Today is the birthday
… of Carol Channing. Broadway’s Dolly Gallagher Levi is 87.
… of Jean Simmons. The actress (The Robe, Spartacus, Elmer Gantry) is 79. Miss Simmons was twice nominated for an Oscar; Hamlet (supporting) and The Happy Ending (leading).
… of Ernie Banks. The baseball hall-of-famer is 77. Let’s play two.
… of composer Philip Glass. He’s 71.
The new musical style that Glass was evolving was eventually dubbed “minimalism.” Glass himself never liked the term and preferred to speak of himself as a composer of “music with repetitive structures.” Much of his early work was based on the extended reiteration of brief, elegant melodic fragments that wove in and out of an aural tapestry. Or, to put it another way, it immersed a listener in a sort of sonic weather that twists, turns, surrounds, develops.
… of Queen Beatrix. She’s 70. Do you know what country is she queen of?
… of Nolan Ryan. The baseball hall-of-famer is 61.
… of KC. He’s 57. And his band was?
Minnie Driver is 38. Justin Timberlake is 27.
Suzanne Pleshette, Emily on the ”The Bob Newhart Show” and Annie (the teacher) in The Birds, would have been 71 today.
Norman Mailer was born on the last day of January in 1923. Here’s what NewMexiKen posted before on Mailer’s birthday.
Thomas Merton was born on this date in 1915. Here’s a previous entry for Merton.
John O’Hara was born on this date in 1905.
[O’Hara] went on to become one of the most popular serious writers of his lifetime, writing many best-selling novels, including Appointment in Samarra (1934) and A Rage to Live (1949). Most critics consider his best work to be his short stories, which were published as the Collected Stories of John O’Hara (1984). He holds the record for the greatest number of short stories published by a single author in The New Yorker magazine.
And Pearl Zane Grey, the first American millionaire author, was born on this date in 1872. Here’s a previous entry on Grey.
Netherlands for queenie? kc = sunshine band. these are without research