Introvert insight:

 

Introverts are word economists in a society suffering from verbal diarrhea.
 
– Michaela Chung.
 

I’m self-sufficient.
 
I spend a lot of time on my own and I shut off quite easily.
 
When I communicate, I communicate 900 per cent, then I shut off, which scares people sometimes.
 
– Bjork.
 

Though introverts are drained by interaction, we can take immense pleasure in watching the scene around us.
 
– Laurie Helgoe.
 

I'll read my books and I'll drink coffee and I'll listen to music, and I'll bolt the door.
 
– J. D. Salinger.

Ann Patchett, on books:

 

That's important to me, to recommend books.

- Ann Patchett.

Recommended reading - The Mammoth Book of Perfect Crimes and Impossible Mysteries (2006).

The Mammoth Book of Perfect Crimes and Impossible Mysteries

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. 

Born on this day – Ethel Barrymore:

 

Ethel Barrymore

Actress

August 15, 1879 – June 18, 1959

Credits:

All Star Revue (1951–1952); An American Widow (1917); Animated Weekly, No. 26 (1912); Camille (1926); Cancer Fund Film Notables Attend Glittering Benefits (1951); Climax! (1954); Daphni: Virgin of the Golden Laurels (1951); Deadline - U.S.A. (1952); Ethel Barrymore Theater (1956); Family Theatre (1952); General Electric Theater (1955); Hollywood Opening Night (1952); It's a Big Country: An American Anthology (1951); Johnny Trouble (1957); Just for You (1952); Kind Lady (1951); Life's Whirlpool (1917); Main Street to Broadway (1953); Moonrise (1948); Moss Rose (1947); National Red Cross Pageant (1917); NBC Television Opera Theatre (1950); Night Song (1947); None But the Lonely Heart (1944); Omnibus (1953); Our Mrs. McChesney (1918); Person to Person (1955); Pinky (1949); Playhouse 90 (1956); Popular Players Off the Stage (1913); Portrait of Jennie (1948); Rasputin and the Empress (1932); Remember ... 1938 (1955); Show-Business at War (1943); Starland Review No. 13 (1922); Svengali and the Blonde (1955); That Midnight Kiss (1949); The Awakening of Helena Ritchie (1916); The Call of Her People (1917); The Divorcee (1919); The Eternal Mother (1917); The Farmer's Daughter (1947); The Final Judgment (1915); The Great Sinner (1949); The Greatest Power (1917); The Kiss of Hate (1916); The Lifted Veil (1917); The Nightingale (1914); The Paradine Case (1947); The Red Danube (1949); The Secret of Convict Lake (1951); The Spiral Staircase (1946); The Story of Three Loves (1953); The White Raven (1917); What's My Line? (1952); Young at Heart (1954).

Born on this day – Edna Ferber:

Edna Ferber

Writer

August 15, 1885 – April 16, 1968

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 – Katharine Brush:

 

Katharine Brush

Writer

August 15, 1902 – June 10, 1952

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 – Wendy Hiller:

Wendy Hiller

Actress

August 15, 1912 – May 14, 2003

Credits:

10th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2004); A Discussion of the Growing Summer (1968); A Man for All Seasons (1966); A New Window Pane (1997); A Taste for Death (1988); Agatha Christie: A Woman of Mystery (2007); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1959); All Passion Spent (1986); All the World’s a Stage (1984); Anne of Avonlea (1987); Armchair Theatre (1958); Attracta (1983); Backstage at Masterpiece Theatre (1991); BBC Play of the Month (1966–1968); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1954); Broadway: The American Musical (2004); Clochemerle (1972); David Copperfield (1970); Ending Up (1989); Great Performances (1985); Hindle Wakes (1947); How to Murder a Rich Uncle (1957); I Know Where I’m Going! (1945); I Know Where I’m Going! Revisited (1994); ITV Playhouse (1978); Jackanory (1965); Knock on Any Door (1966); Lancashire Luck (1937); Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn (2016); Lilli Palmer Theatre (1955–1956); Love Story (1972); Major Barbara (1941); Making Love (1982); Masterpiece Theatre: Lord Mountbatten - The Last Viceroy (1986); Matinee Theatre (1957–1958); Miss Morison’s Ghosts (1981); Murder on the Orient Express (1974); Night of 100 Stars (1977); Omnibus (1988); Omnibus (2001); Only Yesterday (1986); Outcast of the Islands (1951); Play for Today (1981); Plays of Today (1969); Profiles in Courage (1965); Pygmalion (1938); Sailor of the King (1953); Screenplay (1992); Separate Tables (1958); She Stoops to Conquer (1972); Something of Value (1957); Sons and Lovers (1960); Tales of the Unexpected (1979); The 39th Annual Academy Awards (1967); The 76th Annual Academy Awards (2004); The BBC Television Shakespeare (1978); The Best of Friends (1991); The Brains Trust (1955); The British Greats (1980); The Cat and the Canary (1978); The Comedy of Errors (1983); The Curse of King Tut’s Tomb (1980); The Death of the Heart (1987); The Elephant Man (1980); The Fame of Grace Darling (1939); The Growing Summer (1968); The Growing Summer (1969); The Kingfisher (1982); The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1987); The Method - An ITV Special Investigation (1958); The Twelve Pound Look (1957); This Is Your Life (1978–1995); To Be a Woman (1951); Tonight on Broadway (1948); Toys in the Attic (1963); Voyage of the Damned (1976); When We Dead Awaken (1970); Witness for the Prosecution (1982); Z Cars (1964).

Born on this day – Signe Hasso:

Signe Hasso

Actress

Writer

Composer

August 15, 1915 – June 7, 2002

Born on this day – Philip Perlman:

Philip Perlman

Actor

August 15, 1919 – April 29, 2015

Credits:

Cheers (1986–1993); Class Act (1992); Deadly Hero (1975); Drowning Mona (2000); Duplex (2003); Even Money (2006); Frasier (2002); Hill Street Blues (1982); Hoffa (1992); It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2006); Man on the Moon (1999); Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School (2005); Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing and Charm School (1990); Other People's Money (1991); Out of Sight (1998); Roc (1991–1992); Sibs (1992); The Ratings Game (1984); The Tracey Ullman Show (1990); The War of the Roses (1989); Throw Momma from the Train (1987).

 

Born on this day – Rose Marie:

 

Rose Marie

Actress

Singer

Comedian

August 15, 1923 – December 28, 2017

Born on this day – Georgann Johnson:

 

Georgann Johnson

Actress

August 15, 1926 – June 4, 2018

Born on this day – Nicolas Roeg:

Nicolas Roeg

Director

Cinematographer

August 15, 1928 – November 23, 2018

Director of:

The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976), starring David Bowie and Candy Clark.

&

Eureka (1983) ... needs no introduction.

"And that's when I started to smell bad!"

#NicholasRoeg #Eureka #AndThatsWhenIStartedToSmellBad #August15

Born on this day – Margot Moser:

Margot Moser

Actress

August 15, 1930 – September 25, 2022

Credits:

Cinderella (1957); Kraft Theatre (1951); Leonard Soloway's Broadway (2019); Producers' Showcase (1956); The Bell Telephone Hour (1963); The Doctors (1963); The Mike Douglas Show (1965); There Goes the Bride (1980); To Tell the Truth (1961–1962).

Born on this day – Janice Rule:

 

Janice Rule

Actress

Psychotherapist

August 15, 1931 – October 17, 2003

Born on this day – Lori Nelson:

Lori Nelson

Actress

August 15, 1933 – August 23, 2020

Born on this day – Jack Lilley:

 

Jack Lilley

Actor

Stunts

August 15, 1933 – March 19, 2025

Credits:

40 Guns to Apache Pass (1967); A Man Called Shenandoah (1965); A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed (1958); A Thin Line Between Love and Hate (1996); A Walk in the Clouds (1995); After the Fall (2010); Alias Smith and Jones (1971); An Occurrence at Black Canyon (2004); Arizona Bushwhackers (1968); Army of Darkness (1992); Avenging Angel (2007); Bad Girls (1994); Bat Masterson (1959); Beau Geste (1966); Big Money Rustlas (2010); Black Knuckle and Deputy Maltese (2018); Black Spurs (1965); Blazing Saddles (1974); Bonanza (1961–1972); Bonanza: The Next Generation (1988); Branded (1965); Bronco (1960–1961); Bullet for a Badman (1964); Case Closed (1988); Cat Ballou (1965); Cheyenne (1957–1962); Cimarron City (1959); Cimarron Strip (1967); City Slickers (1991); City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold (1994); Comanche (2000); Cotter (1973); Dallas (1979); Dead Man's Walk (1996); Death Valley Days (1960); Desolation Canyon (2006); Don Quixote (2015); Drango (1957); Durango Kids (1999); Everything That Rises (1998); Expecting Amish (2014); Family Affair (1967–1968); Fantasy Island (1981); Father Murphy (1981–1983); Frontier Circus (1961); Fury at Showdown (1957); Gambler V: Playing for Keeps (1994); Gun for a Coward (1956); Gunfight at Comanche Creek (1963); Gunsmoke (1961–1974); Hard Promises (1991); Have Gun - Will Travel (1957–1960); Highway to Heaven (1984); Holes (2003); Horse Sense (1999); Hostile Guns (1967); Houdini (1998); Johnny Reno (1966); Johnny Ringo (1960); Just Visiting (2001); Killing Stone (1978); Kung Fu (1972); Last Train from Gun Hill (1959); Lawman (1959); Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983); Little House: Bless All the Dear Children (1984); Little House: Look Back to Yesterday (1983); Little House: The Last Farewell (1984); Lonely Are the Brave (1962); Love Begins (2010); Love Finds a Home (2009); Love Takes Wing (2009); Love's Abiding Joy (2006); Love's Everlasting Courage (2011); Love's Long Journey (2005); Love's Unending Legacy (2007); Lucky Stiff (1988); Mackenzie's Raiders (1959); Man's Best Friend (1993); Maverick (1959–1962); Meteor (1979); Mrs. Santa Claus (1996); Murder 101: If Wishes Were Horses (2007); Nevada Smith (1966); No Name and Dynamite Davenport (2022); Omar Khayyam (1957); Once Upon a Texas Train (1988); One-Eyed Jacks (1961); Overland Trail (1960); Pink Cadillac (1989); Planet of the Apes (2001); Posse from Hell (1961); Rawhide (1959–1964); Red Steagall Is Somewhere West of Wall Street (2020); Ride a Crooked Trail (1958); Riverboat (1960); Rough Night in Jericho (1967); Rough Riders (1997); Sacrifices of the Heart (2007); Scandalous John (1971); Shiloh Falls (2007); Stoney Burke (1962); Sudden Impact (1983); Sugarfoot (1960); Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969); Texas Rangers (2001); The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory (1987); The Ballad of Josie (1967); The Big Bus (1976); The Big Fisherman (1959); The Big Valley (1965–1967); The Deputy (1959); The Erotic Adventures of the Three Musketeers (1992); The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw (1991); The Governor's Wife (2008); The Hallelujah Trail (1965); The Hard Man (1957); The High Chaparral (1967–1969); The Homecoming of Jimmy Whitecloud (2001); The Last Cowboy (2003); The Last Outlaw (1993); The Legend of Zorro (2005); The Magical World of Disney (1958–1959); The Magnificent Seven (1998); The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1967); The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962); The Master of My Life (2002); The Mountain Men (1980); The Oklahoman (1957); The Ransom of Red Chief (1998); The Rare Breed (1966); The Rebel (1959); The Rounders (1965); The Stunts of 'the Legend of Zorro' (2006); The Tall Man (1960); The Virginian (1962–1966); The Wild Wild West (1965–1968); The Wretched Prologue (2013); Three Amigos! (1986); Used Cars (1980); W.B., Blue and the Bean (1989); Wagon Train (1957); Wall of Noise (1963); Wanted: Dead or Alive (1960); Washington Square (1997); Waterhole #3 (1967); What I Did for Love (2006); Wild America (1997); Young Guns (1988); Young Guns II (1990); Zorro (1957–1961).

On this day in television history - Fallen Angels (1993)

Fallen Angels
Season 1. Episode 2.

Episode entitled: I’ll Be Waiting.

Released August 15, 1993.

Directed by Tom Hanks.

Written by C. Gaby Mitchell.

Created by William Horberg.

Based on the short story by Raymond Chandler.

Theme music by Peter Bernstein.

Cast:

Bruno Kirby, Marg Helgenberger, Jon Polito, Dan Hedaya, Dick Miller, Peter Scolari, Tom Hanks, Manny Perry, Lynette Walden.

Born on this day – Jill Haworth:

Jill Haworth

Actress

August 15, 1945 – January 3, 2011

On this day in television history - Justified: City Primeval (2023)

Justified: City Primeval
Season 1. Episode 6.

Episode entitled: Adios.

Released August 15, 2023.

Directed by Sylvain White.

Written by Taylor Elmore, VJ Boyd, Dave Andron, Michael Dinner, Cole Quirk.

Based on City Primeval and Fire in the Hole by Elmore Leonard.

Music by Mark Isham.
 
Cast:

Timothy Olyphant, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Adelaide Clemens, Marin Ireland, Victor Williams, Norbert Leo Butz, Boyd Holbrook, David Cross, Kevin Anderson, Regina Taylor, Joseph Anthony Byrd, Neal Dandade, Andre Bellos, Russ Panzarella.

On this day in movie history - The Lawbreakers (1961)

The Lawbreakers

directed by Joseph M. Newman,

written by Paul Monash and W.R. Burnett,

was released in the United States on August 15, 1961.

Music by Johnny Mandel.

A remake of the pilot episode of the 1961 The Asphalt Jungle TV series.

Inspired by the movie The Asphalt Jungle (1950), directed by John Huston, based on the novel by W. R. Burnett.

 
Cast:

Jack Warden, Vera Miles, Robert Douglas, Arch Johnson, Douglas Odney, Robert H. Harris, Ken Lynch, Robert Bailey, Mary Lawrence, James Seay, Marianne Stewart, Jay Adler, John Zaremba, David White, Noreen Corcoran, Don C. Harvey, Kenner G. Kemp, Eddie Marr, William Smith, Bert Stevens.