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Nancy Sinatra in 1966: 'No career is as important as a husband and children'

Edit The Guardian 04 Jun 2015
‘Lee, I’ve got to do that song!’ … Nancy Sinatra with Lee Hazlewood in the recording studio in 1966. Photograph. Michael Ochs Archives. Ann Moses ... She began her career by doing amateur television, but felt the thing that gave her the biggest boost “was probably a TV show I did when I was 18 ... We could conquer any problem imaginable.” While she is continually busy doing records, television and movies, Nancy could not choose a favourite ... ....

Larry Wilmore and the Importance of Keeping It 100

Edit Huffington Post 18 Feb 2015
Wilmore from his deadpan and brutally accurate observations as Senior Black Correspondent on The Daily Show, he is far from an amateur in the television industry ... Larry Wilmore is the first African-American in the history (that's not hyperbole because it's a fact) of television to host a late night show ... that make up late night television today....

First Look: U.S. Open (PGA Tour Inc)

Edit noodls 07 Jun 2014
(Source. PGA Tour Inc). • COURSE. Pinehurst Resort (No. 2), 7,562 yards, par 70. First completed in 1907, designer Donald Ross continued to refine his most celebrated work up to his death in 1948. Built on North Carolina's sandhills, No ... The U.S ... • FEDEXCUP. Winner receives 600 points. • CHARITY ... … Will Grimmer, one of nine amateurs in the field, shot a 59 on Pinehurst's No. 1 course during last year's North & South Junior Amateur. • TELEVISION....

Ex-heavyweight champ Jimmy Ellis, friend of Muhammad Ali, dies at 74

Edit Yahoo Daily News 06 May 2014
Jimmy Ellis was a terrific heavyweight in an era filled with all-time great heavyweights. Best known perhaps as a long-time friend of the legendary heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali, Ellis took a secondary role throughout his career to bigger name fighters despite being a world-class fighter in his own right ... He saw Ali, then known as Cassius Clay, fighting as an amateur on television in the 1950s ... Ali stopped Ellis in the 12th round....

Golf: Mediate remembered for great second place

Edit Otago Daily Times 26 Feb 2014
American Rocco Mediate, star attraction of the New Zealand Open, and wife Jess, who married recently, in Arrowtown yesterday. Photo by Tracey Roxburgh ... ''He supposedly had a broken leg ... I loved it all ... He has been paired with a similarly loquacious amateur, television personality Mark Richardson, for the first two rounds. Describing himself as ''nightmare'' for amateur partners, Mediate was nevertheless quick to praise the pro-am format ... ....
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