The Golden Age of Hollywood: Where Are They Now?

Beverly Cleary - 104

Beverley Cleary is one of the most widely-read authors of young fiction in America. Her writing career has known great successes, as she wrote many books and created characters that are well-loved by children everywhere. Cleary is a recipient of the National Book Award and a Newbery Medal, and she was worth about $20 million. Cleary passed away in 2021 at the ripe ol' age of 104!

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The More You Know

  • The moon has its own time zones.
  • Following the release of Rocky IV, a joke was making rounds in Hollywood. Since Rocky had run out of opponents, he would have to fight an alien if a fifth movie was made. Jim and John Thomas took the joke seriously and wrote a screenplay based on it, which later became the movie "Predator".
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  • Russia has a larger surface area than Pluto.
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