Your Day in Pop Culture (Tuesday, March 12, 2013

This Day in Pop Culture
1894: Coca-Cola is bottled and sold for the first time. Coca-Cola (and Coke Zero) is the official soft drink of Popculturology. We'll take our check now.

Famous People Have Birthdays Too
1922: Jack Kerouac, author (On The Road, Big Sur)
1933: Barbara Feldon, actress (Get Smart)
1946: Liza Minnelli, singer, actress (Arthur, Arrested Development) and daughter of Judy Garland 1946: Frank Welker, voice actor (Transformers, Scooby-Doo, the current voice of Garfield)
1947: Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts and presidential candidate
1948: James Taylor, singer
1953: Ron Jeremy, porn actor who looks disgusting and probably smells like an old Taco Bell
1968: Aaron Eckhart, actor (The Dark Knight, Thank You For Smoking, Olympus Has Fallen)
1979: Pete Doherty, musician (The Libertines)
1982: Samm Levine, actor (Freaks and Geeks, Inglorious Basterds)

Who's On What Tonight: Your Guide to Late-Night TV
CONAN: Scrubs' Zach Braff, The Vampire Diaries' Nina Dobrev
LETTERMAN: The Incredible Burt Wonderstone's Steve Carell, Game of Thrones' Emilia Clarke, musician Josh Ritter
KIMMEL: REPEAT
LENO: The Incredible Burt Wonderstone's Olivia Wilde, Parks and Recreation's Nick Offerman, music group Buddy Guy and the Experience Hendrix All-Star Band
FALLON: NBA legend Charles Barkley, Girls' Allison Williams, record producer Clive Davis, pop culture icon Justin Timberlake
FERGUSON: Good Will Hunting's Minnie Drive, Parks and Recreation's Ben Schwartz

New on Blu-Ray
Life of Pi: While you really should have seen this film in 3D at a theater, it's still definitely worth a home viewing.
Rise of the Guardians: If you love The Avengers and you love holidays, this is the movie for you.
Mulan: It's no Lion King, but Mulan is still better than almost every DreamWorks animated movie.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame: Jason Alexander voiced one of the gargoyles, which explains why he kept trying to get Quasimodo to call him "T-Bone."
Hitchcock: Anthony Hopkins does an Alfred Hitchcock impression for 98 minutes.