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Today is Frank Sinatra's 110th birthday. Regarded as one of the most popular entertainers of the 20th century, he forged a highly successful career both in music and in film. He recorded 59 studio albums and 297 singles, and has sold over 150 million records worldwide. He appeared in over 60 films, as well as several television shows, including his own variety series. He won an Academy Award, four Golden Globes, eleven Grammys, and many other honours throughout his career. He was a workaholic and a womanizer. He was temperamental, brash, and struggled with mental health. He had an immaculate sense of style and was obsessed with cleanliness. He was friends with mobsters, owned a casino, and was put under surveillance by the FBI. He was generous, outspoken against racism, and fought for desegregation and equal rights. He was a complex man, a musical genius, and the greatest singer who ever lived. To celebrate the «Chairman of the Board,» let us take a look at his life in pictures.  ...

Today is Rock Hudson's 100th birthday. With a career that spanned over three decades, he was one of the most prominent male stars during Hollywood's Golden Age. From his debut in a small uncredited part in Fighter Squadron (1948), he went on to achieve leading man status with acclaimed performances in films such as Magnificent Obsession (1954), All That Heaven Allows (1955), Giant (1956) — for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor — and Pillow Talk (1959). Tall, dark and handsome, he represented the Hollywood ideal of masculinity in the 1950s and 1960s, but societal norms of the time meant that his true nature had to be kept hidden from the public. In 1985, he became one of the first celebrities to reveal he had been diagnosed with AIDS, which claimed his life at the age of 59. At the height of the AIDS pandemic, the disclosure of Rock's diagnosis had a an immediate impact on the visibility of the disease and on the funding of medical research t...