Curated playlist
1967 births
- Nicole KidmanNicole Kidman was born on the 20th of June 1967 in Honolulu, Hawaii, and was given the Hawaiian name Hōkūlani, which means heavenly star. The inspiration for the name was a baby elephant born around the same time at the Honolulu Zoo. Since…
- Julia RobertsJulia Roberts was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on the 28th of October 1967. Her hospital bill was paid by Coretta King, whose children attended an acting school run by Julia's parents. The Roberts family was struggling with money at the time.…
- Yukito KishiroYukito Kishiro had published his first manga by the time he was seventeen. Battle Angel Alita followed in 1990.
- Akihiko YoshidaVaan in Final Fantasy XII was first drawn as rugged and tough. The team later made him younger and thinner.
- Philip Seymour HoffmanPhilip Seymour Hoffman was an American actor whose career the director Joel Schumacher summed up in 2000 with bad news and good news. Schumacher put it this way: "The bad news is that Philip won't be a $25-million star. The good news is…
- Goro MiyazakiGoro Miyazaki was hired to draw storyboards and ended up directing Tales from Earthsea.
- Mark RuffaloMark Ruffalo has been nominated four times for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, which ties a record. Each nomination came for a different kind of man. Ruffalo is an American actor and producer, and the road to that record was…
- Vin DieselAt seven, Vin Diesel broke into a New York theater to vandalize it. The director caught him and offered him a role.
- Takehiko InoueTakehiko Inoue left college at twenty and drew a basketball manga that sold over 170 million copies.
- Kurt CobainKurt Cobain turned 14 on the 20th of February 1981, and his uncle put a choice in front of him. He could have a bicycle or a used guitar. Kurt took the guitar. Soon afterward he was attempting Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven," then…
- Benicio del ToroBenicio del Toro gained more than 40 pounds for one film role and lost 35 pounds for another.
- Tony McNamara (writer)The television series The Great began as Tony McNamara's 2008 stage play about Catherine the Great.
- R. KellyBeneath the Chicago "L" tracks, at the Jackson stop on the Red Line in the Loop, a young school dropout named Robert Kelly sang for passing commuters. Decades later, as R. Kelly, he had sold more than 75 million albums and singles…
- Yoko ShimomuraYoko Shimomura turned down a music store job to write video game music. Her family and instructors were dismayed.
- Tim SchaferTim Schafer landed his first game job by mailing a comic strip. It showed him getting hired at Lucasfilm Games.
- Michael GiacchinoMichael Giacchino used pieces of a real airplane fuselage as instruments on Lost.
- Tim DonaghyThe FBI found NBA referee Tim Donaghy by accident while chasing something else.
- Martin BryantMartin John Bryant, an Australian born on the 7th of May 1967, shot and killed 35 people and injured 23 others at the Port Arthur Historic Site on the 28th and the 29th of April 1996. Today he is held at Risdon Prison in Hobart, Tasmania,…
- Brian Michael BendisWriter Brian Michael Bendis stretched Spider-Man's origin into seven issues. Peter Parker waits until issue five.
- John RomeroJohn Romero hid his own voice and severed head inside Doom II. The final boss's reversed roar was his voice.