What's Birthday Got To Do With It?

Cinematic birthdays to celebrate on this day, 11/26. If its your special day, we dedicate a Tina Turner song to you.

Peter, Arjun and La Cicciolina

1922 Charles M Schultz, Peanuts!
1933 Robert Goulet, actor/singer
1951 La Cicciolina, provocateur. Don't you think she needs a biopic? OK, maybe a few decades from now and by some fringe director, once the MPAA ratings system has completely broken down
1966 Garcelle Beauvais, beautiful blacktress
1972 Arjun Rampal, award winning Bollywood actor and spurned Kidman love interest
1973 Peter Facinelli, actor, underwear fan, patriarch vampire
1974 Tammy Lynn Michaels, former actress, current Mrs. Melissa Etheridge
1986 Trevor Morgan, actor

And finally, let's give it up for the legendary Tina Turner. You're simply the best... ♪ you're better than all the rest... better than anyone... anyone i ever met. She turns the big 7-0 today. You know she coulda been in more pictures had she wanted it post Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome. Loved her as 'Auntie Entity'. But since she didn't really care about acting, at least she let others do it for her. All hail the great Angela Bassett, Tina's cinematic counterpart in that fiery Oscar nominated star turn in What's Love Got To Do With It (1993). What's your favorite Tina Turner song? Sing it out in the comments. I'll start...

You better be good to me
That's how it's gotta be now
Cause I don't have no use
For what you loosely call the truth
You better be good to me...

That's mine! Not from a movie alas. Not that I don't love her movie songs and since this The Film Experience, let's hear 'em. Here's the underrated "I Don't Wanna Fight" from her biopic and the classic "We Don't Need Another Hero" from Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome

Nicole Kidman "What Did You Expect?"

I meant to post this Schweppes commercial starring Nicole Kidman months ago and forgot. It's not exactly breaking news but there must be some of you who haven't seen it and it makes me smile so why not share? Better late than never. It had me mentally flashing to her Chanel commerical, Eyes Wide Shut (the unzipping), Moulin Rouge! and even Slumdog Millionaire (little Latika co-stars)



Kidman's love interest in the commercial is Bollywood actor Arjun Rampal and I love this quote he offers up about her because whatever could it mean exactly?

She was only there for three days in Udaipur but kept herself always fit. She is when she is in front of the camera.