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In a "Top Ten List of Well-Known David Letterman Trivia," the talk-show host's devotion to his alma mater might feature as number one. The latest evidence: Letterman is donating a set and more to Indiana's Ball State University. Per IndyStar, Ball State president, Paul Ferguson, says Letterman will donate "Emmy Awards, a talk-show set and other memorabilia from [his] career in television."
Letterman's donations will form "The David Letterman Experience." The exhibit will be displayed at Ball State University's David Letterman Communication and Media Building. According to IndyStar, no one said whether the furniture will come from Letterman's old NBC TV show, Late Night with David Letterman, or his CBS TV show, Late Show with David Letterman. The latter premiered on CBS in 1993 and ran for 22 seasons, before ending earlier this year.
In a "Top Ten List of Well-Known David Letterman Trivia," the talk-show host's devotion to his alma mater might feature as number one. The latest evidence: Letterman is donating a set and more to Indiana's Ball State University. Per IndyStar, Ball State president, Paul Ferguson, says Letterman will donate "Emmy Awards, a talk-show set and other memorabilia from [his] career in television."
Letterman's donations will form "The David Letterman Experience." The exhibit will be displayed at Ball State University's David Letterman Communication and Media Building. According to IndyStar, no one said whether the furniture will come from Letterman's old NBC TV show, Late Night with David Letterman, or his CBS TV show, Late Show with David Letterman. The latter premiered on CBS in 1993 and ran for 22 seasons, before ending earlier this year.
- 12/3/2015
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Ramon Novarro and Greta Garbo in ‘Mata Hari’: The wrath of the censors (See previous post: "Ramon Novarro in One of the Best Silent Movies.") George Fitzmaurice’s romantic spy melodrama Mata Hari (1931) was well received by critics and enthusiastically embraced by moviegoers. The Greta Garbo / Ramon Novarro combo — the first time Novarro took second billing since becoming a star — turned Mata Hari into a major worldwide blockbuster, with $2.22 million in worldwide rentals. The film became Garbo’s biggest international success to date, and Novarro’s highest-grossing picture after Ben-Hur. (Photo: Ramon Novarro and Greta Garbo in Mata Hari.) Among MGM’s 1932 releases — Mata Hari opened on December 31, 1931 — only W.S. Van Dyke’s Tarzan, the Ape Man, featuring Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O’Sullivan, and Edmund Goulding’s all-star Best Picture Academy Award winner Grand Hotel (also with Garbo, in addition to Joan Crawford, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery, and...
- 8/9/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
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