Con Man Frank Abagnale

As Johnny Carson suspects in his interview, he may have been conning us about his cons!

Frank Abagnale, long celebrated as one of the most notorious con artists in American history, rose to fame largely through the dramatic tales he told about his criminal exploits—stories that captured the public imagination and inspired the 2002 Steven Spielberg film Catch Me If You Can, starring Leonardo DiCaprio.

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David Lynch Dies

David Lynch, the Oscar-nominated director of surrealistic films including “Eraserhead,” “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive,” and the co-creator of the cult drama series “Twin Peaks,” has passed away.

David Keith Lynch was born on January 20, 1946, in Missoula, Montana, to Donald Walton Lynch, a U.S. Department of Agriculture research scientist, and Edwina “Sunny” Lynch, an English tutor. Raised in a middle-class family, Lynch’s childhood was marked by frequent relocations due to his father’s job, living in various small-town settings across Idaho, Washington, and Virginia.

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Kelly-Hopkinsville Encounter

In 1955, two families in Hopkinsville, Kentucky survived one of the craziest alien encounters ever recorded. Not only did they see a flying saucer, but they engaged in a gunfight with the group of mysterious creatures and survived multiple attacks on their home.

The Kelly-Hopkinsville encounter, also known as the Kelly Green Men case, is a famous and puzzling UFO (Unidentified Flying Object) and alien encounter that occurred in 1955. The incident took place near the rural town of Kelly and the nearby Hopkinsville in Kentucky, USA.

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The Goonies (1985)

I watched the 1985 Warner Bros. Pictures comedy/adventure movie “The Goonies” on AMC. The Goon Docks are about to be foreclosed on. The neighborhood kids (Goonies) end up looking for a treasure to save the day. They find a map in the attic and are off on their bicycles and into the hands of an evil Mom who, with her son, had broken her other son out of prison. They also have a secret chained up in the abandoned restaurant they all end up in. It’s kinda like the Stranger Things kids in the Temple of Doom, with some Pirates of the Caribbean mixed in.

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