Happy Birthday: George Raft (1901–1980)

georgeraft.jpgGeorge Raft (1901–1980)

Born: September 26, 1901 in New York City, New York, USA
Died: November 24, 1980 (age 79) in Los Angeles, California, USA

[In a 1936 interview, discussing former jobs before getting into the acting profession] My one ambition then was to drive a horse. So I got a job driving a delivery wagon for a large grocery company. I drove up and down Ninth avenue like I was daffy. I raced all the other delivery wagons. I gave all the boys rides. Deliveries were always late, customers complained, and I was fired.

SCARFACE
1932
dir. Howard Hawks
Richard Rosson
Stars:
Paul Muni
Boris Karloff

Some Like it HotSome Like it Hot
1959
dir. Wilder
Starring
Monroe
Jack Lemon
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Happy Birthday: Jill Soloway

jillsoloway.jpgJill Soloway

Born: September 26, 1965 in Chicago, Illinois, USA

Married to:
Bruce Gilbert (2011 – present) (1 child)

When I write, I lose time. I’m happy in a way that I have a hard time finding in real life. The intimacy between my brain and my fingers and my computer. . . . Yet knowing that that intimacy will find an audience . . . It’s very satisfying. It’s like having the safety of being alone with the ego reward of being known.

 

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Happy Birthday: Christina Milian

christinamilian.jpgChristina Milian

Born: September 26, 1981 in Jersey City, New Jersey, USA

When I go home, I still have to clean my room, I still have to do the dishes. We have somebody come every now and then to do that stuff, but my mom still makes me clean before she comes.

BAGGAGE CLAIM
2013
dir. David E. Talbert
Stars:
Paula Patton
Taye Diggs

MOVIE POSTERAMERICAN PIE
1999
dir. Chris Weitz
Paul Weitz
Stars
Jason Biggs
Eugene Levy

 

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Happy Birthday: Emma Rigby

emmarigby.jpgEmma Rigby

Born: September 26, 1989 in St. Helens, Merseyside, England, UK

A trained ballerina and dancer, she began her professional acting career full time at 14 on Chanel 4’s Hollyoaks. At 16, Emma also gained 9 A* grades at GCSE. She is now known for her work in The Physician,The Counselor and as The Red Queen on Abc’s Once Upon A Time In Wonderland.

MOVIE POSTERENDLESS LOVE
2014
dir. Shana Feste
Stars:
Gabriella Wilde
Alex Pettyfer

MOVIE POSTERTHE COUNSELOR
2013
dir. Ridley Scott
Stars:
Brad Pitt
Goran Visnjic

 

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Happy Birthday: Olivia Newton-John

olivianewtonjohn.jpgOlivia Newton-John

Born: September 26, 1948 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK

Married to: Amazon John Easterling (30 June 2008 – present)
Matt Lattanzi (15 December 1984 – 1995) (divorced) (1 child)

(explaining why she chose to go public with her breast cancer diagnosis, and forestall any press leaks) I am making this announcement myself, to save enquiring minds ninety-five cents.

 

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Happy Birthday: Linda Hamilton

lindahamilton.jpgLinda Hamilton

Born: September 26, 1956 in Salisbury, Maryland, USA

Married to: James Cameron (26 July 1997 – 16 December 1999) (divorced) (1 child)
Bruce Abbott (19 December 1982 – 28 December 1989) (divorced) (1 child)

On the development of the character Sarah Connor from the Terminator films: A woman who grows and transforms on screen is always a wonderful thing to play. Sarah went from a vulnerable, normal girl to someone who finds all of her deep reservoirs of strength and comes through it all.

The Terminator
1984
dir. James Cameron
Starring:
Schwarzenegger
Linda Hamilton
MOVIE POSTERCHILDREN OF THE CORN
1984
dir. by Fritz Kiersch
Stars:
Peter Horton
Linda Hamilton
TERMINATOR 2Terminator 2
1991
dir. James Cameron
starring
Schwarzenegger
Linda Hamilton

 

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Happy Birthday: Jim Caviezel

jimcaviezel.jpg Jim Caviezel

Born: September 26, 1968 in Mount Vernon, Washington, USA

Married to: Kerri Lyn Elizabeth Browitt (20 July 1996 – present) (3 children)

To prepare for this role, I went into my backyard swimming pool and practiced walking on water. – Talking about The Passion of the Christ (2004) on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992) (2004).

ED
1996
dir. Bill Couturie
Stars:
Matt LeBlanc
Jayne Brook
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The Passion of the Christ
2004
dir. Gibson
starring
Jim Caviezel
Maia Morgenstern
MOVIE POSTERDEJA VU
2006
dir. Tony Scott
Stars:
Denzel Washington
Paula Patton
movie posterTHE THIN RED LINE
1998
dir. Terrence Malick
Starring:
Nick Nolte
James Caviezel
MOVIE POSTERWHEN THE GAME STANDS TALL
2014
dir. Thomas Carter
Stars:Jim Caviezel
Alexander Ludwig
FREQUENCYFrequency
2000
dir. Gregory Hoblit
Cast
Quaid
James Caviezel,
MOVIE POSTERESCAPE PLAN
2013
dir. Mikael Hafstrom
Stars:
Sylvester Stallone
Arnold Schwarzenegger

 

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Happy Birthday: Sheri Moon Zombie

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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Happy Birthday: David Benioff

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

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.

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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

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