Five mood boosting assignments culled from showbiz anniversaries today. Try these exercizes at home won't you, and report back? Nobody does but I'm dying to hear stories on how it went!
May 22nd
2011 The 64th Cannes Film Festival closed with Christopher Honore's sorta musical The Beloved starring Ludivine Sagnier and Catherine Deneuve. Terence Malick's The Tree of Life won the Palme d'Or, Nicolas Winding Refn was Best Director for Drive and Kristen Dunst took Best Actress for Melancholia, and Jean Dujardin won Best Actor for the Artist only to repeat the win at the Oscars several months later.
In The Tree of Life's honor today: perform a very monologue alone in nature about your mother and father. If you don't have nature near you, say it to a plant.
More after the jump including a curious Nicole Kidman and a Bonded Grace Jones...
1992 Far and Away starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman and their Irish accents hits movie theaters.
In its honor today: get swept up in your passions and/or curiousity
1985 A View to a Kill, one of the most cartoonish Bond films, has its world premiere in San Francisco
In its honor today: be as fierce as Grace Jones. This can't be achieved of course but one should always try.
1967 Brooke Smith (the girl in the pit) born! Happy 50th Brooke.
In her honor today: put the lotion on your skin.
1930 Harvey Milk born in Long Island. The gay rights icon and politician would have turned 87 today had he not been assassinated for being gay. But he made the world a better place in his short life inspiring countless activists and LGBT generations to come. And Sean Penn won his second Oscar for playing him in Milk (2008).
In his honor today: Be a fierce advocate for civil rights. (And if you've never seen the 1984 Oscar winning documentary The Life and Times of Harvey Milk just purchase it
OTHER BIRTHDAYS
Divas: Naomi Campbell and Venus Extravaganza ("touch this skin darling, touch all of this skin!"); Actresses: Brooke Smith (the girl in the pit!), Ginnifer Goodwin, Maggie Q, Tao Okamoto, AJ Langer; Actors: Paul Winfield, Sir Laurence Olivier, Nikolaj Lie Kaas ♥︎, Michael Sarrazin, Sean Gunn, Charlie DePew, Michael Kelly; Musicians: Charles Aznavour, Richard Wagner, and Morrissey; Sports Stars: Apollo Ohno, Novak Djokovic; Writers: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ("Sherlock Holmes"), and Hergé ("Tintin")
OTHER ANNIVERSARIES
Palme d'Or wins on this day: I Daniel Blake (2016), L'enfant (2005); Movie releases: John Barrymore as Svengali (1931), Rex Harrison, Susan Hayward, and Maggie Smith in The Honey Pot (1967), Alan Alda and Carol Burnett in The Four Seasons (1981), Ernest Goes to Camp (1987), Christina Ricci slays The Opposite of Sex (1998), The Human Centipede: Final Sequence (2015); TV: The final episode of much loved series Veronica Mars aired (2007),