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On This Day in History and Celebrity Birthdays May 31 2014: Colin Farrel Brooke Shields Clint eastwood

A few then and now Pics...Today!

David Hernandez - 31  (The male stripper who was one of the three Davids who made the Final 12 in Season Seven of "American Idol".  He was also the first of the Final 12 to get voted off. he wanders around my LA FITNESS gym talking on his cell phone now and basks in the sea of obscurity.)

Colin Farrell - 38  ("Master Swordsman" and total hunk. I'd hit it!)

Phil Keoghan - 47  (The host of "The Amazing Race".)

Brooke Shields - 49  ("Suddenly Susan" AND "The Blue Lagoon".  remember when nothing came between her and her Calvin? Dating myself huh?.)

Darryl McDaniels - 50  (D.M.C. of Run-D.M.C.) 

COREY HART- 52  (Remember "Sunglasses At Night"? REMEMBER THE '80S)

Lea Thompson - 53  ("Caroline in the City" and Michael J. Fox's "Back to the Future" MILF.When Michael went into the past, he had a chance to schtupp HIS OWN MOM.  I wonder what would have happened if he did. 

Chris Elliott - 54  (Superstar of "Everybody Loves Raymond", "Late Nig ht with David Letterman" AND "Cabin Boy".  His short-lived TV series, "Get A Life", was EXCELLENT.  If only because several episodes ended with him DYING.)

Susie Essman - 59  (plays Susie, Jeff's abrasive, cursing wife on "Curb Your Enthusiasm".)

Tom Berenger - 65  ("Platoon", "Major League" 1 AND 2. Aging Sucks)

Joe Namath - 71  (Hall-of-Fame quarterback and Hall-of-Fame playboy.)

Peter Yarrow - 76  (The Peter in Peter, Paul and Mary.)

Clint Eastwood - 82. One helluva a gorgeous man

Johnny PayCheck - Would have been 76 - (1938 - 2003)  (Country LEGEND who did "Take This Job and Shove It".  He also did two years in PRISON for shooting a man at a bar in 1985.)

Prince Rainier of Monaco - Would have been 91 - (1923 - 2005)  (Made Grace Kelly the first American Princess when they married in 1956.  Together they made Princess Caroline, Prince Albert and Princess Stephanie.)

Don Ameche - (1908 - 1993)  (Great actor in "Cocoon" AND "Trading Places".)

Dr. Norman Vincent Peale - (1898 - 1993)  (Author of one of the best "self-help books" of all-time, "The Power of Positive Thinking". i actually met him once and he was the most Negative person I ever met.)

Walt Whitman - (1819 - 1892)  (Classic American poet.  "Leaves of Grass" ring a bell?  "O Captain!  My Captain!"?  No?  Read them and look for the gay subtext.  Just because you slacked in high school doesn't mean you can't read stuff now.)

1859 - In London, Big Ben went into operation. The name Big Ben initially referred to the bell inside the tower but later came to the refer to the tower.

1879 - New York's Madison Square Garden opened.

1884 - Dr. John Harvey Kellogg patented "flaked cereal."

1955 - The U.S. Supreme Court ordered that all states must end racial segregation "with all deliberate speed."

1961 - South Africa became an independent republic.

1962 - Adolf Eichmann was hanged in Israel. Eichmann was a Gestapo official and was executed for his actions in the Nazi Holocaust.

1970 - An earthquake in Peru killed tens of thousands of people.

1974 - Israel and Syria signed an agreement on the Golan Heights.

1977 - The trans-Alaska oil pipeline was finished after 3 years of construction.

1979 - Zimbabwe proclaimed its independence.

1990The sitcom "Seinfeld" premiered on NBC.

1994 - The U.S. announced it was no longer aiming long-range nuclear missiles at targets in the former Soviet Union.

1995 - Bob Dole singled out Time Warner for "the marketing of evil" in movies and music. Dole later admitted that he had not seen or heard much of what he had been criticizing.

2003 - In North Carolina, Eric Robert Rudolph was captured. He had been on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list for five years for several bombings including the 1996 Olympic bombing

2005 Former FBI official W. Mark Felt stepped forward as "Deep Throat," the secret Washington Post source that helped bring down President Richard M. Nixon during the Watergate scandal

2009 Dr. George Tiller, a provider of late-term abortions, was shot and killed in a Wichita, Kan., church. (Gunman Scott Roeder was later convicted and sentenced to life in prison.)

On This Day in History and Celebrity Birthdays May 30th 2014 : Mel Blanc - Wynonna - Idina Menzel

Cee-Lo GREEN - 40 (TSigner and  judge on the singing competition show "The Voice". He'll spend the day having someone feed him birthday cake . . . because his arms are too short to reach his mouth.)

Manny Ramirez - 42  (L.A. Dodgers superstar who may be certifiably insane.)

Idina Menzel 43 Actress ("Rent," "Wicked"),

WYNONNA JUDD - 50  (The chubbiest Judd.  Naomi's chubby daughter.  Ashley's chubby sister. )

Ralph Carter - 53  (Michael Evans on "Good Times".)

Ted McGinley - 56  (Actor responsible fort he downfall of every series he's ever joined.  Think about it.  "Happy Days", "The Love Boat", "Dynasty" and "Married With Children" all "jumped the shark" after he joined the cast. He also got "Hope & Faith" cancelled.  Ted   McGinley is TV POISON, disguised in a well-chiseled package.)

Marie Fredriksson - 56  (Roxette.  She's got "The Look".)  (Their biggest  hitsinclude . . . "Listen to Your Heart", "Dangerous", "It Must Have Been Love", "Joyride", "The Look" and "Fading Like a Flower (Every Time You Leave)".)

Jake "The Snake" Roberts - 59  (Crack-smoking WWF superstar of the '80s!!!)

Colm Meaney - 61  (Irish Chief Miles O'Brien on "Star Trek:  TNG" and "Star Trek:  DS9". 

GALE SAYERS - 71  (Chicago Bears legend.  Greatest achievement:  Being portrayed by BILLY DEE WILLIAMS in "Brian's  Song"!!!)

Keir Dullea - 76  ("Dave" in "2001:  A Space Odyssey".)

THE GREAT MEL BLANC - (1908 - 1989)  (The Voice of Warner Brothers:  His amazing voices included Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Tweety and Sylvester, Yosemite Sam , Foghorn Leghorn, and Pepe Le Pew . . . and even Barney Rubble on "The Flintstones".)

Christine Jorgensen - (1926 - 1989)  (She was George Jorgensen before undergoing the FIRST-EVER SEX CHANGE OPERATION in 1952.)

 Irving Thalberg 5/30/1899 - 9/14/1936 American movie executive

Benny Goodman 5/30/1909 - 6/13/1986 American clarinetist and orchestra leader.

1431 Joan of Arc, condemned as a heretic, was burned at the stake in Rouen, France. sacre bleu!

1966  Dolly Parton and Carl Dean were married. Still married!

1967 - Daredevil Evel Knievel jumped 16 automobiles in a row in a motorcycle stunt at Ascot Speedway in Gardena, CA.

1966  In San Francisco, CA, Jefferson Airplane performed at a benefit for the Haight-Ashbury Legal Organization. Before grace Slikc went bat shit crazy.

1968  The Beatles began recording the "White Album." Musical genius.

1987  In Liverpool, England, Adam Horovitz (Beastie Boys) was arrested for allegedly assaulting a female fan during a riot at a Beastie Boys show.

1989  Prince released the single "Batdance." Probably the worse song he ever was associated with

1989  Bobby Brown released "On Our Own." ( which he happens to be now)

1990  Midnight Oil closed down 6th Avenue in New York City as they played a protest concert in front of Exxon's offices. The protest was in reaction to the Exxon Valdez disaster.

1996 Britain's Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson were granted an uncontested decree ending their 10-year marriage.then she tried to sell off the family in an undercover Sting operation and got caught. FYI: She didn't get invitred to the wedding.

1997  Neil Young canceled his European tour because he had cut his finger while slicing a ham sandwich.

1999  In London, a bomb threat at a Kenny Rogers concert being held at Royal Albert Hall caused the evacuation of more than 3,000. No bomb was found and no injuries were reported. Someone really didn't like Islands in the stream.

1999  In New Jersey, Lenny Kravitz walked off stage after 40 minutes and collapsed from heat exhaustion. He had been performing in a fur coat.Where was PETA?

1999  Tim McGraw made an unannounced appearance to open a concert for his wife, Faith Hill.

2005  Vice President Dick Cheney predicted the Iraq war would end before the Bush administration left office, saying "I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency," on CNN's "Larry King Live. And we know how that Adminstiration ended!..

2006 A jury in Rockville, Md., convicted John Allen Muhammad of six of the Washington-area sniper killings.

On This Day in History and Celelbrity Birthdays May 27 2014: Chris Colfer Jospeh Fiennes Christopher lee

Chris Colfer - 24  (He's Kurt, the gay one on "Glee".)
 
Jamie Oliver - 39  (De-chubbifying America, one fatty meaty child at a time.)

Andre 3000 - 39  (OutKast.  Erykah Badu is his baby momma.)

Paul Bettany - 43  ("A Beautiful Mind", "A Knight's Tale" and "The Da Vinci Code")

 Joseph Fiennes - 44  (Will Shakespeare in "Shakespeare In Love".  He's Ralph Fiennes' brother.)

Todd Bridges - 49  ("Diff'rent Strokes" star.) 

Adam Carolla - 50  (homophobic no ltalent who rides on Jimmy Kimmles coat tails!)
 
  Cathy Silvers - 53  JENNY PICCALO ON "HAPPY DAYS"!!!)

Peri Gilpin - 53  (The oddly sexy Roz from "Frasier".)

Richard Schiff - 59  (Brooding "West Wing" baldy Toby Ziegler.)

Louis Gossett Jr. - 78  (He WAS Fiddler in "Roots"IRON EAGLE.. Officer and a gentleman.. )

Lee Meriwether - 79  (One of the three Catwomen to Adam West's "Batman".  She was only in the MOVIE version of the old-school TV show.  On the actual series, it was Julie Newmar and Eartha Kitt, who played the part.)

  Henry Kissinger - 91  (Former Secretary of State.) 

Christopher Lee - 92  (Count Dooku in the "Star Wars" films and the evil sorcerer Sa  ruman in the "Lord of the Rings" movies)

Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes - Would have been 43 - (1971 - 2002)  (TLC)

Vincent Price - (1911 - 1993)  (The undisputed master of horror.)

 

1647 Alse Young became the first person executed as a witch in America when she was hanged in Hartford, Conn

1941The British navy sank the German battleship Bismarck off France with a loss of more than 2,100 lives

1957 - "THAT'LL BE THE DAY", by BUDDY HOLLY, was released.  (--It was Buddy Holly's ONLY #1 hit.  He died less than two years later in a plane crash.)

1977 - "SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT" was released . . . starring BURT REYNOLDS as the bandit and the legendary JACKIE GLEASON as Sheriff Buford T. Justice.

1987 - The sound system at a U2 concert in Rome was so loud, neighbors thought an earthquake had hit and they flooded the emergency lines with panicked calls.

1994 - "THE FLINTSTONES" was released . . . starring ROSIE O'DONNELL as a  plump Betty Rubble  and HALLE BERRY as Fred's secretary.

1995 - LISA KUDROW married some guy named Michael Stern.  Today is their 16th Anniversary.

1995 - CHRISTOPHER REEVE was paralyzed when he was thrown from his horse.

1997 - PAULA JONES got permission from the Supreme Court to pursue her sexual harassment lawsuit against horny ass President BILL CLINTON while he was still in office.

1998 Michael Fortier, the government's star witness in the Oklahoma City bombing case, was sentenced to 12 years in prison after apologizing for not warning anyone about the deadly plot.

2006 - ANGELINA JOLIE gave birth to the BABY better known as the Namibian-born daughter of BRAD PITT, little SHILOH NOUVEL

On This Day in History and Celebrity Birthdays May 26 2014: Stevie Nicks Lenny kravitz Helena Bonham Carter

Isaac Slade - 33  (Lead singer of The Fray.)

PHILIP MICHAEL THOMAS!!! - 65  (THE MIGHTY HANDSOME *TUBBS* ON "MIAMI VICE"!!!)

STEVIE NICKS - 66  (FLEETWOOD MAC.  Landslide ..self professed twirler and kicked a major ass Coke habit.. LOVE HER!!)

Matt Stone - 43  (Brilliant co-creator of "South Park".  The voices he does on the show include Kyle, Kenny, Butters, Tweek, and BIG GAY AL!)

Helena Bonham Carter - 48  (Oscar nominated Actress. She IS the evil Bellatrix Letrange in the "Harry Potter" movies . . . starting with 2007's "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix".  Also . . . "Sweeney Todd", "Planet of the Apes" and "Fight Club" alice in Wonderland and THE KINGS SPEECH.  Tim Burton schtupps her . . ..)

Lenny Kravitz - 50  (Lenny is half black and half Jewish.  Or, as they call it in Hollywood . . . Mel Gibson's worst nightmare.and possesses beautiful mixed-race buttocks .LOOK-> . .) PS:  His' Mom was the fabulous late Roxie Roker, or 'Helen Willis' in The Jefferson's.

Bob Goldthwait - 52

Dick Nasty - 58  ( a Porno god who has starred in 1,362 fine films, including ."Grateful Head",  "How Granny Got Her Groove Back" AND "Ass Gas & The Mystical Glop".)

Dr. Sally Ride - 63  (First American woman in space.)

Hank Williams Jr. - 65  (BOCEPHUS!!! and all my rowdy friends are coming over 2nite. Used his dad's fame to launch a career.  His song "All My Rowdy Friends" was the theme song for "Monday Night Football" from 1989 until last October when ESPN canned him for essentially comparing Obama to Hitler)

Pam Grier - 65  (Blaxploitation queen.)  (--Her CLASSIC films include "Foxy Brown", "Coffy", "Black Mama, White Mama", "The Big Bird Cage", "The Big Doll House", "Scream Blacula Scream" and "Sheba, Baby".  All highly recommended. She made a comeback in Jackie Brown)

Levon Helm - 74  (The Band.)

James Arness - Would have been 89 - (1923 - 2011)(Played Matt Dillon on "Gunsmoke" after John Wayne turned down the part and recommended Arness.  AND he'was Peter Graves' ( who died) brother.

John Wayne - (1907 - 1979)  (The Duke.  he is Still SO popular that in an annual Harris survey, he's been the only deceased person to rank as one of America's favorite actors every single year for the past 16 years...well, unitl the baby boomers die off..cuz the tweens dont know who he is)

Miles Davis - (1926 - 1991)  (One of the biggest names in Jazz history.) 

JAY SILVERHEELS - (1912 - 1980)  (Him played Tonto on "Lone Ranger".  Johnny Depp takes over  the role in the upcoming movie version.)

Peter Cushing - (1913 - 1994)  (  He rose to fame in British horror films of the 1950s through the '70s.

1868 - PRESIDENT ANDREW JOHNSON managed to avoid IMPEACHMENT.  The Senate came one vote short of kicking him out of office.

1896 - The DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE, co-founded by CHARLES DOW, first appeared in the "Wall Street Journal".

1962 - WILLIE NELSON charted his first country song, "Touch Me".

1965 - The Rolling Stones appeared on Shindig!" along with Jackie De Shannon, Sonny and Cher and Jimmy Rodgers.

1969 - John Lennon and Yoko Ono began their 2nd "Bed-In For Peace" in Montreal.

1974 - In London, 1,000 people needed medical treatment and a 14 year old girl died when a crowd lost control at a David Cassidy concert.

1975 - Deep Purple's "Smoke On The Water" was released.

1978 - The FIRST LEGAL CASINO in the eastern U.S. opened in ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey.  It was the Resorts Atlantic City, which still stands today

1988 - Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical "Cats" opened in Moscow with a British and American cast.

1989 - The Danish parliament LEGALIZED GAY "REGISTERED PARTNERSHIPS", making it the first country in the world to recognize same-sex relationships.  The Netherlands was the first country to legalize gay MARRIAGE, in 2001.

1994 - Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley were married in the Dominican Republic. They were divorced in January of 1996.

1995 - Flavor Flav (Public Enemy) was sentenced to three months in jail for firing a gun at a neighbor in his New York apartment.

1998 - The Coca-Cola jingle by Big Bad Voodoo Daddy was aired.

1999 - The Manic Street Preachers refused to play a concert because Queen Elizabeth II was present. The group had vowed to never perform for the monarchy because they considered it an outdated institution.

1998 - The Supreme Court ruled that ELLIS ISLAND, the historic gateway for millions of immigrants, is mainly in New Jersey, not New York.

1999 - It was announced that the Backstreet Boys album "Millennium" had sold 1.13 million units in its first week of release.

2005 - "Green Acre star EDDIE ALBERT died of pneumonia.  He was 99.

2009 - The California Supreme Court voted to uphold Proposition 8.  which  means that gay marriage is STILL ILLEGAL IN CALIFORNIA. SUCKS cuz of right wing religius idiots

2009 - MIKE TYSON'S 4-year-old daughter Exodus died a day after she accidentally hung herself on a treadmill at the family home.

 

 

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