Sunday, April 18, 2010

born 18 April 1970

Christophe Van Rompaey, Ghent, Belgium, TV director

Esther Schweins, Oberhausen, West Germany, actress

Greg Eklund, Jacksonville, Florida, musician

Greg Russo, West Orange, New Jersey, writer/producer

Jason Smith, birthplace unspecified, American sports talk radio host

Jorge Zabaleta, Santiago, Chile, actor

Ken Baker, birthplace unspecified, American journalist/former Us Weekly west coast bureau chief

Lisa LoCicero, Grosse Pointe, Michigan, actress/twitterer

Lisa Phillips, Belfast, Northern Ireland, porn star

Marco Sprinz, Haltern am See, West Germany, soap opera actor

Mira Husseini, birthplace unspecified, American publicist

Sean Harry, London, England, theater actor

Tess Merkel, Nyköping, Sweden, singer

Thomas Kaiser, Oslo, Norway, TV actor

W. Robert Millar, Vernon, British Columbia, assistant location manager/cartographer

Willie Roaf, Pine Bluff, Arkansas, NFL football player



New Jersey: birthplace of cinema.


Specifically, West Orange, New Jersey, birthplace of Today’s Winner. In just 108 years, New Jersey cinema has progressed from this to this. Though I try to stay away from Wikipedia links, the Edison’s Black Maria article is a good example of the kind of thing Jimmy Wales and company routinely knock out of the park. Concise, yet suggestive, and chock full of interesting mystery.


How on earth is it that we haven’t had a Thomas Edison biopic in seventy years? An eight-part HBO miniseries seems about right. Even in 1940 MGM needed two movies with two different actors, Mickey Rooney and Spencer Tracy, to begin to tell the story.


I see Edward Norton as the star, or perhaps John Cusack.


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