VIEWS FROM A BROAD

Celebrity Birthdays and on this Day in History July 31 2014: DEAN CAIN-Wesley Snipes-JK ROWLING

B.J. Novak - 35  (Ryan on "The Office" and writer extraordinaire.  He went from being Michael's INTERN to being Michael's BOSS .then back to being a TEMP. he in INGLORIOUS BASTARDS)

Dean Cain - 48  (Dean demolished Brooke Shields' hymen faster than a speeding bullet.  He deflowered her when they were both horny students at Yale.)  (True. Swear!)

J.K. Rowling - 49  ( British writer who gave us "Harry Potter" . . . and who is now RICHER THAN THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND.  It's probably no coincidence that in the books, Harry's birthday is also July 31st.)

Wesley Snipes - 52  (Tax cheat.Actor and did Drag once)

Bill Berry - 56  (Former drummer for R.E.M.  He had to quit in 1997 after a brain aneurysm.)

Michael Biehn - 58  (Kyle in "The Terminator", Corporal Hicks in "Aliens", the sheriff in "Planet Terror" AND he is Val Kilmer's "huckleberry", Johnny Ringo, in "Tombstone". I saw him first ina  movie called THE FAN i saw him first ina movie with Lauren BaCall)

Alan Autry - 62  (Captain Bubba Skinner on "In The Heat Of The Night"  and he was the mayor of Fresno, California, from 2001 to January of this year.) 

Barry Van Dyke - 63  (Detective Steve Sloan on "Diagnosis Murder".  His father is a Dick.  Literally. Dick Van Dyke).)

Gary Lewis - 69  (Son of Jerry Lewis, and leader of Gary Lewis & The Playboys.  Biggest hits:  1965's "This Diamond Ring" and 1966's "Everybody Loves A Clown".) 

George Liberace - (1911 - 1983)  (Liberace's brother.  Liberace's real name was Wladziu Valentino Liberace.  He and his mad piano skills were taken from us in 1987 by the AIDS.)

Ted Cassidy - (1932 - 1979)  (Lurch on "The Addams Family" TV series.)

1875 Andrew Johnson, the 17th president of the United States, died in Carter Station, Tenn., at age 66.

1928 - "LEO THE LION" roared for the first time at the beginning of MGM's first "talking" movie, "White Shadows In The South Seas".  There was only ONE WORD of dialogue in the entire film . . . that word was "Hello."

1792 - The cornerstone of the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia, PA, was laid. It was the first building to be used only as a U.S. government building.

1928 - MGM’s Leo the lion roared for the first time. He introduced MGM’s first talking picture, "White Shadows on the South Seas."

1932 - Enzo Ferrari retired from racing. In 1950 he launched a series of cars under his name

1969 - A Russian police chief reported that thousands of Moscow telephone booths were broken by raging Ruskie thieves who STOLE PHONE PARTS in order to CONVERT THEIR ACOUSTIC GUITARS TO ELECTRIC.  Rock & Roll Forever, comrades.


1972 Democratic vice-presidential candidate Thomas Eagleton withdrew from the ticket with George McGovern following disclosures that Eagleton had once undergone psychiatric treatment.

1977 The "Son of Sam" killer claimed his last victims when he shot and killed Stacy Moskowitz, 20, and seriously wounded her date as they sat in a parked car in Brooklyn, N.Y. (David Berkowitz was arrested less than two weeks later. He is serving six sentences of 25 years to life.)

1984 - The U.S. MEN'S GYMNASTICS TEAM upset China to win the team gold medal at the L.A. Summer Olympics.  They won thanks to perfect 10 performances by TIM DAGGETT, BART CONNER and MANTASTIC MITCH GAYLORD.

1991 - PRESIDENT BUSH and Soviet President MIKHAIL GORBACHEV signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty in Moscow.  They used pens made of metal from nuclear missiles that were destroyed under a 1987 treaty.

1995 - The WALT DISNEY COMPANY agreed to acquire CAPITAL CITIES-ABC in a $19 BILLION deal

1997 - In New York City, NY, police seized five bombs believed to be bound for terrorist attacks on city subways.

1998 - Nicolas Cage received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

2008 Scientists reported the Phoenix spacecraft had confirmed the presence of frozen water in Martian soil.

2009 Three American tourists were arrested by Iran on suspicion of espionage during what their families have said was a simple hiking trip along the Iraq-Iran border. (One was released on bail, the others remain in Iranian custody.)

2010 - ALICIA KEYS married producer SWIZZ BEATZ on the island of Corsica. She was plump with fetus at the time, and gave birth in October.

Celebrity Birthdays and on this Day in History July 29th 2014:Stephen Dorff Tim Gunn Martina McBride

 Stephen Dorff (41) A HUNK. PERIOD!!

 Allison Mack - 32  (Chloe, the underrated blonde on "Smallville".)

Josh Radnor - 40  (Ted on "How I Met Your Mother".)

  Wil Wheaton - 42  (Hairless Wesley Crusher on  "Star Trek:  The Next Generation", and hairless Gordie in "Stand By Me".)
 
RODNEY ALLEN RIPPY!!! - 46  (Cute nubian kid from the Jack-in-the-Box commercials back in the '70s.)

Martina McBride - 48  (country girl)

 Alexandra Paul - 51  ("Baywatch" babe.)

Tim Gunn - 61  (Fashion consultant who stars in every single series ever shown on Bravo.)

Patti Scialfa - 61  (Mrs. Bruce Springsteen.)

Marilyn Quayle - 65  (Married to a dumbass moron.can u say Potato?)

ROZ KELLY!!! - 71  (was The Pinky Tuscadero on "Happy Days".)

Tony Sirico - 72  (was Paulie Walnuts on "The Sopranos".  He actually did time in prison for a couple of stickups back in the '60s.  True.)

Elizabeth Dole - 78  (Receiver of Bob Dole's Viagra-rejuvenated GOP monster.)

Peter Jennings - Would have been 76 - (1938 - 2005)

1771 - The delicious after-dinner drink, AQUA TUFANIA, was banned in England.  It was a poisonous concoction sold to husbands who wanted to kill their wives or enemies.  MADAM TUFANIA, the French woman who invented the drink, was publicly STRANGLED. 

1890 - VINCENT VAN GOGH died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Auvers, France.

1957 Jack Paar debuted as host of NBC's "Tonight" show.

1966 - BOB DYLAN was injured in a motorcycle accident near his home in Woodstock, New York.  He broke several vertebrae, and suffered amnesia and mild paralysis and his voice and music were never the same.

1974 -  MAMA CASS ELLIOTT of the MAMAS & PAPAS died of a heart attack NOT from choking on the ham sandwich found next to her very strong bed.

1981 - PRINCE CHARLES and LADY DIANA were married before 2,500 guests at St. Paul's Cathedral in London.  The fairy-tale wedding was watched by 700 MILLION viewers around the world.  Charles and Diana were divorced on August 28th, 1996.

1983 - The film "Private School", starring PHOEBE CATES, opened.

1995 - "Dreaming Of You", by slain Tejano star SELENA, debuted at #1 on the charts some four months after her death.

1996 - 35-year-old CARL LEWIS shocked the world by taking the Gold medal in the long jump at the Atlanta Olympics.  It was his NINTH Gold, and it made him one of only two athletes ever to win the same event at four straight Olympic Games.

2000 - BRAD PITT married JENNIFER ANISTON.  Today would have been their 10th anniversary.  (Their divorce was finalized in October of

2005.  Angelina Jolie gave birth to Brad's daughter Shiloh in May of 2006.

2008Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, was indicted on seven felony counts of concealing more than a quarter of a million dollars in house renovations and gifts he had received from a powerful oil contractor. (A judge later dismissed the case, saying prosecutors had withheld evidence.)

Celebrity Birthdays and on this Day in History July 27th 2014 : Norman Lear Jonathan Rhys Meyers Alex Rodriguez

Nick Hogan - 24  (Hulk Hogan's self-centered ego tard son who made a vegetable out of his 22-year-old friend John Graziano while drag racing his Supra in Florida three years ago. he cried in prison. alot)

 Cheyenne Kimball - 24  (MTV chick  from the reality show "Cheyenne".  She won "America's Most Talented Kid" when she was 12. where is she? )

Jonathan Rhys Meyers - 37  (King Henry the 8th on "The Tudors".  You'd also know him as Tom Cruise's sidekick in "Mission:  Impossible 3".  Loves the booze.  Just LOVES it.) Just went inot rehab..again

Alex Rodriguez - 39  (M.I.L.F. Hunter. Basball player and 3rd baseman for the new york yankees )

Pete Yorn - 40  (Musician who's given his bizess to Winona Ryder, Heather Graham AND Minnie Driver. Also appeare in the film Me myself and Irene)

Maya Rudolph - 42  (Hilarious former "Saturday Night Live member.  She's also in the  movie "Idiocracy"and was in BRIDESMAID)

 Triple H - 45  (WWE superstar!  His real name is Paul Michael Levesque.)

Julian McMahon - 46 ("Nip/Tuck" star.  He attracts new female plastic  surgery clients by sleeping with them and then pointing out their fixable flaws the next day.)

SASHA MITCHELL - 47  (CODY on "Step By Step" . . . THE star of "Kickboxer" 1, 2, 3 AND 4 . . . and superstar WIFE-BEATER.)

Bill Engvall - 54  (Part of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour who now has his own TV show on TBS, "The Bill Engvall Show".)

YAHOO SERIOUS!!! - 61  (Albert Einstein in "Young Einstein".)

Maureen McGovern - 65  (Singer.  Biggest Hit:  "The Morning After".)

Peggy Fleming - 66  (Olympic gold medal-winning figure skater and still darn sexy.)

Betty Thomas - 63  ("Hill Street Blues" actress turned director of "Doctor Dolittle", "The Late Shift", "The Brady Bunch Movie" AND the made-for-TV movie "My Breast".) 

BOBBIE GENTRY!!! - 70  (Singer of "Ode to Billie Joe".)

Jerry Van Dyke - 83  (Luther Horatio Van Dam on "Coach" . . . and Dick's little brother.)

Norman Lear - 92  (GENIUS TV producer.  He gave us the classics "All in the Family", "The Jeffersons", "One Day at a Time", "Good Times" and  "Maude")

1866    After two failures, Cyrus W. Field succeeded in laying the first underwater telegraph cable between North America and Europe.

1940    Bugs Bunny made his debut in the Warner Bros. animated cartoon "A Wild Hare."

1960    Vice President Richard M. Nixon was nominated for president at the Republican National Convention in Chicago.

1967    In the wake of urban rioting, President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed the Kerner Commission to assess the causes of the violence.

1974    The House Judiciary Committee voted 27-11 to recommend President Richard M. Nixon's impeachment on a charge that he had personally engaged in a "course of conduct" designed to obstruct justice in the Watergate case.

1980    The deposed Shah of Iran died in Egypt at age 60.

1995    The Korean War Veterans Memorial was dedicated in Washington, D.C.

1996    A pipe bomb exploded at a public park during the Olympic games in Atlanta, killing one person and injuring more than 100.

2003    Comedian Bob Hope died at age 100.

2003    Lance Armstrong won a record-tying fifth straight Tour de France title.

2005    Ahmed Ressam, an Algerian who'd plotted to bomb the Los Angeles airport on the eve of the millennium, was sentenced to 22 years in prison.

 

Celebrity Birthdays and on this Day in History July 26th 2014: Sandra Bullock Kevin Spacey Vivian Vance

Taylor Momsen - 21  (Cindy Lou Who in "How the Grinch Stole Christmas".  She's Jenny Humphrey on "Gossip Girl".  She also has a rock band called Pretty Reckless and she's does NOT want to be a role model to your children.)

Tamyra Gray - 35  (another Former "American Idol" chick who tried acting for a little while and even did a few months on Broadway playing Mimi Marquez in "Rent".)

KATE BECKINSALE - 41  (vampire in "Underworld", a sexy vampire hunter in Hugh Jackman's "Van Helsing" AND Adam Sandler's sexy wife in "Click".)

Jeremy Piven - 49  ("Entourage" star whose big break was playing Spence on the gay sitcom "Ellen".  He was also John Cusack's buddy in "Serendipity" and the dean in "Old School".)

Sandra Bullock - 50   Not sure what's on her "to-do" list today, but you can safely rule out anything to do with Jesse James.

 Gary Cherone - 53  (Ex-singer of Van Halen the Third AND Extreme.)  

Kevin Spacey - 55  (Some of the best things he's been in include "The Usual Suspects", "American Beauty" and  of course THE CLOSET.) 

Dorothy Hamill - 58  (Figure skating Chick who won Gold in the 1976 Olympics.)

Roger Taylor - 65  (Queen's drummer.  He also wrote a few of the band's songs, including "Radio Ga Ga".)

Helen Mirren - 69  (housekeeper in "Gosford Park", Caesonia in "Caligula", and COMPLETELY NEKKID in "Calendar Girls". and of course she was  THE QUEEN) 

 Mick Jagger - 71

Dobie Gray - 74  (Biggest hit:  1973's "Drift Away".  "Give me the beat boys / And free my soul / I wanna get lost in your rock 'n roll and drift away.")

Joe Jackson - 85  (Father of Jackie Jackson, Tito Jackson, Jermaine Jackson, Marlon Jackson, Rebbie Jackson, La Toya Jackson, Randy  Jackson, Janet Jacksonand the late Michael Jackson. and he'll do anything for money)

JAMES BEST - 83  (Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane on "The Dukes Of Hazzard".    )

Marjorie Lord, Actress ("Make Room for Daddy"), turns 96

VIVIAN VANCE - (1909 - 1979)  (Ethel Mertz on "I Love Lucy".)

Stanley Kubrick - (1928 - 1999)  (Director of "Eyes Wide Shut", "Full MetalJacket", "The Shining", "A Clockwork Orange", "2001:  A Space Odyssey" AND 
"Spartacus".)

Blake Edwards (July 26, 1922 – December 15, 2010) was an American film director, screenwriter and producer.

Jason Robards7/26/1922 - 12/26/2000  Actor

Aldous Huxley - (1894 - 1963)  (Wrote "Brave New World" in 1932, which predicted genetic engineering, test tube babies, an over-sexed society hooked on commercial goods and masses of people addicted to pills that keep them from feeling depressed.  Sound familiar?)

1948 - PRESIDENT TRUMAN signed orders "PROHIBITING DISCRIMINATION" in the U.S. military and government jobs.

1958 - QUEEN ELIZABETH THE SECOND proclaimed her big-eared son CHARLES to be the PRINCE OF WALES.

1977 - ELVIS COSTELLO was arrested while performing outside the London Hilton where a CBS Records sales conference was being held.  He was trying to audition for a U.S. record deal.(He was taken to the station and fined five British pounds.  CBS execs invited young Elvis Costello back for an audition and eventually signed him.)

1989 - MARK WELLMAN, a 29-year-old paraplegic, reached the summit of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park.after hauling himself up the granite cliff SIX INCHES AT A TIME OVER NINE DAYS.

1991 - PAUL REUBENS, a.k.a. PEE-WEE HERMAN, was arrested inside an adult movie theater in Sarasota, Florida.  He was accused of exposing himself TWICE during a showing of the hit film, "Tiger Shark".

1992 - Motown legend MARY WELLS died of cancer at age 49.  She had Motown's first #1 hit, with "My Guy", which was written by Vocal Genius SMOKEY ROBINSON.

1996 - "Kingpin", starring a one-handed WOODY HARRELSON, was released.

2005 - THE SPACE SHUTTLE DISCOVERY returned to space in the first Space Shuttle flight since the destruction of the Columbia nearly two and a half years earlier.

2006 - LANCE BASS came out in "People" magazine. . . telling the world that he is a proud gay man.

 

 

Celebrity Birthdays and on this Day in History July 25 2014: Matt Leblanc Iman- Estelle Getty

 

Michael Welch - 27  (Mike Newton, one of Bella's boring human friends, in the "Twilight" movies.

Louise Brown - 36  (The word's first test tube baby . . . born in Oldham, England.  She had a baby of her own that she conceived naturally.  He's 3 years old now and she named him Cameron.  Here's what Louise looks like these days . . .)

D.B. Woodside - 45  (He was President Wayne Palmer on "24".)

 Matt LeBlanc - 47 ( FREINDS and very weatlhy)

Gail Force - 48  (Mattress actress whose 175 fabulous  films include . . . "Coming In America", "Sex Fifth Avenue", "Hills Have Thighs", "White Trash, Black Splash" AND "Butt's Up Doc 2". YES- i typed BUTT'S UP DOC! )Estellehypnotized Kevin Bacon in "Stir of Echoes".Just love her)

Roger Clinton - 58  (THAT brother of BIll's) 

Iman - 59  (David Bowie's Nubian Queen Goddess.)

Verdine White - 63  (Earth, Wind & Fire.)  (Their biggest Hits include . . . "Shining Star", "Got to Get You Into My Life", "Sing a Song", "September", "Boogie Wonderland", "After the Love Has Gone" and "Let's Groove".)

Estelle Getty - Would have been 91 - (1923 - 2008)  (She died just three days short of her 85th birthday.  She was Bea Arthur's mom on "The Golden Girls" AND sadly..Sylvester Stallone's mom in "Stop!  Or My Mom Will Shoot".)   ( Even though she played Bea Arthur's mother on "The Golden Girls", Estelle was actually two and a half months YOUNGER than Bea.)

Brad Renfro - Would have been 32 - (1982 - 2008)  (A once-promising young actor who went on to develop a long rap sheet.  He was in "The Client" with Tommy Lee Jones when he was 12.  He died of an accidental heroin overdose in January of 2008.)

 1952     Puerto Rico became a self-governing commonwealth of the United States.

1965     Bob Dylan shocked his fans at the Newport Folk Festival when he played electric guitar during a performance with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band.

1975     The musical "A Chorus Line" opened on Broadway.

1978     The first baby conceived by in-vitro fertilization was born in Oldham, England.

1984     Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to walk in space.

1994     Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Jordan's King Hussein signed a declaration at the White House ending their countries' 46-year state of war.

1997     K.R. Narayanan became the first member of an "untouchable" Dalits caste to become India's president.

2000     Texas Gov. George W. Bush selected Dick Cheney to be his running mate on the Republican presidential ticket.

2008     California became the first state to ban trans fats from restaurant food.

1962 - The Elvis Presley film "Kid Galahad" premiered.

1965 - Bob Dylan appeared on stage at the Newport Jazz Festival with an electric guitar. It was his first non-acoustic set.

1966 - In San Francisco, CA, the Rolling Stones performed their last U.S. concert with Brian Jones.

1967 - The Beatles and other U.K. rock groups urged the British government to legalize marijuana. Their comments were made in a London Times advertisement signed by all four of the Beatles.

1969 - Neil Young made his first appearance with Crosby, Stills and Nash.

1970 - Chicago's "25 or 6 to 4" was released.

1971 - The Beach Boys released their album "Surf's Up."

1975 - "A Chorus Line" debuted on Broadway. The show closed in 1990 after 6,137 performances.

1980 - KISS introduced their new drummer, Eric Carr, at a concert at the Paladium in New York City.

1980 - AC\DC released "Back In Black," their first album with Brian Johnson as lead singer.

1990 - Rosanne Barr sang the National Anthem in San Diego before a Padres baseball game. She was booed for her performance.

1995 - Nina Simone fired a gun at a pair of noisy teenagers playing next door to her home in southern France. She was put on 18 months probation and ordered to seek psychological counseling.

2006 - Metallica put up four albums for sale on iTunes. The albums "Kill 'Em All", "Ride The Lightning", "Master of Puppets" and "...And Just For All" included previously unreleased tracks recorded in Seatle in 1989. Metallica had led the charge against the original Napster online file-sharing service.

 

Michael Welch - 27  (Mike Newton, one of Bella's boring human friends, in the "Twilight" movies.

Louise Brown - 36  (The word's first test tube baby . . . born in Oldham, England.  She had a baby of her own that she conceived naturally.  He's 3 years old now and she named him Cameron.  Here's what Louise looks like these days . . .)

D.B. Woodside - 45  (He was President Wayne Palmer on "24".)

 Matt LeBlanc - 47 ( FREINDS and very weatlhy)

Gail Force - 48  (Mattress actress whose 175 fabulous  films include . . . "Coming In America", "Sex Fifth Avenue", "Hills Have Thighs", "White Trash, Black Splash" AND "Butt's Up Doc 2". YES- i typed BUTT'S UP DOC! )Estellehypnotized Kevin Bacon in "Stir of Echoes".Just love her)

Roger Clinton - 58  (THAT brother of BIll's) 

Iman - 59  (David Bowie's Nubian Queen Goddess.)

Verdine White - 63  (Earth, Wind & Fire.)  (Their biggest Hits include . . . "Shining Star", "Got to Get You Into My Life", "Sing a Song", "September", "Boogie Wonderland", "After the Love Has Gone" and "Let's Groove".)

Estelle Getty - Would have been 91 - (1923 - 2008)  (She died just three days short of her 85th birthday.  She was Bea Arthur's mom on "The Golden Girls" AND sadly..Sylvester Stallone's mom in "Stop!  Or My Mom Will Shoot".)   ( Even though she played Bea Arthur's mother on "The Golden Girls", Estelle was actually two and a half months YOUNGER than Bea.)

Brad Renfro - Would have been 32 - (1982 - 2008)  (A once-promising young actor who went on to develop a long rap sheet.  He was in "The Client" with Tommy Lee Jones when he was 12.  He died of an accidental heroin overdose in January of 2008.)

 1952     Puerto Rico became a self-governing commonwealth of the United States.

1965     Bob Dylan shocked his fans at the Newport Folk Festival when he played electric guitar during a performance with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band.

1975     The musical "A Chorus Line" opened on Broadway.

1978     The first baby conceived by in-vitro fertilization was born in Oldham, England.

1984     Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to walk in space.

1994     Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Jordan's King Hussein signed a declaration at the White House ending their countries' 46-year state of war.

1997     K.R. Narayanan became the first member of an "untouchable" Dalits caste to become India's president.

2000     Texas Gov. George W. Bush selected Dick Cheney to be his running mate on the Republican presidential ticket.

2008     California became the first state to ban trans fats from restaurant food.

1962 - The Elvis Presley film "Kid Galahad" premiered.

1965 - Bob Dylan appeared on stage at the Newport Jazz Festival with an electric guitar. It was his first non-acoustic set.

1966 - In San Francisco, CA, the Rolling Stones performed their last U.S. concert with Brian Jones.

1967 - The Beatles and other U.K. rock groups urged the British government to legalize marijuana. Their comments were made in a London Times advertisement signed by all four of the Beatles.

1969 - Neil Young made his first appearance with Crosby, Stills and Nash.

1970 - Chicago's "25 or 6 to 4" was released.

1971 - The Beach Boys released their album "Surf's Up."

1975 - "A Chorus Line" debuted on Broadway. The show closed in 1990 after 6,137 performances.

1980 - KISS introduced their new drummer, Eric Carr, at a concert at the Paladium in New York City.

1980 - AC\DC released "Back In Black," their first album with Brian Johnson as lead singer.

1990 - Rosanne Barr sang the National Anthem in San Diego before a Padres baseball game. She was booed for her performance.

1995 - Nina Simone fired a gun at a pair of noisy teenagers playing next door to her home in southern France. She was put on 18 months probation and ordered to seek psychological counseling.

2006 - Metallica put up four albums for sale on iTunes. The albums "Kill 'Em All", "Ride The Lightning", "Master of Puppets" and "...And Just For All" included previously unreleased tracks recorded in Seatle in 1989. Metallica had led the charge against the original Napster online file-sharing service.