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7 Fun Facts About Babies Born in November
By Allison Lang
November 2021

November brings an essence of gratefulness and appreciation for family and friends. Welcoming a baby during this cozy yet hectic time of the year can be exciting and stressful. Between the bustle of back to school and coordinating plans for the holidays, you may be feeling overloaded at the end of pregnancy. But I can promise that all the pressure will melt away when your new little bundle of joy arrives! You’ll be wrapped around your November baby’s little finger, and your heart will reach a whole new level of gratefulness. Here are seven fun facts about babies born in November.

Fun Facts About November Babies

Centenarians!

According to an article posted on New Scientist, “the month in which you are born can influence the environment in which you develop – inside of the womb and out.” It’s more likely that your November baby will live a long life. The babies born in the fall, November specifically, are the most likely to live to be 100 years old! This may be linked to moms getting a lot of vitamin D from the hot summer months during the baby’s vital development. Or it could be due to the seasonal time in which they are newborns exposing their immune system. Can you picture your baby with one hundred candles on their cake one day!?

November Birthstones

Two beautiful birthstones represent November babies. Topaz, which means “fire,” and citrine, which comes from the word for “lemon.” These stones are a perfect mix of passion and sweetness, like the feelings you may have as a new parent!

Topaz can be colorless, but also light blue, yellow, orange, pink, violet, and a very rare red. The fire, and rare red hue, represent the heart and long life.

Just like a sweet lemon, citrine comes in warm, yellow hues. It’s durable and affordable – which may make it a good gift for baby!

November And The Zodiac Signs

Your early November babies, born between the 1^st and the 22^nd, will fall under the Zodiac sign Scorpio. This water sign is loyal, brave, honest, curious, and independent. Scorpios are strong-willed by nature. Parents should enforce good discipline tactics early to ensure their little Scorpios feel comfortable being themselves and learning!

If your baby comes towards the end of the month, from the 23^rd on, they will be a Sagittarius. Sagittarius babies are risk-takers. They are adventurous and curious but also highly reliable and optimistic! All this spirit likely comes from them being a fire sign. This sign loves the pursuit – so travel and sports are a great outlet for your little Sags!

Chrysanthemums Are The Symbolic Flower Of November

Chrysanthemum is the symbolic flower for November. This bright bushel of blooms is believed to bring good luck and well wishes to the homes in which they are given. Chrysanthemums are a fall staple. They bring smiles to the faces of all who pass them during pumpkin picking outings and sprucing up porches across the country to welcome guests for Thanksgiving. The cheeky nickname of “Mum” is so cute and fitting for welcoming a new baby . . . for Mum to enjoy the plant!

November Babies Have Healthy Hearts

According to a Columbia University study, November babies seem to have healthy tickers! Based on their research, it appears that November babies are less likely to develop heart problems or lung cancer. However, they may be more likely to develop respiratory issues later in life.

November Holidays

Not only does this month host the family-favorite holiday, Thanksgiving, but it also hosts a plethora of informational and celebratory days. Your little one may share their birthday with National Book Lovers Day or World Kindness Day. November celebrates Child Safety Protection Month, Aviation History Month, National Adoption Awareness Month, and World Vegan Month!

November 1^st: All Saints Day, Dios Los Muertos, World Vegan Day
November 2^nd: All Souls Day, U.S. General Election Day
November 3^rd: Cliché Day, Housewife’s Day
November 4^th: Check Your Blood Pressure Day, Hindu Diwali Day, Men Make Dinner Day, Use Your Common Sense Day
November 5^th: Gunpowder Day, Guy Fawkes Day
November 6^th: Book Lovers Day, National Nacho Day, Saxophone Day
November 7^th: Daylights Savings Time (the first Sunday in November)
November 8^th: Cook Something Bold Day, Dunce Day
November 9^th: World Freedom Day, Young Readers Day
November 10^th: Forget-Me-Not Day, USMC Day
November 11^th: Veterans Day, World Origami Day
November 12^th: World Pneumonia Day
November 13^th: Caregiver Appreciation Day, Sadie Hawkins Day, World Kindness Day
November 14^th: World Diabetes Day, Operating Room Nurse Day
November 15^th: American Recycles Day, National Philanthropy Day
November 16^th: International Tolerance Day, Have a Party with your Bear Day
November 17^th: Homemade Bread Day, Take a Hike Day, World Peace Day
November 18^th: Great American Smoke Out
November 19^th: Have a Bad Day Day
November 20^th: National Adoption Day, Universal Children’s Day, Beautiful Day
November 21^st: World Hello Day
November 22^nd: Go For a Ride Day
November 23^rd: National Espresso Day
November 24^th: Evolution Day
November 25^th: Thanksgiving (the fourth Thursday of November), National Parfait Day
November 26^th: Black Friday (the Friday after Thanksgiving each year), Buy Nothing Day, You’re Welcome Day
November 27^th: Pins and Needles Day
November 28^th: First day of Hanukkah (begins on the 25th day of Kislev, which is the ninth month of the Hebrew calendar), Red Planet Day, Advent begins
November 29^th: Square Dance Day, Chia Pet Day
November 30^th: Stay at Home Day

Celebrities Born in November

Some talented and smart people came into the world in November . . . including your new baby! Some historical figures include Marie Curie, the first person (and only woman!) to be awarded two Noble prizes, and known artist Georgia O’Keeffe who specialized in oil paintings and sculpture. Let’s take a look at some celebrities born in November.

November 1^st: Jenny McCarthy, Aishwarya Rai, Penn Badgley, Anthony Kiedis, Rachel Ticotin
November 2^nd: David Schwimmer, Stefanie Powers, K.D. Lang, Nelly
November 3^rd: Dolph Lundgren, Tom Savini, Roseanne, Dennis Miller, Kate Capshaw
November 4^th: Matthew McConaughey, Kathy Griffin, Sean Combs, Ralph Macchio, Markie Post, Doris Roberts, Loretta Swit, Jeff Probst
November 5^th: Famke Janssen, Robert Patrick, Tilda Swinton, Sam Rockwell, Kevin Jonas, Tatum O’Neal, Art Garfunkel, Sam Shepard, Bryan Adams
November 6^th: Emma Stone, Rebecca Romijn, Ethan Hawke, Sally Field, Thandie Newton, Taryn Manning
November 7^th: Adam DeVine, Lorde, Morgan Spurlock, Christopher Knight, Jason London, Jeremy London
November 8^th: Parker Posey, Tara Reid, Alfre Woodard, Michael Nyqvist, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Leif Garrett, Gretchen Mol, Jack Osbourne
November 9^th: Lou Ferrigno, Analeigh Tipton, Chris Jericho, Eric Dane, Nick Lachey, Vanessa Minnillo Lachey, Nikki Blonsky, Fernando Meirelles
November 10^th: Tracy Morgan, Roland Emmerich, Mackenzie Foy, Sinbad, Michael Jai White, Ellen Pompeo, Heather Matarazzo
November 11^th: Leonardo DiCaprio, Stanley Tucci, Demi Moore, Calista Flockhart, Adam Beach
November 12^th: Ryan Gosling, Anne Hathaway, Neil Young, Megan Mullaly, Radha Mitchell, Wallace Shawn
November 13^th: Gerard Butler, Garry Marshall, Chris Noth, Whoopi Goldberg, Steve Zahn, Jimmy Kimmel, Frances Conroy, Joe Mantegna, Devon Bostick
November 14^th: Josh Duhamel, Olga Kurylenko, D.B. Sweeney, Laura San Giacomo, Patrick Warburton, Travis Barker
November 15^th: Shailene Woodley, Ed Asner, Yaphet Kotto, Beverly D’Angelo, Jonny Lee Miller, Sam Waterston, Sean Murray
November 16^th: Maggie Gyllenhaul, Marg Helgenberger, Lisa Bonet, Martha Plimpton, Missi Pyle
November 17^th: Rachel McAdams, Martin Scorsese, Danny DeVito, Lorne Michaels, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Sophie Marceau, Daisy Fuentes, Leslie Bibb
November 18^th: Owen Wilson, Kevin Nealon, Elizabeth Perkins, Mike Epps, Peta Wilson, Chloe Sevigny, Damon Wayans Jr., Delroy Lindo
November 19^th: Jodie Foster, Meg Ryan, Adam Driver, Dick Cavett, Kathleen Quinlan, Larry King, Charlie Kaufman, Allison Janney, Jason Scott Lee
November 20^th: Joel McHale, Bo Derek, Ming-Na Wen, Sean Young
November 21^st: Jena Malone, Goldie Hawn, Nicolette Sheridan, Bjork
November 22^nd: Scarlett Johansson, Mark Ruffalo, Terry Gilliam, Jamie Lee Curtis, Mariel Hemingway, Mads Mikkelsen, Jamie Campbell Bower
November 23^rd: Miley Cyrus, Franco Nero, Bruce Vilanch, Vincent Cassel, Joe Eszterhas
November 24^th: Katherine Heigl, Sarah Hyland, Colin Hanks, Billy Connolly
November 25^th: Christina Applegate, Ben Stein, John Laroquette, Amy Grant, JHill Hennessey, Joel Kinnaman, Dougray Scott
November 26^th: Peter Facinelli, Natasha Bedingfield, Tina Turner, Garcelle Beauvais
November 27^th: Sharlto Copley, Kathryn Bigelow, Bill Nye, William Fichtner, Fisher Stevens, Robin Givens, Michael Vartan, Adam Shankman, Alison Pill
November 28^th: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ed Harris, Judd Nelson, Alfonso Cuaron, Jon Stewart, Ryan Kwanten, Randy Newman
November 29^th: Anna Faris, Don Cheadle, Lucas Black, Garry Shandling, Jeff Fahey, Joel Coen, Howie Mandel, Kim Delaney, Tom Sizemore, Andrew McCarthy, Cathy Moriarty, Diego Boneta, Diane Ladd, The Game
November 30^th: Ben Stiller, Gael Garcia Bernal, Ridley Scott, Terrence Malick, David Mamet, Billy Idol, Elisha Cuthbert, Mandy Patinkin, Kaley Cuoco

No matter what day of this wonderful month your baby arrives, you are guaranteed to feel the most thankful for what your body has created! Your little turkey is going to change your life in the most beautiful ways possible. Welcome, November babies!

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Bruce Vilanch & Mister D

Mister D: This interview and the next two I put up are gold. Mr. Vilanch has had an incredible life working in the entertainment industry in all types of ways, starting out of the box writing for long time collaborator Bette Midler (yes, I’m saying collaborator) acting, then writing for shows like the Brady Bunch, Donnie and Marie, the infamous Star Wars Variety Special, then on to specials and shows like Dolly, Cher, Bette Midler, and more, then hitting the jackpot as head writer for the Academy Awards for I believe 20 years,, then acting, theater doctoring scripts for certain movies to punch them up, Hollywood Squares, and so much more. And the most tireless advocate for the LGBT+ community. He’s known as probably the kindest man in Hollywood and has collabed with top-notch comedians of our time. And he has been a “special person” in my life, and so has Ms. Midler. I don’t presume to call myself their friend, but each has helped me through some down times in their own ways. And as a boy of 14 who started idolizing Bette and then discovering Bruce, here I am like an obsessed teenager still writing about them at a very young age of 66. I’ve gotten to see more behind-the-scenes stuff than I ever would have imagined, and in Bette’s case met a lot of her inner circle. I think some of them were fond of me, some not so much, but that’s the way life goes, Not that I know anybody in particular that didn’t like me, but human nature you know. But Back to Bruce, These interviews are diamonds and there are so many more. I swear he knows everybody that has passed away that were superstars before Bruce got to Hollywood, but thanks to working at the Academy Awards he’s just a treasure trove of trivia, but he always pulls out a humorous anecdote about those that pass on his Facebook page which only holds 5000 fans. I don’t think he knows who I am cause I’ve sent him reminders if I change my name or switch to a new profile, but that’s okay. We keep up a few times a year. He’s just amazing. I need to clean up this site and I will.

Bruce Vilanch Interview – Chapter One

On his early childhood, family, and education; on television he watched growing up; on when he realized he was funny and on his first professional writing jobs

On writing jokes for Bette Midler’s act; on coming to Los Angeles and on early television writing jobs; on appearing in the feature film “Mahogany”

On writing for The Paul Lynde Show; on working with Florence Henderson on The Brady Bunch Hour; on working for Sid and Marty Krofft on The Brady Bunch Hour

On writing for Donny & Marie; on writing for The Star Wars Holiday Special

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The Flashback Interview: Bruce Vilanch
By JOHNNY CAPS
AUGUST 10, 2021

I first came to know of Bruce Vilanch’s work in the 1990s. Whether it was through the jokes he wrote for Academy Awards hosts like Whoopi Goldberg and Billy Crystal, or through his deliciously saucy answers on the late-90s incarnation of Hollywood Squares, Mr. Vilanch made quite an impression on me. In 2021, with the assistance of Clay Mills of The Katz Company, I was able to set up an e-mail interview with Mr. Vilanch about various aspects of his work. Even in written format, his unique wit comes shining through, and I hope you all enjoy this interview.

Johnny: One of your very first television writing credits was for a variety show pilot for Charo. With Charo as a jumping-off point, when you’ve written jokes for international performers, have any of them had difficulty understanding your style and references, or are they able to pick up on it pretty quickly?

Bruce: Depends on how much English they have and how strong their dialect is, and if they are in the business of making fun of themselves, like Charo.  With her, the more ridiculous the better.  She loves doing jokes that feature her mangling her adopted tongue. In fact, give her that sentence and she will get a three-minute laugh and wind up showing the audience her tongue.  I didn’t write, it, but I was in a movie with Marcello Mastroianni many years ago.  He was extremely suave and pulled-together, and he spoke English, but he felt his accent made him sound like Chico Marx, or the guy on TV selling spicy meat-a-balls.  He didn’t want to be looked on as a clown, so he pretended he didn’t speak English.  On set, we would speak French to each other.  It was an Italian picture of the 70s, so we each learned the lines in whatever language we liked and spoke them that way, as it was all going to be dubbed later.  I think I was dubbed by Mercedes McCambridge.

Johnny: In addition to your work in creating jokes, you’re also an accomplished songwriter, and one of your credits as a songwriter was the title theme for the 1985 Stephen King adaptation Cat’s Eye. That movie was produced by Dino De Laurentiis, so as you have many stories about larger-than-life Hollywood personas, do you have any stories about Dino?

Bruce: Not about that picture, where I wrote the song with Jacques Morali (creator of The Village People), but when I was at the Chicago Tribune, I interviewed Dino at his palatial apartment on Central Park South, with the absolutely gorgeous Silvana Mangano floating in and out and their absolutely gorgeous children making a racket somewhere on the south forty. If I remember correctly, he was about to come to Chicago to shoot a mafia picture, and he wound up asking me more things than I asked him,  and the food was absolutely gorgeous.

Johnny: In 1987, you worked with The Walt Disney Company on two very different TV specials, Walt Disney World Celebrity Circus and Funny, You Don’t Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville. What was it like to be working with Disney in the time period when they were well into recovery from the failure of The Black Cauldron, yet still a long way from the top of the entertainment world?

Bruce: They didn’t talk much about The Black Cauldron.  I believe that was a holdover from the previous administration, the last one with a Disney relative in charge, before my people — the Jews! — took over.  At that point, I don’t think Michael Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg, both of whom I had worked with elsewhere, were much interested in Disney’s variety TV production.  The Constitution special was a passion project of Richard Dreyfuss, who was making some big comedies for them, and so they got behind it.  Also, it was a nice idea to try to educate an audience about the Constitution in a hopefully entertaining way. There were lots of names, but my favorite was Whoopi, with whom I got to work very closely and with whom I still work with very closely many x’s and o’s later.

The Celebrity Circus was more or less executed by the parks division, as it was a big plug for Walt Disney World.  We all flew to Orlando.  Tony Randall, far too erudite for this sort of carry-on, was the host and we had a fantastic time.  It was wonderful to watch him work surrounded by circus people and Disney characters, and see him cast a baleful eye at all of them.  He was determined to have one of the acts done to classical music, but I don’t think that happened.  On a private note, the Cosby kids were guests on the show, and I got to take a hot tub with Lenny Kravitz and Lisa Bonet, and I fell in love with an elephant trainer, but that may be my YA novel.

Johnny: You’ve written for many Academy Awards ceremonies over the years. Although you’re well-known for your jokes on the Oscars, did you ever write any more serious segments for the show, and if so, which are you most proud of having written?

Bruce: Here’s the sick part.  I remember the jokes.  I don’t remember any of the serious stuff.  I know I did some.  There were always other writers who were not too funny, but very grown-up and elegant when they wrote about the various disciplines.  It’s difficult to come up with something meaningful about sound effects editing, but they did it.  These same writers generally blanched when I told them Martin Short and Carrie Fisher were going to present an award together, and their dialogue was going to be entirely about the fact that they were each wearing the same dress.

Johnny: When I watched the 93rd Academy Awards this year, I found it to be very dry and rather bereft of humor, and I really wish you had been involved in the show to give it a boost of fun. What would you have done differently if you were part of the Oscars writing staff for this year’s show?

Bruce: I would have bought a house for the comic personality who would agree to host the show.  I would have told the new producers that there is a good reason we always give one of the acting awards in the first half-hour.  People want to see stars and emotions.  They are not so interested in the origin stories of writers.  I would have moved the show around a little so it didn’t look like Stork Club night at the high school prom, with a curtain draped over the hoops and the bleachers arranged as nightclub tables.  Does anyone tune in to the Oscars to see a low-key intimate show?

When the highlights of the evening are Glenn Close doing Da Butt and Frances McDormand calling to her pack, I think it’s not unfair to say something is awry.  I actually think the Academy missed a good bet not shooting the whole thing at the new museum, which they are attempting to make a hot SoCal destination like Disneyland and Universal.  Clean it up and put it on worldwide TV.  They will come.

Johnny: Jumping back to the 90s, you were a regular for several years on the late 90s/early 00s revival of Hollywood Squares. What joke, or jokes, would you say were the funniest you had written for that show during your time on it?

Bruce: I know a few jokes I loved.  One of the biggest laughs I got was when Tom Bergeron asked me which television show boldly goes where no man has gone before.  I said: Ellen.  I also mentioned that Woody Allen and Soon-Yi Previn were going around New York camouflaged as Maury Povich and Connie Chung.  At the time, it was a big laugh.

Johnny: Going forward into the 00s, you did a season of the VH1 Celebreality series Celebrity Fit Club. I’ve asked this question of several reality TV veterans, including Rocky DeMarco and Jeana Keough, and I’d like to ask it of you as well: How much reality would you say is in reality television?

Bruce: The first rule of reality TV is nothing is real.  They have an arc worked out for each person, and they guide you into giving them what they want by having a little meeting with you each week and telling you things to make you mad or upset at a specific person.  Since we were all professionals on that show — it was not The Biggest Loser — we figured out how to give it to them without making fools of ourselves.  They want you to lose it.  It’s good TV.  If you don’t play along, they edit you out or they make you look like a crazy person.  Paddy Chayefsky lives!

Johnny: Platinum, the 1979 Broadway musical you co-wrote the book for, was revived in 2010 by UnsungMusicalsCo. Inc. Were you involved in the revival, and if not, would you have been interested in doing so?

Bruce: I was marginally involved.  Ben West had written a new version of the show, not all that different, and we gave him the right to do that.  My principal worry after Platinum flopped was that I would have to sit under the poster on Joe Allen’s wall for the rest of my life.  I told Joe and he asked how long we ran.  I told him, 33 performances.  He said, “Are you kidding?  You were a smash.  You have to close opening night to get on this wall,  or better, in New Haven!”

Johnny: You’re well-known for wearing humorous T-shirts of various kinds. What’s the origin behind that style, and what shirt would you say is your favorite?

Bruce: I was a portly child with a perfectionist mother who always made me dress a certain way, and I have been in rebellion my entire life.  T-shirts were the perfect out, especially when I moved to LA and discovered you can go almost anywhere wearing one.  My favorite is, undoubtedly, in a very serious font:  Excuse me, you’re standing on my penis.

Johnny: Although we’re slowly making our way back to normalcy, COVID-19 has made an indelible impact on all of us. How has coronavirus impacted your life and work, and how do you hope people will have changed once the saga draws to a close?

Bruce: It’s been a year without pants.  I’m a writer, so I got to sit at the keyboard and pound it out.  Wait, that came out wrong.  I got to write and Zoom, and if I didn’t forget myself and stand up and do a Jeffrey Toobin, I was alright.  Live performing disappeared, so I did a lot of podcasts to exercise that muscle.  I also wrote a musical about a guy in quarantine,  but I can’t talk about it yet.

As for how people have changed once the saga draws to a close…I’m hoping for a comeback for French kissing.  Listen, so much happened between BLM and #metoo and the fall of Orange Julius Caesar. Let’s just hope we have a recognizable planet to inhabit as kinder, gentler people. except for Jake Paul and Lea DeLaria, who should have a YouTube fight that he will never win.

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Actress, best selling author, wife, mother and grandmother… Loni Anderson is best known for her groundbreaking role as the “sexy-yet-smartest-person-in-the-room receptionist”, Jennifer Marlowe on the hit series “WKRP in Cincinnati”, for which she received multiple Emmy and Golden Globe nominations. Never off the air, WKRP can currently be seen all across America on ME TV.

Over the next three and a half decades, Ms. Anderson went on to star in five additional television series, seven feature films, eighteen television movies and two mini-series, along with scores of starring roles in television series and specials, plus a joyful and welcome return to her first love, musical theater. Her latest ventures include a comedy pilot, created and produced by Michael Patrick King (Sex and the City) and the second season of the hilarious series “My Sister Is So Gay.”

Ms. Anderson has shown a passionate lifetime commitment to raising COPD awareness with the National Lung Health Education Program. She also gives her time and commitment to The Race to Erase MS, Us Against Alzheimer’s and the American Cancer Society. Currently, she is the national spokesperson for Advantage Emergency Medical Response Systems.

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