Matt Damon Tours South African Refugee Camp
Actor Matt Damon visited refugee centres in Musina on the South African border with Zimbabwe as part of his work with the human rights organization he started with a number of other celebrities. (March 4)
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Here’s an interesting short from the early days of TV starring Dayton Allen. Dayton Allen From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Dayton Allen (September 24, 1919 November 11, 2004) was a comedian and voice actor. He was one of the “men in the street” on the ‘”Steve Allen Show.”‘ His catch phrase was “Why not, Bubbe?” (pronounced “whooooyyy not!”) Born Dayton Allen Bolke in New York City, he grew up in Mount Vernon, New York, where he graduated from AB Davis High School in June 1936. One of his school friends was Art Carney. Allen, like Carney, began his career in radio. In 19378 WINS (AM) hired him as a disc jockey. Allen was the voice of various New York-based children’s television show characters, appearing on Winky Dink and You as Mr. Bungle for five years, and playing “Phineas T. Bluster”, “Flub-a-Dub”, and various other puppet characters on Howdy Doody (as well as several “live” characters, including Ugly Sam and Pierre the Chef) for 4 years. Dayton was also the voice of Deputy Dawg, Heckle and Jeckle, Luno, and many early Terrytoons cartoon characters. He continued to be a voiceover performer through the 1990s. He was best known as the “Why Not?” man when he joined the cast of the NBC Sunday night variety show that Allen began hosting to compete against Ed Sullivan on CBS. The catch-phrase began as a stalling ad-lib to an interview question; then it caught on. Allen used it for television commercials and saw novelty toys, a book and a …
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