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 He died from cancer 21 years ago, at the age of 58. He was cremated and his ashes were scattered in the Ganges and Yamuna rivers in India, according to Hindu tradition. Surely you remember him, since we still hear his voice all the time. He was born in 1943, the youngest of four children, into a household that had no indoor toilet and relied for heat on a single coal fire. His father was a conduc…

It’s 1981, the internet hasn’t been invented yet, and you need to get the word out to your employees about how to market a musician’s latest album release to the masses. And not just any musician, mind you, but Elton John. What to do? Well, if you’re the head honchos at the year-old Geffen Records, you leverage the latest technology at the time and organize a teleconference with your record compan…

Travel truly is one our favorite things in life. It must be, because we have now been to over fifty different countries along with all fifty of the United States. But even fanatic, ardent adventurers such as ourselves can get bored in the long stretches of time during in the transportation phases of our journeys. As anyone who has driven cross country, taken a long bus or train ride, or flown acro…

Carol Burnett has something in common with Richard Pryor, Whoopi Goldberg, Neil Simon and Tina Fey. They have all been recipients of the Mark Twain Prize for American humor, awarded annually since 1998 at an event held at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC.. That may seem odd, since she was born in Texas in 1933 to parents who were both alcoholics. Her parents divorced wh…

Remember when you were cool and young? And all of the films being released were filled with the hottest actors of the time… and those actors were your age? Well, the actors from those films aged with us and are now in their 60s and 70s. Yikes. Hollywood loves to spit out films that are about the boomer generation, filled with the pool of aging actors. The hardest part about watching these films…

Elizabeth Taylor was born in February 1932 in a planned community called Hampstead Garden Suburb, in northwest London. Her parents were from Kansas. Her father was an art dealer who got into the business through a wealthy relative. He moved first to New York, where in 1926 he married a young actress, also from Kansas, by the name of Sara Sothern. Then a few years later he was transferred to work i…

His parents had a small farm on  Cat Island  in the Bahamas. They traveled around the Caribbean selling tomatoes and other produce from their gardens. In February 1927 they were in Miami. The mother, Evelyn, was seven months pregnant, when she suddenly and unexpectedly went into labor. The boy was born two months premature. He was not expected to survive, but his parents stayed on in Miami for thr…