Wednesday, August 27, 2025
Mary Roberts Rinehart, on writing:
Recommended reading: Eaters of the Dead, by Michael Crichton (1976):
Eaters of the Dead
Eaters of the Dead: The Manuscript of Ibn Fadlan Relating His Experiences with the Northmen in AD 922
by Michael Crichton.Published by Harper.
First published 1976.
ISBN 10: 0061782637
ASIN: 0061782637
Recommended reading - Ham on Rye (1982)
Ham on Rye
by Charles Bukowski
Published by Ecco.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 006117758X
ISBN-13: 978-0061177583
Description:
In what is widely hailed as the best of his many novels, Charles Bukowski details the long, lonely years of his own hardscrabble youth in the raw voice of alter ego Henry Chinaski. From a harrowingly cheerless childhood in Germany through acne-riddled high school years and his adolescent discoveries of alcohol, women, and the Los Angeles Public Library's collection of D.H. Lawrence, Ham on Rye offers a crude, brutal, and savagely funny portrait of an outcast's coming-of-age during the desperate days of the Great Depression.
Born on this day – Theodore Dreiser:
Theodore Dreiser
Born on this day – Helen Gibson:
Helen Gibson
Born on this day – Ira Levin:
Ira Levin
Credits:
Books:
Rosemary's Baby (1967); Son of Rosemary (1997); A Kiss Before Dying (1953); This Perfect Day (1970); The Stepford Wives (1972); The Boys from Brazil (1976); Sliver (1991); Interlock (1956); No Time For Sergeants (1956); Critic's Choice (1962); Dr. Cook's Garden (1968); Veronica's Room (1974); Deathtrap (1978); Break a Leg (1981); Cantorial (1990).
Movies and television:
A Kiss Before Dying (1956 / 1991 / 2024); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1958); Apartment 7A (2024); Ashen Lit Box Set (2018); Barbra: The Concert (1994); Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965); Critic's Choice (1963); Cybill (1995); Deathtrap (1982); Dr. Cook's Garden (1971); Footsteps (2003); General Electric Theater (1961); Great Performances (2001); Guiding Light (1982); In Melbourne Tonight (1969); It's a Living (1988); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1954–1955); La semilla del diablo (2020); Lights Out (1951); Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby (1976); Martinez, Margaritas and Murder! (2024); Matinee Theatre (1956); Midnight Caller (1990); No Time for Sergeants (1958–1965); Revenge of the Stepford Wives (1980); Rosemary's Baby (1968 / 2005 / 2014 / 2017); Saturday Night Live (1993); Sliver (1993 / 2014); Sliver: Alternate Ending (1993); Sliver: Alternate Opening (1993); Son of Rosemary: The Sequel to Rosemary's Baby (2014); The 32nd Annual Tony Awards (1978); The Boys from Brazil (1978 / 2014); The Caves of Steel / Story Parade (1964); The Clock (1950); The Dick Cavett Show (1980); The Graham Kennedy Show (1972); The Stepford Children (1987); The Stepford Wives (1975 / 2004 / 2024); Tu das nicht, Angelika (1965); Women of the House (1995); Working in the Theatre (1982).
Born on this day – Marilyn Lovell:
Born on this day – Janet MacLachlan:
August 27, 1933 – October 11, 2010
Born on this day – Anne Whitfield:
Born on this day – Barbara Trentham:
On this day in movie history - Dead End (1937)
On this day in movie history - Dead Ringer (1982)
Dead Ringer
On this day in movie history - L.A. Takedown (1989)
L.A. Takedown
directed and written by Michael Mann,
was released in the United States on August 27, 1989.
Music by Tim Truman.
On this day in movie history - The 13th Warrior (1999)
The 13th Warrior
On this day in movie history - Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu,
written
by Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr. and
Armando Bó,
was released at the Venice Film Festival in Italy
on August 27, 2014.
Music by Antonio Sánchez.
What a ride!
And having walked through Times Square several times, I'll never walk through it the same again after seeing this movie. Watch it...you'll know what I mean.
On this day in music history - The album Bel Canto, by Renée Fleming and Patrick Summers (2002)
Bel Canto
Track list:
Bellini / La sonnambula: “Ah!..se una volta sola”; Bellini / La sonnambula: “Ah!..non credea mirarti”; Bellini / La sonnambula: “Ah! non giunge uman pensiero”; Donizetti / Maria Padilla: “Abbracciami”; Donizetti / Maria Padilla: “Il piu tenero suon d’arpa morende”; Donizetti / Maria Padilla: “Ah! non sai qual prestigio si cela”; Rossini / Semiramide: Introduzione; Rossini / Semiramide: “Bel raggio lusinghier”; Rossini / Semiramide: “Dolce pensiero di quell’istante”; Bellini / Il pirata: Introduzione; Bellini / Il pirata: “Ah! s’io potessi dissipar le nubi”; Bellini / Il pirata: “Col sorriso d’innocenza”; Bellini / Il pirata: “Oh sole! ti vela di tenebre oscure”; Rossini / Armida: “D’Amor al dolce impero”; Rossini / Armida: “Gli augei tra fronde e fronde”; Rossini / Armida: “La fresca eta sen fugge”; Rossini / Armida: “Ah! si, godete amanti”; Donizetti / Lucrezia Borgia:”M’odi, ah m’odi, io non t’imploro”; Donizetti / Lucrezia Borgia: “Figlio!...Figlio!...Ola, qualcuno!”; Donizetti / Lucrezia Borgia: “Era desso il figlio mio”.
On this day in music history - Saturate, by Breaking Benjamin (2002)
Saturate
Track list:
I Wish I May; Medicate; Polyamorous; Skin;
Natural Life; Next to Nothing; Water; Home; Phase; No Games; Sugarcoat; Shallow
Bay.


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