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Happy Birthday | Super-publicist Peggy Siegal is turning 62 today. David Hasselhoff turns 57. Donald Sutherland is 74. Producer Mark Burnett is 49. Phyllis Diller is 92. Defense attorney Peter Neufeld is turning turns 59. Linda Gibbs, the Deputy Mayor of Health and Human Services, is turning 50 today. Comedian Beth Littleford is 41. View producer Bill Geddie is turning 54. Lucie Arnaz, the daughter of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, is 58. Author and blogger Cory Doctorow is 38. And old-time TV host Art Linkletter turns 97 today. A list of people with birthdays this weekend—including Chace Crawford, Ian Schrager, and Steve Forbes—is below.More

♦  A peek inside Elsa, which will be the only bar in the East Village to serve beer out of an antique sewing machine (as well as sell bespoke suits) when it finally opens next Tuesday. [Eater]
♦  Tickets are still available for this year's Chocolate Show on Pier 94, which started today and continues through the weekend. [GS, Metromix]
♦  Grub Street has put together a guide to restaurant recession specials across the city. [GS]
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What do you buy the girl that has everything? Last year Adrien Brody gifted his girlfriend, Spanish actress Elsa Pataky, the Stone Barn Castle in Cleveland, NY, in honor of her 31st birthday. Now the 19th-century chateau has been completely renovated—with interiors by Giorgio Armani, naturally—and the couple is moving in. (And posing for silly photo shoots in front of it, it seems.) More pics of Brody's royal spread below.More