Today John Irvin is 80, and Randall ‘Tex’ Cobb is 70. Today is also the birthday of Traci Lords, Breckin Meyer, Asghar Farhadi, Amy Heckerling, Mark O’Brien, Ned Bellamy, Michael Rosen, Ruggero Deodato, Nicholas Hytner, Lucile Hadzihalilovic, and the late Gary Cooper, Anne Baxter, Val Lewton, David Tomlinson, Darren McGavin, George ‘Gabby’ Hayes, Ishirô Honda, Robert Hegyes, Marilyn Burns, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Johannes Brahms, and Robert Browning. Ray Harryhausen died seven years ago in 2013 at age 92.
