Her Royal Majesty turns 83 today. Feel free to use this an excuse to take your British friends to lunch and order a celebratory cocktail. Others celebrating today: Charles Grodin is 74. Filmmaker John Cameron Mitchell is turning 46. Andie MacDowell is 51. Patti LuPone turns 60. Author Nell Freudenberger is 34. Ugly Betty's Eric Mabius is turning 38. Tony Danza is 58. Iggy Pop is turning 62. Former congressman Gary Condit is 61. The Cure's Robert Smith is 50. And Tony Romo, the NFL quarterback who has to put up with Jessica Simpson for so long now, turns 29 today.

The Observer's Spencer Morgan—who, some might say, resembles a young Charles Grodin—recently took the Metro-North train up to Westport, CT to meet the 72-year-old Beethoven star Charles Grodin. They ate seafood salad together and Grodin sang along to Dido's White Flag. "He turned the song up loud and a faraway look came over him. 'I know you think that I shouldn't still love you,' Dido began. Mr. Grodin sang along. Mrs. Grodin thinks her husband has an unhealthy obsession with the song." You know what else Grodin has an unhealthy obsession with? Himself!

Tomorrow night, maybe stroke victim and aging actor-author Charles Grodin toasts his most recent book, "If I Only Knew Then...: Learning from Our Mistakes," at Le Cirque. Sure it's a closed party but think of the possibilities! This might be your only chance to see Mr. Grodin chatting with the "friends and friends of friends" who contributed to this instaclassic. Friends like Alan Alda, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Carol Burnett, Walter Cronkite, Rosie O' Donnell, Ben Stiller and Goldie Hawn—who penned her own bestseller, "A Lotus Grows in the Mud," in 2006. Or it could just be Mr. Grodin all alone in a Christmas sweater eating stuffed mushrooms in the back room!

Former actor and funnyman and one-time talkshow host Charles Grodin just wrote a book calledIf We Only Knew Then....Learning From Our Mistakes. So what are some of his mistakes? Well, we might just ask him that at his appearance at the Armonk Library at 8 pm on November 10th—as per this flier distributed all over up in Westchester!—but in the meantime, we have a few ideas.