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Showing posts with label Happy Birthday. Show all posts

Monday, May 8, 2017

Sir David Attenborough turns 91 today


Sir David Attenborough turns 91 today - here are 10 times he stole our hearts

The BBC broadcaster thankfully has no plans on retiring yet.



Television icon, Sir David Attenborough, is celebrating his 91st birthday today.
Sir David is currently working on Blue Planet II, a follow up to his successful 2001 series, which is to air later this year.

Unfortunately he has admitted to suffering memory lapses, which has meant writing the script for the new BBC series has taken him longer than usual.
The 91-year-old broadcaster has been involved in nature documentaries for over 60 years now and has no plans to retire yet.

Despite his advancing years, Sir David is still as determined as ever to help try and save the planet through conservation and has already inspired millions to do the same.

Sir David Attenborough is an legend in the industry and has touched the hearts of millions of people across the world.
So to honour him we take a look back at some of his finest moments.

Let's not forget, David was a heartthrob back in the day too





Monday, April 3, 2017

Happy Birthday to the late legendary Oscar winning actor Marlon Brando



Happy Birthday to the late legendary Oscar winning actor Marlon Brando

Marlon Brando Landed His 'Godfather' Role with Some Shoe Polish and Kleenex



Marlon Brando (April 3, 1924 - July 1, 2004)

The studio was against the casting idea at first, then  they saw the tape.

The role most fans associate Marlon Brando with in The Godfather almost didn't happen because he was seen as being so toxic by the studio at the time of casting. 
But, director Francis Ford Coppola was relentless in his pursuit for his Don Vito Corleone.

It was the legendary actor's screen test  — which Coppola had to beg Paramount for — which turned the tide. 
In an interview Coppola gave to critic Annette Insdorf years ago, he talked about how Brando morphed into his Oscar-winning character in a matter of moments with some random props and household items. 

"We went to his house on Mulholland Drive and it was early, he wasn't up," Coppola began. "There's a rumble and the door opens, and in walks this beautiful man with long blond hair, in a Japanese robe." 

Brando, who would have turned 93 on Monday, noticed Coppola had set out little props in the form of Italian meats, cheeses and cigars.
"And he came out and looked at all this and figured out what was going on, and he took his hair ... he did it up himself in the back, and he took shoe polish and he made it black and he put on a shirt," Coppola continued. 

Brando suggested the character should be hoarse and "look like a bulldog." 
"He took some Kleenex and he...," Coppola said, pretending to stuff tissue into his mouth. "And then he started acting but not saying anything." 
Brando even got a phone call during the test and he took it in character, Coppola said.  

Studio execs were so impressed with the footage, they agreed to cast Brando. 

Brando died in July 2004. He was 80. 




Happy 95th Birthday to Doris Day a popular movie star from the Golden Age of Hollywood


Happy 95th Birthday to Doris Day a popular movie star from the Golden Age of Hollywood





Cut Doris Day some slack for ‘forgetting’ her real age, being a woman in Hollywood has always been hard

If today’s Hollywood actresses complain about the pressure to stay ageless and the lack of meaningful female roles post-35, then imagine Doris Day in 1962


Read more on her website http://www.dorisday.com/

Doris Day, in-keeping with her sunny 50s movie persona, has been terribly jolly about her ‘Birthday Surprise’ from the Ohio Associated Press. Day, it transpires, is not celebrating her 93rdbirthday today as fans may have thought. She is 95. For many, many decades Doris Day has been trimming a little excess slack off her real age.  But, as Morrissey from The Smiths once said about white-lies, “There is always some-one, somewhere, with a big nose, who knows.” And Day’s game is up. Her birth certificate has been located. “I have never paid much attention to birthdays,” the star responded in good humour, “but it’s great to finally know how old I really am!” Day’s representatives say the mistake probably happened years ago when she was auditioning for a role and was simply never corrected. Personally, I’d have responded to the journalist with a chucked shoe and a string of expletives quite out of kilter with a twinkly-eyed nonagenarian. If I was 95, having lived with that ‘misunderstanding’ for so long, I wouldn’t thank any young, sharp-elbowed thing hoping to win a humorous headline out of my supposed vanity. Associated Press could take that birth certificate, roll it up and shove it somewhere tight and dark. 

There has to be some high-points to extreme ageing, and I intend ‘suffering fools very badly’ to be my raison d’etre.
Tripping Doris Day up on her actual age, in 2017, feels crass. It also makes no allowance for the difficult era in which she thrived. If today’s Hollywood actresses complain about the pressure to stay ageless and the lack of meaningful female roles post-35, then imagine Doris Day in 1962, aged 38, cough, playing the love interest of Cary Grant in That Touch of Mink. Day was at this point one of the only female leading box-office stars. But while Cary Grant, Clark Gable, Rex Harrison and her other co-stars, all much older than her, were maturing like fine wines and enjoying roles as heroes, villains, professors, judges and general avuncular presence, Doris Day, on the other hand, must have known her limitations.

As audiences, we have only recently begun to question where all the good female actors go. If Doris Day’s tactic, back in the 50s and 60s was to gently forget she was the age she was; I think we can cut her some slack.


Doris Day Discovers Just How Old She Is — And It’s Quite A Surprise
“I’ve always said that age is just a number.”


Age is just a number for Doris Day ― a higher number than she thought.
The star of such films as “Pillow Talk” and “That Touch of Mink” discovered that she turned 95 on Monday, not 93 as believed by many including Day herself, The Associated Press reported.

AP recently dug up Day’s birth certificate from Ohio’s Office of Vital Statistics, revealing a birthdate of April 3, 1922, for Doris Mary Kappelhoff, her real name before show business. Day, who had presumed she was born in 1924, was delighted with the news.

“I’ve always said that age is just a number and I have never paid much attention to birthdays, but it’s great to finally know how old I really am!” Day said in a statement Sunday.
Even as of early Monday, a Google search of “Doris Day” and “age” indicated 93.

Day’s spokesman, Charley Cullen Walters, told AP a story circulated that Day’s age may have been miswritten on an audition form many years ago, leading to the mixup.
While the age difference may not be as great as she thought, Day can still rib pal Betty White for being older, if just by a few months. White turned 95 in January, Vulture noted.
Now that Day’s birthdate is official, we want to wish her a happy birthday ― a happy 95th birthday.







Monday, June 23, 2014

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JUDY GARLAND


Happy Birthday Judy Garland

It's so hard to believe that singer/actress Judy Garland, who starred in countless film classics including "The Wizard of Oz," "Meet Me in St. Louis" and "A Star is Born," died on this date in 1969 at the age of 47. Do you remember hearing the news on the radio or TV of her death? Do you have a favorite Garland film? Here's a lovely photo of Garland with Tom Drake from the believe "Meet Me In St. Louis" from the L.A. Times files.