Getting the Low-Down



Today's the birthday of a number of folks ...

Peter Pan's original lady of the high ropes

Millicent Martin ... of stage and screen ...

Shares her birthday with others not green



Including former first lady Barbara Bush ...

Who glamorized The Golden Girls, in a rush

And actress Dana Wynter and comedienne Joan Rivers

Along with James Darren - who set many hearts aquiver

 

And Nancy Sinatra, whose boots were made for walking

And Three Dog Night's Chuck Negron, who did the talking

Whenever they were interviewed by the media ...

About the name used for the four of them - to stir



And then there's Don Grady, who was Chip ...

On My Three Sons ... the one always hip ...

And Mick Box ... musician with Uriah Heep

And Bonnie Tyler ... a singer not bleeped



Sonia Bragia ... an actress who often was

And Griffin Dunne ... an actor who paused ...

Mick Hucknall ... the man behind Simply Red

And Keenan Ivory Wayans - a noted baldhead



Whose clever writing and direction paid off

In a television variety comedy series quite hot

And Nick Rhodes of Duran Duran - the pop group

And Boz Scaggs ... who still sings with a troupe



And actor Bernie Casey of Starsky and Hutch

His character, tho likeable, was just too much

And Kathy Baker, Dan Futterman, and Kelli Williams

Tony Rice and Julianna Margulies are all getting opinions



But the only ones that matter are your very own

So don't let anyone else sell you short to the bone

For, just like all of these folks who are in the light

Everyone, birthday or not, has one thing they do ... 

                                                        just right ...



- Tristram



©  Christopher W. Thomas

11:10pm Tuesday, June 8th, 1999



Birthdays:



Not Mentioned:

Byron White (former Supreme Court Justice) 82

Suharto (former president of Indonesia) 78



Barbara Bush's 74th

Dana Wynter's 69th

Joan Rivers' 66th

Millicent Martin's 65th

James Darren's 63rd

Bernie Casey's 60th

Nancy Sinatra's 59th

Chuck Negron's 57th

Don Grady's 55th

Boz Scagg's 55th

Mick Box's 52nd

Kathy Baker's 49th

Sonia Braga's 49th

Tony Rice's 48th

Bonnie Tyler's 46th

Griffin Dunne's 44th

Keenan Ivory Wayans' 41st

Mick Hucknall's 39th

Nick Rhodes' 37th

Dan Futterman's 32nd

Julianna Margulies' 32nd

Kelli Williams' 29th