[BaltimoreBob]

2009: 6th Game of the 2009 World Series – PHILLIES at New York Yankees.

My #1 Celebrity Birthday Person for November 4th is
Walter Cronkite (Would have been 93) 1916
Born: St. Joseph, Missouri / Nickname: Uncle Walter & Walter Wilcox
Baltimore Bob worked for PDS in St. Joseph, Missouri circa 1984.
He is an only child / His family heritage is Dutch-Scottish.
His mother Helen died in 1993 at the age of 101.
The very day he was born, his father immediately left the hospital
and went out and voted for President Woodrow Wilson.
Betsy Cronkite, his wife, was working as a newspaper journalist when they met.
He met his wife Betsy when he was working at a radio station in Kansas City.
The two were paired up to do a cosmetics commercial and married a year later.
Spouse: Betsy Maxwell (30 March 1940 - present) 3 children
His stage name during his days in radio was Walter Wilcox.
His first job as a journalist was as a cub reporter for the Kansas City Times.
Attended both the Republican and Democratic National Conventions in 1928.
The former was on a boy scout field trip and the latter was during a visit to his
grandparents in Kansas City.
Makes a unique claim about his television career.
When he attended 1933 World's Fair,
he was present at an exhibit displaying an early example of television.
At the exhibit, the attendees were allowed to sit in front of the camera
and watch themselves on the screen.
When Cronkite sat in front of the camera he did an improptu impression of a man
he had seen playing two flutes at once. Therefore, he jokingly claims that he
was definitely on television decades before his contemporaries.
CBS asked Cronkite to come up with a signature closing line for the evening news.
When he came up with "And that's the way it is", CBS was concerned that it would
suggest a certain infallability.
But Cronkite explained that it would fit any type of story whether it was funny or sad or ironic.
In 1964 he was fired from his anchorman duties at the Democratic National Convention.
CBS had gotten a new president who had never worked on a presidential campaign
and had definite ideas about how CBS would be covering it.
It turned out to be a mess and as a result Cronkite got some of the blame so the network
executives removed him from the coverage but kept him as the anchorman of the evening news.
Jokingly Cronkite became buddies with the president of NBC and the people at
CBS were horrified that he was being offered a job in the rival network.
So when the Republican Convention rolled around Cronkite got to cover it
without using the new president's tactics.
At the birth of television, he and his team at CBS practically invented the
institution of the evening news program.
In 1951, one of the stage managers at CBS told him to sit at the desk and do the news.
Cronkite asked what he meant and the managers simply said "I don't know just do it".
His idea was to first just talk to the camera like another person and organize
the news stories in the same vein as the newspaper beginning with the top story
and working his way down to human interest stories.
Reported on the Nuremberg Trials of Nazi war criminals in 1945.
Journalist since 1937; with CBS television since 1950 '1950 Baltimore Bob is born.'
Was the lead anchor on the CBS Evening News from 16 April 1962 until 6 March 1981.
Was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1981.
This is the highest honor a U.S. civilian can receive.
“We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story” (1993) (voice) as Captain Neweyes.
2009 Update: Died at age 92 on 17 July 2009, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
(complications from dementia)
Baltimore Bob believes that no one can die from Dementia.
Dementia is an illness that strikes every old person at one time or at a later age.

Karis Jagger (39) 1970
--- Born: London, England, UK / Birth name: Karis Hunt Jagger / Actress
--- Daughter of Mick Jagger and Marsha A. Hunt.
--- In 2000, she married boyfriend Jonathan Watson on Treasure Island
--- in California before 100 guests including her mother, father and others.

Markie Post (59) 1950 - same age as Bob
--------- Born: Palo Alto, California / Birth name: Marjorie Armstrong Post / Height: 5' 6" (1.68 m)
--------- Daughter of noted scientist Richard F. Post
--------- Attended Las Lomas High School in Walnut Creek, CA. and was a cheerleader.
--------- Post grew up in Walnut Creek, California and started her career on films and TV shows
--------- as 'Card Sharks' (1978) and 'The New Card Sharks' (1986) and went on to even produce
--------- such projects as 'Double Dare' (1976/II). 'The E! True Hollywood Story' (2002) (TV).
--------- Spouses: Michael A. Ross (7 February 1982 - present) 2 children / 2 daughters
--------- Stephen Knox (? - ?) (divorced)
--------- Movie debut at age 31 in ‘Gangster Wars (1981) as Chris Brennan.
--------- Baltimore Bob will forever remember her as the
--------- character Christine Sullivan (1985-1992) on the TV sitcom ‘Night Court’ (1984).
--------- 2008: Latest movie role at age 56 in ‘Cook-Off!’ (2006) as Christine Merriweather.

Laura Bush (63) 1946 - NOT
---------- Born: Midland, Texas / Birth name: Laura Lane Welch / Height: 5' 4½" (1.64 m)
---------- Spouse: George W. Bush (5 November 1977 - present) 2 children

Loretta Swit (72) 1937
------------ Born: Passaic, New Jersey / Height: 5' 6" (1.68 m)
------------ Spouse: Dennis Holahan (21 December 1983 - 1995) (divorced)
------------ Wanted to leave MASH after the 8th season, but FOX wouldn't let her out of her contract.
------------ She has said that she wanted to star in the series 'Cagney and Lacey',
------------ after she made the pilot movie, but her MASH commitment prevented her from doing so.
------------ Is Polish, Baltimore Bob is part Polish.
------------ Movie debut at age 35 in ‘Deadhead Miles’ (1972) as Woman with Glass Eye.
------------ Received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1989.
------------ 2008: Latest movie role at age 61 in ‘Beach Movie’ (1998) as Mrs. Jones.

Doris Roberts (80) 1929 - probably in her day which passed
------------- Born: St. Louis, Missouri / Birth name: Doris May Roberts
------------- Father is unknown except to her mother, Ann Meltzer.
------------- When she was little, Doris's father abandoned her and her mother,
------------- which forced her mother Ann to single-handedly raise Doris on her own.
------------- Spouses: William Goyen (1963 - 30 August 1983) (his death)
------------- Michael Cannata (? - 1962) (divorced) 1 child
------------- Doris's son, Michael Cannata, is her manager. He has three children.
------------- She lives in a home once owned by James Dean.
------------- Movie debut at age 32 in ‘Something Wild’ (1961) as Mary Ann's co-worker.
------------- She beat out 100 other actresses for her role on 'Everybody Loves Raymond'.
------------- Everyone's favorite mother on Baltimore Bob's current favorite sitcom
------------- 'Everybody Loves Raymond' (1996) TV Series as the character Marie Barone.
------------- 2008: Latest movie roles at age 79 in ‘Play the Game’ (2008)
------------- (completed) as Rose Sherman and two other movies.