… of Michael Douglas. He’s 61.
… of Mrs. Douglas. Catherine Zeta-Jones is 36.
… of Will Smith. The Prince is 37.
… of Mark Hamill. Luke is 54.
… of Barbara Walters. She’s 74.
The Shakespeare of sportswriters was born on this date 100 years ago. That’s Red Smith. Here he is on the 1951 World Series (after the Giants’ miraculous playoff win to be there):
Magic and sorcery and incantation and spells had taken the Giants to the championship of the National League and put them into the World Series … But you don’t beat the Yankees with a witch’s broomstick. Not the Yankees, when there’s hard money to be won.
On DiMaggio:
Sometimes a fellow gets a little tired of writing about DiMaggio; a fellow thinks, “there must be some other ball player in the world worth mentioning.” But there isn’t really, not worth mentioning in the same breath with Joe DiMaggio.