Tim Maguire

Michael Kirk Douglas is 71 today.

1979

Mark Richard Hamill was born in Oakland, California.

Hamill portrayed Luke Skywalker in the original Star Wars trilogy
(1977-1983). He received a Drama Desk Award nomination for
his work in The Elephant Man (1977). He also did voice acting
work as The Joker in Batman, the Animated TV series, from
1992 to 1995.

Original airing on ABC-TV: September 24, 1977 – February 27, 1987

The series was part of ABC’s popular Saturday night lineup that included
Fantasy Island until that show ended in 1984. The original 1976 made-for-
TV movie on which the show was based (also titled The Love Boat) was
itself based on the nonfiction book The Love Boats by Jeraldine Saunders,
a real-life cruise director.

Sandy Kozel

 Stephen Edwin King is 68 years old today.

King spent his childhood pouring over horror books, comic books,
and films, and he especially loved Tales from the Crypt and Dracula.

He graduated from the University of Maine in 1970 with a Bachelor’s
degree in English.

Ed Donahue

Sophia Loren (Sofia Villani Scicolone) is 81 today.

Sophia Loren voiced the character Mama Topolino in the 2011 Disney
feature Cars 2.