Today Philip Kaufman is 85. Today is also the birthday of Ryan Reynolds, “Weird Al” Yankovic, Emilia Clarke, Sam Raimi, Ang Lee, Dwight Yoakam, Margaret Qualley, Cat Deeley, Alex Gibney, Pelé, Amandla Sternberg, Meghan McCain, Nancy Grace, and the late Johnny Carson, Michael Crichton, Coleen Gray, Diana Dors, Frank Sutton, Una O’Connor, Grant Imahara, Hayden Rorke, Gummo Marx, and Harold P. Warren. Al Jolson died 71 years ago in 1950 at age 64. Oskar Werner died 37 years ago in 1984 at age 61.
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