TODAY IN HISTORY: Saturday, Jan. 22, 2022

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On January 22, 2012, Joe Paterno, the former Penn State football coach who won a record 409 games in his storied six-decade career but was forced out amid a sex scandal involving an ex-assistant coach, died of lung cancer. He was 85. File Photo by George Powers/UPI | License Photo

Today is Saturday, Jan. 22, the 22nd day of 2022 with 343 to follow. The moon is waning. Morning stars are Mars and Uranus. Evening stars are Jupiter, Mercury, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus and Venus. Advertisement

Those born on this date are under the sign of Aquarius. They include Russian Czar Ivan III, known as Ivan the Great, in 1440; British writer/explorer Walter Raleigh in 1552; English philosopher/statesman Francis Bacon in 1561; British poet Lord George Byron in 1788; D.W. Griffith in 1875; Chief Justice of the United States Fred Vinson in 1890; U.N. Secretary-General U Thant in 1909; actor Ann Sothern in 1909; soul singer Sam Cooke in 1931; actor Piper Laurie in 1932 (age 90); actor Bill Bixby in 1934; television chef Graham Kerr in 1934 (age 88); author Joseph Wambaugh in 1937 (age 85); television chef Jeff Smith in 1939; actor John Hurt in 1940; Journey lead singer Steve Perry in 1949 (age 73); filmmaker Jim Jarmusch in 1953 (age 69); actor Linda Blair in 1959 (age 63); singer Michael Hutchence in 1960; actor Diane Lane in 1965 (age 57); actor/producer DJ Jazzy Jeff in 1965 (age 57); restaurateur Guy Fieri in 1968 (age 54); actor Olivia d’Abo in 1969 (age 53); actor Matt Iseman in 1971 (age 51); actor Gabriel Macht in 1972 (age 50); actor Balthazar Getty in 1975 (age 47); actor Beverley Mitchell in 1981 (age 41).

On this date in history:

In 1771, Spain ceded the Falkland Islands to Britain.

In 1901, Queen Victoria of Britain died at age 82 after a reign of 64 years. She was succeeded by her son, Edward VII.

In 1914, attorneys for world heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson, an African-American prizefighter, filed a brief for a new trial with the U.S. Court of Appeals, challenging Johnson’s conviction under the Mann Act.

In 1924, senators investigating the Teapot Dome lease scandal declared they would use all the legal powers of the government to get to the truth.

In 1943, U.S. and Australian troops took New Guinea in the first land victory over the Japanese in World War II.

In 1944, U.S. troops invaded Italy, landing at Anzio beach in a move to outflank German defensive positions.

In 1973, in its historic Roe v. Wade decision, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down state bans and made abortion legal.

In 1987, Glen Tremml, 27, pedaled the ultralight aircraft Eagle over Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., for a human-powered flight record of 37.2 miles.

In 1991, Iraq launched a Scud missile attack against Israel, injuring 98 people.

In 1998, Theodore Kaczynski, known as the “Unabomber,” accused of sending bombs that killed and wounded people, pleaded guilty to all counts against him in California and New Jersey. He was sentenced to life in prison.

In 2003, the U.S. Senate approved the nomination of former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge to be the first secretary of Homeland Security by a 94-0 vote.

In 2008, Heath Ledger, star of Brokeback Mountain, A Knight’s Tale and The Dark Knight, died of a drug overdose. He was 28.

In 2012, Joe Paterno, the former Penn State football coach who won a record 409 games in his storied six-decade career but was forced out amid a sex scandal involving an ex-assistant coach, died of lung cancer. He was 85.

In 2014, the New York Yankees agreed to a seven-year, $155 million contract with right-handed pitcher Masahiro Tanaka of Japan.

In 2021, the Senate confirmed Lloyd Austin as secretary of defense, making him the first Black Pentagon chief.

A thought for the day: “Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.” – American novelist Booth Tarkington

Today’s famous birthdays list for January 22, 2022 includes celebrities Diane Lane, Steve Perry

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Birthday wishes go out to Diane Lane, Steve Perry and all the other celebrities with birthdays today. Check out our slideshow below to see photos of famous people turning a year older on January 22nd and learn an interesting fact about each of them.

Top celebrity birthdays on January 22, 2022

Inductees Neal Schon, left, and Steve Perry from the band Journey appear at the 2017 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony at the Barclays Center on Friday, April 7, 2017, in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)Charles Sykes/Invision/AP

Singer Steve Perry turns 73

Fun fact: Perry has 3 Grammy nominations in his career

US actor John Wesley Shipp arrives for the 46th International Emmy awards gala in New York City on November 19, 2018. - The International Emmy Award is an award ceremony bestowed by the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in recognition to the best television programs initially produced and aired outside the United States. (Photo by Angela Weiss / AFP) (Photo credit should read ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)AFP via Getty Images

Actor John Wesley Shipp turns 67

Fun fact: Played Dawson’s dad on ‘Dawson’s Creek’

Diane Lane arrives at the 26th annual ELLE Women in Hollywood Celebration at the Four Seasons Hotel on Monday, Oct. 14, 2019, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP

Actress Diane Lane turns 57

Fun fact: Appears in the DCEU films as Superman’s mother, Martha Kent

DJ Jazzy Jeff performs with The Roots during the Essence Festival at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome on July 5, 2014, in New Orleans. (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP)Amy Harris/Invision/AP

DJ Jazzy Jeff turns 57

Fun fact: Appeared in close to 4 dozen episodes of ‘The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air’ as Will’s best friend Jazz

Guy Fieri during the second half of an NFL football game between the Las Vegas Raiders and the Philadelphia Eagles, Sunday, Oct. 24, 2021, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri)AP

Celebrity chef Guy Fieri turns 54

Fun fact: Originally from Columbus, Ohio

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - DECEMBER 11: Olivia d’Abo attends the drive-in premiere of Freestyle Digital Media’s “Angie: Lost Girls” at Arena Cinelounge Sunset on December 11, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Rich Fury/Getty Images)Getty Images

Actress Olivia d’Abo turns 53

Fun fact: Played Kevin’s older sister Karen on ‘The Wonder Years’

LOS ANGELES, CA - AUGUST 08: Willa Ford attends FIJI Water, Official Water of Clayton Kershaw’s 7th Annual Ping Pong 4 Purpose Fundraiser at Dodger Stadium on August 8, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Charley Gallay/Getty Images for FIJI Water)Getty Images for FIJI Water

Singer and actress Willa Ford turns 41

Fun fact: Competed on the third season of ‘Dancing with the Stars’

Beverley Mitchell arrives at the Inspiration Awards benefiting Step Up at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel on Friday, June 1, 2018, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)Invision

Actress Beverley Mitchell turns 41

Fun fact: Prior to her breakout role on ‘7th Heaven,’ Mitchell appeared in episodes of TV shows like ‘Quantum Leap’ and ‘Baywatch’

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - DECEMBER 09: Sami Gayle attends a screening of “The Tender Bar” hosted by Amazon Studios at Museum of Modern Art on December 09, 2021 in New York City. (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)Getty Images

Actress Sami Gayle turns 26

Fun fact: Appeared on ‘Blue Bloods’ as Nicky Boyle

More celebrities with birthdays today

Actor Piper Laurie is 90. Bassist Teddy Gentry of Alabama is 70. Actor Linda Blair is 63. Country singer Regina Nicks of Regina Regina is 57. Actor Katie Finneran (“The Michael J. Fox Show”) is 51. Actor Gabriel Macht (“Suits”) is 50. Actor Balthazar Getty is 47. Actor Christopher Kennedy Masterson (“Malcolm in the Middle”) is 42. Jazz singer Lizz Wright is 42. Guitarist Ben Moody of The Fallen (and formerly of Evanescence) is 41. Actor-singer Phoebe Strole (“Glee”) is 39. Rapper Logic is 32.

Other popular or historical birthdays on January 22nd

Francis Bacon, author and statesman

Lord Byron, poet

Bill Bixby, actor

John Hurt, actor

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Prior celebrity fun facts (Associated Press)

Celebrity fun facts

Gal Gadot | Emilia Clarke | Sophie Turner | Jason Momoa

Chris Hemsworth | Amanda Seyfried | Kat Dennings

Robert Downey Jr. | Alyson Hannigan | Tiffani Amber Thiessen

Miley Cyrus | Emma Stone | Seth MacFarlane | Mark Hamill

Jennifer Lawrence & Mila Kunis | David Hasselhoff

Lindsay Lohan | Natalie Portman | George Clooney

Sarah Michelle Gellar | Emma Watson | Alec Baldwin

Jenna Fischer | Kate Mara | Jennifer Aniston | Alan Alda

Betty White | Dave Matthews | Danica McKellar | Taylor Swift

Britney Spears | Bill Nye | Scarlett Johansson

Rachel McAdams | Demi Moore | Julia Roberts

Danielle Fishel and the ‘Boy Meets World’ cast

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Movie and TV fun facts & more

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Film Quiz Friday: Best of Five? – Film Stories

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With Scream (5cream?) in cinemas, this week’s film quiz tests your knowledge of fifth instalments of franchises, along with various other movie trivia.

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If the customary movie quizzes at the beginning of each Scream film had Ghostface asking about the fifth movies of horror franchises, the trivia bits would have deeper cuts than the eventual victims. It’s unsurprising then, that the new Scream movie takes a different approach, but we’re sickos too, so this week’s quiz covers movie franchises that made it as far as five instalments.

Once you’ve completed all three rounds, you’ll find a link to a separate post with the correct answers at the bottom of this post. As always, this is just for fun, but please let us know how you did in the comments (scores out of 30 this week!) and give us any other lovely feedback. As an enduringly popular fifth movie put it, “Yippee Ki-Yay, Mother Russia”…

ROUND ONE – This Week In Movie History

This round is about new UK cinema releases and general film history from this week in years past – we’ve given you the year at the start of each question to help out!

2013 – King Schultz, Calvin Candie, and Broomhilda Von Shaft are all characters in which revisionist western? 1998 – Who plays adult film star Dirk Diggler in Boogie Nights? 1965 – “The Rain In Spain” is a song from which 1964 movie musical? 1991 – Who directed 1990’s Miller’s Crossing? 2008 – Played by John C. Reilly, Dewey Cox is the main character of which spoof music biopic? 1959 – Born this week, Linda Blair is best known for playing Regan MacNeil in which 1970s horror movie? 2011 – Set in the world of breakfast TV, which comedy connects Rachel McAdams, Harrison Ford, and Diane Keaton? 1974 – Complete the title of the Hammer horror movie – The Satanic Rites Of… 2019 – Who plays Mr Glass in the superhero threequel Glass? 1989 – Which 1988 film has the tagline “When he pours, he reigns”?

ROUND TWO – Five-quels?

To celebrate The Film That Really Ought To Be Called Scream 5, here’s 10 questions about the fifth movies in other franchises…

Which Star Trek actor directed Star Trek V: The Final Frontier? Fast Five revolves around an audacious heist in which South American city? Who plays John McClane’s CIA agent son Jack in A Good Day To Die Hard? Back In The Hood is the fifth instalment of which horror franchise? Who sang the title song for the James Bond film, You Only Live Twice? George Washington Duke, Union Cane, and Tommy Gunn are all characters in which film? Who plays undercover British agent Ilsa Faust in Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation? Assignment Miami Beach is the fifth instalment of which comedy franchise? Which Game Of Thrones star plays Sarah Connor in 2015’s Terminator Genisys? What comes next in this sequence – a plane, a motorway, a rollercoaster, a racetrack…?

ROUND THREE – Pot Luck

Let’s finish with a random selection of pot luck movie questions – these could come from any era, any genre, or any level of difficulty. Enjoy!

Which 1990s blockbuster connects Antonio Banderas, Anthony Hopkins, and Catherine Zeta Jones? In cinemas this week! What is the title of the new neo-noir thriller directed by Guillermo del Toro? Who plays Robin Hood in 1938’s The Adventures Of Robin Hood? What job connects the protagonists of Darkest Hour, The Iron Lady, and The Special Relationship? Which comedy franchise connects Rob Lowe and Christopher Walken? In the news! Which director’s debut novel will revisit the story of his 1995 movie Heat? Also in cinemas this week! Which new release is the setting for the films ’71, Good Vibrations, and In The Name Of The Father? In Disney’s Oliver & Company, what kind of animal is Oliver? Who plays Florence Foster Jenkins, in 2016’s Florence Foster Jenkins? And finally, in 1989, John Schlesinger’s Madame Sousatzka was the first-ever film to be granted which BBFC certificate?

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‘I thought: “Everyone knows you’re not a real mum”’ – the pain of parental impostor syndrome

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As a mother to three boys, there are many days when I question the decisions I make. Sometimes, the weight of that – the idea your child’s wellbeing and happiness rests with you – can feel crippling. At the same time, we are bombarded by parents publicising their own pride in their offspring’s achievements on Instagram and Facebook and in WhatsApp groups, meaning it’s easy to feel as if everyone else knows what they’re doing.

The idea that people sometimes feel like impostors at work is often discussed. Yet the parental impostor syndrome many people have – that they are faking it, and will never cut it as a parent – is seldom acknowledged.

The psychologist Linda Blair explains: “In 1996, two psychotherapists came up with the concept of impostor syndrome, loosely defining it as doubting your abilities and not feeling good enough. There is a lot of research around impostor syndrome at work, and this falls under that same umbrella. Now I am hearing about this a lot more in clinic, partly because of social media, and ‘fakebook’ parents.”

Ranee, 52, lives in south-west London with her husband and their two adopted children. Ranee is of Sri Lankan heritage and her husband’s family are from Mauritius. Because of this, it took a long time for them to be matched with their children as many councils are keen to match the ethnic backgrounds of potential parents and children.

During that time, Ranee and her husband went through a rigorous vetting process, yet when the process was complete and they were a family with children, she felt disoriented by how much she didn’t know.

‘It was as if I had fake written on my forehead’ … Ranee and her husband, Sam, who have two adopted children. Photograph: Linda Nylind/The Guardian

“I remember walking into the playground and thinking, ‘Everyone knows you’re not a real mum,’” she says, upon taking her five-year-old to school for the first time. “It was as if I had a siren above me, or ‘fake’ written on my forehead. Just trying to talk to parents on a playdate, or wondering what other kids would eat was tricky. My children were really picky eaters, and all of this made me think I didn’t know what I was doing.”

She says she had done courses and read books to try to prepare, but nothing quite readied her for the experience of becoming a parent. “I didn’t have any mum friends and I’d gone straight from working to being a stay-at-home mum. I kept thinking, ‘Does everyone feel like this? Is this how it is?’”

Ranee, a food photographer, says now that the adoption is completed, her impostor syndrome has largely gone. “Occasionally it comes back when we’re dealing with school issues, but I now have a network of friends who have also adopted and that has helped me gain some perspective.”

As well as the fact that she and her husband went from a couple to parents of two in one day, Ranee thinks anxiety about whether she was doing things “right” played a big role in feeling like an impostor. “I sometimes felt as if there was a model parent out there, but I learned to lower my expectations, and understood that my children don’t know any different. I now subscribe to ‘good enough’ parenting. I know I will make mistakes and I have to forgive myself and not get het up.

“I used to want to run out of the playground and hide under the bed. But I’ve learned that you just have to set your own standard. Trust that you will be a great parent, and fight your children’s corner. One day you’ll fail, the next day you’ll feel less of a failure, and so on, until it normalises.”

Years later, she says, things look very different. “I have two amazing kids who are teenagers, and I know they will forge their own lives, and I just want them to be happy.”

Lucille lives in Suffolk and has five children. It’s hard to imagine someone with so much parenting experience could feel as if she were a “fake” who could be found out – but, she says, social media often leaves her feeling that she is not good enough. “I’m my own worst enemy because my impostor syndrome is self-imposed,” she says. “It’s so easy to scroll through perfect Facebook photos and Instagrammable moments and forget that a lot of it is smoke and mirrors. And nobody has everything that sorted.

Lucille with two of her children, Freja and Elijah. Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi/The Guardian

“Growing up, I wanted children more than I wanted to breathe, so five children – and nine miscarriages later – in a lot of ways this is everything I dreamed of, but I don’t know if I’m ever going to feel like I’ve achieved enough.”

Blair says this is something she has heard before. “It is the job of social media to present your best face, so we get a skewed version of parenting,” she says. “One of the things I advise is to try to limit social media, or complement it with face-to-face conversation with other parents. This way you will get a real picture of what is going on, and people are more likely to be honest.”

Lucille is a jewellery designer and lives with chronic pain owing to a medical condition. Her husband works long hours, meaning much of the parenting falls to her. She is also home schooling her youngest because he is at risk of anaphylaxis. “For most of our waking hours, it’s me, myself and five. People look at me in horror when I tell them this, but it works for us.”

What has put everything into context, she says, is not just time, but the tough situations they have weathered. “Over the past 18 months, we nearly lost Elijah to his anaphylaxis, we all caught Covid twice – and my eldest, Alex, found an unexplained lump in his arm, which gave us an awful scare. The fear at times has been unreal, but, as a parent, all these challenges have helped me realise that I can hold it together through just about anything.

“With five children, I’ve had a chance to learn from my mistakes. I know that I can deal with just about anything thrown at me – but that doesn’t mean I feel like I’m nailing it. I just try my best.”

Blair points out that being a parent doesn’t necessarily get easier, even with several children: “Many techniques you learn are only temporary. They may work at first, but then children grow, circumstances change, and they stop being effective. You have to learn to forgive yourself because they change.”

My husband, Adnan, is 56. He wanted to make it clear that it’s not just mothers who can feel like impostors in their home life. “I had the fairytale illusion of what I’d be like as a dad,” he says. “When our first child was born, I had images of all this stuff we’d do together. It didn’t include pictures of sleepless nights, or every item of clothing being covered in snot and yoghurt.”

Saima Mir with her husband, Adnan, and their children. Photograph: Courtesy of Saima Mir

He also says it doesn’t get any easier with more children, because each child will have a different personality requiring different methods of parenting. “There’s a fine line between child management, focusing on health and safety, and being a present dad, trying to listen to all their voices,” he says.

“No one explains that you’re their protector as well as the person meeting their hygiene factors, feeding them, listening to playground politics and building their confidence. You’re the person who is the narrative in their head about how great they are.”

Adnan says that though he doesn’t compare himself with other parents, he still finds it hard to shake the fairytale that is firmly in his head, and compared with which he always comes up short. “The continuous refereeing, and the delegate decision-making goes beyond anything I’ve done in the workplace.

“I keep asking myself ‘Am I equipped to deal with this?’ I’m a father, a counsellor, a coach, autocratic and democratic. There’s also something about being a parent in your 50s: you don’t have the physicality of your 30s.”

Blair, who raised three children herself, says her advice in these circumstances is to spend time with each child on their own. “Find a way, every month, or week, to have an hour with just one child, one on one. Go to a cafe after school or something like that. They will remember that beyond everything else. I used to do this with my children, and it was just magic.”

Adam, 61, moved to the UK from Zambia eight years ago with his wife and their three children. Adam’s wife is an architect and spends much of her time in Zambia, while he stays at their home in Carterton in Oxfordshire to look after the children.

“I had my first child at 46, and I have a 20-year-old daughter who was five when I married her mum, and who I adopted when she was eight,” he says.

“Coming to the UK, I quickly started to feel inferior to other, usually much younger parents who seemed to be effortlessly successful in everything – careers, family, etc, and this continues.

“On a practical level there was plenty of help in the early years in Zambia, nannies were easily available, and there was lots of open space.”

Adam with his wife, Mwangala, daughter, Nina, and sons, Christopher and AJ. Photograph: Enoch Kavindele Jr

In his calmer moments, Adam can be realistic about his own skills. “I do believe that I have done a reasonable job. The kids are all, thankfully, well adjusted, reasonably hard working, very sociable.”

Yet he says he is haunted at other times by thoughts that he could be doing so much better for his children.“Because I came to fatherhood later on and because we were mostly so far away I never really had the chance to share my experiences of parenting with my contemporaries here, so when we came to the UK most of them had moved on, with kids at university, and I felt quite alone. I have been suffering with depression on and off for 25 years and it often manifests itself through crippling lack of self-esteem.

“My children are truly wonderful. I like to think they would tell you that I am ‘the best dad ever’ – it’s just that often I seem unable to accept that myself.”

Blair agrees. “We need to figure out our unique identity. When we grasp this, everything becomes easier. We think we have to live to other people’s rules but then we feel inadequate when we don’t meet the mark. All the parenting books are templates. You have to invent your own way of parenting, because every child is unique.

“‘Good enough parenting’ theory is a great way of looking at things,” she says. “Perfect parents don’t actually produce the best children. The mistakes we make give our children space to grow into better adults, things to rebel against, and it helps them forge their personality.”

The psychotherapist Philippa Perry says that as a society we have become a lot more self-obsessed, putting ourselves at the centre of the relationship instead of our children, which is unhelpful. “We all love our children but what we need to do is respect them. We kid ourselves if we think that we have control. We haven’t got control, but what we do have is control over how we behave, and we need to behave in an authentic and respectful manner with our children. We need to be partners in our endeavours. Respect your children’s time and respect each other.”

Exhaustion can make us forget that we are no longer the most important people in our world. For those of us privileged to be parents, maybe we just need to simplify things as we navigate life alongside the little people entrusted to us, and see ourselves through their eyes.

The London-based therapist Michelle Qureshi has some words of wisdom, too. “Accept yourself as a human, ditch the comparing with other parents, say to yourself: ‘Overall I do a good job, and they do, too.’ Don’t let your self-doubt define you, let yourself enjoy your own parenting style, whatever that may be.”