On this day in music history - The album Sketches, by Michele McLaughlin (2020)

Sketches

by Michele McLaughlin

was released on December 5, 2020.

On this day in movie history - Beverly Hills Cop (1984)

Beverly Hills Cop

directed by Martin Brest,

written by Daniel Petrie Jr.,

based on a story by Danilo Bach and Daniel Petrie Jr.,

was released in the United States on December 5, 1984.

Music by Harold Faltermeyer.

Cast:

Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, John Ashton, Lisa Eilbacher, Ronny Cox, Steven Berkoff, James Russo, Jonathan Banks, Stephen Elliott, Gilbert R. Hill, Art Kimbro, Joel Bailey, Bronson Pinchot, Paul Reiser, Michael Champion, Frank Pesce, Gene Borkan, Michael Gregory, Alice Cadogan, Philip Levien, Karen Mayo-Chandler, Gerald Berns, William Wallace, Israel Juarbe, Randy Vasquez, Damon Wayans, Chuck Adamson, Chip Heller, Rick Overton, Rex Ryon, Mike Pniewski, Douglas Warhit, Paul Drake, Tom Everett, Sally Kishbaugh, Barry Shade, Jack Heller, Michael Harrington, David Wells, Scott Murphy, Dennis Madden, John Achorn, John Pettis, Nicholas Shields, Carl Weintraub, Anthony De Fonte, Darwyn Carson, Mark E. Corry, Thomas J. Hageboeck, Martin Brest, Earl Jolly Brown, Donald Chaffin, Dan Cotter, Bob Davis, Peter Paul Eastman, Robert Hitchcock, David Patrick Kelly, Paul LeClair, Freeman Love, Farrell Mayer, Danny Nero, Walter Spear, Nico Stevens.

Born on this day – Lisa Sheridan:

Actress

Producer

December 5, 1974 – February 25, 2019

Credits:

Strange Nature (2018); Six LA Love Stories (2016); Murder in the First (2016); Still the King (2016); The Fosters (2016); A Christmas Eve Miracle (2015); Only God Can (2015); Sick Day (2014); A Magic Christmas (2014); Taken Away (2014); Halt and Catch Fire (2014); Category 5 (2014); Elsa & Fred (2014); Perception (2013); Scandal (2013); Tiny Little Words (2012); Home Invasion (2012); Private Practice (2011); CSI: NY (2011); Healing Hands (2010); NCIS (2009); The Mentalist (2009); Conspiracy (2008); McCartney's Genes (2008); Saving Grace (2008); Shark (2008); CSI: Miami (2007–2008); Journeyman (2007); Moonlight (2007); The 4400 (2007); Invasion (2005–2006); Strong Medicine (2005); Without a Trace (2005); Monk (2004); CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2004); Las Vegas (2004); The Practice (2003); Carolina (2003); Pirates (2003); FreakyLinks (2000–2001); Beat (2000); Diagnosis Murder (1999); Legacy (1998–1999); Any Day Now (1998); Step by Step (1997).

Born on this day – Carrie Hamilton:

Actress

Writer

December 5, 1963 – January 20, 2002

Credits:

Lunchtime Thomas (2001); The Pretender (2000); P.1 (1999); The X-Files (1999); Brooklyn South (1998); Touched by an Angel (1997); Walker, Texas Ranger (1995); Cool World (1992); A Mother's Justice (1991); Thirtysomething (1991); Beverly Hills, 90210 (1991); Equal Justice (1991); Murder, She Wrote (1990); Checkered Flag (1990); Carol & Company (1990); The 61st Annual Academy Awards (1989); Single Women Married Men (1989); Tokyo Pop (1988); Knightwatch (1988); Shag (1988); Tokyo Pop (1988); Hostage (1988); Fame (1986–1987); Love Lives On (1985).

Born on this day – Pamela Blair:

Actress

December 5, 1949 – July 23, 2023

Born on this day – J.J. Cale:

Singer

Guitarist

Songwriter

Sound engineer

December 5, 1938 – July 26, 2013

Born on this day – Joan Didion:

 

Writer

December 5, 1934 – December 23, 2021

Credits:

Run River (1963); Play It As It Lays (1970); A Book of Common Prayer (1977); Democracy (1984); The Last Thing He Wanted (1996); Vintage Didion (2004); The 1960s & 70s (2019); Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968); The White Album (1979); Salvador (1983); Miami (1987); Some Women (1990); After Henry (1992); Sentimental Journeys (1993); Perspectives on the Individual (1998); Political Fictions (2001); Fixed Ideas (2003); Where I Was From (2003); Live and Learn (2005); The Year of Magical Thinking (2005); We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live (2006); Blue Nights (2011); Insider Baseball (2016); South and West (2017); Collected Essays (2018); Let Me Tell You What I Mean (2021); Bonds of War (2022); What She Means (2022); The Writer on Her Work (1980); Women Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews (1989); Florida Stories (1993); Writing Women's Lives (1994); Writing New York (1998); The Eloquent Essay (2000); Writing Los Angeles (2002); The Little Big Book of California (2005); 40 Model Essays (2005); The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers (2005).

Born on this day – Ray Austin:

Director

Writer

Producer

Stuntman

Actor

December 5, 1932 – May 17, 2023

Born on this day – Norman Burton:

Actor

December 5, 1923 – November 29, 2003

Born on this day – Adriana Benetti:

Actress

December 5, 1919 – February 24, 2016

Born on this day – Margaret Hayes:

Actress

December 5, 1916 – January 26, 1977

Born on this day – Odette Joyeux:

Actress

Writer

December 5, 1914 – August 26, 2000

Born on this day – Virginia Lee Corbin:

Actress

December 5, 1910 – June 5, 1942

Born on this day – Otto Preminger:

Director

Producer

Actor

December 5, 1905 – April 23, 1986

Born on this day – Walt Disney:

Animator

Producer

December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966

Born on this day – Tina Lattanzi:

Actress

December 5, 1897 – October 25, 1997

Born on this day – Stuart Heisler:

Director

Editor

December 5, 1896 – August 21, 1979

Born on this day – Fritz Lang:

Director

Writer

Producer

December 5, 1890 – August 2, 1976

Credits:

American Guerrilla in the Philippines (1950); Bande-annonce de 'Le mépris' (1963); Bettler GmbH (1919); Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956); Clash by Night (1952); Cloak and Dagger (1946); Confirm or Deny (1941); Contempt (1963); Der Herr der Liebe (1919); Destiny (1921); Die 1000 Glotzböbbel vom Dr. Mabuse (2018); Die Frau mit den Orchideen (1919); Die Frauen des Josias Graffenreuth (1918); Die Herrin der Welt 8. Teil - Die Rache der Maud Fergusson (1920); Die Hochzeit im Excentricclub (1917); Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge (1924); Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924); Die Peitsche (1916); Die Rache ist mein (1919); Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922); Four Around the Woman (1921); Fury (1936); Grande Teatro Tupi (1951); Hangmen Also Die! (1943); Harakiri (1919); Hilde Warren und der Tod (1917); House by the River (1950); Human Desire (1954); Journey to the Lost City (1960); Liliom (1934); Lilith and Ly (1919); M (1931); M (1951); M. le maudit (1982); Man Hunt (1941); Metropolis (1927); Metropolis (2001); Metropolis Retrofit (2023); Ministry of Fear (1944); Moonfleet (1955); Moontide (1942); Mysteries of India, Part II: Above All Law (1921); Paparazzi (1964); Pest in Florenz (1919); Rancho Notorious (1952); Scarlet Street (1945); Secret Beyond the Door... (1947); Spies (1928); The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1960); The Big Heat (1953); The Black Vampire (1953); The Blue Gardenia (1953); The Dance of Death (1919); The Halfbreed (1919); The Indian Tomb (1959); The Return of Frank James (1940); The Spiders - Episode 1: The Golden Sea (1919); The Spiders - Episode 2: The Diamond Ship (1920); The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933); The Tiger of Eschnapur (1959); The Wandering Image (1920); The Woman in the Window (1944); Western Union (1941); While the City Sleeps (1956); Wolkenbau und Flimmerstern (1919); Woman in the Moon (1929); You and Me (1938); You Only Live Once (1937).

Fran Lebowitz, on reading:

Think before you speak.

Read before you think.

- Fran Lebowitz.