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Angela Lansbury: Age, family, children, net worth

Angela Lansbury is a true icon from the Golden Age of vintage Hollywood. The British actress got her first Academy Award nomination at 19, and she boasts two(!) stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. ...

She divorced husband 15 years before passing away, and left this to him in her will

Celebrated actress Elizabeth Taylor was one of the last stars of classical Hollywood cinema, with a career that started all the way back when she was young. She had an astonishing career all told, one ...

Happy birthday, Dick Van Dyke: legendary performer celebrates 96th birthday and is still going strong

Only a few people in Hollywood today could truly be called a living legend, but Dick Van Dyke is certainly one of them. The iconic song-and-dance funnyman has made a huge impact in film, TV ...

Waitress deals with ‘grumpy’ customer for years until he stops coming and she gets a surprising message

Working in service industry jobs can be a thankless task, especially when you have to deal with rude members of the public. One Texas waitress had been serving the same “grumpy” veteran for years, but ...

“He phones, she picks up!” – Queen Elizabeth has just two phone contacts she ‘always’ answers

It’s safe to say a whole lot has changed since Queen Elizabeth ascended the English throne back in 1952. Not only has she presided over the greatest technological shift in history, but it’s safe to ...

Andy Gibb’s cause of death – this is how Bee Gees’ brother passed away, age 30

The Bee Gees were a worldwide phenomenon in the 1970s and the 1980s. Oldest brother, Barry, and fraternal twins, Robin and Maurice, first began experimenting with music after their family moved to Australia. Within a ...

Betty Soskin, country’s oldest active national park ranger, celebrates 100th birthday

Betty Soskin has held numerous jobs over the course of her life, but perhaps the most interesting is her current job as a national park ranger. The California resident works as a interpretative ranger at ...

Remember Frida from ABBA? Sit down before seeing how regal she looks at 77

ABBA became one of the greatest groups of all time in the 1970s and 1980s. The Swedish band with Bjorn Ulveaus, Benny Andersson, Agnetha Faltskog, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad (more famously known as Frida Lyngstad) took ...

Legendary singer Tony Bennett celebrates 95th birthday today with a concert with Lady Gaga

There are few musicians alive today as legendary as Tony Bennett. One of the all-time great singers of America’s pop and jazz standards, Bennett has been performing the “Great American Songbook” since the 1950s. And ...

Community celebrates veteran on his 106th birthday – “I can’t think of enough words to express my thanks”

We have to remember how lucky we are to still have veterans of the war with us today, able to share their firsthand accounts so that we can keep the history alive for generations. But ...