Happy Birthday to "Scrubs" actor Donald Faison (1974), MTV/talk show host Carson Daly (1973), Barenaked Ladies singer Steven Page (1970), Mighty Mighty Bosstones singer Dicky Barrett, "The Da Vinci Code" author Dan Brown (1964),

Viggo Mortensen is leading the race to replace Kevin Costner in the sequel to Dances With Wolves.

Happy Birthday to "Scrubs" actor Donald Faison (1974), MTV/talk show host Carson Daly (1973), Barenaked Ladies singer Steven Page (1970), Mighty Mighty Bosstones singer Dicky Barrett, "The Da Vinci Code" author Dan Brown (1964), B-movie actor Bruce Campbell (1958), INXS bassist Garry Gary Beers (1957), "Chico and the Man" star Freddie Prinze (1954; d. 1977), 80s pop singer Cyndi Lauper (1953), "Dances With Wolves" actor Graham Greene (1952), "The Bionic Woman" star Lindsay Wagner (1949), prolific screen star Meryl Streep (1949), singer/songwriter Todd Rundgren (1948), singer/actor Kris Kristofferson (1936), director Joseph Papp (1921; d. 1991), Austrian born director Billy Wilder (1905; d. 2002), actress Marguerite De La Motte (1902; d. 1950), and Italian baroque composer Francesco Manfredini (1684; d. 1762).

Val Kilmer, Steve Zahn, Rachel Griffiths, Karl Urban, Graham Greene, Linda Cardellini and Elizabeth Banks will star in Comanche Moon, a new six-hour mini-series based on the book by Larry McMurtry, the prequel to the multiple Emmy Award-winning mini-series Lonesome Dove. The series has started production in Santa Fe, NM, for broadcast on CBS.