JULY 26 WAS THE BIRTHDAY OF Stanley Kubrick and Jason Robards, when they were still celebrating their birthdays instead of being dead all the time, and is the birthday of Kevin Spacey, Mick Jagger, Kate Beckinsale, Helen Mirren, Blake Edwards, Sandra Bullock, the Cuban Revolution, and me. Thank you for your applause, but please, just throw money. Green in any denomination is a color most pleasing to all of the above.