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Showing posts with label August 9. Show all posts
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Friday, August 9, 2024
National Book Lovers Day – August 9:
From one book lover to another -- happy National Book Lovers Day!
On this day in movie history - Blood Work (2002)
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Blood Work
directed by Clint Eastwood,
written by Brian Helgeland,
based on the novel by Michael Connelly,
was released in the United States on August 9,
2002.
Music by Lennie Niehaus.
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Clint Eastwood, Jeff Daniels, Anjelica Huston,
Wanda De Jesus, Tina Lifford, Paul Rodriguez, Dylan Walsh, Mason Lucero, Gerry
Becker, Rick Hoffman, Alix Koromzay, Igor Jijikine, Dina Eastwood, Beverly
Leech, June Kyoto Lu, Chao Li Chi, Glenn Morshower, Robert Harvey, Matt
Huffman, Mark Thomason, Maria Quiban, Brent Hinkley, Natalia Ongaro, Amanda
Carlin, Ted Rooney, P.J. Byrne, Sam Jaeger, Derric Nugent, Craig Hosking, James
W. Gavin, Dan Andreiu, Todd Bryant, Bryan Hanna, Ted Hollis, Michael Keyes,
Greg Stechman, Sandie West.
On this day in movie history - The Abyss (1989)
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The Abyss
directed and written by James Cameron,
was released in the United States on August 9, 1989.
Music by Alan Silvestri.
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Cast:
Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Michael Biehn, Leo Burmester, Todd Graff, John Bedford Lloyd, J.C. Quinn, Kimberly Scott, Captain Kidd Brewer Jr., George Robert Klek, Christopher Murphy, Adam Nelson, Dick Warlock, Jimmie Ray Weeks, J. Kenneth Campbell, Ken Jenkins, Chris Elliott, Peter Ratray, Michael Beach, Brad Sullivan, Frank Lloyd, Phillip Darlington, Joseph C. Nemec III, Joe Farago, William Wisher, Marcus K. Mukai, Wendy Gordon, Paula Cross, Thomas F. Duffy, Chris Anastasio, Emily Yancy, Michael Chapman, Tom Isbell, Mike Cameron, Daren Dochterman, Candice Hill, Randy Robertson, Robert Searle.
#TheAbyss #EdHarris #MaryElizabethMastrantono #MichaelBiehn #August9
Born on this day – Martin Greenfield:
Tailor
Writer
Holocaust survivor
August 9, 1928 – March 20, 2024
Credits:
Founder of Martin Greenfield
Clothiers.
Book:
Measure of a Man: From Auschwitz
Survivor to Presidents' Tailor (2014).
Television:
Tailor Made (2018); Great Big
Show (2017); Lessons from a Tailor (2008).
Born on this day – Robert Shaw:
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Actor, Jaws
Writer
August 9, 1927 – August 28, 1978
#RobertShaw #Jaws #August9
Born on this day – P.L. Travers:
Writer
August 9, 1899 – April 23, 1996
Credits:
Books:
About the Sleeping Beauty (1975); Aunt Sass (2014); Essential Modern Classics Collection for Girls (2010); Fox at the Manger (1962); Friend Monkey (1971); Gingerbread Shop (1952); I Go By Sea, I Go By Land (1941); Mary Poppins - the Complete Collection (2013); Mary Poppins (1934); Mary Poppins / Mary Poppins Comes Back (2007); Mary Poppins and the House Next Door (1988); Mary Poppins Comes Back (1935); Mary Poppins From A-Z (1962); Mary Poppins in Cherry Tree Lane (1982); Mary Poppins in Cherry Tree Lane / Mary Poppins and the House Next Door (1999); Mary Poppins in the Kitchen (1975); Mary Poppins in the Park (1935); Mary Poppins Opens the Door (1943); Mary Poppins Vintage Boxed Set (2007); Mr. Wigg's Birthday Party (1952); Stories from Mary Poppins (1952); The Magic Compass (1953); Two Pairs of Shoes (1976); What the Bee Knows (1989).
Movies and television:
Desert Island
Discs: Archive 1976-1980 (1977); Diminishing Returns (2018); Hollywood goes to
a World Premiere (1964); Hollywood Insider (2021); I riassuntini (2018);
Jackanory (1966–1967); Mary Poppins (1964); Mary Poppins Returns (2018); Mary
Poppins: From Page to Stage (2009); Saving Mr. Banks (2013); Special
Collector's Edition (2014); Studio One (1949); The Cat That Looked at a King
(2004); The Culture Show (2013); The Real Mary Poppins (2013).
Born on this day – Florelle:
Opera singer
Soprano
Actress
August 9, 1898 – September 28, 1974
Credits:
Amants et
voleurs / Lovers and thieves (1935); Atout coeur (1931); Autour d'une enquête
(1931); Blood in the Head (1956); Clodoche / Tramp (1938); Die Herrin von
Atlantis (1932); El amor solfeando (1930); Faubourg Montmartre (1931); Gagne ta
vie (1931); Gervaise (1956); Gigolette (1937); Gonzague (1923); In theaters
tonight (1972); Jim Bougne, boxeur (1923); La dame de chez Maxim's / The lady
at Maxim's (1933); La dernière nuit / The Last Night (1933); La femme nue / The
naked woman (1932); La marmaille / The kids (1935); La merveilleuse journée /
The Wonderful Day (1932); La nuit est à elles, Paris 1919-1939 / The Night Is
Them, Paris 1919-1939 (2018); L'affaire de la rue de Lourcine (1923); L'amour
chante (1930); L'Atlantide / Atlantis (1932); L'autre (1930); Le fils improvisé
/ The improvised son (1932); Le grand bluff / The big bluff (1933); Le joker
(1930); Le poignard malais (1931); Les anges noirs / Black Angels (1937); Les
caves du Majestic / The Majestic cellars (1945); Les deux canards / The Two
Ducks (1934); Les dieux s'amusent / The gods have fun (1935); Les Misérables
(1934); Les surprises du sleeping / The surprises of sleeping (1933); Liliom
(1934); L'Oeil du cyclone / The Eye of the Storm (1992); Ma tante d'Honfleur /
My aunt from Honfleur (1931); Mariage à responsabilité limitée / Limited
Liability Marriage (1933); Mimosa Bar (1933); Mon coeur incognito (1931);
Monsieur, Madame et Bibi / Mr, Mrs. and Bibi (1932); Nuits de Venise (1931);
Oasis (1955); Passionnément / Passionately (1932); Sidonie Panache (1934); Sixième
étage / Sixth floor (1940); The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936); The Crime on
the Coast (1913); The Mask of Horror (1912); The Mistress of Atlantis (1932);
The Threepenny Opera (1931); Trois femmes / Three women (1952); Tumultes /
Tumult (1932); Un meurtre a été commis / A murder was committed (1938); Une
nuit de noces / A Wedding Night (1935); Vacances (1931).
Born on this day – Alice Fleming:
Actress
August 9, 1882 – December 6, 1952
Credits:
A Medal for
Benny (1945); California Gold Rush (1946); Cheyenne Wildcat (1944); Colorado
Pioneers (1945); Conquest of Cheyenne (1946); Dick Tracy (1937 / 1990); Fired
Wife (1943); Great Stagecoach Robbery (1945); Headin' for God's Country (1943);
Her Primitive Man (1944); His Greatest Sacrifice (1921); In Society (1944);
It's a Pleasure (1945); Keep 'Em Slugging (1943); Lone Texas Ranger (1945);
Marshal of Laredo (1945); Marshal of Reno (1944); Moonlight in Vermont (1943);
Mystery Broadcast (1943); Overland Mail Robbery (1943); Phantom Lady (1944);
Phantom of the Plains (1945); Playmates (1941); Queen of Burlesque (1946);
Reckless Age (1944); Saratoga Trunk (1945); Sheriff of Las Vegas (1944);
Sheriff of Redwood Valley (1946); Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943); Silas
Marner (1922); Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman (1947); State Fair (1945); Storm
Over Lisbon (1944); Sun Valley Cyclone (1946); Sunday Dinner for a Soldier
(1944); The Affairs of Susan (1945); The Beloved Cheater (1919); The Conquest
of Canaan (1921); The Dark Corner (1946); The Dark Horse (1946); The Mantrap
(1943); The San Antonio Kid (1944); Three Is a Family (1944); Tucson Raiders
(1944); Vigilantes of Dodge City (1944); Wagon Wheels Westward (1945); Who Done
It? (1942); Women Men Love (1921); Youth for the Kingdom (1945).
Recommended reading - The Bearded Lady (1955)
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The Bearded Lady (1955).
by Ross MacDonald.
In this short story from Ross Macdonald’s The
Archer Files, detective Lew Archer stops in town to look in on an old army
buddy, an artist, only to find that he has mysteriously disappeared. Seemingly
the only clue is a disturbing charcoal sketch of a woman with a thick beard
sitting in his studio. As Archer finds himself drawn into the investigation, it
soon becomes clear that things are not what they seem. And that no one is above
suspicion.
Mary Roberts Rinehart, on writing:
Of one thing the reader can be certain:
the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.
the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.
- Mary Roberts Rinehart.
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