12 May 2014

Birthdays
Emily VanCamp b. 1986 (Captain America: The Winter Soldier, The Ring Two, All Souls)
Malin Akerman b. 1978 (Watchmen, The Invasion, Witchblade, Earth: Final Conflict)
Samantha Mathis b. 1970 (Under the Dome, Lost, Nightmares and Dreamscapes, Salem’s Lot, The Punisher, The Mists of Avalon, Super Mario Bros.)
Catherine Tate b. 1968 (Doctor Who, Gulliver’s Travels)
Anthony Brandon Wong b. 1965 (The Matrix, Xena, Spellbinder: Land of the Dragon Lord)
Gavin Hood b. 1963 (director, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Ender’s Game)
Emilio Estevez b. 1962 (Freejack, Repo Man, Maximum Overdrive)
April Grace b. 1962 (I am Legend, Lost, The Lost Room, Constantine, A.I.. Artificial Intelligence, The X-Files, Star Trek: The Next Generation)
Ving Rhames b. 1959 (Piranha 3D & 3DD, Zombie Apocalypse, Day of the Dead, Dawn of the Dead)
Kim Greist b. 1958 (The X-Files, Last Exit to Earth, Duplicates, Brazil, C.H.U.D.)
Jennifer Hetrick b. 1958 (Sliders, Buffy, Perversions of Science, Dark Skies, The X-Files, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine)
Bruce Boxleitner b. 1950 (TRON, TRON: Legacy, Heroes, Babylon 5)
Gabriel Byrne b. 1950 (Vampire Academy, End of Days, Gothic, Excalibur)
Lindsay Crouse b. 1948 (FlashForward, Buffy, Progeny, Millennium, The Indian in the Cupboard, Communion, Iceman)
Richard Riehle b. 1948 (Texas Chainsaw 3D, Chillerama, The Last Lovecraft: Relic of Cthulhu, Halloween II, The Man from Earth, Star Trek: Enterprise, Star Trek: Voyager, Buffy, Tremors [TV], Time Changer, Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, Mighty Joe Young, Perversions of Science, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Quantum Leap)
George Carlin b. 1937 died 2008 (Dogma, Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure)
Susan Hampshire b. 1937 (The Andromeda Breakthrough)
Oscar Beregi Jr. b. 1918 died 1 November 1976 (Young Frankenstein, Batman, The Time Tunnel, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Incredible Mr. Limpet, Twilight Zone)
Wilfred Hyde-White b. 1903 died 6 May 1991 (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Battlestar Galactica [1978], Twilight Zone)

A whole lotta choices for the Picture Slot today. If I was in an Oh That Guy mood, Richard Riehle (the guy with people skills in Office Space), Oscar Beregi Jr (a go-to Central European bad guy) and Wilfred Hyde-White (he looks like what his name sounds like) would certainly fill the bill. There are movie and TV stars and George Carlin, one of the top three stand-up comics ever. But I was in a fabulous babe mood, so we get Kim Greist from Brazil, a personal favorite of mine. Also, I like to put up pictures of fabulous babes who are about my age so I don't feel like a dirty old man all the time.

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

In the Year 2000!

Predictor: OMNI Future Almanac, published in 1982

Prediction: Average housing costs will decrease from 21.3% in 1982 to 19.1% in 2000.

Reality: Oh, don't we wish! According to a 2012 article in The Atlantic, average housing costs in 2003 (close enough) were 33% because, as we all know and can say together...

THE RENT IS TOO DAMNED HIGH!

Looking one day ahead... INTO THE FUTURE!

Our new pal Geoffrey Hoyle tells kids from the 1970s what it will be like in 2010.

Join us then... IN THE FUTURE!