Author humor:

 

How I look when someone asks me what I’m writing about … and their reaction.

On this day in movie history – Lee Unkrich Presents The Shining (2023)

Lee Unkrich Presents The Shining

A presentation by Lee Unkrich, of his book Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining.

The venue was the David Geffen Theater, The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, in the United States, on March 17, 2023.

Part of the Spotlights series.

Lee Unkrich is the Director, Animator and Editor of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining.

Presentation introduced by Bernardo Rondeau, Senior Director, Film Programs.

After the presentation, a screening of The Shining (1980) was shown to the audience.

Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining.
Written by Lee Unkrich and J. W. Rinzler.
Published by Taschen.

On this day in movie history - Straight Time (1978)

Straight Time

directed by Ulu Grosbard and Dustin Hoffman,

written by Alvin Sargent, Edward Bunker and Jeffrey Boam,

based on the novel No Beast So Fierce by Edward Bunker,

was released in the United States on March 17, 1978.

Music by David Shire.

Cast:

Dustin Hoffman, Theresa Russell, Gary Busey, Harry Dean Stanton, M. Emmet Walsh, Rita Taggart, Kathy Bates, Sandy Baron, Jake Busey, Tina Menard, Stephanie Ericsson, Dave Kelly, Don Sommese, Kit Jee Wong, Peter Kwong, Jane Howard, Ronald L. Mellinger, Michael Blakley, John Colton, Edward Bunker, Corey Rand, John Gilgreen, Mary Craven, Peter Jurasik, Enid Hendershot, James Ray, Stuart I. Berton, Barry Cahill, Susan Sherman, Francesca Drown, Emily Le Rue, Ernest Taylor III, Fran Ryan, Bob Jarvis, Mark F. Hill, Mags Kavanaugh, Daniel Nunez, John McKinley Robertson, Mary Margaret Robinson, Deborah Sahagun.

Born on this day – Alfred Newman:

Composer

Conductor

March 17, 1900 – February 17, 1970

Credits:

Airport (1970); Firecreek (1968); Camelot (1967); Nevada Smith (1966); The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965); How the West Was Won (1962); The Counterfeit Traitor (1962); State Fair (1962); Flower Drum Song (1961); The Pleasure of His Company (1961); The Best of Everything (1959); The Diary of Anne Frank (1959); A Certain Smile (1958); The Bravados (1958); South Pacific (1958); The Gift of Love (1958); Anastasia (1956); Bus Stop (1956); The King and I (1956); Carousel (1956); Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955); The Seven Year Itch (1955); Daddy Long Legs (1955); A Man Called Peter (1955); There's No Business Like Show Business (1954); The Egyptian (1954); Hell and High Water (1954); The CinemaScope Parade (1954); How to Marry a Millionaire (1953); The Robe (1953); The President's Lady (1953); Call Me Madam (1953); Tonight We Sing (1953); Stars and Stripes Forever (1952); The Prisoner of Zenda (1952); O. Henry's Full House (1952); What Price Glory (1952); Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie (1952); With a Song in My Heart (1952); The Guest (1951); Elopement (1951); Golden Girl (1951); David and Bathsheba (1951); Take Care of My Little Girl (1951); On the Riviera (1951); Fourteen Hours (1951); For Heaven's Sake (1950); All About Eve (1950); No Way Out (1950); Panic in the Streets (1950); The Gunfighter (1950); The Big Lift (1950); Cheaper by the Dozen (1950); When Willie Comes Marching Home (1950); Twelve O'Clock High (1949); Prince of Foxes (1949); Pinky (1949); Thieves' Highway (1949); You're My Everything (1949); Mr. Belvedere Goes to College (1949); Mother Is a Freshman (1949); Down to the Sea in Ships (1949); A Letter to Three Wives (1949); Chicken Every Sunday (1949); Yellow Sky (1948); The Snake Pit (1948); Road House (1948); Cry of the City (1948); That Lady in Ermine (1948); The Walls of Jericho (1948); Deep Waters (1948); Give My Regards to Broadway (1948); Sitting Pretty (1948); Call Northside 777 (1948); Captain from Castile (1947); Gentleman's Agreement (1947); I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now (1947); The Razor's Edge (1946); Margie (1946); Centennial Summer (1946); Dragonwyck (1946); Leave Her to Heaven (1945); The Dolly Sisters (1945); State Fair (1945); A Bell for Adano (1945); A Royal Scandal (1945); A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945); Know Your Ally: Britain (1944); The Keys of the Kingdom (1944); Sunday Dinner for a Soldier (1944); Irish Eyes Are Smiling (1944); Wilson (1944); The Purple Heart (1944); December 7th (1943); The Gang's All Here (1943); The Song of Bernadette (1943); Claudia (1943); Heaven Can Wait (1943); My Friend Flicka (1943); At the Front in North Africa with the U.S. Army (1943); The Moon Is Down (1943); Life Begins at Eight-Thirty (1942); The Black Swan (1942); Springtime in the Rockies (1942); It's Everybody's War (1942); Girl Trouble (1942); The Battle of Midway (1942); Orchestra Wives (1942); The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe (1942); The Pied Piper (1942); Ten Gentlemen from West Point (1942); Why We Fight (1942); This Above All (1942); To the Shores of Tripoli (1942); Secret Agent of Japan (1942); Roxie Hart (1942); Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake (1942); Ball of Fire (1941); Remember the Day (1941); Rise and Shine (1941); How Green Was My Valley (1941); Week-End in Havana (1941); A Yank in the RAF (1941); Belle Starr (1941); Wild Geese Calling (1941); Charley's Aunt (1941); Moon Over Miami (1941); Man Hunt (1941); Blood and Sand (1941); That Night in Rio (1941); Hudson's Bay (1940); Tin Pan Alley (1940); They Knew What They Wanted (1940); Public Deb No. 1 (1940); The Westerner (1940); Brigham Young (1940); Foreign Correspondent (1940); Maryland (1940); The Mark of Zorro (1940); Earthbound (1940); Lillian Russell (1940); Vigil in the Night (1940); Little Old New York (1940); The Grapes of Wrath (1940); The Blue Bird (1940); Drums Along the Mohawk (1939); The Real Glory (1939); The Rains Came (1939); The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939); The Star Maker (1939); Beau Geste (1939); Young Mr. Lincoln (1939); Wuthering Heights (1939); Gunga Din (1939); They Shall Have Music (1939); The Goldwyn Follies (1938); Trade Winds (1938); The Cowboy and the Lady (1938); Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938); 52nd Street (1937); The Hurricane (1937); The Prisoner of Zenda (1937); Dead End (1937); Stella Dallas (1937); Wee Willie Winkie (1937); Slave Ship (1937); Woman Chases Man (1937); History Is Made at Night (1937); When You're in Love (1937); You Only Live Once (1937); Beloved Enemy (1936); Come and Get It (1936); The Gay Desperado (1936); Ramona (1936); Dodsworth (1936); Dancing Pirate (1936); One Rainy Afternoon (1936); These Three (1936); Strike Me Pink (1936); The Melody Lingers On (1935); Barbary Coast (1935); Red Salute (1935); The Dark Angel (1935); Call of the Wild (1935); Cardinal Richelieu (1935); Les Misérables (1935); The Wedding Night (1935); Folies Bergère de Paris (1935); Clive of India (1935); The Mighty Barnum (1934); Kid Millions (1934); We Live Again (1934); Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round (1934); The Affairs of Cellini (1934); Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back (1934); The Count of Monte Cristo (1934); Our Daily Bread (1934); The Cat's-Paw (1934); Born to Be Bad (1934); The Last Gentleman (1934); Looking for Trouble (1934); The House of Rothschild (1934); Nana (1934); Gallant Lady (1933); Advice to the Forlorn (1933); Roman Scandals (1933); Blood Money (1933); Broadway Thru a Keyhole (1933); The Bowery (1933); The Masquerader (1933); I Cover the Waterfront (1933); Secrets (1933); Hallelujah I'm a Bum (1933); Cynara (1932); Flesh (1932); The Kid from Spain (1932); Rain (1932); Mr. Robinson Crusoe (1932); Movie Crazy (1932); Night World (1932); Sky Devils (1932); The Greeks Had a Word for Them (1932); Cock of the Air (1932); Tonight or Never (1931); Arrowsmith (1931); Corsair (1931); Around the World with Douglas Fairbanks (1931); The Age for Love (1931); The Unholy Garden (1931); Palmy Days (1931); Street Scene (1931); Kiki (1931); The Devil to Pay! (1930).

Napoleon Hill, on imagination and writing:

First comes thought;
then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans;
then transformation of those plans into reality.
The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
- Napoleon Hill.