Happy Birthday to the great Barbara Crampton .   For eagle-eyed readers of the site here, we've been on a Crampton-aissance for about a...

  Happy birthday to actor, singer and all-around cool person, Helen Slater .  I missed her birthday yesterday, but what kind of world are we...

  Dick Van Dyke is now 100.  What a delight to do a "at 100" post and have the person still with us and in terrific shape. He...

  Today marks the birthday of Tina Turner , one of the greats of R&B and rock .   Y'all put on her Simply the Best collection and...

1925 marks the founding of what was then the " Missouri Rockets ", in St. Louis, who would swiftly move to New York City and becom...

Today is the birthday of Signal Watch favorite Jamie Lee Curtis .   Happy b-day to actor, director, writer, etc... et al...  Ms. Curtis.  

Today marks the birth of actor and author Ingrid Pitt , born this day in 1937 in Warsaw, Poland . If that date and location seem a bit omino...

We are somewhere in the year of the 100th Anniversary of the release of Phantom of the Opera (1925) , the silent film starring Lon Chaney ,...

  Today marks the 119th birthday of silent film star Louise Brooks .   Here's all of Pandora's Box .

  It is Wallace Shawn's 82nd Birthday.  May he celebrate with close friends.

Back in the day, network TV would air pilots for TV shows if they felt they might be a costly gamble, and then the show would or wouldn'...

Happy Godzilla Day! In 1954 on November the 3rd, Gojira made its debut in Japanese cinemas and changed the world forever.  No, really!  Imag...

  Today marks the birthday of Elsa Lanchester, born this day in 1902.   Lanchester was born in England, participated in bohemian and cutting...

Remembering the great Carrie Fisher on her birthday.

those aren't balloons, they're bubbles of Hubba Bubba Well, we watched 70-something Lacey Chabert movies in the last year, so we...

Today is the birthday of Cassandra Peterson, better known as Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. Peterson doesn't actually get dressed up as E...

Today marks the birth date of Jack Kirby , the mind and pencil that brought us many of our modern myths and legends .   We're big Jack K...

I made a mistake a few days ago and believed that day was Hannah Waddingham's birthday .  It was not.  It is today. So, happy correct b...

Happy 84th birthday to Ms. Darlene Love - one of the greatest vocalists of the past 84 years. Ms. Love was maybe *the* voice that came out o...

Happy birthday to Hannah Waddingham, who has had a busy year - and looks to return next year to TV screens as Rebecca Welton in Ted Lasso S...