CNN's Anderson Cooper turns 42 today. Tennis star Rafael Nadal is turning 23. Humorist/Apple pitchman John Hodgman is 38. Stanford law professor and Internet pioneer Lawrence Lessig is 48. Raul Castro, the president of Cuba, is turning 78. Actor Tony Curtis is turning 84. John Barlow, the Broadway publicist and partner of producer Scott Rudin, is 41. High Line advocate Josh David turns 46. Phish bassist Mike Gordon is 44. Melissa Mathison, the ET screenwriter and ex-wife of Harrison Ford, is 59. And former game show host and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind author Chuck Barris turns 80 today.

"Gong Show" host Chuck Barris has been enmeshed in a battle with his penthouse neighbor at the Trump Plaza for years now. She's an 85-year-old "inventor" and crazy ol' coot named Dorothea M. Weitzner. Barris, a little cuckoo himself—he claimed he was a CIA assassin while hosting the Gong Show—has been on the receiving end of some seriously wacky invectives by Weitzner. In a letter recently published in the New York Law Journal, Weitzner wrote: "what you need is your head cracked open. I'll get you, just you wait ... I'll get you, you cockroach. You faggot. Your wife's mother's a slut."

1. Hear Chuck Barris discuss his autobiography, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, at the Astor Place Barnes & Noble.
2. View "outsider art" at the Puck Building.
3. Try the sea scallop sashimi and pretend it's 1935 at the Upstairs at '21'.