The Breaker and The Bobby-Soxer



Topping the birthdays today are two faves

Edward Woodward - whose career was saved

By an incredible performance in Bruce Beresford's Breaker Morant

Netting him the series - The Equalizer - which was quite an event



For it's one of those which had enough of a following

To be brought back, after lower ratings caused its burrowing

But, even though it had a subsequent outing ...

Those who loved it, couldn't keep up the shouting



And so, Woodward has returned to the film scene

But his roles have been sporadic, and not at all clean

But, never-the-less, he's been making them since sixty-four

When he was in Becket, with an all-star cast - a film adored



And then there's Pat Boone, who also shares this birthday

The man for whom milk is a daily ingestion, and it pays

Perhaps, best known for his recording career ...

But he's also authored some things for younger ears



And he also wrote the lyrics for the theme from Exodus

Collaborating with Ernest Gold - the composer "next to us"

As well as having made fifteen films in fifteen years ...

from fifty-seven's April Love - for Shirley Jones' cheer



All the way thru to seventy-two's The Cross and the Switchblade 

In which Pat plays a minister, on a New York street-gang crusade

Not a film that's been very well received 

Although its moralistic tone's achieved ...



And then there are a few others whose special day it is

Some other actors, and a few singers who've pleased

Including Alanis Morrissette, and Graham Russell of Air Supply

And the Stones' Ron Wood, who's now central to their musical high



Actors Andy Griffith, Brian Cox and Richard Erdman

Pat Corley, Rene Auberjonois and Morgan Freeman

Jonathan Pryce, Brian Cox, Peter Masterson and too - Powers Boothe

(The only man to accept an Emmy the year they were all long in the tooth)



Actresses Gemma Craven and Lisa Hartman Black

(Who did a little Country singing before Clint's attract)

And opera singer Frederica von Stade

And a few others who've also got it made



Ronnie Dunn, and Richard Comeaux

The Cure's Simon Gallup also shows

Alan Wilder and Jason Donovan also

So many folks - all having cake to go!



- Tristram



© Christopher W. Thomas

10:57am Tuesday, June 1st, 1999



The Breaker (Edward Woodward) - 69 today

The Bobby-Soxer (Pat Boone) - 65 today



Other Birthdays:



Richard Erdman's 74th

Andy Griffith's 73rd

Pat Corley's 69th

Peter Masterson's 65th

Morgan Freeman's 62nd

Rene Auberjonois' 59th

Frederica von Stade's 54th

Brian Cox's 53rd

Jonathan Pryce's 52nd

Powers Boothe's 50th

Gemma Craven's 49th

Graham Russell's 49th

Ronnie Dunn's 46th

Lisa Hartman Black's 43rd

Alan Wilder's 40th

Simon Gallup's 39th

Richard Comeaux's 38th

Jason Donovan's 31st

Alanis Morrissette's 25th