Born in N.Y.C.
July 31st, 2008
From the Big Apple talent pool: You have a rapper (L.L. Cool J, 1968), a tapper (Gregory Hines, 1946), and a curiosity trapper (Geraldo Rivera, 1943); a mocker (Don Rickles, 1926), a talker (Howard Stern, 1954), and a publicity stalker (Brooke Shields, 1965); a Superman (Christopher Reeve, 1952), a camera man (Allen Funt, 1914), a piano man (Billy Joel, 1949), a show-me-the-money man (Cuba Gooding, Jr., 1968), a secret agent man (Don Adams; 1926), a group of “Holy†men (Joey Bishop, 1918; Jack Lord, 1930; Christian Slater, 1969), and a Bowery Boy (Huntz Hall, 1919); a bad lieutenant (Harvey Keitel), 1939), a good nanny (Fran Drescher, 1957), and, of course, a Partridge (David Cassidy, 1950) in a pear tree.
