Elizabeth was crowned Queen on June 2nd, 58 years ago today. (She turned 85 in April.)
Sally Kellerman is 74. Kellerman was Hot Lips in the movie M*A*S*H. She received an Oscar supporting actress nomination for the portrayal.
Charlie Watts, the Rolling Stones’ drummer, is 70.
That fine actor Stacy Keach is also 70.
Composer Martin Marvin Hamlisch is 67.
Jerry “The Beaver” Mathers is 63 today.
Comedian Dana Carvey is 56.
Johnny Weissmuller was born on June 2nd in 1904.
Few of the millions of Tarzan lovers who thrilled to Mr. Weissmuller swooping from tree to tree or locking in lethal combat with lions or crocodiles ever knew him as the swimming phenomenon who won five Olympic gold medals and set 67 world records in the 1920’s.
Sports enthusiasts then thought that the records, all set before Mr. Weissmuller was 25 years old, would endure for decades. But most of them were eclipsed by the time the casual, carefree Mr. Weissmuller went to Hollywood and filmmakers in 1932 began molding his image as a brawny, monosyllabic friend of apes and elephants.
He made close to 20 Tarzan films, the last one in 1949. In all of them he was something of a howling jungle Superman in loincloth, the benevolent protector of his African domain and the treetop home of his wife, Jane, and his son, Boy, and the vanquisher of villains, marauders and ivory hunters.
Martha Washington was born on June 2nd in 1731.
Donatien Alphonse François de Sade was born on June 2nd in 1740. We know him as the Marquis de Sade.
If you Google “Martin Hamlisch” all you get is “Marvin Hamlisch”.
V? T? How do you catch such things? Oops. 🙂