Michael Imperioli clarifies the "Goodfellas" scene

Michael Imperioli was in the 1990 film Goodfellas. He played the young kid Spider, who gets shot by Joe Pesci twice. Once for not moving fast enough, which results in getting shot in the foot. The other time he's fatally shot for mouthing off to Tommy DeVito, a psychopathic mobster played by Joe Pesci. Michael explains in greater detail about those scenes.

During an interview with CNN's Chris Wallace, Michael Imperioli goes into detail about the scene in Goodfellas that sent him to the hospital and had doctors thinking he'd really been shot. At 23, this was Imperioli's big break into Hollywood. "Working with Scorsese was a dream come true. It's like going from college to play on the Yankees in the World Series or something." Working with actors like Joe Pesci or Robert De Niro and Ray Liotta was more than "thrilling" for Michael. "For some strange reason, I really like when the stakes are high. I like being under a lot of pressure, in terms of work." He gives credit to Scorsese with being comfortable on set. "Marty made me feel so comfortable. From the moment I met him, the moment I got there, he made me feel like I belong there. And I was an actor. And the very first job I had in film, the director did not make feel that way."

He says Scorsese "was very, very kind, and I think knew that - how important it was to me. Because I had been trying, I had been studying and trying to get work for, at that point, six years, you know? Most of what you see is all improvised, which is even more a testament to how trusting he is of actors, especially young actors. Working with legends here, you know, allowing them to just be free to say what they want and respond how they want to respond is pretty, pretty amazing." He also recalls a moment when he was injured while filming the iconic scene where he is shot and killed by Joe Pesci.

"I'm supposed to go flying back into the bar and hit the ground with three bullet holes. They have a stunt double. I said 'No, I want to do my own stunt.'" When he hit the bar, the glass he held in his hand broke, slicing open two of his fingers. "I look up and see Robert De Niro looking down at me. The injury was pretty bad." An assistant drove Imperioli to the hospital, where, seeing the fake blood and bullet holes, thought he had been shot pretty severely. He said "Three bullet holes in my chest and it's Queens, New York. They think I'm about to die. They think I'm delirious, talking about Robert De Niro." when he tried to explain he was filming a movie with Robert De Niro. "So, they put me on a stretcher, wheel me into trauma, and I'm telling them what's happening. They won't listen to me. Finally, they start going into my shirt and see all the squibbing, the wires. I said, 'Told you. I'm doing a movie. I cut my fingers.'"

Two hours later, the staff stitched up his fingers and sent him back to the set, where they filmed more scenes of his death. Imperioli focused on work and didn't "engage in a lot of chitchat" with the other actors on set. "The last thing I wanted to do was talk to them about acting, because, I knew that's not what they wanted to hear." He did make a suggestion that, as he put it, "really took a lot of b---s. I just kind of trusted my instincts, because of Marty because he made me feel that way." He asked the person in charge of props to allow him to reset the poker table where the wiseguys are gambling. His character, Spider, was their "errand boy". He got them drinks, cleaned ashtrays and more. It was Imperioli's idea to move the bottles so that he could face the wiseguys when he made their drinks instead of facing away, so he could see who needed a refill. Making a suggestion like that is "something an actor really would never do. Because first of all, it's a union job. And you don't mess with union workers, right? Or you really might get shot." He said. Also, "the props were very specific. They have these continuity issues, depending on how long they're moving the camera around, and everything's got to be the same."

Scorsese liked the idea and moved the bottles. "When I think about it now, I'm like 'I would probably never even think of doing that now because I just assume that the prop guy is going to do it right. I don't need to do that.' But there was something instinctual. And Marty made you feel like he wanted you to really live this."

Michael Imperioli on "abusive" scenes from The Sopranos

Michael Imperioli says it was "abusive" for some of the scenes he had to film for HBO TV show The Sopranos. He played a character named Christopher Moltisanti, a member of the Soprano family in New Jersey. He was also a drug addict whose addiction worsened as time went on. His girlfriend was a woman named Adriana, played by actress Drea De Matteo, who gets killed later on when it's discovered she's an informant for the FBI

According to Michael Imperioli, "You have to go to some nasty places." In a recent interview with The Guardian, Imperioli said it was "brutal" when he had to be a physically abusive person on the show. "The most brutal, difficult stuff for me is when Christopher had to be physically abusive with Adriana, for obvious reasons." On the show, Christopher was in a relationship with Adriana La Cerva, played by Drea De Matteo."On a technical level, you're trying to be really careful so you don't hurt the person. But having to get that point of violence toward a woman, you have to go some nasty places to get there. Sometimes it's very immediate. Sometimes it's something present in your life that you can tap into. Sometimes you have to go someplace from the past. And sometimes you have to go to someplace imaginary."

The actor, now currently playing Dominic Di Grasso on The White Lotus, continued. "It's much easier shooting a mobster or shooting heroin. That stuff to me is not difficult. But that stuff with her was. Sometimes you'll use stunt doubles, sometimes not. And even then, it's one thing to choreograph and rehearse it, then when you act it full-tilt with all the emotion, it's easy to not have as much control as in the rehearsal. So you really have to be quite careful."

Michael Imperioli appeared as main character Christopher Moltisanti throughout all six seasons of The Sopranos. Originally his character's name was to be Dean Moltisanti, but was changed to Christopher. His character predated the 2021 prequel film The Many Saints of Newark.

During his interview with The Guardian, Imperioli also shared that his late co-star James Gandolfini was one of the best on-screen partners he's had. "He's probably the actor I've acted with most. He always put in 110%. He managed to find the intensity and the reality in every moment. That pushed you farther." Unfortunately, while on vacation in Rome, Italy with his family on June 19, 2013, he passed away. His son Michael found him unconscious in a hotel bathroom. When paramedics rushed him to a nearby hospital, his cause of death was declared a heart attack

45 Years Ago, Rocky Hits the Big Screen

People often make fun of the way Sylvester Stallone says the name "Adrian" in this film. They often make fun of the way he talks, out of one side of his mouth. If you look into his background, you'll find out why he talks that way. When his mother was giving birth to him, doctors used forceps to pull him out and thus, they severed a nerve in his cheek, resulting in paralysis of the right side of his face. That's why he talks out of one side of his mouth and his speech is slightly slurred. But, forgive my ramblings, lol. 45 years ago, on Nov. 21, 1976, the ultimate underdog story hit the big screen in the form of Rocky.

He didn't seem to have great success at films. He was still a pretty big, unknown face. Which is what made him perfect for the role of fourth-rate boxer Rocky Balboa

Before landing a role that would get him grade A notoriety, he starred in a series of low budget films that barely made it to the big screen. He appeared in a soft-core porn film called The Party At Kitty and Stud's and later The Lords of Flatbush. In 1974, he moved to Los Angeles, hoping to find some acting work there. Then, he was inspired by watching the 03/24/1975 boxing match between Chuck Wepner, known as "The Bayonne Bleeder" and Muhammad Ali. All bets were against Wepner and lasted 15 rounds until he was knocked out by Ali. He also managed to get a few hits in on Ali, making Wepner the first fighter to take down Ali

In a documentary called The Rocky Story, Stallone mentioned this. "I saw a man they called 'The Bayonne Bleeder', who didn't have a chance at all, against the greatest fighting machine, supposedly, that ever lived. And for one brief moment, this supposed stumblebum turned out to be magnificent. And the fact that he lasted and knocked the champion down... I said 'Boy, if this isn't a metaphor for life.'" It was then that the inklings of the story of Rocky came to be. The film-to-be, titled Rocky, would be about a fourth-rate boxer named Rocky Balboa who's working as a bodyguard for a loan shark, who's taken out of obscurity and given a chance to fight the reining heavyweight champion Apollo Creed. Along the way, Rocky falls in love with Adrian Pennino (Talia Shire), who works the pet shop near his home in Philadelphia and the sister of his best friend Paulie (Burt Young)

Stallone wrote the script in three days, but he said that "maybe 10% actually made it to film". The cinematic trends of the time had the main characters being anti-heroes, not exactly perfect. Rocky was to be a down on his luck boxer past his age of perfection working as a bodyguard for a local loan shark. His coach Mickey (Burgess Meredith) was a racist man with a temper worse than what is seen on screen. In the original script, Rocky was to throw the fight against Apollo because he no longer wanted to be in the dirty, sleazy world of professional boxing. But his then wife, Sasha Czak, didn't like that direction and Stallone re-wrote the script to resemble the film seen in theatres

During a casting call, Stallone made mention of this script to the producers, who seemed genuinely interested and told him to bring it by the next chance he got. United Artists loved it and wanted to start filming it and financing it, but only on one condition. Stallone couldn't play the protagonist. They wanted someone like Robert Redford, Burt Reynolds or even James Caan to play the title role. They offered Stallone $300,000 for the script. Stallone refused, sticking to his original notion of him playing this role. "I thought 'Alright, you've managed poverty very well. You've got this down to a science. You don't really need much to live on.'" So I thought 'You know what? I know in the back of my mind if I sell this script and it does very, very well, I'm gonna jump off a building if I'm not in it.' There's no doubt about it. I'm gonna leap in front of a train. I'm gonna be very upset. So this is one of those things where you just roll the dice, and you fly by the proverbial seat of your pants and say 'Alright, I gotta try it. I gotta just do it. I may be totally wrong, and I'm gonna be taking a lot of people down with me, but I just believe in it.'"

Stallone was cast as the lead role as producers Irvin Winkler and Robert Chartoff got the green light to go ahead and start filming. The budget was just over $1 million, a large fortune at the time. Director John C. Avildsen hit the streets of Philadelphia in a van, using the newly invented Steadicam, invented by Garrett Brown, to get clear shots of Rocky running through the city in the early morning hours. Stallone recalls in an interview "Finally my legs basically gave out, and I'm writhing on the ground, and I want to rise up and say 'John, I'm dying here,' and he goes 'Use it! Use the pain.'"

The other scenes of him training were just as brutal, if not worse. The scenes where he's punching slabs of meat in the slaughterhouse where Paulie works were just as brutal. "I don't know if anyone's hit a bull lately. They're hard, they're real hard. So my knuckles are flattened out. ...I don't know what they're good for anymore, I guess kind of like a table leg now. They're pretty flat, they're pretty even, they really don't function as a hand much anymore." Stallone said

Stallone was able to cut costs dramatically by casting his father, Frank Stallone as the bellringer, his brother, Frank Stallone Jr, as a street corner singer. His then wife, Sasha, was the on-set photographer. There were two last-minute hirings that would also make the movie: Talia Shire as Adrian Pennino and Carl Weathers as Apollo Creed. When speaking of Shire's audition, Stallone said "We just read, and I felt the earth move. I really felt a tremendous vitality and kinship. I love her." Stallone realized that the relationship between Adrian and Rocky would be a defining characteristic of the film. "These two people are two halves that absolutely need to fit together. And I'm starting to realize that this is the key to the film. This is the heartbeat. The whole movie is going to be based on the discovery of these two people, the love." he continued

Carl Weathers brought the same outgoing personality as his character Apollo Creed would possess. Stallone knew he chose the right man after reading lines and even doing some boxing training. Weathers managed to get a few blows on Stallone during auditions. "Then he sits back down and he goes 'Mr. Avildsen, I could do much better if you had a real actor reading with me'. He goes 'Well, Carl, that's Rocky. That's the guy who wrote the script.' He goes 'Maybe he'll get better.'" Stallone said. Originally, the end was supposed to be a somber moment where he went through the crowd looking for Adrian and they walk to the locker room together in silence "being anonymous forevermore". But, of course, that didn't sit well with Stallone. "We thought 'Boy, wouldn't it be interesting to catch a man's life at the quintessential, seminal moment?'"

He re-wrote the final scene to show Adrian running into the ring and her and Rocky exchanging "I love you's" and the film fading to black on a freeze frame of Rocky's battered but ecstatic face. "We all hit this absolute maximum of elation and celebration that can only be sustained for an infintisemal moment in time. And that's how we froze the original Rocky. He went out at the height. His life will never be more rewarding or more important or valid than that second." Stallone said

Strangely, despite the sleeper status Rocky had after its release on 11/21/1976, it became the highest grossing film of that year, raking in more than $225 million globally. It received 10 Academy Award nominations and won three, beating out the films Network, Taxi Driver, All the President's Men and Bound for Glory for Best Picture. This film spawned multiple sequels and even the highly successful Creed spinoff series. This, in turn, turned Stallone into a well-known name. He would also star in the highly successful Rambo series and a few other action films, such as Tango & Cash, Cobra, Cliffhanger. One of the prouder moments of Stallone's career was when Rocky was shown at the Director's Guild of America. Stallone, who was there with his mother, thought the film had bombed because the fight scenes didn't get a response; the jokes went right over the heads of the crowd. As he and his mother left the theatre, moviegoers at the bottom of the stairs started applauding for the film.

Stallone recalled "I just completely came apart. So there will never be a moment like that, ever. When you find the right components in your life, the right people that gel with you, then you feel as though you're invincible. It may be a fallacy, but you at least feel as though you can take all that life has to dish out."

Moments in mob films that were real

 We all know most of those mob movies are either strongly based/loosely based on real life. Who knew there were moments in those films that actually happened?

1. John Dillinger really did break out of prison using a fake wooden gun he made himself

-This sounds like something you would hear about or see in cartoons. But there's no mistaking the truth here-famed criminal John Dillinger really did it. After killing a Chicago police officer in 1934, he was arrested and sent to prison, but had escaped. He was then sent to the Lake County Jail in Crown Point, Indiana, an "escape-proof" penitentiary. Shortly after arriving, he proved any ideas about jail being wrong. On March 3, he produced a chunk of wood that looked like a gun. He had been whittling it in full view of the guards. He pointed his fake gun at the guards, who didn't respond as they were fearful of Dillinger. He escaped and continued his crime spree. Michael Mann, who directed the Dillinger biopic Public Enemies, had to tone down some of Dillinger's real life escapades because they seemed so outlandish that they wouldn't be believable

2. Tommy De Vito from Goodfellas really did shoot Spider for talking back

-There is a scene when a young kid named Spider (Michael Imperioli) is slow bringing Tommy a drink when he and his friends are playing cards. Tommy pulls out his gun and starts shooting, trying to get Spider to dance. Only he ended up shooting Spider in the foot. Later, he comes back with heavily bandaged foot. Tommy insults him and cracks jokes, but Spider stands up for himself. As a comeback, Tommy shoots him dead, all because of a fight he started. This shows just how warped Tommy is

-According to Henry Hill, who was played by Ray Liotta, this all happened in real life as it did in the movie. Thomas DeSimone, known as "Tommy" and Spider were both real people. They were members of Jimmy "The Gent" Conway's crew, as was Hill. Tommy did insult and eventually fatally shoot Spider over an insult. This was the moment when everyone realized how much Tommy was a "total psychopath"

3. Nucky Thompson really did rent out a whole floor of the Ritz-Carlton to use as his apartment, despite being investigated for tax evasion

-Despite the fact Boardwalk Empire is not always historically accurate, the main character, Nucky Thompson, is shown as he really was. On the show, he uses his position as an Atlantic City treasurer to build a criminal world including bootlegging, gambling, prostitution. His power is so large he can live year-round in the Ritz-Carlton. The real man's name was Johnson, but he was just as powerful in real life as he is portrayed on the show. He occupied the entire ninth floor of the hotel and cost him $5,000 a year, despite his salary being $6,000 a year. He lived at the Ritz from 1921, when it was built, to 1941, when the cops came calling for his arrest on tax evasion

4. Sam Rothstein from the film Casino did insist on every muffin having an equal amount of blueberries

-One notable scene from the 1995 film is where Sam "Ace" Rothstein (Robert De Niro) is complaining that his muffin has no blueberries at all and he complains to the head chef at his casino about ensuring every muffin has the same amount of blueberries. It would seem crazy that something like that would matter. But as a casino manager, it's about quality control. The real life person Ace is based on is Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal. It was confirmed that Lefty did insist on each muffin having at least 10 blueberries in them. He started as a low level staff member at the Stardust Hotel in 1968 before he became known as the ultimate sports betting handicapper. One line from Casino that rings true, even to this day is "Casinos are operations that involve hundreds of people and thousands of customers, all of whom want to bilk the casino out of as much money as possible."

5. The Santaro brothers, Nicky and Dominick, were really beaten and stripped to their underwear in Casino

-In the film Casino, Joe Pesci's character, Nicky Santaro, is heavily based on Tony Spilotro. Nicky was Ace's enforcer, and as such, was to protect him. But because of the many lawsuits Nicky was facing due to organized crime-related activities, the Kansas City bosses had their limit with him. They ordered a hit on Nicky and his brother Dominick. The bosses and men met up with Nicky and Dominick in an Indiana cornfield because it was still too hot in Vegas. There, Nicky and Dominick were beaten nearly to death. They were beaten, stripped to their underwear and thrown in a hole while they were still breathing

-Nicky was heavily based on Anthony "The Ant" Spilotro, who was the right-hand man for Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal. Like Nicky, Tony was a hot-tempered flashy mobster who skimmed the Vegas casinos for cash. He also had side jobs which earned money but the wrong attention as well. He and a bunch of guys starting robbing places and became known as the Hole in the Wall Gang, due to their trademark-leaving a hole in the wall of the places they robbed. Due to one of Nicky's jobs going bad, Chicago mob boss Joey Aiuppa ended up in prison. He ordered a hit on Tony and his brother Michael. The two brothers were murdered in a basement, not a cornfield, but they did end up buried in an Indiana cornfield. They were in their underwear and were discovered by the farmer who owns the field a week later. The farmer noticed the dirt was disturbed and found the bodies. They were beaten so bad they had to be identified through dental records. 2005 saw 14 Chicago-based mobsters and 16 others charged with these murders

6. Al Capone really did beat three of his henchmen with a baseball bat

-The famous scene from The Untouchables seems like something that could only happen in a movie. Al Capone (Robert De Niro) is holding a dinner party/meeting for his close associates. He walks around with a baseball bat, talking about the importance of teamwork in baseball or any other challenge in life. Out of nowhere, one of his associates gets a baseball bat to the head. This almost reveals who Capone was-demanding, violent, psychopathic

-It was thought the real Capone did something like this. In 1929, a rumor started that three of his close associates, John Scalise, Albert Anselmi and Joseph "Hop Toad" Giunta, were planning to whack (murder) Capone. He invited the three men to a lavish dinner party, got them liquored up and then revealed his intentions. He picked up a baseball bat and brutally beat all three of them before his men finished them off with gunshots.

7. Jimmy Hoffa was just as into ice cream as he was in The Irishman

-It seems absurd that one of the most notorious and well known union figures like Jimmy Hoffa would have such a sweet tooth, but according to this film, he did. He can been eating ice cream throughout the movie. In one scene, while he and Frank Sheeran (Robert De Niro) are going mini-golfing, Hoffa is eating ice cream. In another scene, Tony Provenzano (Stephen Graham) is angrily confronting Hoffa while still eating ice cream

-This is not just some random quirky thing thrown into the movie. The real Jimmy Hoffa did love ice cream. Despite living a healthy lifestyle, he avoided drugs and alcohol, cigarettes, caffeine. Ice cream was his one vice.

8. The Godfather restaurant shooting scene was inspired by a real-life hit by Charles "Lucky" Luciano

-In The Godfather, there is a scene where Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) is meeting at a restaurant with Virgil "The Turk" Sollozzo and police Captain Mike McCluskey. He invited them there to settle any differences. They believed that Michael was the quiet, innocent member of the Corleone family. During the meal, he excuses himself to go to the bathroom, where someone in the family had hidden a gun. When he comes back, he shoots them both dead, completing the change from WWII war hero to complete mob member

-It might seem a devious way to remove someone, but it's all not that far removed from reality. This was inspired by a real life hit orchestrated on Charles "Lucky" Luciano. in 1920, Sicilian-born mobsters Joe Masseria recruited Lucky Luciano to be his gunman. Luciano proved he was successful in bootlegging during Prohibition and quickly became rich and powerful on his own. 1929 seen Masseria starting a war with another Sicilian mobster named Salvatore Maranzano. After Masseria had a former friend killed, Luciano betrayed his former boss. He invited Masseria to lunch at a restaurant in Coney Island. During the meal, he excused himself to go to the bathroom. With him gone and Masseria unprotected, a group of men entered the restaurant and opened fire, killing Masseria

9. Harlem drug boss Frank Lucas claims he used the coffins of Vietnam War casualties to smuggle heroin into the US

-The 2007 film American Gangster told the story of how Frank Lucas went from a quiet upbringing in North Carolina to becoming one of the top distributors of heroin in 1970s Harlem. The movie suggests that Lucas used a morbid way of getting heroin into the US. He bought it in Thailand and used the coffins of soldiers killed in Vietnam to bring it home, since no one would look inside a coffin of a soldier.

-In a 2000 interview, Lucas admitted it did that.

10. Whitey Bulger did win $14.3 million in a lottery jackpot

-Early in the film Black Mass, Whitey Bulger, a famed Boston Irish mobster, admitted he won $14 million in the local lottery. It was the strangest coincidence that a local Boston mobster would play the lottery and just so happen to win. But the real Whitey Bulger did try and claim his winnings. It started as a scam in 1991. A man named Michael Linskey made a claim to have bought the ticket that won in a local liquor store that was owned by Bulger. After Linskey came forward, he made an announcment-he would split the winnings with Bulger, Bulger's friend Kevin Weeks and Linskey's brother Patrick. Linskey also made a claim that Bulger and his associates made a $2 million payment in cash for half the winnings, which would be meted out in installments over the next 20 years. Despite being a known mobster, the lottery had to accept him as a winner. The FBI seized the cash and accused Bulger of using the lottery scheme to launder money. It's unclear whether Michael Linskey forged the ticket that won or he geuinely won

11. Famed Boston Irish Mob boss Whitey Bulger was an informant

-The famed Boston mobster was the inspiration for Frank Costello in the film The Departed. The 2006 film was said to be a remake of a Hong Kong film called Internal Affairs from 2002. The premise was more or less the same, just a few things changed here and there. Many things in the American film were based on real life events. Frank Costello, played by Jack Nicholson, was partially inspired by famed Boston mobster Whitey Bulger. In fact, towards the end when Costello admits to secretly working for the FBI, that is directly based on Bulger's relationship with the FBI

-Starting in 1975, Bulger worked closely with FBI agent John Connolly. Similar to Matt Damon's character Sgt. Colin Sullivan, Connolly had grown up in South Boston, or Southie as the locals call it. As a child, Bulger looked after Connolly, similar to what Costello did to Sullivan. As he approached adulthood, Connolly came to Bulger with an offer to help him inform on the Angiulo crime family, local rivals. While it is known Bulger hated snitches, he was more than willing to aid the FBI in eliminating the competition and snatch a bigger piece of Boston's drug-dealing and racketeering markets. Similar to Costello, Bulger's status as an informant allowed him to get out of punishment from law enforcement for years. But, as far as any one knows, unlike The Departed, Bulger didn't have an implanted mole in law enforcement

12. The real life Moe Green from The Godfather was killed in an approved hit from the real life Hyman Roth from The Godfather Pt. II

-The first two installments of the famed Godfather series don't involve just Sicilian or New York Italian organized crime. They also involve Jewish organized crime. The characters Moe Greene and Hyman Roth are based on real-life Jewish organized crime figures Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel and Meyer Lansky. Like the character Moe Greene, Siegel was flashy, a mobster from the East Coast who brought organized crime to Vegas, managing the construction of The Flamingo Hotel with money earned from the mob. Like the character Hyman Roth, Lanskey was a mobster based out of Florida who helped to establish the National Crime Syndicate. By the 1950s, he was providing the money to fuel The Flamingo Hotel. At one point, Lansky and Roth tried to move to Israel, but due to their criminal pasts, they were denied entry.

-Even the way Moe Greene died was similar to Bugsy Siegel's death. They both crossed the wrong people and both were shot through the eye. The Godfather does make one massive difference from the real-life tale of Meyer Lansky and Bugsy Siegel. In The Godfather Pt. I, The Corleone family takes out Moe Greene after repeated accounts of disrespect and in the second film, Hyman Roth orders a hit on Michael Corleone as payback. In reality, it was thought to be Meyer Lansky who ordered the hit on Bugsy Siegel. The theory goes that Lansky got tired of the construction of The Flamingo Hotel constantly running over budget

February Birthdays

Since it's February, time to say Happy Birthday!!

Tony Iommi

-Birth name: Anthony Frank Iommi

-DOB: 2/19/1948

-Where: Aston, Birmingham, England

-During all the changes in Black Sabbath's lineup, Tony was the only consistent member

Duff McKagan

-Birth name: Michael Andrew McKagan

-DOB: 2/5/1964

-Where: Seattle, Washington

-His nickname "Duff" was used by Matt Groening for the name of a type of beer in The Simpsons

Rod Smallwood

-Birth name: Roderick Charles Smallwood

-DOB: 2/17/1950

-Where: Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England

-He met future business partner Andy Taylor at Trinity College

Adrian Smith

-Birth name: Adrian Frederick Smith

-DOB: 2/27/1957

-Where: Hackney, London

-Prior to joining Iron Maiden, he was in a band called Urchin, which featured his good friend Dave Murray

Joe Pesci

-Birth name: Joseph Frank Pesci

-DOB: 2/9/1943

-Where: Newark, New Jersey

-Known for playing either mob-related characters or characters with incredibly short tempers

Alice Cooper

-Birth name: Vincent Damon Furnier

-DOB: 2/4/1948

-Where: Detroit, Michigan

-After he recovered from severe alcoholism, he took up golfing to keep himself from going back to alcoholism

Alan Rickman

-Birth name: Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman

-DOB: 2/21/1946

-Where: Hammersmith, London, England

-DOD: 1/14/2016

-Where: London, England

-One of his best known roles was that of Potions professor Severus Snape in the Harry Potter series

Steve Irwin

-Birth name: Stephen Robert Irwin

-DOB: 2/22/1962

-Where: Essendon, Australia

-DOD: 9/4/2006

-Where: Batt Reef, Australia

-He was known for his strong love of animals and teaching everyone about the different species of animals around the world

Matt Groening

-Birth name: Matthew Abraham Groening

-DOB: 2/15/1954

-Where: Portland, Oregon

-He is best known for his long-running series The Simpsons

George Harrison

-DOB: 2/25/1943

-Where: Liverpool, England

-DOD: 11/29/2001

-Where: Los Angeles, California

-Joined fledgling group The Beatles at age 17