Today Clint Eastwood is 90, Chris Elliott is 60, and Paolo Sorrentino is 50. Today is also the birthday of Colin Farrell, Brooke Shields, Tom Berenger, Lea Thompson, Susie Essman, Eric Christian Olsen, Sharon Gless, Jonathan Tucker, Sebastian Koch, Joe Namath, and the late Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who would be 75, Don Ameche, Walt Whitman, Denholm Elliott, Jim Hutton, Alida Valli, Fred Allen, John Bonham, Jack Holt, Barbara Pepper, Madge Blake, and Menahem Golan. William Castle died 43 years ago in 1977 at age 63. Jean Stapleton died seven years ago in 2013 at age 90.
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