Boomer's Buzz: Friday, May 16, 2008

Posted May 16, 2008, 4:48 am by Growing Bolder


Today is Friday, May 16, 2008. There are 229 days left in the year and 171 days left until Election Day.

Pic of the Day:
What do you want on the cake? "Best Wishes Suzanne" and undernerneath that,
"We will miss you."



Today's GB Birthdays:
Happy birthday to GB members stephdoug, Liz and Jeepzia! Click their names to send them a birthday greeting!

Debra Winger is 53 today. What you didn't know about Debra Winger:

• turned down Karen Allen's role in Indiana Jones
  
• turned down the Geena Davis role in A League of Their Own
• turned down the Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction
• turned down the Michelle Pfeiffer role in The Fabulous Baker Boys
• turned down the Susan Saradon role in Bull Durham
• turned down Liza Minnelli's role in Arthur
• Holly Hunter's role in Broadcast News was written for Winger who was pregnant
• was supposed to play Sue in Peggy Sue Got Married but quit when Director Penny Marshall was fired

Today's Celebrity Birthdays:
Author Studs Terkel is 96. Actor George Gaynes is 91. Jazz drummer Billy Cobham is 64. Actor Pierce Brosnan is 55. Gymnast Olga Korbut is 53. Actress Debra Winger is 53. Actress Mare Winningham is 49. Musician Boyd Tinsley ("The Dave Matthews Band") is 44. Singer Janet Jackson is 42.

On This Date:
In 1929: The first Academy Awards are presented during a banquet at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.

In 1946: The musical "Annie Get Your Gun" opens on Broadway.

In 1975: Japanese climber Junko Tabei becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

In 1990: "Muppets" creator Jim Henson dies at age 53.

In 1991: Queen Elizabeth II becomes the first British monarch to address the U.S. Congress.

In 2006: Richard Hatch, who won $1 million in the debut season of "Survivor," is sentenced in Providence, R.I., to more than four years in prison for failing to pay taxes on his reality TV prize and other income.

Today's Thought:
"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all."
-- Dale Carnegie



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