Neil deGrass Tyson, on learning:

I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.

- Neil deGrass Tyson. 

Recommended reading - The Way Some People Die (1951)

 

The Way Some People Die

by Ross Macdonald.

Paperback.
 
ISBN-10: 0307278980
ISBN-13: 978-0307278982
 
Back cover description:
 

“The greatest American mystery novelist. Macdonald imbued the mystery with the qualities of a full-bodied novel: impeccable plotting, a sense of place, a careful delineation of human psychology, and a perfect fusion of story and character.” – Richard North Patterson.

 

In a rundown house in Santa Monica, Mrs. Samuel Lawrence presses fifty crumpled bills into Lew Archer's hand and asks him to find her wandering daughter, Galatea. Described as ‘crazy for men’ and without discrimination, she was last seen driving off with small-time gangster Joe Tarantine, a hophead hood with a rep for violence. Archer traces the hidden trail from San Francisco slum alleys to the luxury of Palm Springs, traveling through an urban wilderness of drugs and viciousness. As the bodies begin to pile up, he finds that even angel faces can mask the blackest of hearts. Filled with dope, delinquents and murder, this is classic Macdonald and one of his very best in the Lew Archer series.

 

“Ross Macdonald gives to the detective story that accent of class that Raymond Chandler did.” – Chicago Tribune.

Born on this day – William C. DeMille:

William C. DeMille

Writer

Director

July 25, 1878 – March 5, 1955

Credits:

Book:

Hollywood Saga (1939).

Movies and television:

A Trip to Paramountown (1922); After Five (1915); After the Show (1921); Almost Human (1927); Anton the Terrible (1916); Bought and Paid For (1922); Braveheart (1925); Cameo Kirby (1914); Captain Fury (1939); Carmen (1915); Clarence (1922); Classmates (1914 / 1924); Common Ground (1916); Craig's Wife (1928); Don't Call It Love (1923); Famous Scenes from Pagliacci (1934); For Alimony Only (1926); For Better, for Worse (1919); Gigolo (1926); Grumpy (1923); Hashimura Togo (1917); His Double Life (1933); Hollywood (1923); Icebound (1924); Jack Straw (1920); Joan the Woman (1916); Locked Doors (1925); Lost: A Wife (1925); Maria Rosa (1916); Men and Women (1925); Midsummer Madness (1920); Mirandy Smiles (1918); Miss Lulu Bett (1921); New Brooms (1925); Nice People (1922); One More American (1918); Only 38 (1923); Passion Flower (1930); Peg o' My Heart (1919); Quest of His Youth (1920); Rose of the Rancho (1914); Sinners in the Sun (1932); Social Register (1934); Strongheart (1914); Temptation (1915); Tenth Avenue (1928); The Bedroom Window (1924); The Blacklist (1916); The Clown (1916); The DeMille Dynasty (1998); The Doctor's Secret (1929); The Emperor Jones (1933); The Explorer (1915); The Fast Set (1924); The Forbidden Woman (1927); The Ghost House (1917); The Goose Girl (1915); The Governor's Lady (1915); The Heir to the Hoorah (1916); The Honor of His House (1918); The Idle Rich (1929); The Little Adventuress (1927); The Lost Romance (1921); The Man Higher Up (1929); The Marriage Maker (1923); The Master Mind (1914); The Mystery Girl (1918); The Night Club (1925); The Only Son (1914); The Prince Chap (1920); The Puppet Crown (1915); The Ragamuffin (1916); The Runaway (1926); The Secret Call (1931); The Secret Game (1917); The Secret Orchard (1915); The Sowers (1916); The Splendid Crime (1925); The Telephone Girl (1927); The Tree of Knowledge (1920); The Warrens of Virginia (1915 / 1924); The Widow's Might (1918); The Wild Goose Chase (1915); The Wise Wife (1927); The Woman (1915); The Woman God Forgot (1917); The World and the Woman (1916); The World's Applause (1923); This Mad World (1930); Two Kinds of Women (1932); We Can't Have Everything (1918); What Every Woman Knows (1921); Why Change Your Wife? (1920); Young Romance (1915).

Born on this day – Sylvester Weaver:

Sylvester Weaver

Blues Guitarist

July 25, 1897 – April 4, 1960

Credits:

Compilation albums:

Complete Recorded Works Vol. 1 (1923–1927) (1992); Complete Recorded Works Vol. 2 (1927) (1992).

Born on this day – Arthur Lubin:

 

Arthur Lubin

Director

Producer

July 25, 1898 – May 11, 1995

Born on this day – Lila Lee:

 

Lila Lee

Actress

July 25, 1905 – November 13, 1973

Born on this day – Woody Strode:

 

Woody Strode

Actor

Athlete

July 25, 1914 – December 31, 1994

Born on this day – Ken Swofford:

Ken Swofford

Actor

July 25, 1933 – November 1, 2018

Born on this day – Don Ellis:

 

Don Ellis

Musician

Composer

July 25, 1934 – December 17,1978

Born on this day – Barbara Harris:

Barbara Harris

Actress

July 25, 1935 – August 21, 2018

Credits:

A Doonesbury Special (1977); A Thousand Clowns (1965); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1961); Anne Manx on Amazonia (2005); As Caesar Sees It (1962); Camera Three (1961); Channing (1963); Chronicle (1963); Days of Our Lives (1989); Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988); Family Plot (1976); Freaky Friday (1976); Grosse Pointe Blank (1997); Life Itself (2014); Middle Ages (1992); Mixed Company (1974); Movie Movie / Segment: Baxter's Beauties of 1933 (1978); Naked City (1962); Nashville (1975); Nice Girls Don't Explode (1987); Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad (1967); Peggy Sue Got Married (1986); Plaza Suite (1971); Second City: First Family of Comedy (2006); Second-Hand Hearts (1980); Stand Up and Cheer (1971); TCM Remembers 2018 (2018); The 21st Annual Tony Awards (1967); The 44th Annual Academy Awards (1972); The 73rd Annual Tony Awards (2019); The Age of Believing: The Disney Live Action Classics (2008); The Bell Telephone Hour (1966); The Defenders (1964); The Doctors and the Nurses (1964); The Garry Moore Show (1964); The Magical World of Disney (1982); The Making of 'Nashville' (2013); The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery (1975); The Merv Griffin Show (1967); The North Avenue Irregulars (1979); The Oscars (2019); The Seduction of Joe Tynan (1979); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1964); The Walt Disney Comedy and Magic Revue (1985); The War Between Men and Women (1972); Todd's Pop Song Reviews (2013); What's Going on Here? (1963); Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? (1971); You Will Be with Us in Paradise (2019).

Born on this day – Pilar Seurat:

Pilar Seurat

Actress

July 25, 1938 – June 2, 2001

Credits:

7 Women from Hell (1961); 77 Sunset Strip (1959); A Death of Innocence (1971); Adventures in Paradise (1960–1962); Battle at Bloody Beach (1961); Ben Casey (1964); Bonanza (1972); Burke's Law (1964); Checkmate (1961); Custer (1967); Daniel Boone (1965); Eight Legged Freaks (2002); General Electric Theater (1959); Hawaii Five-O (1970); Hawaiian Eye (1959); Hong Kong (1960); I Spy (1965); King of Diamonds (1961); Mackenzie's Raiders (1959); Mannix (1969); Maverick (1960); Michael Shayne (1961); Mod Squad (1970); Naked City (1962); O'Hara, U.S. Treasury (1971); On the Road (1962); Peter Loves Mary (1961); Playhouse 90 (1959); Rawhide (1964); Seaway (1966); Slattery's People (1965); Star Trek (1967); Stoney Burke (1963); Temple Houston (1964); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1963); The Defenders (1964); The F.B.I. (1965–1970); The Fugitive (1966); The High Chaparral (1967); The Islanders (1961); The Lieutenant (1963); The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1966); The New Breed (1961); The Virginian (1966–1968); The Wild Wild West (1966); The Young Savages (1961); Then Came Bronson (1969); Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1965).

Born on this day – Renée Victor:

 

Renée Victor

Actress

Singer

Dance instructor

July 25, 1938 – May 30, 2025

Credits:

All You've Got (2006); All Rise (2020); A Time of Love and War (2025); A Night in Old Mexico (2013); A Million Little Things (2023); A Family in Crisis: The Elian Gonzales Story (2000); Assassination Tango (2002); Bob (1993); Boyle Heights (2010); Childrens Hospital (2010); Coco (2017); Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009); Dead to Me (2020–2022); El Llorón (2025); Entanglement (2014); ER (2004); Fairfax (2021); Forever Young at Heart (2011); Four Corners (1998); Futurama (2024); Gentefied (2020); George Burns Comedy Week (1985); Good Morning Agrestic (2007); Green Ghost and the Masters of the Stone (2021); Hollywood Familia (2006); Hot Tamale (2006); Hotel (1983–1985); House of Cards (1993); House of Payne (2008–2009); In My Mother's Arms (2017); In Other Words (2020); Island Prey (2001); Kid Quick (2000); Kiss Me a Killer (1991); La carretera (2009); Libertad (1996); Major Crimes (2014); Mary-Louise Parker in Weeds (2005–2012); Masquerade (1984); Matlock (1987); Mayans M.C. (2022); Men Behaving Badly (1996); Mister Sterling (2003); Moe (2023); My Brother the Pig (1999); Never Trust a Serial Killer (2002); Parallel Lives (1994); Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (2014); Parking Spot (2023); Prospect (2004); Saint George (2014); Salsa (1988); Scarecrow and Mrs. King (1985); Snowpiercer (2020–2021); Steal Big Steal Little (1995); Strong Medicine (2001); Stuntmen (2009); SuperFly (2018); Team Knight Rider (1998); Tears & Tortillas (2006); That Motherf**Ker (2017); That's Life (2000); The Addams Family (1992); The Apostle (1997); The City for God's Sake (1987); The Doctor (1991); The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered (2025); The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (2011); The Flight (1989); The Mealybug (2024); The Neon Bible (1995); The Ortegas (2003); The Parent 'Hood (1996); The Prophecy II (1998); The Super Man (2017); The Tony Danza Show (1997); The Unspeakable (2017); The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit (1998); This One Is for the Neighborhood (2023); Time Well Spent (1996); Undone (2022); Unknown Dimension: The Story of Paranormal Activity (2021); Victor & Valentino (2020–2021); Vida (2018–2019); Visitando Oliva (2023); Wake (2011); Wake-Up Call (2001); Walker (2022); Weeds: Suburban Shakedown (2005); Welcome to Our World (2021); Witches of East End (2014); With Love (2021–2023); Women's Murder Club (2007).

Born on this day – Janet Margolin:

Janet Margolin

Actress

July 25, 1943 – December 17, 1993

Credits:

Alcoa Premiere (1962); Annie Hall (1977); Arrest and Trial (1964); Ben Casey (1962); Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (1968); Bus Riley's Back in Town (1965); Columbo: Murder in Malibu (1990); Compression (2024); Coronet Blue (1967); David and Lisa (1962); Distant Thunder (1988); East Side/West Side (1963); Enter Laughing (1967); Family Flight (1972); Ghostbusters II (1989); Joe Forrester (1976); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1962); Lanigan's Rabbi (1976–1977); Last Embrace (1979); Lucas Tanner (1974); Martinelli, Outside Man (1977); Medical Center (1971); Mod Squad (1972); Morituri (1965); Murder C.O.D. (1990); Murder in Peyton Place (1977); Murder, She Wrote (1990); Nevada Smith (1966); Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law (1971); Planet Earth (1974); Police Story (1973–1975); Police Woman (1975); Pray for the Wildcats (1974); S.W.A.T. (1975); Serpico (1976); Sharon: Portrait of a Mistress (1977); Starsky and Hutch (1977); Take the Money and Run (1969); Ten Blocks on the Camino Real (1966); The Defenders (1963); The Eavesdropper (1966); The Eddie Capra Mysteries (1978); The Edge of Night (1961); The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965); The Interns (1971); The Last Child (1971); The Plutonium Incident (1980); The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal (1979); The Wide World of Mystery (1975); The Young Lawyers (1971); Tonight's the Night (1987); Your Three Minutes Are Up (1973).

On this day in television history - Justified: City Primeval (2023)

Justified: City Primeval
Season 1. Episode 3.

Episode entitled: Backstabbers.
 
Released July 25, 2023.
 
Directed by Jon Avnet.

Written by Eisa Davis, Chris Provenzano, Dave Andron, Michael Dinner, Cole Quirk.

Based on City Primeval and Fire in the Hole by Elmore Leonard.
Music by Mark Isham.
 
Cast:

Timothy Olyphant, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Adelaide Clemens, Marin Ireland, Victor Williams, Norbert Leo Butz, Boyd Holbrook, Ravi Patel, Joseph Anthony Byrd, Dominic Fumusa, Kenn E. Head, Vivian Olyphant, Alexander Pobutsky, Bri Ranae Short, Emma Kathryn Onderko, Rachel Sullivan, Wild Earp, Doc Brown, Alan Mayne, Jed Taylor, Colin Mulhern, Jae Artell.

On this day in movie history - The Mackintosh Man (1973)

The Mackintosh Man

directed by John Huston,

written by Walter Hill and William Fairchild,

based on The Freedom Trap by Desmond Bagley,

was released in the United States on July 25, 1973.

Music by Maurice Jarre.

Cast:

Paul Newman, Dominique Sanda, James Mason, Harry Andrews, Ian Bannen, Michael Hordern, Nigel Patrick, Peter Vaughan, Roland Culver, Percy Herbert, Robert Lang, Leo Genn, Jenny Runacre, John Bindon, Hugh Manning, Wolfe Morris, Noel Purcell, Donald Webster, Keith Bell, Niall MacGinnis, Eddie Byrne, Shane Briant, Michael Poole, Eric Mason, Ronald Clarke, Antony Viccars, Dinny Powell, Douglas Robinson, Jack Cooper, Marc Boyle, Marcelle Castillo, Nosher Powell, Terry Plummer, Joe Cahill, Gerry Alexander, John McDarby, Donal McCann, Joe Lynch, Seamus Healy, Tom Irwin, Pascal Perry, Steve Brennan, Vernon Hayden, Brendon O’Duill.

On this day in movie history - Out of Bounds (1986)

Out of Bounds

directed by Richard Tuggle,

written by Tony Kayden,

was released in the United States on July 25, 1986.

Music by Stewart Copeland.

Cast:

Anthony Michael Hall, Jenny Wright, Jeff Kober, Glynn Turman, Raymond J. Barry, Pepe Serna, Michele Little, Jerry Levine, Ji-Tu Cumbuka, Kevin McCorkle, Linda Shayne, Maggie Gwinn, Ted Gehring, Meat Loaf, Allan Graf, Dan Lewk, John Vickery, Tony Acierto, David Chung, Tony Kayden, John Tarnoff, Jennifer Balgobin.

On this day in movie history - Give ‘Em Hell, Malone (2009)

 

Give ‘Em Hell, Malone

a.k.a. Malone

directed by Russell Mulcahy,

written by Mark Hosack,

was released in the United States on July 25, 2009.

Music by David Williams.

 
Cast:

Thomas Jane, Ving Rhames, Elsa Pataky, French Stewart, Leland Orser, Chris Yen, William Abadie, Gregory Harrison, Doug Hutchison, Eileen Ryan, David Andriole, Thomas Olson, Mark Hosack, Melody Deatherage, Bart Heimburger, Patrick Treadway, Armand Jalayeri, Gary Pierce, Dane Farwell, Devon Graves, Brandon O’Neill, Gretchen Oyster, Jhon Goodwin, Kent Kimball, Katrina McKinley, Candy Richardz, Aaron Fink, R.J. Hampton, Dominic Salvatore, Randy Weatherbee.

On this day in movie history - Lucy (2014)

Lucy

directed and written by Luc Besson,

was released in the United States on July 25, 2014.

Music by Éric Serra.

Cast:

Scarlett Johansson, Morgan Freeman, Choi Min-sik, Amr Waked, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Pilou Asbæk, Analeigh Tipton, Nicolas Phongpheth.