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Turning 56 Today: Dina Meyer. Happy Birthday

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FRIENDS — “The One with the Tiny T-Shirt” Episode 19 — Pictured: (l-r) Dina Meyer as Kate Miller, Matt LeBlanc as Joey Tribbiani (Photo by Gary Null/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)

Born
December 22 · Queens, New York City, New York, USA

Trained for three years, with Ron Stetson, at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York.

Grew up in Dix Hills, Long Island, New York.

Nickname assigned to her by childhood friend: Melon Seed.

Turning 31 Today: Meghan Trainor. Happy Birthday

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Born
December 22, 1993 · Nantucket, Massachusetts, USA

Birth name
Meghan Elizabeth Trainor

Spouse

Daryl Sabara
(December 22, 2018 – present) (2 children)

QUOTES:

In high school, I didn’t date awesome dudes.

I’m definitely bigger than a Rihanna. Pop stars nowadays are all perfect Barbie-doll bodies, and they talk about how they keep their bodies up with hard work, so in my eyes, it’s good to have a regular, average body type in the charts.
Since my father is a musician as well, he taught me growing up that if you can play jazz, you can learn all instruments and write on them. He wanted me to be a songwriter that can do anything in any genre. I’m all about doing every genre.

I’m from a little island off of Massachusetts, Nantucket. It’s hard getting into the music business from there, but my parents took me to songwriting festivals because I would write and produce my own music.

I don’t read books. I read ‘On the Road’ in high school, and that was awesome, so I guess that’s my favorite book. ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ even though I didn’t read it, that’s the greatest story. SparkNotes came in when I was in high school, and that was the greatest invention.

Turning 77 Today: Ray Romano. Happy Birthday

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Born
December 21, 1957 · Queens, New York City, New York, USA

Birth name
Raymond Albert Romano

Spouse
Anna Romano(October 11, 1987 – present) (4 children)

QUOTES:

Everyone should have kids. They are the greatest joy in the world. But they are also terrorists. You’ll realize this as soon as they’re born, and they start using sleep deprivation to break you.

It seems to be a common denominator with a lot of comics, this low self-esteem thing.

Right after ‘Raymond’ I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don’t like oysters. I had this existential emptiness.’What is my purpose? Who am I?’ I had a big identity crisis.

[on celebrity golf fundraisers] I get asked to do a lot of these, and I can’t do ’em all, but I do as many as I can, and especially the ones where there’s a personal connection. And with this one, my wife is doing fine because of a lot of the people who are here today.

Turning 76 Today: Samuel L. Jackson. Happy Birthday

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Born December 21, 1948 · Washington D.C., USA Birth name Samuel Leroy Jackson Spouse LaTanya Richardson Jackson(August 18, 1980 – present) (1 child) QUOTES: [When asked about his character in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999)] “He’s black.” [on the subject of his character’s inevitable death in Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005)] “I don’t mind dying, I just don’t wanna go out like some punk.” People mistake me for Laurence Fishburne all the time. And he always gets mistaken for me. (And why not? We’ve both starred in Spike Lee movies, haven’t we?) Even when we’re standing together, people have called him by my name and me by his. A woman recently ran up to him and said, ‘My daughter loved you in Pulp Fiction (1994)! Could she have your autograph?’ So he signed it, ‘Respectfully yours, Samuel Jackson.’

Turning 58 Today: Kiefer Sutherland. Happy Birthday

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Born
December 21, 1966 · Paddington, London, England, UK

Birth name
Kiefer William Frederick Dempsey George Rufus Sutherland

Spouses

Kelly Winn (June 29, 1996 – May 19, 2004) (divorced)
Camelia Lynne (September 12, 1987 – February 1, 1990) (divorced, 1 child)

QUOTES:

There are two kinds of event in rodeo and bull riding’s one of the roughstock events. I was into immobilising cows myself.

On his 1990s career: You could say I was not on everybody’s first list to do the bigger films. Luckily, other opportunities have come along.

(on the much-hyped broken engagement to Julia Roberts) You can’t do all these interviews about how wonderful you both are and then when it falls apart six days before your wedding not expect people to have a shot at you. I know Julia and I unwittingly asked for it.

Turning 87 Today: Jane Fonda. Happy Birthday

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Spouses Ted Turner(December 21, 1991 – May 22, 2001) (divorced) Tom Hayden(January 19, 1973 – June 10, 1990) (divorced, 2 children) Roger Vadim(August 14, 1965 – January 16, 1973) (divorced, 1 child) QUOTES: I don’t know if I was set up or not. I was an adult. I take responsibility for my actions . . . These soldiers sang a song; I sang a song in feeble Vietnamese. Everyone was laughing. I was led to a gun site and I sat down. And I was laughing and clapping, and there were pictures taken . . . I understand the anger about that. I would have given up acting in a minute. I didn’t like how it set me apart from other people. When I start down a path that I know is the right path, I go with all of me. I’m a very brave person. I can go to North Vietnam, I can challenge my government, but I can’t challenge the man I’m with if means I’m going to end up alone. It’s hard to imagine a happy ending to the US-led war in Iraq. What’s it going to mean for stability as a nation, for terrorism, for the economy I can’t imagine. I think the entire world is going to be united against us. Ted Turner needs someone to be there 100 percent of the time. He thinks that’s love. It’s not love. It’s babysitting.

Turning 27 Today: Madelyn Cline. Happy Birthday

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WEST HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA – FEBRUARY 25: Madelyn Cline attends the premiere of Netflix’s “I Am Not Okay With This” at The London West Hollywood on February 25, 2020 in West Hollywood, California. (Photo by Charley Gallay/Getty Images for Netflix)

Born

December 21 · Charleston, South Carolina, USA

Turning 28 Today: Kaitlyn Dever

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QUOTES:

  • I would have to say that I have to concentrate more when I’m doing comedy. There are so many details that make up any character, but developing a character for a dramatic role seems to come more naturally.
  • It’s really important that people know about it and the issue in schools because it happens every day to people and it really hurts when people get bullied.
  • When someone is bullying you, don’t let it get to you. I remember my friends in school, someone said something mean to them, and they really let it get to them. And it really affected them. But I would just say try to ignore it as much as possible and just be yourself.
  • Last Man Standing (2011) is overall a lot of comedy. And I love doing that.

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.