Earth Day – April 22:

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Richard Eberhart, on writing:

 

Style is the perfection of a point of view.

- Richard Eberhart.

Born on this day – Henry Fielding:

Henry Fielding

Writer

April 22, 1707 – October 8, 1754

Credits:

A Journey from This World to the Next (1749); Amelia (1751); An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews (aka Shamela) (1741); An Enquiry into the Causes of the Late Increase of Robbers (1751); An Old Man Taught Wisdom (1735); Grub Street Opera (1731); Historical Register for the Year 1736 (1737); Jonathan Wild (aka The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great) (1743); Joseph Andrews (aka The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and His Friend Mr. Abraham Adams) (1742); Joseph Andrews / Shamela (1961); Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon (1755); Legal Writings (1919); Miscellanies by Henry Fielding, Esq (1743); Pasquin (1736); Plays and Poems (1919); Rape upon Rape; or, The Justice Caught in his own Trap (aka The Coffee-House Politician) (1730); The Author's Farce (1730); The Collected Works of Henry Fielding (1997); The Complete Works of Henry Fielding (1902); The Correspondence of Henry and Sarah Fielding (1993); The Covent Garden Journal (1752); The Female Husband (1746); The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (aka Tom Jones) (1749); The Jacobite's Journal and Related Writings (1974); The Modern Husband (1732); The Old Debauchees (1732); The True Patriot (1745); The Wedding Day (1743); The Works of Henry Fielding (1900); Tragedy of Tragedies (1731).

Born on this day – Byron Haskin:

Byron Haskin

Director

April 22, 1899 – April 16, 1984

Credits:

A Dispatch from Reuters (1940); A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935); Across the Pacific (1926); Across the Pacific (1942); Action in the North Atlantic (1943); Alcoa Theatre (1957); All American (1940); All This, and Heaven Too (1940); Always in My Heart (1942); Armored Command (1961); Arsenic and Old Lace (1944); As the Earth Turns (1934); Black Fury (1935); Black Waters (1929); Bobbed Hair (1925); Broken Chains (1922); Brother Orchid (1940); Brother Rat and a Baby (1940); Bullet Scars (1942); Captain Sindbad (1963); Captains of the Clouds (1942); Castle on the Hudson (1940); Caught in the Fog (1928); City for Conquest (1940); Clothes Make the Pirate (1925); Colleen (1936); Conquest of Space (1955); Denver & Rio Grande (1952); Desperate Journey (1942); Dive Bomber (1941); Dodge City (1939); Don Juan (1926); Dust Be My Destiny (1939); Flight Angels (1940); Flowing Gold (1940); Four Wives (1939); From the Earth to the Moon (1958); Gambling on the High Seas (1940); Ginsberg the Great (1927); Glad Rag Doll (1929); Gold Is Where You Find It (1938); Green Light (1937); High Sierra (1940); His Majesty O'Keefe (1954); His Majesty, Bunker Bean (1925); Historias para no dormir (1966); Hollywood (1980); Hurricane's Gal (1922); I Married a Doctor (1936); I Walk Alone (1947); Invisible Stripes (1939); Irish Hearts (1927); It All Came True (1940); It's Tough to Be Famous (1932); Jet Over the Atlantic (1959); King of the Lumberjacks (1940); Lilly Turner (1933); Little Big Shot (1935); Long John Silver's Return to Treasure Island (1954); Madonna of Avenue A (1929); Man-Eater of Kumaon (1948); Manpower (1941); Man-Woman-Marriage (1921); Matinee Ladies (1927); Millionaires (1926); On Approval (1930); On Thin Ice (1925); On Trial (1928); On Your Toes (1939); One Embarrassing Night (1930); Passage to Marseille (1944); Personal Maid's Secret (1935); Plunder (1930); Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964); Santa Fe Trail (1940); Screen Directors Playhouse (1956); September Storm (1960); Side Streets (1934); Silver City (1951); Silver Dollar (1932); Slander the Woman (1923); Slim (1937); South of Suez (1940); Stage Struck (1936); Star Trek (1966); Strings (1933); Studio 57 (1957); Submarine D-1 (1937); Tarzan's Peril (1951); The Adventures of Long John Silver (1957); The Adventures of McGraw (1957); The Boss (1956); The Bride Came C.O.D. (1941); The Californians (1957–1958); The Deadline (1931); The Fighting 69th (1940); The First Texan (1956); The Golden Cocoon (1925); The Great Lie (1941); The Great Sex War (1969); The Guilty Generation (1931); The Little Savage (1959); The Magical World of Disney (1955); The Naked Jungle (1954); The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1968); The Outer Limits (1963–1964); The Perfect Specimen (1937); The Power (1968); The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939); The Redeeming Sin (1929); The Roaring Twenties (1939); The Sea Beast (1926); The Sea Hawk (1940); The Sea Wolf (1941); The Singing Fool (1928); The Siren (1927); The Speckled Band (1931); The Wagons Roll at Night (1941); The War of the Worlds (1953); The World's a Stage (1922); They Drive by Night (1940); This Our Life (1942); 'Til We Meet Again (1940); Tons of Money (1930); Too Late for Tears (1949); Torrid Zone (1940); Treasure Island (1950); Truck Busters (1943); Virginia City (1940); Warpath (1951); We Are Not Alone (1939); When a Man Loves (1927); Where the Worst Begins (1925); Wild Bill Hickok Rides (1942); Wild Boys of the Road (1933); Wild Harvest (1947); Wings for the Eagle (1942); Wings of the Navy (1939); Wolf's Clothing (1927); World of Giants (1959).

Born on this day – William Jay Smith:

William Jay Smith

Writer

April 22, 1918 – August 18, 2015

Credits:

Alain Bosquet (1995); Army brat: a memoir (1980); Around My Room (2000); Boy Blue's Book of Beasts (1957); Celebration at Dark (1950); His Collected Poems: 1939–1989 (1990); Ho for a Hat! (1964 / revised edition published in 1989); Laughing Time (1955); Laughing Time: Collected Nonsense (1980); My Friend Tom: The Poet-Playwright Tennessee Williams (2012); Poems (1947); Poems of a Multimillionaire by Valéry Larbaud (1955); Selected Writings of Jules Laforgue (1956); Songs of C, Federico García Lorca (1994); The Cherokee Lottery: A Sequence of Poems (2000); The Straw Market (2006); The streaks of the tulip: selected criticism (1972); The Tin Can and Other Poems (1966); The World Below the Window: Poems 1937–1997 (1998); Two Plays by Charles Bertin: Christopher Columbus and Don Juan (1970); Typewriter Town (1960).

Born on this day – Peggy Knudsen:

Peggy Knudsen

Actress

April 22, 1923 – July 11, 1980

Credits:

A Stolen Life (1946); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1956); Bat Masterson (1959–1961); Betrayed Women (1955); City Detective (1955); Copper Canyon (1950); General Electric Theater (1960); Good Morning, Miss Dove (1955); Half Past Midnight (1948); Hilda Crane (1956); Howie (1962); Humoresque (1946); Istanbul (1957); Lock Up (1959); Mr. & Mrs. North (1953); My Wild Irish Rose (1947); Never Say Goodbye (1946); Panic! (1957); Perilous Waters (1948); Perry Mason (1958–1959); Pete and Gladys (1960); Racket Squad (1951); Roses Are Red (1947); Shadow of a Woman (1946); So This Is Hollywood (1955); Stallion Road (1947); Target (1958); The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1958–1961); The Big Sleep (1946); The Bob Cummings Show (1955); The Bottom of the Bottle (1956); The Case of the Dangerous Robin (1961); The Charles Farrell Show (1956); The Eve Arden Show (1958); The Ford Television Theatre (1957); The Gale Storm Show: Oh! Susanna (1956); The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (1955); The George Burns Show (1958); The Joseph Cotten Show: On Trial (1957); The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1958); The Loretta Young Show (1955); The Magical World of Disney (1961); The Millionaire (1956); The People's Choice (1955–1956); The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse (1954); The Real McCoys (1958); The Thin Man (1957); The Unfaithful (1947); Tightrope (1959); Tombstone Territory (1959); Trouble Preferred (1948); Two Guys from Milwaukee (1946); Unchained (1955); Your Show Time (1949).

Born on this day – Jill Freud:

 

Jill Freud

Actress

Producer

April 22, 1927 – November 24, 2025

Credits:

A House in the Square (1949); A Policeman at the Door (1948); Afternoon Theatre (1961–1984); Banana Bridge (1959); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1952); Charles and Mary (1949); Crown Court (1973–1982); Filmed in Supermarionation (2014); ITV Play of the Week (1965); King Dithers and Daffy (1959); Let Us Be True (1953); Love Actually (2003); Maigret (1993); Malta Story (1953); Patrol Car (1955); Robert's Wife (1948); Rooms (1977); Saturday Special (1952–1953); Stranger at My Door (1950); Television Playwright (1958); The Canvas Rainbow (1949); The Devil's Disciple (1949); The Laurence Olivier Awards (1984); The Man Who Faced Facts (1949); The Princess and the Swineherd (1951); The Toys Get the Collywobbles (1959); The Woman in the Hall (1947); Theatre Night (1957); Tincture of Vervain (2011); Torchy Gets a Surprise (1959); Torchy, the Battery Boy (1960–1961); Whiteoaks (1949); Worst Fears (2016).

Born on this day – Mark Damon:

Mark Damon

Actor

Producer

April 22, 1933 – May 12, 2024

Credits:

11:14 (2003); 2 Guns (2013); 8 Million Ways to Die (1986); 9 Bullets (2022); 9½ Weeks (1986); A Dog of Flanders (1999); A Life in Film (2007); A Train for Durango (1968); Agente segreto 777 - Operazione Mistero (1965); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1956); And So It Goes (2014); Anzio (1968); Bat*21 (1988); Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time (1991); Beauty and the Beast (1962); Best Sellers (2021); Between Heaven and Hell (1956); Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (2009); Beyond the Sea (2004); Biography (1997); Black Sabbath (1963); Blind (2016); Captivity (2007); Cavalcade of America (1956); Cineficción Radio (2020); Confessioni segrete di un convento di clausura (1972); Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel (2011); Cowboy Johnny: Mark Damon and the Spaghetti Western (2011); Crypt of the Living Dead (1973); Dark Angel (1990); Das Boot (1981); Dead Men Don't Count (1968); Death at Owell Rock (1967); Deceiver (1997); Deodato Holocaust (2019); Diary of a Hitman (1991); Dio, come ti amo! (1966); Es knallt - und die Engel singen (1974); Extreme Ops (2002); Eye of the Beholder (1999); Fast Charlie (2023); Feardotcom (2002); Flight of the Navigator (1986); Flypaper (2011); Gabriel's Fire (1991); Gang Busters (1952); Gate 2: The Trespassers (1990); Go for Broke (1968); Golden Chameleon (1967); Grizzly Falls (1999); Hal (2018); Hawaiian Eye (1961); Here's Hollywood (1960–1962); High Spirits (1988); House of Usher (1960); I cento cavalieri (1964); I Led 3 Lives (1955); I leoni di Pietroburgo (1972); In Venice, Like Rome-Milan-Turin, the Spiral of Crime (1974); Inner Sanctum (1991); Inside Detroit (1956); It's Alive (2009); Ivanhoe, the Norman Swordsman (1971); Johnny Yuma (1966); Kiedy milosc byla zbrodnia (1968); Killing Priscilla (2000); Kolossal - i magnifici Macisti (1977); Life Begins at 17 (1958); Lock Up (1961); Lone Survivor (2013); Long Live Robin Hood (1971); Love & Sex (2000); Loved (1997); Mac and Me (1988); Mark Damon: From Edgar Allen Poe to Stalingrad (2014); Mark Damon: From Gunslinger to Hollywood Player (2006); Masters of Fantasy (1998); Matinee Theatre (1956); Meet Corliss Archer (1954); Men of Annapolis (1957); Metropolis (1927) / (1984 restoration); Monster (2003); Naked You Die (1968); National Velvet (1960); O Jerusalem (2006); Orgazmo (1997); Panic! (1958); Peccati d'estate (1962); Pistol Packin' Preacher (1971); Questa libertà di avere... le ali bagnate (1971); Red Shoe Diaries (1992); Reimagining the Neverending Story (2014); Requiescant (1967); Ringo and His Golden Pistol (1966); Rumble Through the Dark (2023); Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies (2001); Screaming Eagles (1956); Seduced and Abandoned (2013); Sensation (1994); Shadow of the Wolf (1992); Short Circuit (1986); Stalingrad (1993); Stuck on You! (1983); Tales of Wells Fargo (1958); Temptation (1969); The 18th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1961); The 2004 IFP/West Independent Spirit Awards (2004); The 20th Century-Fox Hour (1956); The Ann Sothern Show (1958); The Arena (1974); The Blackout (1997); The Body (2001); The Californians (1958); The Choirboys (1977); The Clan of the Cave Bear (1986); The Devil's Wedding Night (1973); The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1960); The Great Treasure Hunt (1972); The Hurricane Heist (2018); The I Inside (2004); The Jungle Book (1994); The Last Full Measure (2019); The Ledge (2011); The Lineup (1959); The Longest Day (1962); The Lost Boys (1987); The Magical World of Disney (1961); The McGonigle (1961); The Musketeer (2001); The NeverEnding Story (1984); The Party Crashers (1958); The Protectors (1973); The Reluctant Saint (1962); The Second Jungle Book: Mowgli & Baloo (1997); The Shortest Day (1963); The Silent Service (1958); The Son of Caesar and Cleopatra (1964); The Tyrant of Castile (1963); The United States of Leland (2003); The Upside of Anger (2005); The Winner (1996); The Young Racers (1963); There Is No 13 (1974); They Called Him Veritas (1972); This Rebel Breed (1960); Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years (1997); Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (2012); Universal Soldier: Regeneration (2009); Vietnam, Texas (1990); Wild Orchid (1989); Wild Orchid II: Two Shades of Blue (1991); Willy's Wonderland (2021); Woman of the Year (1973); Wounds of Hunger (1963); Young and Dangerous (1957); Your Play Time (1955); Zorro (1959–1961).

Born on this day – Jason Miller:

Jason Miller

Writer

Actor

Director

April 22, 1939 – May 13, 2001

Credits:

Written work:

Barrymore's Ghost (2000); Lou Gehrig Did Not Die of Cancer (1971); Nobody Hears a Broken Drum (1970); That Championship Season (1972); Three One-Act Plays (1973).

Movies and television:

A Dog Called... Vengeance (1977); A History of Horror with Mark Gatiss (2010); A Home of Our Own (1975); A Mother's Courage: The Mary Thomas Story (1989); A Touch of Scandal (1984); Cinemassacre's Monster Madness (2007–2014); De película (1983); Deadly Care (1987); Des Teufels Advokat (1977); Don Adams' Screen Test (1975); F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood (1975); Fear and Love: The Story of the Exorcist (2024); Finding Home (2003); Good Morning America (1984); Light of Day (1987); Marilyn: The Untold Story (1980); Miller's Tale (2011); Minty Comedic Arts (2023); Mommy (1995); Monsignor (1982); Murdered Innocence (1996); Night Heat (1987); Occulture (2023); Paradox Lake (2002); Reward (1980); Rudy (1993); Small Kill (1992); Terror in the Aisles (1984); That Championship Season (1982 / 1999); The 27th Annual Tony Awards (1973); The 46th Annual Academy Awards (1974); The 74th Annual Academy Awards (2002); The Anatomy of Horror (1995); The Best Little Girl in the World (1981); The Dain Curse (1978); The Eternal (1998); The Exorcist (1973); The Exorcist III (1990); The Exorcist III: Legion (1990); The Fear of God: 25 Years of 'The Exorcist' (1998); The Henderson Monster (1980); The Horror Hall of Fame (1990); The Joe Spinell Story (2001); The Making of: The Nickel Ride (2019); The Merv Griffin Show (1974); The Mike Douglas Show (1974); The Nickel Ride (1974); The Ninth Configuration (1980); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1974); Toy Soldiers (1984); Vampire (1979); Visionado obligado (2011); Welcome to the Basement (2014).

Born on this day – Marie-José Nat:

Marie-José Nat

Actress

April 22, 1940 – October 10, 2019

Born on this day – Louise Glück:

Louise Glück

Writer

April 22, 1943 – October 13, 2023

Credits:

Awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature.

The House on Marshland (1975); Descending Figure (1980); The Triumph of Achilles (1885); Mock Orange (1985); Ararat (1990); The Wild Iris (1992); Proofs and Theories: Essays on Poetry (1994); Meadowlands (1997); Vita Nova (1999); The Seven Ages (2001); Aboriginal Landscape (2013); Averno (2006); A Village Life (2009); Poems: 1962-2012 (2012); Faithful and Virtuous Night (2014); Firstborn (1968); American Originality: Essays on Poetry (2017); Winter Recipes from the Collective (2021); The Drowned Children (1968); For Jane Meyers (1979); The Triumph of Achilles (1985); The Wild Iris (1992); The Red Poppy (1992); Nostos (1996); The Empty Glass (2001).

Born on this day – Damien Broderick:

Damien Broderick

Writer

April 22, 1944 – April 19, 2025

Credits:

Books:

A Man Returned (1965); Adrift in the Noosphere (2012); Alien StarSwarm / Human's Burden (2010); Beyond the Doors of Death (2013); Building New Worlds, 1946-1959 (2013); Centaurus (1999); Chained to the Alien (2009); City of the Tiger (2015); Climbing Mount Implausible (2010); Consciousness and Science Fiction (2021); Dark Gray (2010); Do Unto Others (2021); Earth Is but a Star (2001); Embarrass My Dog (2010); Fantastika (2014); Ferocious Minds (2005); Gaia to Galaxy (2012); Godplayers (2005); Human's Burden (2010); I'm Dying Here / aka I Suppose a Root's Out of the Question? (2006); Intelligence Unbound (2014); Kingdom of the Worlds (2021); K-Machines (2006); Knowing The Unknowable: Putting Psi to Work (2015); Matilda at the Speed of Light (1988); New Worlds (2013); Not the Only Planet (1998); Other Spacetimes (2015); Outside the Gates of Science (2007); Perchance to Wake (2016); Philosophy's Future (2017); Post Mortal Syndrome (2011); Psience Fiction (2018); Quipu (2010); Reading by Starlight (1994); Restore Point (2012); Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels 1985-2010 (2012); Sorceror's World (1970); Starlight Interviews (2017); Strange Highways (2013); Striped Holes (1988); The Architecture of Babel (1994); The Black Grail (1986); The Book of Revelation (1999); The Dark Between the Stars (1991); The Daymakers (2014); The Dreaming (1980); The Game of Stars and Souls (2002); The Hunger Of Time (2003); The Judas Mandala (1982); The Last Mortal Generation (1999); The Lotto Effect (1992); The Mammoth Book of Time Travel SF (2013); The Qualia Engine (2010); The Ruined Queen of Harvest World (2011); The Sea's Furthest End (1993); The Spike (1998); The Time Machine Hypothesis (2019); The Valley of the God of Our Choice, Inc. (2015); The White Abacus (1997); The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection (2014); The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection (2012); The Zeitgeist Machine (1977); Threshold of Eternity - The Novel (2017); Time Considered as a Series of Thermite Burns in No Particular Order (2011); Transcension (2002); Transmitters (1984); Transrealist Fiction (1996); Uncle Bones (2009); Under the Moons of Venus (2021); Unleashing the Strange (2009); Valencies (1983); Valencies: A Science Fiction Novel (2013); Warriors of the Tao (2011); X, Y, Z, T: Dimensions of Science Fiction (2004); Xeno Fiction (2013); Yggdrasil Station (2020); You're Not Alone (2014); Zones (1997).

On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek: Voyager (1998)

Star Trek: Enterprise (2005)

Star Trek: The U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 / book (2019)

 

Star Trek: Voyager
Season 4. Episode 22.

Episode entitled: Unforgettable.

Released April 22, 1998.

Directed by Andrew J. Robinson.

Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

Written by Greg Elliot, Michael Perricone, Bryan Fuller, Lisa Klink.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Jay Chattaway.

Cast: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Biggs-Dawson, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang, Jeri Ryan, Michael Canavan, Virginia Madsen, Tarik Ergin.

Star Trek: Enterprise
Season 4. Episode 18.

Episode entitled: In a Mirror, Darkly.

Released April 22, 2005.

Directed by James L. Conway.

Written by Michael/Mike Sussman.

Created by Rick Berman, Brannon Braga.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Opening theme song: Faith of the Heart, performed by Russell Watson.

Closing theme: Archer's Theme, by Dennis McCarthy.

Music by Kevin Kiner, Dennis McCarthy.

Cast: Scott Bakula, John Billingsley, Jolene Blalock, Dominic Keating, Anthony Montgomery, Linda Park, Connor Trinneer, Vaughn Armstrong, Franc Ross, Alexandrea Ortiz, Craig Baxley Jr., Caroline Bielskis, Steve Blalock, Mark Correy, James Cromwell, Evan English, Cully Fredricksen, Peter Godoy, Glen Hambly, Noelle Hannibal, Scott Sterling Hill, Dieter Horneman, Yoshio Iizuka, Tamara Krinsky, Andrew Macbeth, James McElroy, Louis Ortiz, Paul Sklar, Pablo Soriano.

Star Trek: The U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701

by Ben Robinson, Marcus Riley, Simon Hugo.

Illustrated Handbook.

Hardcover.

Published by Hero Collector; Illustrated edition.

Published 2019.

Hardcover.

ISBN-10: 1858755786

ISBN-13: 978-1858755786

Description:

Captain James T. Kirk's Original Starship Enterprise! Everything you want to know about this iconic starship in the FIRST full color volume ever published. Featuring details from both TV series and the first six movies.

This volume, featuring the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 and the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-A, is a detailed, illustrative account of the TV starship from the original 1966-1969 series, and the movie starship from STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE (1979), STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN (1982), STAR TREK III: THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK (1984), STAR TREK IV: THE VOYAGE HOME (1986), STAR TREK V: THE FINAL FRONTIER (1989), and STAR TREK VI: THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY (1991). Plus, Captain Pike's Enterprise from the hit TV series STAR TREK: DISCOVERY.

With isometric illustrations of all the key locations, annotated plan views, detailed technical information, Starfleet equipment, and uniforms and insignia, the chapters follow the starships through time and provide an extraordinary reference guide to these iconic Federation vessels.

On this day in music history - The album Unspoken, by Jami Sieber (2008)

Unspoken

by Jami Sieber

was released on April 22, 2008.

Track list:

Opening; Benediction; The River Between; Night Song; 6 O'Clock News; The Moon Inside; Listening; A Dialogue of Silk; Broken Open; Unspoken; Returning.