It’s the birthday

… of Tommy Lee Jones. He’s 59. Jones has been nominated for the Best Supporting Actor twice, winning for The Fugitive, but not for JFK.

… of Oliver Stone, also 59. Stone has been nominated for seven Oscars and won three — he won for writing for Midnight Express and for best director for Platoon and Born on the Fourth of July.

And of Jackie Cooper; he’s 83. Cooper’s first appearance in film was in 1929; his last 60 years later. He played Perry White in the Superman films but his real fame was as a child actor, most notably Jim Hawkins in Treasure Island (1934). He was nominated for the best actor Oscar for Skippy in 1931. This is the role where the director got him to cry on camera by telling Jackie (falsely) that his dog had just been run over by a car.