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Hip-Hop artist Nelly (1978)

NEW YORK (AP) - Hey, you hockey puck. Yeah, YOU! Don Rickles - Mr. Warmth, the Merchant of Venom - has been on best-seller lists for five weeks.

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Pirate films are almost as old as movies themselves. There was Douglas Fairbanks as ''The Black Pirate'' in 1926. Errol Flynn was ''Captain Blood'' in 1935. In 1952, Burt Lancaster became ''The Crimson Pirate.'' Thirty years later, Kevin Kline was the Pirate King in 1983's ''Pirates of Penzance.''

Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger's gay kiss in Brokeback Mountain has been voted the best screen kiss of all-time. The controversial embrace beat other famous clinches from romantic classics including Gone With The Wind and Dirty Dancing to top the online poll conducted by a DVD rental company. Top 10 Below!

Happy Birthday to Country music star Erika Jo (1986), Hip-Hop artist Nelly (1978), Canadian singer k.d. lang (1961), Hart to Hart actress Stefanie Powers (1942), politician Pat Buchanan (1938), actor Burt Lancaster (1913), 29th President of the United States Warren G. Harding (1865), 11th President of the United States James K. Polk (1795), Queen of France Marie Antoinette (1755), and frontiersman Daniel Boone (1734).

Burt Lancaster's embrace with Deborah Kerr on the beach in From Here To Eternity has topped a poll of the most memorable screen kisses. The 1953 smooch beat out competition from Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst's kiss in Spider-Man, which was voted into second place by 3,000 movie fans surveyed by cosmetic dentists Glee in London.

Turner Classic Movies (TCM) struts its stuff in August with the annual Summer Under the Stars festival, a month-long celebration during which each day is dedicated to one of Hollywood’s most enduring personalities. This year’s festival is bigger than ever, with more than 400 movies and specials featuring 31 top stars.

Samuel L. Jackson was so frustrated while studying at Georgia's exclusive Morehouse College, he experimented with acid in a bid to beat his boredom. The star fought against the highbrow all-black establishment. He says, "Being in Morehouse was oppressive. Martin Luther King Jr. was an alumnus and they were trying to create a certain kind of black person - the 'creme de la creme' of blacks."