George Herbert Walker Bush was the 43rd Vice-President of the United States. He was the longest living ex-president in the history of the United States.

His downfall came when he famously asked the citizens of the United States to read his lips.

Bush passed away in November 2018 at the age of 94.

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This year, it’s a whopping 82 minutes of pure Christmas wonderment that’ll have you wondering why you downloaded it in the first place. But, as long as you did, why not share it with your family and friends. It’s guaranteed to make sure they don’t overstay their welcome.

You get twenty-eight eclectic Christmas selections featuring a mix of obscure artists giving up on their dreams of stardom and popular artists committing career suicide. These holiday tunes run the gamut from weird to really weird plus a custom full-color cover with track listings – all for you and all for FREE! (That’s right! FREE!)

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Although classically trained, Amy Farris had a gift for improvisation of the violin. She confessed, “I just play what comes into my head.” Her improvisations caught the attention of guitarist-singer Alejandro Escovedo, who asked Amy to join his bare-bones tour. Amy, who was working in a law office at the time, told her co-workers that she would not be coming back. She jumped on the road with Escovedo and his band, often sleeping on the floor between two beds filled with her band mates.

While touring, Amy was introduced to many musicians and soon became an integral part of the Austin music scene. She joined up with Singer-songwriters Bruce Robison and Kelly Willis, playing a fiery Texas fiddle to the acclaim of both fans and her contemporaries. She toured for six years with Willis, including two Lilith Fairs where the young fiddler watched her idol Emmylou Harris from the front row. She also began a long association and collaboration with guitarist Dave Alvin and the Los Angeles punk band X.

In 2004, Amy released her solo effort Anyway, with songs by her friends John Doe and Exene Cervenka of X, as well as Dave Alvin. She continued to collaborate and tour with other artists.

Five years after the release of her album, Amy committed suicide. She was 40 years old.

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Six films and and six years into her career, young Peggy Ann Garner hit the height of her success. She starred in 1945’s A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Peggy Ann was honored with a Academy Juvenile Award (a category that was discontinued in 1961, with 14-year-old Haley Mills as its final recipient). She achieved additional recognition for her role in Junior Miss later the same year.

Peggy Ann had difficulty securing more adult roles as she grew up. She was cast in several radio plays and early television programs in the 1950s and 1960s. Peggy Ann eventually found success in the real estate business, while still taking the occasional acting job in local stage productions.

Peggy Ann married character actor Albert Salmi in 1956. The couple had a daughter, Catherine, before divorcing in 1963. Peggy passed away from cancer in 1984 at the age of 52. Six years later, her ex-husband, Albert Salmi murdered his new wife while she was filing for divorce. Then, he killed himself.

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Louise Brooks, starred in 25 films before retiring in 1938 at the age of 32. Years later, Louise chronicled her tumultuous life in her memoirs, Lulu in Hollywood. In the book, she related her various sexual conquests — both male and female — and her dislike of Hollywood and the film business.

She summed her career up in this way:

“When I am dead, I believe that film writers will fasten on the story that I am a lesbian. I have done lots to make it believable. All my women friends have been lesbians. There is no such thing as bisexuality. Ordinary people, although they may accommodate themselves, for reasons of whoring or marriage, are one-sexed. Out of curiosity, I had two affairs with girls – they did nothing for me.”

Louise passed away in 1985 at the age of 78. Her iconic “bob” haircut was the inspiration for the “Sally Bowles” character in Cabaret as well as Melanie Griffith’s quirky “Audrey Hankel” in Jonathan Demme’s Something Wild.

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Stan Lee passed away on November 12, 2018 at the age of 95.

Excelsior!

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