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Anna Nicole Smith

Anna Nicole Smith (born November 28, 1967) is an American actress and Supermodel who first gained popularity as Playboy magazine’s 1993 Playmate of the Year. Her career and public image subsequently suffered as her weight gain and bizarre antics were put on display in supermarket tabloids and in her short-lived reality television show. More recently, Smith slimmed down and became the spokesperson for the weight loss product Trimspa.

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Byron Nelson
 
The cover of a book about Byron Nelson’s record-breaking 1945 seasonJohn Byron Nelson, Jr. (February 4, 1912 – September 26, 2006) was an American PGA Tour golfer between 1935 and 1946. He and two others of the greatest golfers of all time, Ben Hogan and Sam Snead, were born within 6 months of each other in 1912. Although he won many tournaments in the course of his relatively brief career, he is mostly remembered today for having won 11 consecutive tournaments and 18 total tournaments in 1945. He retired at the age of 34 to be a rancher.

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Casino Royale

First edition cover - published by Jonathan Cape.
Author Ian Fleming
Cover Artist Ian Fleming (devised)
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Series James Bond
Genre(s) Spy novel
Publisher Glidrose Productions
Released 13 April 1953
Media Type Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
ISBN NA
Followed by Live and Let Die
Casino Royale is the first James Bond novel by author Ian Fleming. It would eventually pave the way for 11 other novels by Fleming himself in addition to 2 short story anthologies, followed by many ‘continuation’ Bond novels by other authors.

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Mickey Hargitay

Mickey Hargitay ( January 6, 1926—September 14, 2006) Born in Budapest, Hungary.

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All the King’s Men (2006 film)

Directed by Steven Zaillian
Produced by Ken Lemberger
Mike Medavoy
Arnold Messer
Steven Zaillian
Written by Steven Zaillian
Starring Sean Penn
Jude Law
Kate Winslet
Patricia Clarkson
Anthony Hopkins
James Gandolfini
Mark Ruffalo
Music by James Horner
Cinematography Pawel Edelman
Editing by Wayne Wahrman
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Running time TBA
Language English
Budget $55,000,000
All the King’s Men (2006) is an adaptation of the 1946 Pulitzer Prize winning novel All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren. It is directed by Steven Zaillian, who is also listed in the writing credits. Although the 1949 Academy Award-winning movie All the King’s Men was also based on the novel, the 2006 movie is not a remake of the earlier movie, which Zaillian had