April fourtheenth's birthday boy |
My nephew shares a birthday with Steve Martin. Happy birthday, guys...
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Posted by Francis on Sat, 14 Apr 2007 05:36:00 PST |
March twenty-ninth's birthday girl |
Amazingly, the incomparable Amy Sedaris was born on the same day I was: March 29, 1961. Happy birthday to us, eh?
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Posted by Francis on Wed, 28 Mar 2007 02:17:00 PST |
March twenty-second's birthday girl |
Bonne anniversaire, Fanny Ardant. You made a great Mary of Guise in Elizabeth (although the movie plays loose with the facts, as Mary was not assassinated by Walsingham, in fact. It makes for great th...
Posted by Francis on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 11:44:00 PST |
March fourth's birthday girl |
They say it's your birthday, Kelly Lynch. I loved you in Drugstore Cowboy.
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Posted by Francis on Sun, 04 Mar 2007 02:06:00 PST |
February twenty-fifth's birthday boy |
Happy, happy, Neil Jordan. I remember being amused by the psychosexual flamboyance of The Company of Wolves. But I suspect you will be best remembered by The Crying Game (below).
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Posted by Francis on Sun, 25 Feb 2007 01:17:00 PST |
February seventheenth's birthday boy |
Happy birthday, Alan Bates. I think I first had a crush on you when I saw you in King of Hearts. Or was it Women in Love (below)? I hope you're naked wrestling Oliver Reed in heaven.
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Posted by Francis on Sat, 17 Feb 2007 01:33:00 PST |
February fifteenth's birthday girl |
Today we fete Marisa Berenson, granddaughter of Elsa Schiaparelli, great-great niece of Bernard Berenson, and former sister-in-law of Anthony Perkins. She played roles in some of the most remarkable f...
Posted by Francis on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 11:55:00 PST |
February thirteenth's birthday boy |
Cinema badboy Ranier Werner Fassbinder would be 61 today if he were still alive. He once said: "Love is the best, most insidious, most effective instrument of social repression." Happy guy, huh?
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Posted by Francis on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 08:25:00 PST |
February twelfth's birthday boy |
Happy birthday, Raymond Kurzweil, Mr. AI. You may not agree with his predictions for the future, but there's no denying he is some kind of genius, with all his voice recognition and text-to-speech and...
Posted by Francis on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 12:21:00 PST |
February eleventh's birthday girl |
U.S. Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin celebrates her birthday today. Give a warm round of applause to the U.S. Congress' first openly lesbian legislator, the first openly gay non-incumbent to win a seat in...
Posted by Francis on Sun, 11 Feb 2007 02:23:00 PST |
