born 4 July 1970

Andy Collins, birthplace unspecified, British TV host

Ben Ward, Brighton, England, TV writer

Dale Pooler, Stoughton, Massachusetts, location manager

Deep Katdare, Buffalo, New York, actor

Gregory Parker, Indianapolis, Indiana, politician/consultant

James Vieira, Lowell, Massachusetts, painter

Jonathan Wallace, Bossier City, Louisiana, film editor

José Sánchez-Sanz, Madrid, Spain, composer

Marti Matulis, Orange, California, actor

Natalie Fiori, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, fresh meat for “The Bachelor”

Peter Priegann, Kiel, West Germany, actor

Sandra Steffl, Munich, West Germany, actress

Shaley Brooks, Austin, Texas, colorist

Tomasz Lysiak, birthplace unspecified, Polish actor

Tony Gallo, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Anvil enthusiast

Tony Sago, Chicago, Illinois, actor

Vera Gemma, Rome, Italy, actress

The thing that the Anvil movie builds to is so satisfying when it happens that you don’t even care how contrived it is as an ending. Today’s Winner and the director, Sacha Gervasi, may have been the only people who believed that that was a story that needed to be told in the first place. But it was, and Sacha did, and the world is a better place for it.

Today’s Winner, too, has a blog. It’s the classic seldom-update, Andy Rooney-esque irked-by-the-world type of thing, and as an exemplar of its type, it’s kind of awesome.