July 9, 2011 - American Actor Birthday Edition

Two of these Actors Have Won Oscars!

• American Actor Chris Cooper turns 60 (born 1951)


• American Actor Jimmy Smits turns 56 (born 1955)


• American Actor Tom Hanks turns 55 (born 1956)


• American Actress Kelly McGillis turns 53 (born 1957)


• American Child Actor Fred Savage turns 35 (born 1976)

The Films of Elizabeth Taylor & IMDb data

Elizabeth Taylor has died today (March 23, 2011).

I thought this would be a good chance to create a snap shot of Taylor's most watched and highest rated films based off the internet movie database (imdb.com) as of today, the day of her death.

Today's a great day to blog about Taylor. Perhaps a memory or a favorite film.

Elizabeth's highest rated films according to imdb.com as of today, March 23, 2011:
(The first number indicates imdb.com user rating)

1. (8.20) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
2. (8.00) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
3. (7.79) A Place in the Sun (1951)
4. (7.70) Giant (1956)
5. (7.68) Jane Eyre (1943)

Elizabeth's most rated films based on votes as of today, March 23, 2011:
(obviously time and the current online systems date plays a role. The first number is parenthesis indicates the number of imdb.com who have voted providing the film it's rating)

1. (28,110) The Flintstones (1994)
2. (21,844) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
3. (15,301) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
4. (13,160) Giant (1956)
5. (8334) Cleopatra (1963)

March 10, 2011 - Birthday Edition

• Actress Olivia Wilde turns 28 (born 1984)
• Musician (and American Idol winner) Carrie Underwood turns 29 (born 1983)
• Actor Jon Hamm turns 40 (born 1971)
• Actress Sharon Stone 53 (born 1958)
• Extremist Osama bin Laden turn 54 (born 1957)
• Director/screenwriter/producer (and Oscar winner) Paul Haggis turns 59 (born 1953)
• Martial artist and actor Chuck Norris turns 72 (born 1940)

February 16, 2011

• 6 years since the NHL (National Hockey League) canceled the 2004-2005 regular season and playoffs due to a labor dispute (2005)
  
• 11 years since Hezbollah is founded (1985)
  
• Rapper and actor Ice-T turns 53 (born 1958)
  
• Actor and Reading Rainbow host LaVar Burton turns 54 (born 1957)
  
• North Korean leader Kim Jong-il turns 70 (born 1941)

February 14, 2011 - Other Than Valentine's Day...

Want to talk about something other than Valentine's Day? Here are some other "observances" associated with February 14...

• Statehood Day in Arizona and Oregon.
• Communist Martyr's Day (observed by the Iraqi Communist Party)
• Actor Freddie Highmore's birthday (he turns 19, born 1992)
• Oscar nominated actress Meg Tilly's birthday (she turns 51, born 1960)
• Magician Teller (of Penn & Teller) celebrates his birthday (he turns 63, born 1948)
• New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg celebrate his birthday (he turns 69, born 1942)

January 31, 2011 - Birthday Edition

Justin Timberlake turns 30 (born 1981)
Portia de Rossi turns 38 (born 1973)
Minnie Driver turns 41 (born 1970)
Anthony La Paglia turns 52 (born 1959)
John Lyndon (lead singer for the Sex Pistols) turns 55 (born 1956)
Nolan Ryan turns 64 (born 1947)
Phillip Glass (composer) turn 74 (born 1937)
Ernie Banks turns 80 (born 1931)

Note: In addition to baseball greats Ernie Banks and Nolan Ryan sharing a birthday, Jackie Robinson's birthday was January 31st as well (born 1919). He died in 1972 at the age of 53.

January 12, 2011 - Birthday Edition

• English singer Pixie Lott turns 20 (born 1991)
• English actress Gemma Arterton turns 25 (born 1986)
• Comporary Christian music artist Jeremy Camp turns 33 (born 1978)
• Melanie Chisholm (aka "Sporty Spice" of the Spice Girls) turns 37 (born 1974)
• Heather Mills, model and former wife of Paul McCartney, turns 43 (born 1968)
• American heavy metal rock legend Rod Zombie turns 46 (born 1965)
• Jeff Bezos, founder and chairman of Amazon.com turns 47 (born 1964)
• American Actor Oliver Platt turns 51 (born 1960)
• Shock Jock Howard Stern turns 57 (born 1954)
• Conservative radio host actovist Rush Limbaugh turns 60 (born 1951)
• Former Heavy Weight Champion Joe Frazier (Smokin' Joe) turns 67 (born 1944)

January 5, 2011 - Birthday Edition

• January Jones, famous for her role in the TV series Mad Men, turns 33 (I've always wondered if she was born in January, looks like she was) (born 1978)
• Marilyn Manson, the controversial musician turns 42 (born 1969) (Manson's birth name was Brian Hugh Warner)
• George Tenet, CIA director CIA director under Bill Clinton & George W Bush (1997-2004) turns 58 (born 1953)
• Actress Diane Keaton turns 65 (born 1946)
• American talk show host and journalist Charlie Rose turns 69 (born 1942)
• American actor Robert Duvall turns 80 (born 1931)
• Walter Mondale, Vice President under Jimmy Carter turns 83 (born 1928)

December 28, 2010

Just a few days remaining in the year? What will you blog about. Here are some ideas.

• 65 years ago the United States congress officially recognized The Pledge of Allegiance (1945)
• 10 years ago retailer Montogomery Ward officially announced it's going out of business (2010)
• 154 years since the birth of 28th President Woodrow Wilson
• American comic book legend Stan Lee turns 88 (born 1922)
• Actress Dame Maggie Smith turns 76 (born 1934)
• Musician John Legend turns 32 (born 1978)
• American Idol runner-up David Archulete turns 20 (born 1990)
• In the tradition of celebrating the 12 days of Christmas, today is the fourth day of Christmas

December 19, 2010

• 69 years ago Adolf Hitler became Commander-in-Chief of the German Army (1941)
  
• 27 years ago the original FIFA World Cup Trophy (the Jules Rimet Trophy) is stolen from the headquarters of the Brazilian Football Confederation in Rio De Jeneiro. The trophy has never been recovered (1983)
  
• 111 years since the birth of Martin Luther King, Sr. (born 1899, he died 1984)
  
• Jake Gyllenhaal turns 30 (born 1980)
  
• Anniversary of the death of Emily Bronte (died 1848)

December 13, 2010 - Celebirty Birthdays

• Musical Starlet Taylor Swift turns 21 (born 1989)
• Tom DeLonge (guitarist of Blink-182, Angels and Airwaves) turns 35 (born 1975)
• University of Nebraska College Football coach Bo Pelini turns 43 (born 1967)
• Musician, Actor, Oscar winner Jamie Fox turns 43 (born 1967)
• One of the Coen Brother's favorite actor Steve Buscemi turns 53 (born 1957)
• Actor Christopher Plummer turns 81 (born 1929)
• Actor/Comedian Dick Van Dyke turn 85 (born 1925)

November 28, 2010

• College Football/BCS: Today the BCS rankings will reveal which Big 10 team is the division champion and will go to the Rose Bowl since there is a three way tie (Ohio State, Wisconsin, Michigan State)
  
• College Football/BCS: Similarly today's rankings will reveal which team in the Big 12 South will go on to play Nebraska in the Big 12 Championship next week for the opportunity to play in the Fiesta Bowl (3 way tie between: Oklahoma State, Oklahoma, and Texas A&M)
  
• American Actor Ed Harris turns 60 today (born November 28, 1950)
  
• 35 years ago East Timor declared it's independence from Portugal
  
• Other countries celebrating their Independence today include Albania (independence from the Ottoman Empire, 1912) and Mauritania (independence from France, 1960)