Year: 2016

Happy Birthday: Andrew Rannells

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andrewrannells.jpgAndrew Rannells

Born: August 23, 1978 in Omaha, Nebraska, USA

[on his Girls (2012) sex scene] That was my first sex scene and nude scene. I took that nudity waiver as a badge of honor. I took a picture of it, I sent it to my friends. I didn’t even really read it. That’s the embarrassing part. I was so excited to sign it: “I’ll show anything!”

BACHELORETTE
2012
dir. Leslye Headland
Stars:
Kirsten Dunst
Isla Fisher		 MOVIE POSTERGIRLS season 2
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MOVIE POSTERGIRLS TV SHOW
Best of the show. Over 100 photos!		 MOVIE POSTERGIRLS season 1
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SEX AND THE CITY 2Sex and the City 2
dir. Michael Patrick King
Cast
Sarah Jessica Parker
Kim Cattrall		 nudeGIRLS Season 3
2014
Starring:
Lena Dunham
Adam Driver
TV POSTERTHE NEW NORMAL
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Ray Park

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raypark.jpgRay Park

Born: August 23, 1974 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK

[on having to shave his head for the role of Darth Maul] “At first, I lost my confidence a little. I’m used to having my hair, but now you have this bald thing on top. Then I got into it. It was easy and free; I didn’t have to wash my hair. I just took a hot towel and buffed it to make it nice and shiny.”

Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace
1999
dir. Lucas
Starring
Liam Neeson
Ewan McGregor		 MOVIE POSTERTHE PHANTOM MENACE 3D
dir. George Lucas
Stars: Ewan McGregor
Liam Neeson

x-menX-Men
2000
dir. Bryan Singer
starring
Jackman
Patrick Stewart		 GI JOE Movie PosterG.I Joe: The Rise of Cobra
2009
dir. Stephen Sommers
Starring
Dennis Quaid
Sienna Miller
GI JOE 2: RELATIATION
dir. Jon M. Chu
Stars:
Channing Tatum
Dwayne Johnson

 

Happy Birthday: Scott Caan

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scottcaan.jpgScott Caan

Born: August 23, 1976 in Los Angeles, California, USA

[on acting in the moment] I think all the greats really did that. If you watch Brando, if you watch McQueen, every scene you could see that they were doing something and that’s why it seemed so human and so real as opposed to actors trying to find an emotion or play that emotion when the cameras are up and the lights are on it’s hard to settle in and have a real moment. I think the only real way to do it is to have an objective for what you’re doing in the scene.

movie posterGONE IN SIXTY SECONDS
2000
dir. Dominic Sena
Starring:
Nicolas Cage
Angelina Jolie
Ocean's ElevenOcean’s Eleven
2001
dir. Steven Soderbergh
starring
Clooney
Brad Pitt
Matt Damon
Ocean's ThirteenOcean’s Thirteen
2007
dir. Steven Soderbergh
starring
Clooney
Brad Pitt
Matt Damon
VARSITY BLUESVarsity Blues
1999
dir. Brian Robbins
Starring
James Van Der Beek
Voight		 MOVIE POSTERFRIENDS WITH MONEY
2006
dir. Nicole Holofcener
Stars:
Jennifer Aniston
Frances McDormand

 

Happy Birthday: Shelley Long

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shelleylong.jpgShelley Long

Born: August 23, 1949 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA

Shortly before starting work on Cheers (1982), she made an unsold sitcom pilot called: “Ghost of a Chance”, in which she was a newlywed haunted by the ghost of her first husband.

MOVIE POSTERTHE MONEY PIT
1986
dir. Richard Benjamin
Stars:
Tom Hanks
Shelley Long

NIGHT SHIFTNight Shift
1982
dir. Howard
starring
Henry Winkler
Michael Keaton

 

Happy Birthday: Joanne Froggatt

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joannefroggatt.jpgJoanne Froggatt

Born: August 23, 1979 in Littlebeck, North Yorkshire, England, UK

Is one of 12 Coronation Street (1960) actresses who despite their characters giving birth on the show have never become mothers in real life. The others are Doreen Keogh, Anne Kirkbride, Helen Worth, Caroline Milmoe, Naomi Radcliffe, Angela Lonsdale, Vicky Binns, Georgia May Foote, Natalie Gumede, Michelle Keegan and Ellie Leach.

Happy Birthday: Barbara Eden

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barbaraeden.jpgBarbara Eden

Born: August 23, 1931 in Tucson, Arizona, USA

The presence of her belly-button on I Dream of Jeannie (1965) was a non-issue until its existence was questioned, playfully, by columnist Mike Connolly. When Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In (1967) producer George Schlatter decided to premiere it on his show, NBC issued a “No Navel Edict”.

Her parents divorced when she was three and her mother Alice later married Harrison Connor Huffman.

Happy Birthday: River Phoenix (1970–1993)

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riverphoenix.jpgRiver Phoenix (1970–1993)

Born: August 23, 1970 in Madras, Oregon, USA
Died: October 31, 1993 (age 23) in West Hollywood, California, USA

I would just look at Harrison [Harrison Ford]; he would do stuff and I would not mimic it, but interpret it younger. Mimicking is a terrible mistake that many people make when they play someone younger, or with an age difference. Mimicking doesn’t interpret true because you can’t just edit it around. [on his interpretation of a young Indiana Jones in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)]

STAND BY MEStand By Me
1986
dir. Rob Reiner
Starring
Wil Wheaton
Phoenix		 The Mosquito CoastThe Mosquito Coast
1986
dir. Peter Weir
starring
Harrison Ford
Helen Mirren
Indiana Jones and the Last CrusadeIndiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1989
dir. Steven Spielberg
starring
Harrison Ford
Sean Connery
Dogfight
1991
dir. Nancy Savoca
starring
Phoenix
Lili Taylor
THE THING CALLED LOVE MOVIE POSTERThe Thing Called Love
1993
dir. Peter Bogdanovich
Starring
Samantha Mathis
Phoenix

Happy Birthday: David Chase

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davidchase.jpgDavid Chase

Born: August 22, 1945 in Mount Vernon, New York, USA

Network television is all talk. I think there should be visuals on a show, some sense of mystery to it, connections that don’t add up. I think there should be dreams and music and dead air and stuff that goes nowhere. There should be, God forgive me, a little bit of poetry.

I felt I was out of step with everything. I remember seeing Pretty Woman (1990) on an airplane. Everybody was laughing their heads off. “Ho-ho-ho!” It wasn’t funny to me, it wasn’t dramatic–it wasn’t anything. I thought, “Why don’t I just open the door and jump out?”

It wasn’t something I was really dying to hear, because my response in my head was: I don’t give a fuck – I hate television. But I wasn’t used to being talked to that way. – on his reaction to Brad Grey’s desire to sign him to a television deal.

MOVIE POSTERNOT FADE AWAY
dir. David Chase
Stars:
John Magaro
Will Brill

SOPRANOS SEASON 1Sopranos
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Happy Birthday: Ty Burrell

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tyburrell.jpgTy Burrell

Born: August 22, 1967 in Grants Pass, Oregon, USA

Married to: Holly Anne Brown (18 August 2000 – present) (2 children)

You know, I used to think I was a foodie, and then my wife went to culinary school and basically explained to me that I was just a guy that likes to eat.

My wife handles all of our technology. So if something goes wrong with the computer, I throw up my arms and step aside while the IT gal figures it out.

BUTTER
dir. Jim Field Smith
Stars:
Jennifer Garner
Yara Shahidi		 MORNING GLORYMORNING GLORY
dir. Roger Michell
Stars:
Rachel McAdams
Harrison Ford

FAIR GAMEFAIR GAME
dir. Doug Liman
Stars:
Naomi Watts
Sean Penn		 The Incredible HulkThe Incredible Hulk
Directed by Louis Leterrier
Starring
Norton
Liv Tyler
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
Directed by Jon Turteltaub
Starring
Cage
Jon Voight		 IN GOOD COMPANYIn Good Company
2004
dir. Paul Weitz
Cast
Dennis Quaid
Topher Grace
MOVIE POSTERDAWN OF THE DEAD
2004
dir. by Zack Snyder
Stars:
Sarah Polley
Ving Rhames		 BLACK HAWK DOWNBlack Hawk Down
2001
dir. Scott
Starring
Ewan McGregor
Josh Harnett
MOVIE POSTERMUPPETS MOST WANTED
2014
dir. James Bobin
Stars:
Tina Fey
Ricky Gervais		 MOVIE POSTERMR. PEABODY & SHERMAN
2013
dir. Rob Minkoff
Stars:
Ty Burrell
Max Charles
actorDAMAGES Season 2
Starring:
Timothy Olyphant
Marcia Gay Harden

 

Happy Birthday: James Corden

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jamescorden.jpgJames Corden

Born: August 22, 1978 in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England, UK

Married to: Julia Carey (15 September 2012 – present) (2 children)

[on a memory of getting his first laugh] I was three and it was during my younger sister’s christening and I was lifted up to stand on a chair so I could see. I looked out at the congregation of about thirty or forty people, bu to me it seemed like thousands. And I started to do little dances on the chair and pull faces and turn around under my legs – and everyone burst out laughing. Even the vicar was laughing. And I can vividly remember something clicked and thinking, This feels amazing!

ONE CHANCE
2014
dir. David Frankel

MOVIE POSTERTHE THREE MUSKETEERS
dir. Paul W.S. Anderson
Stars:
Logan Lerman
Matthew Macfadyen
STARTER FOR 10
2006
dir. Tom Vaughan
Stars:
James McAvoy
Alice Eve