Edd “Kookie Kookie lend me your comb” Byrnes is 73.
Oscar nominee (direction and co-writer, The Last Picture Show) Peter Bogdanovich is 67.
Paul Anka is 65. Anka is not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
The Governator, Arnold Schwarzenegger, is 59.
Actress Delta Burke and blues guitarist Buddy Guy are 50. I like the thought of them partying together today.
Lisa Kudrow is 43.
Two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank is 32.
The Hall of Fame manager Casey Stengel was born on this date in 1890.
MANAGED NEW YORK YANKEES 1949-1960.
WON 10 PENNANTS AND 7 WORLD SERIES WITH
NEW YORK YANKEES. ONLY MANAGER TO WIN
5 CONSECUTIVE WORLD SERIES 1949-1953.
PLAYED OUTFIELD 1912-1925 WITH BROOKLYN,
PITTSBURGH, PHILADELPHIA, NEW YORK AND
BOSTON N.L. TEAMS. MANAGED BROOKLYN
1934-1936, BOSTON BRAVES 1938-1943,
NEW YORK METS 1962-1965.
A few Casey-isms:
“Can’t anybody here play this game?”
“Don’t cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.”
“Don’t drink in the hotel bar, that’s where I do my drinking.”
“Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.”
“He’d (Yogi Berra) fall in a sewer and come up with a gold watch.”
Buddy Guy is 70 today… according to the R and R Hall of Fame, if you need a source citation. But if I didn’t know that anyway, my name wouldn’t be Muddy.
Indeed, Muddy is correct and NewMexiKen and my source The New York Times are wrong — Buddy Guy was 70.
The NY Times has not been having a good year, eh?