Paris Printers' Unions End Strike That Halted Papers for 2 Days
Date: 08 December 1976
left-wing printer's unions in Paris call their striking members back to work on Dec 7 as negotiations begin under govt auspices to resolve disputes (S)
Mark David Duplass (born December 7, 1976) is an American filmmaker, actor, writer, and musician. With his brother Jay Duplass, he started the film production company Duplass Brothers Productions in 1996, for which they wrote and directed The Puffy Chair (2005), Baghead (2008), Cyrus (2010), Jeff, Who Lives at Home (2011), and The Do-Deca-Pentathlon (2012).
Duplass co-wrote and starred in the horror film Creep (2014) and its sequel Creep 2 (2017), as well as the television spin-off The Creep Tapes (2024). He co-wrote and co-produced the television anthology series Room 104 (2017–2020). His other acting credits include Humpday (2009), The League (2009–2015), Greenberg (2010), Safety Not Guaranteed (2012), The One I Love (2014), The Lazarus Effect (2015), Togetherness (2015–2016), Blue Jay (2016), Tully (2018), Goliath (2018–2019), Paddleton (2019), and Language Lessons (2021).
For his portrayal of Charlie "Chip" Black in The Morning Show (2019–present), Duplass received two nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. He was also the lead singer of the indie rock band Volcano, I'm Still Excited!!
Read more...The December 7, 1976 was a Tuesday under the star sign of ♐. It was the 341 day of the year. President of the United States was Gerald R. Ford.
If you were born on this day, you are 48 years old. Your last birthday was on the Saturday, December 7, 2024, 290 days ago. Your next birthday is on Sunday, December 7, 2025, in 74 days. You have lived for 17,822 days, or about 427,745 hours, or about 25,664,716 minutes, or about 1,539,882,960 seconds.
Date: 08 December 1976
left-wing printer's unions in Paris call their striking members back to work on Dec 7 as negotiations begin under govt auspices to resolve disputes (S)
Date: 08 December 1976
'Sr Amer official,' inst in Amer journalism and diplomacy during tenure of Sec Kissinger, on Dec 7 passes into history; mythical official was actually Kissinger device and became attributed source of thousands of stories charting progress Kissinger was making in his negotiations (S)
Date: 07 December 1976
French newspapers on Dec 7 are closed by strike, and Gaullist leaders accuse Govt of having provoked walkout to block publicity for latest Gaullist challenge to Pres Giscard d'Estaing; news walkout followed police action to evict striking pressmen from 2 printing plants they had occupied for 21 mos; action was ordered by Interior Min Michel Poniatowski (S)
Date: 08 December 1976
Lawrence Schiller and George Sorenson, newsmen from Salt Lake Tribune, have been allowed to see Gary Mark Gilmore, despite orders barring reporters from interviewing him in Utah penitentiary; Gilmore is condemned murderer who has asked to be executed rather than serve life sentence
Date: 07 December 1976
Selection of jury to try 15 former Washington Post pressmen on charges of rioting and destroying property begins on Dec 6 as attys start questioning 160 potential jurors (S)
Date: 07 December 1976
Date: 07 December 1976
Eurogroup, defense mins of NATO Eur members, drafts communique, Brussels, voicing concern at increasing mil strength of USSR and Warsaw Pact, but France reptdly does not sign it (S)