Talk about opposites: TV preacher Pat Robertson and Broadway composer Stephen Sondheim were born on the exact same day in 1930. Both men turned 80 today.Stephen Sondheim was born in New York City and Pat Robertson was born in Lexington, Virginia, and that’s not much surprise in either case. Well, it’s all show business, after all. Happy birthday, gentlemen!
We mentioned in a post from March 11th that golf player Tiger Woods was paying money to former White House press spokesman Ari Fleischer for some public relations help.It didn’t last long. According to this report from Business Insider, Ari stopped giving Tiger advice on repairing his image, but so far hasn’t said why.
When I finished Raiders of the Lost Ark, I took the script up to George to give to him. I was very ceremonial back then.
Sirhan Sirhan turns 66 years old today. He’s still in jail for killing Senator Robert F. Kennedy in 1968. Below is an brief interview with Sirhan from back then (“I’m not mentally ill, but I’m not perfect,” he says):
[[wysiwyg_imageupload:16:]]Mr. Duffy asked for a photo of the late Fess Parker with Ed Ames as his sidekick Mingo. Wish granted!
Pop star Alex Chilton has died of an apparent heart attack, Variety reports.Chilton was a teen star with The Box Tops, who had a number one hit in 1967 with “The Letter.” He was also in the band Big Star, and later he recorded as a solo artist. A favorite among indie musicians in the 1980s, he was never a household name, but he had a loyal following. Below are two of my favorite Chilton songs, “The Letter” (of course!) and “Holocaust” (by Big Star):
Her goal: 1000 pounds by 2012. The kicker is in the final sentence.
He’s on board.
In honor of First Lady Pat Nixon’s birthday — she would have been 98 today, but she died in 1993 — we offer the first ever (maybe?) “Pat Nixon Desert Turkey” photo:
Tiger Woods will golf at The Masters, he said in a statement today on his official site:”The Masters is where I won my first major, and I view this tournament with great respect. After a long and necessary time away from the game, I feel like I’m ready to start my season at Augusta.”Woods adds, “I still have a lot of work to do in my personal life.”