Awesome Celebrity Birthday Of The Day: Seymour Cassel
Posted at 10:30 AM Jan 22, 2009
By Kenny Herzog
Welcome to one of NCDSUV's favorite daily features, where we acknowledge another turn of the calendar for a member of Hollywood land, even if it's a celebrity who often goes overlooked by the rest of the blogosphere, and regardless of whether we have a huge affinity for their body of work.
Yesterday, we put on our sexiest birthday bibs for one super-hot baby. Calm down sickos. We were referring to Emma Bunton, aka Baby Spice. Anyway, today we shit to one of our favorite old men on screen, a man who gave the world one of its most ubiquitously accepted pop-culture pseudonyms.
Seymour Cassel
Age: 74
Why He's Sort Of Awesome: Sure, he's the less Mafia-menacing version of Nick Farina to many. And yes, he's appeared in nearly 200 films over four-plus decades, from John Cassavetes' Killing Of A Chinese Bookie to Wes Anderson's Rushmore. But Cassel is primarily the man because without him, a certain top-hat-sporting guitarist for Guns 'N Roses would still be going by Saul Haudson. You see, as a young boy, the future rock god was buds with Cassel's son. And the actor rechristened Hudson as Slash, on account of his constant and sudden movements across the house. Genius.
Most Likely Celebrity Status 20 Birthdays From Now: Sadly, Cassel will have likely moved on to that great living room for undervalued cinematic second-bananas in the sky, hopefully taking his place in more Cassavetes ensembles. But hopefully not joined by fellow former G 'N R member Steven Adler, whose downward spiral on VH1's Sober House is more difficult to watch than the "Estranged" video.
All Apologies To: Diane Lane, Malcolm McLaren, John Hurt, Linda Blair, Olivia d'Abo, Beverley Mitchell
Age: 74
Why He's Sort Of Awesome: Sure, he's the less Mafia-menacing version of Nick Farina to many. And yes, he's appeared in nearly 200 films over four-plus decades, from John Cassavetes' Killing Of A Chinese Bookie to Wes Anderson's Rushmore. But Cassel is primarily the man because without him, a certain top-hat-sporting guitarist for Guns 'N Roses would still be going by Saul Haudson. You see, as a young boy, the future rock god was buds with Cassel's son. And the actor rechristened Hudson as Slash, on account of his constant and sudden movements across the house. Genius.
Most Likely Celebrity Status 20 Birthdays From Now: Sadly, Cassel will have likely moved on to that great living room for undervalued cinematic second-bananas in the sky, hopefully taking his place in more Cassavetes ensembles. But hopefully not joined by fellow former G 'N R member Steven Adler, whose downward spiral on VH1's Sober House is more difficult to watch than the "Estranged" video.
All Apologies To: Diane Lane, Malcolm McLaren, John Hurt, Linda Blair, Olivia d'Abo, Beverley Mitchell
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