On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Chaos on the Bridge

documentary directed and written by William Shatner,

was released in the United States on August 25, 2014.

Music by Catalin Marin.

 

Cast:

William Shatner, D.C. Fontana, David Gerrold, Maurice Hurley, Rick Berman, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Richard Arnold, Jeffrey M. Hayes, John Pike, Susan Sackett, John de Lancie, Denise Crosby, Patrick Stewart, Ronald D. Moore, David Livingston, Herman F. Zimmerman, Michael Okuda, Brannon Braga, Jonathan Frakes, Tracy Tormé, Melinda M. Snodgrass, Lolita Fatjo, Gates McFadden, Diana Muldaur, Leslie Moonves, Ira Steven Behr, Michael Dorn.

Ann Patchett, on writing:

That's the way I work.

I get it all plotted in my mind, and then I write it down.

- Ann Patchett. 

Recommended reading - The Age of Dimes and Pulps: A History of Sensationalist Literature, 1830-1960 (2018)

 

The Age of Dimes and Pulps: A History of Sensationalist Literature, 1830-1960

by Jeremy Agnew

 
Published by McFarland.
Illustrated edition.
Paperback.
 
ISBN-10: 1476669481
ISBN-13: 978-1476669489
 
Description:
 

From the dime novels of the Civil War era to the pulp magazines of the early 20th century to modern paperbacks, lurid fiction has provided thrilling escapism for the masses. Cranking out formulaic stories of melodrama, crime and mild erotica – often by uncredited authors focused more on volume than quality – publishers realized high profits playing to low tastes. Estimates put pulp magazine circulation in the 1930s at 30 million monthly.

 

This vast body of "disposable literature" has received little critical attention, in large part because much of it has been lost – the cheaply made books were either discarded after reading or soon disintegrated. Covering the history of pulp literature from 1850 through 1960, the author describes how sensational tales filled a public need and flowered during the evolving social conditions of the Industrial Revolution.

Why we read:

Why we read

Author humor:

Readers: We like it when the characters are happy.

Authors: We don't do that here

Authors interviewing characters for their books:

Wanna suffer together?

I thought you'd never ask

This is your face.... after you've stayed up all night reading.

I'm reading a book about anti-gravity.

     Is it any good?

I can't put it down.

Born on this day – Alice White:

 

Alice White

Actress

August 25, 1904 – February 19, 1983

Credits:

3-Ring Marriage (1928); A Trip Thru a Hollywood Studio (1935); A Very Honorable Guy (1934); A Woman of the Sea (1926); Annabel Takes a Tour (1938); Big City (1937); Breakfast at Sunrise (1927); Broadway Babies (1929); Broadway Highlights No. 2 (1935); Coronado (1935); Cross Country Cruise (1934); Employees' Entrance (1933); Fashion News (1930); Flamingo Road (1949); Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1928); Gift of Gab (1934); Girls' Town (1942); Girls Will Be Boys (1929); Harold Teen (1928); Hollywood and the Stars (1963); Hollywood on Parade No. A-12 (1933); Hollywood on Parade No. A-13 (1933); Hollywood on Parade No. B-6 (1934); Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1920s: The Dawn of the Hollywood Musical (2008); Hot Stuff (1929); Jimmy the Gent (1934); King for a Night (1933); King of the Newsboys (1938); Lingerie (1928); Luxury Liner (1933); Mad Hour (1928); Naughty Baby (1928); Picture Snatcher (1933); Playing Around (1930); Secret of the Chateau (1934); Show Girl (1928); Show Girl in Hollywood (1930); Show of Shows (1929); Sweet Mama (1930); Sweet Music (1935); Sweethearts on Parade (1930); Telephone Operator (1937); The American Beauty (1927); The Ann Sothern Show (1958); The Big Noise (1928); The Dice Woman (1926); The Dove (1927); The Girl from Woolworth's (1929); The Hollywood Gad-About (1934); The Naughty Flirt (1930); The Night of January 16th (1941); The Private Life of Helen of Troy (1927); The Satin Woman (1927); The Sea Tiger (1927); The Widow from Chicago (1930).

Born on this day – Ray Heindorf:

Ray Heindorf

Composer

Songwriter

August 25, 1908 – February 3, 1980

Credits:

1776 (1972); 20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932); 42nd Street (1933); -30- (1959); 3 Cheers for the Irish (1940); 77 Sunset Strip (1960–1961); A Kiss in the Dark (1949); A Lost Lady (1934); A Peck o' Trouble (1953); A Star Is Born (1954); A Streetcar Named Desire (1951); About Face (1952); Adam-12 (1971); Adventures of Don Juan (1948); Affectionately Yours (1941); Alibi Ike (1935); Always Leave Them Laughing (1949); An Hour with Danny Kaye (1960); Angels Wash Their Faces (1939); April in Paris (1952); April Showers (1948); Arrested Development (2005–2019); Arrowsmith (1931); Auntie Mame (1958); Back Alley Oproar (1948); Backfire (1950); Battle Cry (1955); Big City Blues (1932); Blowing Wild (1953); Blues in the Night (1941); Boy Meets Girl (1938); Bright Lights (1935); Broadway Gondolier (1935); Broadway Hostess (1935); Brother Orchid (1940); Brother Rat and a Baby (1940); Bugles in the Afternoon (1952); Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back (1934); By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953); Cain and Mabel (1936); Calamity Jane (1953); Captain Blood (1935); Castle on the Hudson (1940); Central Park (1932); Cinderella Jones (1946); City for Conquest (1940); Colleen (1936); Come Fill the Cup (1951); Comet Over Broadway (1938); Corsair (1931); Crawford at Warners (2008); Crooner (1932); Dames (1934); Damn Yankees (1958); Dangerous (1935); Daughters Courageous (1939); Desirable (1934); Each Dawn I Crow (1949); Easter Yeggs (1947); Espionage Agent (1939); Fashions of 1934 (1934); Fighter Squadron (1948); Finian's Rainbow (1968); Flamingo Road (1949); Flight from Destiny (1941); Flirtation Walk (1934); Footlight Parade (1933); Four Daughters (1938); Four Mothers (1941); Four Wives (1939); Garden of the Moon (1938); Gentleman Jim (1942); Gentlemen Are Born (1934); Giant (1956); Girl on the Run (1958); Girls About Town (1931); Go Into Your Dance (1935); Going Places (1938); Gold Diggers in Paris (1938); Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935); Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936); Goodbye, My Fancy (1951); Hallelujah I'm a Bum (1933); Happiness Ahead (1934); Hard to Get (1938); Harry James and the Music Makers (1953); Hell's Kitchen (1939); Hi, Nellie (1934); Highway 301 (1950); His Bitter Half (1950); Hollywood Canteen (1944); Hollywood Hotel (1937); Home Before Dark (1958); Honeymoon for Three (1941); Hot Cross Bunny (1948); House Hunting Mice (1947); I Confess (1953); I Live for Love (1935); I'll See You in My Dreams (1951); In Caliente (1935); Invisible Stripes (1939); Is My Face Red? (1932); It All Came True (1940); It's a Great Feeling (1949); Jan Savitt and His Band (1946); King Richard and the Crusaders (1954); Kings Row (1942); Knute Rockne All American (1940); Ladies of Crime (1972); Ladies of the Jury (1932); Leghorn Swoggled (1951); Let's Sing a Song from the Movies (1948); Lilly Turner (1933); Look for the Silver Lining (1949); Love and Learn (1947); Love, Honor and Behave (1938); Lucky Me (1954); Lullaby of Broadway (1951); Marjorie Morningstar (1958); Marty Supreme (2025); Men Are Such Fools (1938); Miracle in the Rain (1956); Murder in the Clouds (1934); My Dream Is Yours (1949); My Love Came Back (1940); My Wild Irish Rose (1947); Naughty But Nice (1939); Navy Blues (1941); Night and Day (1946); No Time for Comedy (1940); No Time for Sergeants (1958); O'Hara, U.S. Treasury (1971–1972); On Moonlight Bay (1951); On Your Toes (1939); One Sunday Afternoon (1948); One Way Passage (1932); Onionhead (1958); Operation Secret (1952); Painting the Clouds with Sunshine (1951); Palmy Days (1931); Parachute Jumper (1933); Peach O'Reno (1931); Pete Kelly's Blues (1955); Picture Snatcher (1933); Pretty Baby (1950); Race Street (1948); Ready, Willing and Able (1937); Rhapsody in Blue (1945); Roman Scandals (1933); Romance on the High Seas (1948); San Antonio (1945); San Quentin (1937); Scent-imental Over You (1947); Secrets (1933); Serenade (1956); She's Back on Broadway (1953); She's Working Her Way Through College (1952); Shipmates Forever (1935); Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend (1957); Sincerely Yours (1955); So This Is Love (1953); South of St. Louis (1949); South Sea Woman (1953); Stage Struck (1936); Starlift (1951); Stars Over Broadway (1935); State's Attorney (1932); Stop, You're Killing Me (1952); Storm Warning (1950); Strange Lady in Town (1955); Strangers on a Train (1951); Street Scene (1931); Studio One (1952); Sugarfoot (1951–1961); Survival of Spaceship Earth (1972); Sweet Adeline (1934); Sweet Music (1935); Tall Man Riding (1955); Tea for Two (1950); Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943); The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953); The Big Snooze (1946); The Big Trees (1952); The Boy from Oklahoma (1954); The Breaking Point (1950); The Bride Came C.O.D. (1941); The Brothers Warner (2007); The Cabin in the Cotton (1932); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1955); The Command (1954); The Confessional (1995); The Counterfeit Green (1972); The D.I. (1957); The Damned Don't Cry (1950); The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady (1950); The Desert Song (1943); The Eddie Cantor Story (1953); The Frances Langford Show (1960); The General (1929); The Great Lie (1941); The Greeks Had a Word for Them (1932); The Hard Way (1943); The Helen Morgan Story (1957); The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929); The Jazz Singer (1952); The Kennel Murder Case (1933); The Keyhole (1933); The Kid from Spain (1932); The Male Animal (1942); The Man Behind the Gun (1953); The Man I Love (1946); The Man Who Talked Too Much (1940); The Miracle (1959); The Music Man (1962); The Naked and the Dead (1958); The Pajama Game (1957); The Roaring Twenties (1939); The Screen Director (1951); The Sea Chase (1955); The Sea Hawk (1940); The Sea Wolf (1941); The Singing Kid (1936); The Singing Marine (1937); The Snake Pit (1948); The Song Writers' Revue (1929); The Spirit of St. Louis (1957); The Strawberry Blonde (1941); The Time, the Place and the Girl (1946); The Wagons Roll at Night (1941); The West Point Story (1950); The Young Philadelphians (1959); Them! (1954); There Auto Be a Law (1953); This Is the Army (1943); Three on a Match (1932); Three Sailors and a Girl (1953); 'Til We Meet Again (1940); Tomorrow Is Another Day (1951); Trouble Along the Way (1953); Twenty Million Sweethearts (1934); Two Guys from Texas (1948); Under Eighteen (1931); Up in Arms (1944); Up Periscope (1959); Varsity Show (1937); Warner Brothers Presents (1955–1956); Week-End Marriage (1932); Where's Charley? (1952); Whoopee! (1930); Wonder Bar (1934); Wonder Man (1945); Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942); Young at Heart (1954); Young Man with a Horn (1950).

Born on this day – Ruby Keeler:

 

Ruby Keeler

Actress

Dancer

Singer

August 25, 1909 – February 28, 1993

Born on this day – Ted Key:

 

Ted Key

Cartoonist

Writer

August 25, 1912 – May 3, 2008

Born on this day – Leonard Bernstein:

Leonard Bernstein

Conductor

Composer

Pianist

Teacher

Writer

Humanitarian

August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990

Born on this day – Sean Connery:

Sean Connery

Actor

August 25, 1930 – October 31, 2020

Born on this day – Roberto De Simone:

 

Roberto De Simone

Composer

Director

Writer

Actor

August 25, 1933 – April 6, 2025

Credits:

A Night Full of Rain (1978); After the Fox (1966); All Is Fake (2002); Così fan tutte (1996); De Pretore Vincenzo (1976); Des morceaux de ma femme (2000); Die Zauberflöte, Opera tedesca in due atti (1995); Don Giovanni (1999); È una domenica sera di novembre (1981); Eleonora (1999); Fontamara (1980); Gli esami non finiscono mai (1976); Great Performances (1996); I ladri (1959); I ragazzi di padre Tobia (1968–1970); Il Maestro di Cappella (1995); Il segreto di Luca (1969); (In)visibility (2009); La fucilazione di Pulcinella (1973); La ragazzola (1965); L'arte della commedia (1976); Lo frate 'nnamorato (1990); Lungo il fiume e sull'acqua (1973); Nabucco (1987); Omnibus (1977); Quanto è bello lu murire acciso (1975); Respiro (2002); Sempre più difficile (1981); Siamo fatti di memoria (2009); Sicily (1967); Signora Ava (1975); Tammurriata (1994); The Biggest Bundle of Them All (1968); The Devil in Love (1966); The Dolls / Segment: La minestra (1965); The Gold of Naples / Segment: Pizze a credito (1954); The Skin (1981); Una questione d'onore (1966); Unici (2015); Uomo e galantuomo (1975); Viaggio nei luoghi del sacro (1999); Will Our Heroes Be Able to Find Their Friend Who Has Mysteriously Disappeared in Africa? (1968).

Born on this day – Frederick Forsyth:

Frederick Forsyth

Writer

Producer

Actor

August 25, 1938 – June 9, 2025

Credits:

Books:

A Tangled Web (2005); Avenger (2003); Emeka (1991); English Crime Stories of Today (1993); Great Flying Stories (1991); Icon (1996); No Comebacks (1982); Revenge of Odessa (2025); The Afghan (2006); The Art of the Matter (2001); The Biafra Story: The Making of an African Legend (1969); The Citizen (2000); The Cobra (2010); The Day of the Jackal (1971); The Deceiver (1991); The Devil's Alternative (1979); The Dogs of War (1974); The Emperor (1982); The Fist of God (1994); The Fourth Protocol (1984); The Fox (2018); The Kill List (2013); The Miracle (2000); The Negotiator (1989); The Odessa File (1972); The Outsider: My Life in Intrigue (2015); The Phantom of Manhattan (1996); The Shepherd (1975); The Veteran and Other Stories (2020); Used In Evidence (2005); Whispering Wind (2000).

 

Movies and television:

8 al dia (2014); A fondo (1980); A Little Piece of Sunshine (1990); Alexandria (2004); Avenger (2006); Boulevard Bio (1991–2003); Breakfast (2001–2010); Bücherjournal (2015); Code Name: Wolverine (1996); Crime in the City (1987); Cry of the Innocent (1980); DAS! (2000–2015); De película (1987); Dinner with Portillo (2003); Dispatches (2006); Frederick Forsyth Presents (1989–1990); Friday Night, Saturday Morning (1980); Good Morning Australia (2004); Good Morning Britain (2017); Great Welsh Writers (2013); HARDtalk (2003); I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life & Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal (2007); Icon (2005); III nach neun (2007); Im Dialog (2003); ITV Play of the Week (1973); Jesus Christ Airlines (2001); Just Another Secret (1989); Koschwitz (2002); Kulturjournal (2015); Kulturplatz (2006); Lads Army (2005); Larry King Live (2000); Leute (1985); Lo + plus (1996); Love Never Dies (2012); Mark Lawson Talks to... (2006); Markus Lanz (2015–2019); M-show (1972); Never Mind the Full Stops (2007); Outsiders (2024); Página 2 (2011); Pebble Mill at One (1994); Pride and Extreme Prejudice (1989); Question Time (1997–2007); Reading the Decades (2002); Reputations (1997); Sabine Christiansen (1998); Skavlan (2014); Sleuths, Sorcerers & Spies: Andrew Marr's Paperback Heroes (2016); Soldiers (1985); Sunday AM (2016); The Book Programme (1979); The Crime Thriller Club (2013); The Day of the Jackal (1973 / 2024); The Devil's Day (1994); The Dogs of War (1980); The Fourth Protocol (1987); The Merv Griffin Show (1980); The Odessa File (1974); The Shepherd (2022 / 2023); The Sunday Programme (2003); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1971–1972); The Write Stuff (1989); This Week (2005); Titel, Thesen, Temperamente (2015–2019); Trigger Happy TV (2001 / 2002); Tubridy Tonight (2006); Two by Forsyth (1984); Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (2005 / 2014).

Born on this day – Marshall Brickman:

 

Marshall Brickman

Writer

Director

Producer

August 25, 1939 – November 29, 2024

Credits:

50 Films to See Before You Die (2006); A Decade Under the Influence (2003); American Masters (2011); Ann in Blue (1974); Annie Hall (1977); Candid Camera (1960); Conversations for our Daughters (2021); Film Genre (2002); For the Boys (1991); Funny (1988); Hootenanny (1963); Intersection (1994); Jersey Boys (2014); Jersey Boys Live! (2022); Julie: My Favorite Things (1975); Late Night with David Letterman (1983); Lovesick (1983); Manhattan (1979); Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993); Off Campus (1977); Out to Sea (1997); Rock Family Trees (1998); Simon (1980); Sister Mary Explains It All (2001); Sleeper (1973); Sounds from a Town I Love (2001); Super Size Me (2004); That's Adequate (1989); The 24th Annual Guild Hall Academy of the Arts Lifetime Achievement Awards (2009); The 47th Annual Writers Guild Awards (1995); The 50th Annual Academy Awards (1978); The 60th Annual Tony Awards (2006); The Carson Podcast (2014–2018); The Cemetery Club (1993); The Dick Cavett Show (1971–1978); The Johnny Carson Special (1969); The Kraft Music Hall (1967); The Manhattan Project (1986); The Merv Griffin Show (1965); The Muppet Show: Sex and Violence (1975); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1963–1970); We Interrupt This Week (1978).

Born on this day – Martin Amis:

Martin Amis

Writer

August 25, 1949 – May 19, 2023

Born on this day – Tom E. Lewis:

 

Tom E. Lewis

Actor

Musician

Artistic director

August 25, 1958 – May 10, 2018

Credits:

Albums:

Beneath the Sun (2013); Sunshine After Rain (2005).

Stage:

Bullie's House; Dead Heart; Doing the Block; Lift 'Em Up Socks; Muyngarnbi: Songs from Walking with Spirits; Othello; Our Country's Good; Shakespeare and the Songmen of Arnhem Land; Signs of Life; The Head of Mary; The Old Familiar Juice; The Recruiting Officer; The Shadow King; Thumbul; Up the Ladder.

Movies and television:

A Town Like Alice (1981); And Though the Music Ended, We Danced on Through the Night (2017); Australian Story (1996); Australia's Great Wild North (2018); Bad Habits (2005); Carols in the Domain (1997); Carson's Law (1983); Celluloid Gypsies: Making 'The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith' (2018); Century of Cinema (1996); Cleverman (2016); Correlli (1995); Crocodile Dreaming (2007); Double Trouble (2008); Finding Mawiranga (2017); Glenview High (1977); Goldstone (2016); Gulpilil: Man of Two Worlds (1979); Kangaroo Palace (1997); Li'l Elvis Jones and the Truckstoppers (1997–1998); On Location with 'Robbery Under Arms' (1985); One River, All Rivers (2008); R.F.D.S. (1993); Ratbag Hero (1991); Red Hill (2010); Red Hill: 24 Days of Adrenaline (2011); Red Hill: Deleted Scenes (2011); Red Hill: Interviews with the Cast and Crew (2010); Red Hill: Storyboard Comparisons (2011); Robbery Under Arms (1985); Rose Against the Odds (1991); September (2007); Silent Reach (1983); Slate, Wyn & Me (1987); Spear (2007); The Celluloid Heroes (1995); The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978); The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith: Making Us Blacksmiths (2018); The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith: Melbourne Premiere from 'Willesee at Seven', June 1978 (1978); The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith: The Chant of Tom Lewis (2018); The Circuit (2010); The City's Edge (1983); The Curse (2007); The Don Lane Show (1982); The Flying Doctors (1988–1991); The Life of Harry Dare (1995); The Micallef Program (1998); The Mike Walsh Show (1978); The Naked Country (1985); The Nun and the Bandit (1992); The Postman's Privilege (2007); The Proposition (2005); The Skin of Others (2020); They Live in Forests, They Are Extremely Shy (2016); Touch the Sun: Top Enders (1988); Yellow Fella (2005); Wrong Kind of Black (2018); Vacant Possession (1995); Wolf Creek (2017); We of the Never Never (1982); Warrk Warrk (2007); Waiting for Rain (2016).

Born on this day – Halima Gadji:

Halima Gadji

Actress

Model

August 25, 1989 – January 25, 2026

Credits:

Bété Bété (2024); Cas Communautaire (2020); Je m'en souviens (2019); La profanation (2017); Le futur est à nous (2022); Maîtresse d'un homme marié (2019); Nanas (2025); Renaissance (2019–2020); Sakho & Mangane (2019); Xalé Bu Rérr (2017).

On this day in movie history - The Dragon Murder Case (1934)

The Dragon Murder Case

directed by H. Bruce Humberstone,

written by F. Hugh Herbert, Robert N. Lee and Rian James,

and based on the novel by S. S. Van Dine,

was released in the United States on August 25, 1934.

Music by Bernhard Kaun.

Cast:

Warren William, Margaret Lindsay, Lyle Talbot, Eugene Pallette, Helen Lowell, Robert McWade, Robert Barrat, Dorothy Tree, George E. Stone, Etienne Girardot, George Meeker, Robert Warwick, William B. Davidson, Arthur Aylesworth, Charles C. Wilson.

On this day in movie history - Madame Bovary (1949)

Madame Bovary

directed by Vincente Minnelli and written by Robert Ardrey,

based on the novel by Gustave Flaubert,

was released in the United States on August 25, 1949.

Music by Miklós Rózsa.

Cast:

Jennifer Jones, James Mason, Van Heflin, Louis Jourdan, Alf Kjellin, Gene Lockhart, Frank Allenby, Gladys Cooper, John Abbott, Harry Morgan, George Zucco, Ellen Corby, Eduard Franz, Henri Letondal, Esther Somers, Frederic Tozere, Paul Cavanagh, Vernon Steele, Dawn Kinney.

On this day in movie history - Smog (1962)

 

Smog

directed by Franco Rossi,

written by Franco Brusati, Pasquale Festa Campanile, Massimo Franciosa and Ugo Guerra,

based on a story by Pier Maria Pasinetti, Franco Rossi and Gian Domenico Giagni,

was released at the Venice Film Festival in Italy, on August 25, 1962.

Music by Piero Umiliani.

Cast:

Enrico Maria Salerno, Annie Girardot, Renato Salvatori, Susan Spafford, Isabella Albonico, Joan Houseman, Len Lesser, Howard Koch, Fred Catania, Max Showalter, Peter Opp, Graziella Granata, Loredana Nusciak, M. Brigham, Billie Scheibner, R.E. Brigham, Helen Pallack, Bernard Judge, Dennis Diggin, Peggy Moffitt, Suzanne Reynolds, Jerry Ray, John Phillip Law.