Revisions for ‘Addams Family’
By Patrick Healy
The producers of “The Addams Family” hired the director Jerry Zaks to take over the $16.5 million production and supervise significant changes.
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On this day
December 29, 2009
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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Old Ideas Spur New Approaches in Cancer Fight
By Gina Kolata
In a shift in thinking about why cancer occurs and how to stop it, researchers are looking to a cancer’s surroundings.
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Ex-Employee Says Seagate Violated Law
By Ashlee Vance and Diana B. Henriques
In a court filing, a former employee, Paul A. Galloway, said that Seagate had appropriated hard-drive technology from Convolve for its own products.
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U.S. Struggles Anew to Ensure Safety as Gaps Are Revealed
By Eric Lipton
The Department of Homeland Security is struggling to strengthen an aviation security system that it has spent $40 billion rebuilding since 2001.
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To Keep Home Fires Burning, Grab That Boa
By James Dao
With Operation Bombshell, Army wives learn basics of burlesque to welcome their husbands returning from war.
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Music on My Birthday
Billboard 200
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 23, 2009, covering December 29, 2009.
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I Dreamed A Dream
Susan Boyle
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- 1
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- 3
- 2
My Christmas
Andrea Bocelli
- Last week
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- Peak
- 2
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- 6
- 3
Glee: Season One: The Music Volume 2
Soundtrack
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- 3
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- 1
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Fearless
Taylor Swift
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- 1
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- 57
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Play On
Carrie Underwood
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- 1
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Notable Deaths
2009Janina Bauman, Polish journalist and writer (born 1926)[†]
Janina Bauman was a Polish journalist and writer of Jewish origin.
2009David Levine, American artist and illustrator (born 1926)[†]
David Levine was an American artist and illustrator best known for his caricatures in The New York Review of Books. Jules Feiffer has called him "the greatest caricaturist of the last half of the 20th Century".
2009Steve Williams, American football player and wrestler (born 1960)[†]
Steven Franklin Williams, best known under the ring name "Dr. Death" Steve Williams, was an American collegiate and professional wrestler and collegiate football player. He was known for his tenures in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW), and is a three-time professional wrestling world heavyweight champion, having won both the Herb Abrams and Bill Watts versions of the UWF World Heavyweight Championship and the AJPW Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship.
Historical Context for December 29, 2009
In 2009, the world population was approximately 6,932,766,416 people[†]