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The actor Chris Cooper everyone loves whose name no one remembers, lost his 17 year-old son, Jesse, in 2005 from complications from Cerebral Palsy stricken at birth. ![]()
Nineteen years later, he and his wife Marianne still advocate for the rights of kids with disabilities. ![]()
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Daniel Day-Lewis is the only actor to win Three Best Actor Academy Awards: My Left Foot (1989), There Will Be Blood (2007) and Lincoln (2012).
Liam Neeson was Steven Spielberg’s first choice to play Abe when he bought the film rights to Doris Kearns Goodwin’s book, Team of Rivals, ![]()
published in 2005. ![]()
Things changed in the seven years it took for the film to be made, including the death in 2009 of Neeson’s wife, Natasha Richardson, in a skiing accident.
If you want to make God laugh tell him your plans, as the saying goes. ![]()
John F. Kennedy was allergic to horse hair, a true inconvenience when having a wife who was an avid equestrian. ![]()
Mustn’t forget Macaroni, his daughter Caroline’s beloved pony who lived at the White House.
Did you just hear a big sneeze? ![]()
As a young mother, Eleanor Roosevelt thinking it handy and quite reasonable, harnessed one of her children on a high clothesline to get some fresh air. She was severely admonished by her disapproving neighbors.
In went the baby. ![]()
Actor Richard Gere in 1998 was the first man to appear on the cover of Vogue Magazine. At the time he was married to top model Cindy Crawford appearing with him. ![]()
George Clooney two years later was the second sexy fella who graced the newsstands, also with a pretty model.
Behind every hot guy is a hotter gal it seems, with connections. ![]()
Actors Humphrey Bogart, Yul Byrnner, Gary Cooper, Errol Flynn, Paul Newman and John Wayne all died of either lung cancer or other related diseases due to smoking.
Add actresses Lucille Ball, Betty Grable and Susan Hayward, legendary musicians Nat King Cole, Duke Ellington and Beatle George Harrison; baseball greats Babe Ruth and Joe DiMaggio, comedians John Candy, Andy Kaufman and esteemed journalist Edward R. Murrow and wonder why so many of us still smoke? ![]()
