born 4 December 1970

Benno Nelson, Northfield, Minnesota, documentarian
Bianca, birthplace unspecified, American porn star
Daniel Wolcott, Seattle, Washington, makeup man/actor/magic consultant
David Connolly (died 9 October 2006), Mountainside, New Jersey, actor
Gabriela Skrabáková, Trnava, Czechoslovakia, Slovak actress
Gerald Hartke, Buffalo, New York, writer/director
Jeffrey Bertrand Blake, Daytona Beach, Florida, NFL quarterback
John L. Adams, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, actor
Kathy Perez, birthplace unspecified, American production designer
Kevin Sussman, Staten Island, New York, actor
Kim Labrum, Twin Falls, Idaho, theater director
Mark Belasco, Jersey City, New Jersey, actor
Mathew Lorenceau, Paris, France, stuntman
Michael Wilk, Warren, Michigan, actor
Natanya Moore, Seattle, Washington, actress
Ray Lee, San Francisco, California, actor
Sam Wright, Indianapolis, Indiana, short filmmaker
Sandra Mattie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, actress
Sylvester “Bear” Terkay, Washington, Pennsylvania, wrestler
Todd Meister, birthplace unspecified, ex-husband of Nicky Hilton



I’m really pulling for Today’s Winner, even though it seems possible he’s come kind of Christian fundamentalist nut. The reason I’ve got my hopes high for him is twofold. One, he is making ready his very first film as a writer/director. That’s a green shoot for all of us forty and over; historically, plenty of filmmakers don’t hit their stride until the prime of life. Two, the movie he’s doing appears to be a straight-ahead biopic of the historical Saint Nicholas. Who was Turkish, in case you forgot.

Well, ethnically speaking, he was Greek, but he operated in the part of Greece that became, territorially, Turkey. Centuries after his death and canonization, his body was looted and stolen by Italian midshipmen. Still later, his bones were repatriated to, of all places, Ireland. So it should be an interesting movie, especially if the story takes its subject’s death as a starting point rather than an ending.