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OT 08/25 - Back to school, back to school, to prove to Dad that I'm not a fool....

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Billy Madison is a 1995 American comedy film directed by Tamra Davis. It stars Adam Sandler in the title role, along with Bradley Whitford, Bridgette Wilson, Norm Macdonald and Darren McGavin. The film was written by Sandler and Tim Herlihy, and produced by Robert Simonds. It made over $26.4 million worldwide and debuted at #1.[1] The film is about a slacker (Billy Madison) who must go back to school in order to take over his father's company. The comedy also features Chris Farley and Steve Buscemi with uncredited appearances. Sandler would later form a production company, Happy Madison Productions, named after a combination of this film's title character and Happy Gilmore's.

ON THIS DAY....

1718 Hundreds of French colonists arrived in Louisiana, with some of them settling in present-day New Orleans.
1825 Uruguay declared its independence from Brazil.
1875 Captain Matthew Webb became the first person to swim across the English Channel, traveling from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in 22 hours.
1916 The National Park Service was established within the Department of the Interior.
1921 The United States signed a peace treaty with Germany.
1950 President Harry S. Truman ordered the Army to seize control of the nation's railroads to avert a strike.
1975 The album "Born to Run" by Bruce Springsteen was released.
1984 Author Truman Capote was found dead at age 59.
1985 Samantha Smith, the schoolgirl whose letter to Soviet leader Yuri V. Andropov resulted in her peace tour of the communist country, was killed with her father in an airplane crash in Maine.
1997 The tobacco industry agreed to an $11.3 billion settlement with the state of Florida.
1998 Former Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell died at age 90.
2003 Tennis champion Pete Sampras announced his retirement during a news conference at the U.S. Open in New York.
2009

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., died at age 77.


On Aug. 25, 1944, Paris was liberated by Allied forces after four years of Nazi occupation.

BIRTHDAYS!!!!

921 Monty Hall, Game show host ("Let's Make a Deal"), turns 92
1931 Regis Philbin, Talk show, game show host, turns 82
1933 Wayne Shorter, Jazz saxophonist, turns 80
1933 Tom Skerritt, Actor ("Picket Fences"), turns 80
1939 Marshall Brickman, Filmmaker, turns 74
1946 Rollie Fingers, Baseball Hall of Famer, turns 67
1949 Gene Simmons, Rock musician (Kiss), turns 64
1951 Rob Halford, Rock singer (Judas Priest), turns 62
1954 Elvis Costello, Rock musician, turns 59
1958 Tim Burton, Director, turns 55
1961 Billy Ray Cyrus, Country singer, turns 52
1961 Ally Walker, Actress, turns 52
1964 Blair Underwood, Actor, turns 49
1966 Albert Belle, Baseball player, turns 47
1967 Jeff Tweedy, Rock singer (Wilco), turns 46
1968 Rachael Ray, TV chef, turns 45
1970 Claudia Schiffer, Model, turns 43
1981 Rachel Bilson, Actress ("The O.C."), turns 32

Sean Connery turns 83

Blake Lively turns 26

RABBLE ON!!!!