Prince Philip is 86 today.
Football hall-of-famer Dan Fouts is 56. Fouts’ best line ever as a sportscaster was a description of Reggie Bush: “He runs like he’s playing Quittage.”
John Edwards is 54 today.
Jeanne Tripplehorn is 44. Her father played with Gary Lewis and the Playboys, though Ms. Tripplehorn grew up in Tulsa.
Elizabeth Hurley is 42.
Frances Ethel Gumm was born 85 years ago today. We know her as Judy Garland. She was just under 5-feet tall and the need for weight-control lead her to drugs, which controlled much of her adult life. She died of a barbiturate overdose at age 47. Ms. Garland was nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role for A Star is Born (1955) and Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Judgment at Nuremberg (1962). She won a special “Juvenile Oscar” for The Wizard of Oz (1940).
The author Saul Bellow was born on June 10th in 1915 in Quebec. He grew up in Chicago. The Writer’s Almanac has a brief bio today that includes this:
His father wasn’t happy that Bellow wanted to be a writer. He said, “You write and then you erase. You call that a profession?” His brothers went into more conventional careers and Bellow once said, “All I started out to do was to show up my brothers.”
Hattie McDaniel was born on June 10th in 1895. She won a supporting actress Oscar for her portrayal of Mammy in Gone with the Wind, the first African-American to be nominated. Ms. McDaniel has nearly 100 credits listed at IMDB.
“He runs like he’s playing Quittage.”
I think he meant “Quidditch”, the game in the Harry Potter books.
Indeed, and the error is mine, not Dan Fouts’. It is quidditch.
I was a Muggle when I originally quoted him — and I guess I am still a Muggle for not correcting the spelling when I compiled the above yesterday.