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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Alan Menken

Courtesy of Wikipedia Alan Irwin Menken (July 22, 1949) is an American composer, best known for his scores and songs for films produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and Skydance Animation. Menken’s music for The Little Mermaid (1989), Beauty and the Beast (1991), Aladdin (1992), and Pocahontas (1995) have each won him two Academy Awards. He also composed the scores and songs for Little Shop of […]

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Jon Lovitz

Courtesy of Wikipedia Jonathan Michael Lovitz (born July 21, 1957) is an American actor and comedian. He is best known for his tenure as a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 1985 to 1990 for which he was nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards. Outside of SNL, he starred as Jay Sherman in The Critic (1994–1995), has played various roles on The Simpsons (1991–), and

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Corey Feldman

Courtesy of Wikipedia Corey Feldman (July 16, 1971) is an American actor and musician. As a youth, he became well known for his roles in popular 1980s films such as Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984), Gremlins (1984), The Goonies (1985), and Stand by Me (1986). Feldman collaborated with Corey Haim starring in numerous films such as the comedy horror The Lost Boys (1987), the teen comedy License

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Scott Rudin

Courtesy of Wikipedia Scott Rudin (July 14, 1958) is an American film, television, and theatre producer. His films include the Academy Award-winning Best Picture No Country for Old Men, as well as Uncut Gems, Lady Bird, Fences, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Social Network, South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, School of Rock, Zoolander, The Truman Show, Clueless, The Addams Family, and eight Wes Anderson films. On Broadway,

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Harrison Ford

Courtesy of Wikipedia Harrison Ford (July 13, 1942) is an American actor. He has been a leading man in films of several genres and is regarded as an American cultural icon. His films have grossed more than $5.4 billion in North America and more than $9.3 billion worldwide. Ford is the recipient of various accolades, including the AFI Life Achievement Award, the Cecil B. DeMille Award,

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Brian Grazer

Courtesy of Wikipedia Brian Grazer (July 12, 1951) is an American film and television producer. He founded Imagine Entertainment in 1986 with Ron Howard. The films they produced have grossed over $15 billion. Grazer was personally nominated for four Academy Awards for Splash (1984), Apollo 13 (1995), A Beautiful Mind (2001), and Frost/Nixon (2008). His films and TV series have been nominated for 47 Academy Awards and

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Arlo Guthrie

Courtesy of Wikipedia Arlo Guthrie (July 10, 1947) is an American folk singer-songwriter. He is known for singing songs of protest against social injustice, and storytelling while performing songs, following the tradition of his father, Woody Guthrie. Guthrie’s best-known work is his debut piece, “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree”, a satirical talking blues song about 18 minutes in length that has since become a Thanksgiving anthem.

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Fred Savage

Courtesy of Wikipedia Frederick Savage (July 9, 1976) is an American actor and director. He is best known for his role as Kevin Arnold in the American television series The Wonder Years (1988–1993). He has earned several awards and nominations, including People’s Choice and Young Artist Awards. He is also known for playing the Grandson in The Princess Bride and voiced

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Randy Rainbow

Courtesy of Wikipedia Randy Rainbow (born July 6, 1981) is an American comedian and singer. He is best known for spoof interviews that he uploads to YouTube that blend political satire and musical parodies from a liberal perspective. Randy Rainbow was born to a Jewish family in Huntington, New York. Rainbow is his real last name. He grew up in Commack, New

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Ron Goldman

Courtesy of Wikipedia Ronald Goldman (July 2, 1968 – June 12, 1994) was an American restaurant waiter and aspiring actor. A working volunteer with children suffering from cerebral palsy, Goldman appeared as a contestant on the short-lived game show Studs in early 1992. In 1994, Goldman became a friend of Nicole Brown Simpson, the ex-wife of American football player O.

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Lizzy Caplan

Courtesy of Wikipedia Lizzy Caplan (June 30, 1982) is an American actress. Her first acting role was on the television series Freaks and Geeks (1999–2000). She received wider recognition with roles in the films Mean Girls (2004) and Cloverfield (2008), she also starred on the television shows Related (2005–2006), The Class (2006–2007), and Party Down (2009–2010; 2023). From 2013 to 2016, Caplan played Virginia E. Johnson on the Showtime series Masters

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Matthew Weiner

Courtesy of Wikipedia Matthew Weiner (June 29, 1965) is an American television writer, producer, and director best known as the creator and showrunner of the television series Mad Men, and as a writer and executive producer on The Sopranos. Weiner began his television career as a writer on Becker and worked on several other sitcoms before writing the pilot episode of Mad Men as a spec script and joining the writing staff of The Sopranos in 2004.

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Mariano Idelman

Courtesy of Wikipedia Mariano Idelman (June 27, 1974) is an Argentinian-born Israeli actor and comedian. He is well known for acting in the popular TV show Eretz Nehederet. In 1996 he appeared in Dudu Topaz’s stand-up comedy show called The First in Entertainment with Eli Finish and signed a 2-year contract with the show. Click here to read more of

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