- Anonymous.
Friday, August 28, 2026
When you read a line that is so well-written, you just close the book and stare at the wall for a minute...
- Anonymous.
Jesse Owens, on dreams:
But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.
- Jesse Owens.
On this day in Star Trek history - Voyager (1995)
Star Trek:
Voyager
Season 2. Episode
1.
Recommended reading - Early Film Noir: Greed, Lust and Murder Hollywood Style (2003)
Early Film Noir: Greed, Lust and Murder Hollywood Style
by William Hare
Published by McFarland & Company.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 0786416297
ISBN-13: 978-0786416295
Description:
The name is French, and it has connections to German expressionist cinema, but film noir was inspired by the American Raymond Chandler, whose prose was marked by the gripping realism of seedy hotels, dimly lit bars, main streets, country clubs, mansions, cul-de-sac apartments, corporate boardrooms, and flop houses of America.
Chandler and the other writers and directors, including James M. Cain, Dashiell Hammett, Jane Greer, Ken Annakin, Rouben Mamoulian and Mike Mazurki, who were primarily responsible for the creation of the film noir genre and its common plots and themes, are the main focus of this work. It correlates the rise of film noir with the new appetites of the American public after World War II and explains how it was developed by smaller studios and filmmakers as a result of the emphasis on quality within a deliberately restricted element of cities at night. The author also discusses how RKO capitalized on films such as Murder, My Sweet and Out of the Past – two of film noir's most famous titles – and film noir's connection to British noir and the great international triumph of Sir Carol Reed in The Third Man.
Contents: Foreword; Introduction; Film Noir: Chandler and the American Institution with a French Name; A Blend of Three Great Talents: Double Indemnity (1944); Women of Danger and RKO's Noir Factory; Dmytryk and the RKO Team; Jane Greer: Hollywood's Unforgettable Femme Fatale; Laura (1944); An Obsession in White and a Final Reckoning: The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946); British Noir: The Third Man (1949) and Across the Bridge (1957); Synopses of Major Films; Bibliography; Index.
Born on this day – Simon Oakland:
Born on this day – Jack Kirby:
Jack Kirby
Born on this day – Peggy Ryan:
Peggy Ryan
Dancer
Actress
August 28, 1924 – October 30, 2004
Born on this day – Ben Gazzara:
Ben Gazzara
Born on this day – Carole D'Andrea:
Carole D'Andrea
West Side Story (1961); That's Dancing! (1985).
Born on this day – Marla Adams:
Born on this day – David Soul:
David Soul
Actor
Director
Producer
Writer
Singer
August 28, 1943 – January 4, 2024
Thursday, August 27, 2026
Mary Roberts Rinehart, on writing:
On this day in movie and book history - The 13th Warrior (1999) and Eaters of the Dead (1976)
The 13th Warrior
Eaters of the Dead
Eaters of the Dead: The Manuscript of Ibn Fadlan Relating His Experiences with the Northmen in AD 922
by Michael Crichton.Published by Harper.
First published 1976.
ISBN 10: 0061782637
ASIN: 0061782637
Recommended reading - Ham on Rye (1982)
Ham on Rye
by Charles Bukowski
Published by Ecco.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 006117758X
ISBN-13: 978-0061177583
Description:
In what is widely hailed as the best of his many novels, Charles Bukowski details the long, lonely years of his own hardscrabble youth in the raw voice of alter ego Henry Chinaski. From a harrowingly cheerless childhood in Germany through acne-riddled high school years and his adolescent discoveries of alcohol, women, and the Los Angeles Public Library's collection of D.H. Lawrence, Ham on Rye offers a crude, brutal, and savagely funny portrait of an outcast's coming-of-age during the desperate days of the Great Depression.
Born on this day – Theodore Dreiser:
Theodore Dreiser
Born on this day – Helen Gibson:
Helen Gibson
Born on this day – Joyzelle Joyner:
Born this day – George Montgomery:
George Montgomery
Credits:
90 Minutes Live (1978); A Sporting Oasis (1952); About Faces (1960); Accent on Love (1941); Alias Smith and Jones (1971); Anthony Perkins, l'homme derrière (2020); Army Girl (1938); Badman's Country (1958); Battle of Rogue River (1954); Battle of the Bulge (1965); Belle Starr's Daughter (1948); Billy the Kid Returns (1938); Black Patch (1957); Bomb at 10:10 (1967); Bomber's Moon (1943); Bonanza (1966); Cadet Girl (1941); Canyon River (1956); Celebrity Bowling (1971–1972); Charter Pilot (1940); Children's Island (1985); China Girl (1942); Cimarron City (1958–1959); Come on, Rangers! (1938); Compression (2015); Coney Island (1943); Cripple Creek (1952); Dakota Lil (1950); Dateline: Hollywood (1967); Davy Crockett, Indian Scout (1950); Dick Tracy (1937); Dinah! (1977); Django the Honorable Killer (1965); Fort Ti (1953); Fred Astaire Salutes the Fox Musicals (1974); Frontier Pony Express (1939); General Electric Theater (1955–1957); Gold Mine in the Sky (1938); Guerillas in Pink Lace (1964); Gun Belt (1953); Gun Duel in Durango (1957); Hallucination Generation (1966); Hawaiian Eye (1963); Hawk of the Wilderness (1938); Hell of Borneo (1964); Here's Hollywood (1961–1962); Hi-Yo Silver (1940); Hostile Guns (1967); House Party (1953); Huk! (1956); I Spy (1966); I Was a Convict (1939); Images of Indians: How Hollywood Stereotyped the Native American (2003); In Old Caliente (1939); In Old Monterey (1939); Indian Uprising (1952); Jack McCall, Desperado (1953); Jamboree (1954); Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre (1956); Jennie (1940); King of the Wild Stallions (1959); Last of the Badmen (1957); Last of the Duanes (1941); Lulu Belle (1948); Man from God's Country (1958); Man of Conquest (1939); Masquerade Party (1955); Masterson of Kansas (1954); NET Playhouse (1972); New Frontier (1939); Orchestra Wives (1942); Outlaws of Sonora (1938); Pals of the Saddle (1938); Password (1962); Pawnee (1957); Person to Person (1955); Place the Face (1954); Ransom (1988); Ride the Tiger (1970); Riders of the Purple Sage (1941); Robbers' Roost (1955); Rough Riders' Round-up (1939); Roxie Hart (1942); S.O.S. Tidal Wave (1939); Saga of Death Valley (1939); Samar (1962); Santa Fe Stampede (1938); Satan's Harvest (1970); Screen Directors Playhouse (1956); Screen Snapshots, Series 23, No. 1: Hollywood in Uniform (1943); Screen Snapshots, Series 23, No. 10 (1944); Screen Snapshots, Series 27, No. 1: Hollywood Cowboys (1947); Screen Snapshots, Series 32, No. 10: Out West in Hollywood (1953); Screen Snapshots, Series 33, No. 1: Hollywood Stunt Men (1953); Screen Snapshots, Series 33, No. 5: Memories in Uniform (1954); Screen Snapshots, Series 35, No. 6: Hollywood Small Fry (1956); Screen Snapshots, Series 37, No. 2: Salute to Hollywood (1958); Seminole Uprising (1955); Shine on Harvest Moon (1938); SOS Coast Guard (1942); South of the Border (1939); Southward Ho! (1939); Springtime in the Rockies (1937); Stage 7 (1955); Star Dust (1940); Strangers at Sunrise (1969); Street of Sinners (1957); Studio One (1955); Take It or Leave It (1944); Take Two (1963); Talent Scouts (1963); Ten Gentlemen from West Point (1942); The 10th Annual Golden Boot Awards (1992); The 2th Annual American Cinema Awards (1985); The 32nd Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (1958); The 73rd Annual Academy Awards (2001); The All New Truth or Consequences (1961); The Arizona Kid (1939); The Arthur Murray Party (1957–1958); The Bob Braun Show (1973); The Bob Cummings Show (1959); The Brasher Doubloon (1947); The Cisco Kid and the Lady (1939); The Cowboy and the Blonde (1941); The Daredevil (1973); The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (1957–1961); The Ford Television Theatre (1957); The Girl from Manhattan (1948); The Gisele MacKenzie Show (1958); The Great Indian Wars 1840-1890 (1991); The Hollywood Deb Stars of 1965 (1965); The Iroquois Trail (1950); The Joey Bishop Show (1968); The Juke Box Jury (1958–1959); The Life of Riley (1958); The Lone Gun (1954); The Lone Ranger (1938); The Mike Douglas Show (1963–1973); The Milton Berle Show (1950); The Mysterious Miss X (1939); The Name's the Same (1955); The Night Riders (1939); The Odd Couple (1974); The Old Barn Dance (1938); The Pathfinder (1952); The Proud and Damned (1972); The Purple Vigilantes (1938); The Singing Vagabond (1935); The Six Million Dollar Man (1974); The Steel Claw (1961); The Steve Allen Show (1957–1958); The Sword of Monte Cristo (1951); The Texas Rangers (1951); The Tonight Show (1962); The Toughest Gun in Tombstone (1958); This Is Your Life (1953); Three Little Girls in Blue (1946); Troop Carrier Airplanes: Cockpit Procedure (1944); Under Western Stars (1938); Wagon Train (1958); Wall Street Cowboy (1939); Warkill (1968); Watusi (1959); What's My Line? (1959); What's My Line? At 25 (1975); When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion (1979); Wild Wind (1985); Wyoming Outlaw (1939); Young People (1940).


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