I don't know of anyone of note born on my birthday. I'm not gonna look it up, because I would have already made a mental note of anyone noteworthy.

Of course, as I've pointed out many times ... my daughter Shanti shares a birthday with Walt Disney, which made for many fun Disneyland trips during her wonderful childhood.

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As for things most people I'm friends with can never remember ... I hold high among 'em - Woodstock, Beatlemania, Richard Nixon's resignation, JFK's assassination, Star Wars summer, and in general - the 60's!

And how much generosity does one man deserve?

Speaking, in that context, of movies, and maybe this is just me since I was only 16 at the time and not particularly well versed in movie history yet - but Pulp Fiction. To me it has always felt like a landmark movie, after which the entire filmmaking landscape was changed.

Elizabeth Tudor
Herman Hesse
René Lacoste
Thurgood Marshall
Imelda Marcos
Dave Thomas (the Wendy's guy)
Polly Holliday
Richard Petty
Vicente Fox
Larry David
Jerry Hall
Mark Kermode
Ashley Tisdale
Lindsay Lohan

Good one, for sure.

Big enough that I was able to disguise a horrible haircut by lopping it off, myself and dying my hair dark, a la Miss Mia Wallace.

And it was cool.

RStar

Riot Grrls
"Just Say No"

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I share birthdays with:

• Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Alfred Nobel
• Martin Gardner
• Dizzy Gillespie
• Carrie Fisher

Jack Kerouac and Francois Truffaut both died on anniversaries of my birth.

Really, Pulp Fiction?


Merely a blip, I'd say. I don't remember weeks of people lining up for hours, or constant talk about it, or pop culture after-effects galore.


Within 4 brief years, I lived through The Exorcist, Jaws and Star Wars. These were films that changed the world. Pulp Fiction may have influenced cinema .... but, to bring it back around to the original tangent of the topic at hand ... it's too bad so many of my friends didn't get to groove on the absolute MANIA of the 3 films I mentioned. Pulp Fiction had no such effect.

Not to cast aspersions on its quality as a film ... merely as a phenomena