By Marisol Nicholson
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Mary Nell Steenburgen (/ˈstiːnbɜːrdʒən/; born February 8, 1953) is an American actress, comedian, singer, and songwriter. After studying at New York’s Neighborhood Playhouse in the 1970s, she made her professional acting debut in the 1978 Western comedy film Goin’ South. Steenburgen went on to earn critical acclaim for her role in 1979 Time After Time and Jonathan Demme‘s 1980 comedy-drama film Melvin and Howard, for which she received the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Steenburgen received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Miloš Forman‘s drama film Ragtime (1981). Her other films include A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy (1982), Cross Creek (1983), Back to the Future Part III (1990), What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993), Philadelphia (1993), Nixon (1995), The Brave One (2007), Last Vegas (2013), A Walk in the Woods (2015), Book Club (2018), Nightmare Alley (2021), and Book Club: The Next Chapter (2023). She also became known for playing mothers in a string of comedy films such as Parenthood (1989), Elf (2003), Step Brothers (2008), Four Christmases (2008), The Proposal (2009), Did You Hear About the Morgans? (2009), The Help (2011), and Happiest Season (2020).
She received nominations for a BAFTA TV Award for the miniseries Tender Is the Night (1985) and a Primetime Emmy Award for the television film The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank (1988). Steenburgen has worked as a singer-songwriter for numerous films, in some of which she starred. For her song “Glasgow (No Place Like Home)”, written for the musical film Wild Rose (2018), she received the Critics’ Choice Movie Award for Best Song.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
Question of the Day
These are the easiest formulas that we’re aware of:
If you know the degrees Celsius: degrees F = (degrees C x 1.8) + 32.
If you know the degrees Fahrenheit: degrees C = (degrees F – 32) / 1.8.
Check out our Temperature Conversion page for an automatic conversion calculator and conversion charts.
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Puzzle of the Day
What English word has all the vowels in alphabetical order?
Facetiously
Died
- Peter I of Russia (Peter the Great) –
- John Hay Whitney (multimillionaire) –
- Raymond Scott (composer) –
- William Dillard, Sr. (founder of the retail chain Dillard’s) –
- Joe Edwards (cartoonist) –
Born
- Henry Walter Bates (naturalist) –
- Jules Verne (writer) –
- King Vidor (director of film) –
- Jack Lemmon (actor) –
- Thelma Chalifoux (politician) –
- James Dean (actor) –
- John Williams (composer) –
- Ted Koppel (newscaster) –
- Mary Steenburgen (actress) –
- John Grisham (author) –
- Seth Green (actor) –
- Jordan Todosey (actress) –
Events
- French and Indians attacked Schenectady, New York–
- College of William & Mary chartered.–
- Simon Willard granted patent for the banjo clock–
- Sandford Fleming proposed Universal Standard Time, Toronto, Ontario–
- Boy Scouts of America incorporated–
- Stars and Stripes newspaper published for the first time–
- President Harding had the first radio installed in the White House–
- Jay Berwanger became the first player to be drafted by the National Football League–
- JFK administration banned travel of U.S. citizens to Cuba–
- Last issue of Saturday Evening Post until the magazine’s 1971 re-emergence–
- Debi Thomas won Women’s Singles, U.S. National Figure Skating Championship–
- Disney’s California Adventure Park opened–
Weather
- Great Arctic outbreak in the Southeast. 8 degrees F in Jacksonville, Florida—extensive crop damage–
- The Lindsay Storm left 20 inches of snow in New York City, where areas went unplowed for more than a week–
- The beaches of Malibu were hit by a winter snowstorm, which also created traffic jams in the Los Angeles area–
- Snow fell in Los Angeles, California–
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