Monday, December 11, 2023
On this day in movie history - Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy, Dan Aykroyd, Patti LuPone, Esther Rolle, Joann Havrilla, William Hall Jr., Alvin M. Sugarman, Clarice F. Geigerman, Muriel Moore, Sylvia Kaler, Carolyn Gold, Crystal Fox, Bob Hannah, Ray McKinnon, Ashley Josey, Jack Rousso, Fred Faser, Indra A. Thomas, Trilby Beresford, Dean DuBois, Jay Freer, Jen Harper, Martin Luther King, D. Taylor Loeb.
On this day in movie history - Pittsburgh (1942)
Pittsburgh
directed by
Lewis Seiler,
written by
Kenneth Gamet, Tom Reed, John Twist, Robert Fellows and Winston Miller,
based on a
story by George Owen and Tom Reed,
was released
in the United States on December 11, 1942.
Music by Hans
J. Salter and Frank Skinner.
Born on this day – Jim Harrison:
Born on this day – Sally Eilers:
Actress
December 11, 1908 – January 5, 1978
Annie Dillard, on reading:
Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed?
Can the writer isolate and vivify all in experience that most deeply engages our intellects and our hearts?
Can the writer renew our hope for literary forms?
Why are we reading if not in hope that the writer will magnify and dramatize our days,
will illuminate and inspire us with wisdom, courage, and the possibility of meaningfulness,
and will press upon our minds the deepest mysteries,
so that we may feel again their majesty and power?
– from The Writing Life, by Annie Dillard.