A Bono-Fide Hero
Big heart, big voice, big ideas. Can Bono save the world? By BILL NEWCOTT
Roma Downey
Age 50
Her Touched by
an Angel costar
Della Reese
officiated at
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MILESTONE
BIRTHDAYS
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Julianne
Phillips
Age 50
Springsteen’s
ex may have
inspired his
“Light of Day.”
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Toni Tennille
Age 70
The Captain’s
first mate sang
backup on
Pink Floyd’s
The Wall.
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JUNE
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Stevie Wonder
Age 60
Donated his
keyboard to a
Haitian musician
who was injured
in the big quake.
Tom Jones
Age 70
“The Voice” was
once advised to
take a job in a
gelatin factory.
Kristin
Scott-Thomas
Age 50
Says actors on
Botox look “like
photocopies.”
THE CHILD of a Protestant mother and a Catholic father in Dublin, Paul
Hewson attended church with his mom—while his dad waited outside.
Years later Paul, now known as U2 lead singer Bono, told the National Prayer
Breakfast in 2006 that the experience taught him “religion often gets in the way of
God.” Young Paul drifted away from church—and from his birth name. In the early
1970s he tried on a number of stage names, including Bonavox, before settling on
the one that has seen him reach the top of the rock world. U2 has sold 145 million
records, but Bono’s legacy may be as a global citizen—championing refugees and
fighting poverty and disease in the Third World. It all goes back to the lessons he
learned as a kid, sorting out whether God dwells in a spired building or an open
heart. As he told the prayer breakfast: “The poor are where God lives.”
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H. Ross Perot
Age 80
With $3.5 billion
he is only the
85th-richest
American.
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Jim Nabors
Age 70
Gomer Pyle star
sings “Back
Home Again in
Indiana” at every
Indy 500.
