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Thursday, December 5, 2024
Recommended reading - Serpico
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Serpico
by Peter Maas.
First published 1973.
Published by Harper Perennial.
Paperback.
Published by Harper Perennial.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 0060738189
ISBN-13: 978-0060738181
Description:
THE CLASSIC TRUE STORY OF THE COP WHO COULDN'T
BE BOUGHT.
With an Afterword by Frank Serpico.
"I don't think anyone can come away from
Serpico without admiration for one man's lonely integrity." – New York
Times.
"A penetrating . . . exciting
story." – San Francisco Chronicle.
"[A] raw and moving portrait." –
Chicago Sun-Times.
"An absorbing story of what one angry,
honest man can do." – Detroit News.
"Excellent." – Newsweek.
ISBN-13: 978-0060738181
The 1960s was a time of social and
generational upheaval felt with particular intensity in the melting pot of New
York City. A culture of corruption pervaded the New York Police Department,
where payoffs, protection, and shakedowns of gambling rackets and drug dealers
were common practice. The so-called blue code of silence protected the minority
of crooked cops from the sanction of the majority.
Into this maelstrom came a working class,
Brooklyn-born, Italian cop with long hair, a beard, and a taste for opera and
ballet. Frank Serpico was a man who couldn't be silenced – or bought – and he
refused to go along with the system. He had sworn an oath to uphold the law,
even if the perpetrators happened to be other cops. For this unwavering
commitment to justice, Serpico nearly paid with his life.
Born on this day – Fritz Lang:
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).
Born on this day – Otto Preminger:
Otto Preminger
Director
Producer
Actor
December 5, 1905 – April 23,
1986
Born on this day – Virginia Lee Corbin:
Virginia Lee Corbin
Actress
December 5, 1910 – June 5, 1942
Credits:
3 Keys
(1925); Ace High (1918); Adventure in Diamonds (1940); Aladdin and the
Wonderful Lamp (1917); All's Swell on the Ocean (1924); Bare Knees (1928);
Behind Life's Stage (1916); Broken Laws (1924); By Conscience's Eye (1916);
Chasing Choo Choos (1927); Driven from Home (1927); Enemies of Children (1923);
Fan Fan (1918); Fight and Win (1924); Footlights and Fools (1929); Forgotten
Women (1931); Hands Up! (1926); Headlines (1925); Heart Strings (1917);
Intolerance (1916); Jack and the Beanstalk (1917); Jazz Mamas (1929); Jazzland
(1928); Knee High (1929); Ladies at Play (1926); Let Katie Do It (1916); Letter
of Introduction (1938); Lilies of the Streets (1925); Morals for Women (1931);
No Place to Go (1927); North Star (1925); Pidgin Island (1916); Play Safe
(1927); Shotgun Pass (1931); Sinners in Silk (1924); Six-Shooter Andy (1918);
So Ends Our Night (1941); Somebody Lied (1917); The Babes in the Woods (1917);
The Cafe of Fallen Angels (1923); The Castle of Despair (1916); The Chorus Girl
and the Kid (1916); The Chorus Lady (1924); The City That Never Sleeps (1924);
The Cloud Rider (1925); The Forbidden Room (1919); The Handsome Brute (1925);
The Head of the Family (1928); The Honeymoon Express (1926); The Light of Love
(1917); The Little Snob (1928); The Old Toymaker (1917); The Perfect Sap
(1927); The Splendid Sin (1919); The White Dove (1920); The Whole Town's
Talking (1926); The Woman He Feared (1916); Three Women of France (1917);
Treasure Island (1917); Vengeance of the Dead (1917); Wine of Youth (1924); X
Marks the Spot (1931).
Born on this day – Odette Joyeux:
Virginia Lee Corbin
Actress
Writer
December 5, 1914 – August 26, 2000
Born on this day – Ray Austin:
Ray Austin
Director
Writer
Producer
Stuntman
Actor
December 5, 1932
– May 17, 2023
Born on this day – Joan Didion:
Joan Didion
Writer
December 5, 1934 – December 23, 2021
Credits:
Books:
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).
Movies and television:
A Star Is Born (1976 / 2018); Babel
(2005); Broken Trust (1995); Celebrity: Dominick Dunne (2008); Charlie Rose
(1996–2011); Crossing Borders: The Journey of Carlos Fuentes (1989); David
Halberstam: The Coldest Winter (2007); Dominick Dunne et les crimes de la jet
set (2007); Ellie Parker (2005); Everything Is Copy (2015); Joan Didion: The
Center Will Not Hold (2017); Kraft Suspense Theatre (1965); Late Review (2011);
New York 360º Presents: The 2007 Matrix Awards (2007); New York in the 50's
(2000); Nicole (1976); Northern Exposure (1993); Out of My Head (2018); Play It
As It Lays (1972); Shotgun Freeway: Drives Through Lost L.A. (1995); Such Good
Friends (1971); The 50 Year Argument (2014); The Brandon Teena Story (1998);
The Falling of the Bright (2008); The Last Thing He Wanted (2020); The Panic in
Needle Park (1971); The South Bank Show (2007); True Confessions (1981); Up
Close & Personal (1996); West Wing Week (2013); Women and Men: Stories of
Seduction (1990); Writers in Needle Park (2011).
Born on this day – J.J. Cale:
J.J. Cale
Singer
Guitarist
Songwriter
Sound engineer
December 5,
1938 – July 26, 2013
Born on this day – Pamela Blair:
Pamela Blair
Actress
December 5, 1949 – July 23, 2023
Credits:
21 Grams
(2003); 42nd Street: The Musical (2019); All My Children (1985–1992); Angelo
(1999); Annie (1982); Another World (1994); Beavis and Butt-Head Do America
(1996); Before and After (1996); Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age (2021);
Donahue (1990); Family Feud (1985); Great Performances (1971); Law & Order
(1994); Loving (1983–1985); Maneater (2009); Me and Veronica (1992); Mighty
Aphrodite (1995); Night of 100 Stars (1982); Ryan's Hope (1980); Sabrina the
Teenage Witch (1998); Svengali (1983); The Cosby Mysteries (1994); The Days and
Nights of Molly Dodd (1989); The Last Dance (2000); Tomorrow Morning (2022).
Born on this day – Carrie Hamilton:
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 – Lisa Sheridan:
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 – Adan Canto:
Adan Canto
Actor
December 5, 1981 – January 8, 2024
Credits:
The Cleaning Lady (2022); Agent
Game (2022); Entertainment Tonight (2022); The Devil Below (2021); The Shot
(2020); 2 Hearts (2020); Bruised (2020); The Hypnotist's Love Story (2019);
Designated Survivor (2016–2019); The Marilyn Denis Show (2018); Amanda &
Jack Go Glamping (2017); CTV's Big Fall Preview 2017 (2017); The Catch (2016);
Second Chance (2016); Blood & Oil (2015); Narcos (2015); Before Tomorrow
(2014); Pilot (2014); Almost Thirty (2014); Classification: M (2014); E! News
(2014); Mixology (2014); X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014); Good Day L.A.
(2013); The Following (2013); Al Ras (2012); Amar no es querer (2011); Santiago
del otro lado (2011); Te presento a Laura (2010); Los Minondo (2010); Sin
memoria (2010); Estado de Gracia (2009).
On this day in movie history - Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
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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.
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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.
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