Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Dwayne Hickman, actor and former CBS program executive, dies from complications due to Parkinson's
dailymail.co.ukDwayne Hickman, an actor who rose to prominence in the '50s, and later became a CBS executive, has died at the age of 87.His family named complications from Parkinson's disease as his cause of death.Hickman is survived by wife Joan Roberts, 69, their son, Albert Thomas Hickman, 29, and a son from a previous relationship, John Hickman.
Rest in peace: Dwayne Hickman, an actor who rose to prominence in the '50s, and later became a CBS executive, has died at the age of 87The late actor had a career in Hollywood that started at the age of six when he debuted as an extra in Grapes of Wrath.He also had a spot in the 1948 movie The Boy With the Green Hair.
As a teenager he landed his first role in a TV series with The Bob Cummings Show.From there he was cast as the lead inThe Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, which aired 148 episodes on Fox from 1959 to 1963.
Early career: Hickman was the star ofThe Many Loves of Dobie Gillis from 1959-1963 Hickman went on to attend Loyola University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in Economics.From there it was back to the silver screen, as he joined the casts of How to Stuff a Wild Bikini and Ski Party.For 10 years he oversaw the creation of shows such as Maude, Good Times, and M*A*S*H while working as a program executive at CBS.Throughout the '80s-'90s, he sometimes took small roles in shows such as High School U.S.A.
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