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Matt Holliday
30 year-old left fielder for the St. Louis Cardinals.
Holliday was originally drafted by the Colorado Rockies in the seventh round of the 1998 Major League Baseball Draft.
After spending most of the off-season on the trading block with the Rockies, Holliday found himself most of his Spring with the Athletics. After the Athletics failed to get off to a strong start, it was unlikely the Athletics would have been able to resign him as a free agent after the 2009 season.
Holliday was recruited out of Stillwater High School, in Oklahoma to play quarterback at Oklahoma State, but he chose to sign with the Colorado Rockies and was signed by scout Pat Daugherty.
Unknown Hottie (JR): Greg Cromer
39 year-old Actor, he has been in Half & Half; Yes, Dear; Beverly Hills, 90210; Charmed; Sabrina the Teenage Witch and many more shows.
He currently plays Rich in "Community"
He played Mike Smith in Love Inc.
Recently played Coach Emerson in "The Middle"
He played Jason in Spiders II.Stripping Away the Mystery
At the time of Marilyn Monroe's death, she was not, contrary to popular belief, unemployed and unemployable. Although she had been terminated from the unfinished Something's Got to Give (1962) due to excessive absenteeism, she had been quietly reinstated at 20th Century Fox, and scheduled to finish the picture. Of course, Monroe's death at age 36 on August 5, 1962 rendered that impossible; the film was completely recast and revamped as Move Over Darling (1963), starring Doris Day and James Garner.
With Monroe's death, the film went forward with a new, misleading title, The Stripper (1963) -- with the odd choice of Joanne Woodward in the lead. Perhaps in deference to the Oscar-winning Woodward's reputation as a heavy-hitting dramatic actress, Travilla ditched the more glamorous concepts he had envisioned for Monroe, and did tawdrier, cheaper-looking costumes for Woodward, admittedly more in keeping with the character's background as a small town Kansas girl with shattered Hollywood ambitions.
The film wasn't a success, although many did praise Woodward's fine acting; of all the proposed projects that Monroe didn't live to see come to fruition, this may be the most tantalizing. She certainly would have known how to get inside this particular character, perhaps even more so than the talented Miss Woodward. Of course, Fox being Fox, the publicity campaign verged on the exploitative, promising a leering, lecherous look at a burlesque queen, when in fact the film was more of a character study. Playing up the "stripper" angle, Gypsy Rose Lee was cast in a small, perfectly superfluous role. Adding to the tackiness, the beginning of the film includes a scene (which presumably would not have made it into the Monroe version) in which Lila is mistaken by Hollywood tourists for Jayne Mansfield and Kim Novak -- Mansfield being Fox's second-string blonde, used as a bargaining chip to keep Monroe in line, and Novak being the first actress asked to replace Monroe in Something's Got to Give.
When we originally posted the Travilla sketches, jiva was the first, and only, to correctly guess the film and the actress -- but later recanted! Darling Angela, never doubt your instincts; after all, it takes a beautiful, leggy blonde to know one!
Unknown Hottie (JR): Cameron Moulene
17 year-old Actor was born in France.
He plays Teenage Burt, younger version of Garret Dillahunt's character in Raising Hope.
He has been on 2009 The Secret Life of the American Teenager and The Cleaner.
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