friday 5

You Say It’s Your Birthday

1. Happy 75th birthday to actor/comedian/musician Steve Martin! He played a sadistic dentist in Little Shop of Horrors (1986). What’s your relationship with your dentist like?
I am dental-phobic, so we have a tense relationship
2. Happy 65th birthday to comic strip artist Gary Larson, creator of The Far Side! One classic The Far Side strip illustrates literally the Platonic allegory of the Ship of Fools, followed by an illustration of his own concept of the Car of Idiots. When have you been a passenger in a car of idiots?
it's been awhile, I can't really remember
3. Happy 55th birthday to basketball player Ervin “Magic” Johnson, who spent his whole career as a member of the Los Angeles Lakers! What are your memories or impressions of Los Angeles?
smog and celebrities
4. Happy 50th birthday to actress Halle Berry, who plays Storm (a woman who can control the weather) in the X-Men movies! What’s the weather like right now, and if you could adjust one aspect of it for the weekend, what would it be?
right now it's 78 degrees and cloudy--but tomorrow and Sunday it's supposed to be almost 90 and that's too hot for me!
5. Happy 32nd birthday to actress Mila Kunis! Which of these Mila films have you seen?
   Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)
   Extract (2009)
   The Book of Eli (2010)
   Date Night (2010)
   Black Swan (2010)
   Friends with Benefits (2011)
   Ted (2012)
   Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)
   Annie (2014)
   Jupiter Ascending (2015)

Happy birthday also to Doc Holliday, Paul “Daffy” Dean, Earl Weaver, David Crosby, Susan St. James, Danielle Steel, James Horner, Rusty Wallace, Marcia Gay Harden, Sarah Brightman, Susan Olsen, and Tim Tebow.