Angelique Jespan (died 6 February 2001), birthplace unspecified, Belgian actress
Casper Jarnebrink, Gotheburg, Sweden, musician
Chris Hohenester, birthplace unspecified, German actress
Glenn Cadrez, El Centro, California, actor/NFL football player
Grzegorz Halama, Swidwin, Poland, actor
Heather Juergensen, Brooklyn, New York, actress/writer/producer
Inna Gomes, Barakovo, USSR, actress
Isabella Parkinson, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, German actress
Kevin Weaver, Baltimore, Maryland, guy on the set
Marleen van der Loo, birthplace unspecified, Dutch reality show contestant
Nancy St. Alban, Baltimore, Maryland, soap opera actress
Petro Aleksowski, Gdansk, Poland, cinematographer
Richard Wild, Warrington, England, weather consultant
Royce Clayton, Burbank, California, actor/major league baseball player
Sanda Ladoşi, birthplace unspecified, Romanian singer
My wife was no fan of Kissing Jessica Stein. This means that she has seen the picture one more time than I have, and since I’ve never seen it and she has, it seems unlikely that I’ll ever find ninety minutes to sit and watch it on my own. As co-writer, co-producer, and star of that festival circuit sensation, Heather Juergensen probably deserves to be considered Today’s Winner on actual industrial merit.
Well done, Heather.
But my plan to pick winners is based upon peculiar accomplishments and my own random gut feelings. On this day were born two athletes who had long and respectable careers. But neither Glenn Cadrez’s appearance in Snoop Dogg’s House of Horrors nor Royce Clayton’s cameo on the short-lived Sammo Hung/Arsenio Hall CBS martial arts police procedural “Martial Law” can be considered winning performances.
My vote will have to go to Marleen van der Loo. Why? Well, if not for her being born today, I never would have found out about “Op zoek naar Evita”, a Dutch competition program wherein a dozen singing stage actresses are pitted against one another for a starring role in a production of “Evita”. Fine, you say, that’s all well and Dutch, but so what? A little deeper digging reveals that Ms. van der Loo was a full nine years older than her next youngest competitor. Never mind that when the real Eva Peron was 37, she’d already been dead for four years.
So: Hartelijk gefeliciteerd, Marleen! You are Today’s Winner.
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Matty, I am just now reading the blog entries I missed. Royce Clayton had a Forrest Gumpish stint as a bench warmer with the 2007 World Champion Boston Red Sox. I wouldn't remember him at all, except that during one of the broadcasts they had him mic'd up in conjunction with that promotion where everyone in America got a free taco if somebody stole a base. I only mention this because I think you must not have been watching the game, otherwise you would have heard his conversation with that other great contemporary thinker Coco Crisp and declared him the winner.
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