Shannon Hale, on writing:

 

Being a writer is a good, good thing.
- Shannon Hale.

Recommended reading - Blade Runner: The Inside Story

Blade Runner: The Inside Story

by Don Shay.

Published by Titan Books.
Published 2003.

ISBN-10: 1840232102
ISBN-13: 9781840232103
 
Description:

In 1982, to coincide with Blade Runner's original release, Cinefex, the respected magazine devoted to movie design and special effects devoted an entire, extended issue to Ridley Scott's sci-fi masterpiece. That issue has been out of print since then, but in constant demand – copies now sell on the collector's market for over $100. Titan Books is proud to bring this classic back into print, in a remastered hardcover edition.

Described as 'the single most comprehensive examination of Blade Runner's special effects', this must-have book contains scores of images not available elsewhere, as well as authoritative text, containing in-depth, exclusive interviews with director Ridley Scott and the legendary designer Syd Mead.

Born on this day – Georgia Hale:

Georgia Hale

Actress

June 25, 1900 – June 17, 1985

Credits:

A Trick of Hearts (1928); A Woman Against the World (1928); Chaplin Today: The Gold Rush (2003); Fashion News (1930); For Sale (1924); Gypsy of the North (1928); Hills of Peril (1927); His Marriage Wow (1925); Hollywood Party (1937); Josef von Sternberg Interview (1968); Lost Forever (2011); Man of the Forest (1926); No More Women (1924); Sigrid Holmquist (2010); The Floating College (1928); The Gold Rush (1925); The Great Gatsby (1926); The Last Moment (1928); The Lightning Warrior (1931); The Rainmaker (1926); The Rawhide Kid (1928); The Salvation Hunters (1925); The Taxi Driver (1921); The Wheel of Destiny (1927); These Amazing Shadows (2011); Unknown Chaplin (1983).

Born on this day – George Orwell:

 

George Orwell

Writer

June 25, 1903 – January 21, 1950

Credits:

Books:

1984 (1949); 40 Model Essays (2005); A Clergyman's Daughter (1935); A Collection of Essays (1970); A Kind of Compulsion (1999); A Life in Letters (2010); A Nice Cup Of Tea (1946); An Age Like This 1920-1940 (1971); Animal Farm (1945); As I Please, 1943-1945 (1968); Books v. Cigarettes (2008); Coming Up for Air (1939); Critical Essays (1951); Decline of the English Murder and Other Essays (1965); Diaries (2009); Dickens, Dali and Others (1946); Down and Out in Paris and London (1933); England Your England and Other Essays (1953); Facing Unpleasant Facts (1999); Fifty Essays (2015); Homage to Catalonia (1938); In Front of Your Nose 1945-1950 (1971); It Is What I Think (1999); Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936); Keeping Our Little Corner Clean (1999); Narrative Essays (2009); Orwell in Spain (2001); Orwell In Tribune (2007); Orwell The Lost Writings (1985); Orwell: A Celebration (2009); Orwell: The 'Observer' Years (2003); Orwell's England (2001); Our Job is to Make Life Worth Living (1999); Pages From a Scullion's Diary (1995); Selected Essays / Inside the Whale and Other Essays (1957); Selected Prose (1991); Selected Writings (1958); Smothered Under Journalism (1999); Such, Such Were the Joys and Other Essays (2010); The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters (1961); The Eloquent Essay (2000); The English People (1982); The Lion and the Unicorn (1962); The Penguin Essays of George Orwell (1984); The Road to Wigan Pier (1937); The Sayings of George Orwell (1994); The War Broadcasts (1985); Two Wasted Years (1999); War Commentaries (1985); Why I Write (2004); Writers: Their Lives and Works (2018).

Movies, television, theatre and audioplay:

1984 - BBC Live TV Productions (1954); 1984 / aka Nineteen Eighty-Four (1956 / 1984 / 2006 / 2009 / 2021 / 2022 / 2023); 1984 a ballet by Jonathan Watkins (2016); 1984: A Personal View of Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty Four' (1983); A Merry War (1997); A Reading: 'You and the Atomic Bomb' (2017); About Religion (1964); Amélie Paul (2020); Animal Farm (1954 / 1999 / 2020); Anno Schmidt (1974); Apple Mac: 1984 (1983); Arena (1984); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1954); Big Brother (1970); Dobro vece, gospodine Orvel (1984); Dramarama (1984); Especial 84 (1984); Europa: The Last Battle (2017); Four Episodes from 1984 (1985); Good Morning Mr. Orwell (1984); Hollywood Insider (2021); How to Become a Tyrant (2021); I riassuntini (2018); Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1965); LIT P.D. (2017); NET Playhouse (1968); rwell's England (1985); Peaceforce (2011); Poem 1984 (2020); Reminded (2023); Shooting an Elephant (2016); Some Thoughts on the Common Toad (2023); Studio One (1953); The Bolt Report (2024); The Dark Triad (2019); The Final Redpill (2022); The Rita Panahi Show (2023); Theatre 625 (1965).

Born on this day – Mary Livingstone:

 

Mary Livingstone

Actress

Comedienne

June 25, 1905 – June 30, 1983

Credits:

50 Years of Funny Females (1995); AFI Life Achievement Award (1975); Biography (1996); Bright Moments (1928); Buck Benny Rides Again (1940); Entertaining the Troops (1988); Here's Lucy (1970); Hollywood Goes to Town (1938); It's in the Bag! (1945); Jack Benny's 20th Anniversary TV Special (1970); Kelsey Grammer Salutes Jack Benny (1995); Meet the Stars #3: Variety Reel #1 (1941); Mr. Broadway (1933); Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 12 (1936); Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 6 (1938); Screen Snapshots: Hollywood's Pair of Jacks (1953); Screen Snapshots: Memories of Famous Hollywood Comedians (1952); Screen Snapshots: Photoplay Gold Medal Awards (1948); Show-Business at War (1943); Shower of Stars (1958); The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (1957); The Great Radio Comedians (1972); The Jack Benny Program (1950–1963); The Merv Griffin Show (1967); The Mouse That Jack Built (1959); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1978); This Way Please (1937); Three of a Kind (1941).

Born on this day – Sidney Lumet:

Sidney Lumet

Director

Producer

Writer

June 25, 1924 – April 9, 2011

Credits:

12 Angry Men (1957); 50 Years of Action! (1986); 100 Centre Street (2001–2002); A Decade Under the Influence (2003); A Stranger Among Us (1992); A View from the Bridge (1962); AFI Life Achievement Award (2007); AFI's 10 Top 10: America's 10 Greatest Films in 10 Classic Genres (2008); AFI's 100 Years... 100 Cheers: America's Most Inspiring Movies (2006); AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes & Villains (2003); AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies (1998); AFI's 100 Years... 100 Thrills: America's Most Heart-Pounding Movies (2001); All the King's Men (1958); American Experience (2006); American Masters (2003–2017); And the Oscar Goes to... (2014); Arena (1977); Based on a True Story (2004); Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007); Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: Making '12 Angry Men' (2008); Beyond the Time Barrier (1960); Biography (1999–2003); Blue Code of Silence (2020); By Sidney Lumet (2015); Bye Bye Braverman (1968); Camera Three (1962); CBS Television Workshop (1952); Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic (2004); Charlie Rose (1995–2007); Child's Play (1972); Cinema (1967); Cinema 3 (2011); Cinema mil (2005); Crime Photographer (1951–1952); Critical Care (1997); Cronkite Remembers (1997); Danger (1951–1953); Daniel (1983); De película (1987); Deathtrap (1982); Días de cine (2011); Directed by Sidney Lumet: How the Devil Was Made (2008); Dog Day Afternoon (1975); 'Dog Day Afternoon': After the Filming (2006); 'Dog Day Afternoon': Casting the Controversy (2006); 'Dog Day Afternoon': Recreating the Facts (2006); Equus (1977); Fail Safe (1964); Family Business (1989); Film '72 (1973–1987); Find Me Guilty (2006); Finding Eleazar (2004); FOLCS Conversations (2006); Fonda on Fonda (1992); Frontier (1955); Funny (1988); Garbo Talks (1984); Gloria (1999); Goodyear Playhouse (1955–1956); Guilty as Sin (1993); Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates (1958); Hollywood Greats (1984); Hollywood Insider (2021–2022); I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale (2009); Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust (2004); In Her Skin (2009); Inside 'Serpico' (2002); Inside the Actors Studio (1994); Inside: 'Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb' (2000); John Brown's Raid (1960); John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs (2017); Journey to Jerusalem (1941); Just Tell Me What You Want (1980); King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis (1969); Kraft Theatre (1958); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1955–1959); Le 100 Centre Street De Sidney Lumet (2002); L'énigme Charlotte Rampling (2023); Les échos du cinéma (1962); Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jones (1990); Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962); Lovin' Molly (1974); Lumet on Lumet (2011); Lumet: Film Maker (1975); Making 'Murder on the Orient Express' (2004); Mama (1954); Messengers (2004); Milestones in Cinema History: The Verdict (2007); Minty Comedic Arts (2021); Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood (2010); Moving Image Salutes Elia Kazan (1987); Moving Image Salutes James Stewart (1988); Moving Image Salutes Sidney Lumet (1985); Mr. Broadway (1957); Mr. Broadway (1957); Murder on the Orient Express (1974); Network (1976); 'Network': Mad as Hell - The Creation of a Movie Moment (2006); 'Network': The Cast, the Characters (2006); 'Network': The Experience (2006); 'Network': The Style (2006); 'Network': The World and Words of Paddy Chayefsky (2006); New York at the Movies (2002); Night Falls on Manhattan (1996); Night of 100 Stars III (1990); Nosferatu vs. Father Pipecock & Sister Funk (2014); NY TV: By the People Who Made It - Part I & II (1998); Omnibus (1954–1957); ...One Third of a Nation... (1939); Papirossen (1936); Party Girl (1995); Paul Newman, l'intranquille (2023); Play of the Week (1960); Playhouse 90 (1960); Power (1986); Prince of the City (1981); Prince of the City: The Real Story (2007); Private Screenings (2005); Private Screenings (2014); Producers' Showcase (1957); Q&A (1990); Rachel Getting Married (2008); Rachel, quand du seigneur (2004); Release (1968); Revisiting 'Fail-Safe' (2000); Running on Empty (1988); Sean Connery Close Up (1997); Sean Connery: A BAFTA Tribute (1990); Sean Connery: An Intimate Portrait (1997); Serpico (1973); 'Serpico': Favorite Moments (2002); 'Serpico': From Real to Reel (2002); Sidney Lumet: I Love New York (1987); Spécial cinéma (1983); Special Collector's Edition (2013); Spike Lee's '25th Hour': The Evolution of an American Filmmaker (2003); Stage Struck (1958); Star Stage (1955); Strip Search (2004); Studio One (1957); Sunday Showcase (1960); TCM Remembers (2011); That Kind of Woman (1959); The 17th Annual Gotham Awards (2007); The 400 Million (1939); The 45th Annual Directors Guild Awards (1993); The 48th Annual Academy Awards (1976); The 49th Annual Academy Awards (1977); The 55th Annual Academy Awards (1983); The 77th Annual Academy Awards (2005); The 84th Annual Academy Awards (2012); The Alcoa Hour (1956); The Anderson Tapes (1971); The Annual ACLU Tribute: A Salute to Sidney Lumet (1985); The Annual Waldorf Gala Salute to Myrna Loy (1985); The Appointment (1969); The Best of Broadway (1954–1955); The British Greats (1980); The Challenge (1955); The Deadly Affair (1967); The Dick Cavett Show (1968–1995); The Directors (1999); The DuPont Show of the Month (1957–1958); The Elgin Hour (1955); The Fugitive Kind (1960); The Group (1966); The Hill (1965); The Iceman Cometh (1960); The Interviews: An Oral History of Television (1997); The Last Movie Stars (2022); The Last of the Mobile Hot Shots (1970); The Making of 'the Verdict' (1982); The Manchurian Candidate (2004); The Manchurian Candidate: Political Pundits (2004); The Merv Griffin Show (1969); The Morning After (1986); The Offence (1973); The Orange British Academy Film Awards (2012); The Pawnbroker (1964); The Sea Gull (1968); The Seven Lively Arts (1957); The Station Agent (2003); The Sun... the Sand... the Hill (1965); The Tramp and the Dictator (2002); The Verdict (1982); The Verdict: Paul Newman - The Craft of Acting (2007); The Verdict: Sidney Lumet - The Craft of Directing (2007); The Wiz (1978); This Is Your Life (1990); Unauthorized Biography: Jane Fonda (1988); What Is Cinema? (2013); William Holden: The Golden Boy (1989); Wiz on Down the Road (1978); You Are There (1953–1955).

Born on this day – Virginia Patton:

 

Virginia Patton

Actress

June 25, 1925 – August 18, 2022

Credits:

TCM Remembers 2022 (2022); The Lucky Stiff (1949); Black Eagle (1948); A Double Life (1947); The Burning Cross (1947); It's a Wonderful Life (1946); Nobody Lives Forever (1946); Canyon Passage (1946); The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945); Hollywood Canteen (1944); The Last Ride (1944); Janie (1944); Grandfather's Follies (1944); Roaring Guns (1944); Old Acquaintance (1943); Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943).

Born on this day – Alex Toth:

 

Alex Toth

Cartoonist

June 25, 1928 – May 27, 2006

Credits:

Adventures Into Digital Comics (2006); Battle of the Planets (1978–1980); Bionic Six (1987); Bird of Steel! (2024); Birdman (1967–1987); C.H.O.M.P.S. (1979); Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels (1977–1980); Captain Fathom (1965); Cartoon Planet (1995–1999); Cartoon Superheroes Abridged (2015); Clue Club (1976); Devlin (1974); Dynomutt Dog Wonder (1976–1977); Fantastic Four (1967); Frankenstein, Jr. and the Impossibles (1966); Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law (2018); Jabberjaw (1976); Jack and the Beanstalk (1967); Jonny Quest (1965); Josie and the Pussy Cats in Outer Space (1972); Moby Dick and the Mighty Mightor (1967); Project X (1968); Robin Hood (1973); Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo (1980); Scooby's Laff-A Lympics (1977–1979); Sealab 2020 (1972); Sealab 2021 (2000–2001); Shazzan (1967); Sin City (2005); Skyhawks (1969–1971); Space Angel (1962–1964); Space Ghost (1966–2021); Space Ghost Coast to Coast (1993–2004); Super Friends (1973–1978); The Angry Red Planet (1959); The Herculoids (1967–1969); The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1968); The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour (1976–1978); Thundarr the Barbarian (1980).

Born on this day – Mark Withers:

Mark Withers

Actor

June 25, 1947 – November 22, 2024

Credits:

A Final Gift (2012); Alex: The Life of a Child (1986); Basic Training (1985); Best of the West (1981); Bolden (2019); California Fever (1979); Castle (2013); Citizen X (2002); Criminal Minds (2011); Dallas (1987); Days of Our Lives (1986–1987); Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story (1981); Divorce Court (1986); Drop Dead Diva (2013); Dynasty (1981); Dynasty Reunion: Catfights & Caviar (2006); Frasier (2001); Hart to Hart (1982); Her Life as a Man (1984); Hill Street Blues (1986); Hollywood and Beyond with Steven Brittingham (2018); Hotel (1986); How the West Was Won (1978); Hunter (1986); In Development (2013); It's Your Move (1985); Kaz (1978–1979); L.A. Law (1987); Magnum, P.I. (1982); Matlock (1989); McNamara's Band (1977); Reckless (2014); Remington Steele (1985); Ruby & Martin (2012); Santa Barbara (1985); Sense8 (2017–2018); She Spies (2003); Something About Amelia (1984); Southern Man (1998); Stranger Things (2016); The Creatress (2019); The Dukes of Hazzard (1982); The Greatest American Hero (1981); The Hugga Bunch (1985); The King of Queens (2002); The New Gidget (1987); The Phoenix Incident (2015); The Ultimate Life (2013); The Wizard (1987); Trapper John, M.D. (1979–1981); Trauma Center (1983); True Blood (2013); Turn Around Jake (2014); Wild and Wooly (1978); Wonder Woman (1978); Work from Home (2014).

On this day in movie history - Gaslight (1940)

Gaslight

directed by Thorold Dickinson,

written by A.R. Rawlinson and Bridget Boland,

based on the play Gas Light by Patrick Hamilton,

was released in the United Kingdom on June 25, 1940.

Music by Richard Addinsell.

Cast:

Anton Walbrook, Diana Wynyard, Frank Pettingell, Cathleen Cordell, Robert Newton, Jimmy Hanley, Minnie Rayner, Marie Wright, Aubrey Dexter, Mary Hinton, Angus Morrison, Jack Barty, The Darmora Ballet.

On this day in movie history - Klute (1971)

Klute

directed by Alan J. Pakula,

written by Andy and Dave Lewis,

was released in the United States on June 25, 1971.

Music by Michael Small.

Cast:

Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi, Roy Scheider, Dorothy Tristan, Rita Gam, Nathan George, Vivian Nathan, Morris Strassberg, Barry Snider, Betty Murray, Jane White, Shirley Stoler, Robert Milli, Anthony Holland, Fred Burrell, Richard B. Shull, Mary Louise Wilson, Marc Malvin, Rosalind Cash, Jean Stapleton, Jan Fielding, Antonia Rey, Robert Ronan, Richard Russell Ramos, Garrett Cassell, Jerome Collamore, Candy Darling, Kevin Dobson, Veronica Hamel, Richard Jordan, Margaret Linn, Tony Major, Harry Reems, Joe Silver, Ellen Stretton, Lee Wallace.

On this day in movie history - Rollerball (1975)

Rollerball

directed by Norman Jewison,

written by William Harrison,

based on the short story Roller Ball Murder by William Harrison,

was released in the United States on June 25, 1975.

Music by André Previn.

Adagio in G minor by Tomaso Albinoni.

Cast:

James Caan, John Houseman, Maud Adams, John Beck, Moses Gunn, Pamela Hensley, Barbara Trentham, John Normington, Shane Rimmer, Burt Kwouk, Nancy Bleier, Richard LeParmentier, Robert Ito, Ralph Richardson.

On this day in movie history - The Omen (1976)

The Omen

directed by Richard Donner,

written by David Seltzer,

was released in the United States on June 25, 1976.

Music by Jerry Goldsmith.

Cast:

Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, David Warner, Billie Whitelaw, Harvey Stephens, Patrick Troughton, Martin Benson, Robert Rietty, Tommy Duggan, John Stride, Anthony Nicholls, Holly Palance, Roy Boyd, Freda Dowie, Sheila Raynor, Robert MacLeod, Bruce Boa, Don Fellows, Patrick McAlinney, Dawn Perllman, Nancy Manningham, Miki Iveria, Betty McDowall, Nicholas Campbell, Burnell Tucker, Ronald Leigh-Hunt, Guglielmo Spoletini, Ya’ackov Banai, Ann Barrass, Mark Baxter, Harvey Bernhard, Michael Byrne, Victor Harrington, Juba Kennerley, Leo McKern, Noel O’Connell, Bill Reimbold, Adam Rhodes, Massimo Serato, Tina Simmons, Christine Spooner, Damian John Spooner, Guy Standeven.