Today Jim Abrahams is 75. Today is also the birthday of Bono, Donovan, Kenan Thompson, Erik Palladino, Mike Hagerty, Dallas Roberts, Meg Foster, Alex Jennings, Françoise Fabian, David Mackenzie, Joseph Ruben, and the late Fred Astaire, Sid Vicious, David O. Selznick, George Coe, Nancy Walker, Ettore Scola, Anatole Litvak, Max Steiner, Dimitri Tiomkin, and John Wilkes Booth. Joan Crawford died 42 years ago in 1977 at age 71. Shel Silverstein died twenty years ago in 1999 at age 68.
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