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Happy Birthday: Sheri Moon Zombie

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sherimoonzombie.jpgSheri Moon Zombie

Born: September 26, 1970 in San Jose, California, USA

Married to: Rob Zombie (31 October 2002 – present)

[on her 31 (2016) character]: Charly is totally a victim in this movie and she’s only doing everything out of the instinct to survive, like Heidi in The Lords of Salem (2012). I think it shows that everyone has that in them and they can come out. It’s kill or be killed.

THE LORDS OF SALEM
2013
dir. Rob Zombie
Stars:
Meg Foster
Bruce Davison

 

Halloween 2
dir. Rob Zombie
Starring
Scout Taylor-Compton
Tyler Mane
HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSESHouse of 1000 Corpses
2003
dir. Rob Zombie
Cast
Chad Bannon
William Bassett
MOVIE POSTERHALLOWEEN
2007
dir. by Rob Zombie
Stars:
Scout Taylor Compton
Malcolm McDowell

 

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Died Today (September 25th): Andy Williams (1927–2012)

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andywilliams Andy Williams (1927–2012)

Born: December 3, 1927 in Wall Lake, Iowa, USA
Died: September 25, 2012 (age 84) in Branson, Missouri, USA

[Williams, an ultra-conservative Republican, replying to a question about US President Barack Obama] Don’t like him at all. I think he wants to create a socialist country. The people he associates with are very left-wing. One is registered as a Communist [a rumor at the time that turned out be false]. Obama is following Marxist theory. He’s taken over the banks and the car industry. He wants the country to fail.

[on his support of ex-wife Claudine Longet after she shot to death her lover, skier Spider Sabich, in 1976] I had to be there for her. She is the mother of my children. And we never stopped being friends. I still accept her story that the shooting was accidental. Bing Crosby’s wife once told me that she was amazed that I had taken so much trouble to help Claudine after we divorced. I said that anybody would have done the same thing, and she said, “Bing wouldn’t.” I think she meant that Bing was a very rigid guy, and once you had screwed up, you were off his list. Well, that’s not the kind of guy I am.

 

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Died Today (September 25th): Walter Pidgeon (1897–1984)

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walterpidgeon.jpgWalter Pidgeon (1897–1984)

Born: September 23, 1897 in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
Died: September 25, 1984 (age 87) in Santa Monica, California, USA

I was called to [Louis B. Mayer]’s office to discuss a long-term contract he wanted me to sign. He told me he had been impressed by my work at other studios and that he felt I would be an asset to MGM. He peered at me over his glasses and suggested I tell him about myself. I started by saying I came from New Brunswick. “That’s in Canada”, I added. “I know where New Brunswick is”, said Mayer rather snippy. “Where in New Brunswick were you born?” “Saint John”, I replied. Mayer jumped to his feet and thumped on his desk. “Young man”, he shouted, “you can’t influence me with lies like that. Who told you to say you came from Saint John?” Finally I quietened him down and convinced him I really was from Saint John. I had to tell him where half-a-dozen streets and buildings were that he remembered. But I left his office with a contract for much more money than I expected and we were friends until the day he died.

 

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Died Today (September 25th): Mary Astor (1906–1987)

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maryastor Mary Astor

Born: Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke
May 3, 1906 in Quincy, Illinois, USA

Died: September 25, 1987 (age 81) in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA

Married to:

Thomas Gordon Wheelock (24 December 1945 – 30 August 1955) (divorced)

Manuel del Campo (18 February 1937 – 15 December 1942) (divorced) (1 child)

Dr. Franklyn Thorpe (29 June 1931 – 12 April 1935) (divorced) (1 child)

Kenneth Hawks (24 February 1928 – 2 January 1930) (his death)

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Don Juan
1926
dir. Alan Crosland
starring
John Barrymore
Astor
DodsworthDodsworth
1936
dir. Wiliam Wyler
starring
Walter Huston
Astor
The Maltese FalconThe Maltese Falcon
1941
dir. John Huston
starring
Humphrey Bogart
Astor

 

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Happy Birthday: David Benioff

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davidbenioff.jpgDavid Benioff

Born: September 25, 1970 in New York City, New York, USA

Married to: Amanda Peet (30 September 2006 – present) (3 children)

[on the ‘Game of Thrones’ series] Wiser network heads might have said ‘You can’t kill Sean Bean nine episodes into your show’. Guess what? The lead dies. That’s why HBO is HBO. They break all the rules.

While working on Game of Thrones, he and co-creator D. B. Weiss worked all through the year, non stop. They would write an outline for each season and then started writing the actual scripts while managing production at the same time. The scripts had to be all done by the time they started filming the season, and as the large production it is they were filming for months with several units in several countries at the same time, while they did re-writings of parts of the scripts and made perfections. They also made sure there’s always a man from the writing crew at one of the filming units, to supervise. Almost immediately after finishing filming, they started writing the outline for the next season. At the same time, the previous season was in post production phases like editing and sound mixing, and they had to oversee all these procedures while writing, and later deal with marketing of the upcoming season as well. David and Dan would occasionally say in interviews that all they want to do once they finish with the show is to “get some sleep”.

 

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Happy Birthday: Aida Turturro

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aidaturturro.jpgAida Turturro

Born: September 25, 1962 in New York City, New York, USA

She was a long-time friend of her The Sopranos (1999) co-star James Gandolfini. In addition to their work on this hit show, they appeared in three feature films together: Angie (1994), Fallen (1998) and Romance & Cigarettes (2005), and have co-starred in a 1992 Broadway revival of “A Streetcar Named Desire”, which also starred Jessica Lange and Alec Baldwin.

SOPRANOS SEASON 2Sopranos
Season 2
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Sopranos
Season 5
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BRINGING OUT THE DEADBringing out the Dead
1999
dir. Martin Scorsese
Starring
Cage
Patricia Arquette		 MOVIE POSTERCELEBRITY
1998
dir. Woody Allen
Stars:
Leonardo DiCaprio
Kenneth Branagh
MOVIE POSTERFADING GIGOLO
2014
dir. John Turturro
Stars:
Sofia Vergara
Sharon Stone

SOPRANOS SEASON 3Sopranos
Season 3
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Happy Birthday: Tate Donovan

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tatedonovan.jpgTate Donovan

Born: September 25, 1963 in Tenafly, New Jersey, USA

When I told everybody I was doing Hercules (1997), they felt really sorry for me. They thought I was so down on my luck that I was having to do extra work on the TV series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (1995).

ARGO
dir. Ben Affleck
Stars:
Ben Affleck
Bryan Cranston		 MOVIE POSTERBest of DECEPTION TV show
TV POSTER24: LIVE ANOTHER DAY
Stars:
Kiefer Sutherland
Yvonne Strahovski
NANCY DREW
dir. Andrew Fleming
Ryan Fleck
Cast
Emma Roberts		 actorDAMAGES Season 2
Starring:
Timothy Olyphant
Marcia Gay Harden
tv POSTERHOSTAGES TV SHOW PILOT
2013
Creators: Alon Aranya, Omri Givon,Rotem Shamir		 SHOOTERShooter
2007
dir. Antoine Fuqua
Starring
Mark Wahlberg
Danny Glover
actorDAMAGES Season 3
Starring:
Martin Short
Tate Donovan		 actorDAMAGES Best of the Show
Created by
Glenn Kessler
Todd A. Kessler
Daniel Zelman
Good Night and Good Luck
2005
dir. Clooney
starring
David Strathairn
Jeff Daniels		 actorDAMAGES Season 1
Starring:
Glenn Close
Rose Byrne
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Happy Birthday: Pedro Almodóvar

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pedroalmodovar.jpgPedro Almodóvar

Born: September 25, 1949 in Calzada de Calatrava, Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain

[2016 interview] Reality always filters through into my films, even when I try to reject it. It finds a crack to seep in through. The climate of the last four years in Spain has been of enormous unhappiness and even though I haven’t personally suffered from the harshness of the economic situation, I’m surrounded by people who have. I don’t think Julieta (2016) is a metaphor for Spain today but it’s no accident that my 80s films were much happier.

VOLVER
2006
dir. Pedro Almodovar
Stars:
Penelope Cruz
PEDRO ALMODOVAR
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Happy Birthday: Michael Madsen

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michaelmadsenMichael Madsen

Born: September 25, 1958 in Chicago, Illinois, USA

Married to:
DeAnna Madsen (15 April 1996 – present) (3 children)

[2004] Maybe I was just born in the wrong era, man. I’m a bit of a throwback to the days of black-and-white movies. Those guys back then, they had a certain kind of directness about them. A lot of the screenplays, the plots were very simplistic – they gave rise to a type of anti-hero that maybe I suit better.

L.A. Confidential (1997) was written with me in mind, but Russell Crowe got the part. Go figure.

LOOSIES
2012
dir. Michael Corrente
Stars:
Peter Facinelli
Jaimie Alexander
RESERVOIR DOGSReservoir Dogs
1992
dir. Quentin Tarantino
Starring
Harvey Keitel
Tim Roth
Steve Buscemi
Kill Bill: Volume 1
2003
dir. Tarantino
starring
Uma Thurmon
Lucy Lui
Vivica A Fox		 KILL BILL VOLUME 2Kill Bill: Volume 2
2004
dir. Tarantino
starring
Uma Thurman
David Carradine
posterCHASING GHOSTS
2005
dir. Kyle Dean Jackson
starring
Michael Madsen
Meat Loaf
Gary Busey		 MOVIE POSTERTHE NATURAL
1984
dir. Barry Levinson
Stars:
Robert Redford
Robert Duvall
TV POSTER24 SEASON 8
Reviews of every episode		 24Best of 24 TV show
MOVIE POSTERSIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR
2013
dir. Frank Miller
Robert Rodriguez
Stars:
Clive Owen		 MOVIE POSTERSCARY MOVIE 4
2006
dir. David Zucker
Stars:
Anna Faris
Regina Hall
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Happy Birthday: Christopher Reeve (1952–2004)

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christopherreeve.jpgChristopher Reeve (1952–2004)

Born: September 25, 1952 in New York City, New York, USA
Died: October 10, 2004 (age 52) in Mount Kisco, New York, USA

Married to: Dana Reeve (11 April 1992 – 10 October 2004) (his death) (1 child)

[on the reshoots of Superman II (1980) after changing directors] It was usually done whenever a set doubled or we had a problem with expensive actors being available. I remember we did many scenes from the Daily Planet, if not all of them, while we were doing Part One. So those were pretty much in the bank. Gene Hackman, to the extent that he was in Part Two, was also done while he was around for Part One. I don’t remember that he came back again.

EVERYONE’S HERO
2006
dir. Christopher Reeve
Stars:
Jake T. Austin
Brian Denneh

Superman 2Superman 2
1980
dir. Richard Lester
Donner
starring
Christopher Reeve
Margot Kidder<		 SupermanSuperman
1978
dir. Donner
starring
Christopher Reeve
Margot Kidder
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