Today Bob Dole is 95, Orson Bean is 90, and Terence Stamp is 80. Today is also the birthday of Willem Dafoe, Albert Brooks, Danny Glover, David Spade, John Leguizamo, Louise Fletcher, Selena Gomez, Paul Schrader, Rhys Ifans, Alex Trebek, Alan Menken, Jaime Camil, Adam Godley, Peter Jason, Olivier Gourmet, and the late James Whale and Dan Rowan. Ulrich Mühe died eleven years ago in 2007 at age 54. Estelle Getty died ten years ago in 2008 at age 84. Dennis Farina died five years ago in 2013 at age 69.
Winchell's Film Column 