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“Drew Barrymore” and “Miracle on Ice” - This Day in History – Feb 22nd
"Drew Barrymore" and "Miracle on Ice" - This Day in History – Feb 22nd
Actress, Producer, Drew Barrymore is born
Back in 1975, future actress and relative of the Barrymore Acting family, Drew Barrymore was born. Ms. Barrymore started off her acting career appearing in commercials and starring along Henry Thomas in the movie directed by her Godfather, Steven Spielberg’s, “ET: The Extra-Terrestrial.”
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Earlier in her career she was known according to history.com, as “a wild-child Hollywood lifestyle. By age 10, she was drinking alcohol, using drugs and going to nightclubs; by her early teens, she’d spent time in rehab. At age 15, she won legal emancipation from her mother and got her own apartment. In 1994, Barrymore, then 19, married 31-year-old bar owner Jeremy Thomas after dating him for six weeks. The marriage lasted two months.”
She married comedian Tom Green in 1999 and divorced in him in 2001. Ms. Barrymore is currently engaged to art consultant Will Kopelman.
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Today, Ms. Barrymore is an accomplished actress and producer whose work has developed into a popular actress who can handle roles of drama and comedy.
A list of Drew Barrymore’s movies can be found here.
“Miracle on Ice,” gains U.S. an Olympic Gold in Men’s Hockey
Back in 1980, the Men’s U.S. Hockey team pulled two upset victories over favored teams of the Soviet Union and Finland, to win a Gold Medal at the Olympics in Lake Placid, NY and to be endured as "Miracle on Ice".
According to history.com, “Despite their relative inexperience, the U.S. team had a strong, well-rounded group of players. They were led by Herb Brooks, the head hockey coach at the University of Minnesota, where his teams had won three NCAA championships. Brooks himself had been a player on the 1964 and 1968 U.S. Olympic hockey teams.
After the Olympics some of the members of team moved onto professional hockey careers, however, the team suffered a tragedy. Hisory.com stated that, “Herb Brooks coached several NHL teams after the “Miracle on Ice,” before dying in a 2003 car accident.”
This hockey game, which was so popular to the American people, gave Hollywood the ideas of making a movie on this historic Olympic event.
All History facts provided from the link below:
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/milli-vanilli-win-the-best-new-artist-grammy?catId=13
