Harold Ross, on writing:

I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories,

and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece on paper

and then went back and filled in the spaces.

- Harold Ross.

Recommended reading - Unknown Man #89

Unknown Man #89

by Elmore Leonard.

Published by Mariner Books.
First published 1977.
Paperback.

ISBN-10: 006218928X
ISBN-13: 978-0062189288

Description:
“The greatest crime writer of our time, perhaps ever!” – The New York Times Book Review.

“An absolute master.” – The Detroit News.

“No one is Leonard’s equal,” declares the Chicago Tribune – and anyone who might doubt it would only have to read Elmore Leonard’s riveting noir classic, Unknown Man #89, to become a true believer.

Detroit process server Jack Ryan has a reputation for being the best in the business at finding people who don't want to be found. Now he's looking for a missing stockholder known only as "Unknown Man No. 89." But his missing man isn't "unknown" to everyone: a pretty blonde hates his guts and a very nasty dude named Royal wants him dead in the worst way. Which is very unfortunate for Jack Ryan, who is suddenly caught in the crossfire of a lethal triple-cross and as much a target as his nameless prey.

The twisty tale of a Detroit process server whose search for a missing stockholder leads him into more serious peril than he ever imagined possible, Unknown Man #89 is a gourmet stew of mystery, suspense, and double and triple cross, peppered with the razor-sharp dialogue for which Grand Master Leonard is justifiably famous.

Exhilarating old-school crime fiction that the late, great John D. MacDonald, Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, and Robert Parker would have been proud to call their own, Unknown Man #89 is a gem – nothing less than we’d expect from the man who created the incomparable U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens of the hit TV series Justified.

Born on this day – Raoul Walsh:

Raoul Walsh

Director

Actor

March 11, 1887 – December 31, 1980

Credits:

11:30 P.M. (1915); A Bad Man and Others (1915); A Distant Trumpet (1964); A Lion Is in the Streets (1953); A Man for All That (1915); A Private's Affair (1959); Action in the North Atlantic (1943); Along the Great Divide (1951); Artist and Models (1937); Baby Face Harrington (1935); Background to Danger (1943); Band of Angels (1957); Battle Cry (1955); Betrayed (1917); Big Brown Eyes (1936); Blackbeard, the Pirate (1952); Blue Blood and Red (1916); Camino del infierno (1931); Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951); Carmen (1915); Cheyenne (1947); College Swing (1938); Colorado Territory (1949); Come September (1961); Dangerous Business (1920); Dark Command (1940); Desperate Journey (1942); Die große Fahrt (1931); Distant Drums (1951); East of Suez (1925); Esther and the King (1960); Evangeline (1919); Every Night at Eight (1935); Fighter Squadron (1948); For His Master (1914); From Now On (1920); Gentleman Jim (1942); Glory Alley (1952); Going Hollywood (1933); Gun Fury (1953); Helen of Troy (1956); Hello, Sister! (1933); High Sierra (1940); His Return (1915); Hitting a New High (1937); Home from the Sea (1915); Hot for Paris (1929); I'll Say So (1918); In Old Arizona (1928); In This Our Life (1942); It's a Great Feeling (1949); Kindred of the Dust (1922); Klondike Annie (1936); La femme à abattre (1993); La gran jornada (1931); Lest We Forget (1914); Life in Hollywood No. 4 (1927); Life in Hollywood No. 5 (1927); Lost and Found on a South Sea Island (1923); Manpower (1941); Marines, Let's Go (1961); Me and My Gal (1932); Me, Gangster (1928); Montana (1950); Northern Pursuit (1943); Objective, Burma! (1945); On the Jump (1918); One Sunday Afternoon (1948); Out of the Deputy's Hands (1914); Paid with Interest (1914); Peer Gynt (1915); Pillars of Society (1916); Pursued (1947); Rosita (1923); Sadie Thompson (1928); Sailor's Luck (1933); Salty O'Rourke (1945); San Antonio (1945); Sands of Fate (1914); Saskatchewan (1954); Sea Devils (1953); Serenade (1921); Should a Husband Forgive? (1919); Sierra Jim's Reformation (1914); Silver River (1948); Siren of Hell (1915); Spendthrift (1936); St. Louis Blues (1939); Stallion Road (1947); The Angel of Contention (1914); The Artist's Wife (1915); The Availing Prayer (1914); The Baited Trap (1914); The Banker's Daughter (1914); The Big Trail (1930); The Bowery (1933); The Buried Hand (1915); The Celestial Code (1915); The Cock-Eyed World (1929); The Comeback (1915); The Conqueror (1917); The Death Dice (1915); The Deep Purple (1920); The Delta Factor (1970); The Detective's Stratagem (1913); The Dishonored Medal (1914); The Double Deception (1915); The Double Knot (1914); The Enforcer (1951); The Exposure (1914); The Fatal Black Bean (1915); The Fencing Master (1915); The Final Verdict (1914); The Greaser (1915); The Great Leap: Until Death Do Us Part (1914); The Honor System (1917); The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945); The Innocent Sinner (1917); The King and Four Queens (1956); The Lady of the Harem (1926); The Lawless Breed (1952); The Life of General Villa (1914); The Little Country Mouse (1914); The Lone Cowboy (1915); The Love Pirate (1915); The Loves of Carmen (1927); The Lucky Lady (1926); The Man I Love (1946); The Man Who Came Back (1931); The Monkey Talks (1927); The Mystery of the Hindu Image (1914); The Naked and the Dead (1958); The Oath (1921); The Old Fisherman's Story (1914); The Only Clue (1914); The Outlaw's Revenge (1915); The Pride of New York (1917); The Pseudo Prodigal (1913); The Rebellion of Kitty Belle (1914); The Red Dance (1928); The Regeneration (1915); The Revolt of Mamie Stover (1956); The Roaring Twenties (1939); The Second Mrs. Roebuck (1914); The Serpent (1916); The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (1958); The Silent Lie (1917); The Smuggler (1915); The Spaniard (1925); The Stranger (1913); The Strawberry Blonde (1941); The Strongest (1920); The Tall Men (1955); The Thief of Bagdad (1924); The Unpainted Portrait (1914); The Wanderer (1925); The Woman and the Law (1918); The World in His Arms (1952); The Yellow Ticket (1931); They Died with Their Boots On (1941); They Drive by Night (1940); They Never Knew (1914); This Is the Life (1917); Uncertain Glory (1944); Under Pressure (1935); What Price Glory (1926); When Fate Frowned (1914); When Thief Meets Thief (1937); White Heat (1949); Who Shot Bud Walton? (1914); Wild Girl (1932); Women of All Nations (1931); You're in the Army Now (1937).

Born on this day – Peter R. Hunt:

Peter R. Hunt

Director

Editor

Producer

March 11, 1925 – August 14, 2002

Credits:

A Cry from the Streets (1958); Assassination (1987); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1953–1959); Damn the Defiant! (1962); Deadline Midnight (1961); Death Hunt (1981); Doublecross (1956); Dr. No (1962); Eyes of a Witness (1991); Ferry to Hong Kong (1959); Gold (1974); Goldfinger (1964); Gulliver's Travels (1977); Hell in Korea (1956); Hyper Sapien: People from Another Star (1986); Loss of Innocence (1961); Next to No Time! (1958); Night Games (1980); On the Fiddle (1961); Paradise Lagoon (1957); Philip Marlowe, Private Eye (1983); Probation Officer (1960); Rough Cut (1980); Salute to Show Business (1957); Shirley's World (1972); Shout at the Devil (1976); Sink the Bismarck! (1960); Strange Portrait (1966); The Beasts Are on the Streets (1978); The Ipcress File (1965); The Last Days of Pompeii (1984); The Persuaders! (1971); The Persuaders! (1971); The Secret Tent (1956); The Six Proud Walkers (1954); The Venusian (1954); There Was a Crooked Man (1960); This Man Craig (1966); This Week (1956–1959); Touch and Go (1955); Wild Geese II (1985).

Born on this day – Valerie French:

Valerie French

Actress

March 11, 1928 – November 3, 1990

Credits:

One of the Boys (1982); One Life to Live (1977); The Adams Chronicles (1976); All My Children (1977); Shalako (1968); Armchair Theatre (1968); Champion House (1967); ITV Playhouse (1968); The Prisoner (1967); Love Story (1967); The Nurses (1965); A Flame in the Wind (1964); The Best of the Post (1961); Have Gun - Will Travel (1959–1960); Alcoa Theatre (1958–1960); The Alaskans (1960); Goodyear Theatre (1958–1960); Bold Venture (1959); The Story on Page One (1959); The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake (1959); The Third Man (1959); Ten Little Indians (1959); Schlitz Playhouse (1958); The George Sanders Mystery Theater (1957); The Hard Man (1957); Trackdown (1957); Decision at Sundown (1957); The 27th Day (1957); The Garment Jungle (1957); The Ford Television Theatre (1956); Secret of Treasure Mountain (1956); The Edge of Night (1965); Jubal (1956); Marriage a la Mode (1955); Rheingold Theatre (1954); Tonight's the Night (1954); Maddalena (1954); Strictly Personal (1953).

Born on this day – Lis Verhoeven

Lis Verhoeven

Actress

Theater director

March 11, 1931 – July 2, 2019

Credits:

100 000 Dollar Belohnung (1961); A Case for Two (1982–1983); Alle meine Töchter (1997); Anwalt Abel (1992); Beaumarchais (1969); Bedaure, falsch verbunden (1962); Berlin, Keithstrasse 30 (1972); Bestseller (1956); Bethanien (1966); Campingplatz (1964); Cecile (1977); Coiffeur (1973); Crumbles letzte Chance (1967); Das Bild des Menschen. Gespräche einer letzten Nacht (1964); Das Jahrhundert der Chirurgen (1972); Das Männerquartett (1978); Das Mietshaus (1964); Den Tod in der Hand (1963); Der Anwalt (1977–1978); Der Bulle von Tölz (2003); Der Geisterzug (1963); Der Kommissar (1972–1975); Der selige Christopher Bohn (1955); Derrick (1985–1996); Die Magermilchbande (1979); Die Zeit und die Conways (1960); Die Zeiten ändern sich (1983); Ein langer Tag (1964); Eine Frau von heute (1954); Eine Gefangene bei Stalin und Hitler (1968); Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin - Stunde der Entscheidung (1970); Froher Herbst des Lebens (1961); Hafenpolizei (1964); Im Schillingshof (1973); Kläger und Beklagte (1979); Krempoli - Ein Platz für wilde Kinder (1975); Kreuzfahrten eines Globetrotters (1981); Lady Cop (1994); Lilli Lottofee (1992); Machenschaften (1965); Macht der Finsternis (1959); Mammis Wanderjahre (1957); Marie (1972); Mauern (1963); Nachtasyl (1959); NET Playhouse (1970); Oh Gott, Herr Pfarrer (1988); Ornifle oder Der erzürnte Himmel (1972); Pulle + Pummi (1972); Rosamunde Pilcher (1998); Schatten in der 3. Avenue (1956); Seit Adam und Eva (1955); SOKO München (2005); Sonntagsgeschichten (1976); Tag für Tag (1969); Tatort (1978); The Black Forest Hospital (1987); The Blood of Fu Manchu (1968); The Eternal Waltz (1954); The Grapes Are Ripe (1952); The Taming of the Shrew (1962); The White Rose (1982); Turandot (Prinzessin von China) (1959); Um die 30 (1995); Unsere Besten (2006); Unter einem Dach (1975); Verdacht gegen Barry Croft (1972); Vergiß die Liebe nicht (1953); Vorsicht! Frisch gewachst! (1978); Zum blauen Bock (1981); Zum kleinen Fisch (1977); Zwei Briefe an Pospischiel (1971).

Born on this day – Janet Lake:

 

Janet Lake

Actress

March 11, 1936 – December 21, 2025

Credits:

77 Sunset Strip (1959–1961); Bachelor Father (1961); Bonanza (1961); Bringing Up Buddy (1961); Cain's Hundred (1961); Checkmate (1961); Colt .45 (1960); Have Gun - Will Travel (1959–1961); Hawaiian Eye (1960–1962); Here's Hollywood (1961); Johnny Staccato (1959); Manhunt (1960); Maverick (1960–1962); MGM Parade (1956); Perry Mason (1964); Raintree County (1957); Ripcord (1961); Sugarfoot (1960); Surfside 6 (1960–1962); The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1958–1961); The Case of the Dangerous Robin (1960); The Fastest Gun Alive (1956); The John Forsythe Show (1965); The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1961); The Opposite Sex (1956); The Tycoon (1964); The Wings of Eagles (1957); These Wilder Years (1956); Thriller (1962); Tombstone Territory (1960); Two Weeks in Another Town (1962).

Born on this day – Angelique Pettyjohn:

 

Angelique Pettyjohn

Actress

March 11, 1943 – February 14, 1992

Credits:

A Guide for the Married Man (1967); Batman (1967); Biohazard (1985); Body Talk (1982); Bracken’s World (1969); Cargo of Love (1968); Childish Things (1969); Clambake (1967); For Singles Only (1968); Get Smart (1967); Going in Style (1979); Good Morning World (1968); Good-bye Cruel World (1982); Heaven with a Gun (1969); Hell’s Belles (1969); Hotel (1967); Love, American Style / Segment: Love and the Modern Wife (1969); Mad Doctor of Blood Island (1968); Mr. Terrific (1967); Professor Lust (1967); Repo Man (1984); Rough Night in Jericho (1967); Stalag 69 (1982); Star Trek (1968); Takin’ It Off (1985); Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon (1970); The Cool Ones (1967); The Curious Female (1969); The Curse of Her Flesh (1968); The Felony Squad (1967); The G.I. Executioner (1971); The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. (1967); The Green Hornet (1967); The Lost Empire (1984); The Love God? (1969); The Love Rebellion (1967); The Monkees (1968); The Odd Couple (1968); The Touch of Her Flesh (1967); The Wizard of Speed and Time (1988); The Wizard of Speed and Time (1988); Up Your Teddy Bear (1970); Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? (1968).

On this day in movie history - THX 1138 (1971)

THX 1138

directed by George Lucas,

written by George Lucas and Walter Murch,

based the 1967 short film Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB by George Lucas,

was released in the United States on March 11, 1971.

Music by Lalo Schifrin.

Painting shown on the Unit Chapel booth screens:

Christ Giving His Blessing, by Hans Memling (1478).

 

Cast:

Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence, Maggie McOmie, Don Pedro Colley, Ian Wolfe, Marshall Efron, Sid Haig, John Pearce, James Wheaton, Irene Cagen, Gary Alan Marsh, John Seaton, Eugene I. Stillman, Jack Walsh, Mark Lawhead, Robert Feero, Johnny Weissmuller Jr., Claudette Bessing, Susan Stroh, Henry Jacobs, Bill Love, Doc Scortt, Gary Austin, Scott L. Menges, Toby L. Stearns, Paul K. Haje, Ralph Chesse, Dion M. Chesse, Bruce Chesse, Mello Alexandria, Brandyn Barbara Artis, Morris D. Erby, Willie C. Barnes, Richard Quinnell, Jean M. Durand, Scott Beach, Neva Beach, Terence McGovern, Julie Payne, James Cranna, Ruth Silveira, Bruce Mackey, David Ogden Stiers, Bart Patton, Dennis Falt, Jack Rigg, Matthew Robbins.

On this day in movie history - Diva (1981)

Diva

directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix,

written by Jean-Jacques Beineix and Jean Van Hamme,

based on the novel by Delacorta,

was released in France on March 11, 1981.

Music by Vladimir Cosma.

Cast:

Frédéric Andréi, Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez, Roland Bertin, Richard Bohringer, Gérard Darmon, Chantal Deruaz, Jacques Fabbri, Patrick Floersheim, Thuy An Luu, Jean-Luc Porraz, Laure Duthilleul, Dominique Pinon, Dominique Besnehard, Isabelle Mergault, Anny Romand, Jean-Jacques Moreau, Raymond Aquilon, Eugène Berthier, Gérard Chaillou, Andrée Champeaux, Nathalie Dalyan, Laurence Darpy, Michel Debrane, Etienne Draber, Nane Germon, Gabriel Gobin, Jim Adhi Limas, Louise Malapert, Dimo Mally, Vaneta Mally, Alain Marcel, Marthe Moudiki-Moreau, Robyn Bernard, Yann Roussel, Brigitte Lahaie, Jean-Louis Vitrac, Tania Zabaloieff, Vladimir Cosma.