From JON C. HOPWOOD, Associated Content,  7 Sep 2009
Related Topics: John Holmes,  John Leslie

Conchata Ferrell: A Short Biography

Conchata Ferrell finally achieved television stardom, albeit of the supporting variety, as the housekeeper Berta in the situation-comedy Two and a Half Men, 30 years since her stardom was first predicted. Ferrell originally had  been tipped for stardom ...

From JON C. HOPWOOD, Associated Content,  6 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Lanford Wilson,  Charlie Sheen,  Jon Cryer

Fred Gwynne Achieved TV Immortality as Herman Munster

Fred Gwynne was an enormously talented character actor most famous for starring in the 1960s television situation comedies Car 54, Where Are You?" as Officer Francis Muldoon and The Munsters as the Frankenstein clone Herman Munster. He was very tall ...

From JON C. HOPWOOD, Associated Content,  6 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Fred Gwynne,  Harvard University,  William Shakespeare,  Ford Motor Company

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