7 random things that happened on this day, February 13th, in showbiz history...
1972 Bob Fosse's film version of Cabaret is released in theaters becoming an immmediate sensation. We hope you've read Team Experience's super deep dive of this movie -- we love it so. A year later at the Oscars it looks like a sweeper only to lose Best Picture to The Godfather. It retains the record of most Oscars ever won by a movie that didn't win Best Picture with 8 statues in total. The only movie that's come close to tying that record was Gravity (2013) which fell one short. Four films are tied for third in this particular "loser" trivia with 6 wins: Star Wars, A Place in the Sun, and two very recent ones: La La Land, and Mad Max Fury Road...
1996 Tupac Shakur drops "All Eyez On Me," the last completed album of his lifetime (that's also the title of the 2017 biopic they made of him). He was killed seven months later in a drive-by shooting. The album was a huge success shipping over 5 million copies and spawning two #1 singles.
1981 The animated curiosity American Pop, Michelle Pfeiffer's second movie the ensemble comedy Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen (which we've discussed) and the mystery thriller Eyewitness starring William Hurt and Sigourney Weaver are the new movies opening on this unlucky Friday the 13th.
1987 A very broad and very 80s weekend at the movie theaters with both the comedy Mannequin and the action drama Over the Top opening.
1997 The 47th annual Berlinale begins and Oscar-nominated films from 1996 are all the rage. People vs Larry Flynt wins the Golden Bear, Juliette Binoche wins Best Actress for The English Patient, and Leonardo DiCaprio wins Best Actor for Romeo + Juliet.
1998 Romantic comedy hit The Wedding Singer opens starring Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler. It will later be made into a Broadway musical.
2011 The 64th BAFTAs are held with The Kings Speech double-triumphant taking both Best Film and Best British Film. But despite that obsession they gave David Fincher Best Director for The Social Network. A pity that the Oscars weren't that wise.
Today's Birthday Suit
Happy 88th birthday to 50s era superstar Kim Novak of Picnic, Vertigo, and Bell Book and Candle fame.
Other showbiz birthdays today: Mark Patton who recently participated in the documentary Scream, Queen! about his experience on Nightmare on Elm Street 2, Sophia Lillis (It, Uncle Frank), Stockard Channing (Six Degrees of Separation, Grease), George Segal (Fun with Dick & Jane, The Last Married Couple in America), Oliver Reed (Women in Love, Gladiator), Bo Svenson (North Dallas 40, Inglourious Basterds), Kelly Hu (The Scorpion King, Arrow), Susan Oliver (Peyton Place, Star Trek), Sweden's Pernilla August (The Best Intentions, Attack of the Clones), Mark Patton (), Mena Suvari (American Beauty, American Pie), Neal McDonough (Arrow, Minority Report), Richard Tyson (Battlefield Earth, Black Hawk Down), Henry Rollins (Johnny Mnemonic, Heat), Carol Lynley (The Poseidon Adventure, Bunny Lake is Missing), Daniel Portman (Game of Thrones, Robert the Bruce), David Naughton (An American Werewolf in London, Steel & Lace), Patrick Godfrey (A Room with a View, Ever After), Spains Miguel Fernandez (All I See Is You, Family United), talk show host Jerry Springer, pop star Robbie Williams, and rock star Peter Gabriel.