By Nicole Bernard
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Michael John Douglas (born September 5, 1951), known professionally as Michael Keaton and Michael Keaton Douglas, is an American actor. He has received numerous accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award and two Golden Globe Awards, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award. In 2016, he was named Officer of Order of Arts and Letters in France.
Keaton gained early recognition for his comedic roles in Night Shift (1982), Mr. Mom (1983), and Beetlejuice (1988). He gained wider stardom portraying the title superhero in Batman (1989) and Batman Returns (1992). He took roles in Clean and Sober (1988), Much Ado About Nothing (1993), The Paper (1994), Multiplicity (1996), Jackie Brown (1997), Jack Frost (1998), Herbie: Fully Loaded (2005), and The Other Guys (2010). He also performed voice roles in the animated films Cars (2006), Toy Story 3 (2010), and Minions (2015).
Keaton experienced a career resurgence after taking a starring role as a faded actor attempting a comeback in Alejandro González Iñárritu‘s Birdman (2014), for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. He has since acted in biographical dramas such as Spotlight (2015), The Founder (2016), The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020), and Worth (2021). He portrayed the Vulture in Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) while also reprising his roles as Batman in The Flash (2023), and the title role in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024).
Keaton starred as a journalist in the HBO film Live from Baghdad (2002). He portrayed a drug-addicted doctor in the Hulu limited series Dopesick (2021), for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. Keaton directed the films The Merry Gentleman (2009) and Knox Goes Away (2023), in which he also played the starring role.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
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Word of the Day
Puzzle of the Day
Born
- Louis VIII of France –
- Tommaso Campanella (philosopher) –
- Johann Christian Bach (composer) –
- Jesse James (outlaw) –
- Napoleon “Nap” Lajoie (baseball player) –
- Bob Newhart (actor) –
- Raquel Welch (actress) –
- Freddie Mercury (singer) –
- Michael Keaton (actor) –
- Dweezil Zappa (musician) –
- Skandar Keynes (actor) –
Died
- Saint (Mother Teresa of Calcutta missionary) –
- Leo Penn (director) –
Events
- Great Fire of London ended–
- Russia’s Peter the Great imposed a tax on beards–
- First Continental Congress opened, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania–
- First standardized naval uniforms adopted for U.S.–
- The Central Labor Union in New York organized the first Labor Day parade–
- A treaty of peace signed in Portsmouth, NH, ending the Russo-Japanese war–
- USS Mount Vernon torpedoed by German submarine off France–
- Boris Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago published in the U.S.–
- Cassius Clay won an Olympic gold medal for boxing–
- Lynette Fromme attempted to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford–
- After 30 years, ABC canceled TV show American Bandstand–
- Lake water DNA analysis showed no evidence of the Loch Ness Monster (but perhaps a giant eel)–
Weather
- 112 degrees F, Centreville, Alabama–
- The temperature in Portland, Oregon, reached 102 degrees F–
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