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Happy Birthday: Chris Penn (1965–2006)

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chrispennChris Penn (1965–2006)

Born: October 10, 1965 in Los Angeles, California, USA
Died: January 24, 2006 (age 40) in Santa Monica, California, USA

They offer me a lot more money to do something that was successful before than to take a risk. More power to the people who get to choose their roles. I don’t.

TRUE ROMANCE
1993
dir. Tony Scott
Cast:
Christian Slater
Patricia Arquette
Pale Rider
1985
dir. Eastwood
Starring
Eastwood
Michael Moriarty
movie posterALL THE RIGHT MOVES
1983
dir. Michael Chapman
Stars:
Tom Cruise
Lea Thompson
RESERVOIR DOGSReservoir Dogs
1992
dir. Quentin Tarantino
Starring
Harvey Keitel
Tim Roth
Steve Buscemi
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Happy Birthday: Bradley Whitford

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bradleywhitford.jpgBradley Whitford

Born: October 10, 1959 in Madison, Wisconsin, USA

[on if he’s felt typecast after “The West Wing”] You’re going to get typecast as whatever you do, but to be typecast as that guy who was complicated, passionate, funny, that’s fine. But yeah, people think you’re going to be a smart guy in a suit. But my God, what a wonderful experience. The only problem with it is it does spoil you; honestly, not to be pretentious but the creative experience, that kind of writing and those kinds of actors and directors and that arena, for God’s sake. What do you do after that? A show about a canning factory?

THE CABIN IN THE WOODS
dir. Drew Goddard
Stars:
Richard Jenkins
Bradley Whitford		 SCENT OF A WOMANScent of a Woman
1992
dir. Martin Brest
Starring
Pacino
Chris O’Donnell
BEST of THE WEST WING
Over 100 pages of BIOS and PICS		 MOVIE POSTERSAVING MR. BANKS
2013
dir. John Lee Hancock
Stars:
Emma Thompson
Tom Hanks
TV POSTERTHE WEST WING season 1
Created by Aaron Sorkin		 TV POSTERTHE WEST WING season 2
Created by Aaron Sorkin
TV POSTERTHE WEST WING season 3
Created by Aaron Sorkin		 TV POSTERTHE WEST WING season 4
Created by Aaron Sorkin
THE WEST WING season 5
Showrunner John Wells		 TV POSTERTHE WEST WING season 6
Showrunner John Wells		 TV POSTERTHE WEST WING season 7
Showrunner John Wells		 tv POSTERTROPHY WIFE TV SHOW PILOT
2013
Creators: Emily Halpern, Sarah Haskins
MOVIE POSTERPHILADELPHIA
1993
dir. Jonathan Demme
Stars:
Tom Hanks
Denzel Washington

KATE AND LEOPOLDKate and Leopold
2001
dir. James Mangold
starring
Hugh Jackman
Ryan
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Happy Birthday: Jodi Lyn O’Keefe

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jodilynokeefe.jpgJodi Lyn O’Keefe

Born: October 10, 1978 in Cliffwood Beach, New Jersey, USA

Best of PRISON BREAK
over 100 pages of the hit show!

She's All ThatShe’s All That
1999
dir. by Robert Iscove
starring
Freddie Prinze Jr.
Rachel Leigh Cook
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Happy Birthday: Charles Dance

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charlesdance.jpgCharles Dance

Born: October 10, 1946 in Redditch, Worcestershire, England, UK

[on certain scenes in the television series Game of Thrones (2011)] You saw all this violence and all this rumpy pumpy, and it’s all doggie-style. I said to [the executive producers] “Obviously, the missionary position didn’t come into vogue for a few years yet in the Seven Kingdoms”. And they said “We wanted it to be kind of animalistic, Charles” and I said, “Well, it’s certainly that”.

 

Gosford Park
2001
dir. Altman
Starring
Helen Mirren
Kristen Scott Thomas		 MOVIE POSTERUNDERWORLD AWAKENING
2012
dir. Måns Mårlind
Björn Stein
YOUR HIGHNESS
dir. David Gordon Green
Stars:
Danny McBride
Zooey Deschanel		 GAME OF THRONESBest of GAME OF THRONES
over 100 pages of the hit TV show!
moviesIRONCLAD
2011
dir. Jonathan English
Stars:
Paul Giamatti
Jason Flemyng		 GOSFORD PARKSwimming Pool
2003
dir. Francois Ozon
Cast:
Charlotte Rampling
Ludivine Sagnier
GAME OF THRONESBest of GAME OF THRONES season 2
Watch reviews		 MOVIE POSTERGAME OF THRONES season 3
2013
Created by David Benioff & D.B. Weiss
GAME OF THRONESBest of GAME OF THRONES season 1
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Happy Birthday: Wendi McLendon-Covey

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wendimclendoncovey.jpgWendi McLendon-Covey

Born: October 10, 1969 in Bellflower, California, USA

Married to: Greg Covey (10 August 1996 – present)

On young actresses and the pressure to be thin: “Well, first you have to ask yourself if you want to be the kind of actress who’s interesting, or the kind of actress who’s meant to play the pretty-but-uninteresting wife of a chubby guy on a network sitcom. If you want to play the good roles, spend more time in in college and in acting class than you do in the gym, and you’ll have the career you want. Talent always wins out in the long run.”

WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU’RE EXPECTING
dir. Kirk Jones
Stars:
Cameron Diaz
Matthew Morrison		 tv POSTERTHE GOLDBERGS TV SHOW PILOT
2013
Creators: Adam F. Goldberg

 

MOVIE POSTERBLENDED
2014
dir. Frank Coraci
Stars:
Adam Sandler
Drew Barrymore		 MOVIE POSTERMAGIC MIKE
dir. Steven Soderbergh
Stars:
Channing Tatum
Alex Pettyfer
MOVIE POSTERTHINK LIKE A MAN TOO
2014
dir. Tim Story
Stars:
Kevin Hart
Garbrielle Union		 MOVIE POSTERCUBAN FURY
2014
dir. James Griffiths
Stars:
Nick Frost
Chris O’Dowd
bridesmaidsBRIDESMAIDS
dir. Paul Feig
Stars:
Kristen Wiig
Maya Rudolph
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Happy Birthday: Rose McIver

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rosemciver.jpgRose McIver

Born: October 10, 1988 in Auckland, New Zealand

I always think about the settlers who moved to New Zealand in the 1800s. They hadn’t even been to the place before. They just packed their bags and shipped over knowing they’d never see their family again or be able to speak to them – they’d maybe get a letter if they were lucky.

Master of Sex Reviews of Every Episode
THE LOVELY BONES Movie PosterThe Lovely Bones
dir. Peter Jackson
Stars:
Rachel Weisz
Wahlberg
Saoirse Ronan

TV POSTERMASTER OF SEX Season 1
2011
Starring Michael Sheen
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Happy Birthday: Manu Bennett

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manubennett.jpgManu Bennett

Born: October 10, 1969 in Rotorua, New Zealand

[on attending a boarding school for Maori boys in New Zealand.] It was like being sent to gladiator school. Like prison. The only things people respected were strength, being good at rugby, and being able to hold your own in a fight.

THE MARINE
2006
dir. John Bonito
Stars:
John Cena
Kelly Carlson
ARROW
Review of the comic book action series

MOVIE POSTERTHE HOBBIT: The Desolation of Smaug
2013
dir. Peter Jackson		 MOVIE POSTERTHE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY
dir. Peter Jackson
Stars:
Martin Freeman
Ian McKellen

 

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Happy Birthday: Dan Stevens

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danstevens.jpgDan Stevens

Born: October 10, 1982 in Croydon, Surrey, England, UK

Married to: Susie Hariet (2009 – present) (2 children)

[on the controversy surrounding his leaving the ‘Downton Abbey’ cast to make ‘The Guest’] I couldn’t have sat down two years ago and said, ‘Okay, Julian Fellowes, what I really want to do is a twisted action thriller black comedy with horror elements. Preferably with an American accent’. That would have been insane and highly implausible. But as soon as the opportunity came along it seemed like a reality.

DOWNTON ABBEY Season 3
2012
Best of the series
Created by Julian Fellowes
DOWNTON ABBEY Season 1
2011
Created by Julian Fellowes		 TV POSTERDOWNTON ABBEY Season 2
2012
Created by Julian Fellowes
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Happy Birthday: Aimee Teegarden

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aimeeteegarden.jpgAimee Teegarden

Born: October 10, 1989 in Downey, California, USA

In 2007, Aimee Teegarden was the one who read the question, “Recent polls have shown a fifth of Americans can’t locate the US on a world map. Why do you think this is?” to Miss Teen USA 2007 contestant Caite Upton (Miss South Carolina Teen USA). The question became infamous when Ms. Upton botched the answer with a string of nonsensical and non-germane responses, and the resulting video became a popular Internet meme. Ms. Upton’s answer was: “I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uh, some, uh…people out there in our nation don’t have maps, and, uh, I believe that our education like such as South Africa and, uh, the Iraq everywhere like, such as and…I believe that they should, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., err, uh, should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future for our children”.

FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS Season 1
Starring:
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dir. Joe Nussbaum
Stars:
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Nicholas Braun
FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS SEASON 2FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS Season 2
Starring:
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Brad Leland		 scream 4SCREAM 4
dir. Wes Craven
Stars:
Neve Campbell
Courteney Cox
FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS SEASON 3FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS Season 3
Starring:
Minka Kelly
Jesse Plemons		 FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS SEASON 4FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS Season 4
Starring:
Michael B. Jordan
Jurnee Smollett-Bell
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Starring:
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Connie Britton
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FEEDBACK TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL – Highlights from the Thursday September 20 2016 event.

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The theme of the SCI-FI/FANTASY SEPTEMBER 2016 FILM FESTIVAL was:
“WHAT IS REALITY?”.

Every film showcased on the night was about characters dealing with another reality besides our own.

This was a fantastic lineup of Sci-Fi short films. I can’t remember a better lineup of films geared towards a specific genre that was better than this one. These shorts were so solid, they could have all easily played at any major festival in and around the world (and some of them have!). They were more than simply being a Sci-Fi film.

These were films that simply told an emotional tale of real human beings dealing with the circumstances and conflicts in their path. The setting just happened to be in the Science Fiction genre.

This was also the first time in over 50 festivals that one film (Uncanny Valley) swept all of the festival awards. “Uncanny Valley” is just a…

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