Year: 2024

Turning 54 Today: Director Todd Phillips. Happy Birthday

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Born
December 20, 1970 · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Birth name
Todd Bunzl

QUOTES:

[ on Ed Helms] It’s been said comedy is not action, it’s reaction, and Ed is the KIng of Reaction. Ed, when he wakes up and sees his tattoo on his face or his tooth is missing, or at the end of the movie – no one does reaction better than Ed. He’s the unsung hero of these movies.

The worst thing you can do as a comedy director is be on set and think of something ridiculous, or an actor comes up to you with something ridiculous, and you say ‘No, no that’s too much.’ Let’s not worry if that’s too much, let’s shoot it, and then decide if that’s too much when we see it.

You know, if I started worrying about what the critics think, I’d never make another comedy. You couldn’t pick a less funny group than critics – you couldn’t find a more bitter group of people!

To be honest with you, since ‘Ocean’s 11,’ ‘The Hangover’ has become a movie that defines Vegas. Anybody in Vegas will tell you that and I’m proud of it. I love that. I think ‘Hangover’ does Vegas right and I think that not only, as you said, it’s the top-grossing R-rated comedy of all-time, it’s also the top-grossing about Vegas or set in Vegas.

Turning 41 Today. Jonah Hall. Happy Birthday

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Born
December 20, 1983 · Los Angeles, California, USA

Birth name
Jonah Hill Feldstein

QUOTES:

It’s harder to be funny if you’re handsome than if you’re very normal-looking. It’s just more relatable. You’re the underdog. I mean it’s funny to see people struggle, and you don’t buy that Brad Pitt is struggling, you know that guy could be the most skill-less guy in the world, but if you look like that you will be fine for the rest of your life.

[on Henry Winkler and their family at Zoe Winkler’s wedding] I spent 48 percent of my youth here..They were like parents to all of our friends. We got parents and then we got the Winklers. I feel like my sister’s getting married.
I despise common people. They make me throw up.

Turning 54 Today: Nicole de Boer. Happy Birthday

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Born
December 20 · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Spouse
John Kastner(December 18, 1999 – 2012) (divorced, 1 child)

Has starred in two different science fiction series co-created by Michael Piller in which her character was part of a love triangle: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993) and The Dead Zone (2002).

Turning 72 Today: Jenny Agutter. Happy Birthday

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Born
December 20, 1952 · Taunton, Somerset, England, UK

Birth name
Jennifer Ann Agutter

Spouse
Johan Tham(August 4, 1990 – present) (1 child)

QUOTES:

[on living and working in Los Angeles] Los Angeles is like a desert. The only thing that exists is the work you do. You have that sense of living a precarious existence.

To make films is as boring as watching paint dry. You usually have to do tiny bits here and there. You go off waiting for lighting, you come back – the energy dies. You hope you can find someone who can keep it going.

[on an older nun who looked after Agutter’s ill mother] I once asked her how she coped with difficulties and she looked at me very quizzically and said: “You just get on with it.” Difficult times were not something that got in the way, they were simply something that happened. Sometimes there was happiness, sometimes there was sadness and you dealt with whatever you had at that time. I think Sister Julienne and the nuns at Nonnatus would have felt something similar to that.

[being nude in films] It’s not an issue with me. The exploitation of it is. You can end up naked in places you don’t want to. That shocks me. Doing it doesn’t shock me.

Turning 69 Today: Joyce Hyser. Happy Birthday

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Born
December 20, 1955 · New York City, New York, USA

QUOTES:

[Interview, 2005] My life changed after Just One of the Guys (1985). People stopped looking at my face and looked at my chest instead.

[on how the movie Just One of the Guys (1985) was more than your average high school comedy] Although it may be cloaked in a silly teenage romp, I was absolutely drawn to this project because of its subversive gender identity messages (for both young men and young women). The film actually operates on so many different levels and deals with so many teenage issues from homophobia to the pressure that is put on kids to conform to a certain ideal, that it always surprised me that at the time of its release, it was not really judged for the sum of all its parts.

Turning 34 Today: JoJo. Happy Birthday

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Born
December 20, 1990 · Brattleboro, Vermont, USA

Birth name
Joanna Noëlle Levesque

QUOTES:

I’m not Britney mark two. It’s unfair that people compare us. I guess we are both young artists but we’re totally different.

I’m not trying to be like the cleanest person who’s, like, never gonna show her stomach or anything, but I think I’m real for real girls.

“I like a guy who can survive the streets. I like to feel like if I were ever in trouble, he would help me. I like to feel like a guy is a real dude-dude”.

[on her experience in school]: “I got along with some people, but a lot of kids disliked me in school. I’d be doing TV since I was six, and I think they thought that I thought I was better than them. That was never the case—I didn’t even talk about TV in school! I’d be walking down the hall, and they would yell at me or push me into the wall. It really hurt. So I was afraid to go to school. I would stay in the guidance counselor’s office for lunch, just because I didn’t feel like I had a place.”

SUPERMAN Movie. Watch the New Trailer

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The SUPERMAN trailer was JUST dropped. Watch now:

The new ‘Superman’ film has a brand new trailer and you can watch it below.
The film, directed by James Gunn, sees David Corenswet take on the role of the iconic Superhero.

Today’s Short Story Festival: MYSTERY Festival

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Submit your MYSTERY short story to the festival here, and we will automatically have it performed by a professional actor and turned into a promotional video for yourself.

Submit your short story on the submission page: https://crimemysteryfestival.com/mystery-short-story/

Accept only stories that fit into the mystery genre. A mystery story is a type of fiction that involves a crime or other event that remains a mystery until the end of the story. The main character, often a detective, works to solve the mystery by: finding clues, examining motives, identifying suspects, and using logical deduction.

Today’s Screenplay Festival: FANTASY/SCI-FI Festival

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Get your screenplay performed by professional actors at the Fantasy/Sci-Fi Festival.

Submit on the submission page: https://fantasyscififestival.com/

The Fastest Growing FANTASY/SCI-FI Festival and Contest in the World today!

– 0ffers screenwriters at all levels the fantastic opportunity to hear their stories read aloud using TOP PROFESSIONAL ACTORS (see below for recent performance readings).

– No matter what happens, you will receive full feedback on your work by our established committee. No other place in the world will you get coverage for the price you pay.

– Even if you’re just looking for feedback of your work, this is the festival for you.

– It’s there for all to see. The proof is in the viewership. These videos garner 1000s of views online. Some of the screenplay readings are more popular than actual studio films made!

– We specialize in showcasing Horror stories and making sure that when the work is ready, the writer will benefit by at least obtaining a solid agent.