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DIED. LORETTA YOUNG, 87, the loveliest of Hollywood movie queens of the 1930s and '40s, who appeared in 90 films opposite the likes of Clark Gable and Cary Grant; in Los Angeles. She won an Oscar for The Farmer's Daughter (1947) as a Swedish-American farm girl who becomes a Congresswoman. In 1953 she was host and star of TV's The Loretta Young Show, creating a trademark entrance in a glam gown at the start of each show. She won three Emmys for the dramatic series. Young, thrice married, all but retired from acting in 1963, devoting...
JAMES E. ROBINSON 1868-1932 A farmer's son who became an Ohio supreme court justice; was an expert fisherman and hunter...
...Hollywood Reporter, decrying the curious lack of slaves in the Mel Gibson movie The Patriot, set in 1776. "While holding myself back from shouting at the screen, I kept wondering, Where are the slaves? Who's picking the cotton?" Indeed, screenwriter Robert Rodat gives Gibson's South Carolina gentleman farmer a cadre of African-American "employees" who refer to themselves as free men. "Did Rodat get his dates mixed up?" asks Spike. "The Emancipation Proclamation was 100 years away." Moviegoers learned all about that from the famously accurate Gone With the Wind...
...addictively mean Fametracker www.fametracker.com)--"The Farmer's Almanac of Celebrity Worth"--is dedicated to exposing the overexposed and meting out punishment for hubris. Its signature feature, the "Fame Audit," dissects superstars' careers and publicity binges with surgical detail. On Ben Affleck: "[He] has had a Counting Crows kind of career--too much, too fast, too soon. This isn't his fault, but it is his problem." Each audit tots the star's assets and liabilities (Affleck's: "Easygoing, cocksure charm"/"Consistently refers to his acting as 'the work'") and judges the celeb's "actual" and "deserved" level of fame...
JOSE BOVE French farmer who vandalized a McDonald's goes on trial, hailed as hero. Vive le foie gras...