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CHRISTOPHER WALKEN, 68 YEARS OLD TODAY

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Christopher Walken, stage and screen actor,  has appeared in more than 100
movies and television shows, including  Annie Hall (1997), The Deer Hunter
(1978), The Prophecy (1995), Pulp Fiction (1994), and The Wedding Crashers
(2005). Walken’s films have grossed more than $1.8 billion. He debuted as a
film director and script writer with the short film Popcorn Shrimp in 2001.

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Christopher Walken in a scene from The Deer Hunter

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Walken in Pulp Fiction

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SHIRLEY JONES, BIRTHDAY 77 TODAY

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Shirley Mae Jones  is a singer and actress of stage, film and television. She
starred in a number of well-known musical films, such as Oklahoma! (1955),
Carousel (1956), and The Music Man (1962). Shirley won the Academy Award
for Best Supporting Actress for playing a prostitute in Elmer Gantry (1960). She
is probably best known as Shirley Partridge, the widowed mother of five children
in the ABC-TV sitcom  series The Partridge Family (1970–1974), co-starring
her real-life stepson David Cassidy, son of Jack Cassidy.

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Shirley Jones with Burt Lancaster in Elmer Gantry

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Shirley Jones in The Partridge Family

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IT’S CELINE DION’S BIRTHDAY ~ 43 TODAY

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Celine Dion is a Canadian singer, songwriter, actress, and entrepreneur. She
had first gained international recognition in the 1980s by winning both the 1982
Yamaha World Popular Song Festival and the 1998 Eurovision Song Contest.


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BILL MURRAY TO PLAY FDR IN FILM

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According to New york Magazine in a blog post Tuesday, Bill Murray ( above)
will play former U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt (shown below) in an
upcoming film about Roosevelt’s alleged affair with a distant cousin.The
project, titled “Hyde Park on the Hudson”, will begin filming in July and is
expected for release in 2012.

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A young FDR (29 years old) in 1911

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VINCE VAUGHN TURNED 42 TODAY

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(High school photo)

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Vincent Anthony "Vince" Vaughn, film actor, screenwriter, producer,
and comedian, began acting in the late 1980s, appearing in minor TV
roles before gaining wider recognition with the 1996 movie Swingers. He 
has since appeared in a number of other films, mainly comedies, such as
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), Starsky & Hutch (2004), Dodgeball
(2004), Couples Retreat (2009), and Wedding Crashers (2005). Vaughn’s
most recent film was Ron Howard’s comedy, The Dilemma, which was
released in January.


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