"A Different World," a half-hour sitcom about students at fictional Hillman College, was on the air from 1987 to 1993. It was the creation of Bill Cosby and originally served as a spin-off venue for then Cosby kid Lisa "Denise" Bonet.

Happy Birthday to actress Maggie Gyllenhaal (1977), figure skater Oksana Baiul (1977), actress Martha Plimpton (1970), Cosby kid Lisa Bonet (1967), Canadian jazz singer Diana Krall (1964), pitcher Dwight Gooden (1964), CSI Marg Helgenberger (1958), and acting great Burgess Meredith (1907; d. 1997).

Alfred Hitchcock's legendary 1960 shocker Psycho has inspired an upcoming spin-off TV series, The Bates Motel. Amy Winehouse's new Tears Dry On Their Own video, which features the British singer strolling down Hollywood Boulevard, was directed by photographer/filmmaker David LaChapelle.

* Tara Reid is to play a temptress in her brother's new movie, opposite sporting hard men Vinnie Jones and former American footballer Eddie George. As the lead in “Honestly,” the actress will play a private investigator who tests husbands and boyfriends' fidelity by offering to sleep with them. Shooting will begin this summer.

Happy Birthday to actress Maggie Gyllenhaal (1977), figure skater Oksana Baiul (1977), actress Martha Plimpton (1970), Cosby kid Lisa Bonet (1967), Canadian jazz singer Diana Krall (1964), pitcher Dwight Gooden (1964), CSI Marg Helgenberger (1958), and acting great Burgess Meredith (1907; d. 1997).