Your Day in Pop Culture (Tuesday, April 2, 2013)

This Day in Pop Culture History
1902: The first full-time movie theatre opens in Los Angeles. No, their first showing was not a Michael Bay film.
1956: As The World Turns debuts on CBS-TV. Sorry, but Popculturology is a Young and the Restless kind of website.
1972: Charlie Chaplin returns to America for the first time since being accussed of being a communist.
1992: John Gotti is convicted of murder and racketeering, we were the ones who were victims of Growing Up Gotti.

Famous People Have Birthdays Too
1908: Buddy Ebsen, actor (Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Beverly Hillbillies)
1914: Alec Guinness, actor and the original Obi-Wan Kenobi (The Bridge Over The River Kwai, Star Wars films)
1939: Marvin Gaye, singer
1940: Penelope Keith, actress (The Good Life, To Manor Born, The Teletubbies)
1945: Linda Hunt, actress (The Year of Living Dangerously, NCIS: LA)
1948: Daniel Okrent, writer, creator of fantasy baseball
1949: Pamela Reed, actress (Parks and Recreation, Kindergarten Cop, The Right Stuff)
1954: Donald Petrie, director (Mystic Pizza, Richie Rich, Miss Congeniality)
1961: Christopher Meloni, actor (Law and Order: SVU, Oz, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas)
1962: Clark Gregg, actor (The Avengers, (500) Days of Summer, The New Adventures of Old Christine)

Who's On What Tonight: Your Guide to Late-Night TV
CONAN: Admission's Paul Rudd, music group Von Grey
LETTERMAN: Who Wants to Be a Millionaire's Regis Philbin
KIMMEL: Real Time with Bill Maher's Bill Maher, Revolution's Giancarlo Esposito, music group Cold War Kids
LENO: The Voice's Blake Shelton, sports personality Jim Rome
FALLON: 30 Rock's Tracy Morgan, Watch What Happens Live's Andy Cohen, singer B.J. Thomas
FERGUSON: REPEAT

New on Blu-Ray
Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase One — Avengers Assembled: This is the sweet case we told you about last year that contains every film from Phase One of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
The Bible: The Epic Miniseries: The History Channel broke records with Mark Burnett's take on history's most famous book.