Happy Birthday: Jessica Stroup

jessicastroup.jpgJessica Stroup

Born: October 23, 1986 in Anderson, South Carolina, USA

She originally auditioned for the role of Annie in 90210, but believes she wasn’t Midwestern enough. Jessica was driving home from the grocery store when she found out she got the part of Silver. She was so excited that she almost got pulled over.

TED
dir. Seth MacFarlane
Stars:
Mark Wahlberg
Mila Kunis
THE INFORMERS Movie PosterThe Informers
2009
dir. Gregor Jordan
Starring
Billy Bob Thornton
Mickey Rourke
Kim Basinger
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THIS CHRISTMAS
2007
dir. Preston A. Whitmore II
Starring
Delroy Lindo
Regina King

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Takers Movie PosterProm Night
dir. Nelson McCormick
Starring
Brittany Snow
Scott Porter
THE HILLS HAVE EYES IIThe Hills Have Eyes II
2007
dir. Martin Weisz
Starring
Michael McMillian
Jessica Stroup
Written by Craven
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Happy Birthday: Johnny Carson (1925–2005)

johnnycarson.jpgJohnny Carson (1925–2005)

Born: October 23, 1925 in Corning, Iowa, USA
Died: January 23, 2005 (age 79) in Los Angeles, California, USA

Married to:
Alexandra (Alexis) Maas (20 June 1987 – 23 January 2005) (his death)
Joanna Carson (30 September 1972 – 30 August 1985) (divorced)
Joanne Carson (17 August 1963 – 21 June 1972) (divorced)
Joan Morrill (Jody) Wolcott (1 October 1949 – 25 May 1963) (divorced) (3 children)

I’m often asked, “What is your favorite moment during the 30 years you hosted [“The Tonight Show”]?” I really don’t have just one. The times I enjoyed the most were the spontaneous, unplanned segments that just happened, like Ed Ames’ infamous “Tomahawk Toss” that produced one of the longest laughs in television history. When these lucky moments happen, you just go with them and enjoy the experience and high of the moment.

[asked why he didn’t keep the controversial edge that his predecessor Jack Paar has brought to The Tonight Show] I think that shows that have gone in just for controversy, to bring on two people of opposing view is very easy night after night. It’s easier to that kind of show then it is to get laughs.

 

 

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Happy Birthday: Michael Crichton (1942–2008)

michaelcrichton.jpgMichael Crichton (1942–2008)

Born: October 23, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
Died: November 4, 2008 (age 66) in Los Angeles, California, USA

Married to: Sherri Alexander (May 2005 – 4 November 2008) (his death) (1 child)
Anne-Marie Martin (1987 – 2002) (divorced) (1 child)
Suzanne Childs (22 October 1981 – 30 December 1983) (divorced)
Kathy St. Johns (31 December 1978 – 5 September 1980) (divorced)
Joan Radam (1 January 1965 – 1970) (divorced)

I went to a museum and they had this sideshow. There was a little boy who couldn’t have been more than six. His feet didn’t even touch the ground. Each time they showed a dinosaur he would shout, “Tyrannosaurus!” “Stegosaurus!”. He did that for an hour and I thought, “What is it about dinosaurs that’s so fascinating?” That’s when I decided to write “Jurassic Park”.

 

 

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Happy Birthday: Ryan Reynolds

ryanreynolds.jpgRyan Reynolds

Born: October 23, 1976 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Married to: Blake Lively (9 September 2012 – present) (1 child)
Scarlett Johansson (27 September 2008 – 1 July 2011) (divorced)

As an actor, you’re always kind of cognizant that you’ll never work again. You always have this lizard-brain fear, always, just under the surface, that this is it. Because you see it. I’ve been fortunate enough to have a 23-year career so far. I’ve watched people come and go and vanish. I’ve watched really talented people never get that invaluable foothold into the industry. So you’re always walking that tightrope of being very grateful that you’re in this position.

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2006
dir. Joe Carnahan
starring
Reynolds
Ray Liotta
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dir. Martin Campbell
Stars:
Ryan Reynolds
Blake Lively
X-MEN WOLVERINEX-Men Origins: Wolverine
2009
dir. Gavin Hood
also starring
Hugh Jackman
Liev Schreiber
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dir. David Dobkin
Stars:
Jason Bateman
Ryan Reynolds
ADVENTURELANDAdventureland
2009
dir. Greg Mottola
also starring
Jesse Eisenberg
Kristen Stewart
movie posterJUST FRIENDS
2005
dir. Roger Kumble
Starring:
Ryan Reynolds
Amy Smart
THE PROPOSALThe Proposal
2009
dir. Anne Fletcher
also starring
Sandra Bullock
Mary Steenburgen
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dir. Daniel Espinosa
Stars:
Denzel Washington
Ryan Reynolds
MOVIE POSTERR.I.P.D.
2013
dir. Robert Schwentke
Stars:
Ryan Reynolds
Jeff Bridges
MOVIE POSTERTHE CROODS
2013
dir. Kirk De Micco
Chris Sanders
Stars:
Nicolas Cage
Ryan Reynolds
MOVIE POSTERTHE CAPTIVE
2014
dir. Atom Egoyan
Stars:
Ryan Reynolds
Scott Speedman
MOVIE POSTERTURBO
2013
dir. David Soren
Stars:
Ryan Reynolds
Paul Giamatti

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Happy Birthday: Emilia Clarke

emiliaclarke.jpgEmilia Clarke

Born: October 23, 1986 in London, England, UK

[on her Game of Thrones (2011) character] I felt for Daenerys. I felt for her situation as a woman. Being in such a male-dominated society, where she was being abused by the men around her–it was that sort of sympathy, I suppose it started off as that. But then as you track her story, the problems that she overcomes and the way that she deals with them with such grace and the way that she deals with them when she has no training. The only thing that she has is herself and her iron will–that’s just a fabulous, incredible side to her character, really. And the fact that you watch her fall in love. You know, she meets the man that she loves more than anything else. She goes through painful events but she is still this strong, independent woman. And I think that, as a female, is what I really connected with.

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2014
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Happy Birthday: Jan de Bont

jandebont.jpgJan de Bont

Born: October 22, 1943 in Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands

After the huge success of his directorial debut, Speed (1994), Tri-Star offered him their American version of Godzilla (1998). He obtained a script and worked out a budget. Tri-Star rejected the submitted budget (reportedly over $160,000,000) and De Bont left the project which was temporarily shelved.

Was originally set to direct Minority Report (2002), but Steven Spielberg sacked him and took over as director, probably due to the failure of The Haunting (1999).

Speed
1994
dir. Bont
starring
Keannu Reeves
Dennis Hopper
Sandra Bullock
Die Hard
1988
dir. John McTiernan
starring
Bruce Willis
Reginald VelJohnson
LETHAL WEAPON 3Lethal Weapon 3
1992
dir. Richard Donner
Starring
Mel Gibson
Danny Glover
The Haunting 1999The Haunting
1999
dir Bont
starring
Lili Taylor
Owen Wilson
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Happy Birthday: Bill Condon

billcondon.jpgBill Condon

Born: October 22, 1955 in New York City, New York, USA

[on Julian Assange, the central character in his film ‘The Fifth Estate’] He’s clever. He conflates anything that might be critical of him as an attack on WikiLeaks. But he may be surprised at how even-handed a portrait it is. Nobody set out to make some kind of hit job. We want to understand what makes him tick. I came to admire him in many ways.

 

 

THE TWILIGHT SAGA BREAKING DAWN PART 1
dir. Bill Condon
Stars:
Kristen Stewart
Robert Pattinson
MOVIE POSTERTHE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN PART 2
dir. Bill Condon
MOVIE POSTERDREAMGIRLS
2006
dir. Bill Condon
Stars:
Beyonce
Jamie Foxx
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Happy Birthday: Joan Fontaine (1917–2013)

joanfontaineJoan Fontaine (1917–2013)

Born: October 22, 1917 in Tokyo, Japan
Died: December 15, 2013 (age 96) in Carmel, California, USA

[on working with Orson Welles on Jane Eyre (1943)] You can not battle an elephant. Orson was such a big man in every way that no one could stand up to him. On the first day at 4 o’clock, he strode in followed by his agent, a dwarf, his valet and a whole entourage. Approaching us, he proclaimed, “All right, everybody turn to page eight.” And we did it, though he was not the director.

 

The Women
1939
dir. George Cukor
Starring
Norma Shearer
Joan Crawford
Rosalind Russell
SuspicionSuspicion
1942
dir. by Alfred Hitchcock
starring
Cary Grant
Fontaine
RebeccaRebecca
1940
dir. by Alfred Hitchcock
Starring
Laurence Olivier
Fontaine
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Happy Birthday: Catherine Deneuve

catherinedeneuve.jpgCatherine Deneuve

Born: October 22, 1943 in Paris, France

I’m not always the nicest person to meet, because I forget very easily that I’m an actress when I’m not working. I live very normally, I go out with my friends, we go to the movies, I queue, we go to restaurants. Then if something happens to remind me that I’m an actress then I become a little different and things become a little heavy. I like the advantages; I know it’s not right but I like being famous when it’s convenient for me and completely anonymous when it’s not.

 

THE DEAD ZONE
1983
dir. by David Cronenberg
Stars:
Christopher Walken
Brooke Adams
SydneyWhitePersepolis
2007
dir. Vincent Paronnaud
Marjane Satrapi
Starring
Penn
Iggy Popp
East/West
1999
dir. R�gis Wargnier
starring
Oleg Menshikov
Catherine Deneuve
Umbrellas of CherbourgUmbrellas of Cherbourg
1964
dir. by Jacques Demy
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REPULSIONRepulsion
1965
dir. Polanski
Starring
Catherine Deneuve
Ian Hendry
movie8 WOMEN
2002
dir. Fran�ois Ozon
Starring
Fanny Ardant
Emmanuelle B�art
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Happy Birthday: Spike Jonze

spikejonze.jpgSpike Jonze

Born: October 22, 1969 in Rockville, Maryland, USA

As a feature film director you got to be a guarding dog of the whole production. You got to be able to hold 100 script pages in the head at the same time. If you miss a detail it’s wasted. I don’t know how the music video generation can affect the movie business, but I’m curious what feature films the English Chris Cunningham and the Swedish guy Jonas Åkerlund are going to make.

[on the origins of Her (2013) from his long-ago encounter with an artificial-intelligence computer program] For the first 30 seconds, I had that buzz, like, It’s responding to me! Then it quickly fell apart and you realize, Here are the tricks, here’s how this works. But what if I could sustain that forever? What would that be like? I wanted to take that idea as far as I could possibly imagine and feel.

Three Kings
1999
dir. David O. Russell
Starring
George Clooney
Mark Wahlberg
Ice Cube
Being John MalkovichBeing John Malkovich
1999
dir. Jonze
starring
John Cusask
John Malkovich
Where the Wild Things Are
dir. Jonze
Stars:
Max Records
Catherine O’Hara
Forest Whitaker
MOVIE POSTERJACKASS PRESENTS: BAD GRANDPA
2013
dir. Jeff Tremaine
Stars:
Johnny Knoxville
Jackson Nicoll
MOVIE POSTERTHE WOLF OF WALL STREET
2013
dir. Martin Scorsese
Stars:
Leonardo DiCaprio
PJ Byrne
MOVIE POSTERHER
2013
dir. Spike Jonze
Stars:
Joaquin Phoenix
Amy Adams
Adaptation
2002
dir. Jonze
Starring
Nicholas Cage
Meryl Streep
Chris Cooper
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