Sarah Dessen, on writing:

 

I'm just writing what I know.
I've never been much of a reader of fantasy,
and I think you write what you, personally, enjoy reading.
- Sarah Dessen.

Recommended reading – Alien (novel & movie photo novel):

Alien

by Alan Dean Foster.

Filmed as Alien (1979), directed by Ridley Scott.

Published by Orbit.
Published 1979.

ISBN-10: 0708816789
ISBN-13: 978-0708816783
 
Description:

Where was Earth?

This was not their galaxy. A strange sun lit the sky with orange rays. In their long cold sleep, the seven space travelers had left their own universe behind, and now their monitor told them that on the planet revolving below them, someone was signalling for help. By space law, they must descend, explore and render assistance. But they would carry weapons. For who could tell what being called to them – or why. All they knew was that it was Alien.

Alien: Movie Novel

by Dan O'Bannon.

Edited by Richard J. Anobile.

Published by Avon.

Published 1979.

ISBN: 9780380466313
ISBN 10: 0380466317
ASIN: 0380466317

Description:
A Movie Novel of the film 'Alien' - a graphic novel using photographs from the film.

Recommended reading - Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir, by Eddie Muller (2021):

 

Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir

by Eddie Muller (2021).

Revised and Expanded Edition.

Turner Classic Movies (TCM).

ISBN: 9780762498970

ISBN-10: 0762498978

 
Description:
 

This revised and expanded edition of Eddie Muller's Dark City is a film noir lover's bible, taking readers on a tour of the urban landscape of the grim and gritty genre in a definitive, highly illustrated volume.

 

Named by The Hollywood Reporter one of the "100 Greatest Film Books of All Time!"
 

Dark City expands with new chapters and a fresh collection of restored photos that illustrate the mythic landscape of the imagination. It's a place where the men and women who created film noir often find themselves dangling from the same sinister heights as the silver-screen avatars to whom they gave life. Eddie Muller, host of Turner Classic Movies' Noir Alley, takes readers on a spellbinding trip through treacherous terrain: Hollywood in the post-World War II years, where art, politics, scandal, style -- and brilliant craftsmanship -- produced a new approach to moviemaking, and a new type of cultural mythology.

Born on this day – Charles Barton:

 

Charles Barton

Actor

Director

May 25, 1902 – December 5, 1981

Credits:

10,000 Kids and a Cop (1948); A Lady's Profession (1933); A Man's World (1942); Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948); Africa Screams (1949); And Sudden Death (1936); Avalanche (1928); Babies for Sale (1940); Beau Geste (1939); Beau Sabreur (1928); Beautiful But Broke (1944); Beggars of Life (1928); Behind Prison Gates (1939); Born to the West (1937); Broadside (1964–1965); Buck Privates Come Home (1947); Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet the Killer Boris Karloff (1949); Camp Runamuck (1966); Car 99 (1935); Chinatown Nights (1929); Dance with Me, Henry (1956); Dangerous Paradise (1930); Dennis the Menace (1960–1963); Double Crossbones (1951); Family Affair (1967–1971); Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (1939); Five Little Peppers at Home (1940); Five Little Peppers in Trouble (1940); Forlorn River (1937); Free for All (1949); Grindl (1964); Harmon of Michigan (1941); Hazel (1965–1966); Hello, Annapolis (1942); Hello, Everybody! (1933); Hey, Rookie (1944); Honolulu Lu (1941); Horse Feathers (1932); Is Everybody Happy? (1943); Island of Doomed Men (1940); Jam Session (1944); June Moon (1931); Ladies of the Mob (1928); Lady and Gent (1932); Laugh Your Blues Away (1942); Let's Have Fun (1943); Louisiana Hayride (1944); Lucky Legs (1942); Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair (1952); McHale's Navy (1964–1965); Medicine Man (1962); Meet the O'Briens (1954); Men in Her Diary (1945); Merrily We Go to Hell (1932); Mexican Hayride (1948); Monkey Business (1931); Murder with Pictures (1936); My Brother the Angel (1965); My Son Is Guilty (1939); Nevada (1935); Nobody's Children (1940); Oh, My Achin' Tooth! (1954); Out West with the Peppers (1940); Parachute Nurse (1942); Petticoat Junction (1965–1967); Reveille with Beverly (1943); Rocky Mountain Mystery (1935); Rose Bowl (1936); She Has What It Takes (1943); Shut My Big Mouth (1942); Sing for Your Supper (1941); Smooth as Silk (1946); Spellbound (1945); Studio 57 (1956); Sweetheart of the Fleet (1942); Swingin' Along (1961); The Amos 'n Andy Show (1951–1955); The Baileys of Balboa (1964–1965); The Beautiful Cheat (1945); The Big Boss (1941); The Comedy Spot (1960); The County Fair (1920); The Crime Nobody Saw (1937); The Gale Storm Show: Oh! Susanna (1956–1958); The Great Gildersleeve (1955–1956); The Last Outpost (1935); The Legion of the Condemned (1928); The Magical World of Disney (1959–1964); The Man I Love (1929); The Milkman (1950); The Miracle Man (1932); The Munsters (1965); The New Adventures of Spin and Marty (1957); The Noose Hangs High (1948); The Patty Duke Show (1966); The Phantom Submarine (1940); The Ray Milland Show (1953–1954); The Real McCoys (1960–1961); The Richest Man in Town (1941); The Sea God (1930); The Shaggy Dog (1959); The Spirit of Stanford (1942); The Stu Erwin Show (1955); The Time of Their Lives (1946); The Trumpet Blows (1934); The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap (1947); Thunder Trail (1937); Timothy's Quest (1936); To Rome with Love (1970); Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus (1960); Tramp, Tramp, Tramp! (1942); Two Latins from Manhattan (1941); Union Pacific (1939); Wagon Wheels (1934); Wagon Wheels (1953); What's Buzzin', Cousin? (1943); White Tie and Tails (1946); Wings (1927); Woman Trap (1929); Young Eagles (1930); Zorro (1958–1959); Zorro, the Avenger (1959).

Born on this day – Sally Phipps:

Sally Phipps

Actress

May 25, 1911 – March 17, 1978

Credits:

A Midsummer Night's Steam (1927); Bertha, the Sewing Machine Girl (1926); Big Business (1926); Broncho Billy and the Baby (1915); Cupid and the Clock (1927); Detectives Wanted (1929); Gentlemen Prefer Scotch (1927); Girls (1927); High School Hero (1927); Hold Your Hat (1928); Joy Street (1929); Light Wines and Bearded Ladies (1926); Love Makes 'Em Wild (1927); Mum's the Word (1927); News Parade (1928); None But the Brave (1928); Sunrise (1927); The Cradle Snatchers (1927); The Kangaroo Detective (1927); The One Woman Idea (1929); The Outlaw's Awakening (1915); The Western Way (1915); Where Men Are Men (1931); Why Sailors Go Wrong (1928).

Born on this day – Jeanne Crain:

 
Jeanne Crain

Actress

May 25, 1925 – December 14, 2003

Credits:

10th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2004); A Letter to Three Wives (1949); All-Star Party for 'Dutch' Reagan (1985); Apartment for Peggy (1948); Belles on Their Toes (1952); Biography (1995); Burke's Law (1964–1965); California Beauties Pose for Title of 1942 Camera Girl (1942); Celebrity Talent Scouts (1960); Centennial Summer (1946); Cheaper by the Dozen (1950); City of Bad Men (1953); Classified X (2007); Dangerous Crossing (1953); Dateline: Disneyland (1955); Duel in the Jungle (1954); Fred Astaire Salutes the Fox Musicals (1974); General Electric Theater (1960–1962); Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1955); Goodyear Theatre (1959); Guns of the Timberland (1960); His Model Wife (1962); Hollywood Without Make-Up (1963); Home in Indiana (1944); Hot Rods to Hell (1966); I'll Get By (1950); In the Meantime, Darling (1944); Insight (1963); Invasion 1700 (1962); It's Your Bet (1971); I've Got a Secret (1954–1959); Kolossal - i magnifici Macisti (1977); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1960–1962); Leave Her to Heaven (1945); Madison Avenue (1961); Man Without a Star (1955); Margie (1946); Meet Me in St. Louis (1959); Men Against Evil (1966); Monsters and Madonnas: The World of William Mortensen (1966); O. Henry's Full House / The Gift of the Magi (1952); Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law (1972); Password (1963); People Will Talk (1951); Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (1956); Pinky (1949); Playhouse 90 (1958); Pontius Pilate (1962); Queen of the Nile (1961); Riverboat (1959); Rodgers & Hammerstein: The Sound of Movies (1996); Schlitz Playhouse (1958); Skyjacked (1972); Stage Show (1955); Star Stage (1955); State Fair (1945); Stump the Stars (1963); Take Care of My Little Girl (1951); The 76th Annual Academy Awards (2004); The All-Star Bond Rally (1945); The Bob Hope Show (1955); The Christophers (1963); The Comedy Spot (1962); The Danny Thomas Hour (1968); The Dick Powell Theatre (1963); The Ed Sullivan Show (1955); The Fan (1949); The Fastest Gun Alive (1956); The Ford Television Theatre (1956); The Gang's All Here (1943); The Irv Kupcinet Show (1970); The Joker Is Wild (1957); The Merv Griffin Show (1971–1973); The Model and the Marriage Broker (1951); The Movie Game (1969); The Name of the Game (1968); The Night God Screamed (1971); The Object Is (1964); The Second Greatest Sex (1955); The Tattered Dress (1957); The Virginia Graham Show (1971); Twenty Plus Two (1961); Valentine's Day (1965); Vicki (1953); What's My Line? (1954–1959); Winged Victory (1944); Women I Love: Beautiful But Funny (1982); You Bet Your Life (1957 / 1958); You Don't Say (1963–1967); You Were Meant for Me (1948).

Born on this day – Robert Ludlum:

 

Robert Ludlum

Writer

May 25, 1927 – March 12, 2001

Born on this day – Sarah Marshall:

Sarah Marshall

Actress

May 25, 1933 – January 18, 2014

Credits:

12 O’Clock High (1965); 77 Sunset Strip (1964); A Rage to Live (1965); Adventures in Paradise (1962); Adventures of the Sea Hawk (1958); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1960–1962); American Masters (1995); Applause (1973); Appointment with Adventure (1955); Bad Blood (2012); BBC Play of the Month (1972); Breaking Point (1963); Bristlelip (1982); Ça se discute (2006); Cheers (1989); Dangerous Minds (1995); Daniel Boone (1965–1968); Dave (1993); Dow Hour of Great Mysteries (1960); Embassy (1972); F Troop (1966); French Silk (1994); Get Smart (1966); Hart to Hart (1983); Hong Kong (1960); I Spy (1966); Ironside (1967); Kentucky Jones (1964); King Richard II (1954); Kraft Theatre (1954); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1955–1961); Look Up and Live (1957); Lord Love a Duck (1966); Medical Center (1972); Miss Winslow and Son (1979); My Favorite Martian (1966); Omnibus (1969); Orson Welles Great Mysteries (1973); People Like Us (1990); Perry Mason (1962); Peter Loves Mary (1960); Play for Today (1971); Producers’ Showcase (1955); Remington Steele (1984); Robert Montgomery Presents (1951–1954); Scruples (1980); Sexton Blake (1969); Small Wonder (1987); Star Trek (1967); Startime (1960); Stoney Burke (1963); Strange Report (1969); Studio One (1957); Target: The Corruptors (1961); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1963); The Aquanauts (1960); The Bunker (1981); The Doctors and the Nurses (1963); The Donna Reed Show (1966); The DuPont Show of the Week (1964); The F.B.I. (1966–1968); The Fugitive (1965); The Jeffersons (1981); The Letter (1982); The Long, Hot Summer (1958); The Outsider (1968); The People vs. Jean Harris (1981); The Rogues (1964); The Sound and the Fidelity (1962); The Tab Hunter Show (1960); The Twilight Zone (1962); The Wild Wild West (1967); Three’s Company (1981); Thriller (1961); True Story (1957); Wild and Wonderful (1964).

On this day in movie history - Framed (1947)

Framed

directed by Richard Wallace,

written by Ben Maddow,

based on a story by John Patrick,

was released in the United States on May 25, 1947.

Music by Marlin Skiles.

Cast:

Glenn Ford, Janis Carter, Barry Sullivan, Edgar Buchanan, Karen Morley, Jim Bannon, Stanley Andrews, Walter Baldwin, Jack Baxley, Eugene Borden, Al Bridge, Paul E. Burns, Charles Cane, David Fresco, Nacho Galindo, Martin Garralaga, Fred Graff, Robert Kellard, Philip Kieffer, Kenneth MacDonald, Cy Malis, ‘Snub’ Pollard, Gene Roth, Mabel Smaney, Art Smith, Harry Strang, William Stubbs, Sid Tomack, Michael Towne, Lillian Wells, Cecil Weston, Crane Whitley, Mel Wixon, Barbara Wooddell.

On this day in movie history - Alien (1979)

Alien

directed by Ridley Scott,

written by Dan O’Bannon,

based on a story by Dan O’Bannon and Ronald Shusett,

was released in the United States on May 25, 1979.

Music by Jerry Goldsmith.

Cast:

Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm, Yaphet Kotto, Bolaji Badejo, Helen Horton, Eddie Powell.

On this day in movie history - Candy (2006)

Candy

directed by Neil Armfield,

written by Neil Armfield and Luke Davies,

based on the novel Candy: A Novel of Love and Addiction by Luke Davies,

was released in Australia on May 25, 2006.

Music by Paul Charlier.

Cast:

Abbie Cornish, Heath Ledger, Geoffrey Rush, Tom Budge, Roberto Meza Mont, Tony Martin, Noni Hazlehurst, Holly Austin, Craig Moraghan, John Lee, Noel Herriman, Tim McKenzie, Tara Morice, Maddi Newling, Patricia Lemon, Barry Jaggers, Cristian Saliadarre, Leo Cowan, Jason Chan, Luke Davies, Sean O’Riordan, Adrienne Pickering, Damon Herriman, Lette Webb, Sandy Winton, Rebecca Watt, Nathaniel Dean, John McNeill, Doreen Mullen, Felix Kerdijk, Felino Dolloso, Paul Blackwell, Lee Lin Chin, Anni Finsterer, Alicia Hannah-Kim, Brian Houston, Michael Ienna.