Fifty-one years ago today, Joan Crawford’s last film premiered: Trog. It is a low-budget science fiction horror movie that nearly everyone associated with it regretted
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Happy 96th Birthday Johnny Carson
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Happy 96th Birthday Robert Rauschenberg
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