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Adam Richard Sandler (born September 9, 1966) is an American actor and comedian. Primarily a comedic leading actor in films, his accolades include nominations for three Grammy Awards, five Primetime Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
On February 18, 2024, during a segment on his show Last Week Tonight, comedian John Oliver offered Thomas US$1 million per year to step down from the Supreme Court. He enhanced the offer with the gift of a new motor coach worth an estimated $2.4 million. Oliver put a 30 day limit on the offer. [400]
The suffix-gate derives from the Watergate scandal in the United States in the early 1970s, which resulted in the resignation of US President Richard Nixon. [2] The scandal was named after the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C., where the burglary giving rise to the scandal took place; the complex itself was named after the "Water Gate" area where symphony orchestra concerts were staged on ...
[276] His New York Times obituary deemed his work forever tied to an era "when gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession". [277] In retrospective reviews that followed after his death, literary critics such as Peter Quennell dismissed his magnum opus The Great Gatsby as merely a nostalgic period piece with "the sadness and the ...
Dave Garroway, Chicago radio-TV personality, first host of NBC's Today show (born in New York) Jennie Garth, actress, Beverly Hills, 90210; Elbert Henry Gary, lawyer, county judge, corporate officer, a U.S. Steel founder; Gary, Indiana named for him; John Warne Gates, barbed wire mogul, founder of company that became Texaco
January 1 – The Clash headline the opening night of London's only punk rock club, The Roxy. [2] [3]January 6 – After releasing only one single for controversial English punk rock band the Sex Pistols, EMI terminates its contract with them in response to the band's disruptive behaviour on ITV's Today and later at London Heathrow Airport.
Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 until his resignation in 1974. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as a representative and senator from California and as the 36th vice president from 1953 to 1961 under President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Billie is left with ownership of his father's hotel after he dies. Canada [56] 1974 Butley: Ben Butley Alan Bates: Butley, a literature professor and longtime T. S. Eliot scholar with a recently developed interest in Beatrix Potter, is a suicidal alcoholic, who loses his wife and his male lover on the same day. United States, Canada, United ...