2 August 2015

Birthdays
Kara and Shelby Hoffman b. 2002(Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events)
Hallie Kate Eisenberg b. 1992 (Bicentennial Man)
Zuleyka Silver b. 1991 (In Time, Touch)
Kerry James b. 1986 (The Boy Who Cried Werewolf, SGU Stargate Universe)
Donna Air b. 1979 (The Mummy Returns)
Ty O’Neal b. 1978 (The Postman)
Sam Worthington b. 1976 (Avatar, Wrath of the Titans, Clash of the Titans, Terminator Salvation)
Edward Furlong b. 1977 (Star Trek: Renegades, The Zombie King, Arachnoquake, The Green Hornet, Night of the Demons, Dark Reel, Warriors of Terra, The Crow - Wicked Prayer, Brainscan, Pet Sematary II, Terminator 2: Judgment Day)
Jacinda Barrett b. 1972 (NightMan, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys)
James Preston Rogers b. 1972 (Pixels, Alphas, Lost Girl, Death Warrior, Outlander)
Matthew Del Negro b. 1972 (Teen Wolf, Witches of East End, Eastwick, Stargate: Atlantis)
Alice Evans b. 1971 (The Originals, Grimm, The Vampire Diaries, Lost, Highlander [TV])
Tristan Tait b. 1971 (The Dark Knight, 28 Weeks Later, Quantum Leap)
Kevin Smith b. 1970 (writer/director, Moose Jaws, Tusk, Reaper, Dogma)
Regina Russell b. 1965 (The Mummy’s Kiss, Hook)
Mary-Louise Parker b. 1964 (R.I.P.D., The Spiderwyck Chronicles)
Cynthia Stevenson b. 1962 (Sleepy Hollow, Dead Like Me, Neverwas, From the Earth to the Moon, Max Headroom)
Olivier Gruner b. 1960 (Sector 4: Extraction, Re-Generator, One Night, Interceptor Force 1 and 2, Velocity Trap, Mars, Automatic)
Apollonia Kotero b. 1959 (Black Magic Woman, Knight Rider)
Victoria Jackson b. 1959 (Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, The X Files)
Tim Dunigan b. 1955 (They Came from Outer Space, Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future, Hard Time on Planet Earth, Wizards and Warriors)
Ken McLeod b. 1954 (author, The Fall Revolution)
Butch Patrick b. 1953 (Zombie Dream, Young Blood: Evil Intentions, The Munsters, Shazam!, Lidsville, The Phantom Tollbooth, I Dream of Jeannie, My Favorite Martian)
Joanna Cassidy b. 1945 (Heroes, Ghosts of Mars, Vampire in Brooklyn, The Tommyknockers, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Blade Runner)
Susan Denberg b. 1944 (Frankenstein Created Woman, Star Trek)
Max Wright b. 1943 (Early Edition, The Stand, From the Earth to the Moon, Quantum Leap, ALF, Misfits of Science, Faerie Tale Theatre)
Isabel Allende b. 1942 (author, The City of the Beasts, The Infinite Plan)
Sandra Ellis Lafferty b. 1940 (Resurrection, The Hunger Games, The Vampire Diaries, The Prophecy 3, Conan [TV], Dark Skies, The Prophecy)
Wes Craven b.1939 (director, Vampire in Brooklyn, New Nightmare, The People Under the Stairs, Shocker, The Serpent and the Rainbow, The Twilight Zone [1985-6], Deadly Friend, Nightmare on Elm Street, The Hills Have Eyes I and II, Swamp Thing)
Peter O’Toole b. 1932 died 15 Dec 2013 (Phantoms, Supergirl, Stardust, Creator, High Spirits, Gulliver’s Travels, Ray Bradbury Theatre)
Bernard L. Kowalski b. 1929 died 26 October 2007 (director, Knight Rider, Sssssss, Attack of the Giant Leeches, Night of the Blood Beast)
Carroll O’Connor b. 1924 died 21 June 2001 (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Outer Limits)
Theo Marcuse b. 1920 died 29 November 1967 (Star Trek, The Invaders, The Time Tunnel, Batman, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone)
Nehemiah Persoff b. 1919 (Star Trek: The Next Generation, Battlestar Galactica, The Bionic Woman, Logan’s Run, Wonder Woman, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Invisible Man, Dracula, Land of the Giants, The Power, The Time Tunnel, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Twilight Zone)
Gary Merrill b. 1915 died 5 March 1990 (Earth II, The Time Tunnel, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, Mysterious Island [1961])
Beatrice Straight b. 1914 died 7 April 2001 (Faerie Tale Theatre, Poltergeist, Wonder Woman)

Notes from the birthday list.
1. The Picture Slot. In previous years, the Picture Slot went to Edward Furlong and Wes Craven. Several good candidates presented themselves today, including Bruce Patrick and Sam Worthington, but I decided to go fabulous and choose Joanna Cassidy from Blade Runner. This is as good a time as any to remind folks that we are only four years away from sex robots according to this film, and while two out of three sex robots want to kill you, early adopters of technology should expect some glitches along the way. As a friend of mine from the old days of programming said, the first Christians get the best lions.

2. Spot the Canadian! Just one today, James Preston Rogers.

3. Not really nepotism. Hallie Kate Eisenberg is the baby sister of Jesse Eisenberg. I only count siblings in very rare circumstances

4. MST3K. I know Attack of the Giant Leeches and Night of the Blood Beast got the Best Brains treatment, not sure about anything else.

5. Wait... he's alive? I didn't know Nehemiah Persoff was still with us. Special birthday best wishes to you, sir.


Many happy returns to all the living on the list and to the dead, thanks for all the memories.


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