Happy Birthday: Paul Greengrass

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Paul Greengrass Born: August 13, 1955 in Cheam, Surrey, England, UK [on his time with British current-affairs TV show ‘World in Action’] A festival of puerile self-importance, intense paranoia, fiddled expenses and brilliant creativity. By the time I’d done Bloody Sunday (2002) I felt I reached the end of a…

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RIP Kenny Baker (actor of R2D2): Died Today at the age of 83

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Kenny Baker (1934–2016) Born: August 24, 1934 in Birmingham, England, UK Died: August 13, 2016 (age 81) in England, UK The 3ft 8in actor, who starred in six Star Wars films as well as Time Bandits and Flash Gordon, was 83 The British actor who played R2-D2 in the Star…

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