On this day in television history - The Gong Show (1976 - 1989)

The Gong Show

originally created and produced by Chuck Barris,

ran from June 14, 1976 – September 15, 1989.

Music by Chuck Barris and Milton Delugg.

A revival series ran from June 22, 2017 – August 30, 2018.

Cast:

Chuck Barris, Trixie Dejonge, Gary Owens, Rocky Bonifield, Arte Johnson, Jamie Farr, Jo Anne Worley, Mat Plendl, Curt Vig (The Puppets and Friends), Louanne, Murray Langston, (The Unknown Comic), John Barbour, Adrienne Barbeau, Richard Dawson, Jack Cassidy, Phyllis Diller, Anson Williams, Aesop Aquarian (The Shortest Cowboy Song), Marc Siciliani (Elvis the Pelvis), Nancy Lee, Patty Harris, Huck Flyn, Michael Munoz (Tap Dancing Gorilla), Hillary Carlip, Barbara McNair, Jaye P. Morgan, Gene Patton (Gene Gene, The Dancing Machine), Stan Lemkuil (The Old Victrola), The Souvenirs, Kenny Pierce, Marvin Fulalove, Dave And Karen, Dick Green, Della Barris, Milton Delugg, Larry Spencer (Larry the Evil Villain), Sivi Aberg, Johnny Jacobs, Barry Zweig, Jerry Maren, John Rodby, Bill Neale, Frederick Long, Jack Clark, Michael McConnohie (The Amazing Dolphin Brothers), John Naulin (The Amazing Dolphin Brothers), David Letterman, Rex Reed, Carol Connors, Ray Neapolitan (Raybodoo), Lanny Morgan, Manny Stevens, Elizabeth Maren, Bobby Findley, Joe Howard (Waltah), Jill Freeman, Julie McCray, Marlana Clark, Mark Z. Stevens, Frankie Verroca.

Julia Alvarez, on writing:

 

But the sensibility of the writer, whether fiction or poetry, comes from paying attention.

I tell my students that writing doesn't begin when you sit down to write.
It's a way of being in the world, and the essence of it is paying attention.
– Julia Alvarez.

Recommended reading - Mastering Black & White Photography

Mastering Black & White Photography

by John Walmsley.

Published by Ammonite Press.
Published 2016.

ISBN-10: 1781450870
ISBN-13: 9781781450871
 
Description:

Mastering Black & White Photography is the definitive work on how to shoot black & white images on today's sophisticated digital SLR and compact digital cameras and smart phones.

Jargon-busting text, illustrated with the author's own stunning images, explains the theory behind digital photography, along with a guide to the equipment and software needed to take outstanding images. The book explains the basics of exposure and good composition, file types, manipulating captured images using popular software, and applying special effects (such as split toning, simulating film grain, lith prints and using cyanotypes). A printing chapter discusses outputting and displaying images.

Born on this day – Harriet Beecher Stowe:

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Writer

Abolitionist

June 14, 1811 – July 1, 1896

Credits:

Books:

A Dog's Mission (1881); Agnes of Sorrento (1862); Betty's Bright Idea (1875); Betty's Bright Idea / Deacon Pitkin's Farm / The First Christmas of New England (2004); Bible Heroines (1878); Captain Kidd's Money and Other Stories (1876); Daisy's First Winter, and other Stories (1867); David and His Throne (1855); Dred / aka Nina Gordon (1856); Father Henson's Story of His Own Life (1998); Footsteps of the Master (1876); Gaslit Nightmares (1988); Geography for my Children (1855); Golden Fruit in Silver Baskets (1859); House and Home Papers (1864); Lady Byron Vindicated (1870); Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe (1889); Little Foxes (1865); Little Pussy Willow (1870); Men of our Times (1868); My Wife and I (1871); Old Town Fireside Stories (1871); Oldtown Folks (1966); Our Charley (1858); Palmetto Leaves (1873); Pink and White Tyranny (1871); Poganuc People (1878); Queer Little People (1867); Regional Sketches (1972); Religious Poems (poems) (1865); Reply on Behalf of the Women of America to the Christian Address of many Thousand Women of Great Britain (1863); Sam Lawson's Oldstown Fireside (1871); Stories About Our Dogs (1865); Stories and Sketches for the Young (2003); Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands (1854); Tell It All (2003); The American Woman's Home (1869); The Chimney Corner (1868); The Dover Anthology of Classic Christmas Stories (2023); The First Christmas in New England (2002); The Giant Book of Classic Ghost Stories (1997); The Harriet Beecher Stowe Reader (1993); The Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin (1853); The Mammoth Book of Victorian and Edwardian Ghost Stories (1995); The Minister's Wooing (1859); The Oxford Book of American Short Stories (1992); The Oxford Harriet Beecher Stowe Reader (1999); The Pearl of Orr's Island (1862); The Penguin Book of Classic Fantasy by Women (1977); The Ravages of a Carpet (1864); The Writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe (1992); Uncle Sam's Emancipation: Earthly Care a Heavenly Discipline, and Other Tales and Sketches (1953); Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852); Uncle Tom's Cabin / The Minister's Wooing / Oldtown Folks (1982); We and Our Neighbors (1875); Woman in Sacred History (1873).

Movies and television:

A Cabana do Pai Tomás (1909 / 1969); Alice Is Stage Struck (1925); Have You Got Any Castles? (1938); In the Margins (2024); La capanna dello zio Tom (1918); Le théâtre de la jeunesse (1963); Let Her Witness It (2021); Manga sekai mukashi banashi (1977); Mickey's Mellerdrammer (1933); My Wife and I (1925); Omnibus / Segment: Uncle Tom's Cabin (1955); Pearl of Love (1925); Topsy and Eva (1927); Uncle Tom's Bungalow (1937); Uncle Tom's Cabaña (1947); Uncle Tom's Cabin (1903 / 1910 / 1913 / 1914 / 1918 / 1927 / 1965 / 1977 / 1987).

Born on this day – May Allison:

 

May Allison

Actress

June 14, 1890 – March 27, 1989

Credits:

A Fool There Was (1915); A Successful Adventure (1918); Almost Married (1919); Are All Men Alike? (1920); Big Game (1921); Big Tremaine (1916); Castles in the Air (1919); David Harum (1915); Extravagance (1921); Fair and Warmer (1919); Flapper Wives (1924); Held in Trust (1920); Her Indiscretion (1927); Her Inspiration (1918); I Want My Man (1925); In for Thirty Days (1919); Life's Blind Alley (1916); Lillo of the Sulu Seas (1916); Men of Steel (1926); Mismates (1926); Mister 44 (1916); One Increasing Purpose (1927); Pardoned (1915); Peggy Does Her Darndest (1919); Pidgin Island (1916); Screen Snapshots, Series 2, No. 1-F (1921); Screen Snapshots, Series 2, No. 22-F (1922); Social Hypocrites (1918); The Broad Road (1923); The Broken Cross (1916); The Buzzard's Shadow (1915); The Cheater (1920); The City (1926); The Come-Back (1916); The End of the Road (1915); The Gamble (1916); The Governor's Lady (1915); The Great Question (1915); The Greater Glory (1926); The Hidden Children (1917); The House of a Thousand Scandals (1915); The Island of Intrigue (1919); The Last Card (1921); The Man in the Sombrero (1916); The Marriage of William Ashe (1921); The Masked Rider (1916); The Other Side of the Door (1916); The Promise (1917); The Return of Mary (1918); The River of Romance (1916); The Secret Wire (1916); The Secretary of Frivolous Affairs (1915); The Telephone Girl (1927); The Testing of Mildred Vane (1918); The Tragic Circle (1915); The Uplifters (1919); The Walk-Offs (1920); The Winning of Beatrice (1918); The Woman Who Fooled Herself (1922); Wreckage (1925); Youth for Sale (1924).

Born on this day – Burl Ives:

 

Burl Ives

Actor

Writer

Singer

Musician

June 14, 1909 – April 14, 1995

Born on this day – Gisèle Casadesus:

 

Gisèle Casadesus

Actress

June 14, 1914 – September 24, 2017