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Wednesday, 23 December 2015

Thomas Lennon (American actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer and director)

* Thomas Lennon is best known as a cast member on MTV's The State and for his role as Lieutenant Jim Dangle on the Comedy Central series Reno 911!.

Lennon has appeared in dozens of other TV shows, in supporting roles in dozens of films, and has done various voice work. In 2008, Lennon started doing stand-up comedy, during which he will sometimes play guitar.

Lennon is also a screenwriter and script doctor. Most of his screenplays are written in collaboration with partner Robert Ben Garant. Their films have earned over $1.4 billion at the worldwide box office.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Thomas Patrick Lennon, 9 August 1970, 14:00 (2pm) CDT (+5), Oak Park, Illinois, USA (41n53, 87w47). ASC: 20 Scorpio. RR: A (from memory). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes him in an interview: "I was born at Oak Park Hospital August 9, 1970 at 2 pm." ("From Reno 911 to The Odd Couple: Our Exclusive Interview with Chicagoan Thomas Lennon" by Chicago History, 15 April 2015 [online]).

Sunday, 8 November 2015

Buster Keaton, 1895–1966 (American actor, vaudevillian, comedian, filmmaker, stunt performer, writer)

* "Buster" Keaton was best known for his silent films, in which his trademark was physical comedy with a consistently stoic, deadpan expression, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face."

Critic Roger Ebert wrote of Keaton's "extraordinary period from 1920 to 1929, [when] he worked without interruption on a series of films that make him, arguably, the greatest actor-director in the history of the movies."

His career declined afterward with a dispiriting loss of his artistic independence when he was hired by MGM, which resulted in a crippling alcoholism that ruined his family life. However, he recovered in the 1940s, remarried and revived his career to a degree as an honored comic performer for the rest of his life, earning an Academy Honorary Award in 1958.

Keaton died of lung cancer on 1 February 1966, aged 70, in Woodland Hills, California.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Joseph Frank Keaton, 4 October 1895, 03:00 (3 AM) CST (+6), Piqua, Kansas, USA (37n55, 95w32). ASC: 29 Leo. RR: A (from memory). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes Keaton's father in an interview, "BUSTER SMILES FOR THIS SCRIBE: Keaton Pleased With Success of 'Battling Butler'," by Alma Whitaker, Los Angeles Times, 29 August 1926, p. C19: "So papa told how Buster was born at 3 a.m. on one hurricane night in Pickway, Kan., when their tent was blown away..."

Saturday, 23 May 2015

Norman Chaney, 1914–1936 (American child actor)

* Norman Chaney appeared in nineteen Our Gang comedy films as "Chubby" from 1929 to 1931. The popular, moon-faced Chaney had the Cancerian decan of Pisces on his Ascendant.

In 1935, he underwent treatment for the glandular ailment that had caused his weight to reach 300 lb (140 kg), and his weight subsequently dropped to less than 140 lb (64 kg). Chaney became seriously ill afterward and died from myocarditis at 4 AM on 29 May 1936 at age 21, according to his death certificate.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Norman Myers Chaney, 18 October 1914, 15:45 (3:45pm) EST (+5), Cambridge, Maryland, USA (38n33, 76w04). ASC: 16 Pisces. RR: AA (from birth certificate in hand). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes birth certificate published on the www.normanchaney.com website.

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Friday, 1 May 2015

Rue McClanahan, 1934–2010 (American actress, comedian, author, fashion designer)

* Rue McClanahan's birth certificate has been published on the official website of her estate, showing the time of birth recorded as 7pm and her name as "Eddi-Rue McClanahan." Previously, Frank Clifford quoted a written form filled in by her, with a time of 7:30pm from her mother's memory.

The time of 7pm puts Neptune and the Moon very close to the Ascendant and MC respectively. McClanahan won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series in 1987 for her role as Blanche Devereaux on The Golden Girls (1985–1992).

Thanks to Susan Carmichael for finding the BC.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Eddi-Rue McClanahan, 21 February 1934, 19:00 (7pm) CST (+6), Healdton, Oklahoma, USA (34n13, 97w29). ASC: 12 Virgo. RR: AA (from birth certificate on file). SOURCE: In April 2015, Susan Carmichael found her birth certificate published on the official website of her estate: http://estateofrue.com/catalog/rues-certified-birth-certificate-sold/

Previously, Frank C. Clifford quoted a written form filled in by her, on 20 June 1995, with a time of 7:30pm from her mother's memory.

Saturday, 25 October 2014

Casey Wilson (American actress, comedian, screenwriter)

* Casey Wilson has a rare Slingshot shape in her chart (All the planets are in less that 120° of the circle - actually less than 90° - except for a conjunction of Moon-Chiron in Taurus which is practically unaspected bar an opposition with Mercury in Scorpio). Wilson has laugh-out-loud Jupiter (in the 9th, the house of comedy) conjunct Saturn, ruler of her Capricorn Ascendant. She excels as a comedian, having shot to fame with a two-season stint as a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 2008 to 2009. She was the first SNL cast member to have been born in the 1980s. Her most memorable work on SNL included celebrity impressions of Rachael Ray, Elizabeth Dole, Elizabeth Taylor, Katy Perry, Jennifer Aniston (and so on), as well as sexed-up original characters such as Dusty Velvet, "the paralyzed stripper" and Toni Ward, co-host of "The Cougar Den."

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Cathryn Rose Wilson, 24 October 1980, 13:20 (1:20 PM) EDT (+4), Alexandria, Virginia, USA (38n48, 77w03). ASC: 15 (?) Capricorn. RR: C (approximate time). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes her in an interview: "I ... saw an astrologer (I'm a Scorpio sun, Capricorn rising, which explains a lot)." ("Casey Wilson: Yes, I Slept With My Boss" by Casey Wilson, Cosmopolitan, 14 October 2014 http://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/tv/a32092/casey-wilson-slept-with-boss-essay/). Date and place of birth from articles sourced through her Wikipedia entry. Note: A speculative time of 1:20pm gives mid Capricorn (15 degrees) rising.

Sunday, 19 January 2014

Stephen Fry (English comedian, actor, writer, presenter)

* With a very close and very powerful conjunction of the Sun and Pluto on his 29° Leo Ascendant, Stephen Fry holds sway over the masses. An acclaimed comedian, he has won an Emmy, his books are bestsellers and he wields considerable influence through Twitter, having over four million followers. On the flipside, he has bipolar disorder and has attempted suicide on a number of occasions. Humour is perhaps his greatest asset, while the sextile from Neptune in the first degree of Scorpio to his tight triple conjunction is his saving grace.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Stephen John Fry, 24 August 1957, 06:00 (6 A.M.) BST (+1), Hampstead, England (51n34, 0w11) ASC: 29 Leo. RR: A/B (from Autobiography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes "Paperweight" by Stephen Fry (2004), p. 271: "[My car] is almost precisely my age, having been registered on 23 August 1957. I was born at six o'clock the following day, so today, you may like to note for future reference, is my birthday."

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Wednesday, 25 September 2013

Damita Jo DeBlanc, 1930–1998 (American actress, comedian, lounge music performer)

* Damita Jo DeBlanc was the featured vocalist on recordings from Steve Gibson and the Red Caps during the 1950s. Credited as simply Damita Jo, DeBlanc had some chart success in the early 1960s with two answer songs: 1960's "I'll Save the Last Dance for You" (an answer to "Save the Last Dance for Me") and 1961's "I'll Be There" (an answer to "Stand By Me"). Both songs were originally sung by Ben E. King and made the R&B top 20, and "I'll Be There" also reached number 12 on the pop chart. In 1962 she recorded "Dance With a Dolly (With a Hole in her Stocking", previously made famous by The Andrews Sisters and Bill Haley, for Mercury Records. In 1966 she had a minor hit with a cover of the Jacques Brel song "If You Go Away." She worked with Ray Charles, Count Basie, and Lionel Hampton. And, in 1963, she released a recording for Mercury Records with Billy Eckstine and Bobby Tucker Orchestra. Damita Jo was later involved in comedy and toured with Redd Foxx. In 1998, she suffered a respiratory illness and died on Christmas Day in Baltimore, Maryland.

DeBlanc had a moody Saturn-Moon conjunction in Capricorn on her MC.

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Saturday, 21 September 2013

Grady Nutt, 1934–1982 (American humourist, TV personality)

* Grady Nutt was a Southern Baptist minister, humourist, television personality, and author.

His humour revolved around rural Southern Protestantism and earned him the title as "The Prime Minister of Humor."

Nutt had nutty Uranus on his MC in the 9th, the house of religion and humour.

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Sunday, 7 July 2013

Jay Mohr (American actor, stand-up comedian, radio host)

* Jay Mohr ― the stand-up comedian who has written about his battle with panic attacks in his book, Gasping for Airtime ― has an exact conjunction of Mercury and Pluto in Virgo in semi-sextile with his MC and quincunx his IC. His social anxiety may also have stemmed from the Sun in the first degree of Virgo square the Moon in the first degree of Gemini, particularly considering his Mercury-Pluto aspects.

WIKIPEDIA BIOGRAPHY

Jay Ferguson Cox Mohr (born Jon Ferguson Mohr; August 23, 1970) is an American actor, stand up comedian, and radio host. He is known for his role as Professor Rick Payne in the TV series Ghost Whisperer, the title role in the CBS sitcom Gary Unmarried, which ran from 2008 to 2010, as a featured player for two seasons on the long running sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live, and the back-stabbing sports agent Bob Sugar in Jerry Maguire. As of January 2, 2013, Mohr is the host of Jay Mohr Sports, a daily midday sports radio talk show on Fox Sports Radio.

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