Happy Birthday: Cecily Strong

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Cecily Strong Born: February 8, 1984 in Springfield, Illinois, USA [joking about a series of intruders at the White House] When the President walked in and saw old those bellhops, he said, “Finally, some decent security”. Her father, Bill Strong, was the Associated Press bureau chief at the Illinois Statehouse.…

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Happy Birthday: James Dean (1931–1955)

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James Dean (1931–1955) Born: February 8, 1931 in Marion, Indiana, USA Died: September 30, 1955 (age 24) in Cholame, California, USA When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn’t acting. It’s following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that. So the director’s…

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