Happy Birthday: Mark Ruffalo

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markruffalo.jpgMark Ruffalo

Born: November 22, 1967 in Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA

Married to:
Sunrise Coigney (11 June 2000 – present) (3 children)

(2011, on his early struggling actor days) It was brutal. The years are stripping away, but when you’re talking to anyone from home, you’re saying something like, ‘Well, I’m just working on my craft right now,’ when the truth is that I can’t get a fucking job because no one will hire me. It was humiliating.

THE AVENGERS
2012
dir. Joss Whedon
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WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE Movie PosterWhere the Wild Things Are
dir. Jonze
Stars:
Max Records
Catherine O’Hara
Forest Whitaker
x-menEternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2004
dir. by Michel Gondry
Starring
Carrey
Kate Winslet
WHAT DOESN'T KILL YOU Movie PosterWhat Doesn’t Kill You
2009
dir. Brian Goodman
Starring
Mark Ruffalo
Ethan Hawke
Peet
ZODIACZodiac
2007
dir. Fincher
Starring
Jake Gyllenhaal
Mark Ruffalo
Robert Downey Jr.
THE BROTHERS BLOOMThe Brothers Bloom
dir…

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Happy Birthday: Jamie Lee Curtis

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jamieleecurtis.jpgJamie Lee Curtis

Born: November 22, 1958 in Los Angeles, California, USA

Married to:
Christopher Guest (18 December 1984 – present) (2 children)

[giving the commencement address to graduating students of New York Film Academy’s Los Angeles campus on June 8, 2013] This isn’t about a show. It’s about truth and integrity and honesty and communication, bravery and risk, and adjectives that should make you get out bed in the morning, excited to be what it is you choose to be.

[on her father Tony Curtis] He was not a father; he was not interested in being a father – and this is not a slam against him – he did what he had to do from a financial standpoint, which was honorable of him to do, but he wasn’t an involved father. Therefore, I look at him much more from the perspective of being a fan of him. I…

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Happy Birthday: Scarlett Johansson

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scarlettjohansson.jpgScarlett Johansson

Born: November 22, 1984 in New York City, New York, USA

Married to: Romain Dauriac (1 October 2014 – present) (1 child)
Ryan Reynolds (27 September 2008 – 1 July 2011) (divorced)

Everyone in Hollywood is so damn skinny and you constantly feel like you’re not skinny enough. But I have ‘fat days’ and I accept that I’m never going to be rail thin. It’s hard not to feel pressure in this industry and I already use anti-aging products on my skin. I try not to let the pressure get to me but Los Angeles is a very hard place to be unless you have people here that love you. It can be very, very lonely, and it can eat you up if you don’t take care of yourself.

GHOST WORLDGhost World
2001
dir. Terry Zwigoff
Starring
Steve Buscemi
Thora Birch
THE MAN WHO WASN'T THEREThe Man Who Wasn’t There
2001
dir. Joel…

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Happy Birthday: Mads Mikkelsen

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madsmikkelsen.jpgMads Mikkelsen

Born: November 22, 1965 in Østerbro, Copenhagen, Denmark

Married to:
Hanne Jacobsen (2 December 2000 – present) (2 children)

[his version of Hannibal Lecter] He loves fine art. He is a three-piece- suit man. He loves classical music. He hates everything that is banal. And he loves the beauty of everything that’s refined. He’s trying to make friends with people, so I can’t play that one card of being evil. It has to be hidden.

THE THREE MUSKETEERS
dir. Paul W.S. Anderson
Stars:
Logan Lerman
Matthew Macfadyen
movieAFTER THE WEDDING
2006
dir. Susanne Bier
Starring:
Mads Mikkelsen
Rolf Lassegard
CitizenKaneCasino Royale
2006
dir. by Martin Campbell
starring
Craig
Judi Dench
Clash of the Titans
dir. Louis Leterrier
Stars
Sam Worthington
Liam Neeson
movie posterVALHALLA RISING
2009
dir. Nicolas Winding Refn
Starring:
Mads Mikkelsen
Maarten Stevenson
MOVIE POSTERHANNIBAL season 1
2013
Created by Bryan Fuller
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Happy Birthday: Geraldine Page (1924–1987)

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geraldinepageGeraldine Page (1924–1987)

Born: November 22, 1924 in Kirksville, Missouri, USA
Died: June 13, 1987 (age 62) in New York City, New York, USA

Married to:
Rip Torn (1963 – 13 June 1987) (her death) (3 children)
Alexander Schneider (13 May 1954 – 1956) (divorced)

I didn’t want to be a Hollywood actress who every so often does a Broadway play. I wanted to be a Broadway actress who every so often does a movie.

 

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Happy Birthday: Rodney Dangerfield (1921–2004)

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rodneydangerfieldRodney Dangerfield (1921–2004)

Born: November 22, 1921 in Deer Park, Long Island, New York, USA
Died: October 5, 2004 (age 82) in Los Angeles, California, USA

Made 70 appearances on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962).

[in a 1986 interview, explaining the origin of his “no respect” routine] I had this joke: “I played hide and seek; they wouldn’t even look for me”. To make it work better, you look for something to put in front of it: “I was so poor, I was so dumb”, so this, so that. I thought, “Now what fits that joke?” Well, “No one liked me” was all right. But then I thought, “A more profound thing would be, ‘I get no respect!’ “.

Caddyshack
1980
dir. Ramis
starring
Bill Murray
Chevy Chase
Rodney Dangerfield
EASY MONEYEasy Money
1983
dir. James Signorelli
starring
Rodney Dangerfield
Joe Pesci
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Happy Birthday: Robert Vaughn (1932–2016)

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robertvaughn.jpgRobert Vaughn (1932–2016)

Born: November 22, 1932 in New York City, New York, USA
Died: November 11, 2016 (age 83)

Married to: Born: November 22, 1932 in New York City, New York, USA
Died: November 11, 2016 (age 83)

With a modest amount of looks and talent and more than a modicum of serendipity, I’ve managed to stretch my 15 minutes of fame into more than half a century of good fortune.

[on the effect his own life experiences contributed to Hustle (2004)] I’ve never tried to con anybody and no one’s ever tried to con me. Although, maybe they have and I just don’t know.

BASEKETBALL
1998
dir. David Zucker
Stars:
Trey Parker
Matt Stone
BULLITT
1974
dir. Peter Yates
Starring:
Steve McQueen
Robert Vaughn
Four ChristmasesFour Christmases
dir. Seth Gordon
Starring
Vaughn
Reece Witherspoon
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Died Today (November 22nd): C.S. Lewis (1898–1963)

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cs_lewis.jpgC.S. Lewis (1898–1963)

Born: November 29, 1898 in Belfast, Ireland [now in Northern Ireland], UK
Died: November 22, 1963 (age 64) in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK

Married to:
Helen Joy Davidman (23 April 1956 – 13 July 1960) (her death)

A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic – on the level with a man who says he is a poached egg – or he would be the devil of hell. You must take your choice. Either this was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He…

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Died Today (November 22nd): John F. Kennedy (1917–1963)

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johnfkennedyJohn F. Kennedy (1917–1963)

Born: May 29, 1917 in Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
Died: November 22, 1963 (age 46) in Dallas, Texas, USA

Married to: Jacqueline Kennedy (12 September 1953 – 22 November 1963) (his death) (4 children)

[6/26/63, speech in West Berlin, Germany] Two thousand years ago, the proudest boast was “Civis Romanus sum”. Today, in the world of freedom, the proudest boast is “Ich bin ein Berliner”. All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin, and, therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words “Ich bin ein Berliner!”.

I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed over our cities, we, too, will be remembered not for victories or defeats in battle or in politics but for our contributions to the human spirit.

 [6/10/63, in a commencement address] The United States, as the world knows, will never start a war. We…

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Died Today (November 22nd): Scatman Crothers (1910–1986)

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scatmancrothersBorn: Benjamin Sherman Crothers
May 23, 1910 in Terre Haute, Indiana, USA

Died: November 22, 1986 (age 76) in Van Nuys, California, USA

Married to: Helen Crothers (1937 – 22 November 1986) (his death) (1 child)

Read reviews of the best of the actor:

MOVIE POSTERTHE SHINING
1980
dir. by Stanley Kubrick
Stars:
Jack Nicholson
Shelley Duvall
One Flew OverOne Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
1975
dir. by Milos Foreman
starring
Nicholson
Louise Fletcher
The Transformers The MovieThe Transformers The Movie
1986
dir. Nelson Shin
Voices by:
Corey Burton
Orson Welles
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