Shauna Wright

A comical war against aliens, or a dramatic dance war against the one-percent? Pick your cinematic poison, because those are the plotlines of the two new movies opening in wide-release this weekend.

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Here’s a look at some notable birthdays being celebrated today:

Mick Jagger
Age: 69
Occupation: Singer and Songwriter
Known For: More than 50 years as the lead singer of the iconic rock band The Rolling Stones, scores of classic rock hits including ‘(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction,’ ‘Honky Tonk Women,’ ‘Jumpin’ Jack Flash’ and ‘Brown Sugar,’ his chicken-dance stage moves, and being allergic to monogamy

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Last week, the Boy Scouts of America reaffirmed its longstanding policy of banning gays from being scouts or scout leaders.

Now a number of straight men who’ve received the group’s highest honor — the ranking of Eagle Scout — are returning their medals in protest.

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Models with Down syndrome aren’t new — earlier this year, Target drew praise for featuring a boy with the chromosomal condition in one of its ads. But in a first, a little girl with Down syndrome is now fronting a whole campaign.

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Some women have to undergo fertility treatments to get pregnant, but according to a new study by the CDC, about a third of the babies born in the past 30 years weren’t planned — and it should come as no surprise that more than half of those pregnancies are tied to a lack of contraception use.

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Here’s a look at some notable birthdays being celebrated today:

Jennifer Lopez
Age: 43
Occupation: Singer and Actress
Known For: Hit songs like ‘Waiting for Tonight,’ ‘Jenny from the Block’ and ‘On the Floor,’ movie roles in ‘The Wedding Planner,’ ‘Maid in Manhattan’ and ‘Enough,’ recently quitting her gig as a judge on ‘American Idol,’ a former engagement to Ben Affleck, and a former marriage to singer Marc Anthony

Anna Paquin
Age: 30
Occupation: Actress
Known For: Winning an Oscar at age 11 for her role in ‘The Piano,’ other movie roles in ‘She’s All That,’ ‘Almost Famous’ and the ‘X-Men’ franchise, her current role as Sookie Stackhouse on the HBO series ‘True Blood,’ and recently announcing she’s expecting her first child with her husband and ‘True Blood’ co-star Stephen Moyer

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A new study has found women are lazier than men.

Maybe they’re saving up their energy for when they get behind the wheel.

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Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history:

1926 – Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film (More info)

1967 – In Detroit, Mich., one of the worst riots in United States history begins on 12th Street in the predominantly African-American inner city, leaving 43 killed, 342 injured and 1,400 buildings burned (More info)

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Here’s a look at some notable birthdays being celebrated today:

Slash
Age: 47
Occupation: Songwriter and Musician
Known For: Tolerating Axl Rose during his long stint as Guns N’ Roses mop-haired, top-hatted guitarist, providing memorable riffs and solos in songs like ‘Sweet Child o’ Mine,’ ‘November Rain’ and ‘Welcome to the Jungle,’ and co-founding the supergroup Velvet Revolver

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We recently learned women are now scoring higher than men on IQ tests, and that ladies currently make up the majority of primary breadwinners.

But new research shows that if there’s one group that isn’t pleased about all that, it’s macho guys.

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Germans love him, but who knew David Hasselhoff was such a wanted commodity here in the US? That’s what a convenience store chain is wondering after hundreds of giant promotional cardboard cut-outs of the ‘Baywatch’ star have gone missing.

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1933 – Wiley Post becomes the first person to fly solo around the world, traveling 15,596 miles in seven days, 18 hours and 45 minutes (More info)

1934 – Outside Chicago’s Biograph Theater, “Public Enemy No. 1″ — John Dillinger — is killed by FBI agents (More info)

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