february 20 famous birthdays
“Women of the Prehistoric Planet” was the featured B-movie on “Mystery Science Theater 3000,” the “show that turns cine watching into a beholder sport,” on this day in 1990.“MST3K,” filmed in Minneapolis from 1988 to 1999, and apparent on Comedy Central, helped the apprentice cable approach get on its feet.In the show, its brilliant and creator, Joel Hodgson — who’s featured in today’s altogether slideshow, too — is bedevilled to a activity in space, watching bad movies.He and the apprentice accompany he’s accumulated watch the movies and do the ball annotation — the “movie riffing” the appearance pioneered.“It’s the buttery nougat centermost of the Milky Way,” comes from the peanut arcade as “Women of the Prehistoric Planet” opens with a arena from space.“It’s a catholic sneeze,” says another.Now, Hodgson’s bearing 14 new episodes, acknowledgment to a kickstarter campaign.
Singer and Barbadian adorableness Rihanna is 28 (and apparent afresh with amateur Leonardo DiCaprio.) Click actuality to watch her 2015 video of “Four Bristles Seconds,” with Kanye West and Paul McCartney.
Actor Miles Teller — “Whiplash,” “Divergent,” “The Spectacular Now” — is 29.
Actress Majandra Delfino — “Roswell,” “Friends with Better Lives” — is 35.
Guitarist Coy Bowles of Zac Brown Bandage is 37.
Actress/singer Jessie Mueller is 33. She portrayed Carole King in the Broadway bio-musical “Beautiful.”
Actress Lauren Ambrose — “”Six Anxiety Under,” and now the new “The X-Files” — is 38.
Actor Jay Hernandez — “Nashville,” “”Crazy/Beautiful”” — is 38.
Comedian, biographer and extra Chelsea Peretti of “Booklyn Nine-Nine” is 38.
Singer Brian Littrell of the Backstreet Boys is 41.
Actor Andrew Shue of “”Melrose Place”” is 49.
Actress Lili Taylor — “I Attempt Andy Warhol,” “Mystic Pizza” and now TV’s “American Crime” — is 49.
Supermodel Cindy Crawford is 50.
Actor French Stewart of “”Third Rock From the Sun”” and added recently CBS’s “Mom” is 52.
Former NBA brilliant Charles Barkley is 53.
Bassist Sebastian Steinberg of Body Coughing is 57.
Singer Ian Brown of Stone Roses is 53.
Actor Joel Hodgson is 56. He created and starred in “Mystery Science Theater 3000,” actuality in the Twin Cities in the backward 1980s and aboriginal ’90s. Click actuality to see the Wisconsin built-in angry Los Angeles banana on “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee,” with host Jerry Seinfeld.
Rikki, don’t lose *this* number: Singer-bassist Walter Becker (who co-wrote that song for his band, Steely Dan) is 66.
Actor James Wilby — “Gosford Park,” “Howard’s End” — is 58.
Socialite Ivana Trump, a above Mrs. The Donald, is 67.
Actor Anthony Stewart Head of ““Buffy the Vampire Slayer”” is 62.
Country accompanist Kathie Baillie of Baillie and the Boys is 65.
Brazilian-born extra Jennifer O’Neill of “Summer of ’42” is 68. But not in this photo.
Actor Peter Strauss is 69.
English extra Brenda Blethyn — “Pride and Prejudice” (2005), “Atonement,” TV’s “Vera” — is 70.
Actress Sandy Duncan is 70.
Guitarist J. Geils of the J. Geils Bandage is 70.
Singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie is 75.
Jazz and body accompanist Nancy Wilson is 79.
Actress Marj Dusay of “”Guiding Light”” is 80.
Academy Award-winning amateur Sidney Poitier — “To Sir, with Love,” “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” — is 89.
Socialite and dejected jeans artist Gloria Vanderbilt is 92 but don’t acquaint her artificial surgeon. She’s mom to CNN newshunk Anderson Cooper.
Nirvana accompanist Kurt Cobain was built-in on this day in 1967. He’s apparent during the taping of MTV Unplugged in New York City in November 1993, a year afore his suicide.
Director Robert Altman, who attempt his aftermost cine “A Prairie Home Companion,” in St. Paul in 2006, was built-in on this day in 1925. Other of his credits accommodate “Gosford Park,” M*A*S*H*” and “Short Cuts.” He died bristles months afterwards the premiere of “A Prairie Home Companion,” which took abode in St. Paul.
Cuban accompanist and artist Ibrahim Ferrer, who acquired American admirers via the “Buena Vista Social Club” recordings, was built-in on this day in 1927. He died in 2005.
