Your Day in Pop Culture (Friday, Sept. 27, 2013)

This Day in Pop Culture History
1954: Tonight Starring Steve Allen premieres on NBC. The show would eventually become The Tonight Show, also known as Jay Leno's preciousssssssss.

Famous People Have Birthdays Too
1934: Wilfred Brimley, actor and diabettus spokesman
1947: Meat Loaf, musician
1964: Stephan Jenkins, musician (Third Eye Blind)
1972: Gwyneth Paltrow, actress (Seven, Shakespeare in Love, Glee, Shallow Hal, Iron Man movies)
1982: Anna Camp, actress (True Blood, Mad Men, The Help, Pitch Perfect)
1982: Lil Wayne, rapper
1984: Avril Lavigne, singer

Who's On What Tonight: Your Guide to Late-Night TV
CONAN: NO EPISODE
LETTERMAN: Saturday Night Live's Steve Martin
KIMMEL: REPEAT
LENO: Gravity's Sandra Bullock, musician Gregory Porter
FALLON: The Good Wife's Juliana Margulies, Masters of Sex's Michael Sheen, music group Superchunk
FERGUSON: Veep's Julia Louis-Dreyfus

In Theaters This Weekend
Don Jon: Joseph Gordon-Levitt's directorial debut. Popculturology Editor in Chief Bill Kuchman saw this one at a screening and loved it.
Rush: Does director Ron Howard has a stealth Oscar contender on his hands with this one?
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2: It's OK to rail against non-Pixar animated movies, but if the food wordplay in the trailers for this movie doesn't make you laugh, you're dead inside.