Today Jean-Paul Belmondo is 85, Jay Chandrasekhar is 50, and Elle Fanning is 20. Today is also the birthday of Kristin Stewart, Dennis Quaid, Cynthia Nixon, Jenna Jameson, Jay Baruchel, Michael Learned, David Gordon Green, Sebastian Silva, Isaac Hempstead Wright, Marty Krofft, Mark Pellegrino, Isabel Coixet, and the late Hugh M. Hefner, Michel Simon, Ward Bond, Paul Robeson, Brad Dexter, and Brandon De Wilde. Sidney Lumet died seven years ago in 2011 at age 86.
Winchell's Film Column 