National Typewriter Day – June 23:

National Typewriter Day – June 23

The Typewriter Century:
A Cultural History of Writing Practices

by Martyn Lyons.

Studies in Book and Print Culture.

Published by University of Toronto Press.

Published 2021.

Illustrated.

ISBN-10: 1487525737

ISBN-13: 978-1487525736

Description:

This book captures the intensity of the relationship between writers and their typewriters from the 1880s, when the machine was first commercialized, to the 1980s, when word-processing superseded it. Drawing on examples from the United States, Britain, Europe, and Australia, The Typewriter Century focuses on "celebrity writers," including Henry James, Jack Kerouac, Agatha Christie, Georges Simenon, and Erle Stanley Gardner, who wrote prolifically and mechanically, developing routines in which typing, handwriting, and dictation were each allotted important functions. The typewriter de-personalized the text; the office typewriter bureaucratized it. At the same time, some authors found a new and disturbing distance between themselves and their compositions while others believed the typewriter facilitated spontaneous and automatic typing. The Typewriter Century provides a cultural history of the typewriter, outlining the ways in which it can be considered an agent of change as well as demonstrating how it influenced all writers, canonical and otherwise.

Mechanical Typewriters:
Their History, Value, and Legacy

by Thomas A. Russo.

Published by Schiffer.

Published 2002.

ISBN-10: 0764315455

ISBN-13: 978-0764315459

Description:

A fascinating and scholarly look at the machines that revolutionized office communication from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Nearly 700 color photographs display mechanical typewriters produced by Adler(TM), American(TM), Corona(TM), Grundka(TM), Hall(TM), Monarch(TM), Remington(TM), Royal(TM), Smith Corona(TM), and many others. An overview of the historical development of the typewriter includes patents and brief histories of the manufacturers. Additionally, a detailed bibliography, index, and current market values in the captions are also provided. Set designers, historians, and typewriter collectors will learn how technical developments changed the designs through the decades.

Typewriter:
The History – The Machines – The Writers

by Tony Allan.

Published by Shelter Harbor Press.

Published 2015.

ASIN: 1627950346

ISBN-10: 9781627950343

ISBN-13: 978-1627950343

Description:

Personal computers may have replaced the typewriter in most homes and offices, but the venerable writing machine is currently staging a comeback. From portable models that hipsters are snapping up in Urban Outfitters to Tom Hanks's bestselling app that recreates the manual experience on a tablet, the typewriter has never been so hot. This celebration of the typewriter covers what a platen knob is, why QUERTY won out over other arrangements of keys, which authors loved (or loathed) their typewriters, and much more.

A gift book with yellowed paper and typewriter fonts for a cool vintage look.

Timeline of the typewriter features key models.

Foreword by Paul Schweitzer of Gramercy Typewriter Co.

Documentary:

California Typewriter

documentary directed by Doug Nichol

written by Max Nichol

released at the Telluride Film Festival in the United States on September 2, 2016.

Music by Mark Ambrosino.

Cast: Silvi Alcivar, Ken Alexander, Tom Hanks, Martin Howard, Tom Lecky, Jeremy Mayer, John Mayer, David McCullough, Jett Morton, Herbert Permillion, Richard Polt, Anthony Rocco, Sam Shepard, Darren Wershler, Mason Williams.

Elie Wiesel, on writing:

 

A word is worth a thousand pictures.

- Elie Wiesel.

On this day in movie and book history - The Firm (1993)

The Firm

directed by Sydney Pollack,

written by David Rabe, Robert Towne and David Rayfiel,

based on the novel by John Grisham,

was released in the United States on June 23, 1993.

Music by Dave Grusin.

Cast:

Tom Cruise, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Gene Hackman, Hal Holbrook, Terry Kinney, Wilford Brimley, Ed Harris, Holly Hunter, David Strathairn, Gary Busey, Steven Hill, Tobin Bell, Barbara Garrick, Jerry Hardin, Paul Calderon, Jerry Weintraub, Sullivan Walker, Karina Lombard, Margo Martindale, John Beal, Dean Norris, Lou Walker, Debbie Turner, Tommy Cresswell, David A. Kimball, Don Jones, Michael Allen, Levi Frazier Jr., Brian Casey, William J. Parham, Victor Nelson, Richard Ranta, Janie Paris, Frank Crawford, Bart Whiteman, David Dwyer, Mark W. Johnson, Jerry Chipman, Jimmy Lackie, Afemo Omilami, Clint Smith, Susan Elliott, Erin Branham, Ed Connelly, Joey Anderson, Deborah Thomas, Tommy Matthews, Chris Schadrack, Jeffrey Buckner Ford, Jonathan Kaplan, Rebecca Glenn, Terri Welles, Greg Goossen, Jeane Aufdenberg, Bill Booth, Lannie McMillan Quartet, Ollie Nightingale, Teenie Hodges, Little Jimmy King, James White.

Recommended reading:

The Firm

by John Grisham.

Filmed as The Firm (1993), directed by Sydney Pollack.

Published by Vintage.
Published 1991.

ISBN-10: 0440245923
ISBN-13: 9780440245926
 
Description:

Mitch McDeere has worked hard to get where he is: third in his class at Harvard Law. Aggressively recruited by all the top firms, and initially headed for Wall Street, Mitch surprises everyone by joining Bendini, Lambert & Locke, a very private, very rich tax firm in Memphis. Mitch and his wife, Abby, move to Tennessee and quickly settle into their new life: they’re young, happy, and on the fast track. Or so they think.

Soon, though, Mitch senses trouble: two of the partners die in a suspicious diving accident off Grand Cayman; the firm’s management is overly proud of the fact that no one has ever resigned; and security measures at the firm, even for a company with billionaire clients, are more than a little stringent. Then, suddenly, Mitch’s vague suspicions come to life.

The FBI has the lowdown on Mitch’s firm and needs his help. Now Mitch is caught between a rock and a hard place. The FBI will bust him if he doesn’t cooperate, and the firm will kill him if he does. There’s no way out.

Or is there?

On this day in movie and book history - Forrest Gump (1994)

Forrest Gump

directed by Robert Zemeckis,

written by Eric Roth,

based on the novel by Winston Groom,

was released in the United States on June 23, 1994.

Music by Alan Silvestri.

Cast:

Tom Hanks, Michael Conner Humphreys, Robin Wright, Hanna R. Hall, Gary Sinise, Mykelti Williamson, Sally Field, Haley Joel Osment, Peter Dobson, Kurt Russell, Dick Cavett, Sam Anderson, Geoffrey Blake, Siobhan Fallon Hogan, Sonny Shroyer, Grand L. Bush, Michael Jace, Conor Kennelly, Teddy Lane Jr., Richard D’Alessandro.

Recommended reading:

 

Forrest Gump

by Winston Groom.

Filmed as Forrest Gump (1994), directed by Robert Zemeckis.

Published by Vintage.
Published 1986.

ISBN-10: 0307947394
ISBN-13: 9780307947390

Description:

Six foot six, 242 pounds, and possessed of a scant IQ of 70, Forrest Gump is the lovable, surprisingly savvy hero of this classic comic tale. His early life may seem inauspicious, but when the University of Alabama’s football team drafts Forrest and makes him a star, it sets him on an unbelievable path that will transform him from Vietnam hero to world-class Ping-Pong player, from wrestler to entrepreneur. With a voice all his own, Forrest is telling all in a madcap romp through three decades of American history.

The Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. Cookbook:
Recipes and Reflections from FORREST GUMP

by Southern Living Magazine.

Foreword by Winston Groom.

Published by TI Inc. Books.
Published 1994.

ISBN-10: 9780848714796
ISBN-13: 9780848714796
ASIN: 0848714792

Description:

Forrest Gump stepped out of the pages of Winston Groom’s novel, up onto the silver screen, and into the hearts of more than 30 million Americans. If you’re lucky, you count yourself among them.

Now you can open to any page... and just like Forrest’s mama said about life... “You never know what you’re gonna get.” There are shrimp kabobs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo, shrimp cocktail... over 75 recipes all told, and every mouth-watering one of them heaven-sent.

And speaking of heaven, Forrest wanted to remember his mama with these recipes, and his best friend, Bubba, too. And he didn’t want Li’l Forrest to grow up without knowing the Gump family shrimp secrets. These recipes are so downright delicious, you’ll know that “miracles do happen every day.”

Forrest Gump has never been a man to complicate things... he’s a simple man, but one who “knows what love is.” Try some of the shrimp recipes in this book, and you’ll know what he means.

Forrest’s mama loved the South, and its magazine, Southern Living. “They just have a way with food,” she used to say. Try these shrimp fixings, all tested in the Southern Living kitchens, and you’ll say his mama was right every time. Even if the President of the United States knocks on your door, you’ll have the very thing to put on his plate. Tell him Forrest Gump said to say hello... and to remember his own mama.

Born on this day – Lillian Hall-Davis:

 

Lillian Hall-Davis

Actress

June 23, 1898 – October 25, 1933

Credits:

My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock (2022); Shepperton Babylon (2005); Many Waters (1931); Her Reputation (1931); Just for a Song (1930); Volga Volga (1928); Tommy Atkins (1928); The Farmer's Wife (1928); King's Mate (1928); The Ring (1927); Boadicea (1927); As We Lie (1927); Roses of Picardy (1927); La proie du vent (1927); Blighty (1927); Nitchevo (1926); If Youth But Knew (1926); Adventure Mad (1926); Liebe macht blind (1926); Der Farmer aus Texas (1925); Blitzzug der Liebe (1925); The Passionate Adventure (1924); The Eleventh Commandment (1924); The Unwanted (1924); Quo Vadis? (1924); Castles in the Air (1923); Afterglow (1923); I pagliacci (1923); Should a Doctor Tell? (1923); The Hotel Mouse (1923); Married Love (1923); The Knockout (1923); The Right to Strike (1923); A Royal Divorce (1923); If Four Walls Told (1922); The Faithful Heart (1922); Brown Sugar (1922); The Game of Life (1922); Stable Companions (1922); The Wonderful Story (1922); Ernest Maltravers (1920); The Honeypot (1920); Carry On (1919); The Admirable Crichton (1918); La p'tite du sixième (1917).

Born on this day – Erik Barnouw:

 

Erik Barnouw

Writer

Historian

Producer

June 23, 1908 – July 19, 2001

Credits:

Books:

A Tower in Babel: A History of Broadcasting in the United States To 1933 (1966); Documentary: A History of the Non-Fiction Film (1993); Indian Film (1962 / 1980); International Encyclopedia of Communications (1989); Media Lost and Found (2001); Media Marathon (1996); The Golden Web: A History of Broadcasting in the United States 1933–1953 (1968); The Image Empire: A History of Broadcasting in the United States from 1953 (1970); The Magician and the Cinema (1981); The Sponsor: Notes on a Modern Potentate (1978 / 2005); Tube of Plenty: The Evolution of American Television (1976 / 1992).

Television:

American Experience (1997); Betty Hughes and Friends (1972); Camps of Death / Segment: Hiroshima Nagasaki August, 1945 (1983); Columbia University Seminar (1952–1953); Corwin (1996); Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio (1991); Hiroshima Nagasaki August, 1945 (1946); Horizons (1951–1955); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1954–1960); Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992); Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist (1998); Television in America: An Autobiography (2002); The Great Depression (1998).

Born on this day – Irene Worth:

 

Irene Worth

Actress

June 23, 1916 – March 10, 2002

Credits:

9th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2003); A Birthday Gala Tribute Noel Coward (1970); American Playhouse (1988); An Evening with... (1970); Another Shore (1948); Antigone (1949); Anyone for Tennyson? The Master Poets Collection (1978); Arena (1976); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1953–1955); Bicentennial Minutes (1975); Camera Three (1965–1978); Counsel's Opinion (1949); Deathtrap (1982); Drama Into Opera: Oedipus Rex (1961); Eyewitness (1981); Fast Forward (1985); Festival (1962); First Night (1964); Forbidden (1984); Great Performances (1980); Happy Days (1980); ITV Play of the Week (1957–1966); ITV Television Playhouse (1960); Just the Ticket (1998); King Lear (1970); Kraft Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1950); Ladies in Charge (1986); Lost in Yonkers (1993); Men, Women and Clothes (1957); Myself a Stranger (1949); Nicholas and Alexandra (1971); Omnibus (1959 / 1968); One Night with You (1948); Onegin (1999); Orders to Kill (1958); Orson Welles Great Mysteries (1974); Release (1968); Remember WENN (1996); Rich Kids (1979); Secret People (1952); Separate Tables (1983); Seven Seas to Calais (1962); Storyboard (1983); Tempo (1968); The 19th Annual Tony Awards (1965); The 30th Annual Tony Awards (1976); The 32nd Annual Tony Awards (1978); The 45th Annual Tony Awards (1991); The BBC Television Shakespeare (1984); The Displaced Person (1977); The Duchess of Malfi (1949); The Film Society Of Lincoln Center Annual Gala Tribute to Alec Guinness (1987); The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (1996); The Poetry Hall of Fame (1993); The Scapegoat (1959); The Shell Seekers (1989); The Stratford Adventure (1954); The Tragedy of Coriolanus (1984); The Way of the World (1975); The Winslow Boy / A Touch of Venus (1969); Thermidor (1964); Thirty-Minute Theatre (1965); This Is Your Life (1980); To Die in Madrid (1963); Under This Sky (1979); Wednesday Theatre (1953); Working in the Theatre (1990).