Posts under ‘Birthday Skanks’

• Rapper-producer Pharrell Williams is 37.
• Country singer Tommy Cash is 70.
• Actor Michael Moriarty is 69.
• Singer Allan Clarke of The Hollies is 68.
• Actor Max Gail is 67.
• Actress Jane Asher is 64.
• Singer Agnetha Faltskog of Abba is 60.
• Actor Mitch Pileggi is 58.
• Guitarist Mike McCready of Pearl Jam is 44.
• Country singer Troy Gentry of Montgomery Gentry is 43.
• Singer Paula Cole is 42.
• Actress Krista Allen (Baywatch, What About Brian) is 39.
• Country singer Pat Green is 38.

Pharrell Williams, Anna Wintour, Delphine Arnault, and Kanye, as they attend the exposition Hi Panda by Ji Ji Au Palais De Tokyo in Paris, France on Jan. 26, 2010.

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• Actor Ewan McGregor is 39.
• Actor Christopher Walken is 67.
• Actor Richard Chamberlain is 76.
• Actress Shirley Jones is 76.
• Country singer-songwriter John D. Loudermilk is 76.
• Musician Herb Alpert is 75.
• Comedian Gabe Kaplan is 65.
• Actress Rhea Perlman is 62.
• Actor Ed Marinaro (Hill Street Blues, Sisters) is 60.
• Guitarist Angus Young of AC/DC is 55.
• Rapper Tony Yayo is 32.

Pictures below of McGregor on the red carpet for the premiere of The Ghost Writer, during the 60th Berlinale Film Festival in Berlin, on February 12, 2010.

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• Singer Celine Dion is 42.
• Singer Norah Jones is 31.
• Singer Tracy Chapman is 46.
• Rapper MC Hammer is 47.
• Musician Eric Clapton is 65.
• Actor Robbie Coltrane is 60.
• Actor Warren Beatty is 73
• TV personality Peter Marshall is 84.
• Actor Richard Dysart is 81.
• Actor John Astin is 80..
• Drummer Graeme Edge of the Moody Blues is 69.
• Actor Paul Reiser is 53.
• Actor Ian Ziering is 46.
• Country singer Justin Moore is 26.

Pictures show Celine Dion being cheered by fans, exiting her NY hotel, March 10.

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• Actress Lucy Lawless is 42.
• Model Elle Macpherson is 47.
• Comedian Eric Idle is 67.
• Singer Bobby Kimball of Toto is 63.
• Actor Brendan Gleeson is 55.
• Actor Christopher Lambert is 53.
• Singer Perry Farrell of Porno for Pyros and Jane’s Addiction is 51.
• Comedian Amy Sedaris is 49.
• Country singer Regina Leigh of Regina Regina is 42.
• Country singer Brady Seals is 41.
• Singer Kelly Sweet is 22.

Pictures show Lucy Lawless as she attends the premiere of her drama Spartacus: Blood and Sand, along with her co-stars John Hannah, and Andy Whitfield, at the Tribeca Grand Screening Room in New York City, New York on January 19, 2010.

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• Actress Keira Knightley is 25.
• Actor Leonard Nimoy is 79.
• Singer Diana Ross is 66.
• Singer Steven Tyler of Aerosmith is 62.
• Actor T.R. Knight is 37.
• Actress Amy Smart is 35.
• Actor Ernest Thomas Everybody Hates Chris, What’s Happening is 61.
• Actor Martin Short is 60.
• Talk-show host Leeza Gibbons is 53.
• Actress Jennifer Grey is 50.
• Guitarist James Iha Smashing Pumpkins is 42.
• Country singer Kenny Chesney is 42.
• Rapper Juvenile is 35.
• Rapper J-Kwon is 24.

Pictures of Keira Knightley as she leaves the London Comedy Theatre after appearing in an updated production of Moliere’s satire The Misanthrope, Feb ’10.

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Singer Aretha Franklin was born March 25, 1942: singing her 1967 hit Respect.

• Singer Aretha Franklin is 68.
• Musician Elton John is 63.
• Movie critic Gene Shalit is 84.
• Singer Katharine McPhee American Idol is 26.
• Singer Aly Michalka of Aly and AJ is 21.
• Actress Sarah Jessica Parker is 45.
• Actress Marcia Cross is 48.
• Singer Melanie Blatt of All Saints is 35.
• Actor Lee Pace Pushing Daisies is 31.
• Actor Paul Michael Glaser is 67.
• Actor James McDaniel NYPD Blue is 52.
• Saxophonist Steve Norman of Spandau Ballet is 50.
• Actress Brenda Strong Desperate Housewives is 50.
• Actress Lisa Gay Hamilton The Practice is 46.

Aretha Franklin Think (Freedom); this is the official version of the 1968 song.

Pretty much everything that came out of this woman’s mouth in the 60/70s (and beyond, of course) was badass, but below are some of my personal favourites.

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