Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Ike Turner is 73 today.
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Art Garfunkel is 63.
Sam Shepard is 61. An inductee as a playwright into the Theatre Hall of Fame, Shepard was also nominated for the Best Actor Oscar for playing Chuck Yeager in The Right Stuff.
Peter Noone (Herman of Herman’s Hermits) is 57. No, Peter isn’t in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Bill Walton is 52. He’s in the Basketball Hall of Fame.
Tatum O’Neal is 41. Miss O’Neal won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar at age 10 for Paper Moon. Her new tell-all book is called A Paper Life.
Vivien Leigh (who died at age 53) was born on this date in 1913. Miss Leigh was selected as Best Actress twice — for Scarlett O’Hara in Gone With the Wind (opposite Clark Gable) and for Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire (opposite Marlon Brando).
And Leonard Franklin Slye was born in Cincinnati on this date in 1911. As Roy Rogers he’s an inductee into the Country Music Hall of Fame, the only person to be elected twice — as the King of the Cowboys and as a founder of the Sons of the Pioneers (“Tumbling Tumbleweeds,” “Cool Water”). Rogers died in 1998.
Ike Turner is proof that the Rock and Roll hall of fame has no ethics standard.
Art Garfunkel is proof that the Rock and Roll hall of fame has no talent standard.
Exactly what standard do they use to put someone in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
Exactly what standard do they use to put someone in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
They get in if they didn’t bet on baseball.