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Painkiller Jane debuts on the Sci Fi Channel (2007). This TV series stars Kristanna Loken in the title role, as a government agent who can't be killed. It's based on a comic book series written by Jimmy Palmiotti and published by Dynamite Entertainment.

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Ron Perlman is born (1950). Actor Ron Perlman is best known for his role as the title creature of TV's 1987 series, Beauty and the Beast. Since then, he has worked on the stage as well as in a variety of genre films, among them A Town Has Turned to Dust (1998), Alien Resurrection (1997), The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996), City of Lost Children (1995), Mr. Stitch (1995), Cronos (1993), and Sleepwalkers (1992). He also has lent his voice to such animated series as Mortal Kombat (1995) and Batman: The Animated Series (1992). Ron was born in New York, New York.

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Stanley Donen is born (1924). Early in his career, Hollywood veteran Stanley Donen directed musical classics, but he later turned to genre films, such as the Hitchcockian Charade (1963) and Arabesque (1966), as well as the sci-fi adventure Saturn 3 (1980). In 1998, Donen was awarded an Honorary Oscar for "a body of work marked by grace, elegance, wit and visual innovation."

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