Burt Reynolds Tops Teens Favorite Film Stars in Gallup Poll
Gallup finds Burt Reynolds as the top choice for both male and female teens, with John Travolta a distant second. The Top 10 includes Redford Eastwood Wayne Newman Streisand Hope and Lewis, with Travolta rising due to Grease and Saturday Night Fever. The survey surveyed 1,115 teens ages 13 to 18 in November 1978.
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Princeton
N.J
Burt Reynolds
Gallup
Reynolds
John Travolta
Clint Eastwood
Jerry Lewis
Travolta
Robert Redford
John Wayne
Paul Newman
Barbra Streisand
Bob Hope
Farrah Fawcett-Majors
Bedford
Eastwood
Wayne
Newman
Hope
Streisand
Fawcett-Majors
Lewis
Charles Bronson
Shaun Cassidy
Olivia Newton-John
Kate Jackson
Sylvester Stallone
Stallone
US battleship Maine explosion sparks Spanish American War
On this date in 1898 the U S battle ship Maine blew up in Havana harbor killing 260 crewmen. Public opinion in the United States surged for war though Spain’s guilt remained unproven, and the Spanish American War followed.
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U.S
Maine
Havana Harbor
Spain
United States
Paramount sets record for rentals in 1978 year
Paramount Pictures reports a 1978 domestic rentals record of 290 million dollars. Key contributors include Grease at 83 million, Saturday Night Fever at 63.3 million, Heaven Can Wait at 42.5 million, Foul Play at 25 million, Up in Smoke at 21.2 million, The One and Only at 12.1 million, and Death on the Nile at 8.1 million.
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Hollywood
Paramount Pictures
Barry Diller
Paramount
Gilbert stars in NBC teleplay The Miracle Worker
Melissa Gilbert, known for Little House on the Prairie, plays the young Helen Keller in a two hour NBC television presentation of The Miracle Worker. The drama follows Keller’s breakthrough with teacher Anne Sullivan and her method to unlock communication.
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Hollywood
UPI
Melissa Gilbert
Helen Keller
How Not to Name Baby in Brazil
A UPI report notes Brazilian law bans names seen as embarrassing or foreign spellings. Fathers cannot name sons Lucifer or Maria, but playful exceptions exist such as Uoxinton, a nod to the first U.S. president, as a permissible alias.
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Sao Paulo
UPI
Lucifer
Maria
Monicker
Uoxinton
United States
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