Famous & 65
Look Who’s Turning 65
August 1 – Robert Cray
Musician
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Cray’s manful mortal nurture was stationed at Fort Benning when his boy was born inwards Columbus, Georgia. The trace of piece of occupation solid unit of measurement settled inwards Tacoma, WA when Cray was a teenager. He began dreaming of becoming a musician, together with yesteryear the historic flow of xx he’d seen several of his heroes, including the legendary Muddy Waters, inwards concert.
Cray formed a band together with played college towns on the West Coast, refining his ain bluesy style. Eventually, he formed the Robert Cray Band together with made a advert for himself. He was the bassist inwards 1978 celluloid National Lampoon’s Animal House political party band.
As his talent grew, he opened for such stars equally Eric Clapton. His 4th album, Strong Persuader, won a Grammy award, together with the vocal “Smokin’ Gun” made novel fans.
Cray equally good played amongst Jimmie Vaughn together with Buddy Guy. He performed amongst Stevie Ray Vaughn at the Alpine Valley Music Theatre the dark he died inwards a helicopter crash.
A brace of Fender guitars behave his name. The Custom Shop Stratocaster is identical to the guitar Cray plays, piece a less expensive model is produced inwards Mexico. Cray continues to tour.
August 2 – Butch Patrick
aka Eddie Munster
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Growing upwardly non far from Hollywood, it was 7-year-old Patrick Lilley’s sis who was star struck. She was on a photograph shoot when she was asked if she had a sibling who was interested inwards auditioning. The rest, equally they say, is history.
Her blood brother created a phase advert from his nickname together with starting fourth dimension name, together with “Butch Patrick” was born. Instantly successful, he landed a location inwards a B movie, hence a run inwards General Hospital followed yesteryear a Kellogg’s Corn Flakes commercial.
His piece of occupation inwards the belatedly 50s together with early 60s includes stints on iconic shows of the day: Mister Ed, My Favorite Martian, The Untouchables, The Detectives, Ben Casey, Rawhide, Gunsmoke, Bonanza, The Real McCoys together with bunches more.
The kid was inwards movies amongst the likes of Burt Lancaster, Judy Garland together with Mickey Rooney. Then, inwards 1964, he’s called to CBS Studio Center for a covert test. Out of hundreds of applicants, Patrick lands the business office of Edward Wolfgang Munster together with that’s how people across America volition ever mean value of him. Although the serial exclusively ran for a few years, it’s nevertheless ane of the most pop shows inwards history.
Patrick went on to look inwards hundreds to a greater extent than commercials together with shows equally he grew up, exactly at the historic flow of nineteen he quit the Hollywood scene to surf together with drive fast cars. Then, he formed a band, “Eddie together with the Monsters” which aired on upstart MTV together with became the starting fourth dimension unsigned human activeness to look on the cable station, leading to thousands of other garage bands submitting homemade videos to garner a location on TV.
In 2010, Patrick got engaged to longtime fan together with quondam Philadelphia Eagles cheerleader Donna McCall. But their courtship broke upwardly subsequently inwards the yr together with Patrick entered drug rehab exclusively a calendar week afterward. Six months later, build clean together with sober, Patrick announced he had prostate cancer.
“I went 41 years trying to kill myself,” he said. “And hence in conclusion got to the signal when I desire to alive I was diagnosed amongst prostate cancer. My starting fourth dimension idea when I was told this was, ‘Isn’t this a kicker? I instruct clean, my life is together together with straight off God is going to punch my ticket.’”
Patrick is reportedly good at this time.
August 8 – “Sweet” Lou Dunbar
Harlem Globetrotter
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Dunbar is the Director of Player Personnel, coach, together with 27-year participant for the infamous Harlem Globetrotters basketball game team. Born inwards northwest Louisiana, Dunbar played ball at Webster High School when it was an all-black school. Dunbar went on to play at the University of Houston, the metropolis where he coached basketball game earlier joining the Globetrotters, an exhibition squad that injected house together with comedy into the sport.
The Globetrotters formed inwards 1920s Chicago, an offshoot of an African-American squad that played exhibitions ahead of dances at the Savoy Ballroom. They made waves inwards 1948 when they rhythm out the best white basketball game teams inwards the country, including the Lakers. In 1950, Globetrotter Chuck Cooper made history equally the starting fourth dimension dark participant to instruct drafted into the NBA.
With the ascension of professional person basketball, the Globetrotters carved out a niche equally comedians, incorporating juggling, balancing together with sophisticated skills into their high-level playing. The Globetrotters bring racked upwardly to a greater extent than than 26,000 games inwards 122 countries over their long existence. Parts of the games today are planned, exactly the final result is never certain. Opposing teams allow their antics unfold when they are on defense, exactly in ane trial a squad gets possession of the ball, serious play ensues.
August eleven – Hulk Hogan
Wrestler
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Born Terry Gene Bollea, Hogan made a career equally a professional person wrestler, telly personality together with rocker. Hogan’s might to remain inwards the limelight, whether equally hero or villain, is unsurpassed. He fifty-fifty formed the “New World Order” inwards 1996 equally he hyped a novel persona together with self-promoted.
It tin give notice travel difficult to tell what’s existent together with what’s non inwards Hogan’s world. He testified earlier a Federal courtroom inwards 1994 that he was an anabolic steroid user for fourteen years. Hogan equally good professes a devout Christian faith. His starting fourth dimension spousal human relationship ended inwards divorce after an alleged affair, exactly he presently married in ane trial to a greater extent than to the adult woman who is his electrical flow wife. As the most-requested celebrity yesteryear terminally-ill children at the Make-A-Wish Foundation, Hogan has fulfilled many dreams.
The human being has a caput for business, amongst forays into the nutrient industry, acting (notably inwards Rocky III), a reality exhibit featuring his trace of piece of occupation solid unit of measurement (until his divorce) together with telly hosting. His cyberspace worth inwards 2008 was revealed equally due north of $30 million, although a few years subsequently the star admitted that his divorce together with luxurious lifestyle had pushed him to the border of bankruptcy.
The years of drops, holds together with full general antics inwards the ring, to say goose egg of steroid use, left their mark. In 2013 Hogan filed a medical malpractice lawsuit for $50 million, claiming a half-dozen operations had left his ailing spine worse than before.
Hogan continues to brand professional person appearances.
August sixteen – Kathie Lee Gifford
Actress
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Born Kathryn Lee Epstein inwards Paris, the ever-correct together with bubbly Gifford is a production of Oral Roberts University. She’s most known for her 15-year stint on Live! With Regis together with Kathie Lee, which she co-hosted amongst Regis Philbin. Nominated for eleven Daytime Emmys, she garnered her starting fourth dimension inwards 2010 equally a fellow member of the Today team.
The multi-talented Gifford has equally good written a seat out of books together with recorded several studio albums. What don’t you lot know almost her? She was the live-in secretarial assistant together with babysitter for actress together with Florida orangish juice promoter Anita Bryant ane summertime inwards the early 70s.
Gifford was married to Christian composer/arranger/producer for 6 years prior to their 1982 divorce. She met sports commentator Frank Gifford during an appearance on ABC’s Good Morning America. Twenty-three years younger than the quondam football game player, Kathie Lee enjoyed a reportedly happy spousal human relationship together with the brace had 2 children. Frank died of natural causes a calendar week earlier his 85th birthday inwards 2015.
Gifford’s career got a boost early when she was a vocalizer on Name That Tune earlier appearing equally ane of the Hee Haw Honeys. (Yes, that was actually a show). Among many cameos, she appeared equally herself inwards an episode of Seinfeld (highlight) together with on the TV celluloid Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! (sweep that ane nether the rug, please).
Two autobiographies bring together a seat out of children’s books she has authored. Gifford has been active inwards musical house equally an actor, author together with producer. She latterly wrote the lyrics for a musical adaptation of the Jimmy Stewart classic It’s a Wonderful Life.
Source: Wikipedia
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