Unbroken is a movie about the life of Louis Silvie “Louie” Zamperini an Olympic Medalist. When I saw this movie with my dad I got interested in it. Louis fought with the Americans in World War II. His plane failed, and landed in the ocean, while fighting Japanese enemy planes killed his friends. He spent 47 days in the middle of the ocean. To be able to survive, he ate some kinds of fishes, which his friends caught in the water. They spent those entire days eating raw fish. In the 47th day he was rescued by Japanese, war enemies, and was sent to various prisoner of war camps led by, and was mistreated by Corporal Watanabe. On his last prisoner of war camp the Japanese military were defeated by the American army, and Zamperini returned as a war hero in America. When he was 81 in 1998, he ran a leg in the Olympic Torch Relay of the Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. Most of the Japanese crowds applauded his efforts. Louis Zamperini died last year of 2014. Unbroken is a very good movie.
Biographies
Elmer Lach (1918-2015)
Elmer James Lach was a Canadian Ice Hockey player. He played 14 seasons with the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was part of the Punch line, alongside Maurice Richard, and Toe Blake. He won 3 Stanley Cup titles with Montreal. He won the Hart Memorial Trophy as the league’s Most Valuable Player in 1945. The Montreal Canadiens retired his number 16 on December 4, 2009 at the Montreal Canadiens Centennial celebrations. He died on April 4, 2015. He was 97 years old. R.I.P. Elmer James Lach
Selena (1971-1995)
Selena was a Mexican American singer, songwriter, actress, and fashion designer. She was called the Queen of Tejano music. She was a member of Selena y Los Dinos in 1980, and started recording professionally in 1982. In 1989, she released her self-titled album and signed with EMI Latin Records the same year. She received gold status from becoming the first recording Tejano artist by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). She won Best Mexican American Album at the 1994 Grammy Awards. She was shot and killed by Yolanda Saldivar her friend and former employee of her boutiques on March 31, 2015. She was 23 years old. In 2012, she has sold over 60 million albums worldwide. R.I.P. Selena Quintanilla-Perez
Lauren Bacall (1924-2014)
Lauren Bacall was an American film, and stage actress, and model. She started as the leading lady in the Humphrey Bogart film To Have and Have Not (1944). She appeared with Bogart in these films: The Big Sleep (1946), Dark Passage (1947), Key Largo (1948), How to Marry A Millionaire (1953) with Marilyn Monroe, and Designing Woman (1957) with Gregory Peck. On Broadway she won the Tony Award for musicals such as: Applause (1970), and Woman of the Year (1981). She won a Golden Globe Award for the film The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996). She was married to Humphrey Bogart from 1945-57 (till his death in 1957). After that she married Jason Robards in 1961, and divorced him in 1969. In 1999 she was ranked #20 among top 25 actresses on the AFI’s 100 stars list of the American Film Institute. She received an Academy Honorary Award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She died of a stroke on August 12, 2014. She was 89 years old. R.I.P. Lauren Bacall
Shirley Temple (1928-2014)
Shirley Temple Black was an American film, and television actress, singer, dancer, whom was most famous as a child actress of the 1930’s. When she was an adult she entered politics, and became a diplomat. She served as a United States Ambassador to Ghana, later to Czechoslovakia, and as chief protocol of the United States. She began her film career at the age of 3. She has had film hits such as Curly Top, and Heidi. Her popularity in the box office waned on her when she reached adolescence. She left the film industry in 1950 at the age of 22. She published her autobiography called, “Child Star”. Her first marriage was to John Ager when she was 17 years old on September 19, 1945. John Ager was an Army Air Corps Sergeant. Their marriage became troubled and she later divorced him. Her second marriage was to a WWII United States Navy Intelligence Officer Charles Alden Black. She died of natural causes on February 10, 2014 at the age of 85 in Woodside, California alongside her family and caregivers. R.I.P. Shirley Temple.
Harry Houdini (1874-1926)
Harry Houdini (born Eric Weisz) was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1974. He was an illusionist, and stunt performer, noticed from his sensational escape acts. His first nickname was Harry “Hancuff” Houdini, which he toured on Europe when he challenged police forces to keep him locked up to escape from it. He also included locked chains, ropes slung from skyscrapers, straitjackets, and holding his breath inside a sealed milk can. He began his career as a talented magician in 1891. He performed in dime museums, sideshows, and at a circus. He published his book called “The Unmasking of Robert Houdin” in 1908. He performed many of his magic stunt escape acts, such as the Mirror challenge, Milk Can Escape, Chinese Water Torture Cell, Overboard Box Escape, and Buried Alive Stunt. He starred in a 15-part serial called The Master Mystery. Paramount Picture signed him, which he starred in two movies called The Grim Game (1919), and Terror Island (1920). He served as President of The Society of American Magicians (S.A.M.) from 1917 to 1926. He had a fever a temperature of 104 F (40 C), but he took the stage anyway, which he collapsed and taken to the hospital. He died of peritonitis from a ruptured appendix after performing a stunt act in 1926. It was presumed in his dressing room, before the act a McGill University student, J. Gordon Whitehead gave him a surprise attack in his dressing room of multiple blows to his abdomen. He died at Detroit’s Grace Hospital in 1926. He was 52 years old.
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