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by Kathy Wolfe
If you have a July birthday, you have that in common with all of the following individuals. Tidbits brings you a few lesser-known details about these famous folks.
•Austria-born celebrity chef Wolfgang Pucklearned to cook from his mother, a part-time pastry chef.After immigrating toAmerica atage 25, he worked two years in Indianapolis before becoming a chef in LosAngeles.Hisfirst cookbook was published when he was33. Puck’s first Spago restaurant opened onthe Sunset Strip the following year. He nowhas 19 restaurants. The Beverly Hills Spagohas been on the list of the Top 40 restaurants in the United States since 2004. Puck citesmacaroonsashisabsolutefavoritefood.Hadhe not chosen his current profession, he says he would have liked to have been an artist.
•AlthoughGinger Rogers is most famous forher movie roles as Fred Astaire’s dancingpartner, she only appeared with him in 10 out ofher73films.BornVirginiaMcMath,itwasher ambition to become a schoolteacher, but at 19, she became a Hollywood star almostovernight.At age 60, she still had her highheels on, dancing the Charleston on an episode ofclosefriendLucilleBall’ssitcom.
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ARIES (March 21 to April 19) You’re not Sheepish when it comes to assert-ing your opinions on what you think is right or wrong. Be assured that you’re being heard, and something positive will follow.
TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Your sense of justice makes it difficult not to speak up about a recurring matter involving a co-worker. But, once again, you need facts to back you up before you can act.
GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Romance is still dominant, and if Cupid misfired before, don’t worry. He’ll take better aim at some-one new this time around. Expect favorable news about a financial matter.
CANCER (June 21 to July 22) The zodiac’s Moon Children can expect things to work out pretty much as planned. One negative note involves a minor relationship problem that suddenly turns serious.
LEO (July 23 to August 22) You’re suddenly being asked to make choices between two practically equal offers. Which one to choose? Easy. The one most likely to gladden your Lion’s heart.
VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) Once again, you’re confronted by a workplace problem you thought you’d already resolved. This time, you might need to go higher up to find a just resolution.
LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) Good for you: You’re determined to stick with your goals and ignore those naysayers who might try to discourage you. You’re on the right track. The challenge now is to stay on it.
SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21) You’ll soon get news that is supposed to help you with a troublesome situation. Use your sharp Scorpion instincts to determine if the information is reliable.
SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December 21) If you learn someone has betrayed your trust, don’t just accept it and walk away. You need to know why that person decided to do what he or she did.
CAPRICORN (December 22 to January 19) A painful family relationship problem could finally begin to heal. Be prepared to show more flexibil-ity than you might like. But it could be worth it.
AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18) It’s a good idea to enhance your career skills so you’ll be prepared to accept a more responsible position when it’s offered. A friend returns a favor just when you need it.
PISCES (February 19 to March 20) Show that strong, steely backbone that you usually hide, and demand to be included in any family decision-making that could affect the well-being of a loved one.
BORN THIS WEEK: You can be happy being alone at home. But you also love exploring the world outside and meeting new people and sharing new ideas.
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JULY BABIES (continued):• Original “Saturday Night Live” cast memberDanAykroyd was born and raised in Ottawa,Canada, the son of a policy adviser to PrimeMinisterPierreTrudeau.Aykroydwasbornwithnot one, but two interesting physical conditions — syndactyly (webbed toes) and heterochromia, meaning his eyes are different colors.
•Will Ferrell ismore than just a funny guy, heis also a marathon runner, having competed in severalmajorraces,includingBostonandNewYork.After serving as his high school footballteam’skicker andworkingpart-time as a bankteller,hewentontostudySportsBroadcastingatUSC.Ferrell’sfatherwasabackupmusicianforTheRighteousBrothers.
• Turning 94 this month hasn’t slowed downcomedienne Phyllis Diller, who still appearsoccasionally on television. Although knownfor her wild hairdos, outlandish costumes and cackling laugh, she is also an accomplished pianistandpainter.DuringWorldWarII,Dillerspent her days as a housewife and mother, doing advertising copywriting on the side while her husband worked at a B-24 bomber plant. Shemakesnoattemptstoconcealthefactthatshe’shad at least 15 plastic surgery procedures.
• It wasn’t Lisa Kudrow’s first choice to gointo the entertainment industry. Kudrow, of“Friends” fame, intended to join her physicianfather in themedical field.After receiving herdegreeinbiologyfromVassar,shedidresearchon the causeof headaches for eight years.Herbrother’schildhoodfriend,comedianJonLovitz,convinced her to give comedy a try, and in 2005, she became the highest-paid television actress of all time, along with her “friends” JenniferAnistonandCourteneyCox,earning$1millionper episode of the popular sitcom. :
• Two figure-skating Olympic champions arehavingtheirbirthdaythismonth.DorothyHamillwastheladies’singlesgoldmedalwinnerin1976.Overnightshebecame“America’sSweetheart,”with females across the nation copying her bobbedhairstyle.TheDorothyHamilldollwasintroduced shortly afterward. In recent years, she has penned two autobiographies and has survived breast cancer. Kristi Yamaguchi tooktheOlympicgold in1992, turningprofessionalimmediatelyafterward.ItwasattheseOlympicsthat she met her husband, who was a member of theOlympichockeyteam.Yamaguchi’smother was born in a Japanese internment camp where
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her grandparents had been sent during WorldWar II.Yamaguchiwas thecelebritywinnerof“DancingwiththeStars”initssixthseason.
•RichardStarkeyturns71thismonth.Ifyoudon’trecognize the name, you may have followedhis career asRingoStarr, the drummer for theBeatles from 1962 to 1970. Starr wasn’t theBeatles’ first choice for their percussionist.Hewas already playing in Liverpool with the band RoryStormandtheHurricanes,whilePeteBestwasdrummingfortheBeatles.Starrwasveryillfor much of his childhood and spent two years in asanatoriumrecoveringfrompleurisy.Ifyou’reafanofThomastheTankEngine,you’veheardStarrnarratingthecharacter’sfirsttwoseriesonchildren’stelevision.
•JulybabyDonaldRumsfeldservedasSecretaryofDefenseundertwodifferentU.S.presidents,GeraldFordandGeorgeW.Bush.It’snoteworthythat while attending Princeton University as ayoung man, his roommate was Frank Carlucci, whoalsowentontoserveasSecretaryofDefenseunderRonaldReagan.
•J.K.RowlingpennedthefirstbookoftheHarryPotterseriesasasinglemomlivingonwelfare.Within five years, she was a millionaire. Sheconceived the idea of the boy wizard whilesitting through a four-hour train delay back in 1990.Sevenbooksand4,195pageslater,Forbesmagazine estimates her networth in excess of$1billion.Theserieshasbeentranslatedinto65languages.
• Remembered for her extravagant collection of2,700 pairs of shoes, former first lady of thePhilippines Imelda Marcos is a former MissPhilippines.Toputhershoesinamathematicalequation, if she were to change her shoes three times a day, never putting on the same pair twice, it would take upwards of two years and fivemonths towear themall.SheandherhusbandFerdinand plundered millions of dollars of the country’swealthduringtheir21-yeartenure.
•WalterPayton,oneoftheNFL’smostincrediblerunning backs, played his entire pro football career with the Chicago Bears, shattering league recordsleftandright.Hisfather,afactoryworker,hadplayedsemi-probaseballforatime.Paytonspent his early high school years playing drums in the school marching band, singing in the choir and as a member of the track team. During his NFLcareer, he enjoyedplayingpractical jokeson his fellow Bears and was known to run to the locker room after a game and lock the door,
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EDITOR’S NOTE: DVDs reviewed in this column will be available in stores the week of July 18, 2011.
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MOVIES OF THE WEEK“Limitless” (PG-13) -- What if there was a mysterious drug that could unlock the full po-tential of your mind? Everybody knows that the right answer is to just say “no,” but that never occurred to anybody working on “Lim-itless,” a non habit-forming, underwhelming experience of a movie.Bradley Cooper stars as Eddie, a struggling writer who comes across a clear pill that op-timizes his personality, turning every gleaned fact and forgotten lecture into pure intellect and drive. With his unlimited potential, Eddie can improve his life in every way and demon-strate incredible powers of deduction, yet he still manages to make bad decisions with pre-dictable consequences.The story is adapted from a novel, and suf-fers the usual symptoms of a poorly adapted script -- excessive narration, loose ends, under-utilized characters and more narration. The
voice-over work and smash cuts manage to keep things moving and make “Limitless” a certified thriller.
“Take Me Home Tonight” (R) -- Mov-ies banking on nostalgia should also bring something new to the table, right? Other-wise, why not just watch a movie that was actually made in the beloved time period of your choosing? This is the existential crisis at the core of “Take Me Home Tonight,” a movie dead-set on reminding audiences that the 1980s happened.Topher Grace (“That ‘70s Show,” “Spider-man 3”) plays Matt, a 23-year-old MIT grad whose lack of direction has him working at a video store and living with his parents. Sounds like somebody is in need of a wild night of partying, chasing girls and self-dis-covery. There is some real charm and even a few good laughs, thanks to a supporting cast that includes the dopey hilarity of Chris Pratt from TV’s “Parks and Recreation.”This might have been a funnier, more origi-nal and more noticeable movie if it shed the ‘80s fixation. As it is, “Take Me Home To-
night” doesn’t compare to the enduring charm of its John Hughes inspiration, but that’s a tall order.
“Amelie” (R) [Blu-ray] -- This 2001 French film follows the titular fanciful femme as she finds beauty in the modern world. Audrey Tautou, who you might recognize as the pretty face dominating the “Foreign Language” shelf at the video store, plays Amelie, an eccentric young woman who finds a stranger’s memen-tos in her Paris apartment and decides to re-turn them to their owner. The heart of story is about interpersonal connection and finding love, but it’s all wrapped in pretty packaging and solid art direction, which makes a Blu-ray release seem worthwhile.
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You’ll need:--1 clean, empty half-gallon standard card-board milk, orange juice or lemonade carton with top opened wide. --1 empty and clean liter-size glass sparkling water or wine bottle with top labels removed--Fresh fruits such as a lemon, orange, lime and strawberries.--Fresh dill or mint--Masking tape--Funnel
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Here’s the fun:1. Cut off the top portion of the juice carton if you wish, or keep it in place with the top portion left opened wide. (If you don’t cut it, you could fill it near the top with water so that ice reaches to the bottle’s neck.) Set the bottle in the center of the carton, and fill it a quarter full with water. 2. Let kids tuck sprigs of dill or mint and sev-eral thick lemon, orange or lime slices in the water around the bottle. Set tape over the top of the bottle and attach to outer sides of the carton to keep bottle in place in the center of carton. Freeze. 3. Remove the carton from the freezer, fill with more water, fruit slices and herbs until the water reaches close to the top of the car-ton. Re-freeze.4. To use, tear off the carton with your kids to reveal the surprise creation. You may need to run warm water around the carton, or an adult may cut the length of the carton with a knife to release it easily.5. Set a funnel on the mouth of the bottle and fill it with lemonade or your preferred bever-age. Place the filled ice decanter on a rimmed plate lined with a thin towel. Wrap and tie a cloth napkin around the lower portion of the ice block for easy handling.
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ItwasAmericanpublisherandauthorWilliamFeather who made the following sage observa-tion:“Thepettyeconomiesofthericharejustasamazingasthesillyextravagancesofthepoor.”
Theparentsofonefirst-gradestudentatHamptonDaySchoolinBridgehampton,N.Y.,oncesuedthe school for not assigning homework to their 6-year-oldson.Inavictoryforstudentsevery-where, the parents lost.
You probably know that the Chinese script is made up of ideograms: pictures that represent ob-jectsorideas.Often,wordsareformedbypairingsimplesymbolstoconveyamorecomplexidea.Forinstance,thesymbolfor“eye”combinedwiththesymbolfor“water”createstheword“teardrop.”Pair“mouth”with“bird”andyougetsong.And,interestingly,pairingtwowomento-gethermakesthesymbolfor“quarrel,”andthreemeans“gossip.”
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YoumaybesurprisedtolearnthatPresidentAbrahamLincoln’sson,RobertToddLin-coln, was on the scene of three presidential assassinations.Thefirsttimewasin1865,when he was with his father after he was shot atFord’sTheatre.In1881,Lincoln,whowasthenservingasSecretaryofWar,arrivedatUnionStationshortlyafterPresidentJamesA.Garfieldhadbeenshot.Finally,in1901,hewasatthePan-AmericanExpositioninBuffalo,N.Y.,whenPresidentWilliamMcKinleywasassassinated.
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The vast nation of China is home to half of alltheworld’sdomesticatedpigs.***ThoughtfortheDay:“Ilikelongwalks,es-pecially when they are taken by people who annoyme.”--NoelCoward
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leaving his teammates standing in the cold as he took a long, hot shower. During pileups on thefield,itwasn’tuncommonforhimtountiethe refs’ shoelaces.Off thefield, he loved tocook and play chess and was an accomplished dancer. Sadly, he contracted a rare liverdisease, which progressed into bile duct cancer and claimed his life at age 45.
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OVERCOMING THE ODDS:MICHAEL J. FOX
CanadiancelebrityMichaelJ.Fox,struckdownatthe height of his career, has used his adversity to further thesearch foracure for illness.Herearesome facts about this optimistic individual who has chosen to overcome his disabilities. • TheEdmonton-bornFoxmovedseveraltimesasachild,theresultofhisfather’smilitarycareer,finallysettlinginBritishColumbia.Asa15-year-old, he made his acting debut in a Canadian sitcom,“LeoandMe.”Ashedevotedmoretimeto his passion for acting, his schoolwork was neglectedandbeforelong,hewasflunkingnearlyeveryclass.Hemadethedecisiontodropoutofhigh school to pursue his career, something he nowcallsa“stupidyouthfulmistake.”Hissocialstudies teacher advisedhim, “You’remaking abigmistake, Fox.You won’t be cute forever.”FoxachievedhisGED15yearsafterdroppingout.
• At18,FoxmovedtoLosAngeles.Itwasn’taneasy road as he struggled to make a name for himself, and he lived on macaroni and cheese for months. He had sold all his furniture tosurvive shortly before landing his breakout role asAlexP.KeatononTV’s“FamilyTies”atage21.Overtheseries’seven-yearrun,hecollectedthreeEmmyAwards.Inthemidstofthesitcom,hetookontheroleoftime-travelingteenMartyMcFlyin“BacktotheFuture,”ahugebox-officehit, followed up by two sequels.
• It was on to “Spin City” in 1996, where heportrayedNewYork’sdeputymayor,arolethatearnedFoxthreeGoldenGlobesandanEmmy.
• Itwasduringthefilmingof“DocHollywood”in1991 thatFoxfirstnoticedan incontrollabletwitchinginhisfinger.Shortlyafterward,hewasdiagnosedwithParkinson’sDisease,aconditionhechosetokeepsecret.Onthesetof“SpinCity”he often kept his left hand in his pocket. This degenerative neurological disorder affects one in100peopleoverage60.Foxwas29.Thosewith the disease experience tremors, balanceproblems, slowness, reduced facial expressionand an inability to direct their movements.
• Fox went public in 1998 and underwent athalamotomy, a procedure that surgically destroys a portion of the brain’s thalamus,effective in dramatically reducing tremors.
In 2000, as his symptoms became worse, he announced his departure from “SpinCity.”Heestablished The Michael J. Fox Foundation,devoted to research for a cure for Parkinson’s.He continues to take limited short-term actingroles, as well as providing voices for a variety of popularchildren’sfilms.
• Fox has added best-selling author to his listof accomplishments with the publication of “Lucky Man,” followed by “Always LookingUp:TheAdventuresofanIncurableOptimist.”Hemaintains that staying upbeat is the key tofighting his disease and jokes about brushinghis teeth, saying it’s “like having an electrictoothbrush without the battery.” In his words,“There’s always failure. And there’s alwaysdisappointment. And there’s always loss. Butthesecretislearningfromthelossandrealizingthat none of those holes are vacuums.” Timemagazine has placed him on their list of 100people“whosepower,talentormoralexampleistransformingtheworld.”
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CANADIAN CELEBRITIESManytalented individualscallCanadahome.You’re probably not aware of how manyfamiliarfacesarenativesof“upnorth.”Let’stakealookatjustafew.• RickMoranis played a nutty scientist whoshrunk his kids in the 1989 Disney film,then“blewup”thekidsinthe1992sequel.BorninToronto,Moranisworkedatseverallocal radio stations before branching out into movies. He retired from films in 1997 todevote time to being a single father following the death of his wife from liver cancer.
•Montrealwas thebirthplaceof themanweknow as Captain James T. Kirk of “StarTrek” fame. William Shatner was trainedas a Shakespearean actor, with regularperformancesatOntario’sStratfordFestivalofCanada.Hehit the big screen at age 20in a Canadian film called “The Butler’sNightOff”andmoved into television threeyearslateratage23asRangerBobon“TheCanadian Howdy Doody Show.” He madehisdebutascaptainoftheU.S.S.Enterprisein1966atage35.
• Ontario-born Rachel McAdams, star of“TheNotebook” and “TheTimeTraveler’sWife,”isthedaughterofatruckdriverandanurse.Shefirst excelled infigure skatingcompetitions.Asateenager,shewasactingin summer Shakespearean productions andworking at McDonald’s. She was a topchoicefor the“Bondgirl” in the2006film“CasinoRoyale”butturneditdown.
• British Columbia crooner Michael Bublelonged to be a professional hockey player for the Vancouver Canucks but didn’tbelieve he had the ability. Instead, he worked six summers as a youth as a commercialfisherman. Regularly compared to FrankSinatra,Bublehassoldmorethan25millionalbums worldwide.
• Televisionviewersfirstsawhimasayoungdoctor in his six-year stint on the hospitaldrama “St. Elsewhere.” Today, HowieMandelispopularasthehostof“DealorNoDeal,”boththeU.S.andCanadianversions.This Toronto native is a distant cousin to violinist Itzhak Perlman. He suffers frommysophobia, an irrational fear of germs, and finds it impossible to shake handswith hisgameshowcontestantswithoutlatexglovesand prefers to share “fist pounds.”Mandelalso has attention deficit hyperactivitydisorder (ADHD). In 2009, he released his
• Although best known for his hosting of“Jeopardy!,”Ontario-bornAlexTrebekactuallystarted his television career as a newscaster for the CBC following graduation from the University ofOttawa.Trebekmadehistoryin1991,whenhebecametheonlyhosttomoderatethreedailyU.S.game shows at once — “Jeopardy!,” “ClassicConcentration”and“ToTelltheTruth.”
•YetanotherCanadianhostedawell-knowngameshow for many years, offering contestants the choice of Door No. 1, No. 2 or No. 3.Monte
•WhatdoCanadiansingersAvrilLavigneandGordonLightfoothaveincommon?BothsanginchurchchoirsintheirnativeOntariobeforemaking it big in the music industry.
• NovaScotianativeSarahMcLachlanstartedplaying musical instruments at age 5, beginning withtheukulele.Herdebutalbumcameatage20, and she has sold over 40 million recordings in the 22 years since.
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