LL Cool J soon led to an increase in multi-racial audiences and listeners, adding to the legacy of the album and hip hop as well. In 2017, LL Cool J became the first rapper to receive Kennedy Center Honors. LL Cool J James Todd Smith (born January 14, 1968), known professionally as LL Cool J (short for Ladies Love Cool James), is an American hip hop recording artist, record producer, actor, author and entrepreneur from Queens, New York. He is known for such hip hop hits as "Going Back to Cali", "I'm Bad", "The Boomin' System", "Rock the Bells" and "Mama Said Knock
James Olson (actor) James Olson (actor) James Olson (born October 8, 1930) is an American actor. Olson was born in Evanston, Illinois, and graduated from Northwestern University. He performed stage work in and around Chicago before his 1956 film debut in "The Sharkfighters". He starred alongside Joanne Woodward in the Academy Award-nominated best picture "Rachel, Rachel" in 1968. He made numerous stage, feature film and TV appearances from the mid-1950s until the early 1990s. Olson's television appearances included guest roles on scores of shows, including episodes of "Kraft Television Theatre, Ironside, Murder, She Wrote, Little House on the Prairie, Hawaii Five-O, Battlestar Galactica,