born 9 May 1970

Antti Huovila, Anjalankoski, Finland, male singer

Dennis Coles, Staten Island, New York, Ghostface Killah

Doug Christie, Seattle, Washington, NBA basketball player/abortive reality TV subject

Eric J. Olson, Stoughton, Massachusetts, actor

Eva-Maria Höfling, Würzburg, West Germany, TV actress

Georgina Gilbert, London, England, Holly Hunter’s The Piano stunt double

Helen Hill (died 4 January 2007), Columbia, South Carolina, animator

Régis Bonnet, Nantua, France, gaffer

Rico Belled, The Hague, The Netherlands, musician

Steve Cell, Highland Park, Illinois, actor

Sybille Waury, Düsseldorf, West Germany, TV actress

Wendy Wolfcarius, Brussels, Belgium, production manager

Wolfgang Luser, Vienna, Austria, TV script editor

With all due Pretty Toney 'spect to Ghostface, who towers above the opposition today and is the people’s choice among Wu Tang clanspersons, my choice for Winner on Mother’s Day is Rico Belled, a former collaborator in The Dan Band. This is in honor of my wife, who often gets Dan Band-type lyrical malfeasance stuck in her head. (The Dan Band are the guys who sing “Total Eclipse Of The Heart” and business like that larded with curse words in the comedy movies.)