F. Sionil Jose, on writing:

You should live in a manner that should enable you to devote time to writing and contemplation.

As is often said, the writer is at work even when he is simply looking out the window.

- F. Sionil Jose.

Recommended reading - The Chase, by Horton Foote, play & novel (1956/1966):

 

The Chase

by Horton Foote.

 
Play version:
72 pages.
Paperback.
Published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Published 1956.

ISBN 13: 9780822201984
ISBN 10: 0822201984
ASIN: 0822201984
 
Novel version:
Mass Market Paperback.
Published 1966.
Published by Signet Book.

ASIN: B0DT36B11R

Description:

Sheriff Hawes, honest and sincere peace officer, wearied with his job and its usual run of irritating problems, such as runaway boys, small robberies and the like, is making plans for his retirement. A local boy, Bubber Reeves, escapes from the penitentiary where he is serving a life term. He heads for his hometown, obsessed with the idea of killing Hawes who has become for him the symbol of all he hates. The town is terrified of Bubber and wants him killed. Hawes is determined to take him alive and send him back to the penitentiary. Eventually Hawes traces Bubber to a cabin, but Bubber does not want to be captured and forces Hawes to kill him. Heartbroken over his failure, Hawes goes back to the jail to resign immediately, but his wife convinces him that he is needed in his job, and he decides to continue.

Born on this day – Jack Palance:

 

Jack Palance

Actor

February 18, 1919 – November 10, 2006

Credits:

Back When We Were Grownups (2004); Living with the Dead (2002); Prancer Returns (2001); Night Visions / Bitter Harvest (2001); Sarah, Plain & Tall: Winter's End (1999); Treasure Island (1999); The Incredible Adventures of Marco Polo (1998); Ebenezer (1998); I'll Be Home for Christmas (1997); Buffalo Girls (1995); The Swan Princess (1994); City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold (1994); Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics / Where the Dead Are (1994); Cops and Robbersons (1994); Cyborg 2: Glass Shadow (1993); Eli's Lesson (1992); Keep the Change (1992); Horror of the Hungry Humongous Hungan (1991); City Slickers (1991); Solar Crisis (1990); Tango & Cash (1989); Batman (1989); Gor II (1988); Young Guns (1988); Bagdad Cafe (1987); Gor (1987); Ripley's Believe It or Not! (1982); Alone in the Dark (1982); Tales of the Haunted (1981); Hawk the Slayer (1980); Without Warning (1980); The Golden Moment: An Olympic Love Story (1980); The Ivory Ape (1980); The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang (1979); Cocaine Cowboys (1979); Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979); The Shape of Things to Come (1979); Angels' Brigade (1979); Portrait of a Hitman (1979); The One Man Jury (1978); Welcome to Blood City (1977); God's Gun (1976); Blood and Bullets (1976); Rulers of the City (1976); Safari Express (1976); Black Cobra (1976); Bronk (1975–1976); Squadra antiscippo (1976); The Sensuous Nurse (1975); Africa Express (1975); The Four Deuces (1975); The Great Adventure (1975); The Hatfields and the McCoys (1975); The Godchild (1974); Craze (1974); Dracula (1974); Oklahoma Crude (1973); Brothers Blue (1973); Sting of the West (1972); Chato's Land (1972); It Can Be Done Amigo (1972); The Horsemen (1971); Compañeros (1970); Monte Walsh (1970); NET Playhouse (1970); The McMasters (1970); Battle of the Commandos (1969); Che! (1969); Marquis de Sade's Justine (1969); A Bullet for Rommel (1969); The Desperados (1969); The Mercenary (1968); They Came to Rob Las Vegas (1968); Madigan's Millions (1968); The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1968); Kill a Dragon (1967); Torture Garden / The Man Who Collected Poe (1967); The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1966); Alice Through the Looking Glass (1966); The Professionals (1966); Run for Your Life (1966); Convoy (1965); Once a Thief (1965); Paparazzi (1964); The Greatest Show on Earth (1963–1964); Bande-annonce de 'Le mépris' (1963); Contempt (1963); Night Train to Milan (1962); Warriors Five (1962); Barabbas (1961); The Last Judgment (1961); The Mongols (1961); Sword of the Conqueror (1961); The Barbarians (1960); The Battle of Austerlitz (1960); Beyond All Limits (1959); Ten Seconds to Hell (1959); The Man Inside (1958); Playhouse 90 (1956–1957); House of Numbers (1957); The Lonely Man (1957); Zane Grey Theatre (1956); Attack (1956); I Died a Thousand Times (1955); Kiss of Fire (1955); The Big Knife (1955); Sign of the Pagan (1954); The Silver Chalice (1954); Man in the Attic (1953); Suspense (1953); The Motorola Television Hour (1953); Flight to Tangier (1953); Arrowhead (1953); Second Chance (1953); Shane (1953); The Web (1953); Danger (1953); The Gulf Playhouse (1952); Studio One (1951–1952); Sudden Fear (1952); Curtain Call (1952); Halls of Montezuma (1951); Panic in the Streets (1950); Lights Out (1950); Hands of Mystery (1949).

Born on this day – George Kennedy:

George Kennedy

Actor

February 18, 1925 – February 28, 2016

Born on this day – Russell Hunter:

Russell Hunter

Actor

February 18, 1925 – February 26, 2004

Credits:

3-2-1 (1982); A Touch of Frost (1996); Ace of Wands (1971); Airport Chaplain (1980); Albert and the Lion (1989); American Cousins (2003); Angels One Five (1952); Animated Tales of the World (2000); Armchair Theatre (1967); As You Like It (1963); BBC Play of the Month (1975); Black and Blue (1973); Born and Bred (2003); Brond (1987); Bust (1988); Callan / movie (1974); Callan / TV Series (1967–1972); Castle in the Air (1952); Casualty (1989); Charles Endell, Esq (1979); Cooper (1975); Countdown (1998); Crown Court (1973); Daddy's Girl (2001); Danger: Marmalade at Work (1984); Deacon Brodie (1997); Dickens of London (1976); Dixon of Dock Green (1955); Doctor Who (1977); Dr. Finlay's Casebook (1965); Farrington of the F.O. (1986); First Among Equals (1986); Five Red Herrings (1975); Full House (1973); Function Room (1985); Homeground (1997–2005); I, Lovett (1989); ITV Playhouse (1969); Jackanory (1973); Kidnapped (1952); King & Castle (1988); Lilli Marlene (1950); Lovejoy (1992); Love's Labour's Lost (1965); Mackenzie (1980); Mind Your Language (1979); Minder (1982); Minder (1983); Moira in Person (1973); Mystery and Imagination (1970); Never Say Die! (1981); Para Handy - Master Mariner (1960); Perishing Solicitors (1983); Play for Tomorrow (1982); Play from 'A' (1976); Rab C. Nesbitt (1988–1992); Redcap (1966); Rooms (1974); Rule Britannia! (1975); Ruth Rendell Mysteries (1987); Scotland's Story (1984); Shadows (1975); Sherlock Holmes and the Masks of Death (1984); Skagerrak (2003); Small Moments (2001); Sweeney Todd (1970); Taggart (1990); Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970); The Bill (2000); The Blazing Caravan (1955); The Brave Don't Cry (1952); The Broken Horseshoe (1952); The Campaign (1983); The Cherry Orchard (1962); The Christmas Star (1986); The Cockleshell Heroes (1955); The Detectives (1996); The Edward Woodward Hour (1971); The Gaffer (1981–1983); The Gorbals Story (1950); The Justice Game (1989); The Negotiator (1994); The Play on One (1988); The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1988); The Standard (1978); The Sweeney (1975); The Vital Spark (1966–1967); The Wednesday Play (1967); Thriller (1974); Up Pompeii (1971); Wet Job (1981); Where I Live (1965); Whodunnit? (1973); Whose Baby? (1973).

Born on this day – Toni Morrison:

Toni Morrison

Writer

February 18, 1931 – August 5, 2019

Credits:

A Mercy (2008); bell hooks: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2023); Beloved (1987); Birth of a Nation'hood (1997); Black Satin (2004); Burn This Book (2009); Christopher Hitchens (2017); Conversations with Toni Morrison (1994); David Bowie (2016); Desdemona (2012); Ernest Hemingway (2015); Fred Rogers: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2021); Frida Kahlo: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2020); Gabriel García Márquez (2015); Go the Way Your Blood Beats (1996); God Help the Child (2014); Goodness and the Literary Imagination (2019); Graham Greene: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2019); Hannah Arendt: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (2013); Home (2011); Hunter S. Thompson (2018); Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir (1987); J. D. Salinger (2016); James Baldwin: The Last Interview: and other Conversations (2014); Jane Jacobs (2016); Janet Malcolm: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations (2022); Jazz (1992); John Lewis: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (2021); Johnny Cash: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2021); Jorge Luis Borges (2012); Julia Child: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (2018); Kathy Acker: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2018); Kurt Cobain: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2022); Kurt Vonnegut (2011); Learning to Live Finally (2005); Lessons of the Masters (2003); Little Cloud and Lady Wind (2010); Lou Reed (2015); Love (2003); Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2017); Memoirs (1999); Mouth Full of Blood: Essays, Speeches, Meditations (2019); Nora Ephron: The Last Interview (2015); Octavia E. Butler: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2023); Oliver Sacks (2016); On Girlhood: 15 Stories from the Well-Read Black Girl Library (2021); Paradise (1997); Peeny Butter Fudge (2009); Philip K. Dick (2015); Playing in the Dark (1992); Please, Louise (2013); Race (2017); Race-Ing Justice, En-Gendering Power (1992); Ray Bradbury: The Last Interview (2014); Recitatif (1983); Remember (2004); Roberto Bolaño: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations (2009); Shirley Chisholm: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2021); Sincerity and Authenticity (1972); Six Walks in the Fictional Woods (1994); Song of Solomon (1977); Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition (1941); Sula (1973); Tar Baby (1981); The Big Box (1999); The Bluest Eye (1970); The Book of Mean People (2002); The Dancing Mind (1996); The Good Parts (2000); The Measure of Our Lives (2019); The Mirror Or The Glass? (2005); The Nobel Lecture In Literature, 1993 (1994); The Origin of Others (2016); The Romantic Generation (1995); The Secular Scripture: A Study of the Structure of Romance (1973); The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations (2019); The Tortoise or the Hare (2010); The Writer Before the Page: From The Source of Self-Regard (2019); To Die for the People (2009); Toni Morrison: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2020); Ursula K. Le Guin: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (2019); What Moves at the Margin (2008); Who's Got Game? Poppy or the Snake? (2004); Who's Got Game? The Ant or the Grasshopper? (2003); Who's Got Game? The Lion or the Mouse? (2003); Who's Got Game? Three Fables (2003); Women of Color Pray (2012); Writers: Their Lives and Works (2018).

Born on this day – Mary Ure:

Mary Ure

Actress

February 18, 1933 – April 3, 1975

Credits:

The Exorcism (1975); Love for Love (1974); The Wide World of Mystery (1974); ITV Play of the Week (1956–1974); Success Story (1974); Ironside (1973); A Reflection of Fear (1972); The Ten Commandments (1971); Old Times (1971); The David Frost Show (1971); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1971); Where Eagles Dare (1968); On Location: Where Eagles Dare (1968); Mondo Hollywood: Hollywood Laid Bare! (1967); Custer of the West (1967); The Filming of the Battle of the Bulge (1965); The Luck of Ginger Coffey (1964); The Respectful Prostitute (1964); The Mind Benders (1963); The Changeling (1961); Sons and Lovers (1960); Duel of Angels (1960); Othello (1959); A Midsummer Night's Dream (1959); Look Back in Anger (1959); Omnibus (1958); Jack Hylton's Monday Show (1958); Variety Club of Great Britain Awards for 1956 (1957); Look Back in Anger (1957); Windom's Way (1957); A View from the Bridge (1956); Storm Over the Nile (1955); Hamlet (1955); Time Remembered (1954).

Born on this day – Ed Wheeler:

 

Ed Wheeler

Actor

Producer

February 18, 1936 - August 21, 2024

Credits:

3-2-1 Contact (1980); ABC Afterschool Specials (1987); Bleach (1998); Blue Bloods (2010); Broadcast News (1987); Cupid (2009); Daylight (1996); Double Parked (2000); Drop Squad (1994); Ed (2000–2002); From Other Worlds (2004); Godzilla (1998); Head of State (2003); Heaven Is a Playground (1991); Hope & Faith (2004); Keane (2004); Keepers of the Flame (2024); Law & Order (1992–2004); Little Bill (2003); Love Songs (1999); Mickey Blue Eyes (1999); Monsters (1988); New York Undercover (1994); Noël (1992); One Life to Live (2010); Presumed Innocent (1990); Soul Food (2000); The Core of the Apple (1986); The Cry (2007); The Day the Women Got Even (1980); The Good Guy (2009); The Good Heart (2009); The Kill Reflex (1989); Thinner (1996); Third Watch (2000); Uncertainty (2008); Watch Your Mouth (1978); Whoopi (2004).

Born on this day – John Hughes:

John Hughes

Director

February 18, 1950 – August 6, 2009

Born on this day – Laurent Tirard:

 

Laurent Tirard

Writer

Director

February 18, 1967 – September 5, 2024

Credits:

À consommer froid de preference (2005); Astérix and Obélix: God Save Britannia (2012); Café Picouly (2007); Call My Agent! (2017); Ce soir (ou jamais!) (2007); Cinémas (2009); De source sûre (1999); Demain est un autre jour (2000); Días de cine (2022); Fred et son orchestra (2002–2003); Juste ciel! (2022); La pause (2005); Le plus beau jour de ma vie (2004); Les Chroniques du Mea (2018); Little Nicholas (2009); Maternal Love (2002); Mike (2011); Molière (2007); Mon vrai père (2004); Nicholas on Holiday (2014); Prête-moi ta main (2006); Return of the Hero (2018); Sans laisser de traces (2010); Second Chance (2010); Tête de gondole / Segments: La Pause; À consommer froid de preference (2005); The Speech (2020); The Story of My Life (2004); Ton tour viendra (2002); Up for Love (2016); Vivement dimanche (2014).

On this day in music history - Runaway, by Del Shannon (1961)

Runaway

by Del Shannon,

was released on February 18, 1961.

On this day in movie history - New York Confidential (1955)

New York Confidential

directed by Russell Rouse,

written by Clarence Greene and Russell Rouse,

based on the novel New York Confidential! by Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer,

was released in the United States on February 18, 1955.

Music by Joseph Mullendore.

Cast:

Broderick Crawford, Richard Conte, Marilyn Maxwell, Anne Bancroft, J. Carrol Naish, Onslow Stevens, Barry Kelley, Mike Mazurki, Celia Lovsky, Herbert Heyes, Steven Geray, William 'Bill' Phillips, Tom Powers, John Doucette.

On this day in movie history - The Chase (1966)

The Chase

directed by Arthur Penn,

written by Lillian Hellman,

based on the play and novel by Horton Foote,

was released in the United States on February 18, 1966.

Music by John Barry.

Cast:

Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda, Robert Redford, E.G. Marshall, Angie Dickinson, Janice Rule, Miriam Hopkins, Martha Hyer, Richard Bradford, Robert Duvall, James Fox, Diana Hyland, Henry Hull, Jocelyn Brando, Katherine Walsh, Lori Martin, Marc Seaton, Paul Williams, Clifton James, Malcolm Atterbury, Nydia Westman, Joel Fluellen, Steve Ihnat, Maurice Manson, Bruce Cabot, Steve Whittaker, Pamela Curran, Ken Renard, Don Anderson, James Anderson, Walter Bacon, Ray Ballard, Benjie Bancroft, Billy Bletcher, Matilda Brewer, Don Brodie, Tex Brodus, Rufis Burke, Nellie Burt, George Calliga, Dee Carroll, Woodrow Chambliss, Ron Chase, Eduardo Ciannelli, Dort Clark, Richard Collier, Jacqueline D'Avril, George DeNormand, Joe Dominguez, Dan Dowling, Vicki Draves, Charles Fogel, Lori Fontaine, Mel Gallagher, Ray Galvin, Richard Garland, Anthony Ghazlo Sr., Kenneth Gibson, George Golden, Monte Hale, Jill Hill, George Holmes, Clyde Howdy, Michael Jeffers, James Jeter, Kenneth Konopka, Alan Marston, Tina Menard, William Mims, Ernesto Molinari, Ralph Moody, Ruben Moreno, Stevenson Phillips, Bertha Powell, Patricia Quinn, Leoda Richards, Davis Roberts, John Roy, Charles Seel, Bernard Sell, Eddie Smith, Grady Sutton, Curtis Taylor, Susan Tracy, Felipe Turich, Herb Voland, Guy Way, Cathy Williams, Rodney Willis, George Winters, Judith Woodbury, Howard Wright.

On this day in movie history - The King of Comedy (1983)

The King of Comedy

directed by Martin Scorsese,

written by Paul D. Zimmerman,

was released in the United States on February 18, 1983.

Music by Robbie Robertson.

Cast:

Robert De Niro, Jerry Lewis, Sandra Bernhard, Diahnne Abbott, Shelley Hack, Margo Winkler, Kim Chan, Frederick De Cordova, Edgar Scherick, Ed Herlihy, Tony Randall, Victor Borge, Joyce Brothers, Catherine Scorsese, Cathy Scorsese, Martin Scorsese, Charles Scorsese, Mick Jones, Joe Strummer, Paul Simonon, Kosmo Vinyl, Ellen Foley, Don Letts, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio.