Guest Author - Judith Hodges

Today in History- July 8th

Happy Birthday!
1918 Craig Stevens, actor (Peter Gunn)
1926 Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, psychiatrist/author (On Death and Dying)
1932 Jerry Vale, singer (You Don't Know Me)
1933 Marty Feldman, comedian (Young Frankenstein)
1951 Anjelica Huston, actress (Daddy Day Care, The Addams Family (91)
1958 Kevin Bacon, actor (Apollo 13, JFK, A Few Good Men, Footloose)
1961 Andy Fletcher, musician from Depeche Mode (People Are People)
1961 Graham Jones, musician from Haircut 100 (Love Plus One)
1961 Toby Keith, country music (I Should Have Been a Cowboy)
1968 Billy Crudup, actor (Big Fish, Almost Famous)
1970 Beck, singer (Where It's At)
1975 Kathleen Robertson, actress (Beverly Hills, 90210, Scary Movie 2)


Deaths:
1985 Phil Foster, actor (Laverne & Shirley)
1994 Robert E. Lee, playwright (Inherit the Wind)
1994 Dick Sargent, actor (Darrin #2 from Bewitched)

Events:
1776 The first public reading of the Declaration of Independence takes place.

History Lesson:
Anjelica Huston was offered the fan, hostage taker, and crazy woman Annie Wilkes in Misery. Kathy Bates got the part after Huston turned it down.

Kevin Bacon has been married to Kyra Sedgwick (The Closer, Phenomenon) since 1988.