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1. It's a dreadful thing, you know, all the drama that I put myself through and so much angst - and I still got overlooked! All these other women were Oscar nominated for Best Actress playing a Tennessee Williams heroine in one of his translations to film. Except me, of course. I am which of these forlorn, but worthy, actresses?
2. I earned a sturdy place in history, that is a given. But, while being a U.S. President is quite an honor, I'd have really liked a Nobel Peace Prize on my mantle, too. All these other guys got one. Which U.S. President was never awarded the Nobel?
3. I'll be a good sport, I suppose. It's what I do best, or so they told me. They could have said it more than just once, though, don't you think? These other guys were named Most Valuable Player for more than one Super Bowl game. Me? I just win it once. Which retired gridiron hero am I?
4. The late great Johnny Carson (1925-2005) liked me a lot. He even trusted me to guest host his show on many of his frequent vacations and I was pretty good at doing so. Yes, it would seem that he liked some others more than me since I never got to sit at his desk more than 60 times when all these late night chatterboxes did! Which person am I?
5. Chalk it up to sour grapes if you will, but I was one of the more popular of the ensemble cast in TV's "Mary Tyler Moore" (1970-1977). I won some Emmy Awards for it, and I liked to think I deserved them both. Yet, some cast members got more Emmys for that show than me and I was a little hurt, if you must know. Who am I? And, let's face it, it didn't really matter so much at the time that I won one less Emmy than the others here did ...
6. I was a 'brother Gibb' amongst three other of my singing siblings. Some of us formed The Bee Gees, some of us went solo, some of us became television stars and, yes, some of us are alive and some of us aren't. Many think we were born in Australia but that is soundly untrue - all four of us were born in the British Isles. The other three saw their first moments in Douglas, Isle of Man. I had a different idea, though. My life started after my delivery in Manchester. Which Gibb does that make me?
7. Ah, yes, it is the words and the rhythm of them that matter to me. But, I confess, I like the little prizes and honors here and there, too - some of the accolades are hard to top for poets such as we. Myself and these named associates have all won the Pulitzer Prize for our verse but three of these were labelled the one thing I never earned so far on this misty spring morning in 2006. They have all been named 'Poets Laureate' for the USA whereas I haven't. Which of these am I?
8. Yes, yes! We wanted 'to hold your hand' back in the 1960s and got nicely rich singing about it! All four of us members of the Beatles had many hands to hold in our respective (and quite varied) families. Lots of those hands were attached to our natural born children. I had the fewest little Mop Tops to look after, though. I may have come up on the short list come Father's Day but, blimey!, 'all you need is love' and I got my share from my comparatively small family. Which Beatle, the one with the fewest children of the fruit of his own loins (no step-children included), was I?
9. Whew! I'm one who is lucky that I didn't get picked, didn't get the "big" prize. Back in 1865 trouble was brewing for sure and, at the end of a certain day, a fellow by the title of President Abraham Lincoln was shot dead. John Wilkes Booth was the gunman, everybody knew that, but the conspiracy theories were running wild. Hundreds were arrested but finally only eight went to trial charged with conspiring to commit murder. Yes, I was one of those eight and the noose looked frighteningly likely for my scrawny little neck. In the end, though, I escaped the gallows but, of these four, I was the only one who did. Who was I?
10. Founded by Jann Wenner, 'Rolling Stone' magazine has had people scrambling to be on its cover for decades. They're not stuck on musicians - you're a pop icon, you're a candidate for your mug on the newstands. In May of 2006 the magazine celebrated its 1000th issue and the cover of it was packed with over 150 faces (significant ones over the years AND displayed in a 3-D format, no less). Hey! What about me? I didn't get my face on the cover of that 'Rolling Stone' anniversary issue. Who am I?
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