Thursday, August 15, 2024
Introvert insight:
On this day in movie history - Event Horizon (1997)
Event Horizon
directed by Paul W. S. Anderson, and
written by Philip Eisner, was released in the United States
on August 15, 1997
Music by Michael Kamen and Orbital.
#EventHorizon #PaulWSAnderson #LaurenceFishburne #SamNeill #KathleenQuinla #JoelyRichardson #August15
On this day in movie history - Manhunter (1986)
Born on this day – Margot Moser:
Born on this day – Nicolas Roeg:
Born on this day – Katharine Brush:
Credits:
Written work:
Don't Ever Leave Me (1935); Free Woman (1936); Glitter (1926); Little Sins (1927); Mannequin / aka Marry For Money (1937); Night Club (1929); Other Women (1933); Out of My Mind (1943); Red-Headed Woman (1931); The Boy from Maine (1942); This Is on Me (1940); This Man and This Woman (1944); When She Was Bad (1948); You Go Your Way (1941); Young Man of Manhattan (1930).
Movies and television:
Actor's Studio (1948); Andy Hardy's Private
Secretary (1941); General Electric Theater (1959); Honeymoon in Bali (1939);
Lady of Secrets (1936); Listen, Darling (1938); Mannequin (1937); Red-Headed
Woman (1932); Starlight Theatre (1950); The Drop Kick (1927); Young Man of
Manhattan (1930).
Born on this day – Edna Ferber:
Credits:
Books:
$1,200 A Year: A Comedy In Three Acts (1920); 30 Eternal Masterpieces of Humorous Stories (2019); A Kind of Magic (2013); A Peculiar Treasure: Autobiography (1939); American Beauty (1931); Buttered Side Down: Short Stories (1912); Cheerful, by Request (1913); Cimarron (1929); Come and Get It (1934); Dawn O'Hara: The Girl Who Laughed (1911); Emma McChesney and Co. (1915); Fanny Herself (1917); Ferber: Edna Ferber and Her Circle (1978); Giant (1952); Gigolo (1922); Great Son (1944); Half Portions (2010); Ice Palace (1958); Mother Knows Best (1927); One Basket (1947); Personality Plus (1914); Roast Beef Medium (1911); Saratoga Trunk (1941); Show Boat (1926); So Big (1924); Stage Door (1926); The Dancing Girls (2021); The Girls (1921); The Homely Heroine (2017); The Land Is Bright: A Play (2019); The Woman Who Tried to Be Good and Other Stories (1913); They Brought Their Women: A Book Of Short Stories (1933).
Movies, radio and television:
American Masters (1987); BBC Sunday-Night
Theatre (1951–1958); Cimarron (1931); Cimarron (1960); Classified (1925); Come
and Get It (1936); Dinner at Eight (1933); Dinner at Eight (1989); Front Row
Center (1955); A Gay Old Dog (1919); Giant (1956); Gigolo (1926); Glamour
(1934); Great Performances (1989); Hard to Get (1929); Ice Palace (1960); Kern:
Show Boat (2015); Kraft Theatre (1948); Kraft Theatre / The Philco Television
Playhouse (1948); Mother Knows Best (1928); No Place to Go (1939); No Woman Knows
(1921); Our Mrs. McChesney (1918); Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (1951); Radio Play
Revival (2024); Saratoga Trunk (1945); Show Boat (1929); Show Boat (1936); Show
Boat (1951); So Big (1924); So Big (1953); So Big! (1932); Stage Door (1937);
Stage Door (1939); Stage Door (1948); Starlight Theatre (1950); The Adventures
of Young Indiana Jones Documentaries (2008); The Best of Broadway (1954–1955);
The Expert (1932); The Ford Theatre Hour (1950); The Home Girl (1928); The
Royal Family (1977); The Royal Family of Broadway (1930); The Royal Family of
Broadway (1939); The Stage Door (1950); Theatre Royal / The Royal Family
(1952); Welcome Home (1925).
Born on this day – Ethel Barrymore:
Recommended reading - The Mammoth Book of Perfect Crimes and Impossible Mysteries (2006).
The Mammoth Book
of Perfect Crimes and Impossible Mysteries (2006).
Edited by Mike
Ashley.
Published by
Running Press.
Paperback.
ISBN-10:
0786718935
ISBN-13:
978-0786718931
Description:
Mystery conundrums from crime's finest storytellers.
This ingenious
new anthology from Mike Ashley presents nearly 30 impossible mysteries and
bizarre crimes guaranteed to fascinate and intrigue. Among them are some crimes
so impossible that they’re near perfect, and others so perfect that they’re
impossible to solve.
In all, the
delight is in unravelling the puzzle and trying to work out what on earth
happened.
Cases include:
A man in an
all-glass phone booth, clearly visible and with no one near him, is killed by
an ice pick.
Someone sitting
alone in a room is shot by a bullet fired only once and that was over 200 years
ago.
A man enters a
cable-car carriage alone and is visible the entire journey but is found dead
when he reaches the bottom.
A man vanishes at
the top of the Indian rope trick and is found dead miles away.
A dead man
continues to receive mail in response to letters apparently written by him
after he'd died.
The stories include several brand new masterpieces as well as lesser known rare gems – from such names as Robert Randisi, Edward D. Hoch, Joseph Commings, Peter Tremayne, Bill Pronzini and Gillian Linscott.