august 10 famous birthdays
“Let them eat cake.”
Did Marie Antoinette absolutely absolute those crass words, aloft audition the French peasants had too little aliment to eat? On the ceremony of the French queen’s 1783 beheading, we looked to advisers for the answer.
Turns out addition absolutely said it, admitting not Antoinette. Rather, they were the words of Queen Marie-Therese a aeon earlier, said Antoinette biographer Lady Antonia Fraser. But the account went viral, 1600s-style, back peasants got word, and they activated it abundantly to abounding in the monarchy.
The account was “callous and ignorant,” Fraser said of Antoinette in a 2007 speech, “and she was neither.”
It was fun to anticipate so.
Punk pioneer Bob Mould, who started the St. Paul bandage Hüsker Dü as a apprentice at Macalester College, is 57. He’s abandoned now but additionally fronted the bandage Sugar.
Actress Brea Grant of “Heroes” is 36.
Actor Jeremy Jackson of “Baywatch” and “Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew” is 37.
Singer-songwriter John Mayer — who ditched aftermost year’s Prince Tribute concert but we’ll get over that, eventually — is 40.
Actress Kellie Martin —– “”Christy,”” “”Life Goes On”” –— is 42.
Singer Chad Gray of the bands Mudvayne and Hellyeah is 46.
Actor Paul Sparks of ““Boardwalk Empire”” is 46.
Actress Terri J. Vaughn –— ““All of Us,”” “”The Steve Harvey Show”” –— is 48.
Singer Wendy Wilson of Wilson Phillips is 48. She’s the adolescent of Beach Boy Brian Wilson’s daughters in the group.
Actress Pamela Bach-Hasselhoff —– the above Mrs. The Hoff, now afar from the man she met on the “Baywatch” casting –— is 54.
Bassist Michael “Flea” Balzary of the Red Hot Chili Peppers is 55. He additionally played Nihilist #2 in the Coen brothers’ blur “The Big Lebowski.”
Actor Randy Vasquez of “”JAG”” is 56.
Guitarist Gary Kemp of Spandau Ballet is 58.
Actor-director Tim Robbins –— “The Shawshank Redemption, “Mystic River,” “Malice in Wonderland” –— is 59.
Producer-director David Zucker, a Milwaukee native, is 69. His credits accommodate “Airplane!,” “Naked Gun,” “Scary Movie” and the Travel Wisconsin ads featuring Robert Hays of “Airplane!” Go here to see one of the cool ads.
Guitarist Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead is 70. We like his beard extensions at right.
Actor Barry Corbin —– “Anger Management,” “One Tree Hill” –— is 77.
British extra Angela Lansbury is 92. Her credits accommodate “The Picture of Dorian Gray” (1945), “The Manchurian Candidate” (1962), “Bedknobs and Broomsticks” (1970) and, of course, “Murder, She Wrote.”
Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning Irish-American author Eugene O’Neil was built-in on this day in 1888. He’s admired for plays such as “Long Days Journey into Night” and “The Iceman Cometh.” He died in 1953.
Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, artist and wit Oscar Wilde was built-in on this day in 1854. He’s admired for his banana plays such as “The Importance of Being Earnest” and “An Ideal Husband” and the atypical “The Picture of Dorian Grey.” This photo is from May 1889, 11 years afore his death. And here’s our admired of his quotes: “I I can abide aggregate except temptation.”
