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Meryl Streep holds the record for receiving the most Academy Award Nominations…21 in all, winning 3.
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Katharine Hepburn and Jack Nicholson ![]()
tie at 12; she winning 4, he 3.
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But Walt Disney beats them all with 26.
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Speaking of Jack, when he was 37 years-old learned that his sister June, was actually his mother after being raised by his grandmother. He found out when Time Magazine reporters revealed it in 1974.
In an English pub when the bartender yells out, last orders, it’s the same as when Americans say last call. ![]()
To over-egg the pudding is another English expression meaning to exaggerate.
A brave woman in Hebrew is called a eshet chayil.
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Agatha Christie is considered the best selling author of all time selling over two billion copies of her 66 detective novels and 15 short-story collections.
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In 1991, when they broke ground on the National Mall in Washington D.C. for the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, there was controversy over his disability from Polio.
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Designers decided against placing him in a wheelchair. Instead they put him in a chair with a cloak hiding it; showing him as he always appeared. It was dedicated by President Bill Clinton in 1997.
Next to him is his beloved Scottie Fala who never left his side.
In 2001, a campaign to show FDR as he really was, led by the National Organization on Disability got their wish.
On January 10, 2001, the Prologue Room was added complete with a statue of FDR in his wheelchair by sculptor Robert Graham. ![]()
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The late and very talented Mr Graham was the husband of actress Anjelica Huston, the ex of none other than Jack Nicholson. ![]()
She left him after canoodling with a younger girl he ended up having two babies with. He didn’t want Anjelica to leave. He was hoping she’d just understand that these things sometimes happen. ![]()
Let’s hope he understood why an 18 year-old unwed mother in 1937 did what she did since things do sometimes happen.
Oscars…Meryl Streep: Best Supporting Actress…Kramer Verses Kramer 1980. Best Actress…Sophie’s Choice 1983. Best Actress…The Iron Lady 2012.
Katharine Hepburn: All Best Actress Awards…Morning Glory 1933. Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner 1967. The Lion In Winter 1968. On Golden Pond 1981.
Jack Nicholson: Best Actor…One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest 1975. Best Actor…As Good As It Gets 1997. Best Supporting Actor…Terms of Endearment 1983.
Walt Disney on February 23, 1939. received an Honorary Oscar for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the top-grossing film of its time. ![]()
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