Sally Field has twice won Best Actress Oscars: for Norma Rae (1979) and for Places In the Heart (1984, with John Malkovich). Despite these heavyweight credits, she has never quite shaken the spunky-but-naive persona she established in the 1960s TV series Gidget and The Flying Nun (in which she played a young novice whose outfit absurdly gave her the ability to fly). She expanded her range in the 1970s, appearing with Jeff Bridges in the drama Stay Hungry (1976, with Arnold Schwarzenegger) and getting raves for her performance as a young woman with multiple personality disorder in the TV movie Sybil (1976). Her success in the 1980s allowed her to produce movies, including Steel Magnolias (1989) and Dying Young (1991), both starring Julia Roberts. In the late ’90s Field was still appearing in the movies and spending time behind the camera, directing two TV movies and the theatrical release of Beautiful (2000). She also found work in television, including a recurring role on E.R. and a short-lived series, The Court (2002). Fields joined the cast of the TV drama series Brothers & Sisters in 2006, along with Calista Flockhart and Rob Lowe.

The 59th Primetime Emmy® Awards recipients were honored at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, live on FOX.

Ed Bradley was a broadcast journalist for CBS News and one of the co-hosts of TV’s weekly news magazine 60 Minutes. Bradley, one of the first nationally known African American TV reporters, got his start in radio at WDAS in Philadelphia in 1963. He moved to New York to be with WCBS radio in 1967 and joined CBS News in 1971. With CBS television Bradley covered the war in Vietnam (1972-74) and politics in Washington, D.C. (1974-78). He also served as a correspondent for CBS Reports (1978-81) and anchored the Sunday night news broadcast (1976-81). When Dan Rather replaced Walter Cronkite as the CBS News anchor, Bradley replaced Rather as one of the hosts of the popular show 60 Minutes (1981). In contrast to the fiery, combative style of his fellow 60 Minutes host Mike Wallace, Bradley was cool, calm and persistent. Over the years his news exposés and interviews with celebrities — from Michael Jackson to Neil Armstrong — earned him numerous journalism and television awards, including 19 Emmys. A fan of jazz music, Bradley in his last years also hosted the weekly radio series Jazz at Lincoln Center on National Pulbic Radio.a

EVIEW SUMMARYIn a year in which one pop-songbook show after another has thudded and died, “Jersey Boys,” a shrink-wrapped musical biography of the pop group the Four Seasons, passes as silver instead of as the chrome-plated jukebox that it is

• 1991- Best Actor - Emmy(Winner)
• 1985- Best Supporting Actor - L.A. Film Critics Association(Winner)
• 1985- Best Supporting Actor - L.A. Film Critics Association(Winner)
• 1981- Best Supporting Actor - Academy(Winner)
• 1981- Best Supporting Actor - Golden Globe(Winner)
• 1981- Best Supporting Actor - New York Film Critics Circle(Winner)
• 1981- Best Supporting Actor - L.A. Film Critics Association(Winner)
• 1977- Best Actor - New York Film Critics Circle(Winner)
• 1974- Best Supporting Actor - British Academy Awards(Winner)
• 1964- Best Supporting Actor - Academy(Nomination)
• 1953- Best British Actor - British Academy Awards(Winner)

George Reeves

Actor

Name at birth: George Keefer Brewer

George Reeves played comic-book hero Superman on the 1950s TV series The Adventures of Superman. Reeves was working at the Pasadena Community Playhouse when he was cast as southern suitor Stuart Tarelton in the epic Gone With the Wind (1939, with Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh). He appeared in over three dozen movies through the 1940s (including a bit part alongside Ronald Reagan in 1941’s Knute Rockne, All-American) before hitting it big as Superman on TV. The Adventures of Superman aired from 1952 to 1957 and made Reeves a familiar face across America — so familiar, in fact, that the actor later became somewhat despondent about being type-cast as the Man of Steel. He made his final film appearance in 1956, in the Disney feature Westward Ho The Wagons!, before killing himself in 1959.

Hello folks, I’m back introducing more athletes in the sport of powerlifting. Here I have yet another powerlifter who hasn’t graced any covers of the top powerlifting magazines but has the talent and training that will make other powerlifters take notice of him in the future if not now. His name is Sebastian Burns and he recently did a mind-boggling 725 @ 267! This is just as amazing as Ryan’s 800 @ 295! But his approach to training is much different from any other powerlifter and it’s because of their training that Sebastian went from 500 to 725 in a year! Want to learn more…. read on!

CD: Thanks for a chance to interview you, Sebastian. Please give the readers a description of yourself?

SB: Thank you for the interview. I am 30 years old I currently live in Glens Falls NY. I am 5′8 and around 270 when competing and around 250 or a little less in the off-season. I am a personal trainer and I love playing guitar and drums and studying music theory. Also riding Dirt Bikes and ATVs.

CD: How long have you been into powerlifting?

SB: I started powerlifting about 4 years ago. I only did meets for fun at first I was into bodybuilding and just getting strong at all exercises. I started serious bench press only training about 18 months ago.

CD: Have you always been strong?

SB: I began working out when I was 15 because I was real small (125lbs) and skinny. I was into racing ATVs and wanted a stronger back and arms to race better. I was not strong at all when I started and I once got stuck under the bar with only 45lbs on the bench press.

CD: Tell us about your childhood and how you got into powerlifting?

SB: When I was younger I got into trouble at school. I ended up getting sent to a foster home. While there I attended a new high school and every day I would sign out of class and go to the library. There I would ask for all the latest bodybuilding magazines and all the back issues. I would also read any and all books I could find about how muscles worked and how to eat right

CD: How did it feel benching 725 @ 267?

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Talks at Flint parts plants to continue

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• Talks end for ‘bad reasons’
• GM pursuing other avenues to end strike
• Other strikes on the way?
• Related sites and stories

July 12, 1998
Web posted at: 7:53 p.m. EDT (2353 GMT) FLINT, Michigan (CNN) — Top-level talks between General Motors and the United Auto Workers have ended, and GM’s top negotiator has left Flint in a setback to the settlement efforts.

Plant-level talks will continue, but both sides said they were disappointed by Sunday’s developments.

“I was optimistic, publicly, on Thursday, and I had every reason to be because there is no reason why we have not achieved, could not achieve, settlement of these disputes by today,” said GM vice president Gerald Knechtel. “But we haven’t and we won’t.”

Knechtel left Flint and returned to his office in Detroit. He said last week that he was optimistic that the strikes could be settled this weekend.

Richard Shoemaker, the UAW’s chief negotiator, said the union is prepared to continue negotiations. He reiterated that he didn’t share General Motor’s optimism about ending the strike this weekend.

Knechtel said the high-level talks ended due to demands by the UAW for GM to invest in the Flint Metal Center stamping plant, which is one of GM’s least efficient plants.

Gerald Knechtel, GM vice president of personnel
UAW chief negotiator Richard Shoemaker

“We are very disappointed, given the devastating impact that this work stoppage has on our people and on the company — and it’s for bad reasons,” he said. “It’s for reasons involving demands to put investment into a non-competitive business. And the company is not going to do that.”

But Shoemaker said the metal plant is key to the settlement of the entire strike.

“I think that if we could settle the issues at (Flint Metals Center) that it would go a long ways toward providing momentum to reach settlements at other places,” he said. “I don’t agree it’s the local union that is holding up progress.”

Knechtel said the automaker is going to pursue other avenues to end the strike. General Motors has filed a grievance claiming that the strikes are illegal and violate the national contract GM has with the union.

“We going to pursue these and many other avenues to bring a conclusion to these work stoppages, and we’re going to turn our attention to those avenues immediately,” he said, declining to give details.

Shoemaker said GM has the wherewithal to settle the strike now.

“I think it’s unfortunate that they’ve decided to look at other options that are available to them, but of course everybody has the right to do those things,” Shoemaker said.

Knechtel said the company was going “to intensify our scrutiny” of ways it can conserve money, including taking a closer look at planned capital investments. GM has hinted before that the strikes may force it to move up plans to eliminate slow-selling vehicle lines and close some plants.

Also on Sunday, workers at a GM plant in Indianapolis were voting on whether to authorize union leaders to call a strike, if necessary, at a stamping plant where GM and UAW are in the midst of a dispute.

The UAW has said it may call strikes at Indianapolis and at two brake plants in Dayton, Ohio, once the Flint strikes are settled.

Dayton workers already have authorized a strike. GM has insisted that the disputes at those plants be resolved as part of any deal to settle Flint.

GM plants were to start manufacturing 1999 model vehicles on Monday after the annual two-week summer shutdown.

The company has racked up losses totaling more than $1.2 billion since the strikes began June 5 at two GM plants in Flint.

Parts shortages caused by the Flint walkouts have forced GM to shut down 26 of its 29 major assembly plants in North America.

About 9,200 workers are on strike and about 162,000 other GM workers have been idled.

TAMMY PUNCHLINE MAGAZINE INTERVIEW: By Jessica Agi

Having grown up in a small Italian suburb with all brothers outside of Cleveland, stand-up comic Tammy Pescatelli, a 13-year veteran of the business, has spent her entire life defending herself with barbed quips and gathering material for her stage show. Though she’s already scored her own Comedy Central Presents, was a contestant on the second season of Last Comic Standing, and appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno twice, she still has plenty of big plans.