Happy Birthday Mickey Mouse!

The iconic rodent first appeared on cinema screens in animator Walt Disney’s “Steamboat Willie” released in 1928.

Since then, Mickey Mouse has featured in films, TV shows, video games and lots of merchandise.

Mickey is a character who wears shoes, shorts and strange white gloves, he lives in a house, drives in a car and has a pet dog called Pluto. In itself, it is rather strange that a mouse has a dog as a pet. Even if it’s a small dog, it still means Mickey is enormously disproportionate in size for a mouse.

Over the years Mickey Mouse has been a symbol of different things at different times. In the Great Depression, Mickey symbolized the American endurance and ability to rise above defeat.

Mickey and Charlie Chaplin both represented the iconic ‘little man’ who – along with hope and optimism inhibited spunkiness and a rudeness to authority.

As Disney’s empire grew, Mickey became the MC, the circus ringmaster for other characters like Donald Duck and Goofy.

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Celebrated actor of stage, screen and small screen John Arthur Lithgow celebrates his 63rd year on Earth today.

John Lithgow is 6′4″ tall and is the son of a retired actress and father, not a basketball player. His family moved frequently throughout the Midwest in his childhood until his father became head of the McCarter Theater in Princeton, New Jersey when John was 16 years old.

After attending Harvard, Lithgow became an established and succesful Broadway actor winning his third Tony in 1988 for “M. Butterfly” several years after receiving an Academy Award nomination for the portrayal of the transgenerd character ‘Roberta Muldoon’ in “The World According to Garp” in 1982 and another nomination in 1982 for his role in “Terms of Endearment.”

In the 90’s Litghow anchored the successful series “3rd Rock from the Sun” winning three Emmy’s and a Golden Globe Award for his role.

Next up, Lithgow will appear in “Confessions of a Shopaholic” which will release on February 13, 2009 and stars Isla Fisher.

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Bruce Willis is 53 years old today.

The actor born Walter Bruce Willis and later nicknamed “Bruno” was born in West Germany, but grew up in New Jersey.

The actor who has appeared in films that have cumulatively grossed over $2.5 billion dollars got his start as a bartender and was discoverd by a casting director.

The big break for Willis came landing the role of “David Addison” opposite Cybill Shepherd in the hit romantic comedy TV series “Moonlighting” which premiered in 1985.

From there, Willis theatrical career blew up as he embodied “John McClane” in the Die Hard film in 1988.

Willis was married to actress Demi Moore and they share custody to their three children.

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Blind jazz pianist Bob Ringwald’s youngest daughter Molly was listed as one of the “Promising New Actors of 1984″ – she was 16-years-old. 

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