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Billy Dee Williams is an American actor, artist, singer, and writer, best known for his role as Lando Calrissian in the original Star Wars trilogy.

Williams was born in New York City, New York, the son of Loretta, a West Indian-born elevator operator from Montserrat, and William December Williams, Sr., a Texas-born caretaker. He has a twin sister, Loretta, and grew up in Harlem, where he was raised by his maternal grandmother while his parents worked at several jobs. Williams graduated from Manhattan's School of Performing Arts, where he was a classmate of Diahann Carroll, who coincidentally played the wife of his character Brady Lloyd on the 1980s prime-time soap Dynasty.

He first appeared on Broadway in 1945 in The Firebrand of Florence. He returned to Broadway as an adult in 1960 in the play version of The Cool Word.

He appeared in A Taste of Honey in 1961.

Bill Cunningham is an American talk radio host. His full-time job is hosting The Big Show with Bill Cunningham, a local show on 700 WLW in Cincinnati, Ohio. Cunningham now hosts Live on Sunday Night, it’s Bill Cunningham, which is syndicated to over 300 stations by Premiere Radio Networks. He is also a regular guest on Fox News Channel’s Hannity.

Cunningham’s first regular show on the station was at night, generally from 9:00 p.m. until midnight; this meant that his show was not heard during the summer months, when WLW broadcasts Cincinnati Reds baseball games. In the late 1990s, Cunningham’s show was moved to early afternoons, which put his show directly opposite that of one of his favorite radio stars, Rush Limbaugh, whose show is heard on sister station 550 WKRC.

In 2001, Cunningham won the National Association of Broadcasters Marconi Award for Large-Market Personality of the Year.

Cunningham is a Republican, and his political views are mostly conservative sometimes libertarian. To the guests or callers whose statements or views Cunningham respects and appreciates, he will often dub them “A Great American.” While Cunningham will spend a majority of his show blasting liberal politics, he will often remark about his disfavor of Republicans who do not practice conservative values by calling them “RINO’s”. Cunningham’s topics include a variety of subjects, but usually focus on national and local news and politics. His efforts to discuss conservative sensibilities often lead him to make “edgy” assessments, sometimes resulting in backlash. However, Cunningham will usually attempt to justify his points as they relate to local or national issues, typically at the conclusion of his on-air discussions.

Bill Goodwin was for many years the announcer and regular character of the Burns and Allen radio program, and subsequently The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show on television from 1950-51. Upon his departure, he was replaced by Harry von Zell.

Goodwin was known for frequently promoting the item sold by the sponsor of the show. He was very effective on radio in doing ‘integrated commercials,’ in which the advertisement was deftly woven into the show’s storyline. Goodwin was best known for his amiable and fun-loving personality, for his persona on air as a ‘ladies’ man,’ and for joking around about Burns’s appearance and age. Ironically, he died over 35 years before Burns.

Goodwin occasionally hosted other TV and Theatre shows, including Penny to a Million and Dollar a Minute. His last job as announcer was for NBC Radio’s The Bob Hope Show. He also acted in several movies, including The Jolson Story and The Big Beat with fellow Burns and Allen regular, Hans Conried.

He played the role of Sherman Billingsley in The Stork Club and that of the hotel dick in Hitchcock’s Spellbound and appeared with Doris Day in Tea for Two. His last major role was as the narrator for the animated television cartoon Gerald McBoing-Boing.

Bill Hay was an American radio announcer who was famous for his many years of work on the Amos ‘n’ Andy show with Charles J. Correll and Freeman F. Gosden. Gosden and Correll had a show similar to Amos ‘n’ Andy called Sam ‘n’ Henry at radio station WGN in Chicago, but after a dispute in 1927, they took the program’s concept and WGN announcer Bill Hay across town to WMAQ. The Amos ‘n’ Andy team created the first syndicated radio show in history. The sponsor of Amos ‘n’ Andy, Pepsodent, contractually stipulated that no one but Bill Hay was ever to announce their show.

Bill Keene was a television and radio personality who became famous in the Los Angeles, California market as a traffic and weather announcer. He was particularly known for his colorful humorous traffic reports which included numerous puns and he became a fixture in Los Angeles broadcasting.

His Los Angeles broadcasting career began in 1957 at KNXT-TV as a weather reporter. He is credited with helping pioneer the station's hourlong news format. During the same period he also reported the weather on the sister radio operation KNX. Later he hosted the daytime television variety show "Keene at Noon" which was later called "The Bill Keene Show."

In 1976 he started working full-time at KNX where he became one of the first regular radio reporters in Los Angeles.

Puns became a regular part of his broadcasts. For example, when a ladder was reported on the freeway he would announce ?Watch out for rung way drivers? and ?Don?t worry, the highway patrol will be taking steps to remove that ladder.?