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hristmas seems to come faster with every passing year. Once you pack up the tinsel and tree, it’s time to take them back out again! Not that we’re complaining. This magical time of year is a wonderful occasion to meet up with the kids and grandkids. So that got us thinking about family get-togethers. Sometimes gathering the family in one room can lead to touchy subjects, but usually it’s a fun, fruitful time to catch up with your loved ones and play games, eat like kings and give as much as you get. However, not all families get along famously. In fact, famous families often have the roughest time getting along. So, to celebrate the holidays, we dug up some dirt about famous families that must have led to awkward holiday moments.
Trivia–Famous Family Feuds
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On a sheet of paper list the correct answers in order 1 through 5. Include your full name, mailing address, phone number and an email address (if you have one). Mail your trivia contest entry to: Lovin’ Life After 50 Attn: Trivia Contest 3200 N. Hayden, Suite 210 Scottsdale, AZ 85251 Or email your entry to: trivia@lovinlife.com The deadline for entry is the 15th of each month. Please be sure to have your entry postmarked by that date. If you’re a winner in our drawing we’ll contact you via telephone. Good luck!
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the episode, ‘Mute,’” Ann recalled. “I was very excited about doing the popular show. Mr. Serling made me feel at ease and didn’t talk down to me.” And after seeing him on TV, a gutsy 14-year old Mariette Hartley telephoned Serling and asked him to speak to her Connecticut high school drama club. “He said he would be delighted and I can still see him sitting in the teacher’s desk at the front of the Anne Serling with father Rod in early 1970s. influence on his career and reportedly classroom talking to us,” Mariette said. “Years later, when I has secured the rights to adapt Serling’s started working in Hollywood, I met last, never-produced script, “The Stops him again when his limousine pulled Along the Way.” Until then, Rod Serling’s work is still up as I was walking out the studio. He remembered coming to my class. I told available for your viewing pleasure, him I was looking for work and within almost nightly, on classic TV cable a couple of months he gave me the channels …. in “The Twilight Zone.” wonderful gift of working in ‘The Long Morrow’ episode.” Nick Thomas has written features and Today, Serling continues to inspire other moviemakers. J.J. Abrams, columns for more than 350 magazines director of the new “Star Trek” films, and newspapers. He can be reached at his has called “The Twilight Zone” a big blog: http://getnickt.blogspot.com.
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