It’s a happy birthday to Brittany Murphy, who turns 30 today, and celebrates by activating Wonder Twins powers, or perhaps playing a game of “find the nut” with some sort of corporeal reward.

a certain crazy-girl appeal, something that, by my informal count, her three broken engagements would seem to support. I can’t speak to how damaged the goods really are, but I will say this: it’s a shame that Murphy’s starring role in a Janis Joplin biopic never went off. That, I believe, would have been a very solid vehicle for her talents, so adept is she at channeling doomed and troubled women.