FameCrawler : celebrity birthdays

(Almost) Like A Virgin: Happy 50th Birthday Madonna!

sweatpantsmom — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 23:10:00 GMT

Okay, maybe you can't even mention her in the same sentence as the word 'virgin', but I still say Madonna looks pretty good for a 50-year-old mother of three. The Material Girl celebrates her half-century mark today, and birthday tributes are all over the web.

MSNBC.com says the pop icon surpasses the Beatles in terms of her musical influence. (Although they quickly point out that it's her "impact on the course of pop music that bests the Fab Four, not her sociological importance, songwriting skills or recording innovations.")

People.com has a photo gallery of Madonna's looks over the years that makes me want to get out my torn stockings and rubber bracelets.

USmagazine.com shows us other actresses who have also recently celebrated the big 5-0. Some of them look as good as Madonna, and some of them look, uh, worse.

CNN.com even has an online poll titled, "Madonna Turns 50: Is She Better Than Ever?" Sorry, Madge, but the current results say 74% NO, and 26% YES. Better get Gwyneth and your other pals to log on and vote.

ET.com is reporting that the Birthday Girl and husband Guy Ritchie celebrated last night by attending a service at a Kabbalah center in England. Like A Prayer!

[photo: USmagazine.com]

Madonna Gets An Early Birthday Present

sweatpantsmom — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:05:00 GMT

Madonna, who turns 50 on August 16, got an early birthday present from her home state of Michigan - more than 500 fans sang "Happy Birthday" to her. That's Madonna there on the left.

The Material Girl is seen here at the Fourth Annual Traverse City Film Festival with founder Michael Moore. "You can take the girl out of Michigan but you can't take Michigan out of the girl," Madonna told the hundreds of fans gathered in a theater for the premiere of her documentary I Am Because We Are, about orphans in Malawi.

You know, I once had hundreds of people sing "Happy Birthday" to me, too. Well, actually it wasn't "Happy Birthday," it was "Take Me Out to The Ballgame." Okay, so it wasn't really just for me, it was being sung at a baseball game by hundreds of drunk fans trying to get on the JumboTron. Hey, a girl can dream, can't she?

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Happy Birthday Suri!

sweatpantsmom — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:15:00 GMT

Little Suri Cruise turns two years old today! (For those of you living under a rock, Suri is the daughter of Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise. For those of you who have been cryogenically frozen for the past 25 years, Tom Cruise is the guy who was in "Top Gun", believes in aliens and sleeps with a picture of L. Ron Hubbard over his bed.)

I love little Suri, and hope she has the best birthday ever. According to OK! magazine, Tom and Katie will be throwing her a crazy party. "Katie is so excited — she's taking care of every last detail," says a friend of Katie's "You can count on special things like individual place settings and festive bunting. And when Katie plans a party, she plans a party!"

(What the hell is 'festive bunting?' Is that Scientology-speak for 'cups loaded with booze'?)

Happy Birthday Suri!

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Party Crashers: Britney Spears' "Birthday Bash" Is As Fake As Her Hair

sweatpantsmom — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 14:05:00 GMT

OK! Magazine claims to have the "Exclusive Inside Britney's Birthday Bash." But after reading this article, what it looks like is Brit's friends were too cheap to throw her a party, so they crashed someone else's instead.

OK! reports that Sharon Stone was hosting an event at a Bel Air mansion Saturday night to introduce Scandinavian products to the U.S. market. At around 10pm Spears arrived with her entourage that included Sam Lutfi and Alli Sims and after "hitting the gifting area" proceeded to take over a table on a back patio. At one point the group returned to their car (I say it was to get the cake out of the trunk) and after they returned "the birthday girl was presented with a small, round chocolate cake with 'Happy Birthday Britney' written on it. Her friends at the table and a handful of guests — including OK! reporters — gathered around to sing 'Happy Birthday.'"

Birthday Bash? More like a bunch of cheapskates who crashed someone else's party, loaded up on the sponsor's free loot and then turned it into a party for themselves. I can't believe Sharon Stone didn't go all Basic Instinct with an ice pick on their freeloading asses.

The evidence is in the picture above; the cake was obviously just brought in since it's still in the box. If it was a party for Britney, why wasn't there a cake already there for her?

[photo: People.com]