Today is Friday, Dec. 12, the 346th day of 2003 with 19 to follow.

Today is Saturday, July 12, the 193rd day of 2003 with 172 to follow.

Once again, the Hollywood awards season is lucrative for pirates, who have flooded the market with copies of studio "screeners" issued to promote Oscar campaigns.

Today is Thursday, Dec. 12, the 346th day of 2002 with 19 to follow.

Today's birthdays include Frank Sinatra, who was born in 1915; Connie Francis in 1938 (age 64); Dionne Warwick, and The Association's Terry Kirkman, both in 1941 (age 61); Mike Heron of the Incredible String Band, and the Moody Blues' Mike Pinder, both in

The weekly UPI Today in Music package for Dec. 7-13.

Today's birthdays include Mike Smith of the Dave Clark 5, who was born in 1943 (age 59); Jonathan King, who had a hit in 1965 with "Everyone's Gone To The Moon," in 1944 (age 56); Weather Report bassist Miroslav Vitous in 1947 (age 55); Jeff Grobe of Look

The weekly UPI Today in Music package for Nov. 30-Dec. 6.

Today's birthdays include Colin Cooper of the Climax Blues Band, who was born in 1936 (age 66); Main Ingredient's Tony Silvester in 1941 (age 61); Dino Valenti of Quicksilver Messenger Service in 1943 (age 59); 10cc's Kevin Godley and Sugarloaf's Robert W