Today is the birthday
… of Helen Gurley Brown, 88.
… of Oscar winner George Kennedy. Dragline is 85. Kennedy won the best supporting actor Oscar for that role in Cool Hand Luke.
… of Toni Morrison, “who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality.” That’s what they said when she won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993.
… of the woman who broke up the Beatles. She’s 77 today. That’s Yoko Ono.
… of Cybill Shepherd. She’s 60.
… of Vinnie Barbarino. He’s 56 today. So are Vincent Vega, Chili Palmer, Michael, Buford ‘Bud’ Uan Davis, Tod Lubitch, Danny Zuko and Tony Manero. And so is John Travolta.
… of the letter turner. Vanna White is 53 today.
… of one-time Oscar nominee Matt Dillon, 46.
… of Andre Romelle Young. Dr. Dre is 45.
… of Molly Ringwald. She’s 42.
Wallace Stegner was born on this date in 1909.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was published February 18, 1885.