Harry Anderson, who played Judge Harry Stone on Night Court, played Richie Tozier in the 1990 miniseries It, based on the Stephen King novel of the same name.
In 1999 Stephen King was hit by a van not far from his summer home in Maine. The incident left King with a collapsed lung, multiple fractures to his hip and leg, and a gash to the head. Afterward, King and his lawyer bought the van for $1500 with King announcing that, “Yes, we’ve got the van, and I’m going to take a sledgehammer and beat it!”
Stephen King’s first published novel, Carrie, was originally intended to be a short story. After writing just three pages, King tossed them into a garbage can. His daughter, Tabitha, fished the pages out of the trash and encouraged him to finish the story, saying that she would help him with the female perspective; he followed her advice and expanded it into a novel.
You mean his WIFE Tabitha. Their daughter Naomi was a toddler at the time.
In play: Steve Lightfoot’s ramblings about how author Stephen King murderer John Lennon and his beliefs that anyone who bad mouthed or made him mad ended up having horrible things happen to them has to be read to be believed. Since Lightfoot lives in a van and Stephen King was almost killed by a van, Lightfoot is obviously telling the truth.
More at http://lennonmurdertruth.com/footnotes-and-new-developments/
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Singer Gordon Lightfoot‘s middle name is Meredith. He was born that way, in 1938, in Ontario Canada.
Meredith Corporation is a media conglomerate, headquartered in Des Moines, Iowa.
Meredith publishes a range of magazine titles, primarily in the lifestyle segment, including Better Homes & Gardens, Entertainment Weekly, Food & Wine, People, Shape, and Southern Living. The company also owns several television stations and radio stations, and a television production company.
Meredith Kercher was a British student at the University of Perugia on exchange from the University of Leeds who was murdered in 2007 at the age of 21 in Perugia. Her roommate, Amanda Knox, a University of Washington student, was convicted of the murder, sentenced to 26 years and spent almost four years in an Italian prison. In 2015, Knox was definitively acquitted by the Italian Supreme Court.
Known burglar Rudy Guede was arrested a short time after the murder following the discovery of his bloodstained fingerprints on Kercher’s possessions. He was later found guilty of murder in a fast-track trial and is currently serving a 16-year prison sentence.
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Henry Knox, born 1750, was an officer of the Continental Army and the first United States Secretary of War from 1789 to 1794. When the Revolutionary War broke out in 1775, he befriended General George Washington and quickly rose to become the chief artillery officer of the Continental Army. Knox died at his home in Thomaston MA on October 25, 1806, at the age of 56, three days after swallowing a chicken bone which lodged in his throat and caused a fatal infection. He was buried on his estate in Thomaston with full military honors.
Towns and cities in Maine, Indiana, Iowa, Illinois, Maryland, and Tennessee are named Knox or Knoxville in his honor. There are counties named for Knox in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, Tennessee, and Texas.
Two forts, one in Kentucky and another in Maine were named after him. Knox Hall at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, home of the U.S. Army Field Artillery School, is named in his honor, as is an annual award recognizing the performance of U.S. artillery batteries.
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There are several pairs of counties in Texas that differ in spelling by one letter, such as Dalllam/Dallas and Bee/Lee. Hall County can be changed by one letter to either Hill or Hale. By changing only two letterers, China can change to either Chile or Ghana. One letter changes Iran/Iraq and Iceland/Ireland.
Iraan, Texas is a town in the western part of the state. Iraan was an oil boom town, and developed quickly after the discovery of the gigantic Yates Oil Field, which is adjacent to the town on the southwest. The oil field was discovered in 1926, and the first buildings in town were basic housing and infrastructure for workers on the field, all built by the Big Lake Oil Company which became Plymouth Oil Company, which was purchased by the Ohio Oil Company, then purchased by Marathon Oil Company, and owned today by Kinder Morgan.
No Republican candidate has ever won the White House without carrying Ohio, although several Democrats have. Bill Clinton carried the state twice with pluralities; Barack Obama carried it twice with outright majorities. Hillary Clinton lost the state four years ago, alas, by a margin of just over 8%.
Sir Edmund Hillary first took his son Peter climbing on Everest at age 11, in 1965. When Peter Hillary summited Everest in 1990, he and his father were the first father/son duo to achieve the feat. When Sir Edmund died in 2008, Peter Hillary delivered a eulogy in which he said, recalling his childhood, ‘Growing up in the Hillary family, was quite an adventure… Adventure was compulsory’.
Yes, indeed. Wife, not daughter. My bad.
In play: During the 1924 British Mount Everest expedition, George Mallory and his climbing partner, Andrew “Sandy” Irvine, disappeared during their attempt to make the first ascent of the world’s highest mountain. The pair were last seen when they were about 800 vertical feet from the summit. Mallory’s body was discovered on May 1, 1999, by an expedition that had set out to search for the climbers’ remains. Whether Mallory and Irvine had reached the summit before they died remains a subject of speculation and continuing research.
Actress Sandy Duncan landed her breakthrough television role when CBS cast her as the lead in a 1971 sitcom, Funny Face. However, shortly after the show’s premiere, Duncan was diagnosed with a benign brain tumor behind her left optic nerve. Surgery to remove the tumor was successful, though it led to Duncan becoming blind in her left eye.
Duncan Renaldo first appeared as The Cisco Kid on afternoon TV in the infancy of TV. Earlier, he had been imprisoned for illegal entry into the US, unable to prove he was not Romanian, but was later pardoned by FDR. Before TV he had tried to earn a living as a portrait artist.
Sandy Duncan was born in Henderson TX and raised in nearby Tyler TX.
NFL running back Earl Campbell (the “Tyler Rose”), and Kansas City Chiefs quarterback and the MVP of Super Bowl LIV Patrick Mahomes, both also hail from Tyler TX.
Sandy Duncan first attracted national attention for her work in commercials for United California Bank in the late 60s. She was perky, funny and attractive and got noticed by Time Magazine in 1970 as a promising young actor. I remember those commercials.
Clan Campbell was historically one of the largest and most powerful of the Scottish Highland clans since the 1400s. Sir Duncan Campbell, 1st Lord Campbell, who died in 1435, was a descendant of Robert I Bruce and most of the early Kings of Scotland. Because of their involvement in incidents like the Massacre of Glencoe and their support for the British Government in the Jacobite rising of 1745, they were resented by many other Highland clans.