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"One Hour Photo" Press Conference with Robin Williams and Michael Vartan

Robin Williams

1951 - 2014

Comedic actor whose versatile range included "Aladdin's" Genie, an alien named Mork and Scottish nanny "Mrs. Doubtfire."

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Ernest Hemingway

1899 - 1961

Nobel Prize-winning writer famed for his concise style and themes of war, love and loss in works like "For Whom the Bell Tolls."

Janet Reno

Janet Reno

1938 - 2016

Politician and lawyer who became the first female U.S. Attorney General under President Bill Clinton.

1972

JUL

21

Comedian George Carlin is arrested for his infamous "seven dirty words" routine. Charges were dropped, but a later complaint about a broadcast of his act would propel the issue of indecent speech to the Supreme Court.

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