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Happy Birthday: Scott Speedman

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scottspeedman.jpgScott Speedman

Born: September 1, 1975 in London, England, UK

[on actors] What we really look for is something we haven’t done before and something that challenges us or creates a bit-of-a-fear moment when you’re reading it. Like ‘Oh Jeez, I don’t know if I can pull this off’. You always sorta can get there but it’s scary to jump off the edge.

Underworld
2003
dir. Len Wiseman
Starring
Kate Beckinsale
Speedman		 MOVIE POSTERTHE VOW
dir. Michael Sucsy
Stars:
Rachel McAdams
Channing Tatum
Underworld: EvolutionUnderworld: Evolution
2006
dir. Wiseman
starring
Kate Beckinsale
Speedman
THE CAPTIVE
2014
dir. Atom Egoyan
Stars:
Ryan Reynolds
Scott Speedman		 The StrangersThe Strangers
2008
Directed by Bryan Bertino
Starring
Liv Tyler
Speedman
TV POSTERLAST RESORT
Review of the 2012 action drama		 BARNEY'S VERSIONBARNEY’S VERSION
2011
dir. Richard J. Lewis
Starring:
Paul Giamatti
Rosamund Pike
movie reviewsXXX: STATE OF THE UNION
2005
dir. Lee Tamahori
Stars:
Samuel L. Jackson
Ice Cube

Happy Birthday: Lara Pulver

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larapulver.jpgLara Pulver

Born: September 1, 1980 in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England, UK

Married to: Raza Jaffrey (27 December 2014 – present)

[on Sherlock: A Scandal in Belgravia (2012)] I take my clothes off for a minute and a half and everyone suddenly goes, ‘Oh great, she’s an actress who will take her clothes off. We can’t get Kate Winslet. Let’s see if Lara Pulver will do a swinger movie.’

[on Sherlock: A Scandal in Belgravia (2012)] It didn’t bother me in the slightest and I’m someone who’s never done that sort of thing before on stage or screen. It was just a device for her; it wasn’t nudity for nudity’s sake.

Happy Birthday: Boyd Holbrook

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boydholbrook.jpgBoyd Holbrook

Born: September 1, 1981 in Prestonsburg, Kentucky, USA

There was no theater in my high school. I think even our art program was cut – it was so bad. I didn’t even know that was a possibility in college or in high school; I hadn’t even thought of it. It was pretty negligent. My father has run a bulldozer all of his life, and my mom is in real estate.

MOVIE POSTERTHE ORANGES
2012
dir. Julian Farino
Stars:
Leighton Meester
Hugh Laurie

Milk MovieMilk
2008
dir. Van Sant
Starring
Penn
Emile Hirsch
Josh Brolin
THE HOST
2013
dir. Andrew Niccol
Stars:
Saoirse Ronan
Diane Kruger

 

Happy Birthday: Zendaya

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zendaya.jpgZendaya

Born: September 1, 1996 in Oakland, California, USA

If I could have a Dancing with the Stars (2005) partner, it would be Michael Jackson, but since I can’t any more – sadly – it would be Roshon Fegan.

This is so beautiful, Doing and making positive programming for young people is so important to me, this means so, so much to me. I’ve been doing this for a long time, and I do it for you guys. I just want you to know that doing and making positive programming for young people is so important to me, and I will keep doing it. To all the parents out there, thank you for allowing me to be a role model for your children. I really, really do not take that for granted.

Happy Birthday: Larry Hankin

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larryhankin.jpgLarry Hankin

Born: August 31, 1940 in New York City, New York, USA

In the season 4 Seinfeld episode, “The Pilot,” he portrayed an actor playing a character based on Cosmo Kramer. In real life, Hankin auditioned for the role of Kramer and was series co-creator Larry David’s first choice during casting, as he felt Hankin was most similar to his friend Kenny Kramer who the character was based on; however, Michael Richards was ultimately cast.

HOME ALONE
1990
dir. Chris Columbus
Stars:
Macaulay Culkin
Joe Pesci

Escape from Alcatraz, dir. Don Siegel starring EastwoodEscape from Alcatraz
1979
dir. Don Siegel
starring
Eastwood
BREAKING BAD season 5
Best of the Season!		 MOVIE POSTERPAIN & GAIN
2013
dir. Michael Bay
Stars:
Mark Wahlberg
Dwayne Johnson
breaking badBest of BREAKING BAD TV series breaking badBest of BREAKING BAD season 3
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Happy Birthday: Sara Ramirez

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sararamirez.jpgSara Ramirez

Born: August 31, 1975 in Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico

Made her first video game voice acting debut as Lammy, the main protagonist of the PlayStation game “Um Jammer Lammy” from late 1998 to early 1999, and then in the summer of 1999 again due to U.S. censorship and religious and violent issues in Japan’s version of the game. She again made her recurring role as Lammy in the 2001-2002 PlayStation 2 game “PaRappa the Rapper 2”.

Happy Birthday: James Coburn (1928–2002)

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jamescoburn.jpgJames Coburn (1928–2002)

Born: August 31, 1928 in Laurel, Nebraska, USA
Died: November 18, 2002 (age 74) in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA

[on Sam Peckinpah] Sam is, I think, a great filmmaker. Of course, he’s his own worst enemy. Sam is an unusual human being, and he needs to be treated like an unusual human being. He can create an atmosphere, whether he’s drunk, sober, pissed off or in a rage, or whatever. I mean, for about three or four hours a day, he’s a fucking genius. But the rest of the time he spends wallowing in a kind of emotional reaction to either good or bad memories.
movie posterYOUNG GUNS 2
1990
dir. Geoff Murphy
Starring:
Emilio Estevez
Kiefer Sutherland
PAT GARRETT AND BILLY THE KIDPat Garrett and Billy the Kid
1973
dir. Sam Peckinpah
Starring
James Coburn
Kristofferson
Charade
1963
dir. by Stanely Donen
starring
Cary Grant
Audrey Hepburn

 

Happy Birthday: Debbie Gibson

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debbiegibson.jpgDebbie Gibson

Born: August 31, 1970 in Brooklyn, New York, USA

Deborah Gibson is a creative force in the entertainment industry who does it all! She has single handedly transcended music and entertainment trends and fads. Deborah stands poised at the top, embarking on the second phase of her hugely successful pop career.

That it’s been almost two decades since “Out Of the Blue” and ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic has yet to parody even *one* of my songs makes me feel curiously left-out.

Happy Birthday: Chris Tucker

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christucker.jpgChris Tucker

Born: August 31, 1972 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA

I think real life reflects your movies. In your life, you pick stuff that influences what movie roles you wanna pick. I think if you’ve got an interesting life, you wanna do interesting movies about interesting things.

RISE OF THE GUARDIANS
dir. Peter Ramsey
Stars:
Hugh Jackman
Alec Baldwin

RUSH HOUR 3Rush Hour 3
2007
dir. Brett Ratner
Starring
Chan
Chris Tucker

 

Happy Birthday: Richard Gere

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richardgere.jpgRichard Gere

Born: August 31, 1949 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Pretty Woman (1990) is something I never would have done. Neither is An Officer and a Gentleman (1982). I had no interest in these scripts whatsoever. It was the same person knocking my door down on both of them, Jeffrey Katzenberg, first at Paramount, then at Disney, who was one of my first friends out here and still is. At the point of Pretty Woman (1990), I had been kind of out of things for a while. I consciously [had] just said, “Going off to do other things” and I fucked up my career to the point where [people weren’t saying], “Well, let’s get Gere to do that”. I had to crawl a little bit to get scripts. Doing Internal Affairs (1990), for instance, was a very difficult decision for me to make because, potentially, that could have been such a piece of shit. It turns out to be one of my favorite movies and best experiences, too.

CHICAGO
2002
dir. Rob Marshall
Starring:
Renée Zellweger
Catherine Zeta-Jones		 SOMMERSBYSommersby
1993
dir. Jon Amiel
Starring
Richard Gere
Jodie Foster
UNFAITHFULUnfaithful
2002
dir. Adrian Lyne
Cast
Richard Gere
Diane Lane		 BROOKLYN'S FINEST Movie PosterBrooklyn’s Finest
dir.Antoine Fuqua
Stars
Richard Gere
Don Cheadle
Nights in Rodanthe
dir. George C. Wolfe
Starring
Lane
Richard Gere		 I'M NOT THEREI’m Not There
2007
dir. Todd Haynes
Cast
Christian Bale
Blanchett
MOVIE POSTERFIRST KNIGHT
1995
dir. Jerry Zucker
Starring:
Sean Connery
Richard Gere		 Amelia Movie PosterAmelia
dir. Mira Nair
Stars:
Swank
Richard Gere
Ewan McGregor

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MOVIE POSTERPRETTY WOMAN
1990
dir. Garry Marshall
Stars:
Richard Gere
Julia Roberts		 MOVIE POSTERARBITRAGE
2012
dir. Nicholas Jarecki
Stars:
Richard Gere
Susan Sarandon
THE HOAX
2006
dir. Lasse Hallstrom
Stars:
Richard Gere
Alfred Molina		 MOVIE POSTERMOVIE 43
2013
Stars:
Emma Stone
Stephen Merchant
Richard Gere
Liev Schreiber