Carla Bruni Sarkozy is celebrating today—France's First Lady is turning 41. CBS chief Les Moonves is 60. Conservative coumnist Bill Kristol is 56. Soap star Susan Lucci is 62. Badgley Mischka's James Mischka is turning 48. Author Donna Tartt is 45. Literary agent Elyse Cheney is 41. Retired Army General (and one-time presidential candidate) Wesley Clark is turning 64. Rock star Eddie Vedder turns 44. And The Girls Next Door's Holly Madison is 29 today.

Markinson, a Broadway producer and co-head of Richmark Entertainment, is the man behind plays like Torch Song Trilogy and the owner of one of Broadway's tiniest theaters, the Helen Hayes, until he sold the theater to the Second Stage Threatre Off Broadway company.