Birthday ALARM

Actor Tom Cruise is 45.

Actor Kurtwood Smith (That 70s Show) is 64.
Actor Michael Cole (The Mod Squad) is 62.
Country singer Johnny Lee is 61.
Actress Betty Buckley is 60.
Actress Jan Smithers (WKRP In Cincinnati) is 58.
Talk show host Montel Williams is 51.
Synthesizer player Vince Clarke of Erasure is 47.
Actor Thomas Gibson (Dharma and Greg) is 45.
Actress Hunter Tylo is 45.
Actress Connie Nielsen (Gladiator) is 43.
Actress Yeardley Smith (The Simpsons) is 43.
Keyboardist-guitarist Kevin Hearn of Barenaked Ladies is 38.
Actor Grant Rosenmeyer (Oliver Beene) is 16.

FUN FACT: On this day in 2005, the national law legalizing same-sex marriage took effect in Spain.

Questionable Quotes: Germany Doesn't Like Nazis or the Scientology "cult" or Tom Cruise

Defense Ministry spokesman Harald Kammerbauer said the film makers "will not be allowed to film at German military sites if Count Stauffenberg is played by Tom Cruise, who has publicly professed to being a member of the Scientology cult."

"In general, the Bundeswehr (German military) has a special interest in the serious and authentic portrayal of the events of July 20, 1944 and Stauffenberg's person," Kammerbauer said. Stauffenberg had been deeply opposed to the Nazis' treatment of the Jews and planted a briefcase bomb under a table near Hitler in his "Wolf's Lair" headquarters on July 20, 1944. The film, slated for a 2008 release, will be directed by Bryan Singer and co-star Kenneth Branagh. It is called "Valkyrie" after Operation Valkyrie, the plot's codename. In a statement, Wagner said von Stauffenberg is characterized as a "heroic and principled figure." "We believe it (the film) will go a long way toward reminding the world that even within the ranks of the German military, there was real resistance to the Nazi regime," she said. [source]

Celebrity Clone: Movie Star Edition

Tobey Maguire looks like the next-generation Tom Cruise with those sunglasses. Luckily for Ruby Sweetheart, he's not. Suri, not so lucky.