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Happy Birthday

cityfile · 03/06/09 07:38AM

20/20 co-anchor John Stossel turns 62 today, which means that mustache of his has been planted on his face for close to four decades now. Comedian and recently-axed CNN host D.L. Hughley is turning 46. New York Philharmonic director Lorin Maazel is 79. Adolfo Carrion, Barack Obama's new director of the White House Office of Urban Affairs, is 48. Composer Stephen Schwartz is turning 61. Film director/producer Rob Reiner is 62. Disgraced Wall Streeter Ivan Boesky is 72. Gabriel García Márquez is 82. Shaquille O'Neal is turning 37. Tom Arnold is 50. And a hospitalized Ed McMahon turns 86 today. Weekend birthdays below!

Anthony Shorris

cityfile · 02/03/08 09:40PM

The city's finance commissioner under Mayor Ed Koch and deputy chancellor of the New York City Department of Education during the Rudy Giuliani administration, Shorris was Eliot Spitzer's pick to head up the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. He stepped down from the post in 2008.