Happy Birthday to Belgian singer Kate Ryan (1980), "Run Lola Run" actress Franka Potente (1974), singer/songwriter Rufus Wainwright (1973), "Joe Dirt" star David Spade (1964), "Moulin Rouge" actor John Leguizamo (1964),

Monday, June 16 The Middleman (ABC Family, 8 p.m.) - Javier Grillo-Marxuach (Lost, Medium)

Adam McKay is a big player in the world of comedy. The former SNL head-writer co-wrote and directed Will Ferrell in the films Anchorman and Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. Now he's taking on a greater role as a producer, helping people's visions be seen by a larger audience.

Artists and record labels have a symbiotic relationship. The artist has something to say, the label provides a means to have it be heard by the audience. How the artist/label relationship comes to be is often different. For comedian Michael Showalter, it was an almost telepathic desire for both the artist and the record label to work together that ended in

It takes a feature-length film to fully capture Homer Simpson's stupidity and The Simpsons Movie does it! One of the top grossing films of all time, The Simpsons Movie has generated more than $500 million globally and will be available worldwide on DVD and Blu-Ray Disc (BD) Internationally on December 3 and in North America on December 18 from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment.

The universe of ''The Simpsons'' - outlandish, yellow and absent of normal human growth - has sketched with parodying perfection the struggle of family life, the exploitation of a neighbor's good will and the bizarre qualities of school bus drivers, to name just a few of its accomplishments.

LOS ANGELES (AP) - For a cartoon comedy dependent on how much ruination one homely yellow family can cause, there's an awful lot of drama behind ''The Simpsons.''

Happy Birthday to Belgian singer Kate Ryan (1980), "Run Lola Run" actress Franka Potente (1974), singer/songwriter Rufus Wainwright (1973), WWE star Shawn Michaels (1965), "Joe Dirt" star David Spade (1964), "Moulin Rouge" actor John Leguizamo (1964), R&B singer Keith Sweat (1961), Savatage singer/Trans Siberian Orchestra composer Jon Oliva (1960), guitarist Al Di Meola (1954), Eagles drummer/singer Don Henley (1947), "Lethal Weapon" actor Danny Glover (1947), "The Muse" star Albert Brooks (1947), Supertramp keyboardist Rick Davies (1944), Ronettes singer Estelle Bennett (1944), funkmaster George Clinton (1941), Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek (1940), "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" actress Louise Fletcher (1934), US Senator Bob Dole (1923), English film director James Whale (1893; d. 1957), and painter Edward Hopper (1882; d. 1967).