Celebrity Birthdays
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October 17: screen legend Rita Hayworth (1918),
actress Margot Kidder (1948), astronaut, physician and first woman of
color to go into space Mae C. Jemison (1956), comedian Norm
Macdonald (1963), musician and son of Bob, Ziggy Marley (1968),
musicians Wyclef Jean and Marshall “Eminem” Mathers
(1972)
October 18: actor George C. Scott (1927), actor
Peter Boyle (1933), actor Joe Morton (1947), playwright/novelist
Ntozake Shange (1948), ’80s actress Pam Dawber (1951), tennis
champion Martina Navratilova (1956), action star Jean-Claude Van
Damme (1960), jazz legend Wynton Marsalis (1961) and What I Like
About You co-star Wesley Jonathan (1978)
October 19:
Imitation of Life’s Juanita Moore (1922), actor/author John
Lithgow (1945), songstress Jennifer Holliday (1960), pugilist
Evander Holyfield (1962), SNL alum Chris Kattan (1972) and actor
and brother to Cuba Jr., Omar Gooding (1976)
October 20:
actor Bela Lugosi (1882), Academy Award winning Disney composer of
“Someday My Prince Will Come” and “Whistle While You
Work” Frank Churchill (1901), country music legend Grandpa
Jones (1913), Fayard Nicholas of dancing duo The Nicholas Brothers
(1914), baseball great Mickey Mantle (1931), Lord of the Rings
trilogy star Viggo Mortensen (1958)
October 21: jazz great
Dizzy Gillespie (1917), Cuban salsa legend Celia Cruz (1924), TV’s
Judge Judy Sheindlin (1942), composer/musician Rich Mullins (1955)
and Star Wars’ Princess Leia Carrie Fisher
(1956)
October 22: classical composer Franz Liszt (1811),
actress Joan Fontaine (1917), actor Tony Roberts (1939), actor
Charles Keating (1941), Jeff Goldblum of Jurassic Park and The Fly
fame (1952), director/author Julie Dash (1952), reggae/pop star Shaggy
(1968)
October 23: bestselling author Michael Crichton
(1942), French stage actress Sarah Bernhardt (1944), parodist Weird Al
Yankovic (1959) and country singer-songwriter Dwight Yoakam
(1956)
like to think of Michael J. Fox’s ’80s vehicles as
something akin to retired jerseys. Sure, you will return to them, admire them,
reminisce over how well Fox himself embodied the schtick of manchild awkwardness
and angst... but please don’t make us watch someone else try desperately to
mimic and imitate Fox, exploiting his trademark style for laughs (however dark)
or heartstring tugs (however bittersweet).<br><br>Ugh, UPN. We understand that
your original programming doesn’t fare very well, but this doesn’t mean that you
should resort to recycling retired plot-by-numbers. It simply means you should
recycle your creative team.<br><br><A
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ted any promising buzz or noteworthy ratings. And
with the advent of its hit <i>Smallville</i>, we guess they’ve concluded that
the sci-fi blend formula hits the mark a bit more often than shows that too
closely resemble the day-to-day minutiae of young viewers.<br><br>But the
blatant recycling of old hits has got to stop. We don’t want a hasty rehashing
of the old. We’d much prefer some originality from within the ranks of the new.