born 31 December 1970

watch this space

born 30 December 1970

Being in California is antithetical to getting stuff done. At least I've been reading a lot.

born 29 December 1970

Almost there...

born 28 December 1970

Everything is fine, by the way. I'm just having trouble finding enough consecutive minutes to myself to make this happen.

born 27 December 1970

I'm really sucking wind here towards the end. It's a good thing I have a small but understanding readership.

born 26 December 1970

Snowed out today. Catching up tomorrow...

born 25 December 1970

Merry Christmas!

born 24 December 1970

Merry Christmas Eve!

born 23 December 1970

Alessandro Calza, Genoa, Italy, actor
Ángela Fuste, birthplace unspecified, Venezuelan actress
Dorota Sachar-Nowe, Warsaw, Poland, TV producer
Karyn Bryant, Boston, Massachusetts, MTV veejay
Rezija Kalnina, birthplace unspecified, Latvian actress
Robert John Burck, Cincinnati, Ohio, The Naked Cowboy
Lisa Marie Abato, state of New York, Long Island native/porn star Holly Ryder
Lito Wilson, Berkeley, California, writer/director
Luciano Scarpa, Caserta, Italy, actor
Marieke Schroeder, birthplace unspecified, German documentarian
Stephanie Bennett, Lubbock, Texas, producer
Tyra Olsen, Ballarat, Australia, porn star



A lot of people who have put their bodies out there for a living were born today. The fellow who got himself famous by standing in Times Square mostly naked, heedless of the wind and weather: he’s my choice for Today’s Winner.

Still, I have to call your attention to the most poignant career listing of the day. Yes, she’s made five films, all of them pornographic, all of them released (as it were) in 1997. But in only one of them – Nasty Nymphos 19, to be precise – did she appear as “Herself”.

born 22 December 1970

Adam Guzinski, Konin, Poland, short filmmaker
Jason Bright, Dallas, Texas, video game programmer
Mathias Sercu, Ardooie, Belgium, actor
Mika Heilmann, birthplace unspecified, Danish actress
Peter Menzies, Binghamton, New York, music video producer
Richard Kirkwood, Roanoke, Virginia, actor
Sean Bell, Toronto, Ontario, actor
Silje Stang, birthplace unspecified, Norwegian TV journalist
Yasuyo Shirashima, Tokyo, Japan, actress


I guess I have to go with the guy who has the same name as the guy who was killed by the NYPD while out carousing on the night before his wedding, in a hail of bullets, one of which punctured the glassed-in wall of the JFK airport shuttle station at Jamaica, which I passed through later that week. Yeah, that was a thing that happened. An unkind night in the Club Kalua.

born 21 December 1970

oy, I’m slipping...

born 20 December 1970

Adam Lowenstein, Highland Park, New Jersey, film studies professor
Chris Fabian, Davao City, The Philippines, newspaper entertainment editor
Edouard Montoute, Cayenne, French Guiana, actor
Lisa Costell, birthplace unspecified, American porn star Lennox
Nicole de Boer, Toronto, Ontario, actress
Sohail Khan, Bombay, India, actor/producer
Todd Phillips (né Bunzl), Brooklyn, New York, writer/director


Well, success takes Today’s Winner over the top. Looking over his filmography, the pictures are not always funny, but the funny ones sure are. I knew he had done a G.G. Allin documentary, but I’d not been aware that he also did one about Phish. That’s weird.

born 19 December 1970

Jason Apuzzo, New Haven, Connecticut, writer/director
John Dawson, island of Trinidad, producer
Liona, birthplace unspecified, Hungarian porn star
Madlen Dzhabrailova, birthplace unspecified, Russian actress
Rob Chalmers, Windsor, Ontario, assistant director/short filmmaker
Sean Teague, Houston, Texas, animation voice talent
Stacy Jones, Tulsa, Oklahoma, musician/record producer
Tyson Beckford, The Bronx, New York, model/actor


I don’t care if he’s a right wing tool, who’s still boasting about his collegiate ideological associations on his IMDb bio. Today’s Winner shot a poorly regarded low budget black and white film noir on the docks in San Pedro. The world needs more of this kind of thing, no matter who midwifes it into existence or how lame the finished product is. Bad but ambitious movies are the glue that holds the culture together.

born 18 December 1970

Still mourning Captain Beefheart…back at you in a few.

born 17 December 1970

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born 16 December 1970

Amro Salama, birthplace unspecified, American actor
Christopher D. Williams, Ottawa, Ontario, animator
Daniel Cosgrove, New Haven, Connecticut, actor
David Craig, Buffalo, New York, writer/director
Deborah Anderson, London, England, musician/photographer/daughter of Jon Anderson
Denise Derringer, state of Texas, porn star
J. Neil Bloomer, Bethesda, Maryland, actor/documentarian
Kevin Ball, Orlando, Florida, stuntman
Kristen Knittle, Canoga Park, California, actress/breat implant casualty
Laurence Byrne, Glasgow, Scotland, accountant
Matthew Mahaney, Columbus, Ohio, actor
Megan Johnson, Austin, Texas, actress
Richard Szpigiel, Denver, Colorado, fire safety monitor
Silvije Magdic, Zagreb, Yugoslavia, Croatian short filmmaker
Tamás Földi, birthplace unspecified, Hungarian actor/sound man
Valerie Chow, Hong Kong, actress


Because of my well-established obsessions with both flight attendants and Wong Kar-Wai, Today’s Winner has to be the actress who played the stewardess in Chungking Express.

born 15 December 1970

Bruno Sassi, Baltimore, Maryland, professional wrestler
Diane Macke, Cincinnati, Ohio, visual effects coordinator
Frankie Dettori, Milan, Italy, jockey
Karl Makinen, Queens, New York, actor
Meg Oliver, Birmingham, Michigan, TV news anchorwoman
Michael Brockoff, birthplace unspecified, German TV producer
Michael Shanks, Vancouver, British Columbia, actor
Mikael Brolin, birthplace unspecified, Swedish stuntman
Mitchell Butler, Los Angeles, California, NBA basketball player
Tiiu Julia Kärnä, Lahti, Finland, actress
Tim Coston, Kailua, Hawaii, sound supervisor
Todd Tjersland, Anaheim, California, Visionary Overlord of American Horror of 1998


In lieu of an actual winner, here for your delectation are the top 100 baby names of 1970, without which this website would seem thoroughly incomplete.

born 14 December 1970

Abdulla Muaz, Velidhoo, The Maldives, actor
Anna-Marie Jopek, Warsaw, Poland, musician
Ashley Brooks, Los Angeles, California, female porn star
Beth Orton, Norfolk, England, musician
Bozena Furczyk, birthplace unspecified, Polish actress
Cem Uras, Istanbul, Turkey, actor
Craig Kuehne, Lodi, California, short filmmaker
George Steven McAtee, Madison, Indiana, composer Lec Zorn
Marc Morgenstern, Toronto, Ontario, writer/director
Marty Lindsey, Salt Lake City, Utah, actor
Matthias Klagge, Eutin, West Germany, lawyer
Michael Stoyanov, Chicago, Illinois, actor
Nadine Garner, Melbourne, Australia, actress
Nick Loren, San Diego, California, stand-in for John Travolta
Richie Varga, Los Angeles, California, actor
Rosemarie Li, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, actress


Today’s Winner is for some reason represented on the IMDb by a photograph that shows more of Jarvis Cocker than it does of her.

born 13 December 1970

Bart Johnson, Los Angeles, California, actor
Danny Lohner, Corpus Christi, Texas, musician
Don Winston, Atlanta, Georgia, extra
Evan Frankfort, Los Angeles, California, musician
Leyna Nguyen, Dong Ha, South Vietnam, TV news anchorwoman
Lotta Suarez-Mazar, Stockholm, Sweden, producer
Michaël Cohen, Maisons-Lafitte, France, actor
Scott McGillivray, Regina, Saskatchewan, actor


I’m going to give the prize today to the news lady, just because she’s that classic stock character, “The Actual News Reporter Who Appears In Movies As A Fictional News Reporter”.

born 12 December 1970

Bethany McLean, Hibbing, Minnesota, journalist
Carmen Morales de las Heras, Madrid, Spain, actress
David Crowther, Flint, Michigan, film editor
Colette Desjardins, birthplace unspecified, Canadian accountant
Dennis Victory, High Wycombe, England, actor
Hector Tinoco, birthplace unspecified, American location manager
Jennifer Connelly, state of New York, actress
Mädchen Amick, Sparks, Nevada, actress
Melissa Cunningham, birthplace unspecified, estranged wife of Jeremy London
Orlando Brown, Washington, D.C., NFL football player
Regina Hall, Washington, D.C., actress


It’s a crime, really, for the purposes of this website anyhow, that the only starlet-slash-Oscar-winner I have ever had a conversation with & my favorite “Twin Peaks” girl had to be born the same day. Consequently, neither of them can prevail over the other. Instead the winner today is the plucky reporter who came charging out of the Iron Range of northern Minnesota to expose the fraudulent practices of the Enrons and the Lehmans and the Goldmans and the Bernankes of the world. The world could damn sure use a few others like her right about now.