C. S. Lewis, on experience and inspiration:

Experience: that most brutal of teachers.

But you learn, my God do you learn.

- C. S. Lewis.

Recommended reading - Miami Mayhem

Miami Mayhem

by Marvin Albert.
 
Filmed as Tony Rome (1967), directed by Gordon Douglas.
 
Published 1960.
Published by Fawcett.
Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0449133869
ISBN-13: 978-0449133866
 
Description:

Miami. The city.
Rome. The man.

He’s a hard-living, hard-loving private detective, who’s been muscling through Miami’s vice longer than any punk in a baggy suit. He gets his fill of offers from women. But the brand of cruising he prefers is aboard his luxury power boat, the Straight Pass. The roads of pleasure and danger are many. But all the roads lead to Rome….

Filmed as "Tony Rome" in 1967. Then released as "Tony Rome"(1967) by the author based on the film script. It seemed a routine little job.... Just return a high-flying heiress to her worried papa. But some of a man's worst messes start out as routine little jobs. This one really hits the pedal, with a body on the floor of Tony's office, the head smashed by a bullet. The bait to catch the filler: a daisy-shaped, gold-and-diamond pin that couldn't bring enough to be worth anybody's trouble. Or worth murdering for...

Recommended reading - Lenny: A Play, Based on the Life and Words of Lenny Bruce

 

Lenny: A Play, Based on the Life and Words of Lenny Bruce

by Julian Barry.
 
Published 1971.
Mass Market Paperback.
Published by Grove Press.

ISBN 13: 9780394177625
ISBN 10: 0394177622
ASIN: 0394177622

Born on this day – Vachel Lindsay:

Vachel Lindsay

Writer

November 10, 1879 – December 5, 1931

Credits:
 
Poems:
 

A Curse for Kings; A Dirge for a Righteous Kitten; A Net to Snare the Moonlight; A Prayer To All The Dead Among Mine Own People; A Rhyme About an Electrical Advertising Sign; A Sense of Humor; Above the Battle's Front; Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight; Aladdin and the Jinn; Alone in the Wind, on the Prairie; An Apology for the Bottle Volcanic; An Argument; An Indian Summer Day on the Prairie; At Mass; Beyond the Moon; Blanche Sweet; Buddha; By the Spring, at Sunset; Caught in a Net; Concerning Emperors; Darling Daughter of Babylon; Drying Their Wings; Eden in Winter; Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Epilogue; Epitaphs For Two Players; Euclid; Factory Windows Are Always Broken; Foreign Missions in Battle Array; Galahad, Knight Who Perished; General William Booth Enters into Heaven; Genesis; Ghosts in Love; Heart of God; Here's to the Mice!; Honor Among Scamps; How a Little Girl Danced; How a Little Girl Sang; How I Walked Alone in the Jungles of Heaven; How Samson Bore Away the Gates of GazaI Heard Immanuel Singing; I Went Down into the Desert; In Memory of a Child; In Praise of Songs that Die; Incense; King Arthur's Men Have Come Again; Lincoln; Look You, I'll Go Pray; Love and Law; Mae Marsh, Motion Picture Actress; Mark Twain and Joan of Arc; Michaelangelo; My Lady in Her White Silk Shawl; Niagara; On Reading Omar Khayyam; On the Building of Springfield; On the Garden Wall; On the Road to Nowhere; Our Guardian Angels and Their Children; Our Mother Pocahontas; Popcorn, Glass Balls, and Cranberries; Prologue to Rhymes to be Traded for Bread; Queen Mab in the Village; Rhymes for Gloriana; Shakespeare; Springfield Magical; St. Francis of Assisi; Star of My Heart; Sunshine; Sweet Briars of the Stairways; Sweethearts of the Year; The Alchemist's Petition; The Amaranth; The Angel and the Clown; The Bankrupt Peace-Maker; The Beggar's Valentine; The Black Hawk War of the Artists; The Booker Washington Trilogy; The Broncho That Would Not Be Broken; The Chinese Nightingale; The City That Will Not Repent; The Congo; The Cornfields; The Dandelion; The Drunkard's Funeral; The Drunkards in the Street; The Eagle That Is Forgotten; The Empty Boats; The Encyclopaedia; The Fairy Bridal-Hymn; The Firemen's Ball; The Flower of Mending; The Flower-Fed Buffaloes; The Gamblers; The Ghosts of the Buffaloes; The Haughty Snail-King; The Hearth Eternal; The Hope of the Resurrection; The Illinois Village; The Jingo and the Minstrel; The King of Yellow Butterflies; The Knight in Disguise; The Leaden-Eyed; The Light o' the Moon; The Lion; The Little Turtle; The Master of the Dance; The Merciful Hand; The Moon is a Painter; The Moon's the North Wind's Cooky; The Mysterious Cat; The North Star Whispers to the Blacksmith's Son; The Perfect Marriage; The Potatoes' Dance; The Prairie Battlements; The Proud Farmer; The Queen of Bubbles; The Raft; The Rose of Midnight; The Santa-Fe Trail (A Humoresque); The Scissors-Grinder; The Song of the Garden-Toad; The Sorceress!; The Soul of the City Receives the Gift of the Holy Spirit; The Spice-Tree; The Spider and the Ghost of the Fly; The Strength of the Lonely; The Sun Says His Prayers; The Tale Of The Tiger-Tree; The Trap; The Traveller-Heart; The Tree of Laughing Bells; The Unpardonable Sin; The Wedding of the Rose and the Lotos; The Wizard in the Street; This Section is a Christmas Tree; This, My Song, Is Made For Kerensky; TitianTo Buddha; To Gloriana; To Jane Addams at the Hague; To Lady Jane; To Mary Pickford; To Reformers in Despair; To the United States Senate; Two Old Crows; Upon Returning to the Country Road; We Meet at the Judgment and I Fear It Not; What Semiramis Said; What the Coal-Heaver Said; What the Ghost of the Gambler Said; What the Gray-Winged Fairy Said; What the Miner in the Desert Said; What the Moon Saw; What the Rattlesnake Said; What the Sexton Said; When Bryan Speaks; When Gassy Thompson Struck It Rich; Where Is David, the Next King of Israel?; Where Is the Real Non-Resistant; Who Knows?; Why I Voted the Socialist Ticket; With a Bouquet of Twelve Roses; Written for a Musician; Yankee Doodle; Yet Gentle Will the Griffin Be.

 

Movie and television:
 
Dead Poets Society (poem The Congo quoted) (1989); The Fantasmagori (2017).

Born on this day – Claude Rains:

Claude Rains

Actor

November 10, 1889 – May 30, 1967

Credits:

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1963–1965); The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965); The Reporter (1964); Dr. Kildare (1964); Twilight of Honor (1963); The DuPont Show of the Week (1962–1963); Rawhide (1963); Lawrence of Arabia (1962); Sam Benedict (1962); Wagon Train (1962); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1956–1962); Battle of the Worlds (1961); Mel-O-Toons (1960); Naked City (1960); Shangri-La (1960); The Lost World (1960); Once Upon a Christmas Time (1959); This Earth Is Mine (1959); The Eighty Yard Run (Playhouse 90) (1959); The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1957); On Borrowed Time (1957); Eye on New York (1956); The Kaiser Aluminum Hour (1956); Lisbon (1956); The Alcoa Hour (1956); Kraft Theatre (1956); Omnibus (segment entitled: The Confidential Clerk) (1954); Robert Montgomery Presents (1954); Omnibus (segment entitled: The Bentons at Home) (1953); Medallion Theatre (1953); The Paris Express (1952); Sealed Cargo (1951); The Ed Sullivan Show (1951); Where Danger Lives (1950); The White Tower (1950); Song of Surrender (1949); Rope of Sand (1949); The Passionate Friends (1949); The Unsuspected (1947); Deception (1946); Angel on My Shoulder (1946); Notorious (1946); Caesar and Cleopatra (1945); This Love of Ours (1945); Strange Holiday (1945); Mr. Skeffington (1944); Passage to Marseille (1944); Phantom of the Opera (1943); Forever and a Day (1943); Casablanca (1942); Now, Voyager (1942); Moontide (1942); Kings Row (1942); Breakdowns of 1942 (1942); The Wolf Man (1941); Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941); Four Mothers (1941); Lady with Red Hair (1940); The Sea Hawk (1940); Saturday's Children (1940); The Invisible Man Returns (1940); Four Wives (1939); Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939); Daughters Courageous (1939); Sons of Liberty (1939); Juarez (1939); They Made Me a Criminal (1939); Four Daughters (1938); The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938); Gold Is Where You Find It (1938); White Banners (1938); Breakdowns of 1937 (1937); They Won't Forget (1937); The Prince and the Pauper (1937); Stolen Holiday (1937); Hearts Divided (1936); Anthony Adverse (1936); Scrooge (1935); The Last Outpost (1935); The Clairvoyant (1935); Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935); The Man Who Reclaimed His Head (1934); Crime Without Passion (1934); The Invisible Man (1933); Build Thy House (1920).

Born on this day – Jane Froman:

Jane Froman

Actress

Singer

November 10, 1907 – April 22, 1980

Credits:

The Ed Sullivan Show (1960); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1960); The Arthur Murray Party (1956–1960); The Bell Telephone Hour (1960); The Walter Winchell Show (1956); The Vic Damone Show (1956); The NBC Comedy Hour (1956); The Jimmy Durante Show (1955); The Jane Froman Show (1952–1955); The Jackie Gleason Show (1952–1954); The Milton Berle Show (1949–1954); The Larry Storch Show (1953); Answer the Call (1953); What's My Line? (1953); This Is Show Business (1950–1953); The Ed Sullivan Show (1950–1952); The Jane Froman Show (1952); The Ezio Pinza Show (1951); The Paul Whiteman's Goodyear Revue (1950–1951); All Star Revue (1951); The Voice of Firestone (1950–1951); The Alan Young Show (1950); Radio City Revels (1938); Stars Over Broadway (1935); Kissing Time (1933).

Born on this day – Richard Burton:

Richard Burton

Actor

November 10, 1925 – August 5, 1984

Born on this day – Rossella Falk:

Rossella Falk

Actress

November 10, 1926 – May 5, 2013

Born on this day – Jacques Rozier:

Jacques Rozier

Director

Writer

November 10, 1926 – May 31, 2023

Credits:

40 x 15 (2008); Adieu Philippine (1962); Adolescence (1966); Allons au cinéma (1976); Antenne 2 Midi (1986); Au coeur de la musique (1968–1972); Biography (1992); Blue jeans (1958); Cinéastes de notre temps (1964); Cinéma (1967); Cinéma cinémas / Lettre de la Sierra Morena (1983–1986); Comment devenir cinéaste sans se prendre la tête (1995); Contes modernes (1979); Dans le vent (1963); Dim Dam Dom (1965); Encounter with Fritz Lang (1964); Eugénie Grandet (1956); Fifi Martingale (2001); Frevel (1983); Grand écran (1973); Il était une fois... (2009); Joséphine en tournée (1990); La Cigarette (2011); Le cercle de minuit (1994–1996); Le Parti des choses: Bardot et Godard (1964); Les échos du cinéma (1962); Les naufragés de l'île de la Tortue (1976); Les Nuits de France Culture (1994); Les Parisiennes: C'est tout de même malheureux (1965); Maine Ocean (1986); Midi Trente (1973); Near Orouet (1971); Ni figue ni raisin (1965); Nono Nénesse (1976); Oh, oh, oh, jolie tournée! (2001); Paparazzi (1964); Portrait de Groupe (1987); Rentrée des classes (1955); Revenez plaisirs exilés! (Alceste) (1992); Roméos et jupettes (1966); Toutes les nuits (2001); Vive le cinéma! (1972).

Born on this day – Norma Crane:

Norma Crane

Actress

November 10, 1928 — September 28, 1973

Born on this day – Ennio Morricone:

 

Ennio Morricone

Composer

Orchestrator

Conductor

Musician

November 10, 1928 – July 6, 2020

Born on this day – Roy Scheider:

Roy Scheider

Actor

Boxer

November 10, 1932 – February 10, 2008

Born on this day – Terence Davies:

Terence Davies

Writer

Director

November 10, 1945 – October 7, 2023

Born on this day – Jack Ketchum:

Jack Ketchum

Writer

November 10, 1946 – January 24, 2018

Credits:

Off Season (1980); Offspring (1991); The Woman (2010); Laramie Plains (1974); Border Dawn (1976); Hide and Seek (1980); Dead or alive (1982); The Guns of Amarillo (1982); Winchester pass (1982); Cover (1987); She Wakes (1989); The Girl Next Door (1989); Trail to Nowhere (1991); Joyride (1994); Stranglehold (1995); Only Child (1995); Red (1996); Ladies' Night (1997); Station Two (2001); The Lost (2001); Old Flames (2008); The Secret Life of Souls (2016); The Exit at Toledo Blade Boulevard (1998); Right to Life (1998); Broken on the Wheel of Sex (1999); Peaceable Kingdom (2003); Closing Time and Other Stories (2007); Triptych (2012); Night Terrors III (2014); What They Wrote (2015); The Box (1994); Gone (2000); The Haunt (2001); The Crossings (2003); Weed Species (2006); Book of Souls (2008); I'm Not Sam (2012); Notes from the Cat House (2013); Gorilla In My Room (2019); Turning Japanese (2013); Writers On Writing (2015); Triage (1990); Deadly After Dark (1994); Vampire Detectives (1995); Fear the Fever (1996); Skull Full of Spurs (2000); October Dreams (2000); Fourteenth Annual Collection (2001); Stranger: Dark Tales of Eerie Encounters (2002); Tales from a Darker State (2003); Fear Of The Unknown (2005); Masques V (2006); Mondo Zombie (2006); The Best of Cemetery Dance II (2008); In Laymon's Terms (2008); Zombies: Encounters with the Hungry Dead (2009); The World Is Dead (2009); A Hacked-Up Holiday Massacre (2011); Slices of Flesh (2012); Horror for Good (2012); Psychos (2012); Chiral Mad (2012); Fear the Abyss (2012); Mister October, Volume II (2013); Sixty-Five Stirrup Iron Road (2013); Chiral Mad 2 (2013); Turn Down the Lights (2013); Piercing the Darkness (2014); Now Write! Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror (2014); Horror 101: The Way Forward (2014); Cemetery Dance: Issue 71 (2014); Suspended In Dusk (2014); Insidious Assassins (2015); Chiral Mad 3 (2016); Beast: Revelations - A Dark Ethology - Volume 2 (2016); Cemetery Riots (2016); Seas & Oceans (2017); Dark Places, Evil Faces (2017); Red Room Issue 1 (2017); Zippered Flesh 3 (2017); VS: X: US vs UK Extreme Horror (2017); Chiral Mad 4: An Anthology of Collaborations (2018); A New York State of Fright: Horror Stories from the Empire State (2019); Freedom of Screech (2019); Dark Screams: Volume Three (2021).

Movies and television:

Beyond Blood (2018); Dark Dreamers (2011); Darlin' (2019); Header (2006); How to Score with Girls (1976); Inside the Plain Brown Wrapping (2013); Mail Order (2011); Offspring (2009); Olivia (2013); Red (2008); Sky Sharks (2020); Tales of Halloween (2015); The Cult of Ichi (2007); The Girl Next Door (2007); The Life of Death (2015); The Lost (2006); The Making of 'the Girl Next Door' (2007); The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot (2018); The Woman (2011); XX / Segment: The Box (2017).

 

Born on this day – Debra Hill:

Debra Hill

Writer

Producer

Director

November 10, 1950 – March 7, 2005

On this day in movie history - Tony Rome (1967)

 

Tony Rome

directed by Gordon Douglas,

written by Richard L. Breen,

based on the novel Miami Mayhem by Marvin Albert,

was released in the United States on November 10, 1967.

Music by Billy May.

Cast:

Frank Sinatra, Jill St. John, Richard Conte, Gena Rowlands, Simon Oakland, Jeffrey Lynn, Lloyd Bochner, Sue Lyon, Robert J. Wilke, Virginia Vincent, Joan Shawlee, Richard Krisher, Lloyd Gough, Babe Hart, Templeton Fox, Rocky Graziano, Elisabeth Fraser, Shecky Greene, Jeanne Cooper, Harry Davis, Stanley Ralph Ross, Rey Baumel, Sean Bersell, Tiffany Bolling, Linda Dano, Levi Forte, Robert 'Buzz' Henry, Beau Jack, Deanna Lund, Norman Marlow, Jilly Rizzo, Michael Romanoff, Joe E. Ross, Carl Starling.

On this day in movie history - Lenny (1974)

Lenny

directed by Bob Fosse,

written by Julian Barry,

based on the play by Julian Barry,

was released in the United States on November 10, 1974.

Music by Ralph Burns.

Cast:

Dustin Hoffman, Valerie Perrine, Jan Miner, Stanley Beck, Frankie Man, Rashel Novikoff, Gary Morton, Guy Rennie, Michele Yonge, Kathryn Witt, Monroe Myers, John DiSanti, Mickey Gatlin, Martin Begley, Mark Harris, Richard Friedman, Lee Sandman, Jack Nagle, Phil Philbin, Bruce McLaughlin, Ted Sorel, Clarence Thomas, Mike Murphy, Susan Malnik, George DeWitt, Judy LaScala, Don Newsome, Allison Goldstein, Winston Lee, Bridghid Glass, Joe Mencel, Richard O'Barry, Beth Challis, Robert Parsons, Cecil Seay, Bob Collins.

On this day in movie history - La Balance (1982)

La Balance

English translation: The Informer,

released in the United States as: The Nark,

directed by Bob Swaim,

written by Mathieu Fabiani and Bob Swaim,

was released in France on November 10, 1982.

Music by Roland Bocquet.

Cast:

Nathalie Baye, Philippe Léotard, Richard Berry, Maurice Ronet, Bernard Freyd, Christophe Malavoy, Jean-Paul Comart, Albert Dray, Florent Pagny, Tchéky Karyo, Raouf Ben Yaghlane, Galia Salimo, Sam Karmann, Robert Atlan, Luc-Antoine Diquéro, Jean-Daniel Laval, Geoffrey Carey, Michel Amphoux, Gérard Baume, Pierre-Marie Escourrou, Claude Villers, Mostefa Zerguine, Patrick Guillaumes, Catherine Le Dall, Guy Dhers, François Berléand, Sidney Boccara, Marc Ballif, Christian Gaubert, David Overbey, Lorella De Gennaro, Audrey Lazzini.

On this day in movie history - James Ellroy: American Dog (2006)

 

James Ellroy: American Dog

documentary directed and written by Clara Kuperberg and Robert Kuperberg,

was released in France on November 10, 2006.

 
Cast:
James Ellroy, William J. Bratton, Dana Delany, Gerald Derloshon, William Stoner, Bruce Wagner, Tim Wride.

On this day in movie history - Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

directed and written by Martin McDonagh,

was released in the United States on November 10, 2017.

Music by Carter Burwell.

Cast:

Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, Abbie Cornish, Lucas Hedges, Željko Ivanek, Caleb Landry Jones, Clarke Peters, Samara Weaving, John Hawkes, Peter Dinklage, Kerry Condon, Darrell Britt-Gibson, Kathryn Newton, Brendan Sexton III, Amanda Warren, Malaya Drew, Christopher Berry, Jerry Winsett, Sandy Martin, Nick Searcy.