Happy Birthday

[Ginevra]

[Brenda Starrr]

Happy birthday, you sexy redhead!!!!

[phee]

Happy J day!!!

[Marblez]

Happy Birthday Jarod! Sure you don't want a puppy?

Also celebrating their birthdays today :

WILLIAM MOON • Inventor / Clergyman

18 December 1818

A childhood bout with scarlet fever caused William Moon's eyesight to slowly deteriorate, so that by the age of 21 he was completely blind. He educated blind children with various systems of reading by touch, eventually inventing his own method in the 1840s, known as the Moon Code. Moon settled in Brighton and was a successful teacher, preacher and printer. He made and sold hundreds of books in the new format, including a 60-volume edition of the Bible. Eventually the Braille method became more widespread, but the Moon system is considered easier to learn for those who lose their sight later in life.

MARC RICH • Business Personality / Fugitive

Birth: 18 December 1934

In 1983 businessman Marc Rich was convicted in U.S. federal court of tax evasion, racketeering, and other charges related to Rich's oil deals with Iran during a U.S. embargo. Rich sought asylum in Switzerland. His ex-wife Denise Rich continued to live in the United States, where she was an active supporter of the Democratic Party and contributed money to the presidential library fund of Bill Clinton and to the 2000 Senate campaign of Hillary Clinton. Marc Rich was one of more than 100 people President Clinton pardoned just before leaving office in January of 2001. Rich's pardon prompted a public outcry and Congressional investigations into whether the pardon was given in return for Denise Rich's political contributions.

KEITH RICHARDS • Rock Musician / Guitarist

18 December 1943

Keith Richards and a schoolmate, Mick Jagger, fell in together in the early 1960s and formed a band with Brian Jones. Losing and adding a few other band members along the way, The Rolling Stones made a name for themselves when their up-tempo covers (such as their version of Buddy Holly's "Not Fade Away,") hit the charts in 1963 and 1964. In 1965 Richards and Jagger started writing their own songs and the hits piled up, fueled by Richards' bluesy, chunky guitar riffs. The Stones went on to a legendary career, recording and performing for the next three decades, and Richards lived up to their bad-boy image: hard-partying and indestructibility became his hallmark. The Rolling Stones' hits included "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction," "Jumpin' Jack Flash," "Honky-Tonk Woman," " "Miss You" and "Start Me Up." In 1988 Richards released his first solo album, and since then he has worked both with the Stones and on other solo projects.

STEVEN SPIELBERG • Filmmaker / Movie Producer

18 December 1946

Steven Spielberg got his first contract as a TV director when he was 20 years old. His first TV movie, Duel (1971), was successful enough to earn a theatrical release. Spielberg has since become the most successful movie mogul alive, with directorial credits that include Jaws (1975), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981, co-produced by George Lucas), E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) and the dinosaurs-on-the-loose classic Jurassic Park (1993). His huge box office successes have allowed him to make more serious films also, including The Color Purple (1985), Schindler's List (1993) and Saving Private Ryan (1998). In 1994, with fellow Hollywood moguls Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen, he founded the studio Dreamworks SKG.

BRAD PITT • Actor

18 December 1963

Name at birth: William Bradley Pitt

Sporting the golden-boy glow of Robert Redford and the maxillofacial structure of Kirk Douglas, Pitt became one of the great movie heartthrobs of the 1990s. He got his big break as the sexy scoundrel hitchhiker in the 1991 movie Thelma and Louise (with Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon), and was soon a movie star who didn't always take the starring role. He co-starred with Tom Cruise in Anne Rice's Interview With A Vampire (1994), with Bruce Willis in Twelve Monkeys (1995) and with Harrison Ford in The Devil's Own (1997). His other films include Fight Club (1999), Snatch (2000), Spy Game (2001, with Robert Redford) and Ocean's Eleven (2001, with George Clooney) and the sequel Ocean's Twelve (2004).

DMX • Rapper

18 December 1970

Name at Birth: Earl Simmons

DMX is a hard core rapper from the East Coast school, known for his aggressively brutal raps. DMX's 1998 single "Get At Me Dog" was a top-40 hit, pushing him into the upper tier of popular rappers. The same year his debut album It's Dark, and Hell is Hot went to #1 on the Billboard charts. He followed that album with Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood (1999) and ...And Then There Was X (2000). He also recorded with the Ruff Ryders, a loose conglomeration of hip-hop all-stars. DMX has acted in movies including Romeo Must Die (2000, with Jet Li) and Exit Wounds (2001, with Steven Seagal).

CHRISTINA AGUILERA • Pop Singer

18 December 1980

Aguilera won a Grammy Award as best new artist in 1999, when she was a midriff-baring teen singer in the Britney Spears mold. Aguilera and Spears were both in the cast of TV's The Mickey Mouse Club in the early 1990s, and Aguilera got her first big break singing the song "Reflection" for the soundtrack of the 1998 Disney movie Mulan. Her self-titled 1999 album spawned the sultry single "Genie In A Bottle." Her other albums include the Spanish-language album Mi Reflejo (2000) and the 2002 album Stripped, which included the hit single "Beautiful." Aguilera won a second Grammy in 2001 for her cover (in collaboration with fellow stars Mya, Pink and Lil Kim) of Labelle's "Lady Marmalade" for the soundtrack to the movie Moulin Rouge.

[Jarodaka]

Thanks, guys!

Uhhh.... that's great, Marblez, except that those people have birthdays tomorrow.

[Shade Everdark]

Happy Jarod get-drunk day....I mean birthday!

[ManicQueen]

Happy Birthday

B~

[nodrew]

H-ppy B-rth-ay J-RoD!!

[Marblez]

Tomorrow? What on earth do you mean, Jarod??

doot de doo :whistling:

[gothicmom]

Happy Birthday!

[Jarodaka]

Thanks, everyone!

[Onyx]

Happy birthday~ Oh phooey - I'm late. Hope it was a good one

[Jarodaka]

Thanks, Onyx!

On the shared birthdays, I like to think of myself as a combination of Spielberg's creativity, Brad Pitt's hot looks, and Christina Aguilera's sex appeal. I'm a real renaissance kinda guy like that.

[Nerdcore]

happy late birthday