FIRST, A COOL QOUTE- If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance." BERNARD SHAW *******BIRTHDAY GAUGE**************** 61 years 0 months younger than Zsa Zsa Gabor, age 84

43 years 11 months younger than Burt Reynolds, age 67

40 years 0 months younger than Nick Nolte, age 63

38 years 9 months younger than Ann-Margret, age 61

32 years 10 months younger than Billy Crystal, age 55

30 years 2 months younger than Whoopi Goldberg, age 53

27 years 6 months younger than Robin Williams, age 50

23 years 6 months younger than Tom Hanks, age 46

21 years 2 months younger than Jamie Lee Curtis, age 44

18 years 10 months younger than Eddie Murphy, age 41

9 years 6 months younger than Jennifer Lopez, age 32

0 years 11 months younger than Jennifer Love Hewitt, age 24

63 years 3 months younger than Walter Cronkite, age 86

59 years 8 months younger than Pope John Paul II, age 82

55 years 7 months younger than George Herbert Bush, age 78

48 years 4 months younger than Barbara Walters, age 71

46 years 2 months younger than Larry King, age 69

40 years 0 months younger than Ted Koppel, age 63

36 years 7 months younger than Geraldo Rivera, age 59

33 years 7 months younger than George W. Bush, age 56

28 years 6 months younger than Jesse Ventura, age 51

24 years 3 months younger than Bill Gates, age 47

19 years 5 months younger than Cal Ripken Jr., age 42

13 years 7 months younger than Mike Tyson, age 36

9 years 6 months younger than Jennifer Lopez, age 32

4 years 1 month younger than Tiger Woods, age 27

2 years 5 months older than Prince William, age 20

8 years 3 months older than Haley Joel Osment, age 14

and that you were:

21 years old at the time of the 9-11 attack on America

19 years old on the first day of Y2K

17 years old when Princess Diana was killed in a car crash

15 years old at the time of Oklahoma City bombing

14 years old when O. J. Simpson was charged with murder

13 years old at the time of the 93 bombing of the World Trade Center

10 years old when Operation Desert Storm began

9 years old during the fall of the Berlin Wall

6 years old when the space shuttle Challenger exploded

4 years old when Apple introduced the Macintosh

3 years old during Sally Ride's travel in space

a 1 year old when Pres. Reagan was shot by John Hinckley, Jr.

and when these movies were released in the U.S. your age was:

ET: 2

The Terminator: 4

Top Gun: 6

Planes, Trains & Automobiles: 7

Steel Magnolias: 9

Home Alone: 10

Wayne's World: 12

Jurassic Park: 13

Forrest Gump: 14

Fargo: 16

Saving Private Ryan: 18

Toy Story 2: 19

on this day in music history-(1995) REM drummer, BILL BERRY, having collapsed onstage, undergoes brain surgery in switzerland. next -- previous DISCLAIMER