July 20: Rockabilly singer Sleepy LaBeef is 73. Actress Diana Rigg (?The Avengers?) is 70. Bassist John Lodge of the Moody Blues is 65. Country singer T.G. Sheppard is 64. Singer Kim Carnes is 63. Guitarist Carlos Santana is 61. Drummer Paul Cook of the Sex Pistols is 52. Actress Donna Dixon (?Bosom Buddies?) is 51. Keyboardist Mick McNeil of Simple Minds is 50. Country singer Radney Foster is ...

ROSE BATH: Kevin Spacey and Mena Suvari star in American Beauty on Sky Movies Greats on Tuesday night.

With True Blood , Charlaine Harris' Sookie Stackhouse novels get the HBO original series treatment (courtesy American Beauty poseur-provocateur Alan Ball) and the results, at least based on the first two episodes sent out for preview, are unsurprisingly atrocious.

It's an election year so it's to be expected for people with petitions in hand to stop you on the street, that is, until they start asking if you're "pro" or "anti" vampire.

Anna Paquin, who stars in HBO's upcoming vampire series True Blood , told SCI FI Wire that she did more than the usual research for her new role as a mind-reader who falls in love with a vampire.

Celebrity birthdays for the week of July 20-26:

Celebrity birthdays for the week of July 20-26: July 20: Rockabilly singer Sleepy LaBeef is 73. Actress Diana Rigg ("The Avengers") is 70. Bassist John Lodge of the Moody Blues is 65. Country singer T.G. Sheppard is 64. Singer Kim Carnes is 63. Guitarist Carlos Santana is 61. Drummer Paul Cook of the Sex Pistols is 52. Actress Donna Dixon ("Bosom Buddies") is 51. Keyboardist Mick McNeil of ...

The show includes quips about vampires "coming out of the coffin" and asking for equal rights after being long suppressed and misunderstood; those elements were all in the Southern Vampire Mysteries books by Charlaine Harris, on which the show is based.

Today is Monday, July 21, the 203rd day of 2008 with 163 to follow.The moon is waning. The morning stars are Neptune, Mercury and Uranus. The evening stars are Jupiter, Venus, Mars and Saturn.Those born on this date are under the sign of Cancer. They include composer Chauncey Olcott (When Irish Eyes Are Smiling) in 1860; author Ernest Hemingway and poet Hart Crane, both in 1899; Canadian ...

The Inquirer's Jonathan Storm is reporting this week from the television critics press tour in Beverly Hills. These items originally appeared in his blog, "From the Source," at www.philly.com/philly/blogs/from_the_source.