SLJ Day

Happy birthday, Samuel L. Jackson.   Not too many celebrities stay cool well into their 60s, but he's managed it.

Jackson was barely known as an actor when he hit forty.  It was his role in 1991 as crack addict Gator in Spike Lee's Jungle Fever that got him notice. (He'd been an addict himself so he knew the role from the inside.)

But that was nothing compared to the impact in 1994 of hitman Jules in Pulp Fiction.  He's been a star ever since, and, as if making up for lost time, has averaged more than three films a year in the last two decades.

Here are a few highlights: