Happy Birthday to Simple Plan guitarist Jeff Stinco (1978), Backstreet Boy Howie Dorough (1973), "Lost" actor Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (1967), Alice in Chains singer Layne Staley (1967; d. 2002), singer/songwriter Tori Amos (1963), Tears For Fears singer Roland Orzabel (1961), Ratt bassist Juan Croucier (1959), Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid (1958), actor Colm Feore (1958), Grateful Dead singer Donna Jean Godchaux (1947), "Laverne and Shirley" actress Cindy Williams (1947), actress Valerie Harper (1940), "Brokeback Mountain" author Annie Proulx (1935), Sci-Fi writer Ray Bradbury (1920), bluesman John Lee Hooker (1917; d. 2001), British actor Hugh Paddick (1915; d. 2000), and French composer Claude Debussy (1862; d. 1918).
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts held its traditional tea party at The Four Seasons in Beverly Hills on Sunday. Penelope Cruz, Kate Winslet, Toni Collette and Emily Blunt were just some of the stars who came out to sip on tea and nosh some English favorites like fish and chips wrapped in newspaper and cucumber finger sandwiches. The party-goers were in good spirits and willing to chat. Here's highlights:
Kate Winslet called the many awards-season events "fantastic. I try and stay calm and keep my shoulders back."
Fantastic Four's Ioan Gruffudd was on the lookout for Winslet, with whom he (kind of) co-starred nearly a decade ago in Titanic. "I was the one with the flashlight pulling her onto the lifeboat as the ship went down," he recalled with a giggle.
Emily Blunt [who is nominated for Best Supporting Actress for The Devil Wears Prada] turned to her crooner beau, Michael Bublé, to quiet her jitters. "It's been my job to calm her down," said Bublé, as Blunt placed her hand on his shoulder.
Emily Blunt is barely recognizable without the red hair and brightly colored eye shadow she sported in The Devil Wears Prada. She has some stiff competition from Toni Collette, Abigail Breslin, and Jennifer Hudson but the one thing she does have over those three? She's British! Stay tuned for the winners - The show is February 11th. For more pics including Chiwetel Ejiofor, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Ioan Gruffudd, Forest Whitaker, Michael Buble and more just
Looks like the third time really is the charm, at least in terms of "Lost" cast members attempting to beat the Honolulu legal system. Which, admittedly, is a fairly specific niche.
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, better known by the much more diminutive and spell check-friendly name of Mr. Eko on the ABC megahit, managed to get two charges of traffic violations against him dropped Tuesday.
The 39-year-old small screen vet became the third actor off the primetime series to get arrested on traffic violations Sept. 2, when he was ticketed for both driving without a license and for disobeying an officer.
Charges of driving without a licence in Hawaii were dropped against Lost star Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje after his attorney's proved the actor has a licence.
The episode airing Oct. 11 also will explain what happened to Locke, Desmond and Eko, played by Terry O'Quinn, Henry Ian Cusick and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje respectively, when a hatch collapsed on them in last season's finale....
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, who plays Mr. Eko on "Lost," spent six hours in jail after he was caught driving without a license. He was also arrested for disobeying a police officer.
The "Lost" crew certainly know how to find themselves in traffic court.
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, who plays the possibly deceased moose wrangler cum doctor Mr. Eko, was arrested early Saturday morning in Waikiki, becoming the third cast member from the hit ABC show to be arrested on a traffic violation.
The 39-year-old Akinnuoye-Agbaje, who also starred in "Get Rich or Die Tryin'," was picked up at 2:25 a.m. for disobeying a cop and driving without a license, after which he spent six hours in jail before posting $500 bail. He is scheduled to appear in district court Sept. 26.