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NEW YORK -- Elfrida von Nardroff, who won more money than anyone else on the 1950s television quiz show "Twenty-One" -- but who later pleaded guilty to lying to a grand jury in Manhattan about receiving questions and answers in advance -- died Nov. 11 in a hospice in Westhampton Beach, on Long Island. She was 96.
In 1958, she won more on “Twenty-One” than anyone else. But she became embroiled in a scandal that led to grand jury and congressional investigations.
Disney+ Oscar-winning 1963 movie Cleopatra is just one of more than 400 movies available on Disney+'s new Star stream. Disney+ is about to get a whole lot bigger. From today, the Mouse House’s on-demand service is adding a whole new stream. Having sifted through the almost 450 movies and 155 TV series which will be available at launch, Stuff has come up with this list of 20 titles, most of which haven’t been previously available on a buffet-style service before. Supplied The original Planet of the Apes, My So-Called Life and Boys Don’t Cry are among the great movies and TV shows wh...
Closing Thought–31Dec20 The last day of the year and as per my tradition I want to look back at the year this site has had….. I know very little about mine, IST, other than the amount of likes and visitors…..it was never really that important to me to know my standing in the world…that is just another headache I can avoid. I am not a blogger that spends more time checking my stats than actually trying to educate the reader on a wide array of topics. I admit that I check my WP stats a couple of times a day….but that is as far as my search usually goes.
Remembering those who died in 2020, from Ruth Bader Ginsburg and B. Smith to Chadwick Boseman and Eddie Van Halen Updated Dec 31, 2020; Posted Dec 31, 2020 FILE - In this Sept. 26, 2018, file photo, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg leaves the stage after speaking to first-year students at Georgetown Law in Washington. Ginsburg died of metastatic pancreatic cancer at age 87. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)AP Facebook Share By BERNARD McGHEE, The Associated Press In a year defined by a devastating pandemic, the world lost iconic defenders of civil rights, great athletes and enterta...