I'm sorry this is so late, but a car hit an electrical pole near here, and took out the power grid in this whole area. I've had no power all day long.
Also born on August 2nd:
Jack L. Warner - Producer. He founded Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. in 1923 with his brothers Harry M. Warner, Albert Warner, and Sam Warner. Best known for "The Jazz Singer", "Casablanca", "Yankee Doodle Dandy", "Arsenic and Old Lace", "To Have and Have Not", "Christmas in Connecticut", "The Big Sleep", "A Star Is Born", "My Fair Lady", "Camelot" and "1776". One of the 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).
Kevin Smith - Producer, Director, Writer, Actor. Best known for "Clerks", "Mallrats", "Chasing Amy", "Dogma", "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back" and "Jersey Girl".
Wes Craven - Writer, Producer. Best known for "A Nightmare on Elm Street", "The Hills Have Eyes" and "The People Under the Stairs".
Simon Kinberg - Producer, Writer. Best known for "X-Men: Days of Future Past", "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" and "Elysium".
Bill Scott - Prodicer, Writer, Actor. Best known for "The Bullwinkle Show", "Rocky and His Friends" and "The Dudley Do-Right Show".
Charles Bennett - Writer, Director. Best known for "The 39 Steps", "Sabotage", "Foreign Correspondent" and "The Man Who Knew Too Much".
Andrew Gold - Composer. His 1978 hit single, "Thank You For Being a Friend", was later used as the theme for the TV show "The Golden Girls".
Bill Roberts - Director, best known for "Dumbo", "Bambi", "Pinocchio", "Fantasia", "The Three Caballeros" and "Saludos Amigos".
Carroll O'Connor - Actor, best known as Archie Bunker in the TV show "All in the Family", and as Chief Gillespie in the TV show "In the Heat of the Night".
Gary Merrill - Actor, best known for "All About Eve", "Witness to Murder" and the TV show "Young Dr. Kildare".
Nehemiah Persoff - Actor, best known for "The Harder They Fall", "The Wrong Man" and "Some Like It Hot".
Joanna Cassidy - Actress, best known for "Blade Runner", "Under Fire" and "Who Framed Roger Rabbit".
Sam Worthington - Actor, best known for "Avatar", "Terminator Salvation", "Clash of the Titans" and "Man on a Ledge".
Butch Patrick - Actor, best known as Eddie Munster in the TV show "The Munsters", and for the Saturday Morning Krofft TV show "Lidsville".
Hallie Kate Eisenberg - Actress, best known for "Paulie", "Bicentennial Man" and as "the Pepsi Girl" in a series of Pepsi commercials in the early 2000s.
Hank Cochran - Country music singer, songwriter. He was elected to the Nashville Songwriters Association International Hall of Fame in 1974.