If I had been born on this day...

If I had been born on this day...

...50 years ago, I'd be one of the best looking actors in Hollywood, partnered with one of the best looking actresses in Hollywood with 6 kids and jetsetting all over the world trying to do good, just like Brad Pitt.

...67 years ago, I'd be one of the most influential directors in Hollywood and worth 1.3 billion dollars, just like Steven Spielberg. 

...35 years ago, I'd be Joey Potter on Dawson's Creek and then years later I'd get married in an Italian castle, then file for divorce after just 5 years from the wacky, yet handsome, Tom Cruise....but walk away with $15 million, just like Katie Holmes.

....59 years ago, I'd be an actor with intense blue eyes, who appears and disappears in an Iowa corn field into Field of Dreams, just like Ray Liotta. 

....33 years ago, I'd be a former Mickey Mouse Club member with a very big voice, now worth $90 million, just like Christina Aguilera. 

....70 years ago, I'd be an old rocker  and member of one of the most famous and wealthiest rock bands in the world and own 1,000 guitars. Then I'd portray Capt Jack Sparrow's dad, Capt Teague in a very popular pirate movie and I'd  live a hard partying lifestyle and make it to 70 even though no one would think I would.  And I'd prove that you don't have to necessarily be handsome to get a model for a wife, just like Keith Richards. 

Happy 64th Birthday Don Johnson!

 

Dear Don,

I know you've done other work besides Miami Vice, but I'll always think of you in your pastel tshirts under a white Armani suit, sleeves pushed up, no socks, slip on loafers, and Ray Bans. Oh and the ever-lasting 5 o'clock shadow!

Your Miami Vice style epitomized the 80's. And who can go to an 80's themed party without seeing a few men in "Sonny Crocket" wear?! 

If I could, I'd send you a nice pair of socks for your birthday. Naaaw, just kidding! You were a style icon. Why ruin a good thing? Hoping you still dress like the Sonny Crocket I know and love! Have a wonderful 64th birthday! 

Regards, Mrs Love 

Happy 59th Barry Williams!

Dear Barry Williams, aka Greg Brady, aka Johnny Bravo:

Shocking to think that you're 59 today!  And just to help you celebrate... 

"F-F F-I-L L-L L-M-O O-O O-R-E Fillmore Junior High!

F-F F-I-L L-L L-M-O O-O O-R-E Fillmore Junior High! (repeat 10 more times)

Sorry, I couldn't help myself. And every time I drive through Fillmore, UT, I still shout out that cheer in your honor!

You're the grooviest!

Regards, Mrs Love

Happy 54th Jason Alexander!

"I'm disturbed, I'm depressed, I'm inadequate, I've got it all!"

--George Costanza

Happy 54th Birthday Jason Alexander!  What?!  Your real name is Jason Greenspan?  I thought it was Art Vandalay...Or George Cantstandya...Biff Loman?

Thank you for the character George Costanza, which I enjoyed from 1989-1998 and will continue to enjoy forever and ever! Yada, yada, yada...

Regards, Mrs Love

Happy 40th James Marsden

Dear James Marsden,

Happy 40th Birthday today. Considering you got your start on "Saved By The Bell: The New Class," I'd say you've done pretty well for yourself. And you're still easy on the eyes. 

And speaking of eyes, watching the X-Men movies, I kept saying to my kids: "Is that guy ever going to take off those weird sunglasses?" Sorry, Mr. Cyclops, I was never much of a comic book fan. 

And for the record, James, in The Notebook, I would've picked you over Noah (aka Ryan Gossling) any day!

Regards, Mrs Love 

Happy 40th Birthday Andrew Lincoln!

Dear Andrew Lincoln,

Happy 40th Birthday to you today!

I want you to know that because of your scene in the film "Love Actually," every Christmas I open my front door hoping you'll be standing there on my doorstep with your cue cards. Will you be here this year? I'll be anxiously waiting.

Regards, Mrs Love

Happy 77th Birthday Robert Redford

Mr. Redford, 

I've known since I was 13 years old when I first saw you in "Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid" that I would be your devoted fan for my entire life! Even the day I saw you at the Sundance Ski Resort during my college years didn't change anything. Being the serious college student that I was, I took ski classes in the morning and in the afternoon...so chances that I see you would be much greater. And on the day I saw you in the resort, I was quite surprised at how short and thin you were. However, I can assure you that didn't change anything! 

On the day I got married to my husband in 1983, a friend of mine saw my husband and said: "I see you married your Robert Redford!"...yep, I was always partial to blondes with blue eyes, just like you. I'm forever your fan...even now that you're old and quite wrinkled. (hey, but who isn't!) 

A friend of mine saw you once recently and noticed how much your face has aged, and said: "He looks like he's had a happy life...You can tell he's done a lot of smiling." I hope that's what people will say about me.

Happy 77th Birthday! I'm sure you agree! I look better in this photo than Barbra Streisand did!

Regards, Mrs Love 

Happy 68th Birthday Steve Martin!

"I wanted to expand my life in the way Leonardo da Vinci did. And that's why I took up juggling.

I know what you're saying you're saying: Steve, where do YOU find time to juggle?

Well, I juggle in my mind.

...whoops!" --SteveMartin

Dear Steve,

Hoping you found time to juggle on your 68th birthday yesterday!  I wish I'd known you when you lived in Garden Grove. I know we would've been great friends...if I'd been born. From one Orange County-an to another...

Regards, Mrs Love

PS. Happy to report I've read ShopGirl 100 times...and counting! 

Happy 69th Birthday Sam Elliott!

Dear Sam Elliott, 

Have you ever fallen in love with a voice? And every time you hear that voice your heart skips a beat? <sigh> Probably not.  Well I have. I fell in love with your voice (and your moustache too!) in 1976 when I saw you in Lifeguard. <swoon>

Today you are 69 and your voice still makes me swoon!

I think tonight calls for a Sam Elliott movie marathon! Conagher, Tombstone, Gettysburg, Mask...just to name a few. 

And quite honestly, your voice makes me want to go out and buy a Dodge Ram and I would, except for the fact that my husband works for Ford! Sorry Sam, if I bought I Dodge, my husband might leave me. :(

Happy 69th Birthday!

Regards, Mrs Love 

Happy 72nd Birthday Martha Stewart!

Happy 72nd Birthday Martha Stewart...I'm still trying to be "a good thing!"

Dear Martha,

Happy 72nd Birthday! 

Many years ago, I got to meet you at a book signing event at the South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, CA. I took my 2 daughters with me. They were so little then. Anyway, as we waited in the long line, anxiously hoping to meet you, my daughter Julie was standing in the path where you were to come through. Suddenly you and your entourage came through and you had to ask my daughter to move. You put your hand on her shoulder and said, "Excuse me, dear." Julie looked up and saw you face to face. She said wanted to scream!

When my daughter returned to the line where I was, she was so excited to tell me what had just happened. Two men who were in line behind us, heard the whole story, screamed and told my daughter to never wash her shoulder again! Now that's taking it a bit too far! Yes, Martha, we are fans, not psychopaths! 

Have a wonderful birthday with your grandbabies!

Regards, Mrs Love

Happy 48th Birthday JK Rowling! Success looks great!

Dear JK, Joanne, Jo, or Robert Galbraith:

I may be a muggle ...but so are you! I just wanted to wish you a Happy 48th Birthday! 

How wonderful it is to be so entertaining to so many readers...children and adults alike. Growing up, I don't remember going crazy about any books. Maybe Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys. Other favorites...All Creatures Great and Small, Jonathan Livingston Seagull. Thank goodness I had JRR Tolkein and Stephen King.

I was going to say that I wish you lots of luck in your writing career, however I don't think that's necessary. After all, you've had a true "rags to riches" life story--going from living on state benefits to multi-millionaire status within five years. According to one website your net worth is $1 billion. Not too shabby! As I can tell from this photo, success looks good on you! (or perhaps you can now a really good stylist!)

My favorite quote from Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire...

Albus Dumbledore (aka you!) said it best:  "It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be."

You've certainly proven that!

Regards, Mrs Love 

Happy 44th Birthday Simon Baker!

Dear Simon,

Remember me?  A couple of years ago I was at the Warner Bros. lot and you were just leaving your trailer to go to work on The Mentalist.  I yelled, "Simon!"  But you didn't look.  I yelled it again.  Still no response.  Then I yelled, "I love you!" and you looked...just as I snapped this picture.
What? You don't remember?

That's ok.  I'll remember it always.  That was such a fun, wonderful day hanging out at the Warner Bros. lot.  Beware, Mr. Baker...you never know where you're goin to see Mrs. Love!
Happy 44th Birthday!
Regards, Mrs Love

Happy 84th Birthday Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

July 28, 2013

Dear Jacqueline,
Today would have been your 84^th birthday.  Sadly, you left us in 1994 at the age of 64. 

I have been your fan for many years.  I’ve read many books about you.  In fact, I bought another one today, as I was thinking about you. 

When I was giving tours at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, I would show visitors the letter you wrote to Richard Nixon after the assassination of your husband.  You were thanking him for a letter he had written to you.  It’s handwritten…which always impressed me.  I also loved the replica of the Lincoln Sitting Room in the Nixon Library.  I always made sure that visitors knew that it looks just as you designed it.  It’s very comfortable and beautiful.  That room stayed the same through many presidential administrations after you lived there…until Hilary Clinton had it changed. 

Having read so much about you I understand not everyone is your fan.  You were a very complex and private person.  I believe we can learn from another’s life, reading about their experiences and accomplishments…as well as their heartaches and challenges.   Your life was so different from my own, but I’ve learned from it. 

I wasn’t raised in the “glamorous life.”  My family didn’t have a Park Avenue apartment or an elegant family estate in East Hampton. You had a comfortable living, surrounded by maids, butlers, nannies and chauffeurs.  I grew up in a small town in southern California in a modest tract home.  We were expected to do our own chores and most of the time our mother chauffeured us around in her big blue Ford station wagon.  I’ve never lived in the White House.  Today I live in a condo.

One thing I know we have in common….you loved books.  So do I.  You were known as a voracious reader.  So am I.  I remember the words your son, John Jr. said shortly after you passed away.  He said you were surrounded by your family, your friends and your books.  I hope that is how I will leave this world…with my favorite things around me--my family, my friends, and my books…well, it’ll probably be my Kindle.

Regards, Mrs Love

Happy 49th Birthday Sandra Bullock!

Dear Sandra,

Happy 49th Birthday!

The first time I saw you was Oct. 17, 1989. Do you remember? I was a member of the "live, studio audience" of a short-lived sit com you were starring in: Working Girl. The reason I recall the date? Because as I was arriving at the studio, someone told me that there had been a huge earthquake in San Francisco. It was later called the Loma Prieta earthquake and it measured at 6.9.

 

That's how I remember seeing you. I was clapping and doing my best at laughing at all the jokes as I sat in the audience. (By the way, I'm an AWESOME live, studio audience member!) However, that night, I kept wondering about that earthquake. Growing up in Southern California, I've been in many earthquakes, and I knew that was a bad one! 

I also remember thinking you were so pretty. I'd never heard of you, but I thought you were very funny. Sorry that sit-com didn't last. 

Then I saw the film, "Speed," and told my husband, "Hey, it's that girl from that sit-com I saw years ago!" Loved you in Speed! And each time I drive the 105 freeway near LAX I still look for a speeding bus with you driving it! 

Hope you enjoyed your birthday today! You look wonderful and I think have gotten BETTER with age! I'm happy you're a mother now. And if you need me to set you up with some decent men (unlike Jesse James) I know a few who'd be interested! Love you!

Regards, Mrs Love

Happy 66th Birthday Steven Forbes!

Dear Steven,

I remember meeting you in the elevator at the Nixon Library many years ago. You were campaigning for the Republican presidential nomination. I think it was 2000. Remember me? I was the lady staring at you as we shook hands. I was trying to see if you would blink. 

You see, that's one of the 3 things I remember about you. 1) you don't blink. 2) you are an example of how a person can get into politics even when they're not the most handsome....however, Sen. Mitch McConnell is a good example of that too!  And 3) you're a gazillionare. 

No, you didn't blink that day. I checked. One day if we meet again, let's have a staring contest. You might win, but I'd be a good competitor! 

And next time you decide to put tons of money into a campaign and it doesn't pan out for you...why not send it to a better cause. Me!

Happy 66th Birthday! 

Regards, Mrs Love

Happy 37th Birthday Fred Savage!

The cute little kid who said this is 37 today...

"They’re kissing again. Do we have to read the kissing parts?"

Happy Birthday Fred Savage! You grew up! Hope you finally got past the kissing stuff. 

As you wish...

Regards, Mrs Love

Happy 73rd Birthday Ringo Starr!

Dear Richard "Ringo Starr" Starkey,

Happy 73rd Birthday! You look great! Sorry I just found out about the noontime "Peace and Love" moment so I'll do it at midnight tonight in your honor! Two things I must tell you...Loved going to a Who concert in 2002 and seeing your son Zak at the drums...and you're still my favorite Mr Conductor for Thomas The Tank Engine and Friends! 

Peace and Love!

Regards, Mrs Love

Happy 47th Birthday John Cusack!

Dear John Cusack,

I always look out my window when I hear rain pouring at night, hoping to see you holding up a boom box with Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes" blasting. Hey, it could happen!

I'll be waiting and watching, Mr Cusack! Have a Happy 47th Birthday!

Regards, Mrs Love

Happy 64th Birthday Meryl Streep

Dear Meryl,

I don't get jealous of many people but I'm jealous of you...for this! Happy 64th Birthday to one of the greatest actresses ever!

Regards, Mrs Love

Happy 71st Birthday to Paul McCartney...the "cute" Beatle!

Dear Paul,

When the Beatles hit "When I'm Sixty-Four" was released in 1967, age 64 must've seemed super old to you then, Sir Paul. After all, you were just 25! Lol!

"Will you still need me, will you still feed me, When I'm sixty-four?"

When you did turn 64 in 2006, you were in the midst of a messy divorce from wife no. 2...so the answer to that question was NO. 

However, now you seem much happier with wife no. 3, so maybe you should change the lyrics to:

"Will you still need me, will you still feed me, When I'm seventy-one?"

Ok, it doesn't sound all that great but the answer would now be YES!

Regards, Mrs Love