It’s a happy birthday to Winona Ryder, who turns 36 today, and probably doesn’t celebrate with a shopping outing to Saks Fifth Avenue. That’d be great to get her a gift certificate there, though; I like to think she’s owned that situation with friends, and has one ballsy enough to pull that with her, but probably not.

A Scanner Darkly, is my own early birthday offering to a close friend, who nursed the smart-guy, literary crushes on Ryder and Claire Danes throughout high school. Ryder’s been on the down-low the last couple years, but gave a nice, fully invested, warped performance in the deliciously silly The Ten earlier this year. Even if a movie with Mickey Rourke and Ashley Olsen hardly seems the proper career tonic, here’s hoping her train comes round again…