• April 28, 2003
• Vol. 59
• No. 16

Roamin' Centurion

With Bob Hope's 100th Birthday Nearing, NBC Celebrates the Legendary Entertainer with An Easter Sunday TV Special—and Friends Say Thanks for the Laughs

Wit and Wisdom

HIS EARLY YEARS
"My family was English. We were too poor to be British."

THE OSCARS
"Oscar time at my household is referred to as Passover."

SPORTS
"Bowling has one advantage over golf. You rarely lose a ball."

HIS TV DEBUT
"The next day 5 million television sets were sold. The people who couldn't sell theirs threw them away."

USO TOURS
"The USO taught me to say 'Kaopectate' in seven different languages."

BEING BOB HOPE
"I wouldn't have it any other way."