Desiderius Erasmus, on books:

When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

- Desiderius Erasmus.

Recommended reading – True Crime

 

True Crime

by Andrew Klavan.
 
Filmed as True Crime (1999), directed by Clint Eastwood.

Published by Dell.
First published 1995.
Mass Market Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0440224039
ISBN-13: 978-0440224037

Description:
 

In the heat of the city, a man is out of time: speeding in a beat-up Ford Tempo, blasting easy-listening music. Reporter Steve Everett drinks too much, makes love to his boss's wife, and has just stumbled upon a shocking truth: a convicted killer is about to be executed for a crime he didn't commit.

In the cold confines of Death Row, Frank Beachum is also out of time. Ready to say good-bye to the wife and child he loves and hello to the God he still believes in, Beachum knows he did not kill a convenience store clerk six years ago.  But in a few hours – if Steve Everett can't find the evidence to stop it – a needle is going to pierce Frank Beachum's skin.

The killing machine is primed. The executioner is waiting. And so is the priest. Now the clock is ticking down and the race is on – between the reporter and his demons, between the system and its lethal flaws, between the last innocent man and society's ultimate crime. . . .

Born on this day – Betty Compson:

Betty Compson

Actress

Producer

March 19, 1897 – April 18, 1974

Credits:

This Is Your Life (1954); Here Comes Trouble (1948); Second Chance (1947); Hard Boiled Mahoney (1947); Her Adventurous Night (1946); Claudia and David (1946); Danger! Women at Work (1943); Zis Boom Bah (1941); Escort Girl (1941); Invisible Ghost (1941); Roar of the Press (1941); Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941); The Watchman Takes a Wife (1941); Laughing at Danger (1940); Strange Cargo (1940); Cafe Hostess (1940); Cowboys from Texas (1939); Mad Youth (1939); News Is Made at Night (1939); Hotel Imperial (1939); Under the Big Top (1938); Religious Racketeers (1938); Two Gun Justice (1938); The Beloved Brat (1938); Torchy Blane in Panama (1938); A Slight Case of Murder (1938); Port of Missing Girls (1938); Blondes at Work (1938); Federal Bullets (1937); God's Country and the Man (1937); Circus Girl (1937); Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 12 (1936); Two Minutes to Play (1936); Killer at Large (1936); Bulldog Edition (1936); Hollywood Boulevard (1936); The Drag-Net (1936); The Millionaire Kid (1936); Laughing Irish Eyes (1936); August Weekend (1936); False Pretenses (1935); Manhattan Butterfly (1935); No Sleep on the Deep (1934); Notorious But Nice (1933); Destination Unknown (1933); West of Singapore (1933); Guilty or Not Guilty (1932); The Silver Lining (1932); Hollywood Halfbacks (1931); The Gay Diplomat (1931); Three Who Loved (1931); Virtuous Husband (1931); The Lady Refuses (1931); Screen Snapshots Series 9, No. 13 (1930); The Voice of Hollywood, Series 1, No. 2 (1930); The Boudoir Diplomat (1930); She Got What She Wanted (1930); The Spoilers (1930); Inside the Lines (1930); Midnight Mystery (1930); Czar of Broadway (1930); Those Who Dance (1930); Isle of Escape (1930); The Case of Sergeant Grischa (1930); Fashion News (1930); Blaze o' Glory (1929); Show of Shows (1929); Woman to Woman (1929); The Great Gabbo (1929); Skin Deep (1929); Street Girl (1929); The Time, the Place and the Girl (1929); On with the Show! (1929); Weary River (1929); Scarlet Seas (1928); The Barker (1928); The Docks of New York (1928); Court-Martial (1928); Life's Mockery (1928); The Masked Angel (1928); The Desert Bride (1928); The Big City (1928); Cheating Cheaters (1927); Temptations of a Shop Girl (1927); Say It with Diamonds (1927); The Ladybird (1927); Love Me and the World Is Mine (1927); The Belle of Broadway (1926); The Wise Guy (1926); The Palace of Pleasure (1926); Counsel for the Defense (1925); Dangerous Virtue (1925); The Pony Express (1925); Paths to Paradise (1925); Beggar on Horseback (1925); New Lives for Old (1925); Eve's Secret (1925); Locked Doors (1925); The Garden of Weeds (1924); The Fast Set (1924); Ramshackle House (1924); The Female (1924); The Enemy Sex (1924); White Shadows (1924); Miami (1924); The Stranger (1924); Woman to Woman (1923); The Royal Oak (1923); Hollywood (1923); The Woman with Four Faces (1923); The Rustle of Silk (1923); The White Flower (1923); Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 21 (1923); Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 9 (1922); A Trip to Paramountown (1922); Screen Snapshots, Series 2, No. 22-F (1922); Kick In (1922); To Have and to Hold (1922); The Bonded Woman (1922); Always the Woman (1922); Over the Border (1922); The Green Temptation (1922); The Law and the Woman (1922); The Little Minister (1921); Ladies Must Live (1921); At the End of the World (1921); For Those We Love (1921); Prisoners of Love (1921); Screen Snapshots, Series 1, No. 17 (1921); Screen Snapshots, Series 1, No. 14 (1920); The Miracle Man (1919); The Devil's Trail (1919); The Little Diplomat (1919); The Light of Victory (1919); The Prodigal Liar (1919); The Terror of the Range (1919); The Sheriff (1918); Border Raiders (1918); All Dressed Up (1918); Never Surprise Your Wife (1918); Betty's Adventure (1918); Somebody's Baby (1918); Here Comes the Groom (1918); Circumstantial Evidence (1918); Whose Wife? (1918); Many a Slip (1918); Cupid's Camouflage (1917); Help! Help! Police! (1917); Their Seaside Tangle (1917); Betty Wakes Up (1917); Nearly a Papa (1917); Almost Divorced (1917); Love and Locksmiths (1917); Almost a Bigamist (1917); Betty's Big Idea (1917); Crazy by Proxy (1917); A Smoky Love Affair (1917); Won in a Cabaret (1917); Down by the Sea (1917); Five Little Widows (1917); A Bold, Bad Knight (1917); Almost a Scandal (1917); Those Wedding Bells (1917); His Last Pill (1917); Father's Bright Idea (1917); Love and the Ice Man (1917); Suspended Sentence (1917); Sauce for the Goose (1917); As Luck Would Have It (1917); Out for the Coin (1917); Hubby's Night Out (1917); Small Change (1917); Her Friend, the Chauffeur (1917); Her Crooked Career (1917); Lovers and Lunatics (1916); Cupid's Uppercut (1916); Hist! At Six O'Clock (1916); Sea Nymphs (1916); Some Kid (1916); Her Sun-Kissed Hero (1916); A Brass-Buttoned Romance (1916); Nearly a Hero (1916); Dad's Masterpiece (1916); When Clubs Were Trumps (1916); He Loved the Ladies (1916); That Doggone Baby (1916); He Wouldn't Tip (1916); The Making Over of Mother (1916); Those Primitive Days (1916); Inoculating Hubby (1916); His Baby (1916); The Browns See the Fair (1916); Almost a Widow (1916); Wanted: A Husband (1916); All Over a Stocking (1916); Her Celluloid Hero (1916); The Wooing of Aunt Jemima (1916); He's a Devil (1916); Potts Bungles Again (1916); Lem's College Career (1916); The Newlyweds' Mix-Up (1916); Eddie's Night Out (1916); A Leap Year Tangle (1916); He Almost Eloped (1916); The Janitor's Busy Day (1916); A Friend, But a Star Boarder (1916); Love and Vaccination (1916); The Deacon's Waterloo (1916); When Lizzie Disappeared (1916); Cupid Trims His Lordship (1916); Her Friend, the Doctor (1916); When the Losers Won (1916); A Quiet Supper for Four (1916); Her Steady Carfare (1916); Mingling Spirits (1916); Jed's Trip to the Fair (1916); Some Chaperone (1915); Love and a Savage (1915); Where the Heather Blooms (1915); Their Quiet Honeymoon (1915); Wanted: A Leading Lady (1915).

Born on this day – Simone Renant:

 

Simone Renant

Actress

March 19, 1911 – March 29, 2004

Credits:

Après l'amour (1947); Asmodée (1963); Au cinéma ce soir (1971); Au théâtre ce soir (1967–1975); Aurore et Victorien (1975); Bal Cupidon (1949); Bedevilled (1955); Cadavres en vacances (1963); Champs-Elysées (1983); Danger Flight 931 (1955); Dangerous Liaisons (1959); Dear Inspector (1977); Domino (1943); Échec au porteur (1958); École des vedettes (1962); Elles étaient douze femmes (1940); Il figlio di Lagardère (1952); Jenny Lamour (1947); La folle nuit (1932); La joie de vivre (1956); La moule (1934); La mystérieuse lady (1936); La nuit est à nous (1953); La tentation de Barbizon (1946); L'ange du foyer (1937); L'ange qu'on m'a donné (1946); Le mystérieux Monsieur Sylvain (1947); Le petit théâtre d'Antenne 2 (1979); L'école des journalistes (1936); Les échos du cinéma (1962); Les étoiles de la chanson (1971); Les parents terribles (1960); Les pirates du rail (1938); Lettres d'amour (1942); L'homme de joie (1950); Liberté-liberté (1983); Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love! (1961); Love and the Frenchwoman / Femme seule, La (1960); Love Is a Funny Thing (1969); Mam'zelle Bonaparte (1942); Monsieur Cinéma (1969); Nous irons à Valparaiso (1954); On ne roule pas Antoinette (1936); Pas de pitié pour les femmes (1950); Quelle famille! (1965); Romance à trois (1942); Si Paris nous était conté (1956); Tapage nocturne (1951); That Man from Rio (1964); The Adventures of Remi (1958); The Ostrich Has Two Eggs (1957); The Pearls of the Crown (1937); Thirteen Days of Love (1935); Three Men to Kill (1980); Three Murderesses (1959); Voyage sans espoir (1943); Wicked Duchess (1942).

Born on this day – Patricia Morison:

 

Patricia Morison

Actress

Mezzo-soprano singer

Painter

March 19, 1915 – May 20, 2018

Credits:

A TV Dante (1989); American Masters (1990); Are Husbands Necessary? (1942); Beyond the Blue Horizon (1942); Bill Slater Show (1950); Biography (1995–2003); Broadway: The American Musical (2004); Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There (2003); Brows Held High (2011); Calling Dr. Death (1943); Cavalcade of Stars (1951); Celanese Theatre (1952); Chance of a Lifetime (1952); Cheers (1989); College of Musical Knowledge (1950); Danger Woman (1946); Directions (1964); Dressed to Kill (1946); Four Star Playhouse (1953); Gabriel’s Fire (1991); General Foods 25th Anniversary Show: A Salute to Rodgers and Hammerstein (1954); General Foods 25th Anniversary Show: A Salute to Rodgers and Hammerstein / King and I (1954); Great Performances (1971); Great Performances (2003); Have Gun - Will Travel (1958); Here’s Hollywood (1960); Hiding (1939); Hitler’s Madman (1943); Hollywood Opening Night (1953); If You’re Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast (2017); I’m from Missouri (1939); Kiss Me Kate (1964); Kiss Me, Kate (1958); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1963); Lady on a Train (1945); Lux Video Theatre (1953–1957); Matinee Theatre (1957); Meet the Stars #1: Chinese Garden Festival (1940); Meet the Stars #6: Stars at Play (1941); Meet the Stars #8: Stars Past and Present (1941); Mirrors (1985); Musical Comedy Time (1950); Nash Airflyte Theatre (1950); Night in New Orleans (1942); Norwegian Actresses in Hollywood (2003); One Night in Lisbon (1941); Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (1951); Queen of the Amazons (1946); Racing Fever (1964); Rangers of Fortune (1940); Robert Montgomery Presents (1950); Romance of the Rio Grande (1940); Schlitz Playhouse (1956); Screen Directors Playhouse (1956); Showtime, U.S.A. (1950); Silver Skates (1943); Silver Skates (1943); Sofia (1948); Song of the Thin Man (1947); Song Without End (1960); Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers (1957); Tarzan and the Huntress (1947); The 25th Annual Tony Awards (1971); The 25th Annual Tony Awards (1971); The All New Truth or Consequences (1951); The Arthur Murray Party (1958); The Buddy Rogers Show (1951); The Cases of Eddie Drake (1952); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1952); The Ed Nelson Show (1969); The Ed Sullivan Show (1949); The Ed Wynn Show (1949); The Eyes Have It (1949–1952); The Ezio Pinza Show (1952); The Fallen Sparrow (1943); The Jackie Gleason Show (1952); The Lives of Benjamin Franklin (1974); The Long Day Closes (1992); The Lost City of X (2022); The Magnificent Fraud (1939); The Mike Douglas Show (1965); The Milton Berle Show (1949); The New Gidget (1988); The Paul Whiteman’s Goodyear Revue (1950); The Prince of Thieves (1948); The Return of Wildfire (1948); The Round Up (1941); The Saturday Night Revue with Jack Carter (1950); The Song of Bernadette (1943); The Tonight Show (1962); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1962); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962–1963); The U.S. Royal Showcase (1952); The Voice of Firestone (1959); The Walls of Jericho (1948); Timewatch (1986); TV Club (1950); Untamed (1940); Where Are Your Children? (1943); Without Love (1945); Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976); Wreckless (1935).

Born on this day – Irving Wallace:

Irving Wallace

Writer

March 19, 1916 – June 29, 1990

Born on this day – Tige Andrews:

Tige Andrews

Actor

March 19, 1920 – January 27, 2007

Born on this day – Fred J. Scollay:

Fred J. Scollay

Actor

March 19, 1923 – November 3, 2015

Born on this day – Patrick McGoohan:

Patrick McGoohan

Actor

Director

Writer

Producer

March 19, 1928 – January 13, 2009

Born on this day – Gail Kobe:

 

Gail Kobe

Actress

Producer

March 19, 1932 – August 1, 2013

Credits:

77 Sunset Strip (1963); A Man Called Shenandoah (1966); Adventures in Paradise (1961); Alcoa Theatre (1957–1958); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1956); Ben Casey (1964); Bewitched (1969); Blue Light (1966); Boots and Saddles (1958); Bourbon Street Beat (1959); Bright Promise (1970–1971); Cheyenne (1956–1958); Cimarron Strip (1967); Combat! (1963); Crusader (1956); Daniel Boone (1968–1970); Days of Our Lives (1975–2014); Destination Space (1959); Dr. Hudson's Secret Journal (1957); Dr. Kildare (1961–1965); Dragnet (1956); East of Eden (1955); Empire (1963); Frontier Doctor (1959); Goodyear Theatre (1958); Guiding Light (1983–1986); Gunsmoke (1958–1969); Gunsmoke in Tucson (1958); Harrigan and Son (1961); Have Gun - Will Travel (1963); Here Come the Brides (1968); Highway Patrol (1956); Hogan's Heroes (1967); Ironside (1969); Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre (1957–1958); Laramie (1962–1963); Law of the Plainsman (1959); M Squad (1957–1959); M.U.G.E.N (1999); Mackenzie's Raiders (1959); Mannix (1969–1974); Maverick (1962); Mike Hammer (1958–1959); Mission: Impossible (1967); Mod Squad (1968); Perry Mason (1958–1964); Peyton Place (1965–1966); Rawhide (1962–1963); Rescue 8 (1959); Return to Peyton Place (1972–1974); Richard Diamond, Private Detective (1957–1959); Sam Benedict (1963); Schlitz Playhouse (1957); State Trooper (1956–1957); Stoney Burke (1962); Studio 57 (1957); Sugarfoot (1958); Tales of Wells Fargo (1960); Tarzan (1966); Texas (1981–1982); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962); The Bold and the Beautiful (1987–1988); The Californians (1959); The Court of Last Resort (1957); The David Niven Show (1959); The Detectives (1962); The Edge of Night (1979–1980); The Felony Squad (1966–1969); The Fugitive (1963); The Gallant Men (1962); The Legend of Lizzie Borden (1975); The Millionaire (1956); The O. Henry Playhouse (1957); The Outer Limits (1964); The Outsider (1969); The People's Court (1981–1993); The Rebel (1960–1961); The Silent Service (1958); The Ten Commandments (1956); The Thin Man (1958); The Twilight Zone (1960–1964); The Untouchables (1960–1963); The Virginian (1963); The Wackiest Ship in the Army (1966); This Is the Life (1971); Tombstone Territory (1958); Trackdown (1957–1958); TV's Western Heroes (1993); Wagon Train (1959); Whirlybirds (1957–1959); Young Dr. Kildare (1972); Zane Grey Theatre (1958).

Born on this day – Richard Williams:

Richard Williams

Animator

Voice actor

Director

Writer

March 19, 1933 – August 16, 2019

On this day in television history - Justified (2013)

 

Justified
Season 4. Episode 11.

Episode entitled: Decoy.

Released March 19, 2013.

Directed by Michael Watkins.

Written by Graham Yost, Chris Provenzano, Ingrid Escajeda, VJ Boyd, Leonard Chang.

Based on the short story Fire in the Hole by Elmore Leonard.

Music by Steve Porcaro.

Cast:

Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Joelle Carter, Jacob Pitts, Erica Tazel, Walton Goggins, Jim Beaver, Ron Eldard, Bobby Campo, Chet Grissom, John Kapelos, David Meunier, Mike O’Malley, Patton Oswalt, Mel Fair, David Landry.

On this day in movie history - Blackout (1954)

Blackout

a.k.a. Murder by Proxy,

directed by Terence Fisher,

written by Richard Landau,

based on the novel Murder by Proxy by Helen Nielsen,

was released in the United States on March 19, 1954.

Music by Ivor Slaney.

Cast:

Dane Clark, Belinda Lee, Betty Ann Davies, Eleanor Summerfield, Andrew Osborn, Harold Lang, Jill Melford, Alvys Maben, Michael Golden, Nora Gordon, Alfie Bass, Arnold Diamond, Norman Fisher, Ann Gow, Lindsay Hooper, Cleo Laine, Delphi Lawrence, Arthur Lovegrove, Joe Phelps, Olive Sloane. 

On this day in movie history - True Crime (1999)

True Crime

directed by Clint Eastwood,

written by Larry Gross, Paul Brickman and Stephen Schiff,

based on the novel by Andrew Klavan,

was released in the United States on March 19, 1999.

Music by Lennie Niehaus.

Cast:

Clint Eastwood, Isaiah Washington, LisaGay Hamilton, James Woods, Denis Leary, Bernard Hill, Diane Venora, Michael McKean, Michael Jeter, Mary McCormack, Hattie Winston, Penny Bae Bridges, Francesca Eastwood, John Finn, Laila Robins, Sydney Tamiia Poitier, Erik King, Graham Beckel, Frances Fisher, Marissa Ribisi, Christine Ebersole, Anthony Zerbe, Nancy Giles, Tom McGowan, William Windom, Don West, Lucy Liu, Dina Eastwood, Leslie Griffith, Dennis Richmond, Frank Somerville, Dan Green, Nicholas Bearde, Frances Lee McCain, Cecil Williams, Casey Lee, Jack Kehler, Colman Domingo, Linda Hoy, Danny Kovacs, Kelvin Han Yee, Kathryn Howell, Beulah Stanley, George Maguire, Bill Wattenburg, Cathy Fithian, Roland T. Abasolo, Michael Halton, Jade Marx-Berti, Velica Marie Davis, John B. Scott, Edward Silva, Jordan Sax, Rob Reece, Walter Brown, Carmen Molinari, Annie Coffey, Bob Dini, Jodi Fung, Annie Lore, Marcus J. Oliver, Ray Raffaini.

On this day in movie history - Dawn of the Dead (2004)

Dawn of the Dead

directed by Zack Snyder,

written by James Gunn,

based on the novel by George A. Romero,

was released in the United States on March 19, 2004.

Music by Tyler Bates.

Soundtrack songs include:

• Have A Nice Day by Stereophonics.
• The Man Comes Around by Johnny Cash.
• Down With the Sickness by Richard Cheese & Lounge Against the Machine.
• People Who Died by The Jim Carroll Band.
• Down With the Sickness by Disturbed.

Cast:

Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Jake Weber, Mekhi Phifer, Ty Burrell, Michael Kelly, Kevin Zegers, Michael Barry, Lindy Booth, Jayne Eastwood, Boyd Banks, Inna Korobkina, R. D. Reid, Kim Poirier, Matt Frewer, Louis Ferreira, Hannah Lochner, Bruce Bohne, Ermes Blarasin, Natalie Brown, Zack Snyder, Scott Reiniger, Tom Savini, Ken Foree.

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