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â&#x20AC;˘ Shirley MacLaine and Warren Beatty were born to a psychology professor father and a drama teacher mother. Shirley made her ďŹ lm debut at age 21 in an Alfred Hitchcock movie, and went on to fame in Terms of Endearment and Steel Magnolias. Although as a young man, Warren had been offered ten college football scholarships, he turned them down to study acting after seeing the success of his sister, who was already a Hollywood star.

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â&#x20AC;˘ Country singer Naomi Judd has two famous daughters, Wynonna and Ashley. These sisters are direct descendants of famous Pilgrims Mary and William Brewster, who helped organize the ďŹ rst voyage of the MayďŹ&#x201A;ower. Ashley, born Ashley Ciminella in 1968, has appeared in close to 40 ďŹ lms, but has many other accomplishments, including an MPA from Harvardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Kennedy School of Government. She is active in humanitarian causes, including prevention of genocide and crimes against women. Sister Wynonna (birth name Christina Ciminella) teamed up with her mother to form a musical duo that had 14 No. 1 hits on the charts. The pair released seven albums before disbanding in 1991. Wynonnaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s solo career has led to 20 more singles on the charts. â&#x20AC;˘ Professional tennis playing sisters Venus and Serena Williams have faced each other 27 times in Grand Slam ďŹ nals. Both have been ranked Number One in the world in their career, with Venus top-ranked for 11 weeks, and Serena for 200 weeks. Currently Serena is No. 1 and Venus is No. 16. Venus is a seven-time Grand Slam title winner in singles, with Serena grabbing 21 titles. Each woman has won four gold medals in the Summer Olympics Games. A Williams sister has won the Wimbledon singles championship in 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, and 2015.

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• The American pop band Hanson, consisting of three brothers Isaac, Taylor, and Zac have sold more than 16 million records, and have had eight Top 40 albums. When their first album “Middle of Nowhere” was released in 1997, Isaac was 17, Taylor, 14, and Zac, just 12 years old. The album sold 10 million copies worldwide. The young brothers were nominated for three Grammy Awards in 1998. • New Jersey brothers Paul, Joe, and Nicholas Jonas have sold upwards of 17 million records. Formed in 2005, they are the youngest band to be featured on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine. • Baby boomers will remember the character of Opie Taylor on “The Andy Griffith Show,” a role that Ron Howard played for eight years. The Oklahoma-born Howard appeared in his first movie at 18 months, but had his first credited role at age 4. As a teenager, he began a six-year stint as Richie Cunningham on the popular sitcom “Happy Days.” At age 25, he left the series to focus on a career as a director. His many successful films include Cocoon, Apollo 13, A Beautiful Mind, The Da Vinci Code and Frost/Nixon. Ron Howard has cast his younger brother Clint in 16 of the films he has directed. Clint was also a child star, appearing in the 1960s series “Gentle Ben” as the son of a Florida Everglades game warden who kept a bear as a pet. Ron is worth a little more than his brother -- $140 million to Clint’s $20 million.

• There were more sets of siblings competing in the 2014 Winter Olympics than any other. Seven sets of siblings on Team USA competed either as teammates or as rivals, along with Ukraine’s female twins, three sisters from Switzerland, another three sisters from Canada, and two brothers from Norway. Two of the three Canadian sisters took gold and silver in the moguls event. In the men’s double luge event, two Austrian brothers won the silver medal, while two Latvian brothers took the Bronze. Dutch twin brothers won gold and bronze in the men’s 500-meter speedskating race. Over the years, there have been 19 families who have had three or more siblings compete at the Winter Olympics. The record is held by the Spanish Fernandez Ochoa family, who had three brothers and two sisters competing. • The Aurness brothers were born in the 1920s to a businessman and his journalist wife. James was the elder, who had his eyes set on being a World War II fighter pilot, but his height of 6’7” made it impossible. Instead, he served as an Army infantryman in Italy, where his leg was severely injured by machine-gun fire. After the war, James and his brother Peter, also a WWII vet, pursued careers in the entertainment field and both became well-known television actors in very different roles. James, who dropped the “u” in his name, became James Arness, the star of TV’s “Gunsmoke,” a long-running western set in 1870s Kansas. For 20 years from 1955 to 1975, Arness was Marshal Matt Dillon on the series, along with several made-for-TV “Gunsmoke” movies after the regular series ended. His brother changed his name to Peter Graves and became famous in his role of Jim Phelps, the director of the Impossible Missions Force on TV’s “Mission Impossible” from 1967 to 1973 and again from 1988 to 1990. The highly-successful 1980s comedy Airplane! films featured Graves as Captain Clarence Oveur, the pilot of a Boeing 707. • The 1977 Saturday Night Fever movie soundtrack album, recorded by siblings, Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb sold 15 million copies and was Album of the Year,

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A: Lucas Till, who just ﬁnished ﬁlming the role of Havok in "X-Men: Apocalypse" (in theaters May 27), will star as the resourceful secret agent in the CBS pilot of the "MacGyver" Lucas Till reboot. He'll play our 20-something hero who's recruited into a secret organization to help save lives using his special set of skills. Till joins Joshua Boone, who will play his best friend, Gunner, and George Eads (of "CSI" fame), who has been cast as Lincoln. *** Q: "Vikings" is one of my favorite dramas on television. Will it be back for another season? — Frank H., via email A: The History channel has renewed the historical drama for a 20-episode fifth season, which is set to air in 2017. Also, Jonathan Rhys Myers has been tapped to join the series, but his role has not yet been revealed. Jonathan plays bad guys so well ("The Tudors," "The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones" and "Dracula") that I hope he'll also play a baddie for this series. After all, that's how we love him most. In case you're interested, you can see Jonathan from May 30 through June 2 during the four-night miniseries event of the reboot of Alex Haley's "Roots," which will air simultaneously on A&E, History and Lifetime. Write to Cindy at King Features Weekly Service, 628 Virginia Drive, Orlando, FL 32803; or e-mail her at letters@ cindyelavsky.com. (c) 2016 King Features Synd., Inc.

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•Two years later, her poem was published in a magazine called “The Congregationalist” for their Fourth of July edition, and it reached an even wider audience when it was reprinted in “The Boston Evening Transcript” in 1904. •Meanwhile, a New Jersey musician named Samuel Ward had written a hymn called “Materna.” The song’s ﬁrst line was, ‘O Mother dear, Jerusalem’ and the tune was metrically identical to Katharine’s poem. It was natural for Katharine’s poem and Samuel’s tune to match up, and soon people were singing the new song. •By the time Katharine died in 1929, the song whose lyrics she had penned had become a national favorite. •Many people approached Congress asking for this song to be chosen as America’s national anthem because it is simple, beautiful, and easy to sing. Even though “The Star Spangled Banner” was chosen in 1931, many people still feel that Katharine and Samuel’s song would make a better national anthem. The song is called “America the Beautiful.”

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Whisk oil, lemon juice and vinegar in a small bowl; season vinaigrette with salt, lemon pepper. Toss vinaigrette, greens, romaine, fruit and avocado in a large bowl. Add pickled vegetables to salad. Toss to combine. Sprinkle with nuts. Makes 6 servings. *** Angela Shelf Medearis is an award-winning children's author, culinary historian and the author of seven cookbooks. Her new cookbook is "The Kitchen Diva's Diabetic Cookbook." Her website is www.divapro.com. To see how-to videos, recipes and much, much more, Like Angela Shelf Medearis, The Kitchen Diva! on Facebook. Recipes may not be reprinted without permission from Angela Shelf Medearis. (c) 2016 King Features Synd., Inc., and Angela Shelf Medearis

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Beware: Medical Apps for Smartphones There's so much we can do with the new smartphones. But just because we can doesn't mean we should. A study from the Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago-Kent College of Law revealed that a great many mobile health apps were sharing private medical information with third parties without the user being aware. Granted, for those of us with health conditions to monitor, a phone app can be handy to keep us on track. Sometimes our physicians recommend it. Some apps are even approved as prescriptions by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Of the 75 chosen for transmission analysis, there was a wide variety of information sent off to third parties: 86 percent placed tracker cookies in the app, and most of them shared information whether they had a privacy policy or not. Of the apps that actually had privacy policies, only 12 asked for the user's permission before sending off their data to others. Ten shared the information with business partners, and 16 used the information for ads. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act bars medical staff from disclosing your private information to others, but it doesn't cover phone apps. (c) 2016 King Features Synd., Inc.

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