– Margaret Atwood.
Wednesday, August 12, 2026
Margaret Atwood, on writing:
– Margaret Atwood.
Recommended reading - The Beekeeper's Bible: Bees, Honey, Recipes & Other Home Uses (2011)
The Beekeeper's Bible: Bees, Honey, Recipes & Other Home Uses
ISBN-13: 978-1584799184
Bee history, trivia, and lore.
Uses for honey, beeswax, and pollen.
Recipes and craft projects.
Home remedies and beauty products.
Born on this day – Mary Roberts Rinehart:
Books:
Born on this day – Cecil B. DeMille:
Cecil B. DeMille
Director
Producer
Actor
August 12, 1881 – January 21, 1959
Born on this day – George Bellows:
George Bellows
George Bellows / documentary (2012).
Born on this day – Gladys Bentley:
Gladys Bentley
Credits:
Songs:
Before Midnight; Big Gorilla
Man; Boogie Woogie Cue; Boogie'n My Woogie; Find out What He Likes; Fourth of
July Boogie; Give It Up; Ground Hog Blues; How Long, How Long Blues; How Much
Can I Stand; It Went to the Girl Next Door; Jingle Jangle Jump; June-Teeth
Jamboree; Lay it on the Line; Lay It on the Line for Father; Moanful Wailin'
Blues; Moanful Walkin' Blues; Red Beans And Rice; Red Beans and Rice Blues;
Wild Geese Blues; Worried Blues.
Movies and television:
Born on this day – Jane Wyatt:
Jane Wyatt
Actress
Credits:
13th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2007); 20 Questions (1951); 7th Annual American Cinema Awards (1990); A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story (1977); A Most Unusual Man (1993); About Faces (1960); AFI Life Achievement Award (1982); Alcoa Premiere (1963); Alias Smith and Jones (1971); Amelia Earhart (1976); Amityville Horror: The Evil Escapes (1989); Army Surgeon (1942); Baby Boom (1988); Bad Boy (1949); Bicentennial Minutes (1976); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1964); Boomerang! (1947); Buckskin Frontier (1943); Canadian Pacific (1949); CBS Playhouse (1968); Chesterfield Presents (1952); Compression (2025); Confidential for Women (1966); Criminal Lawyer (1951); Family Theatre (1953); Fantasy Island (1978–1983); Father Knows Best (1954–1960); Father Knows Best: Home for Christmas (1977); Finding Shangri-La (2007); Fireside Theatre (1952); Footlights and Kleiglights (1951); Frank Capra's American Dream (1997); Funny Women of Television (1991); Gemini Man (1976); General Electric Theater (1961); Gentleman's Agreement (1947); Gibbsville (1976); Girl from God's Country (1940); Girl Talk (1966); Going My Way (1963); Great Expectations (1934); Gypsy (1966); Happy Days (1982); Here Come the Brides (1970); Here's Hollywood (1961); History of the Sitcom (2021); Hollywood and the Stars (1964); Home (1956); Hotel (1983–1987); Hour Magazine (1982); House by the River (1950); Hurricane Smith (1941); Insight (1966–1970); Interlude (1957); Katherine (1975); Kisses for Breakfast (1941); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1961); Ladies of the Corridor (1975); Leave It to the Girls (1953); Legacy of the Hollywood Blacklist (1987); Lights Out (1952); Live with Kelly and Mark (1990); Lost Horizon (1937); Lost Horizon: Before and After Comparison (1999); Love, American Style (1969); Love, Hate & Propaganda: The Cold War (2011); March of Dimes Presents: Once Upon a Dime (1963); Marcus Welby, M.D. (1974); Medical Center (1975); Missing Children: A Mother's Story (1982); My Blue Heaven (1950); Nash Airflyte Theatre (1951); NBC 60th Anniversary Celebration (1986); Neighbors (1971); Never Too Late (1965); No Minor Vices (1948); None But the Lonely Heart (1944); Oh My Word (1966); On Your Way (1953); One More River (1934); Our Very Own (1950); Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law (1974); Password (1962–1966); Philbin's People (1970); Picture People Vol. 2 No. 10: Hollywood at Home (1942); Pioneers of Television (2014); Pitfall (1948); Play of the Week (1961); Playwrights '56 (1955); Prime Times (1983); Quincy, M.E. (1980); Reagan (2011); Robert Montgomery Presents (1950–1953); Schlitz Playhouse (1952); Screen Snapshots, Series 16, No. 3 (1936); See How They Run (1964); St. Elsewhere (1983–1988); Star Trek (1967); Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986); Starman (1986); Story of a Family (1960); Strange Conquest (1946); Studio One (1952–1958); Super Password (1987); Superdome (1978); Task Force (1949); TCM Remembers 2006 (2006); Television (1988); Television: The First Fifty Years (1999); The 10th Annual American Cinema Awards (1994); The 10th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1958); The 12th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1960); The 29th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1977); The 36th Primetime Emmy Awards (1984); The 59th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (2007); The 5th Annual American Cinema Awards (1988); The 6th Annual American Cinema Awards (1989); The 8th Annual American Cinema Awards (1991); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1965); The Bachelor's Daughters (1946); The Bell Telephone Hour (1961–1963); The Chevy Show (1961); The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (1961); The Ed Sullivan Show (1958); The Father Knows Best Reunion (1977); The Ford Television Theatre (1952); The Ghost & Mrs. Muir (1970); The Interviews: An Oral History of Television (1999); The Kansan (1943); The Kraft Music Hall (1970); The Love Boat (1979–1987); The Luckiest Girl in the World (1936); The Magical World of Disney (1977); The Making of 'Lost Horizon' (1999); The Man Who Cheated Himself (1950); The Match Game (1963); The Merv Griffin Show (1972–1982); The Mike Douglas Show (1964); The Millionaire (1978); The Motorola Television Hour (1953–1954); The Nativity (1978); The Navy Comes Through (1942); The Philip Morris Playhouse (1953); The Plymouth Playhouse (1953); The Silent Feminists: America's First Women Directors (1993); The Special 84th Birthday Celebration for Buddy Ebsen (1992); The Steve Allen Show (1959); The Two Little Bears (1961); The Virginian (1964–1970); The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1992); This Is Show Business (1950); This Is Your Life (1973); Through Wendy's Window (1950); Today (1956); Tom Sawyer (1973); Treasure of Matecumbe (1976); TV We Love (2025); Wagon Train (1962); Weekend for Three (1941); Weekend of Terror (1970); We're Only Human (1935); What's My Line? (1958); What's My Line? At 25 (1975); Where Was I? (1952); You Don't Say (1967); You'll Never See Me Again (1973).Your First Impression (1963); Your Show of Shows (1952).
Born on this day – William Goldman:
William Goldman
Writer
Author and/or screenwriter of Marathon Man,
Princess Bride (book and screenplay), Heat
August 12, 1931 – November 16, 2018
Credits:
Books:
Absolute Power (1997); Adventures in the Screen Trade (1983); Blood Sweat and Stanley Poole (1962); Boys and Girls Together (1969); Brothers (1986); Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid (1969); Control (1982); Father's Day (1971); Five Screenplays with Essays (1984); Four Screenplays with Essays (1994); Heat / aka Edged Weapons (1985); Hype and Glory (1990); Magic (1976); Marathon Man (1974); No Way to Treat A Lady (1964); Soldier in the Rain (1963); The Best of All Possible Worlds (1980); The Big Picture (2000); The Color of Light (1984); The Great Waldo Pepper (1975); The Princess Bride (1973); The Season (1969); The Silent Gondoliers (1983); The Temple of Gold (1957); The Thing of It Is... (1967); Tinsel (1979); Wait Till Next Year (1988); Which Lie Did I Tell? (2000); Wigger (1974); Your Turn to Curtsy, My Turn to Bow (1958).
Movies and television:
5 Minutes (2018); A Bridge Too Far (1977); A Cinematic Life: The Art & Influence of Conrad Hall (2010); A Few Good Men (1992); Absolute Power (1997); AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes: America's Greatest Quips, Comebacks and Catchphrases (2005); AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies (1998); All Aboard: Riding the Rails of American Film (1993); All of What Follows Is True: The Making of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' (2006); All the President's Men (1976); Amateur (2005); American Experience (2002); American Masters (2000); Animaniacs (2020–2023); Arena (2000); As You Wish: The Story of 'The Princess Bride' (2001); Be Water / 30 for 30 (2014); Biography (1995–2000); Butch and Sundance: The Early Days (1979); Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969); Chaplin (1992); Charlie Rose (1997); Checkpoint Echo (2006); Da Vinci (1996); Dateline NBC (2006); Dolores Claiborne (1995); Dreamcatcher (2003); Fierce Creatures (1997); Film Genre (2002); Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light (2006); Fry's Planet Word (2011); Going the Distance: Remembering 'Marathon Man' (2001); Good Will Hunting (1997); Harper (1966); HBO First Look (2003); Hearts in Atlantis (2001); Heat (1986); History vs. Hollywood (2001); Hollywood Insider (2021); Home Movie: The Princess Bride (2020); Inside the Actors Studio (1994); Last Action Hero (1993); Magic (1978); Malice (1993); Marathon Man (1976); Masquerade (1965); Maverick (1994); Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992); Minty Comedic Arts (2019); Miracles and Mystery: Creating 'the Green Mile' (2006); Misery (1990); Misery Loves Company (2002); Movie Night Extravaganza (2022); Moving Pictures (1990); Mr. Horn (1979); NBA 100 Greatest Plays (1999); No Way to Treat a Lady (1968); On Location with 'Gunga Din' (2004); Out of the Shadows: The Man Who Was Deep Throat (2006); Papillon (1973); Pierrot the Fool / Cannes Film Festival (1988); Richard Attenborough: A Life (2014); Screenwriters: Word Into Image (1982); Screenwriting for Dummies (2006); ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway (2007); Soldier in the Rain (1963); Tales from the Script (2009); Talking Pictures (1988); TCM Remembers 2018 (2018); Telling the Truth About Lies: The Making of 'All the President's Men' (2006); The 45th Annual Academy Awards (1973); The 49th Annual Academy Awards (1977); The Chamber (1996); The Garden's Defining Moments (2015); The General's Daughter (1999); The Ghost and the Darkness (1996); The Gospel According to Bill (2010); The Great Waldo Pepper (1975); The Hot Rock (1972); The Human Face (2001); The Making of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' (1970); The Oscars (2019); The Princess Bride (1987 / 1999 / 2012); The Princess Bride Making Of (1987); The South Bank Show (1990–2009); The Stepford Wives (1975); The War of the Roses (1989); True Love: The Princess Bride Phenomenon - Entering the Zeitgeist (2012); Twins (1988); Under Suspicion (2000); Wild Card (2015); Year of the Comet (1992).
#WilliamGoldman #MarathonMan #PrincessBride #Heat
Born on this day – John Cazale:
John Cazale
On this day in movie history - Darker Than Amber (1970)
Darker Than Amber
directed by Robert Clouse,
written by Ed Waters,
based on the novel by John D. MacDonald,
was released in the United States on August 12, 1970.
Music by John Carl Parker.
On this day in movie history - Young Guns (1988)
Young Guns
On this day in movie history - Hell or High Water (2016)
Hell or High Water
directed by David Mackenzie,
written by Taylor Sheridan,
was released in the United States on August 12, 2016.
Music by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis.
I'm not typically a fan of this genre, but I have fond memories of the movie after my hubby and I had an empty theater to ourselves on my birthday a few years back to enjoy watching Hell or High Water.
On this day in movie history - Anthropoid (2016)
Anthropoid
On this day in music history:
Crossing the Stone by
Catrin Finch (2003)
Close Your Eyes by
Amy Lauren (2011)
Crossing the Stone
Album by Catrin Finch,
released August 12, 2003.
Close Your Eyes
Album by Amy Lauren,
released August 12, 2011.
Track list: A Mother’s Prayer; Bed of Stars;
Calm Is the Night; I’m Right Here; Drifting Starlight; Angels Are Sleeping;
Nighttime Falls; Midnight Song; Search the Stars; When You Sleep; Close Your
Eyes; Goodnight.

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