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    The California Milk Processor Board needed to reverse plunging industry sales fast. Ever since, they have been credited with great increasing milk sales in California. Starting out with commericials, the campaign showed actors eating dried foods such as, peanut butter & jelly, peanuts, crackers, or cookies and then the actor would be stuck with a dried mouth and no milk. By the end of the commercial would be the words “Got Milk.” The consumption of fluid milk had steadily declined from 0.96 (1970)

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    "Renaissance man" is one who has acquired profound knowledge or proficiency in more than one field. Normally one from the renaissance time period(1905-1910). A modern day Renaissance man is a term used for those who have accomplished such achievements but lives in another period-the present. James Franco is a man that epitomizes such a title.. Franco is a man of many vices, actor, Broadway actor, director, author, screenwriter, producer, painter, model, host, musician, volunteer, humanitarian, director

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    1st Draft Movies are a big part of everyday life. Millions of Americans go to the movies every week. Have you ever stopped to think about what movies used to be like, or how movies became what they are today? All of that can be traced back to the 1930’s. The 1930’s decade has been nostalgically labeled “The Golden Age of Hollywood.” (Dirks, Tim) There were many innovations that established the foundation of modern film. The 30s was the decade of the sound and color revolutions and the advance of

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    Truman Symbolism

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    Truman try's to drive on the bridge over water. Seahaven also stands for haven from the sea, which is one of Truman's fears. The symbolizim of the name Truman in the movie is ironic in that he is a True man. Which is false because all his life he is being watched and monitored on a live TV show. Burbank, Truman's last name, is a town in California. It takes 5 and a half hours from Indianapolis to get to Burbank California. This perfectly and flawlessly represents that life is fragile and should

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    would give people only their scripts and not anyone else’s. That way the actors could reply with the flow of other actors, and not just blandly reading the scripts. This factor in his plays make them have truly amazing acting. In the 2014 version of the play the acting was incredible. The Movie with actor Leonardo DiCaprio had several odd things about it like the set, language and modernized atmosphere. The 1968 version the actors of the movie were the same age as the original play characters and was

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    Have you ever wanted to know how it feels to be batman? There is a plump amount of actors that have acted in many movies and T.V. shows, but I will be talking about an actor named Adam West. I’m going to start at the beginning first, his childhood. Adam West was born as William West Anderson, September 19, 1928 in Seattle, Washington. He lived in Walla Walla, then his parents divorced. Otto was his father’s name and his mom’s was Audrey. He went to Whitman college, then moved to Hawaii. There he

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    1930, in San Francisco, California, as Clinton Eastwood Jr. to Clinton Sr. and Ruth Eastwood, with an older sister named Jean. After looking for work in California during the Depression, the family settled in Oakland, where he graduated from Oakland Technical High School in 1948. Clint worked odd jobs, including as a hay baler, logger, truck driver and steel-furnace stoker. In 1950, he joined the military with the Army Special Services, based at Fort Ord in Monterey, California. While in the Army, he

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    was born in Los Angeles, California on October 26, 1914 and passed away due to a heart attack on March 3, 1984 in Santa Monica, California. His birth name is John Leslie Coogan and at the age of four he was on stage and by age five he was touring in Los Angeles with his family. His father was a dancer named Jack Coogan Sr. and his mother was a child star named Lillian Coogan both vaudevillians. Jackie Coogan was married four times, the first time he wed Betty Grable from 1937-1939. Then he met Flower

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    Bernard Bragg Bernard Bragg is an American actor, producer and director; This is just to name a few of his many talents. He was born on September 27, 1928, in Brooklyn New York. Bragg was born deaf to deaf parent who tough him sign language as a form. From an early age Bragg show interest in theater, since his father Wolf Bragg was an actor and also, he managed plays. From his early years Bragg demonstrated talent as early as High School where he perform and helped with preparations of the play.

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    All about Ronald Raegan

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    (The White House, “Ronald Raegan”). Besides studying at college, Raegan, was a football player, and loved to be in theatre. This is where his career as an actor began to succeed! In 1937, Raegan took a screen test and it caused him to win a career in Hollywood (The White House, “Ronald Raegan”). Raegan was in his twenties when he became an actor. Some movies and films he starred in were, Bedtime for Bonzo, Knute Rockne, and Dark Victory. These are just some of the movies he played in. All together

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