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Saturday, November 11, 2023
On this day in movie history - Beat the Devil (2021)
Beat the Devil
directed and written by David Hare,
based on the monologue play by David Hare,
was released in the United Kingdom on November 11, 2021.
Music by George Fenton.
On this day in movie history - Monster’s Ball (2001)
On this day in movie history - The Blue Knight (1973)
On this day in movie history - Kansas City Confidential (1952)
Born on this day – Kurt Vonnegut:
Awards:
1953:
nominated for the International Fantasy Award for: Player Piano.
1960: won the
Writers Guild of America Award for: Auf Wiedersehen.
1960:
finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Novel for: The Sirens of Titan.
1964:
finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Novel for: Cat's Cradle.
1970:
nominated for the Nebula Award for: Slaughterhouse-Five.
1970:
finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Novel for: Slaughterhouse-Five.
1971: won the
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding New Play for: Happy Birthday Wanda June.
1973: won the
Seiun Award for foreign novel for: The Sirens of Titan.
1973: won the
Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation winner for: Slaughterhouse-Five.
1986: won
second placed for the John W. Campbell Award for: Galapagos.
2009: won the
Audie Award for Short Stories / Collections for: Armageddon in Retrospect.
2015: awarded
a place in the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame, by the Science Fiction
Museum.
2019: won the
Prometheus Hall of Fame award, by the Libertarian Futurist Society, for:
Harrison Bergeron.
Born on this day – Anna Katharine Green:
Credits:
The
Leavenworth Case (1878); A Strange Disappearance (1880); Hand and Ring (1883);
Behind Closed Doors (1888); A Matter of Millions (1891); The Doctor, His Wife,
and the Clock (1895); That Affair Next Door (1897); Lost Man's Lane (1898); The
Circular Study (1900); One of My Sons (1901); Initials Only (1911); Mystery of
the Hasty Arrow (1917); That Affair Next Door (1897); Lost Man's Lane (1898);
The Circular Study (1900); Agatha Webb (1899); The Woman in the Alcove (aka A
Woman of Mystery) (1906); The House of the Whispering Pines (1910); XYZ (1883);
The Mill Mystery (1886); 7 to 12 (1887); The Forsaken Inn (1890); Cynthia
Wakeham's Money (1892); Marked Personal (1893); Miss Hurd - An Enigma (1894);
Dr. Izard (1895); The Filigree Ball (1903); The House in the Mist (1905); The
Millionaire Baby (1905); The Chief Legatee (1906); The Chief Lagatee (1907);
The Mayor's Wife (1907); The Sward of Damocles (1909); Three Thousand Dollars
(1910); Dark Hollow (1914); The Step On the Stair (1923); The Defense of the Bride
(poems) (1882); The Old Stone House (1891); A Difficult Problem (1900); The
Amethyst Box (1905); Masterpieces of Mystery (1912); The Golden Slipper (1915);
To the Minute, Scarlet and Black (1916); Room Number 3 (1919); The Collected
Mysteries of Anna Katharine Green (2011); The Bronze Hand (1897).
Laini Taylor, on writing and reading:
I write because, as wonderful as life is - and it is truly wonderful - it isn't enough.
It does not, for example, contain dragons.
I find this unsatisfactory.
So I read.
And I write.
- Laini Taylor.