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Donald Yarmy changed his name to Don Adams, in part because he was tired of being called last in alphabetical audition lists. (He had also married a woman whose stage name was Adelaide Adams.) You may know him as the bungling Maxwell Smart from the spy parody "Get Smart," but in real life, he was anything but bungling. He joined the marines in World War II and was the only member of his platoon to survive Guadalcanal. He went to become a U.S. Marine drill instructor.

What phrase both describes where Barbra Streisand's politics come from and how she likes to be photographed, given her famous nose?

A) From above

B) From the left

C) From the right

D) Straight up the middle

Previous answer: Molly Ringwald is now playing a mom.

Yes, you are indeed very old.

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