By Brenda June Temple
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Barbara Lynn Herzstein, better known as Barbara Hershey (born February 5, 1948), is an American actress. In a career spanning more than 50 years, she has played a variety of roles on television and in cinema in several genres, including westerns and comedies. She began acting at age 17 in 1965 but did not achieve widespread critical acclaim until the 1980s. By that time, the Chicago Tribune referred to her as “one of America’s finest actresses”.
Hershey won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries/TV Film for her role in A Killing in a Small Town (1990). She received Golden Globe nominations for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Mary Magdalene in The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) and for her role in The Portrait of a Lady (1996). For the latter film, she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and won the Los Angeles Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress. She has won two Best Actress awards at the Cannes Film Festival for her roles in Shy People (1987) and A World Apart (1988). She was featured in Woody Allen‘s Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), for which she was nominated for the British Academy Film Award for Best Supporting Actress and Garry Marshall‘s melodrama Beaches (1988), and she earned a second British Academy Film Award nomination for Darren Aronofsky‘s Black Swan (2010).
Establishing a reputation early in her career as a hippie, Hershey experienced conflict between her personal life and her acting goals. Her career suffered a decline during a six-year relationship with actor David Carradine, with whom she had a child. She experimented with a change in stage name to Barbara Seagull. During this time, her personal life was highly publicized and ridiculed. Her acting career was not well established until she separated from Carradine and changed her stage name back to Hershey. In 1990, later in her career, it was reported that she began to keep her personal life private.
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- Nancy Hanks Lincoln (mother of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln) –
- Ralph McGill (American journalist ) –
- William Burroughs (author) –
- Red Buttons (actor) –
- Hank Aaron (baseball player) –
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- Tom Wilkinson (actor) –
- Laura Linney (actress) –
- Sara Evans (country music singer) –
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- Marianne Moore (poet) –
- Samuel M. Rubin (known as Sam the Popcorn Man, the first to pop corn in machines on a widespread basis in theaters) –
- Franklin Cover (actor) –
- Brian Jacques (children’s author) –
- Kirk Douglas (actor) –
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- Religious leader Roger Williams arrived in America (Boston)–
- First annual meeting of the American Statistical Association–
- The Oregon Spectator was the first newspaper published on the Pacific coast of the United States–
- Edwin Prescott was granted a patent for a centrifugal railway (an early design of a looping roller coaster)–
- The Yankees bought 10 acres in the Bronx, New York, for a stadium–
- Richard Button won Olympic gold for figure skating–
- The first “Don’t Walk” automatic signs were installed in New York City–
- Walt Disney’s Peter Pan premiered–
- Canadian industrialist and William Stephenson invested as Companion of Order of Canada–
- RHESSI (then called HESSI) launched to study solar flares. (RHESSI stands for Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager.)–
- The National Zoo’s first litter of cheetahs in 115 years went on display to the public–
Weather
- San Francisco, California, received 3.7” of snow downtown and 7” in the west hills–
- Two to 4 inches of snow fell in parts of southern Louisiana – more than had been received in any of the preceding 15 years.–
- Most of the western United States experienced a severe arctic outbreak–
- Northern Minnesota saw chilly temperatures of -38 F in Hallock and -42 F in Embarrass–
- Grand Fork, North Dakota, and International Falls, Minnesota, each recorded a temperature of -30 degrees F–
- The temperature dropped to -44 degrees F in Winnipeg, Manitoba–
- Dozens of twisters were reported in Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Alabama–
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