Short Takes/Celeb Birthdays: Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Published: August 26, 2008

SHORT TAKES
Birthdays
•Actor Macaulay Culkin, 28.

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•Singer Vic Dana, 66.

•Singer Valerie Simpson, 62.

•Singer Bob Cowsill (The Cowsills), 59.

•Bandleader Branford Marsalis, 48.

Guitarist Jimmy Olander (Diamond Rio), 47.

•Actor Chris Burke ("Life Goes On”), 43.

•Singer Shirley Manson (Garbage), 42.

•Guitarist Dan Vickrey (Counting Crows), 42.

•Drummer Adrian Young (No Doubt), 39.

•Actress Melissa McCarthy ("Gilmore Girls”), 38.

•Singer Cassie, 22.

•Actress Keke Palmer ("Akeelah and the Bee”), 15.

This week in history
1990: Garth Brooks released his album "No Fences.”

People
Matt Damon, wife welcome daughter

MIAMI, Fla.Matt Damon's wife, Luciana, gave birth to a baby girl, Gia Zavala Damon, on Wednesday, his spokeswoman, Jennifer Allen, said.

Damon, 37, met Luciana, 32, in 2003 while she was working as a bartender in Florida and he was filming "Stuck on You.” They married in December 2005 in New York in a private ceremony attended by the bride's daughter, Alexa, now 10, from a previous marriage. They also have a daughter, Isabella, born in June 2006.

The Associated Press


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