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Post by jo on Oct 11, 2012 8:29:57 GMT -5
On his 44th Birthday -- October 12, 2012  To which I add -- May this year be one of the most memorable in your life!Jo |
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Post by jo on Oct 11, 2012 12:46:52 GMT -5
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Post by thompson on Oct 11, 2012 12:49:05 GMT -5
+happy birthay hugh jackman from you fan alice thompson
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Post by njr on Oct 11, 2012 14:51:50 GMT -5
Happy Birthday tomorrow Hugh! ;D
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Post by mamaleh on Oct 11, 2012 17:01:13 GMT -5
Actually, isn't it already Oct. 12 in Australia? So...HAPPY BIRTHDAY, HUGH! A bit of doggerel for your 44th: Two score And four years more Have only happy birthdays Forever more!  , Ellen |
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Post by nevaeh777 on Oct 11, 2012 17:50:39 GMT -5
 Congratulations Hugh on celebrating your 44th Birthday! We are so proud of you and all your accomplishments over the past years. You keep soaring to new heights and it's great joy for us to watch you excel in so many areas of your life! So on this very special day, we raise our glasses to you in a toast, and wish you the most heartfelt birthday blessings from all of us here on the board! May God's richest blessings continue to shower you through the years ahead! Love, Nevaeh  |
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Post by hughslove on Oct 11, 2012 20:56:28 GMT -5
Woohoo! Happy Brithday!  |
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Post by wildfire on Oct 11, 2012 21:22:42 GMT -5
A very Happy Birthday Hugh!
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Post by rmtndew on Oct 11, 2012 22:04:57 GMT -5
Happy Birthday. - Alicia |
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Post by jo on Oct 11, 2012 23:20:16 GMT -5
From Hugh himself ;D
Hugh JackmanVerifiedþ@RealHughJackman
On set for my birthday. Thanks for all the best wishes! pic.twitter.com/XDMIheEL  |
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Post by jo on Oct 12, 2012 3:53:50 GMT -5
From Hugh again  Hugh Jackmanþ@RealHughJackman
The best cake ever! From the guys and gals in the production office! Going to eat the claws first!!!! pic.twitter.com/DaEEfVWH  |
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Post by eugenia on Oct 12, 2012 5:57:58 GMT -5
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Post by mamaleh on Oct 12, 2012 7:25:05 GMT -5
From Hugh again Hugh Jackmanþ@RealHughJackman
The best cake ever! From the guys and gals in the production office! Going to eat the claws first!!!! pic.twitter.com/DaEEfVWH Even his figurine won't wear a Speedo. The cat who licked his claws in X2 would undoubtedly prefer those pictured above. Cute decoration. Ellen |
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Post by jo on Oct 12, 2012 7:36:04 GMT -5
Nah, Wolverine doesn't wear Speedos either Check out what he wears when he jumps into the water ( via a waterfall) in Origins ;D Jo |
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Post by birchie on Oct 12, 2012 9:04:08 GMT -5
Wow they really went all out with the videos! Think someone there might be a big Hugh fan like us. |
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Post by jo on Oct 12, 2012 11:12:48 GMT -5
Birthday greetings blog to Hugh -- and a lovely surprise for his fans! The foreword for the book MR. BROADWAY on the life of Gerald Schoenfeld -- ht.ly/eqEKqQuote: Hugh Jackman Writes About Gerald Schoenfeld in Mr. Broadway Posted on October 12, 2012 by HLPAPG Happy birthday, Hugh Jackman! The following is an excerpt from Mr. Broadway: The Inside Story of the Shuberts, the Shows, and the Stars by the late Gerald Schoenfeld. This is the foreword, written by Hugh Jackman.  Jackman and Schoenfeld, photo as printed in the book Mr. Broadway When people meet me, usually their lasting impression is of my wife . . . after all, she is in my opinion far funnier, more interesting, and definitely sexier! The type of person who turns heads in whichever room she is in. . . .Well, I have to say my first memory of meeting Mr. Schoenfeld was a little similar. It was at a fancy London hotel off Hyde Park, I was with my good friends Ben Gannon and Robert Fox, the producers of The Boy from Oz, and we were going to tell him of our plan to bring the show to Broadway. It was around six p.m., and Mr. Schoenfeld had plans to go to the theater, so we were going to shake hands before they went to the show.
I was surprised when we went into the hotel that we went straight up to the room. I thought we might have met in the lobby, but no . . . Jerry was always authentic and down-to-earth, and—as I would say to him later during our decade of friendship—he was to me an honorary Australian . . . a man of old-fashioned values, where a handshake was stronger than any contract.
Jerry welcomed us not as the titan of Broadway, as he had been described to me, but in a very warm, genial, and up-front way. “Nice to meet you, Mr. Schoenfeld.” “Please call me Jerry. . . .Very nice to meet you, You”—Jerry always pronounced my name without the H… like a lot of genuine New Yorkers!—then straightaway said, “So . . . I know you are in movies, so are you really coming to Broadway with this show or what?”
Jerry always was to the point, and for the next ten years would say to me something similar: “Enough of all this movie shit, when are you coming home—when are you coming back to Broadway?” I told him yes, we shook hands . . . apparently that was it, it was done, then barely two minutes into our meeting, Pat came into the room wearing her bathrobe: “Jerry, have you seen my. . .”And I can’t remember the rest of the conversation. I immediately remembered I was in someone’s hotel room, and Pat didn’t blink an eyelid.We shook hands, I apologized for being there, and she told us to sit and relax, and I wondered how often things like this might have happened. For Pat it all seemed very normal. And like my wife, as big a personality as Jerry was, Pat somehow had that ability to turn heads effortlessly.
From that moment I knew we were going to be friends. I liked them both instantly, and very soon after, like would turn to love. Pat and Jerry invited me and my family to spend weekends with them upstate, we would go to the theater together, to restaurants, and all along I had that feeling that Jerry was not like a king but more like a father and brother all rolled into one.
The year I spent on Broadway doing The Boy from Oz was one of the greatest years of my life, with so many extraordinary memories. But one of my lasting impressions is the visits I would get from Jerry. Sometimes it would be just before I went onstage: “You,” Jerry in a very loud stage whisper would say, “I need to talk to you about something.” “Jerry, I am just about to go onstage.” “I know—it won’t take a second”. . . always made me laugh. But then, during the last song of the show, “Once Before I Go”, two to three times a week I would look out to the wings and there Jerry would be, a lover of the theater and one of the greatest supporters I have ever had. He told me how much he loved the show. . .maybe it was the resonance of the show’s themes of someone living their dreams, someone living life to the full, of having no regrets of the road traveled. And to me that was Jerry. Right up to his death Jerry was working . . .well, not that it was work to him. The theater was his domain, his church, his home. Talking to me about shows, sending me possible scripts for new shows, revivals . . . whatever.
The last night of Jerry’s life, Pat and he came to the premiere of my movie Australia. He came and grabbed me after the movie was over, upset that Pat thought it not a good idea to go to the after party, and said, “Very good, You . . . now enough of this movie business, when are you coming back home . . . to Broadway?” It would be only nine months later, in a show called A Steady Rain, with Daniel Craig . . . a fourteen-week run, and in which theater? The Schoenfeld, of course!
I can’t wait to read this book. I knew Jerry for only ten years. He changed my life in so many ways; now it is really time for me to learn about the other seventy years. Thank you, Pat, for making this book happen . . . and secretly I will always picture you working on it … in your bathrobe!What a warm, lovely foreword -- such a heartfelt tribute to a friend and a nice revelation that Hugh, indeed, had been a real loss to the field of journalism! I hope someday his engaging style would again be used to write his own autobiography. I am sure we would be entertained by his writing style as much as what he would want to share with his public! Jo |
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Post by droverswoman on Oct 12, 2012 13:26:39 GMT -5
LOVE Hugh's Tweets - and that cake is AMAZING!! Thanks, Jo! I thought I would share something I made for my Hugh FB page here - my birthday greeting to him!! ;D I hope he enjoyed that cake! Happy Birthday, Hugh!  |
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Post by jo on Oct 12, 2012 22:17:35 GMT -5
Good friend and next-floor neighbor in NYC, Marja Vongerichten tweets her greetings --
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