Ving Rhames
The face. The voice. The Real Ving By BILL NEWCOTT
MILESTONE
BIRTHDAYS
MAY 1 2 45 6
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Batman
Age 70
Dark Knight’s
debut comic
book is
worth up to
$500,000.
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Pete Seeger
Age 90
Dean of
protest singers
released his
latest album,
At 89, last year.
Harvey Keitel
Age 70
Since age 50
he’s appeared
totally nude
in The Piano
and The Bad
Lieutenant.
Billy Joel
Age 60
He and ex-
wife Christie
Brinkley are
still the best
of friends.
AS THE MOB BOSS in Pulp Fiction or the hardened prisoner in Con Air,
he seems ever-ready to rip your throat out. But he’s also the softie who
tearfully accepted his 1998 Golden Globe award for Don King: Only in America—then
turned around and presented the trophy to his fellow nominee, a stunned Jack Lem-mon. And when a homeless man hanging around the New York City set of his 1993
film The Saint of Fort Washington turned out to be his long-lost older brother, Junior,
Rhames helped get him back on his feet. Born Irving Ramses Rhames—named after,
of all people, the bow-tied NBC economic correspondent Irving R. Levine—he grew
up on the mean streets of Harlem. A ninth-grade teacher turned him on to drama,
and he ended up at Juilliard. This year Rhames has no fewer than eight new movies,
and next year he takes a big departure, as a wise, gentle servant in “Master Harold”…
and the Boys. That is, unless he surprises everyone and rips someone’s throat out.
May 12
Hugh Laurie
Age 50
Once fell
asleep while
riding his
motorcycle.
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Lionel Richie
Age 60
Went to
Tuskegee
University as a
teen, on a ten-
nis scholarship.
Meryl Streep
Age 60
Fans often
mistake her
for her pal
Glenn Close.
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Phyllis George
Age 60
Newly crowned
Miss America
1971 kept her
cool when her
tiara fell off on
live TV.
