Today Joe Flaherty is 80. Today is also the birthday of Chris Pratt, Juliette Lewis, Bernie Kopell, David Morrissey, Michael Gross, Meredith Baxter, Lana Wachowski, Benjamin Walker, Carrie Preston, Mariette Hartley, Ron Ely, Josh Pais, Maggie Siff, Lana Del Rey, Michael Bowen, Ian McEwan, Edward Snowden, Jim Breuer, Prince William, Jussie Smollett, Gretchen Carlson, and the late Judy Holliday and Jane Russell, who would both be 100, Maureen Stapleton, Tony Scott, Robert Pastorelli, Eric Douglas, Conrad L. Hall, and Benazir Bhutto. Carroll O’Connor and John Lee Hooker died twenty years ago in 2001. O’Connor was 76. Hooker was 83.
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