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Christine White: Heroine From a Classic ‘Twilight Zone’ Episode

Posted on 05/20/2013 by | Who's News | Comments

Bulletin Today | Entertainment | LegacyActress Christine Lamson White, who died on April 14 at age 86 in Washington, D.C., racked up an impressive 53 appearances in TV series and made-for-TV movies during a career that stretched from 1952 to 1976, including roles on hit programs such as The Fugitive, Bonanza, The Untouchables, and Perry Mason. She also had a small role in a 1973 Clint Eastwood action movie hit, Magnum Force. But White remains best known as the wife who sat next to a then-youthful …

James Tolbert: The Man Who Integrated the TV Industry

Posted on 05/16/2013 by | Who's News | Comments

Bulletin Today | Entertainment | LegacyToday, if you watch television, you’ll see plenty of African-American actors playing major roles — from LL Cool J, who portrays a hunky Navy cop on the hit crime series NCIS: Los Angeles, to Kerry Washington, who plays political power-broker Olivia Pope on ABC’s just-renewed series Scandal. But it wasn’t always like that. In fact, when entertainment lawyer James Tolbert, who died on April 22 at age 86 in Santa Monica, started working to break the network color line in the early …

Billie Sol Estes: King of the Texas Wheeler-Dealers

Posted on 05/16/2013 by | Who's News | Comments

Bulletin Today | Legacy | PoliticsWashington imbroglios — from Watergate and Iran-contra to the current criminal investigation of the IRS —have come and gone over the years. But few were as sensational, or as intriguing, as the mid-1960s scandal surrounding the infamous Texas swindler Billie Sol Estes. It was a saga replete with witnesses who died mysteriously, tales of millions paid to politicians, a defendant who accused a president of having plotted to assassinate his predecessor and, at one point, the exhumation of a pet cat …

Dr. Joyce Brothers: Her 5 Most Surprising TV Moments

Posted on 05/14/2013 by | Who's News | Comments

Bulletin Today | LegacyToday, when we’re feeling in need of advice or reassurance about our inner woes, we’re accustomed to turning on the TV and watching someone such as psychologist Phil McGraw or physician and addiction expert Drew Pinsky elicit epiphanies from troubled people right in front of the camera, and in the process dispense advice to millions. But it was Joyce Brothers, who died on May 13 at age 85 in Fort Lee, N.J., who invented the role of the TV psychologist in …

The Sting-Ray: Was It the Coolest Bike Ever?

Posted on 05/13/2013 by | Who's News | Comments

Bulletin Today | Entertainment | LegacyIf you were a prepubescent boy in the mid-1960s, a great deal of your social status hinged on your bike. If you rode a big clunky cruiser with fat tires that looked like a hand-me-down from Beaver Cleaver, you had no chance for membership in the Cool Kids Club, even if you adorned it with streamers and stuffed baseball cards in the spokes. No, what you bugged your parents to get you for your birthday or Christmas was a Schwinn …

10 Surprising Facts about America’s Champions of Aging

Posted on 05/3/2013 by | Who's News | Comments

Bulletin Today | LegacyCelebrating May as Older Americans Month offers the perfect time to remember leaders who helped to build a nation that respects and protects its older citizens. A new AARP website feature called Champions of Aging does precisely that. All 10 made contributions that changed America for the better, and created opportunities for those in their 50s, 60s and beyond to lead healthier, more financially secure, and more meaningful and enjoyable lives. Some of the champions’ names are better know than …

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