Monday, January 22, 2007

The Skinny On... Ryan Phillippe

NAME: Ryan Phillippe (pronounced FILL uh pea)

GIVEN NAME: you think he’d change his name TO Phillippe?

DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH: Sept. 10, 1975; New Castle, Delaware

CHINESE ZODIAC SIGN: Year of the Hare – very lucky and successful. Talented and ambitious, but melancholy with big floppy ears. Best suited to Sheep, Boar or Dog. Stay away from Rats and Cocks.

FORGOTTEN FILM CLASSIC: Made-for-TV’s “Deadly Invasion: The Killer Bee Nightmare” or White Squall

LOST TV EPISODE: as Billy, the first openly gay teenager on daytime TV on “One Life To Live”

PRESTIGIOUS AWARDS & NOMINATIONS: nothing yet.

NEXT ON THE PLATE: COMPANY MAN about a 1960s high school English teacher who accidentally becomes an operative in a plot to overthrow Fidel Castro. Also starring John Turturro, Sigourney Weaver, Heather Matarazzo and Alan Cumming.

REINCARNATION OF: Leif Garrett

CELEBRITY HOOK UP: wife Reese Witherspoon (born in the year of the Dragon)

SIX DEGREES OF WILLIE AAMES: Ryan Phillippe was in PLAYING BY HEART with Sean Connery who was in THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING with Michael Caine who was in DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS with Steve Martin who was in PARENTHOOD with Jason Robards who was in ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN with Robert Redford who was in OUT OF AFRICA with… Willie Aames.

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