Monday, August 19, 2024
World Photography Day:
On this day in movie history - Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014)
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
directed by Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez,
written by Frank Miller,
based on the graphic novels by Frank Miller,
was released in the United States on August
19, 2014.
Music by Robert Rodriguez and Carl Thiel.
On this day in movie history - Electra Glide in Blue (1973)
On this day in movie history - The Barton Mystery (1949)
The Barton Mystery
a.k.a. Le mystère Barton,
directed and written by Charles Spaak,
based on the play The Barton Mystery by Walter C. Hackett,
was released in France on August 19, 1949.
Music by Daniel Lesur.
Born on this day – Laurette Luez:
Born on this day – Angus Scrimm:
Born on this day – Ogden Nash:
Credits:
Poems:
A caution to everybody; A Drink With Something In It; A Tale Of The Thirteenth Floor; A Word to Husbands; Adventures of Isabel; Always marry an April girl; Bankers Are Just Like Anybody Else, Except Richer; Biological Reflection; Celery; Children's Party; Common cold; Crossing the border; Family Court; Good-by Now Or Pardon My Gauntlet; Hard lines; I Didn't Go To Church Today; I'm a Stranger Here Myself; Lather As You Go; Ogden Nash's Zoo; Reflection On Babies; The Baby; The Octopus; The People Upstairs; The Tale of Custard the Dragon.
Books:
Bed Riddance (1969); Candy Is Dandy (1994); Carnival of animals (1950); Collected Verse from 1929 (1972); Custard and Company (1980); Custard the Dragon and the Wicked Knight (1999); Everyone but Thee and Me (1962); Good Intentions (1942); Hard Lines. Simon and Schuster (1931); I'm a Stranger Here Myself (1938 / 1994); Many Long Years Ago (1945); Marriage Lines. Boston (1964); Ogden Nash's Zoo (1986); Pocket Book of Ogden Nash (1990); Private Dining Room (1952); Selected Poetry of Ogden Nash (1995); The Face Is Familiar: The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash (1941); The Moon Is Shining Bright As Day (1953); The Old Dog Barks Backwards (1972); The Tale of Custard the Dragon (1998); There's Always Another Windmill (1968); Versus (1949); You Can't Get There from Here (1957).
Movies and television:
American
Masters (2005); Art Carney Meets Peter and the Wolf (1958); Baby Einstein: Baby
Shakespeare World of Poetry (1999); Body Electric (2002); Boston Pops in
Hollywood (1976); Bugs and Daffy's Carnival of the Animals (1976); But
Seriously, It's Sheila Hancock (1972); Carnival of the Animals (1984); Columbo
(1975); Fellow Travelers (2023); Foodie Love (2019); General Electric Guest
House (1951); Hold That Kiss (1938); Johnny Carson Presents the Sun City
Scandals '72 (1972); Man of the Year (1953); Masquerade Party (1953–1956);
Omnibus / Segment: The Twelve Days of Christmas (1956); One Touch of Venus
(1948 / 1955); Phoenix (2014); Pisem, pisem stihove... (1974); Poezija Ogdena
Nesa (1970); PogieJoe (2013); The 36th Annual Tony Awards (1982); The Arlene Francis
Show (1957); The David Frost Show (1970–1971); The Dick Cavett Show (1968); The
Eamonn Andrews Show (1964); The Ed Sullivan Show (1953); The Feminine Touch
(1941); The Firefly (1937); The Shining Hour (1938); The Strange Case of Mr.
Donnybrook's Boredom (1982); The Tale of Custard the Dragon (1965); The Tonight
Show (1956); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1959); The Wizard of Oz
(1939); Today (1964); Who Said That? (1949).
Born on this day – Colleen Moore:
Recommended reading - American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America (2012)
American Grown: The Story of the White House
Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America (2012).
by Michelle Obama.
Published by Crown.
1st edition.
Hardcover.
ISBN-10: 0307956024
ISBN-13: 978-0307956026
Description:
The former First Lady, author of Becoming, and producer and star of Waffles + Mochi tells the inspirational story of the White House Kitchen Garden and how gardens can transform our lives and the health of our communities.
Early in her tenure as First Lady, despite being a novice gardener, Michelle Obama planted a kitchen garden on the White House’s South Lawn. To her delight, she watched as fresh vegetables, fruit, and herbs sprouted from the ground. Soon the White House Kitchen Garden inspired a new conversation all across the country about the food we feed our families and the impact it has on the nutrition and well-being of our children.
In American Grown, Mrs. Obama invites you inside the White House Kitchen Garden, from the first planting to the satisfaction of the seasonal harvest. She reveals her early worries and struggles – would the new plants even grow? – and her joy as lettuce, corn, tomatoes, collards and kale, sweet potatoes and rhubarb flourished in the freshly tilled soil. She shares the stories of other gardens that have moved and inspired her on her journey across the nation. And she offers what she learned about planting your own backyard, school, or community garden.
American Grown features:
- A behind-the-scenes look at every season of the garden’s growth.
- Unique recipes created by White House chefs.
- Striking original photographs that bring the White House Garden to life.
- A fascinating history of community gardens in the United States.
From a modern-day vegetable truck that brings
fresh produce to underserved communities in Chicago, to Houston office workers
who make the sidewalk bloom, to a New York City school that created a scented
garden for the visually impaired, to a garden in Winston-Salem, North Carolina,
that devotes its entire harvest to those less fortunate, American Grown isn’t
just the story of a single garden. It’s a celebration of the bounty of our
nation and a reminder of what we can all grow together.