BIG 5-Oh
Meg Ryan
BIRTHDAY: NOVEMBER 19
“I have to be on my toes around
Meg,” Tom Hanks told an interviewer. “It’s like a great tennis
match…she makes me better.”
Since nuzzling with Hanks in
You’ve Got Mail (1998), Ryan has
been on-screen less often—partly
due to Hollywood’s insistence that
she remain Our Lady of Perpetual
Perkiness. But she’s shown depth
in films like In the Land of Women
(2007). She’s a doting mom to Jack,
19 (with ex-hubby Dennis Quaid),
and Daisy True (adopted in 2006),
has a new man (rocker John
Mellencamp), and is directing her
first film, Into the Beautiful. Plus,
she’s still darned perky. —Bill Newcott
RALPH MACCHIO
November 4
After his Dancing
With the Stars
success, fans fell
in love with this
Karate Kid all
over again.
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LEIF GARRETT
November 8
Battling back
from a 2010 drug
bust, the former
teen idol is play-
ing concert gigs
in California.
50
NADIA
COMANECI
November 12
The perfect- 10
gymnast founded
a children’s
clinic in her
native Bucharest.
50
MARIEL
HEMINGWAY
November 22
Named after
her famous
grandfather’s
favorite fishing
village in Cuba.
50
LOU FERRIGNO
November 9
The Hulk joined
Steven Seagal
on an Arizona
county’s anti–
illegal-immigrant
“posse.”
60
ART GARFUNKEL
November 5
Spent 12 years
walking across
the country,
with breaks for
showbiz
commitments.
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