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Matt Lauer bumps into Aflac ad star Birdie Hale
At 91 years old, Birdie Hale is working overtime for The Kaplan Thaler Group. On a recent sunny New York day, the actress, who appears in one of the agency’s Aflac spots (and over the years has done 10 movies or so, including Eddie Murphy’s Coming to America), hailed a taxi on Spring Street to head to an audition. The driver was the Today show’s Matt Lauer, who had traded jobs for the day with a New York cabbie.
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