Awesome Celebrity Birthday Of The Day: Tom Selleck
Posted at 11:48 AM Jan 29, 2009
By Kenny HerzogWelcome 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 swore we weren't no joke to hip-hop legend Rakim, and today we whip out our Magnums for a steamy night of celebration with a mustachioed '80s sex god.
Tom Selleck
Age: 64
Why He's Sort Of Awesome: Sure, he had ladies lilting like flowers in the sun as the title character on Magnum, P.I. And yes, he singlehandedly removed the homoerotic stigma from moustaches that propagated in the wake of Queen's success. And OK, fair enough, he even sustained an improbably relevant resumeinto middle-age via his appearances on Friends. But we're members of this Tom-Tom club because of a little-seen-but-adorable little movie called Folks with Don Ameche, in which Selleck removed his trademark facial patch for the role, a career choice far more bold, in our humble opinions, than Charlize Theron putting on white-trash latex for Monster.
Most Likely Celebrity Status 20 Birthdays From Now: Like Ron Popeil with sex appeal, Selleck will be slim and fit as a fiddle at 84, and peddling his globally successful line of moustache-dye products, popularized by spokespeople like Keith Hernandez and Sarah Jessica Parker.
All Apologies To: Oprah Winfrey, Heather Graham, Ed Burns, Tommy Ramone, Sara Gilbert, Kelly Packard, Greg Louganis, Ann Jillian, Katharine Ross
Age: 64
Why He's Sort Of Awesome: Sure, he had ladies lilting like flowers in the sun as the title character on Magnum, P.I. And yes, he singlehandedly removed the homoerotic stigma from moustaches that propagated in the wake of Queen's success. And OK, fair enough, he even sustained an improbably relevant resumeinto middle-age via his appearances on Friends. But we're members of this Tom-Tom club because of a little-seen-but-adorable little movie called Folks with Don Ameche, in which Selleck removed his trademark facial patch for the role, a career choice far more bold, in our humble opinions, than Charlize Theron putting on white-trash latex for Monster.
Most Likely Celebrity Status 20 Birthdays From Now: Like Ron Popeil with sex appeal, Selleck will be slim and fit as a fiddle at 84, and peddling his globally successful line of moustache-dye products, popularized by spokespeople like Keith Hernandez and Sarah Jessica Parker.
All Apologies To: Oprah Winfrey, Heather Graham, Ed Burns, Tommy Ramone, Sara Gilbert, Kelly Packard, Greg Louganis, Ann Jillian, Katharine Ross
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