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6 November 2009 12:48 PM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

Sing your favorite stars a happy birthday in the privacy of your own home.

Maybe not out loud.

Happy birthday to Ethan, Rebecca and Mike

11/06

Today's filmic / famous birthdays.

If it's your own birthday shout it out. It's your day, after all.

1882 Thomas H Ince actor who became a lifeguard then an actor again until he was a pioneering film director who became a studio mogul until he morphed into Cary Elwes having an affair with Kirsten Dunst ... and then died mysteriously.

1903 June Marlowe lovely brunette who became the Warner Bros proclaimed "Most Beautiful Girl On Screen" and eventually settled in as Our Miss Crabtree

1931 Mike Nichols Second City Improv founder who became a comedian then morphed into one of the most celebrated film directors of the second half of the 20th century. The filmography is kind of uneven, though, right?

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1946 Sally Field a little Pasadena »

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11 June 2009 10:39 PM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »

Screen Gems has snapped up the rights to Beautiful Girl, a psycho-thriller from a most unlikely source: Michael Cunningham, author of worthy, weighty novels like The Hours.Of course, as anyone who sat through Stephen Daldry’s movie version of The Hours could attest, Cunningham would have to go some to come up with anything more terrifying, but with Beautiul Girl, he may well have managed it.It’s a story about a high school girl in her senior year who attracts the attention of her English teacher after she loses a lot of weight (six dress sizes, to be precise). But things start to unravel when the English teacher goes doolally and starts targeting anyone who was cruel to the girl during her heavier days.Sounds intriguing – Cunningham is a fine writer, whose credits also include the novel and screenplay for A Home At The End Of The World, »

2 articles from 2009