I'll echo the happy birthday to Leonard, the alpha and the omega, and for whom I'd gladly bear children and sweep his hut for the rest of my life.
In other news, pioneering filmmaker and director of one of my favorite kitschy hot-violent-chicks-with-torpedo-tits films*, Russ Meyer, has died. Kill, kill indeed.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp..._us/obit_meyer
*hyphen-madness