The Birthday Thread

Mike Bulgakov

G.O.A.T.
Happy birthday a light day away to Anna Karina.

BornHanne Karin Blarke Bayer
22 September 1940
Frederiksberg, Denmark
Died14 December 2019 (aged 79)
Paris, France

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Mike Bulgakov

G.O.A.T.
Marty should direct both Danny DeVito (exactly one year younger) and Rachel McAdams in a film about 17 November birthday cinema stars.
Marty can make a love story about fate bringing together a down-on-her-luck woman and an aging career criminal in search of redemption.

Rachel McAdams finds out that her dancing monkey NFT, bought for two million dollars, is now worth three cents, and is fired by Twitter on the same day. She goes on a bender that night. The next morning, she wakes up in jail, accused of a crime she didn’t commit on a night she can’t remember.

Career criminal Danny DeVito is her only alibi. He agrees to help her clear her name, and as he guides her through the criminal underworld in search of the man who set her up, they fall madly in love. Rachel and Danny test the limits of sexual exploration as they escape into a shared intoxicating passionate madness. This graphic romantic thriller will be rated NC-17.
 

stringertom

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Marty can make a love story about fate bringing together a down-on-her-luck woman and an aging career criminal in search of redemption.

Rachel McAdams finds out that her dancing monkey NFT, bought for two million dollars, is now worth three cents, and is fired by Twitter on the same day. She goes on a bender that night. The next morning, she wakes up in jail, accused of a crime she didn’t commit on a night she can’t remember.

Career criminal Danny DeVito is her only alibi. He agrees to help her clear her name, and as he guides her through the criminal underworld in search of the man who set her up, they fall madly in love. Rachel and Danny test the limits of sexual exploration as they escape into a shared intoxicating passionate madness. This graphic romantic thriller will be rated NC-17.
I hope Rachel doesn’t look down too hard on DDV.
Maybe the altitudinally challenged actor can convince Marty to allow Jersey Mike’s to do the daily catering on set.
 

stringertom

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Ah.
It was Radeks birthday the other day.

Could not get myself to search for this thread. Or couldn't escape another threat.
Eye wondurr how mini slices uv pi whirr served two the birthday buoy. Eye nose hee prefurrs Czech pi butt hee shood knot limit hymnselph two home cooking. Juiced stay aweigh frum Minnie’s pi!
 

Mike Bulgakov

G.O.A.T.
Drop by Jim's studio apartment at Père Lachaise for his birthday party!

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(Tuesday, December 8, 1970, studio booked for beginning at 3:30 p.m. PST) — Jim Morrison, lead singer of The Doors rock band, celebrated his 27th (and what would turn out to be his final) birthday tonight at Village Recorder Studio C in Los Angeles, reciting his own poetry.

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It was the second (and what would turn out to be the final) professional studio recording made of him reading his poetry, given to Morrison as a birthday gift by Frank Lisciandro, a close friend.

At one point during the session, Morrison was assisted by friends Kathy Lisciandro and Florentine Pabst on vocals.

The recordings of this session and another session from Feb. 9, 1969, would be used to make up the raw materials for the posthumous release An American Prayer, a 1978 album featuring a new musical backing by the surviving members of The Doors (Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger and John Densmore).
https://retronewser.com/2020/12/08/...th-birthday-by-formally-recording-his-poetry/

 
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stringertom

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Drop by Jim's studio apartment at Père Lachaise for his birthday party!

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(Tuesday, December 8, 1970, studio booked for beginning at 3:30 p.m. PST) — Jim Morrison, lead singer of The Doors rock band, celebrated his 27th (and what would turn out to be his final) birthday tonight at Village Recorder Studio C in Los Angeles, reciting his own poetry.

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It was the second (and what would turn out to be the final) professional studio recording made of him reading his poetry, given to Morrison as a birthday gift by Frank Lisciandro, a close friend.

At one point during the session, Morrison was assisted by friends Kathy Lisciandro and Florentine Pabst on vocals.

The recordings of this session and another session from Feb. 9, 1969, would be used to make up the raw materials for the posthumous release An American Prayer, a 1978 album featuring a new musical backing by the surviving members of The Doors (Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger and John Densmore).
https://retronewser.com/2020/12/08/...th-birthday-by-formally-recording-his-poetry/

Sad that fellow 8 December child Kim Basinger’s star did not shine by the time The Lizard King left us.

I wonder if Jimmie would have been willing to do a duet of The Candy Man with Sammie Davis Jr, also a 8 December child. Would fellow 12/8 baby Sinead O’Connor approve? Maybe if Teri Hatcher offered a dramatic interpretation of the fun derived from being born 17 days before Christmas. Dwight Howard could dunk on anyone disagreeing on the theme. Mary Queen of Scots could easily lose her head in the melee.
 

Mainad

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stringertom

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Let’s do a chorus of Sweet Caroline for birthday boy Neil Diamond (82):

Sweet Caroline, good times never seemed so good
I’ve been inclined to never believe they would
Oh no


can you believe that Sharon Tate would be 79 today if Manson hadn’t been a cult leader capable of inducing murderous acts out of his crew?
 

stringertom

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If Ellen DeGeneres still hosted her show she could have hosted a seance for fellow 26 January party peeps Paul Newman (98 had he made it) and Eddie Van Halen (68). Hockey icon Wayne Gretzky and basketball legend Vince Carter could have dropped by too.
 

Mike Bulgakov

G.O.A.T.
Farrah Fawcett would have been 76 today.

Christie Brinkley is 69 today.

Groundhog’s Day is a big one for former mega models, no?
Don't forget the brilliant James Joyce! Sláinte!

Born2 February 1882
Rathgar, Dublin, Ireland
Died13 January 1941 (aged 58)
Zurich, Switzerland


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JAMES JOYCE’S WHISKEY CONNECTIONS
13 June 2019 by Richard Woodard

With Joyce, rarely is anything quite as simple as it first appears, and this applies to the author’s use of whiskey- and distillery-related themes in his works.

Even Joyce’s love of whiskey is open to question. He didn’t drink at all as a young man and, during the years he spent in Trieste, Rome, Zurich and Paris, was fonder of wine than spirits. Joyce especially loved white wine – ‘electricity’, he called it – but abhorred red (‘beefsteak’), singling out for particular praise an obscure Swiss white wine, Fendant de Sion.

Whatever his feelings for whiskey in general, there is no doubting Joyce’s loyalty to Jameson. He is said to have had ‘JJ’ in the Jameson typeface engraved in his wallet, and semi-cryptic allusions to the Jameson name litter Finnegans Wake: ‘Jhem or Shen’, ‘Jhon Jhamieson and Song’, ‘Juan Jaimesan’, and so on.

Despairing that he might never finish the work – Finnegans Wake took fully 17 years to complete – Joyce suggested in a letter to his publisher, Harriet Shaw Weaver, that Dublin poet James Stephens be approached to help with the task:

‘If he consented to maintain three or four points which I consider essential and I showed him the threads he could finish the design. JJ and S (the colloquial Irish for John Jameson and Son’s Dublin whisky [sic]) would be a nice lettering under the title.’

What was so special about Jameson that set it above its Dublin rivals of the time, including John Power, George Roe and William Jameson? Joyce had a ready explanation for fellow writer Gilbert Seldes:

‘All Irish whiskeys use the water of the Liffey; all but one filter it, but John Jameson’s uses it mud and all. That gives it its special quality.’
https://scotchwhisky.com/magazine/culture/25971/james-joyce-s-whiskey-connections/

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