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Vicki McClure Davidson | January 31, 2012

  In awards-obsessed Hollywood, why aren’t stunt performers included for an Oscar win? If not the stunt performers, then surely the stunt coordinators, those who create, direct, and implement incredible, heart-racing stunts in films, should be honored by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. But, they aren’t. While the Academy Award for title-writing [...]

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Vicki McClure Davidson | December 14, 2011

  Hollywood beauty and film legend Elizabeth Taylor passed away in March at age 79. Her famous jewels — many of which were extravagant gifts from her late ex-husband Richard Burton — and other belongings such as costumes, artwork, and film scripts, are being sold at a well-publicized Christie’s auction this week. Records were broken [...]

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Vicki McClure Davidson | November 7, 2011

  This weekend, the incomparable, award-winning singer Andy Williams, now 83 years old, told his audience at his Moon River Theater in Branson, Missouri that he is battling bladder cancer. Williams assured his fans that he will fight this cancer, that it is no longer a death sentence. From Fox News, ‘Moon River’ Singer Andy [...]

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