On this day in movie history - Wyatt Earp (1994)

Wyatt Earp

directed by Lawrence Kasdan,

written by Dan Gordon and Lawrence Kasdan,

was released in the United States on June 24, 1994.

Music by James Newton Howard.

Cast:

Kevin Costner, Ian Bohen, Dennis Quaid, Gene Hackman, David Andrews, Linden Ashby, Jim Caviezel, John Doe, Jeff Fahey, Joanna Going, Mark Harmon, Michael Madsen, Catherine O’Hara, Bill Pullman, Isabella Rossellini, Tom Sizemore, JoBeth Williams, Mare Winningham, James Gammon, Karen Grassle, Rex Linn, Gabriel Folse, Mackenzie Astin, Randle Mell, Adam Baldwin, Annabeth Gish, Lewis Smith, Betty Buckley, Alison Elliott, Téa Leoni, Martin Kove.

On this day in movie and book history - The Natural (1984 and 1952):

The Natural

directed by Barry Levinson,

written by Roger Towne and Phil Dusenberry,

based on the novel by Bernard Malamud,

was released in the United States on May 11, 1984.

Music by Randy Newman.

Cast:

Robert Redford, Paul Sullivan Jr., Robert Duvall, Glenn Close, Rachel Hall, Kim Basinger, Wilford Brimley, Barbara Hershey, Robert Prosky, Richard Farnsworth, Joe Don Baker, Darren McGavin, Michael Madsen, John Finnegan, Alan Fudge, Ken Grassano, Mike Starr, Mickey Treanor, Jon Van Ness, Anthony J. Ferrara, George Wilkosz, Robert Rich III, Sibby Sisti.

Recommended reading:

The Natural

by Bernard Malamud.

Filmed as The Natural (1984), directed by Barry Levinson.

Paperback.

Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

First published 1952.

ISBN: 9780374502003

ISBN 10: 0374502005

ASIN: 0374502005

Description:

The Natural, Bernard Malamud's first novel, published in 1952, is also the first – and some would say still the best – novel ever written about baseball. In it, Malamud, usually appreciated for his unerring portrayals of postwar Jewish life, took on very different material – the story of a superbly gifted "natural" at play in the fields of the old daylight baseball era – and invested it with the hardscrabble poetry, at once grand and altogether believable, that runs through all his best work. Four decades later, Alfred Kazin's comment still holds true: "Malamud has done something which – now that he has done it! – looks as if we have been waiting for it all our lives. He has really raised the whole passion and craziness and fanaticism of baseball as a popular spectacle to its ordained place in mythology." 

On this day in movie history - Mulholland Falls (1996)

Mulholland Falls

directed by Lee Tamahori,

written by Pete Dexter,

based on a story by Pete Dexter and Floyd Mutrux,

was released in the United States on April 26, 1996.

Music by Dave Grusin.

Cast:

Nick Nolte, Melanie Griffith, Chazz Palminteri, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn, Treat Williams, Jennifer Connelly, Daniel Baldwin, Andrew McCarthy, John Malkovich, Kyle Chandler, Ed Lauter, Larry Garrison, Chelsea Harrington, Johnna Johnson, Rick Johnson, Britt Burr, Melinda Clarke, Ernie Lively, Richard Sylbert, Michael Krawic, Titus Welliver, Robert Peters, William M. Thigpen, Drew Pillsbury, Brad Hunt, Aaron Neville, Buddy Joe Hooker, Eddie Caicedo, Price Carson, Azalea Davila, Suzanne Solari, Alisa Christensen, Bruce Dern, Louise Fletcher, Khris Kaneff, Sharmagne Leland-St. John, Rob Lowe, Johnny Martin, William Petersen, Lisa Rhyne, Randall Rutledge, Christopher Warner.