Robert Duvall is 80 Years Old
Robert Duvall turns 80 years old today. Happy birthday, old man! You’re the greatest.
Biographies
Gerry Rafferty, Dead at 63
Scottish singer and songwriter Gerry Rafferty died in England today at the age of 63.
Reports say he’d had various liver and kidney problems that caught up to him.
Rafferty is known in the U.S. for two songs in particular: 1972’s “Stuck in the Middle With You” (by the band Stealers Wheel) and 1978’s “Baker Street,” one of the few rock songs with a saxophone that doesn’t absolutely suck.
“Stuck in the Middle With You” gained new fame after Quentin Tarantino smoothed our ears with it in 1992’s Reservoir Dogs.
The Certainty of Antonin Scalia
In this brief interview with California Lawyer Magazine, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia displays his trademark certainty — he knows everything and everything he thinks is right. Didn’t you know that?
Erwin Schrodinger +50 Years
Happy 50th deathday to you, genius physicist Erwin Schrödinger. You died on this day in 1961.
Mila Kunis Joins Famous Cartoon Voices
Actress Mila Kunis is now gracing movie screens everywhere as Natalie Portman’s rival-slash-costar in the dance-horror-dance movie Black Swan.She’s come a long way from playing Jackie in That 70s Show. And good for her. Because she must be a trooper to have voiced the character of Meg Griffin in Seth MacFarlane’s comedy cartoon Family Guy.
Kazuo Ishiguro’s Biography
Who2 now has a profile of the Japanese-Engish novelist Kazuo Ishiguro.
He’s the guy who wrote The Remains of the Day, one of the most heart-breaking books I’ve ever read. It’s good. I’ve never seen the movie all the way through, however, because I’m not one for those kinds of movies, the ones about stuffy English manners and unrequited love.
I can thoroughly enjoy books like that, but when it comes to movies, I have an automatic Homer Simpson reaction: BOR-RING!!
Tom Brady May Talk To You While Passing
“He can be talking throughout a play, the play can be actually running and he could be talking to you. He is on top of it. I remember a play we had and he was talking to me during the play and he had the ball in his hands, he was about to throw and he was talking to me about something that was going on.””…Sometimes a play might be designed for me to stay and block but he might tell me to ‘go ahead on and go,’ so, I go [out for a pass].”
Pete Postlethwaite, Nice Guy
“Pete taught for a brief period at my (convent!) school in Manchester. He
was quite uncomfortable at times to be surrounded by hormonal teenage
girls, but we all adored him! We all wrote ‘I love Pete Pos’ on our
white gym shoes.”The BBC has posted fans’ warm reminiscences of actor Peter Postlethwaite, who has died of testicular cancer at age 64.
Zsa Zsa Gabor Follows in the Footstep of Sarah Bernhardt
Zsa Zsa Gabor is losing a leg.
Jim Bakker is 71 and Selling Some Crazy, Crazy Junk
Jeepers, Jim Bakker.The disgraced TV evangelist turns 71 today. He’s been back on the air since 2006 with a religious show based in Branson, Missouri.