When I sit down to write, I don't think about
writing about an idea or a given message.
I just try to write a story which is hard enough.
- Jhumpa Lahiri.
I just try to write a story which is hard enough.
- Jhumpa Lahiri.
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Monday, August 3, 2026
On this day in movie history - If I Didn’t Care (2007)
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If I Didn’t Care
a.k.a. Blue Blood,
directed and written by Benjamin Cummings and Orson Cummings,
was released in the United States on August 3, 2007.
Music by Michael Tremante.
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Cast:
Bill Sage, Susan Misner, Roy Scheider, Noelle Beck, Ronald Guttman, Brian McQuillan, Phyllis Somerville, Nico Yektai, Darius Yekati, Alex Kilgore, Mirelly Taylor, Constance Barron, Jack Marks, Sam Riley, Holly Barron, Patrick Collins, Eddie Kassam, Michelle Kelly, Billie Jean Fellingham, Jordyn Meyers, Orson Cummings, Ben Cummings, Mellanie Hubert, Piras Sebastian, Casey Van Maanen.
Recommended reading - The Origins of the American Detective Story (2006)
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The Origins of the American Detective Story
by LeRoy Lad Panek.
Paperback.
ISBN-13: 978-0786427765
Edgar Allan Poe essentially invented the
detective story in 1841 with Murders in the Rue Morgue. In the years that
followed, however, detective fiction in America saw no significant progress as
a literary genre. Much to the dismay of moral crusaders like Anthony Comstock,
dime novels and other sensationalist publications satisfied the public's hunger
for a yarn. Things changed as the century waned, and eventually the detective
was reborn as a figure of American literature. In part these changes were due
to a combination of social conditions, including the rise and decline of the
police as an institution; the parallel development of private detectives; the
birth of the crusading newspaper reporter; and the beginnings of forensic
science. Influential, too, was the new role model offered by a wildly popular
British import named Sherlock Holmes.
Focusing on the late 19th century and early
20th, this volume covers the formative years of American detective fiction.
Born on this day – Allen Holubar:
Allen Holubar
Actor
Director
Writer
August 3, 1890 – November 20, 1923
Credits:
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Leagues Under the Sea (1916); A Double Fire Deception (1916); A Gentleman of
Art (1915); A Soul for Sale (1918); A Wolf Among Lambs (1913); Any Youth
(1916); Ashes of Remembrance (1916); Behind Life's Stage (1916); Behind the
Curtain (1916); Broken Chains (1922); Conscience (1915); Courtmartialed (1915);
Fear Not (1917); Heart Strings (1917); Hurricane's Gal (1922); Into the North
(1913); Man-Woman-Marriage (1921); Midnight (1917); Once to Every Woman (1920);
Paid in Advance (1919); Seeing Stars (1922); Sirens of the Sea (1917); Slander
the Woman (1923); Stronger Than Steel (1916); The Black Pearl (1915); The
Bombay Buddha (1915); The Double-Topped Trunk (1917); The Eleventh Dimension
(1915); The Field of Honor (1917); The Grip of Love (1917); The Health Road
(1916); The Heart of Humanity (1918); The Heart Punch (1915); The House of Fear
(1915); The Human Mill (1923); The Mortgaged Wife (1918); The Old Toymaker
(1917); The Phone Message (1916); The Prodigal Daughter (1916); The Prophecy
(1913); The Pursuit Eternal (1915); The Reed Case (1917); The Right to
Happiness (1919); The Shadow (1916); The Son of His Father (1915); The Story
the Clock Told (1914); The Taint of Fear (1916); The Talk of the Town (1918);
The War Waif (1917); The White Terror (1915); The Wrong Label (1915); Treason
(1917); Two Social Calls (1913); Where Glory Waits (1917).
Born on this day – Adrienne Ames:
Adrienne Ames
Actress
August 3, 1907 – May 31, 1947
Credits:
24 Hours (1931); A Bedtime Story (1933); Abdul the Damned (1935); Beautiful Dreamer (1935); Black Sheep (1935); Broadway Bad (1933); City Girl (1938); Disgraced (1933); From Hell to Heaven (1933); Fugitives for a Night (1938); George White's Scandals (1934); Gigolette (1935); Girls About Town (1931); Guilty as Hell (1932); Harmony Lane (1935); Hollywood on Parade No. B-5 (1933); Hotel Imperial (1927); Husband's Holiday (1931); I Take This Woman (1940); La Fiesta de Santa Barbara (1935); Ladies Love Danger (1935); Panama Patrol (1939); Sally (1929); Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 5: Art and Artists (1940); Sinners in the Sun (1932); Slander House (1938); The Avenger (1933); The Death Kiss (1932); The Road to Reno (1931); The Zero Hour (1939); Two Kinds of Women (1932); Woman Wanted (1935); Working Girls (1931); You're Telling Me! (1934).
Born on this day – Frances Morris:
Frances Morris
Actress
August 3, 1908 – December 2, 2003
Credits:
A Child Is
Born (1939); A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949); A Dangerous
Profession (1949); A Man Betrayed (1941); A Tragedy at Midnight (1942); Abie's
Irish Rose (1946); Adventures of Superman (1952); Adventures of Wild Bill
Hickok (1951); Afraid to Talk (1932); Again... Pioneers (1950); Against the Law
(1934); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1962); Alias Mary Dow (1935); Alias Nick
Beal (1949); Always Tomorrow: The Portrait of an American Business (1941); As
Good as Married (1937); Because of You (1952); Benjy (1951); Bermuda Mystery
(1944); Between Midnight and Dawn (1950); Big Brown Eyes (1936); Big Town
(1955); Blaze of Noon (1947); Blue Skies (1946); Bobby Ware Is Missing (1955);
Bonnie Scotland (1935); Bullets or Ballots (1936); Caged (1950); Cain's Hundred
(1962); California (1947); Carrie (1952); Casanova Brown (1944); Case of the
Missing Man (1935); Caught (1949); Caught in the Draft (1941); Cavalcade of
America (1954); Centennial Summer (1946); Charlie McCarthy, Detective (1939);
Cheyenne (1957–1959); Cocoanut Grove (1938); Conflict (1945); Cover Girl
(1944); Crime Against Joe (1956); Crime of the Century (1946); Dance Charlie
Dance (1937); Dangerous Intrigue (1936); Devil's Squadron (1936); Dick Tracy
vs. Crime, Inc. (1941); Dixie Dugan (1943); Doctors Don't Tell (1941); Duffy's
Tavern (1945); Earl Carroll Sketchbook (1946); Easy Living (1937); Edge of Doom
(1950); Exclusive (1937); Fireside Theatre (1953); Flaxy Martin (1949); Florian
(1940); Footlights Theater (1953); Four Jills in a Jeep (1944); From This Day
Forward (1946); Fury at Showdown (1957); 'G' Men (1935); Give Us This Night
(1936); Go Into Your Dance (1935); Gun for a Coward (1956); Guns for Hire
(1932); Hangmen Also Die! (1943); Having Wonderful Crime (1945); Hazard (1948);
Here Come the Waves (1944); Here's to Romance (1935); Hit Parade of 1941
(1940); Holiday Affair (1949); Hollywood Boulevard (1936); Hollywood Hotel
(1937); Hollywood Mystery (1934); I Stole a Million (1939); I Want a Divorce
(1940); Ichabod and Me (1962); I'll Sell My Life (1941); In Old Kentucky
(1935); Internes Can't Take Money (1937); It's a Great Life (1935); It's the
Cats (1934); I've Been Around (1935); Joan of Arc (1948); Joe Smith, American
(1942); Just My Luck (1935); Keep Your Powder Dry (1945); King of the Newsboys
(1938); Kraft Suspense Theatre (1963); Ladies of the Big House (1931); Lady
Bodyguard (1943); Lassie (1954–1958); Lawless Riders (1935); Life Begins for
Andy Hardy (1941); Life with Henry (1940); Little Miss Roughneck (1938); Living
in a Big Way (1947); Lumberjack (1944); M Squad (1960); Man Without a Gun
(1958–1959); Manhattan Heartbeat (1940); Manhattan Love Song (1934); Maverick
(1958); Miss Annie Rooney (1942); Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen (1934); Miss Sadie
Thompson (1953); Missing Witnesses (1937); Money to Loan (1939); Monkey on My
Back (1957); More Than a Secretary (1936); Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936); Mrs.
Mike (1949); Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1942); My Girl Tisa (1948); My
Heart Belongs to Daddy (1942); My Son John (1952); Neighborhood House (1936);
Nevada Cyclone (1934); Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941); Never Wave at
a WAC (1953); New York Town (1941); Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948); No
Greater Sin (1941); On an Island with You (1948); On the Wrong Trek (1936); One
More Tomorrow (1946); Onionhead (1958); Our Leading Citizen (1939); Our
Neighbors - The Carters (1939); Over My Dead Body (1942); Palm Springs (1936);
Pals of the Range (1935); Paula (1952); Perry Mason (1960–1964); Pick-Up
(1944); Pilgrimage (1933); Pittsburgh (1942); Playhouse 90 (1956); Portrait of
a Mobster (1961); Private Affairs (1940); Professor Beware (1938); Rawhide (1960);
Redheads on Parade (1935); Rhythm on the Range (1936); Richard Diamond, Private
Detective (1959); Rose Bowl (1936); Safety in Numbers (1938); Sailor's Lady
(1940); Samson and Delilah (1949); Sandy Gets Her Man (1940); Schlitz Playhouse
(1958); Sealed Verdict (1948); Sergeant Madden (1939); She Loves Me Not (1934);
She Married an Artist (1937); Shoot the Works (1934); Shoot-Out at Medicine
Bend (1957); Show Business (1944); Silver Queen (1942); Sing and Like It
(1934); Sky Raiders (1941); Slightly Dangerous (1943); Smash-Up: The Story of a
Woman (1947); So Proudly We Hail! (1943); Stand Up and Cheer! (1934); Stand-In
(1937); Star Dust (1940); Stella Dallas (1937); Strangers in the Night (1944);
Strictly in the Groove (1942); Suddenly It's Spring (1947); Summer Storm
(1944); Swing High, Swing Low (1937); That Brennan Girl (1946); The Alfred
Hitchcock Hour (1964); The Big Clock (1948); The Big Show (1936); The Boss
Cowboy (1934); The Bridge of Sighs (1936); The Captive City (1952); The Case of
the Dangerous Robin (1960); The Cat's-Paw (1934); The Chase (1946); The Company
She Keeps (1951); The Deputy (1960); The Doctor Takes a Wife (1940); The
Feminine Touch (1941); The Ford Television Theatre (1952–1953); The Forgotten
Woman (1939); The Ghost Goes Wild (1947); The Golden Fleecing (1940); The Hard
Way (1943); The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Applegate Treasure (1956); The
House Across the Bay (1940); The Joseph Cotten Show: On Trial (1959); The Kid
from Brooklyn (1946); The Killer That Stalked New York (1950); The Lady Is
Willing (1942); The Last Warning (1938); The Leather Pushers (1940); The Lineup
(1957); The Lost Missile (1958); The Man Behind the Badge (1955); The Millerson
Case (1947); The Millionaire (1957–1959); The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima
(1952); The Naked Hills (1956); The Night of the Hunter (1955); The Parson of
Panamint (1941); The Perils of Pauline (1947); The Preview Murder Mystery
(1936); The Price of Fear (1956); The Rawhide Terror (1934); The Razor's Edge
(1946); The Restless Gun (1958); The Ridin' Fool (1931); The Secret Life of
Walter Mitty (1947); The Silver Streak (1934); The Singing Marine (1937); The
Sisters (1938); The Snake Pit (1948); The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944); The
Unfaithful (1947); The Virginian (1946 / 1963–1964); The Walls of Jericho
(1948); The Woman in the Window (1944); The Woman of the Town (1943); They
Wanted to Marry (1937); This Gun for Hire (1942); This Side of the Law (1950);
Thriller (1962); Thunder (1929); Till We Meet Again (1936); Trailing North
(1933); Turnabout (1940); Two Heads on a Pillow (1934); Valiant Is the Word for
Carrie (1936); Venus Makes Trouble (1937); Wagon Train (1957–1964); We Go Fast
(1941); Wedding Present (1936); Week-End at the Waldorf (1945); Whispering
Smith (1961); Wild Harvest (1947); Wild Is the Wind (1957); Winterset (1936);
Woman in Distress (1937); Women's Prison (1955); World Premiere (1941); Young
Tom Edison (1940).
Born on this day – Louise Platt:
Louise Platt
Actress
August 3, 1915 – September 6, 2003
Credits:
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1957–1958); Captain Caution (1940); Forgotten Girls (1940); Going Hollywood: The '30s (1984); Goodyear Playhouse (1956); Guiding Light (1958-1959); I Am Not Your Negro (2016); I Met My Love Again (1938); John Wayne: Behind the Scenes (2007); Kraft Theatre (1956); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1957); Lamp Unto My Feet (1959); Look Up and Live (1959); Naked City (1963); New York Confidential (1959); Playwrights '56 (1955); Spawn of the North (1938); Stagecoach (1939); Star Tonight (1956); Street of Chance (1942); Tell No Tales (1939).
Born on this day – P. D. James:
P. D. James
Writer
August
3, 1920 – November 27, 2014
Credits:
Books:
Movies and television:
60 Minutes / Segment: Murder She Writes (1992); A Better Read (1980); A Certain Justice (1998); A Mind to Murder (1995); A Ripe Old Age (2002); A Taste for Death (1988); A Very British Murder with Lucy Worsley (2013); An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1982–1999); Ànima (2009); Apostrophes (1989–1990); Bestseller (2001); Book Four (1982); Bookmark (1988–1992); Breakfast (2005); Call My Bluff (1998); CBS News Nightwatch (1990); Children of Men (2006); Close-Up (1995); Cover Her Face (1985); Crime Writers (1978); Dalgliesh (2021–2023); Daphne Du Maurier - A Loving Spirit (1997); Death Comes to Pemberley (2013); Death in Holy Orders (2003); Death of an Expert Witness (1983); Desert Island Discs: Archive 1981-1985 (1985); Devices and Desires (1991); Did You See..? (1980–1987); Dinner with Portillo (2005); Elementary My Dear Viewer (2007); Forty Years at the I.C.A. (1987); Good Afternoon! (1983); ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards (2008); Late Night with David Letterman (1990); Late Review (2003–2007); Les Carnets de route de François Busnel (2014); Los Siete Locos (1987); Mark Lawson Talks to... (2006); My Life in Books (2011); Omnibus (1994); Original Sin (1997); P.D. James by Michael Taylor (2002); Pebble Mill at One (1983); Presumption: The Life of Jane Austen (1995); Pride & Prejudice: From Page to Screen (1995); Prisoners of Conscience (1991); Prisoners of Gravity (1993–1994); Profiling (2008); Question Time (1994–2004); Rankin on the Staircase (2005); Read All About It (1979); Reader, I Married Him (2006); Ruby (1998); Samtaler i natten (1995); Shroud for a Nightingale (1984); Speaking Volumes (1990–1991); Stevensons Travels Part 1 (1994); Sunday AM (2006); Sunday Best (2001–2007); Talking Books (2010); The Big Questions (2009); The Black Tower (1985); The Book Programme (1975 / 1976); The Book Show (2008–2011); The Fens (1991); The Heaven and Earth Show (2005); The Media Show (1990); The Murder Room (2005); The South Bank Show (2004–2010); The Violent Highway (2009); The Write Stuff (1988); This Week (2005); Timeshift (2014); Travels with Pevsner (1998); Unnatural Causes (1993); Upon Reflection (1990); Wogan (1987); Writers and Places (1983); Writing with PD James (1998).
Born on this day – Frank De Felitta:
Frank De Felitta
Author
Director
Producer
Pilot
August 3, 1921 – March 29, 2016
Credits:
Books:
A Swift Death To Critics (2000); Audrey Rose (1975); For Love of Audrey Rose (1982); Funeral March / aka Funeral March of the Marionettes (1990); Golgotha Falls (1984); Oktoberfest (1973); Sea Trial (1980); The Entity (1978)
Movies and television:
Adventure (1954); Anzio (1968); Armstrong Circle Theatre (1951–1954); Assignment: Underwater (1960–1961); Audrey Rose (1977); Booker's Place: A Mississippi Story (2012); Bubba Didn't Do It!: 30 Years of Dark Night of the Scarecrow (2011); Cafe Society (1995); California's Most Haunted (2003); Campbell Summer Soundstage (1953–1954); Danger (1954–1955); Dark Night of the Scarecrow (1981); Dark Night of the Scarecrow 2 (2022); Dateline NBC / Segment: Finding Booker's Place (2012); Doberman Patrol (1973); El retorno de Ana Rosa (1982); Hollywood Ghost Stories (1986); Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre (1955); Killer in the Mirror (1986); Le Lab Secret (2016); Matinee Theatre (1957); Medallion Theatre (1953); Rich and Famous (1981); Scissors (1991); Sightings: Ghosts (1992); Suspense (1954); Tales of Tomorrow (1952–1953); The DuPont Show of the Week (1962); The Entity (1982); The Mike Douglas Show (1976); The Penthouse (1989); The Plymouth Playhouse (1953); The Savage Is Loose (1974); The Stately Ghosts of England (1965); The Two Worlds of Jennie Logan (1979); Two Family House (2000); Windows (1955); Witchcraft (1961); Your Jeweler's Showcase (1953); Z.P.G. (1972).
Born on this day – Marilyn Maxwell:
Marilyn Maxwell
Actress
August 3, 1921 – March 20, 1972
Credits:
3 Men in
White (1944); 77 Sunset Strip (1960–1961); A Star Is Born World Premiere
(1954); Abbott and Costello in the Movies (1990); Adventures in Paradise
(1960–1961); ... A Father... A Son... Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2005);
American Masters (2017); Anatomy of a Crime (1969); Arizona Bushwhackers
(1968); Between Two Women (1945); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
(1964); Bob Hope: Hollywood's Brightest Star (1996); Bob Hope's World of Comedy
(1976); Branded (1965); Brooklyn Goes to Las Vegas (1956); Bud Boetticher: A
Documentary (2020); Burke's Law (1963–1965); Bus Stop (1961–1962); Cavalcade of
Stars (1949); Celebrity Bowling (1972); Champion (1949); Critic's Choice
(1963); Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case (1943); Du Barry Was a Lady (1943); East of
Sumatra (1953); Forever, Darling (1956); Frankie Laine: An American Dreamer
(2006); From Nashville with Music (1969); Front Row Center (1949); General
Electric Theater (1953); Goodbye Mama (1942); Gunsmoke (1960); Havin' a Time in
Havana (1942); Here's Hollywood (1961); Here's Lucy (1970); High Barbaree
(1947); Hollywood Exclusive (1954); I've Got a Secret (1952–1962); Key to the
City (1950); Lost in a Harem (1944); Matinee Theatre (1957); Max Liebman
Spectaculars (1954); Men at Law (1971); New Mexico (1951); New York
Confidential (1955); Off Limits (1952); O'Hara, U.S. Treasury (1971); Outside
the Wall (1950); Paris Model (1953); Password (1963); Pilot #5 (1943);
Playhouse 90 (1957); Presenting Lily Mars (1943); Race Street (1948);
Rock-a-Bye Baby (1958); Salute to the Marines (1943); Screen Snapshots:
Hollywood Goes to Bat (1950); Shower of Stars (1955); Stage to Thunder Rock
(1964); Stand by for Action (1942); Star of the Family (1952); Stump the Stars
(1950–1963); Summer Holiday (1948); Swing Fever (1943); Talent Scouts (1963);
The 25th Annual Academy Awards (1953); The Alan Young Show (1950); The Arthur
Murray Party (1957–1960); The Bob Hope Show (1950–1966); The Celebrity Game
(1964); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1950–1954); The Danny Thomas Show (1964); The
Dick Cavett Show (1971); The Ford Television Theatre (1955); The Frank Sinatra
Show (1951); The Garry Moore Show (1958); The George Gobel Show (1954–1957);
The Jimmy Durante Show (1955–1956); The Ken Murray Show (1951); The Lemon Drop
Kid (1951); The Lively Set (1964); The Mike Douglas Show (1965); The Name's the
Same (1953); The Outsider (1968); The Phynx (1970); The Red Skelton Hour
(1956–1963); The Show-Off (1946); The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show (1957); The
Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1966); Thousands Cheer (1943); Tune Time
(1942); Twenty Years After (1944); Wagon Train (1964); What's My Line? (1953);
What's My Line? At 25 (1975); What's This Song? (1965); Wild Women (1970); You
Don't Say (1964); Your Show of Shows (1952–1954).
Born on this day – Jean Hagen:
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Jean Hagen
Actress
August
3, 1923 – August 29, 1977
Credits:
A Life of Her
Own (1950); Adam's Rib (1949); Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn (1977); Alfred
Hitchcock Presents (1957); Ambush (1950); American Masters (2002); Arena
(1953); Babylon (2022); Becoming Marilyn (2022); Ben Casey (1962); Carbine
Williams (1952); Chris Olsen - The Boy Who Cried (2016); Climax! (1956); Dead
Ringer (1963); Dr. Kildare (1963); General Electric Theater (1961); Good
Heavens (1976); Half a Hero (1953); Latin Lovers (1953); Night Into Morning
(1951); No Questions Asked (1951); Panic in Year Zero! (1962); Shadow in the
Sky (1952); Shower of Stars (1954); Side Street (1949); Singin' in the Rain
(1952); Spring Reunion (1956); Stagecoach West (1961); Starsky and Hutch
(1976); Sunrise at Campobello (1960); Talking Pictures (1988); The 8th Annual
Primetime Emmy Awards (1956); The Andy Griffith Show (1961); The Asphalt Jungle
(1950); The Big Knife (1955); The Danny Thomas Show (1953–1956); The Detectives
(1959); The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1960); The Ford Television Theatre
(1956); The Jim Backus Show (1961); The Jimmy Durante Show (1954); The Law and
Mr. Jones (1962); The Magical World of Disney (1978); The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Story (1951); The Shaggy Dog (1959); The Streets of San Francisco (1976); Wagon
Train (1960–1963); Welcome to the Basement (2016); Westinghouse Desilu
Playhouse (1959); What a Glorious Feeling: The Making of 'Singin' in the Rain'
(2002); Zane Grey Theatre (1961).
Born on this day – Elliot Silverstein:
Elliot Silverstein
Director
Writer
Producer
Actor
August 3, 1927 –
November 24, 2023
50 Years of
Action! (1986); A Man Called Horse (1970); Alcoa Theatre (1959–1960); Arrest
and Trial (1964); Assignment: Underwater (1960); Belle Sommers (1962); Betrayed
by Innocence (1986); Biography (1996–2004); Black Saddle (1960); Breaking Point
(1963–1964); Cain's Hundred (1962); Cat Ballou (1965); Channing (1963–1964);
Checkmate (1961); Dr. Kildare (1961–1963); E! True Hollywood Story (2000);
Fight for Life (1987); Filmmakers vs. Tycoons (2005); Flashfire (1994);
Goodyear Theatre (1959); Have Gun - Will Travel (1961); Kraft Suspense Theatre
(1963–1964); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1956–1957); L'ouest,
le vrai (2019); Naked City (1961–1962); Night of Courage (1987); Nightmare
Honeymoon (1974); Omnibus (1955–1956); Picket Fences (1993); Rich Men, Single
Women (1990); Route 66 (1960–1961); Suspicion (1958); Tales from the Crypt
(1991–1994); Talk to Taka (2000); TCM Remembers 2023 (2023); The Car (1977);
The Defenders (1962–1964); The Dick Powell Theatre (1962); The Doctors and the
Nurses (1962–1964); The Eleventh Hour (1963); The Firm (1983); The Further
Adventures of Ellery Queen (1959); The Happening (1967); The Legend of 'Cat
Ballou' (2000); The Twilight Zone (1961–1964); The Westerner (1960).
Born on this day – Richard Foronjy:
Richard Foronjy
Actor
Writer
August 3, 1937 – May 19, 2024
Credits:
Book:
From the Mob to the Movies
(2020).
Movies and television:
Prince of the City: The Real
Story (2007); Hot Parts (2003); Boss of Bosses (2001); 18 Wheels of Justice
(2001); Love Boat: The Next Wave (1999); Evasive Action (1998); Hoods (1998);
Recoil (1998); Michael Hayes (1998); Dumb Luck in Vegas (1997); The Big Easy
(1997); Under Suspicion (1994–1995); Man of the House (1995); Carlito's Way
(1993); Da Vinci's War (1993); The Public Eye (1992); Fatal Instinct (1992);
Oscar (1991); Get a Life (1991); Capital News (1990); Curiosity Kills (1990);
Equal Justice (1990); Amen (1987–1990); Ghostbusters II (1989); Murphy's Law
(1989); Midnight Run (1988); The Galucci Brothers (1987); Who's the Boss?
(1987); The Morning After (1986); The Check Is in the Mail... (1986); Odd Jobs
(1986); Hunter (1985); Streets of Justice (1985); Misfits of Science (1985);
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985); Silver Spoons (1982); The Jeffersons (1985);
City Heat (1984); Cagney & Lacey (1984); Once Upon a Time in America
(1984); His & Hers (1984); Young Lust (1984); Repo Man (1984); Shannon
(1982); Hill Street Blues (1982); The Gangster Chronicles (1981); Gangster Wars
(1981); True Confessions (1981); Prince of the City (1981); The Two of Us
(1981); Flying High (1979); The Jerk (1979); Hart to Hart (1979); Angie (1979);
The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh (1979); Fix-it City (1978); Taxi (1978); The One
Man Jury (1978); Kojak (1975–1978); Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (1977); Fun with
Dick and Jane (1977); The Streets of San Francisco (1977); Rhoda (1977);
Serpico (1976–1977); Charlie's Angels (1976); M*A*S*H (1976); Starsky and Hutch
(1976); Wonderbug (1976); The Krofft Supershow / Wonderbug (1976); Shark Kill
(1976); Phyllis (1976); Baretta (1976); The Blue Knight (1975); Harry O (1975);
That's My Mama (1975); The Rookies (1975); Police Story (1975); The Bob Newhart
Show (1975); The Gambler (1974); Serpico (1973).
Born on this day – Dick Pope:
Dick Pope
Cinematographer
August 3, 1947 – October 21, 2024
Credits:
13 Conversations About One Thing
(2001); A Bigger Splash (1973); A Flock of Seagulls in A Flock of Seagulls: I
Ran (So Far Away) (1982); A Promise of Bed (1969); A Running Jump (2012); A
Sense of History (1992); AC/DC: Live at Donington (1992); AC/DC: No Bull
(1996); Africa (1984); Alan Bush: A Life (1983); Alison Moyet: Invisible
(Version 1) (1984); All or Nothing (2002); An Awfully Big Adventure (1995);
Angelica (2015); Angels & Atom Bombs: The Making of the Reflecting Skin
(2015); Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (2008); Another Year (2010); Behind
the Wheel of Happy-Go-Lucky (2009); Bernie (2011); Blue Suede Shoes (1980);
Bringing Balanchine Back (2006); Career Girls (1997); Coming Up Roses (1986);
Cool Cats: 25 Years of Rock 'n' Roll Style (1983); Creating a Classic: The
Making of 'Nicholas Nickleby' (2003); Cuban Fury (2014); Cutting Edge (1993);
Dark City (1990); Disappearing World (1974); Erasure: Chorus (1991); Erasure:
Ship of Fools (1988); Fallen Hero (1978); Fine Young Cannibals: Suspicious Minds
(1985); Fool's Gold: The Story of the Brink's-Mat Robbery (1993); Forever Green
(1989); Forty Minutes (1985); Freddie Mercury: The Great Pretender (1987);
Freddie Mercury: Time (1986); Friday Night Shirt (2005); Fun Boy Three: The
Lunatics Have Taken Over the Asylum (1981); Great Performances (1998);
Happy-Go-Lucky (2008); Happy-Go-Lucky: B-Roll (2008); Hard Truths (2024);
Honeydripper (2007); Imagine (2014); Inseminoid (1981); Intercom (2008); INXS:
Live Baby Live (1991); Iron Maiden: Women in Uniform (1980); It's a Wonderful
Afterlife (2010); Just for Today (1980); Kylie Minogue: Never Too Late (1989);
Kylie Minogue: Wouldn't Change a Thing (1989); La danse (2009); Lara Croft:
Tomb Raider (2001); Legend (2015); Life Is Sweet (1990); Lisa Stansfield: What
Did I Do to You? (1990); Loving Feeling (1968); Mad in the Making: Little
Scenes and Outtakes Around a Mad Video (1991); Madness: It Must Be Love (1981);
Madness: Sweetest Girl (1986); Man of the Year (2006); Me and Orson Welles
(2008); Motherless Brooklyn (2019); Mountain Dew Kickstart Super Bowl
Commercial: Puppymonkeybaby (2016); Mountains of the Moon (1990); Movin' On
(1993); Mr. Turner (2014); Mr. Turner: The Many Colours of Mr. Turner (2014);
Naked (1993); Never Mind (1995); Nicholas Nickleby (2002); Nineteen Eighty-Four
/ aka 1984 (1984); Nothing Personal (1995); Peter Gabriel's Secret World
(1994); Peterloo (2018); Phantoms (1998); Pleasure (1994); Porterhouse Blue
(1987); Punk and Its Aftershocks (1980); Queen: Champions of the World (1995);
Queen: I Want to Break Free (1984); Queen: I'm Going Slightly Mad (1991);
Queen: No-One But You (Only the Good Die Young) (1998); Queen: These Are the
Days of Our Lives (1991); Rick Astley: Cry for Help (1991); Rick Astley: Hold
Me in Your Arms (1989); Rude Boy (1980); Screen Two (1996); Secrets & Lies
(1996); Side by Side (2012); Sigue Sigue Sputnik: Love Missile F1-11 (1986);
Six Days in Romandie (1983); Soft Cell: Sex Dwarf (Version 1) (1982); Soweto
(1991); Supernova (2020); Supertramp: Live in Paris '79 (2012); Swept from the
Sea (1997); TCM Remembers 2024 (2024); Team Deakins (2020); The Air Up There
(1994); The Blackheath Poisonings (1992); The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
(2019); The Christians (1977); The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch
and the Wardrobe (2005); The Cure in Orange (1987); The Debt Collector (1999);
The Fruit Machine (1988); The Girl in the Picture (1985); The Great Kandinsky
(1995); The Illusionist (2006); The London Weekend Show (1977 / 1978); The Mike
Leigh Method (2011); The Oscars (2015); The Outfit (2022); The Planets (1985);
The Pros (2015); The Reflecting Skin (1990); The Secret Garden (1993); The
Shattered Dream: Employment in the Eighties (1981); The South Bank Show (1985);
The Specials: Ghost Town (1981); The Swappers (1970); The Unlucky Australians
(1973); The Way of the Gun (2000); The Women's Olamal: The Organization of a
Maasai Fertility Ceremony (1984); The X Files (1998); Thin Ice (2011); Tina
Turner: Private Dancer (1985); Topsy-Turvy (1999); Toyah: I Want to Be Free (1981);
Urgh! A Music War (1981); Vera Drake (2004); Vera Drake: Cast and Crew
Documentary (2005); Walking Away (2007); What's Good for the Goose (1969);
Whoops Apocalypse (1982); Willie and the Poor Boys (1985); Women in Rock
(1980); World in Action (1975–1978); Worlds Apart (1982); Yes, Honestly (1976);
Zodiac Mindwarp & The Love Reaction: Prime Mover (1988).
Born on this day – Jay North:
Jay North
Actor
August 3, 1951 – April 6, 2025
Credits:
77 Sunset
Strip (1959); ABC World News Tonight (2025); About Faces (1961); Arabian
Knights (1968–1969); Dennis the Menace (1959–1963); Dickie Roberts: Former
Child Star (2003); E! True Hollywood Story (2000); Fred Flintstone and Friends
(1977); General Hospital (1982); GMA First Look (2025); Here Comes the Grump
(1969–1970); Here's Hollywood (1960); It's Happening (1968); I've Got a Secret
(1960); Jericho (1966); Lassie (1973); Lassie: Joyous Sound (1973); Living in
TV Land (2006); Maya (1966–1968); My Three Sons (1966); Not Necessarily the
News (1987); Our Time (1985); Pepe (1960); Rescue 8 (1959); Sally Jessy Raphael
(1993); Scout's Honor (1980); Stu's Show (2011 / 2025); Sugarfoot (1959); The
36th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (1962); The Actor's Journey (2011);
The Actor's Journey for Kids (2011); The Banana Splits Adventure Hour
(1968–1970); The Best of the Ed Sullivan Show (1992); The Big Operator (1959);
The Dating Game (1969); The Detectives (1959); The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
(1960); The Donna Reed Show (1960); The Ed Sullivan Show (1960); The Fantastic
Plastic Machine (1969); The Flintstone Comedy Hour (1972); The Hollywood
Squares (Daytime) (1967); The Linkletter Show (1961); The Lucy Show (1966); The
Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1965); The Merv Griffin Show (1967–1971); The Miracle of
the Hills (1959); The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show (1971–1972); The Red Skelton
Hour (1960–1961); The Simpsons (1999); The Teacher (1974); The Tennessee Ernie
Ford Show (1959); Vicki! (1993); Wagon Train (1964); Wanted: Dead or Alive
(1958); Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1959); Wild Wind (1985); Zebra in the
Kitchen (1965)
On this day in movie history - The New Centurions (1972)
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The New Centurions
directed by Richard Fleischer,
written by Stirling Silliphant,
based on the novel by Joseph Wambaugh,
was released in the United States on August 3, 1972.
Music by Quincy Jones.
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Cast:
George C. Scott, Stacy Keach, Jane Alexander,
Scott Wilson, Rosalind Cash, Erik Estrada, Clifton James, Richard E. Kalk,
James Sikking, Beverly Hope Atkinson, Mittie Lawrence, Isabel Sanford, Carol
Speed, Tracee Lyles, Burke Byrnes, William Atherton, Peter De Anda, Ed Lauter,
Dolph Sweet, Stefan Gierasch, Debbie Fresh, Mike Lane, Roger E. Mosley, Charles
H. Gray, Read Morgan, Michael DeLano, Adriana Shaw, Pepe Serna, Bea Thompkins,
Hilly Hicks, Shaaron Claridge, Herbert Coley, Otis Day, Dick DeCoit, Lieux Dressler,
Brent Dunsford, Raymond Guth, Kitten Natividad, Gerald S. O’Loughlin, Anne
Ramsey.
On this day in music history:
Rubber
Biscuit by
The Chips (1956)
Emotional
Rain by Lee
Aaron (1994)
Spa by Hennie Bekker (1999)
Let
There Be Light – Deluxe Edition by Tom Moore & Sherry Finzer (2018)
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Rubber Biscuit
Song by The
Chips.
Recorded August 3, 1956.
Rubber Biscuit is a crazy song I love that gets stuck in my head for days when I rewatch the movie Mean Streets (1973), directed by Martin Scorsese.
It’s
on the soundtrack in the bar scene, with the camera focused and fixed on actor
Harvey Keitel. Now ... if only I could sing it ...
Lyrics:
Cow cow
hoo-oo
Cow cow wanna
dib-a-doo
Chicken
hon-a-chick-a-chick hole-a-hubba
Hey fried
chuck-a-lucka wanna jubba
Hi-low nay
wanna dubba hubba
Day down sum
wanna jigga-wah
Dell rown ay
wanna lubba hubba
Mull an' a
mound chicka lubba hubba
Fay down ah
wanna dippa-zippa-dippa
Mm-mmn, do
that again!
Doo doo doo
boo
Cow cow lubba
'n a blubba lubba
How rown
hibb'n 'n a hibba-lu
How low
lubbin 'n a blubba-lubba
Hey ride
ricky ticky hubba lubba
Dull ow de
moun' chicky hubba lubba
Went down
trucka lucka wanna do-uh
How low a
zippin 'n a hubba-lu
Hey ride
ricky ticky blubba-lu
How low duh
woody woody pecker pecker
Mm-hmm, did
you ever hear
Of a wish
sandwich?
Well, that's
the kind of a sandwich
That is
supposed to take
Two pieces of
bread
And wish you
had some meat
Doo doo boo
Cow cow lubba 'n a blubba lubba
Hey ride
hibbin' and zippin 'n
How luvva
mail take a lubba hubba
Hey ride
wanna take a recca recca
How low take
a lubba hubba
Hey ride
wanna 'n suppa suppa
How low a
mail take a lubba hubba
Hey ride a
hippin' and a hubbin' no
High low 'n
sum a chicka wha
The other day
I ate a
ricochet biscuit
Well, that's
the kind of biscuit
That's
supposed to
Bounce off
the wall
Back in your
mouth
If it don't
bounce back
Shh-mmhh-mmhh
You go hungry
Doo doo boo
Cow cow lubba
'n a blubba lubba
Hey low a sum
did a lubba goin'
Hey ride
wanna take a-lubba do
How long long
suppa dubba
How low a
mail take a lubba hubba
Hey ride
wanna take a lubba hubba
How low a
mail take a lubba hubba
Hey down
nothin' take a luvva do
Hey ride a
sippin' and a hubba dubba
Mmm, the
other day
I ate a cool
water sandwich
And a
Sunday-go-to-meeting bun
Doo doo boo
Cow cow lubba
'n a-blubba lubba
Hey ride
ricky ticky hubba lubba
How low a
wanna suppa do
Hey ride
sippin' and hubba lubba
Hey ride
a-hubbin' and wan' do
Hey ride a
wanna an' recca recca
How low a
mail take lubba hubba
Hey down a
wanna suppa dubba
Please ride a
hubbin' gonna do
What you owe
for nothin'
Rubber
biscuit
Doo doo doo
boo
Cow cow
ooooooooh
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Emotional Rain
Album by Lee
Aaron,
released
August 3, 1994.
Track list: Odds of Love; Baby Go Round; Fire in Your Flame; Waterfall; Inside; Raggedy Jane; Soul in Motion; Emotional Rain; Judgement Day; Heaven; Cry; Had Enough.
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Spa
Album by
Hennie Bekker,
released
August 3, 1999.
Track list:
Comfort; Elusive Sensation; Euphoria; Inner Peace; Revitalized; A State of
Bliss.
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Let There Be Light – Deluxe Edition
Album by Tom
Moore & Sherry Finzer,
released
August 3, 2018.
Track list:
The Way of the White Clouds; First Light; Timeless Journey; Full Moon Night; A
Celebration of Life; Sacred Ground; Waves of Light; Tides of Time; A Deeper
Light; Dancing in the Light.
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