Golden Globes Donate Unclaimed Gift Bags to Military Families

According to the Hollywood Reporter, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, organizers of the Golden Globe Awards, have donated $275,000 worth of gift bags to The Fisher House, a not-for-profit organization assisting military service members and their families.

Full Story at http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/golden-globes-donate-unclaimed-gift-195162

Today in Hollywood History June 6th 2011

Today in Hollywood History June 6th 2011

1933 - 1st drive-in theater opens (Camden NJ)

1947 - Robert Englund known for his role of Freddie Krueger is born

1956 - The Killing directed by Stanley Kubrick released.

1960 - Steve Allen Show," last airs on NBC-TV

1967 - Paul Giamatti is born

1971 - "Ed Sullivan Show" last broadcasts on CBS-TV

1979 - Jack Haley known for his role as the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz dies at 80

1983 - Octopussy - starring Roger Moore is released.

2005 - Ann Bancroft known for her role as Mrs Robinson in The Graduate dies at 73

Today in Hollywood History June 5th 2011

Today in Hollywood History June 5th 2011

1954 - "Your Show Of Shows," last airs on NBC-TV

1956 - "Milton Berle Show," last airs on NBC-TV

1971 - Mark Wahlberg born

1992 - Patriot Games starring Harrision Ford is released.

2004 - Ronald Reagan dies at 93

2009 - Land of the Lost starring Will Ferrell is released

Today in Hollywood History June 4th 2011

Today in Hollywood History June 4th 2011

1880 - Clara Blandick who played Auntie Em in The Wizard of Oz born


1949 - "Cavalcade of Stars" debuts (DuMont); Jackie Gleason made host in 1950

1955 - Mickey Rooney Show," TV comedy last airs on NBC

1967 - 19th Emmy Awards: Mission Impossible, Monkees, Don Knotts & Lucy Ball

1968 - Dorothy Gish star of silent films and sister of Lillian Gish dies at 70

1975 - Angelina Jolie born

1982 - "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan," released in USA

James Arness dies at 88

From Robert Lloyd LA Times

In his size -- he was 6-foot-7 -- and his centeredness, James Arness suggested John Wayne, to whose production company he was under contract before he became the star of “Gunsmoke.” For 20 years, from 1955 to 1975, Arness, who died Friday at the age of 88, played Marshal Matt Dillon in what, along with “Law & Order,” is the longest-lived drama on American television. There was also in Arness something of the other tall men of the range, actors like James Stewart and Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea; and if he lacked their foregrounded complexity, their implicit darkness and latent violence -- there was a lot of “noir” in the postwar Western -- these were not things his role demanded, or which, indeed, could have reasonably sustained a character over two decades. Matt Dillon was not battling inner demons, making amends for past wrongs, or out to revenge wrongs done to him; indeed, he was for all intents and purposes a man without a past.

Full aticle http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2011/06/appreciation-james-arness-1923-2011.html

Today in Hollywood History June 3rd 2011

Today in Hollywood History June 3rd 2011

1910 - Paulette Goddard star of Chaplin's Modern Times and The Great Dictator born

1925 - Tony Curtis star of Some Like it Hot born

1969 - Last episode of Star Trek airs on NBC (Turnabout Intruder)

1975 - Ozzie Nelson star of The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet dies at age 69

1983 - War Games, starring Mathew Broderick is released

1988 - Big, starring Tom Hanks premieres in US

2001 - Anthony Quinn star of Lawrence of Arabia dies at 86

2009 - David Carradine star of Kung Fu dies at 72

2011 - James Arness star of Gun Smoke dies at 88

Today in Hollywood History June 2nd 2011

Today in Hollywood History June 2nd 2011

1934 - "Fog Over Frisco" starring Bette Davis released

1955 - Dana Carvey is born

1981 - Barbara Walters asks Katharine Hepburn what kind of tree she would be.

1983 - 1980 movie "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes," released in Germany

1989 - "Dead Poets Society" starring Robin Williams, premieres

1989 - "Vampires Kiss" starring Nicholas Cage is released

1994 - Sharon Stone files $12m lawsuit against her jeweler