On this day in television history – James Ellroy's L.A.: City of Demons (2011)

 

James Ellroy's L.A.: City of Demons

Documentary.

Season 1.

Episode 4.
Episode entitled: Dames and Delinquents.
Released: February 9, 2011.
Series directors: Brian Coughlin, Gabe Torres, Brian Coughlin and Robert Kirk.
 
Cast:
James Ellroy, Anna Bazarkina, Deanna Morris.

On this day in movie history - The Warriors (1979)

The Warriors

directed by Walter Hill,

written by David Shaber and Walter Hill,

based on the novel by Sol Yurick,

was released in the United States on February 9, 1979.

Music by Barry De Vorzon.

Cast:

Michael Beck, James Remar, Deborah Van Valkenburgh, Marcelino Sánchez, David Harris, Tom McKitterick, Brian Tyler, Dorsey Wright, Terry Michos, David Patrick Kelly, Roger Hill, Edward Sewer, Lynne Thigpen, Thomas G. Waites, Paul Greco, Jery Hewitt, Kate Klugman, Konrad Sheehan, Craig R. Baxley, A.J. Bakunas, Steve James, Bill Anagnos, Dennis Gregory, Mercedes Ruehl, Irwin Keyes, Sonny Landham, Ginny Ortiz, John Snyder.

Born on this day – Zoë Lund:

Musician

Actress

Writer

Producer

February 9, 1962 – April 16, 1999

Credits: 

Dreamland (1997); Hand Gun (1994); Hot Ticket (1993); Bad Lieutenant (1992); The Houseguest (1989); Exquisite Corpses (1989); Hothouse (1988); Miami Vice (1985); Special Effects (1984); Ms .45 (1981); Times Square (1980).

On this day in movie history - Wizards (1977)

Wizards

directed and written by Ralph Bakshi,

was released in the United States on February 9, 1977.

Narrated by Susan Tyrrell.

Music by Andrew Belling.

 

Cast:
Bob Holt, Jesse Welles, Richard Romanus, David Proval, Steve Gravers, James Connell, Mark Hamill, Susan Tyrrell, Ralph Bakshi, Angelo Grisanti.

Born on this day – Kathryn Grayson:

Actress

Singer

February 9, 1922 – February 17, 2010

Credits:

Murder, She Wrote (1987–1989); Baretta (1978); Lux Playhouse (1958); Playhouse 90 (1957); General Electric Theater (1955–1956); The Vagabond King (1956); Kiss Me Kate (1953); So This Is Love (1953); The Desert Song (1953); Lovely to Look At (1952); Show Boat (1951); Grounds for Marriage (1951); The Toast of New Orleans (1950); That Midnight Kiss (1949); The Kissing Bandit (1948); It Happened in Brooklyn (1947); Till the Clouds Roll By (1946); Two Sisters from Boston (1946); Her Highness and the Bellboy (1945); Ziegfeld Follies (1945); Anchors Aweigh (1945); Thousands Cheer (1943); Seven Sweethearts (1942); Rio Rita (1942); The Vanishing Virginian (1942); Andy Hardy's Private Secretary (1941).

Born on this day – Amy Lowell:

Writer

February 9, 1874 – May 12, 1925

Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926.

 
Credits:

A Critical Fable (1922); A Dome of Many-Colored Glass (1912); Amy Lowell (1925); Amy Lowell: A Chronicle, With Extracts from her Correspondence (1935); Ballads for Sale (1927); Can Grande's Castle (1919); Complete Poetical Works and Selected Writings in 6 vols; East Wind (1926); Fireworks: The Atlantic Monthly (1915); Fir-Flower Tablets (1921); Legends (1921); Men, Women and Ghosts (1916); Pictures of the Floating World (1919); Selected Poems of Amy Lowell (2002); Some imagist poets (1917); Sword Blades and Poppy Seed (1914); The Complete Poetical Works of Amy Lowell (1955); The Complete Poetical Works of Amy Lowell (1955); The Touch of You Amy Lowell's Poems of Love and Beauty (1972); What's O'Clock (1925).

Arthur Schopenhauer, on reading:

 

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

- Arthur Schopenhauer.