Ruth Bader Ginsburg, on reading:

Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life.

Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true.

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Recommended reading - Street with No Name

 

Street with No Name
A History of the Classic American Film Noir

by Andrew Dickos.
 
Published by The University Press of Kentucky.
Published 2021.
Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0813152194
ISBN-13: 978-0813152196
 
Description:
 
"The best book available on the genre of movies set in the dark, wet streets of the urban US." – Choice.
 
"A concrete, concise study of noir against an impressive historical vista that brings to light the complex relation between alienation and obsession that makes up these films." – Rain Taxi Review.
 
"Dickos provides a sharp critical and psychological evaluation of a genre that continues to mutate long after many pronounced it dead." – Shepherd Express.
 

Andrew Dickos's Street with No Name traces the film noir genre back to its roots in German expressionist cinema and the French cinema of the interwar years. Dickos describes the development of the film noir in America from 1941 through the 1970s and examines how this development expresses a modern cinema. He argues that, in its most satisfying form, the film noir exists as a series of conventions with an iconography and characters of distinctive significance. Featuring stylized lighting and urban settings, these films tell melodramatic narratives involving characters who commit crimes predicated on destructive passions, corruption, and a submission to human weakness and fate.

 

Unlike other studies of the noir, Street with No Name follows its development in a loosely historical style that associates certain noir directors with those features in their films that helped define the scope of the genre. Dickos examines notable directors such as Orson Welles, Fritz Lang, Otto Preminger, and Robert Siodmak. He also charts the genre's influence on such celebrated postwar French filmmakers as Jean-Pierre Melville, Francois Truffaut, and Jean-Luc Godard.

 

Addressing the aesthetic, cultural, political, and social concerns depicted in the genre, Street with No Name demonstrates how the film noir generates a highly expressive, raw, and violent mood as it exposes the ambiguities of modern postwar society.                

Born on this day – George Marshall:

George Marshall

Actor

Writer

Producer

Director

December 29, 1891 – February 17, 1975

Left to right: George Marshall, Claire Trevor, Glenn Ford, and William Holden,

on the set of the movie Texas (1941)

Credits:

Police Woman (1975); The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder (1974); Hec Ramsey (1972); Cade's County (1972); Daniel Boone (1964–1970); Here's Lucy (1969); Hook, Line and Sinker (1969); The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz (1968); Eight on the Lam (1967); Tarzan (1966); Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! (1966); The Wackiest Ship in the Army (1965); Valentine's Day (1964–1965); Advance to the Rear (1964); Dark Purpose (1964); Papa's Delicate Condition (1963); How the West Was Won (1962); The Happy Thieves (1961); Cry for Happy (1961); The Gazebo (1959); It Started with a Kiss (1959); The Mating Game (1959); Imitation General (1958); The Sheepman (1958); The Sad Sack (1957); The Guns of Fort Petticoat (1957); Beyond Mombasa (1956); Pillars of the Sky (1956); Cavalcade of America (1955); Screen Directors Playhouse (1955); The Second Greatest Sex (1955); Destry (1954); Duel in the Jungle (1954); Red Garters (1954); Money from Home (1953); Houdini (1953); Scared Stiff (1953); Off Limits (1952); The Savage (1952); A Millionaire for Christy (1951); Ace of Clubs (1951); Never a Dull Moment (1950); Fancy Pants (1950); My Friend Irma (1949); Lust for Gold (1949); Tap Roots (1948); Hazard (1948); Variety Girl (1947); The Perils of Pauline (1947); Monsieur Beaucaire (1946); The Blue Dahlia (1946); Hold That Blonde! (1945); Incendiary Blonde (1945); Murder, He Says (1945); And the Angels Sing (1944); True to Life (1943); Riding High (1943); Star Spangled Rhythm (1942); The Forest Rangers (1942); Valley of the Sun (1942); Texas (1941); Pot o' Gold (1941); When the Daltons Rode (1940); The Ghost Breakers (1940); Destry Rides Again (1939); You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939); Hold That Co-ed (1938); Battle of Broadway (1938); The Goldwyn Follies (1938); Love Under Fire (1937); Nancy Steele Is Missing! (1937); Can This Be Dixie? (1936); The Crime of Dr. Forbes (1936); A Message to Garcia (1936); Show Them No Mercy! (1935); In Old Kentucky (1935); Music Is Magic (1935); $10 Raise (1935); Life Begins at 40 (1935); 365 Nights in Hollywood (1934); She Learned About Sailors (1934); Wild Gold (1934); Ever Since Eve (1934); Call It Luck (1934); The Big Fibber (1933); Husbands' Reunion (1933); Sweet Cookie (1933); Caliente Love (1933); Easy on the Eyes (1933); Olsen's Big Moment (1933); Towed in a Hole (1932); Their First Mistake (1932); The Soilers (1932); A Firehouse Honeymoon (1932); Alum and Eve (1932); Pack Up Your Troubles (1932); The Old Bull (1932); Strictly Unreliable (1932); Just a Pain in the Parlor (1932); Big Dame Hunting (1932); He Loved Her Not (1931); Hey Diddle Diddle (1930); Uncle's Visit (1929); Puckered Success (1929); Tomato Omelette (1929); Watch My Smoke (1929); No Children (1929); Circus Time (1929); No Vacation (1929); Camping Out (1928); No Sale Smitty (1928); No Picnic (1928); Gentlemen Prefer Scotch (1927); Girls (1927); From a Cabby's Seat (1926); A Parisian Knight (1925); The Sky Jumper (1925); The Big Game Hunter (1925); A Spanish Romeo (1925); The Burglar (1924); Paul Jones, Jr. (1924); The Race (1924); The Hunt (1924); The Fight (1924); The Back Trail (1924); Men in the Raw (1923); Where Is This West? (1923); Don Quickshot of the Rio Grande (1923); The Haunted Valley (1923); West Is West (1922); Smiles Are Trumps (1922); The Jolt (1921); The Lady from Longacre (1921); After Your Own Heart (1921); A Ridin' Romeo (1921); Hands Off! (1921); Why Trust Your Husband (1921); Prairie Trails (1920); Ruth of the Rockies (1920); Charlot, Charlot! (1919); The Adventures of Ruth (1919); The Gun Runners (1919); The Husband Hunter (1918); The Fast Mail (1918); Beating the Limited (1918); When Paris Green Saw Red (1918); Naked Fists (1918); The Midnight Flyer (1918); Quick Triggers (1918); The Man from Montana (1917); The Ninth Day (1917); Squaring It (1917); Right of Way Casey (1917); Meet My Wife (1917); Double Suspicion (1917); Swede Hearts (1917); The Honor of Men (1917); Casey's Border Raid (1917); Bill Brennan's Claim (1917); The Desert Ghost (1917); The Raid (1917); Roped In (1917); Border Wolves (1917); They Were Four (1917); The Comeback (1917); Won by Grit (1917); The Devil's Own (1916); A Woman's Eyes (1916); Love's Lariat (1916); The Committee on Credentials (1916); The Code of the Mounted (1916); Across the Rio Grande (1916); The Waiters' Ball (1916); And the Best Man Won (1915).

Born on this day – Jo Van Fleet:

Jo Van Fleet

Actress

December 29, 1915 – June 10, 1996

Credits:

77 Sunset Strip (1963); 80 Steps to Jonah (1969); Actor's Studio (1949–1950); Alcoa Theatre (1959); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1956–1961); American Masters (2005); Armstrong Circle Theatre (1953–1955); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1967); Bonanza (1970–1971); Campbell Summer Soundstage (1954); Cinderella (1965); Colorspace Vol. 1 (2010); Cool Hand Luke (1967); Cosmopolitan Theatre (1951); Danger (1954–1955); East of Eden (1955); East of Eden: Art in Search of Life (2005); Encounter (1956); Frontier Circus (1962); General Electric Theater (1959); Great Performances (1971); Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957); Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths (1990); I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! (1968); I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955); Inner Sanctum (1954); James Dean's Lost Slideshow (2013); Kraft Suspense Theatre (1964); Kraft Theatre (1955–1956); Kraft Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1952–1955); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1954); Mannix (1970); Max Liebman Spectaculars (1955); Medical Center (1971–1973); Mod Squad (1970); Moving Image Salutes Elia Kazan (1987); Naked City (1962); NBC Experiment in Television (1967); Play of the Week (1960–1961); Police Woman (1977); Power (1980); Robert Montgomery Presents (1955); Route 66 (1963); Satan's School for Girls (1973); Seize the Day (1986); Star Tonight (1955); Summer Playhouse (1964); Suspense (1954); The 14th Annual Tony Awards (1960); The 28th Annual Academy Awards (1956); The 69th Annual Academy Awards (1997); The DuPont Show of the Month (1959–1961); The Ed Sullivan Show (1956); The Family Rico (1972); The Film Society Of Lincoln Center Annual Gala Tribute to Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward (1975); The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight (1971); The King and Four Queens (1956); The Mask (1954); The Rose Tattoo (1955); The Tenant (1976); The Virginian (1966); The Wild Wild West (1969); This Angry Age (1958); Thriller (1961); Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1958); Wild River (1960).

Born on this day – Viveca Lindfors:

Viveca Lindfors

Actress

Writer

Director

December 29, 1920 – October 25, 1995

Born on this day – Dina Merrill:

Dina Merrill

Actress

Producer

December 29, 1923 – May 22, 2017

Born on this day – Mike Nussbaum:

Mike Nussbaum

Actor

December 29, 1923 – December 23, 2023

Credits:

The Old Country (2021); Tom of Your Life (2020); Nostalgic (2014); The Chicago Code (2011); Osso Bucco (2008); Dirty Work (2006); The Game of Their Lives (2005); Off-Loop, on Stage (2004); The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas (2002); Flying (2002); Sailorman (2000); In Our Own Hands (2000); Cupid (1998); The Con (1998); Early Edition (1997); Men in Black (1997); The X-Files (1997); The Commish (1992–1996); Shadow of a Doubt (1995); Steal Big Steal Little (1995); Frasier (1995); Losing Isaiah (1995); Gypsy (1993); Love, Honor & Obey: The Last Mafia Marriage (1993); Class of '96 (1993); Condition: Critical (1992); Overexposed (1992); The Water Engine (1992); Gladiator (1992); Brooklyn Bridge (1991); Separate But Equal (1991); Desperate Hours (1990); L.A. Law (1990); Archie: To Riverdale and Back Again (1990); 227 (1990); Field of Dreams (1989); Things Change (1988); Fatal Confession: A Father Dowling Mystery (1987); Fatal Attraction (1987); House of Games (1987); The Equalizer (1987); Spenser: For Hire (1986); Vital Signs (1986); Towing (1978); Harry and Tonto (1974); The Sig Sakowicz Show (1972); T.R. Baskin (1971); The Monitors (1969).

Born on this day and recommended reading – Lily Ebert:

Lily Ebert

Writer

Holocaust survivor

December 29, 1923 – October 9, 2024

Credits:
 
Television:
 
Good Morning Britain (2021); Sky Midnight News (2021); Sky World News (2021); The View (2022).
 
Book:
 

Lily's Promise
How I Survived Auschwitz and Found the Strength to Live

by Lily Ebert and Dov Forman.

Hardcover.
Published 2021.
Published by Macmillan.

ISBN 13: 9781529073409
ISBN 10: 1529073405
ASIN: 1529073405

Description:

A heart-wrenching and ultimately life-affirming Holocaust survivor story that demonstrates the power of love to see us through the darkest of times.

When Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert was liberated in 1945, a Jewish-American soldier gave her a banknote on which he’d written ‘Good luck and happiness’. And when her great-grandson, Dov, decided to use social media to track down the family of the GI, 96-year-old Lily found herself making headlines round the world. Lily had promised herself that if she survived Auschwitz she would tell everyone the truth about the camp. Now was her chance.

In Lily’s Promise she writes movingly about her happy childhood in Hungary, the death of her mother and two youngest siblings on their arrival at Auschwitz in 1944 and her determination to keep her two other sisters safe. She describes the inhumanity of the camp and the small acts of defiance that gave her strength. From there she and her sisters became slave labour in a munitions factory, and then faced a death march that they barely survived.

Lily lost so much, but she built a new life for herself and her family, first in Israel and then in London. It wasn’t easy; the pain of her past was always with her, but this extraordinary woman found the strength to speak out in the hope that such evil would never happen again.

Born on this day – Inga Swenson:

Inga Swenson

Actress

Singer

December 29, 1932 – July 23, 2023

Born on this day – Ed Flanders:

 

Ed Flanders

Actor

December 29, 1934 – February 22, 1995

Born on this day – Mary Tyler Moore:

 

Mary Tyler Moore

Actress

Producer

December 29, 1936 – January 25, 2017

Born on this day – Marianne Faithfull:

 

Marianne Faithfull

Writer

Singer

Actress

December 29, 1946 – January 30, 2025

Credits:
 
Books:

Faithfull: An Autobiography (1994); Marianne Faithfull: A Life on Record (2014); Memories, Dreams & Reflections (2008).
 
Albums:

20th Century Blues (1996); A Child's Adventure (1983); A Perfect Stranger: The Island Anthology (1998); A Secret Life (1995); A Stranger on Earth: An Introduction to Marianne Faithfull (2001); Before the Poison (2004); Blazing Away (1990); Broken English (1979); Broken English / Deluxe Edition (2013); Broken English / Strange Weather (1995); Come My Way (1965); Dangerous Acquaintances (1981); Dreamin' My Dreams (1976); Easy Come, Easy Go (2008); Faithfull Forever (1966); Faithfull: A Collection Of Her Best Recordings (1994); Give My Love to London (2014); Go Away from My World (1965); Horses and High Heels (2011); It's All Over Now, Baby Blue (The NEMS Years - Vol. 1) (1999); Kissin Time (2002); Kissin Time / Expanded Edition (2002); Live at the BBC (2008); Live In Hollywood (2005); Love in a Mist (1967); Many Have No Speech (1987); Marianne Faithfull (1965); Marianne Faithfull: The Montreux Years (Live) (2021); Marianne Faithfull's Greatest Hits (1969); Negative Capability (2018); No Exit (2016); North Country Maid (1966); Rich Kid Blues (1985); She Walks in Beauty (2021); Songs of Innocence and Experience 1965–1995 (2022); Spring Blossoms (2023); Strange Weather (1987); The Best of Marianne Faithfull (1999); The Collection (2004); The Seven Deadly Sins (1998); The Very Best Of Marianne Faithfull (1987); The World Of Marianne Faithfull (1969); Tribute To: Marianne Faithful (2006); Trouble in Mind (1986); Twentieth Century Blues - An Evening In The Weimar Republic (1996); Vagabond Ways (1999); Vagabond Ways / Expanded Version (1999); Viva Le France (2023); Weill: The Seven Deadly Sins: Classic Library Series (2004).

 

Songs:

As Tears Go By; Ballad of the Soldier’s Wife; Born to Live; Broken English; Come and Stay With Me; Go Away From My World; Guilt; In My Time of Sorrow; Incarceration of a Flower Child; Intrigue; Is This What I Get for Loving You?; It's All Over Now, Baby Blue; Lady Madelaine; Monday, Monday; No Moon in Paris; Rosie, Rosie; Sally Free and Easy; She Walks in Beauty; Sister Morphine; So Sad; Something Better; Sparrows Will Sing; Summer Nights; The Ballad of Lucy Jordan; The Gypsy Faerie Queen; They Come at Night; This Little Bird; Times Square; Why D’Ya Do It?; Witches’ Song; With You in Mind; Working Class Hero.

 

Movies and television:

100 Greatest Albums of Rock & Roll (2001); 100 Greatest Women of Rock & Roll (1999); 13 x 13 (1988); 2009 Women's World Awards (2009); A Dance to the Music of Time (1997); A Letter to True (2004); A Tale of Two Rivers (1967); A Violent Desire for Joy (2018); A Whole Scene Going (1966); Absolutely Fabulous (1996–2001); Absolutely Fabulous: Les dieux d'Edina (2002); Alles nur Tarnung (1996); American Horror Story (2016); Anna (1967); Another Girl Another Planet (1992); Anybody's Woman (1981); Aquarius (1971); Arena (1991–1998); Art & the 60s (2004); Assault on Agathon (1976); ATV Today (1966); Bande-annonce de 'Made in U.S.A.' (1966); BBC Four Sessions (2002–2014); Beautiful Losers (1997); Behind the Music (1999); Belle du Seigneur (2012); Bitter & Twisted (2008); Blazing Away (1990); Bob Dylan: Dont Look Back (1967); Bognor (1981); Breakfast (2011); Brit Girls (1997); British Song Contest (1965); Broken English: Three Songs by Marianne Faithfull (1979); C à vous (2011); Cadence 3 (1983); Call My Bluff (1966); Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg (2023); CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley (2025); Ce soir (ou jamais!) (2011); Cher (1975); Cinema 3 (2007); Close Up (1999); Clues (2014); Cold Case (2005); Cold Comfort (1989); Colorspace Vol. 2 (2011); Colorspace Vol. 4 (2014); Corazón de... (2006); Countdown (1966); Crimetime (1996); Crossing Jordan (2002); Cucumber Castle (1970); Dad Strangelove (2025); Dancing at the Blue Iguana (2000); Days of Rage: the Rolling Stones' Road to Altamont (2020); Die Harald Schmidt Show (1996); Disco (1980); Discs-a-gogo (1964); Dope (1968); Dune: Part One (2021); Einer wird gewinnen (1982); England Is Mine (2017); Entertainment Tonight (2014); E-penser (2023); Estudio 1 (2001); Europas Erbe - Die großen Dramatiker (2008); Eurotrash (1995); Everyman (1996); Exhale with Candice Bergen (2001); Faces in the Crowd (2011); Faithfull (2017 / 2025); Fallen Angels (1995); Fame, Fashion and Photography: The Real Blow Up (2002); Far from China (2001); Festival di Sanremo (1967–1982); Film Review (1968); Five O'Clock Club (1965); Flicker (2008); FM (2009); Først & sist (2002); Francis Bacon: A Brush with Violence (2017); Friday Night with Jonathan Ross (2002); From the Beatles to Oasis: Forty Years of Granada Pop (1996); Gadzooks! It's All Happening (1965); Gang of Souls: A Generation of Beat Poets (1989); Get All That, Ant? (2015); Ghost Story (1974); Girl on the Bridge (1999); Globos de Ouro 1997 (1998); Go Go Go Said the Bird (1966); Hamlet (1969); Hans im Glück aus Herne 2 (1983); Heads (1969); Heartsong (1965); Hellsing Ultimate (2008); Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful (2020); Hendrix (2000); Here, There and Everywhere: a Concert for Linda (1999); Hey Presto! It's Rolf (1966); His Brother (2003); History (2013); How the Beatles Changed the World (2017); Hullabaloo (1965); Hunter (1985); I'll Never Forget What's'isname (1967); Ingo Metzmacher - Ein deutscher Dirigent (2011); Intimacy (2001); Irina Palm (2007); It Was Fifty Years Ago Today! The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper & Beyond (2017); Jo Whiley (1999); Juke Box Jury (1964–1966); Juliet, Naked (2018); Kulturjournal (2014); Late Night Line-Up (1965); Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1994–1995); Late Show with David Letterman (2002–2009); Later... With Jools Holland (1995–2009); Le Brasier Shelley (2018); Le cercle de minuit (1994); Le grand journal de Canal+ (2004); Lena-Maria Show (1980–1981); Les nouveaux rendez-vous (1981); Lescure: Tôt ou tard (2011); Let It Bleed: 40 Years of the Rolling Stones (2002); L'invité (2009–2011); Living the Life (2013); Lo + plus (1997); Lucifer Rising (1972); Made in U.S.A (1966); Mar de dudas (1995); Marianne Faithfull Live in Hollywood (2005); Marianne Faithfull: As Tears Go By (1987); Marianne Faithfull: As Tears Go by (Live) (1964); Marianne Faithfull: Broken English (1979); Marianne Faithfull: Broken English (Live from Musikladen) (1980); Marianne Faithfull: Dreaming My Dreams (2000); Marianne Faithfull: Intrigue (1981); Marianne Faithfull: Running for our Lives (1983); Marianne Faithfull: The Ballad of Lucy Jordan (1979); Marianne Faithfull: Witches' Song (1979); Marie Antoinette (2006); Mario Schifano tutto (2001); Memories of 1970-1991 (1991); Metallica: The Memory Remains (1997); Metallica: The Videos 1989-2004 (2006); Mindhunter (2019); Miradas 2 (2007); Montenegro (1981); Moondance (1994); Music of the Millennium (1999); Musikladen (1980); Musikprogrammet - programmet om music (2005); Musique and Music (1978); My First Apartamento: Marianne Faithfull (2016); My Generation (2017); Never Mind the Buzzcocks (1999); Newsnight (2018); Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast (2018); Nord-Plage (2004); Novo (2002); Nulle part ailleurs (1999); Numéro un (1980); One + One (1968); One Foot in the Past (1993); One More Time with Feeling (2016); OnePeople: The Celebration (2012); Open House (1964); Our World (1967); Paris, Je T'aime / Segment: Le Marais (2006); Paul (1978); Personal Choice (1968); Platine 45 (1982); Portillo's Hidden History of Britain (2018); Power Vision - Pop Galerie (1997); Presumed Innocent (2024); Queens of British Pop (2009); Rapido (1987); Read All About It (1978); Ready, Steady, Go! (1964–1965); Rendez-vous avec Jane (2005); Retying the Knot: The Incredible String Band (1997); Richard & Judy (2004); Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony (1996); Rock Revolutions TV (2008); Roy Orbison: One of the Lonely Ones (2015); Ruby (1997–1999); Salt of the Earth (2007); Sandra After Dark (1996); Saturday Night Live (1980–1997); SBS World News (2025); Scene at 6:30 (1966); Screen Two (1991); Seitenblicke (2009); Sherrybaby (2006); Shindig! (1965); Shopping (1994); Short Cuts (1993); SHOT! The Psycho-Spiritual Mantra of Rock (2016); Snapshots from the Tour (2015); So Graham Norton (2000); So It Goes (1976); Somebody Told Me About Carla Bruni (2009); Somerset Maugham Theatre (1970); Sopor: Sleep (2011); St. Pauli-Landungsbrücken (1981); Sunday Night (1988); Taratata (2011); Tarnation (2003); Thank Your Lucky Stars (1965–1966); The 2008 European Film Awards (2008); The Affair (1971); The Alan Titchmarsh Show (2009); The Beat Room (1964); The Beatles and India (2021); The Beatles Anthology (1995); The Beatles in The Beatles: 1 (2015); The Beatles Revolution (2000); The Beatles: All You Need Is Love (1967); The Big Breakfast (1998); The Book Show (2007); The Cars That Made Britain Great (2016); The City of Lost Children (1995); The Compleat Beatles (1982); The Craft (1996); The Dream Machine (1983); The Eamonn Andrews Show (1965–1967); The Equalizer (1987); The Girl from Nagasaki (2013); The Girl on a Motorcycle (1968); The Greatest (1999–2001); The Heaven and Earth Show (2004); The History of Rock 'n' Roll (1995); The Last Letter from Your Lover (2021); The Last of England (1987); The Making of 'Marie Antoinette' (2007); The Midnight Special (1973); The Music of Lennon & McCartney (1965); The Outsider (1979); The Pursuit of Love (2021); The Roaring 20s: Mick Jagger's Glory Years (2011); The Rock 'n' Roll Years (1986); The Rolling Stones - Die ersten 20 Jahre (1982); The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus (1996); The Rolling Stones: Truth and Lies (2006); The Rolling Stones: We Love You (1967); The Sopranos (2000); The Stones and Brian Jones (2023); The Stones in the Park (1969); The Stronger (1971); The Turn of the Screw (1992); The Val Doonican Show (1965); The Wall: Live in Berlin (1990); Thelma & Louise (1991); Thirty-Minute Theatre (1971); This Is Dom Joly (2003); This Much I Know to Be True (2022); Tienerklanken (1967); Tohuwabohu (1998); Tom Jones! (1966); Tonight Live with Steve Vizard (1990); Top of the Pops (1964–1979); Tout le monde en parle (2002); Tripping (1999); Trouble in Mind (1985); Truands (2007); Tubridy Tonight (2005); Tuff Turf (1985); Twentieth Century Blues: The Songs of Noël Coward (1998); Un siècle d'écrivains (1999); Unheimliche Geschichten (1982); V Graham Norton (2003); VH1 100 Greatest Songs of Rock n Roll (1999); Vivement dimanche (2002); W. Somerset Maugham (1970); When Pigs Fly (1993); Where the Action Is (1966); Who Do You Think You Are? (2013); Who's Crazy? (1965); Why I Hate the 60s: The Decade That Was Too Good to Be True (2004); Wild Summon (2023); Wogan (1990); Women Talking Dirty (1999); World in Action (1967); Z2 operazione Circeo (1966); Zomercarrousel (1966).

Born on this day – Jon Polito:

Jon Polito

Actor

December 29, 1950 – September 1, 2016

On this day in movie history - Blue Valentine (2010)

Blue Valentine

directed by Derek Cianfrance,

written by Derek Cianfrance, Cami Delavigne and Joey Curtis,

was released in the United States on December 29, 2010.

Music by Grizzly Bear.

Cast:

Ryan Gosling, Michelle Williams, Faith Wladyka, John Doman, Mike Vogel, Marshall Johnson, Jen Jones, Maryann Plunkett, James Benatti, Barbara Troy, Carey Westbrook, Ben Shenkman, Eileen Rosen, Enid Graham, Ashley Gurnari, Jack Parshutich, Samii Ryan, Mark Benginia, Timothy Liveright, Tamara Torres, Robert Russell, Michelle Nagy, Felicia Reid, Melvin Jurdem, Alan Malkin, Derik Belanger, Isabella Frogoletto, Madison Ledergerber, Jaimie Jensen, Joseph Basile, Ian Bonner, Robert Eckard, Michael J. Kraycik, Corey Sullivan.

On this day in movie history - A Man Called Otto (2022)

 

A Man Called Otto

directed by Marc Forster,

written by David Magee,

based on the novel A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman,

was released in the United States on December 29, 2022.

Music by Thomas Newman.

Cast:

Tom Hanks, Truman Hanks, Mariana Treviño, Rachel Keller, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Cameron Britton, Juanita Jennings, Emonie Ellison, Peter Lawson Jones, Laval Schley, Mike Birbiglia, David Magee, John Higgins.

On this day in the Star Trek universe - Star Trek, The Next Generation (1966, 1967, 1990)

Star Trek
Season 1. Episode 15.

Episode entitled: Shore Leave.

Released December 29, 1966.

Directed by Robert Sparr.

Written by Theodore Sturgeon.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Alexander Courage, Gerald Fried.

Cast:

William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Nichelle Nichols, DeForest Kelley, Emily Banks, Oliver McGowan, Perry Lopez, George Takei, Bruce Mars, Barbara Baldavin, Marcia Brown, Sebastian Tom, Shirley Bonne, Paul Baxley, Bill Blackburn, John Carr, Frank da Vinci, Jim Gruzalski, Jeannie Malone, Eddie Paskey, Ron Veto.

 

Star Trek
Season 2. Episode 15.

Episode entitled: The Trouble with Tribbles.

Released December 29, 1967.

Directed by Joseph Pevney.

Written by David Gerrold.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Alexander Courage, Jerry Fielding.

Cast:

William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Nichelle Nichols, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Majel Barrett, William Schallert, William Campbell, Stanley Adams, Whit Bissell, Michael Pataki, Edwin Reimers, Walter Koenig, Charlie Brill, Paul Baxley, David L. Ross, Guy Raymond, Richard Antoni, Bobby Bass, Bill Blackburn, Dick Crockett, Frank da Vinci, Steve Hershon, Roger Holloway, William Frederick Knight, Jeannie Malone, Bob Miles, Bob Orrison, Eddie Paskey, Gary Wright.

 

Star Trek: The Next Generation
Season 4. Episode 10.

Episode entitled: The Loss.

Released December 29, 1990.

Directed by Chip Chalmers.

Written by Hilary J. Bader, Alan J. Adler, Vanessa Greene, Ronald D. Moore, Joe Menosky, David Carren, J. Larry Carroll.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Dennis McCarthy.

Cast:

Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Kim Braden, Mary Kohnert, Whoopi Goldberg, Majel Barrett, Michael Braveheart, Tracee Cocco, Debbie David, Denise Deuschle, Teri Noel, Keith Rayve, Joyce Robinson.

On this day in television history - Space 1999 (1975)

Space 1999
Season 1. Episode 18.

Episode entitled: The Infernal Machine.

Released December 29, 1975.

Directed by David Tomblin.

Written by Anthony Terpiloff, Elizabeth Barrows.

Series created by Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson.

Music by Barry Gray.

Cast:

Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Barry Morse, Leo McKern, Clifton Jones, Zienia Merton, Nick Tate, Gary Waldhorn, Tony Allyn, Sarah Bullen, Loftus Burton, Andy Dempsey, Barbara Kelly, Quentin Pierre, Michael Stevens.

Born on this day and Recommended reading – Nichelle Nichols:

Nichelle Nichols

Actress

Singer

Dancer

Writer

December 28, 1932 – July 30, 2022

Credits:

Books:

Beyond Uhura (1994); Saturn's Child (1995); Saturna's Quest (2002).

Albums:

Down to Earth (1967); Uhura Sings (1986); Out of this World (1991).

Movies and television:

12 to Midnight (2021); Renegades: Ominara (2021); Space Command (2020); Surge of Power: Doctor Who Tribute (2020); Star Trek First Frontier (2020); Unbelievable!!!!! (2020); Surge of Dawn (2019); American Nightmares (2018); White Orchid (2018); Sharknado 5: Global Swarming (2017); Renegades (2017); Downward Dog (2017); Star Trek: Renegades (2015); The Young and the Restless (2016); Surge of Power: Revenge of the Sequel (2016); Starship Excelsior (2016); The Order (2016); Family Guy: The Quest for Stuff (2014); This Bitter Earth (2012); Billy Blackburn's Treasure Chest: Rare Home Movies and Special Memories (2011); Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster (2010); The Cabonauts (2009); The Torturer (2008); Tru Loved (2008); Lady Magdalene's (2008); Star Trek: Of Gods and Men (2007); Heroes (2007); Are We There Yet? (2005); Surge of Power: The Stuff of Heroes (2004); The Simpsons (2004); Roddenberry on Patrol (2003); Futurama (2000–2002); Snow Dogs (2002); Buzz Lightyear of Star Command (2000); Good vs Evil (2000); A Stitch in Time (1999); Spider-Man: Secret Wars (1997); Spider-Man: The Animated Series (1997); Gargoyles (1994–1996); The Adventures of Captain Zoom in Outer Space (1995); Batman: The Animated Series (1994); Star Trek: Judgment Rites (1993); ABC Weekend Specials (1993); Star Trek 25th Anniversary (1992); Star Trek Adventure (1991); Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991); Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989); Head of the Class (1988); Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986); The Supernaturals (1986); Antony and Cleopatra (1984); Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984); Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982); Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979); Woman in the Rain (1976); Star Trek: The Animated Series (1973–1974); Truck Turner (1974); The D.A. (1971); Insight (1960); Star Trek (1966–1969); Doctor, You've Got to Be Kidding! (1967); Tarzan (1966); Mister Buddwing (1966); Peyton Place (1966); Made in Paris (1966); CBS Repertoire Workshop (1964); The Lieutenant (1964); Great Gettin' Up Mornin' (1964); Porgy and Bess (1959).

Recommended reading - Beyond Uhura:

 

Beyond Uhura
Star Trek and Other Memories

by Nichelle Nichols.
 
Hardcover.
Published 1994.
Published by G. P. Putnam's Sons.

ISBN 13: 9780399139932
ISBN 10: 0399139931
ASIN: 0399139931
 
Description:
 

The first African-American woman to have a major, continuing television role tells the inside story of "Star Trek" and its creator – her one-time lover and life-long friend – and her struggle to overcome racism and bias against women.

Ray Bradbury, on writing:

Love.

Fall in love and stay in love.

Write only what you love, and love what you write.

The key word is love.

You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

- Ray Bradbury.

Born on this day – Lew Ayres:

Lew Ayres

Actor

Director

Producer

December 28, 1908 – December 30, 1996

Credits:

Hart to Hart: Crimes of the Hart (1994); Cast the First Stone (1989); Highway to Heaven (1985–1989); L.A. Law (1989); The English Programme (1988); Cagney & Lacey (1988); Outlaws (1987); The A-Team (1986); Simon & Simon (1986); Lime Street (1985–1986); Under Siege (1986); Finder of Lost Loves (1984); Hotel (1984); Fame (1984); The World of Don Camillo (1984); Savage in the Orient (1983); Fantasy Island (1979–1983); Quincy M.E. (1983); The Devlin Connection (1982); Little House on the Prairie (1982); Trapper John, M.D. (1983); Knots Landing (1982); Of Mice and Men (1981); Magnum, P.I. (1981); The Love Boat (1981); Reunion (1980); Salem's Lot (1979); Letters from Frank (1979); Suddenly, Love (1978); Flying High (1978); Greatest Heroes of the Bible (1978); Battlestar Galactica (1978); Damien: Omen II (1978); Wonder Woman (1977); End of the World (1977); The Fantastic Journey (1977); The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1977); The Bionic Woman (1977); Altars of the World (1976); Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident (1976); Hawaii Five-O (1968–1976); McMillan & Wife (1975); Kung Fu (1974); The Magician (1974); Columbo (1974); Heatwave! (1974); The Questor Tapes (1974); Hawkins (1973); Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973); The Streets of San Francisco (1973); The Stranger (1973); Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law (1972); The Man (1972); The Biscuit Eater (1972); She Waits (1972); Earth II (1971); The Interns (1971); San Francisco International Airport (1970); The Virginian (1970); The Doris Day Show (1970); My Three Sons (1970); Marcus Welby, M.D. (1969); Here Come the Brides (1969); The Big Valley (1967–1968); Gunsmoke (1967); ABC Stage 67 (1966); The F.B.I. (1966); I Spy (1966); Mark Dolphin (1965); Slattery's People (1965); Kraft Suspense Theatre (1965); Ben Casey (1964); The Carpetbaggers (1964); Channing (1964); The Upper Chamber (1963); Laramie (1962); Saints and Sinners (1962); Advise & Consent (1962); Bus Stop (1962); Dr. Kildare (1961); The Barbara Stanwyck Show (1961); Zane Grey Theatre (1956–1961); The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1960); Route 66 (1960); Alcoa Theatre (1958–1959); Pursuit (1958); Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1958); Frontier Justice (1958); Climax! (1958); Cavalcade of America (1957); Schlitz Playhouse (1956); The Eighty Yard Run (Playhouse 90) (1956); The Ford Television Theatre (1956); Screen Directors Playhouse (1956); Altars of the East (1955); Omnibus (1954); Donovan's Brain (1953); No Escape (1953); New Mexico (1951); The Capture (1950); Johnny Belinda (1948); The Way of Peace (1947); The Unfaithful (1947); The Dark Mirror (1946); Fingers at the Window (1942); Dr. Kildare's Victory (1942); Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day (1941); The People vs. Dr. Kildare (1941); Maisie Was a Lady (1941); Dr. Kildare's Crisis (1940); Dr. Kildare Goes Home (1940); The Golden Fleecing (1940); Dr. Kildare's Strange Case (1940); Remember? (1939); The Secret of Dr. Kildare (1939); These Glamour Girls (1939); Calling Dr. Kildare (1939); Broadway Serenade (1939); The Ice Follies of 1939 (1939); Spring Madness (1938); Young Dr. Kildare (1938); Rich Man, Poor Girl (1938); Holiday (1938); King of the Newsboys (1938); Scandal Street (1938); Hold 'Em Navy (1937); The Last Train from Madrid (1937); The Crime Nobody Saw (1937); Murder with Pictures (1936); Lady Be Careful (1936); Shakedown (1936); Panic on the Air (1936); The Leathernecks Have Landed (1936); Hearts in Bondage (1936); Silk Hat Kid (1935); Spring Tonic (1935); Lottery Lover (1935); Servants' Entrance (1934); She Learned About Sailors (1934); Let's Be Ritzy (1934); Cross Country Cruise (1934); My Weakness (1933); Don't Bet on Love (1933); State Fair (1933); Okay America! (1932); Night World (1932); The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood (1932); The Impatient Maiden (1932); Heaven on Earth (1931); The Spirit of Notre Dame (1931); Up for Murder (1931); The Iron Man (1931); Many a Slip (1931); East Is West (1930); The Doorway to Hell (1930); Common Clay (1930); All Quiet on the Western Front (1930); The Kiss (1929); Big News (1929); The Sophomore (1929).

Born on this day – Maris Wrixon:

Maris Wrixon

Actress

December 28, 1916 – October 6, 1999

Credits:

Dayton's Devils (1968); The Graduate (1967); The Double Life of Henry Phyfe (1966); Slattery's People (1964); Breaking Point (1963); The Untouchables (1963); Peter Loves Mary (1960); Hong Kong (1960); Sea Hunt (1960); Target (1958); The Millionaire (1958); Whirlybirds (1958); The Silent Service (1958); The O. Henry Playhouse (1957); Big Town (1956); Your Favorite Story (1953); Boston Blackie (1951 / 1952); The Cisco Kid (1951); As You Were (1951); Highway 13 (1948); The Saxon Charm (1948); Hollywood Wonderland (1947); The Glass Alibi (1946); The Face of Marble (1946); Black Market Babies (1945); This Love of Ours (1945); White Pongo (1945); The Master Key (1945); Trail to Gunsight (1944); Waterfront (1944); Phantom Lady (1944); Women in Bondage (1943); Silent Witness (1943); The Old Homestead (1942); Sons of the Pioneers (1942); Spy Ship (1942); Navy Blues (1941); Bullets for O'Hara (1941); Sunset in Wyoming (1941); Million Dollar Baby (1941); A Shot in the Dark (1941); Meet John Doe (1941); Footsteps in the Dark (1941); High Sierra (1941); The Case of the Black Parrot (1941); Santa Fe Trail (1940); Lady with Red Hair (1940); Knute Rockne All American (1940); The Ape (1940); The Man Who Talked Too Much (1940); Cinderella's Feller (1940); Flight Angels (1940); Saturday's Children (1940); 'Til We Meet Again (1940); Alice in Movieland (1940); Calling Philo Vance (1939); Private Detective (1939); A Child Is Born (1939); British Intelligence (1939); Jeepers Creepers (1939); The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939); No Place to Go (1939); Ride, Cowboy, Ride (1939); Dust Be My Destiny (1939); Each Dawn I Die (1939); Daughters Courageous (1939); Code of the Secret Service (1939); Dark Victory (1939); The Adventures of Jane Arden (1939); Off the Record (1939).