Monday, March 18, 2024
On this day in movie history – M*A*S*H (1970)
Born this day – Irene Cara:
Credits:
20 to 1
(2010); 20th NAACP Image Awards (1988); 9am with David & Kim (2006); A
Celebration of Life: A Tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr. (1984); Aaron Loves
Angela (1975); All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989); Ally McBeal (2002); American
Bandstand (1980–1983); American Idol (2003–2012); American Playhouse (1983);
Any Given Sunday (2006); Apple Pie (1975); Atomic Kitten: Kitten Diaries
(2002); Bagets (1984); Beauty and the Beast (1992); Beyond Awareness to Action:
Ending Abuse of Women (1995); Black Music in America: From Then Till Now
(1971); Bob's Burgers (2013); Body Electric (2002–2006); Bring Back... Fame
(2008); Britain's Got Talent (2011–2012); Busted Up (1986); Bustin' Loose
(1988); Caged in Paradiso (1989); Cannonball (2017); Celebrity Splash!
Australia (2013); Certain Fury (1985); Champs-Elysées (1983); Charlie's Angels:
Full Throttle (2003); China Cry: A True Story (1990); City Heat (1984); D.C.
Cab (1983); Dancing Stars (2013); Dancing with the Stars (2009); Deutschland
sucht den Superstar (2003–2008); Die Hit-Giganten (2005); Die ultimative
Chartshow (2005); DJ Bobo & Irene Cara: What a Feeling (2001); Domino Day
(2007); Downtown: A Street Tale (2004); E! True Hollywood Story (2000); Edle
dråper (2002); Eight (2020); Elämäni Biisi (2022); Elephant Shoes (2005); Emu's
World (1984); Entertainment Tonight (2007); Eufòria (2022); F.C. De Kampioenen
(1990–1991); Fama ¡a bailar! (2008); Fame (1980–1984); Flashdance (1983);
Gabriel's Fire (1991); Get Down Tonight: The Disco Explosion (2004);
Ghostbusters (1984); Girls (2013); Glee (2012); Going Bananas (1984); Gone
Country (2008); Granada Reports (2018); Greatest Ever 80s Movies (2007); Grey's
Anatomy (2009); Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones (1980); Happily Ever
After (1989); Hasta luego cocodrilo (1992); Hearts Are Wild (1992); Hermanos:
Cantaré, cantarás (1985); Hit Me, Baby, One More Time (2005); Hungry Hearts
(2014); I Love 1980's (2001); Idol - Jakten på en superstjerne (2005); Idol
(2003); Idol (2005); Idol winner 2005 (2005); Idols (2003); Idols (2006); Idols
(2007); Idool 2004 (2004); Irene (1981); Irene Cara: Anyone Can See (1982);
Irene Cara: Breakdance (1984); Irene Cara: Downtown (2006); Irene Cara: Fame
(1982); Irene Cara: Fame (Movie Version) (1980); Irene Cara: Fame (Show
Version) (1982); Irene Cara: Flashdance... What a Feeling (1983); Irene Cara:
Girlfriends (1987); Irene Cara: I Can Fly (1988); Irene Cara: My Baby (He's
Something Else) (1982); Irene Cara: No One But You (1990); Irene Cara: Out Here
on My Own (1980); Irene Cara: Out Here on My Own (Show Version) (1982); Irene
Cara: Reach Out I'll Be There (1982); Irene Cara: The Dream (Hold on to Your
Dream) (1984); Irene Cara: Why Me? (1983); It Takes Two (2007); Jerry Lewis MDA
Labor Day Telethon (1983); Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon (1980); Karaoke Revolution
Volume 3 (2004); Killing 'em Softly (1982); King of the Hill (2002); KISS and
Randi Reisfeld in Kids Are People, Too (1981–1982); Kojak (1976); Kommissar Rex
(1995); La máquina de bailar (2006); La télé de Sébastien (2006); Les 30 ans du
TOP 50 (2015); Les 50 ans du Disco - les stars chantent pour le Sidaction
(2023); Les enfants de la télé (2017–2019); Lip Sync Battle (2015); Lip Sync
Battle Philippines (2018); Lorraine (2016); Love of Life (1970-1971); Macy's
Thanksgiving Day Parade (1984); Masked Singer Suomi (2020); Miss Tacuarembó
(2010); Mitch Miller's Singalong Sampler (1981); Motormouth (1991); MTV 80s -
Top 50 at the Movies! (2020); MTV 80s - Top 50 Greatest Voices of the 80s!
(2020); Music Box (2021); Musical Chairs (1975); My Music: Movie Songs (2007);
Na sowas! (1983); Nacidas para sufrir (2009); Nip/Tuck (2008); Nöjesmaskinen
(1983); On Location with: FAME (1980); One Hit Wonderland (2014); Operación
triunfo (2002); PBS News Weekend (2022); Performance (1981); Peter Rabbit
(2018); Popular (2000); Professor Hope's Thanksgiving Campus Comedy Capers
(1983); Rapmania: The Roots of Rap (1990); Ray Parker Jr.: Girls Are More Fun
(1985); Razzle Dazzle (2007); Roots: The Next Generations (1979); Rovers
(2016); Salute! (1983); Saturday Night Live (2001–2015); SHIMMER Volume 36
(2010); Show-Express (1980); Sister, Sister (1982); Six Feet Under (2002);
Slovensko hladá SuperStar (2004); So You Think You Can Dance (2006); So You
Think You Can Dance Canada (2010); Solid Gold (1980–1984); Soul Train (1980);
Sparkle (1976); Starmania (2002); Strictly Come Dancing (2016); Sunburst II
(1984); Super Idol (2004); Teen Spirit (2018); That's Dancing! (1985); The 19th
Annual Nosotros Golden Eagle Awards (1989); The 22nd Annual Grammy Awards
(1980); The 23rd Annual Grammy Awards (1981); The 26th Annual Grammy Awards
(1984); The 28th Annual American Music Awards (1984); The 31st Annual Grammy
Awards (1989); The 38th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1981); The 41st Annual
Golden Globe Awards (1984); The 53rd Annual Academy Awards (1981); The 56th
Annual Academy Awards (1984); The 57th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (2005); The
58th Annual Academy Awards (1986); The Annual American Image Awards (1984); The
Boys (2019); The Brothers Johnson: Kick It to the Curb (1988); The David
Letterman Show (1980); The Disco Ball (2003); The Dorsey Robinson Show (1984);
The Electric Company (1971–1972); The Full Monty (1997); The Gavin & Lott
Show (1983); The Hughes Corporation: What A Feeling (2006); The Internship
(2013); The John Davidson Show (1980); The Jungle King (1994); The Longshot
(1986); The Magic Voyage (1992); The Masked Singer (2022); The Merv Griffin
Show (1980–1985); The Middle (2013); The Midnight Special (1980); The Pop 'N'
Rocker Game (1983); The Simpsons (2016); The Switch Drag Race (2015); The Toni
Tennille Show (1980); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1971–1981); The
Tonight Show with Jay Leno (2011); The Voice Israel (2013); The Wendy Williams
Show (2011); The X Factor UK (2007–2016); Top of the Pops (1982); Top of the
Pops (1982); Trust Us with Your Life (2012); Tu cara me suena - Argentina
(2014); Tu cara me suena (2014); UK Championship Snooker (2015); Un paso
adelante (2002); Vegas (2008); Verstehen Sie Spaß? (2001); VH1 Goes Inside
(2003); VH-1 Where Are They Now? (2000); Wetten, dass..? (2001); What's
Happening!! (1977); Who's Doing the Dishes? (2016); Zeg 'ns Aaa (1984).
Born on this day – John Updike:
Credits:
Books:
40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology (2000); 50 Great American Short Stories (1963); A Halloween Treat (2012); A Helpful Alphabet of Friendly Objects (1995); A Month of Sundays (1974); A&P (1961); Always Looking (2012); Americana (2001); Assorted Prose (1965); Baseball: a Literary Anthology (2002); Bech at Bay (1998); Bech Is Back (1982); Bech: A Book (1970); Brazil (1994); Buchanan Dying (1974); Classic Erotic Tales (2002); Collected Early Stories (2013); Collected Later Stories (2013); Collected Poems, 1953-1993 (1993); Couples (1968); Deadly Sins (1994); Due Considerations (2007); Endpoint and Other Poems (2009); Facing Nature (1985); First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994); FIRST WORDS: Earliest Writing from Favorite Contemporary Authors (2009); Friends from Philadelphia and Other Stories (1995); Gertrude and Claudius (2000); Golf Dreams (1996); Great Baseball Stories (1990); Higher Gossip (2011); Hoping for a Hoopoe (2020); Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu (2010); Hugging the Shore (1983); In Love with a Wanton (2020); In the Beauty of the Lilies (1996); Just Looking (1989); Licks of Love (2000); Licks of Love (2000); Listening for God Reader, Vol. 1 (1994); Listening for God, Vol. 2 (1996); Listening for God, Vol. 2 (1996); Listening for God, Vol. 3 (2000); Listening For God, Vol. 4 (2002); Magic Flute (1962); Marry Me (1971); Memories of the Ford Administration (1992); Midpoint and Other Poems (1969); More Matter (1999); More Stately Mansions (1987); Museums and Women and Other Stories (1972); My Father's Tears and Other Stories (2009); My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me (2010); Odd Jobs (1991); Of the Farm (1965); Olinger Stories (1964); Our Mothers' Spirits: Great Writers on the Death of Mothers and the Grief of Men (1997); Picked-Up Pieces (1975); Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories (1961); Points of View (1956); Prize Stories 1970: The O. Henry Awards (1970); Problems and Other Stories (1979); Rabbit at Rest (1990); Rabbit Is Rich (1981); Rabbit Redux (1971); Rabbit, Run (1960); Reel Verse: Poems about the Movies (2019); Rich In Russia (2011); Roger's Version (1986); S. (1988); Seek My Face (2002); Selected Poems (2015); Self-Consciousness (1989); Seventy Poems (1972); Still Looking (2005); Telephone Poles and Other Poems (1963); Ten Modern American Short Stories (1965); Terrorist (2007); The Afterlife and Other Stories (1994); The Alligators (1989); The Beastly Baby (1995); The Best American Erotica 2006 (2006); The Best American Mystery Stories 1999 (1999); The Best American Short Stories 1984 (1984); The Best American Short Stories 1991 (1991); The Best American Short Stories 2001 (2001); The Best American Short Stories of the Century (2000); The Blue Aspic (1968); The Carpentered Hen (1982); The Centaur (1963); The Coup (1978); The Dance of the Solids (1969); The Doubtful Guest (1957); The Early Stories (2003); The Eleventh Episode (1971); The Fatal Lozenge (1961); The Glorious Nosebleed (1974); The Literary Traveller (1994); The Lost Lions (1973); The Maples Stories (1980); The Music School (1966); The New Granta Book of the American Short Story (2007); The Object-Lesson (1958); The Osbick Bird (1970); The Other Statue (1968); The Oxford Book of American Short Stories (1992); The Poorhouse Fair (1958); The Remembered Visit (1965); The Same Door, Short Stories (1959); The Short Story: 30 Masterpieces (1992); The Sinking Spell (1964); The Sopping Thursday (1971); The Twelve Terrors of Christmas (1994); The Twelve Terrors of Christmas (1994); The Utter Zoo (1967); The Widows of Eastwick (2008); The Witches of Eastwick (1984); The Women Who Got Away (2007); Thoughtful Alphabets (2012); Three Trips (2005); Too Far to Go (1979); Tossing and Turning (1977); Toward the End of Time (1997); Trust Me (1987); Valentine Generation And Other Stories (1981); Villages (2004); Wonderful Town (2000); Writers on Writing (2001); Writers: Their Lives and Works (2018); Your Lover Just Called (1980).
Movies and television:
A & P
(1996); American Playhouse (1988); Apostrophes (1986); Charlie Rose in Charlie
Rose (2000); Doris Day: A Sentimental Journey (1991); Eastwick (2002–2010);
Good Morning America (1992); Great Conversations (1999); Gyere hozzám feleségül
(1987); James Thurber: The Life and Hard Times (2000); John Updike: In His Own
Words (1997); LeseZeichen (1999); Práve volal tvuj milenec (1989); Rabbit, Run
(1970); Rain Is Grace, Rain Is the Sky Descending to the Earth (2017); Release
(1968); Review (1972); Saturday Review (1987); Ted Williams: There Goes the
Greatest Hitter That Ever Lived (2009); The Book Programme (1976–1980); The
Century: America's Time (1999); The David Frost Show (1969–1970); The Dick
Cavett Show (1981); The Music School (1974); The Roommate / The Christian
Roommates (1984); The Simpsons (2000); The Witches of Eastwick (1987); The
Witches of Eastwick (1992); This Week (2006); Today (1986); Too Far to Go
(1979); Top Hat and Tales: Harold Ross and the Making of the New Yorker (2001);
Upon Reflection (1989).
Born on this day – Peter Graves:
Credits:
12 O'Clock
High (1967); 12th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2006); 300 Miles for
Stephanie (1981); 7th Heaven (1997–2007); A Man of Many Ideas (1954); A Rage to
Live (1965); A Stranger in My Arms (1959); Addams Family Values (1993); AFI
Life Achievement Award (1986); Airplane II: The Sequel (1982); Airplane!
(1980); Airplane: Long-Haul Version (2005); All-Star Party for 'Dutch' Reagan
(1985); American Dad! (2007); An Evening at the Improv (1981); Angels in the
Outfield (1951); Bayou (1957); Beginning of the End (1957); Behind the Legend:
Timon (2004); Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (1953); Best of Friends (1981); Betty
Boop: Queen of the Cartoons (1995); Bicentennial Minutes (1975); Biff Baker,
U.S.A. (1954); Biography (1987–2011); Biography International (1998); Black
Tuesday (1954); Branded (1966); Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979); Burke's
Law (1995); Call to Danger (1968–1973); Canyon River (1956); Cavalcade of
America (1956); CBS at 75 (2003); Celebrity Playhouse (1956); Chevron Theatre
(1953); Cimarron City (1959); Climax! (1957–1958); Cold Case (2006); Court
Martial (1965–1966); Daniel Boone (1966); Darkstar: The Interactive Movie
(2010); Dead Man on the Run (1975); Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Dennis Weaver
(1976); Dean's Place (1976); Death Car on the Freeway (1979); Death in Small
Doses (1957); Diagnosis Murder (1997–1999); Dinah Shore: In Search of the Ideal
Man (1973); Dinah! (1975–1976); Discover: The World of Science (with Peter
Graves) (1983); East of Sumatra (1953); Fantasy Island (1978–1983); Fireside
Theatre (1953–1955); Fort Defiance (1951); Fort Yuma (1955); Fox Mystery
Theater (1984); Funny Face (1971); Fury (1955–1960); Gloria Swanson: The
Greatest Star (1997); Golden Globes 50th Anniversary Celebration (1994); Gruen
Guild Theater (1952); Gunsmoke (1956); Harrison Ford: The Reluctant Hero
(1998); Here's Hollywood (1961); High Seas Hijack (1977); Hold Back the Night
(1956); House (2005); House of Mouse / How to Be a Spy (2001); House on Haunted
Hill (1999); If It's Tuesday, It Still Must Be Belgium (1987); It Conquered the
World (1956); Jack's Family Adventure (2010); Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2009);
Killers from Space (1954); Kraft Suspense Theatre (1963); Laredo (1966); Las
Vegas Beat (1961); Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust (2009); Lesley Ann
Warren: A Cinderella Story (2000); Life with Lucy (1986); Lux Video Theatre
(1957); Mad Mission 3: Our Man from Bond Street (1984); Magic at the Roxy
(1976); Matinee Theatre (1956); Matt and Jenny (1980); Men in Black II (2002);
Mickey Mouse Works (1999); Minoriteam (2006); Mission: Impossible (1967–1990);
Mr. Kingston (1964); Murder, She Wrote (1984); Northern Lights (1993); Number
One with a Bullet (1987); Other People, Other Places (1973); Pat Boone in
Hollywood (1968); Pioneers of Television (2011); Premiere (1968); Red Planet
Mars (1952); Robbers' Roost (1955); Rogue River (1951); Route 66 (1962); Run
for Your Life (1966); Savannah Smiles (1982); Schlitz Playhouse (1953); Scream
of the Wolf (1974); Sergeant Ryker (1968); Sidecar Racers (1975); Simon &
Simon (1981); Solid Gold (1987); SST: Death Flight (1977); Stalag 17 (1953);
Steve Martin: Comedy Is Not Pretty (1980); Studio 57 (1954); Studio One (1956);
Super Secret Movie Rules (2004); Survival Run (1979); Texas Across the River
(1966); The 12th Annual TV Week Logie Awards (1970); The 19th Annual CableACE
Awards (1997); The 23rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1971); The 31st Annual
Golden Globe Awards (1974); The 37th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1985); The
49th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1997); The 5-Man Army (1969); The Alan Hamel
Show (1980); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1963); The All New Truth or
Consequences (1966); The All Star Spangled Mission (1973); The Angry Beavers
(1998); The Ballad of Josie (1967); The Bob Braun Show (1971); The Bobby Vinton
Show (1976); The Carol Burnett Show (1970); The Clonus Horror (1979); The
Congregation (1952); The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955); The Daily Show
(1998); The David Frost Show (1972); The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Telly
Savalas (1974); The Dean Martin Show (1968–1971); The Ed Sullivan Show (1955);
The F.B.I. (1967); The Factor (2007); The Farmer's Daughter (1964); The
Florence Henderson Show (2009); The Gift of the Magi (1978); The Golden Girls
(1991); The Great Adventure (1964); The Guns and the Fury (1981); The Hollywood
Squares (Syndication) (1972); The Invaders (1967); The Joey Bishop Show (1968);
The Jonathan Winters Show (1968); The Law and Harry McGraw (1987); The Long
Gray Line (1955); The Love Boat (1978–1987); The Magical World of Disney
(1966–1978); The Making of 'War & Remembrance' (2004); The Man Who Tore
Down the Wall (1955); The Memory of Eva Ryker (1980); The Merv Griffin Show
(1969); The Mike Douglas Show (1968–1980); The Millionaire (1956); The
Mysterious Monsters (1975); The Naked Street (1955); The Night of the Hunter
(1955); The Official Walkthrough of Darkstar (2010); The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse
(1953–1954); The President's Plane Is Missing (1973); The Raid (1954); The
Rebels (1979); The Red Skelton Hour (1969); The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour
(1977); The Tehran Incident (1979); The Tim Conway Comedy Hour (1970); The
Tonight Show with Jay Leno (2007); The Underground Man (1974); The Unexplained:
Witches, Werewolves & Vampires (1994); The Virginian (1964); The Winds of
War (1983); The Winds of War: Making 'The Winds of War' (2004); The Yellow
Tomahawk (1954); These Old Broads (2001); This Is Your Life (1971–1972); This
Morning (1998); Today (2008); TV Reader's Digest (1955); Under the Law: Arrest
and Seize (1973); Up Front (1951); Valley of Mystery (1967); Valley of the Old
Ones (1974); War and Remembrance (1988); War Paint (1953); What a Difference a
Day Made: Doris Day Superstar (2009); Where Have All the People Gone (1974);
Where's Raymond? (1953); Whiplash (1960–1961); Whiplash / Listen to the Beat
(1961); Wichita (1955); Winning Your Wings (1942); With You in Spirit (2003);
Wolf Larsen (1958); You Are the Jury (1987); Your Favorite Story (1954); Your
Play Time (1954).
Judy Blume, on writing:
You don't write because you want to, but because you have to.
- Judy Blume.