ROSS SIMPSON

John Marwood Cleese is 77 today. He once studied Law at
Cambridge.

2001

CARLATA BRADLEY

Pat Sajak (Patrick Leonard Sajdak) is 70 today.

Doonesbury began as a continuation of Bull Tales, which appeared in the Yale
University student newspaper, the Yale Daily News, from 1968 to 1970. It focused
on local campus events at Yale. It became a daily strip in twenty-eight newspapers
and was the first strip from Universal Press Syndicate. A Sunday strip began on
March 21, 1971. The strip became known for its social and political commentary
and is one of the longest running comic strips of all time.

Doonesbury is written and penciled by Garry Trudeau, then inked and lettered
by an assistant:Don Carlton then Todd Pound. Sunday strips are colored in by
George Corsillo.

Garretson Beekman "Garry" Trudeau turned 68 in July.

Alfred Matthew "Weird Al" Yankovic

Entertainer “Weird Al” is known for his parodies of popular songs
, like "Eat It," and "Like a Surgeon.” His career started with his
favorite instrument the accordion after a door-to-door salesman
offered his parents a choice between accordion lessons or guitar
lessons. Besides being a songwriter, record producer/video director
he has also written two children’s books…When I grow Up and My
New Teacher and Me!

MIKE GRACIA

Debbie Reynolds with daughter Carrie

Carrie Frances Fisher is 60 today.

Fisher wrote the bestselling novel, Postcards from the Edge. She appeared
in Las Vegas shows with her mother when she was twelve.