Happy birthday to all our Gemini readers!
Saturday, June 6, 2020 at 11:02AM 
by Nathaniel R
Today is my birthday! I don't want anything this year beyond these three things. 1) Safety and continued stamina for all the Black Lives Matter protestors. 2) Good health and continued stamina for the essential workers and anyone battling COVID-19. And 3) Strategic genius and continued stamina for anyone involved in the upcoming elections who wants to right this ship and get that family of narcissist sociopaths and (just as importantly) their legion of enablers out of office. A big ask, I know, but if you dont ask for what u want, how u gonna get it?
OH NO WAIT I DO WANT ONE MORE THING. FROM YOU. In the comments please tell us the very first time you realized you loved an actress too much*.
Reading these over the weekend will surely put a huge smile on my face. Happy early or belated birthday to all you Geminis reading, too! Twin power!
* There is no such thing as "too much" but you know what I mean.
Reader Comments (55)
And coincidentally enough the next major infatuation came with Kathy Bates in About Schmidt. I discovered I wasn't a full six on the Kinsey scale.
Happy belated birthday!
As for actress love... has to be Christina Ricci in ADDAMS FAMILY VALUES. Anyone who SAW the movie knows why I say that. She's perfection in it.
Is it too late to say happy birthday?
I realized that I loved Gena Rowlands too much when I saw Opening Night for the third time in the same week. I was 19.
Happy Belated Birthday, Nathaniel, from me, another June baby Gemini. I'm with you on #1-3. And for #4 I think you've asked this question before in a different way, but my answer is still the same.
Julie Andrews. Lovely, magical, magnificent Julie Andrews. I saw the 10 year anniversary theatrical release of The Sound of Music. My mom let me and a cousin go alone to the old State Theater on El Cajon Boulevard, in San Diego; we were 11. First time seeing the movie, we danced all the way the home, and I was in love. Recently watched Victor/Victoria and the old TV specials with Carol Burnett. I'm still in love with Julie.
Happy Birthday Nathaniel!
Judy! Growing up I only ever saw her early musicals: The Wizard of Oz, Meet Me in St. Louis, and The Harvey Girls. One of my babysitters uses to sing "On the Atcheson, Topeka, and Sante Fe" to get me to go to sleep. (She would also sing "Que Sera, Sera", but that's another story.) When I was 22 and in my first year of grad school in Chicago, I saw A Star is Born for the first time. It was like leaving Dorothy's sepia-toned Kansas farmhouse for the Technicolor brilliance of Oz. I was hooked. I wanted to see every movie she ever made. I still haven't seen Judgment at Nuremberg or Gay Purr-ee. I do especially love A Child is Waiting and I Could Go On Singing.
I'm definitely a friend of Dorothy!