Anne Michaels, on books:

Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.

- Anne Michaels.

Recommended reading - 52 Pick-up

 

52 Pick-up

by Elmore Leonard.
 

a.k.a. Fifty-Two Pick Up.

Published by Mariner Books.
First published 1974.

ISBN-10: 0062266004
ISBN-13: 978-0062266002
 
Description:
 

Detroit businessman Harry Mitchell had had only one affair in his twenty-two years of happy matrimony. Unfortunately someone caught his indiscretion on film and now wants Harry to fork over one hundred grand to keep his infidelity a secret. And if Harry doesn't pay up, the blackmailer and his associates plan to press a lot harder – up to and including homicide, if necessary. But the psychos picked the wrong pigeon for their murderous scam. Because Harry Mitchell doesn't get mad ... he gets even.

 

"Probably no one knows this nation's rogues, bent cops, and sleazebags better than Elmore Leonard." – Newsday.
 
“An absolute master.” – The Detroit News.

Recommended reading - Betty Blue

 

Betty Blue

by Philippe Djian.
 
French title: French: 37°2 le matin (37.2°C in the Morning).
Published by Little, Brown Book Group.
First published 1985.
Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0349101108
ISBN-13: 978-0349101101
 
Description:
 
This is a full-fledged lovers' tragedy between a drifter-turned-writer and the fatally flawed Betty, his muse and obsessive promoter.
 

Born on this day – King Baggot:

King Baggot

Actor

Director

Writer

November 7, 1879 – July 11, 1948

Credits:

Good News (1947); Merton of the Movies (1947); My Brother Talks to Horses (1947); The Secret Heart (1946); Holiday in Mexico (1946); Courage of Lassie (1946); The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946); Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood (1945); Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945); Phantoms, Inc. (1945); Dangerous Partners (1945); The Clock (1945); An American Romance (1944); Barbary Coast Gent (1944); Girl Crazy (1943); Swing Fever (1943); Three Hearts for Julia (1943); A Stranger in Town (1943); Air Raid Wardens (1943); Assignment in Brittany (1943); A Yank at Eton (1942); Tish (1942); Her Cardboard Lover (1942); Jackass Mail (1942); Sunday Punch (1942); Rio Rita (1942); Fingers at the Window (1942); We Were Dancing (1942); The Vanishing Virginian (1942); Honky Tonk (1941); The Big Store (1941); The People vs. Dr. Kildare (1941); Ziegfeld Girl (1941); The Penalty (1941); Rage in Heaven (1941); Come Live with Me (1941); The Philadelphia Story (1940); Gallant Sons (1940); Bitter Sweet (1940); Hullabaloo (1940); The Ghost Comes Home (1940); I Take This Woman (1940); Drunk Driving (1939); Dancing Co-Ed (1939); Miracles for Sale (1939); They All Come Out (1939); Stronger Than Desire (1939); 6,000 Enemies (1939); Tell No Tales (1939); Money to Loan (1939); The Ice Follies of 1939 (1939); Burn 'Em Up O'Connor (1939); Sweethearts (1938); Opening Day (1938); Stablemates (1938); Too Hot to Handle (1938); Boys Town (1938); The Crowd Roars (1938); Think It Over (1938); Marie Antoinette (1938); The Toy Wife (1938); A Criminal Is Born (1938); Snow Gets in Your Eyes (1938); That Mothers Might Live (1938); Arsène Lupin Returns (1938); Love Is a Headache (1938); Man-Proof (1938); A Night at the Movies (1937); Give Till It Hurts (1937); Big City (1937); Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937); The Emperor's Candlesticks (1937); A Day at the Races (1937); It May Happen to You (1937); Parnell (1937); A Family Affair (1937); Man of the People (1937); Torture Money (1937); Mad Holiday (1936); Sworn Enemy (1936); Violets in Spring (1936); The Devil-Doll (1936); San Francisco (1936); We Went to College (1936); Speed (1936); Next Time We Love (1936); The Adventures of Frank Merriwell (1936); A Night at the Opera (1935); 3 Kids and a Queen (1935); She Gets Her Man (1935); Chinatown Squad (1935); The Call of the Savage (1935); Mississippi (1935); It Happened in New York (1935); I've Been Around (1935); Night Life of the Gods (1935); Sweepstake Annie (1935); A Notorious Gentleman (1935); Father Brown, Detective (1934); Cheating Cheaters (1934); Tailspin Tommy (1934); Romance in the Rain (1934); The Red Rider (1934); The Love Captive (1934); The Black Cat (1934); Beloved (1934); Only Yesterday (1933); I Loved a Woman (1933); Skyway (1933); The Death Kiss (1932); Afraid to Talk (1932); The Big Flash (1932); Hello Trouble (1932); What Price Hollywood? (1932); Police Court (1932); Sporting Chance (1931); Girl of the Rio (1932); Scareheads (1931); Graft (1931); Sweepstakes (1931); Bad Sister (1931); Once a Gentleman (1930); Czar of Broadway (1930); Romance of a Rogue (1928); The House of Scandal (1928); Down the Stretch (1927); The Notorious Lady (1927); Perch of the Devil (1927); Life in Hollywood No. 4 (1927); Lovey Mary (1926); Tumbleweeds (1925); The Home Maker (1925); Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman (1925); The Tornado (1924); The Gaiety Girl (1924); The Whispered Name (1924); The Thrill Chaser (1923); The Darling of New York (1923); Crossed Wires (1923); The Town Scandal (1923); Gossip (1923); The Love Letter (1923); A Dangerous Game (1922); The Lavender Bath Lady (1922); The Kentucky Derby (1922); Human Hearts (1922); Kissed (1922); Snowy Baker (1921); The Shadow of Lightning Ridge (1921); The Butterfly Girl (1921); The Girl in the Taxi (1921); Nobody's Fool (1921); Moonlight Follies (1921); Luring Lips (1921); Cheated Love (1921); The Forbidden Thing (1920); The Dwelling Place of Light (1920); Life's Twist (1920); The Cheater (1920); The Thirtieth Piece of Silver (1920); The Hawk's Trail (1919); The Man Who Stayed at Home (1919); Mission of the War Chest (1918); Building for Democracy (1918); Kildare of Storm (1918); The Eagle's Eye (1918); I'll Fix It (1918); Undoing Evil (1917); The Boonton Affair (1917); Are You an Elk? (1916); The Lie Sublime (1916); The Chance Market (1916); The Silent Stranger (1916); The Captain of the Typhoon (1916); His Own Story (1916); The Man Across the Street (1916); The Man from Nowhere (1916); Jim Slocum No. 46393 (1916); Half a Rogue (1916); Won with a Make-Up (1916); The Haunted Bell (1916); Patterson of the News (1916); The Hoax House (1916); The Soul Man (1916); The Law of Life (1916); Almost a Papa (1915); Man or Money? (1915); The Reward (1915); An All Around Mistake (1915); His Home Coming (1915); The Suburban (1915); Crime's Triangle (1915); The Only Child (1915); The New Jitney in Town (1915); His New Automobile (1915); The Marble Heart (1915); Mismated (1915); The Riddle of the Silk Stockings (1915); A Strange Disappearance (1915); A Life in the Balance (1915); Fifty-Fifty (1915); The Corsican Brothers (1915); Tony (1915); At the Banquet Table (1915); The Streets of Make Believe (1915); The City of Terrible Night (1915); One Night (1915); The Five Pound Note (1915); Pressing His Suit (1915); An Oriental Romance (1915); The Story the Silk Hats Told (1915); The Millionaire Engineer (1915); Three Times and Out (1915); The Old Guard (1914); The Mill Stream (1914); Human Hearts (1914); The Treasure Train (1914); The Turn of the Tide (1914); Shadows (1914); The Man Who Was Misunderstood (1914); The Silent Valley (1914); Jim Webb, Senator (1914); One Best Bet (1914); Across the Atlantic (1914); A Mexican Warrior (1914); Notoriety (1914); The Baited Trap (1914); The Blood Test (1914); King the Detective in the Marine Mystery (1914); The Flaming Diagram (1914); The Touch of a Child (1914); The Box Couch (1914); King the Detective in Formula 879 (1914); Absinthe (1914); The Militant (1914); King the Detective in the Jarvis Case (1913); The Actor's Christmas (1913); Mr. and Mrs. Innocence Abroad (1913); The Return of Tony (1913); Love vs. Law (1913); The Child Stealers of Paris (1913); The Anarchist (1913); Ivanhoe (1913); The Stranger (1913); The Old Melody (1913); The Comedian's Mask (1913); The Heart That Sees (1913); The Rise of Officer 174 (1913); The Leader of His Flock (1913); The Wanderer (1913); To Reno and Back (1913); Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1913); King Danforth Retires (1913); Dr. Bunion (1913); Gold Is Not All (1913); She Slept Through It All (1913); The Bearer of Burdens (1913); The Wizard of the Jungle (1913); The World Weary Man (1912); Through Shadowed Vales (1912); Mamma's Boy (1912); Officer One Seven Four (1912); A Strange Case (1912); John Sterling, Alderman (1912); King the Detective and the Smugglers (1912); The Bridal Room (1912); The Parson and the Moonshiner (1912); The Millionaire Cop (1912); Human Hearts (1912); A Happy Family (1912); The Castaway (1912); In Old Tennessee (1912); Blood Is Thicker Than Water (1912); Winning the Latonia Derby (1912); Caught in a Flash (1912); A Child's Influence (1912); His Other Self (1912); The Schemers (1912); Let No Man Put Asunder (1912); The Breakdown (1912); Up Against It (1912); The Peril (1912); A Cave Man Wooing (1912); Lady Audley's Secret (1912); The Loan Shark (1912); Tempted But True (1912); The Romance of an Old Maid (1912); The Man from the West (1912); Shamus O'Brien (1912); Far from the Beaten Track (1912); The Immigrant's Violin (1912); The Lie (1912); A Modern Highwayman (1912); The Tables Turned (1912); Through the Flames (1912); O'Brien's Busy Day (1912); The Power of Conscience (1912); The Kid and the Sleuth (1912); After Many Years (1912); The Dawn of Conscience (1912); The Winning Miss (1912); The Trinity (1912); A Lesson to Husbands (1911); A Pair of Gloves (1911); The Girl and the Half-Back (1911); Tony and the Stork (1911); Over the Hills (1911); Executive Clemency (1911); The Wife's Awakening (1911); Waiting at the Church (1911); King, the Detective (1911); The Better Way (1911); Through the Air (1911); The Rose's Story (1911); By Registered Mail (1911); The Brothers (1911); The Haunted House (1911); The Battle of the Wills (1911); Dorothy's Family (1911); The Call of the Song (1911); Science (1911); At a Quarter of Two (1911); For the Queen's Honor (1911); In the Sultan's Garden (1911); The Piece of String (1911); Back to the Soil (1911); The Minor Chord (1911); The Master and the Man (1911); The Fair Dentist (1911); The Temptress (1911); Second Sight (1911); The Scarlet Letter (1911); Where There's Life, There's Hope (1911); The Lover's Signal (1911); Sweet Memories (1911); The Penniless Prince (1911); The Secret of the Palm (1911); Tracked (1911); Pictureland (1911); The Mirror (1911); At the Duke's Command (1911); An Imaginary Elopement (1911); Phone 1707 Chester (1911); Unreasonable Jealousy (1910); The Aspirations of Gerald and Percy (1910); The Double (1910); The Count of Montebello (1910); All the World's a Stage (1910); Pressed Roses (1910); Debt (1910); The Widow (1910); The Taming of Jane (1910); Among the Roses (1910); Once Upon a Time (1910); The Irony of Fate (1910); Bear Ye One Another's Burdens (1910); Old Heads and Young Hearts (1910); The Call of the Circus (1910); A Game for Two (1910); A Self-Made Hero (1910); A Discontented Woman (1910); A Reno Romance (1910); The Eternal Triangle (1910); Fruit and Flowers (1910); The Doctor's Perfidy (1910); Two Men (1910); The New Shawl (1910); The Maelstrom (1910); The Rosary (1910); His Second Wife (1910); The Miser's Daughter (1910); Transfusion (1910); The Stage Note (1910); His Sick Friend (1910); The Time-Lock Safe (1910); The Broken Oath (1910); Mother Love (1910); The Governor's Pardon (1910); Jane and the Stranger (1910); The Blind Man's Tact (1910); Justice in the Far North (1910); The Coquette's Suitors (1910); Never Again (1910); The Tide of Fortune (1910); The Right of Love (1910); The Winning Punch (1910); The Awakening of Bess (1909); Love's Stratagem (1909).

Born on this day – Miriam Cooper:

Miriam Cooper

Actress

November 7, 1891 – April 12, 1976

Credits:

A Blot on the 'Scutcheon (1912); A Diamond in the Rough (1914); A Man for All That (1915); A Railroad Conspiracy (1913); A Railroad Lochinvar (1912); A Railroad Wooing (1913);  Treacherous Shot (1913); Across the Continent (1913); After the Ball (1924); Battle in the Virginia Hills (1912); Battle of Pottsburg Bridge (1912); Betrayed (1917); Black Shadows on the Silver Screen (1975); Captured by Strategy (1913); Century of Cinema (1995); Daughters of the Rich (1923); Evangeline (1919); 'Fighting' Dan McCool (1912); For His Master (1914); For the Sake of Kate (1914); Golden Dross (1914); Her Accidental Husband (1923); His Mother's Picture (1912); His Return (1915); Home, Sweet Home (1914); How Izzy Stuck to His Post (1914); Intolerance (1916); Is Money Everything? (1923); Izzy and His Rival (1914); Izzy and the Diamond (1914); Kindred of the Dust (1922); Lest We Forget (1914); Only a Tramp (1915); Prisoners of War (1913); Rounding Up the Counterfeiters (1913); Saved from Court Martial (1912); Serenade (1921); Shenandoah (1913); Should a Husband Forgive? (1919); The Artist's Wife (1915); The Battle of Bloody Ford (1913); The Birth of a Nation (1915); The Broken Wing (1923); The Bugler of Battery B (1912); The Burned Hand (1915); The Confederate Ironclad (1912); The Darling of the CSA (1912); The Deep Purple (1920); The Dishonored Medal (1914); The Double Deception (1915); The Drummer Girl of Vicksburg (1912); The Duke's Plan (1910); The End of the Run (1913); The Exposure of the Land Swindlers (1913); The Farm Bully (1912); The Fatal Black Bean (1915); The Filibusters (1912); The Girl in the Caboose (1912); The Girl Who Came Back (1923); The Greaser (1915); The Grit of the Girl Telegrapher (1912); The Gunman (1914); The Hand of Destiny (1913); The Hero (1923); The Honor System (1917); The Horse Wrangler (1914); The Infamous Don Miguel (1913); The Innocent Sinner (1917); The Making of 'the Birth of a Nation' (1998); The Moonshiner's Mistake (1913); The Mother and the Law (1919); The Oath (1921); The Octoroon (1913); The Odalisque (1914); The Old Shoemaker (1915); The Prison Ship (1912); The Prussian Cur (1918); The Pseudo Prodigal (1913); The Railroad Detective's Dilemma (1913); The Railroad Inspector's Peril (1913); The Rival Engineers (1912); The Rose Bush of Memories (1914); The Sacrifice at the Spillway (1913); The Siege of Petersburg (1912); The Silent Lie (1917); The Slave Girl (1915); The Smuggler (1913); The Smugglers of Sligo (1914); The Soldier Brothers of Susanna (1912); The Stolen Radium (1914); The Story of a Story (1915); The Tide of Battle (1912); The Toll Gate Raiders (1912); The Turning Point (1913); The Woe of Battle (1913); The Woman and the Law (1918); Their First Acquaintance (1914); These Amazing Shadows (2011); Uncle Tom's Cabin (1913); War's Havoc (1912); When Fate Frowned (1914).

Born on this day – Herman J. Mankiewicz:

Herman J. Mankiewicz

Writer

November 7, 1897 – March 5, 1953

Born on this day – Albert Camus:

Albert Camus

Writer

Philosopher

November 7, 1913 – January 4, 1960

#TheStranger

Born on this day – William Wharton:

William Wharton

Writer

November 7, 1925 – October 29, 2008

Credits:

Birdy (1978); Ever after (1981); Dad (1981); A Midnight Clear (1982); Scumbler (1984); Pride (1985); Tidings (1987); Franky Furbo (1989); Last Lovers (1991); Wrongful Deaths (1994); Houseboat on the Seine (1996); Shrapnel (2012). 

Awards:

In 1980, William Wharton was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction / Best Book, for his 1978 novel: Birdy.

Born on this day – Derek Vanlint:

Derek Vanlint

Cinematographer

Director

November 7, 1932 – February 23, 2010

Credits:

Cine Chalom (2020); X-Men (2000); The Spreading Ground (2000); Dragonslayer (1981); The Bed (1980); Alien (1979); Simon Simon (1970); Morning, Noon and Night (1967); This Time Tomorrow (1966); A Penny for Your Thoughts or 'Birds, Dolls & Scratch' English Style (1965).

Born on this day – Daniela Giordano:

Daniela Giordano

Actress

November 7, 1947– December 16, 2022

Credits:

Batton Story (1976); Bloody Friday (1972); Bolidi sull'asfalto a tutta birra! (1970); Daniela's Inquisition (2017); Dante's Project (2015); Death Walks on High Heels (1971); Ein kalter Tag (2017); Erba Celeste (2015); Eurotika! (1999); Evil Eye (1975); Find a Place to Die (1968); Four Gunmen of the Holy Trinity (1971); Four Times That Night (1971); Frankenpimp's Revenge: The Romeo and Juliet Massacre (2020); Have a Good Funeral, My Friend... Sartana Will Pay (1970); Help Me Have No Human Ways (2015); I barbieri di Sicilia (1967); Il fidanzamento (1975); Il lungo giorno del massacro (1968); Inquisition (1977); Jean-Roch Coignet (1969); Kara Murat: Seyh Gaffar'a Karsi (1977); Killer's Gold (1979); La cameriera (1974); La sfida dei MacKenna (1970); L'adolescente (1976); Le segrete esperienze di Luca e Fanny (1980); L'infermiera... di mio padre (1976); Lobo the Bastard (1971); Merkwürdige Lebensgeschichte des Friedrich Freiherrn von der Trenck (1973); Mondo Macabro (2001); Ombre roventi (1970); Play-Boy (1967); Reflections in Black (1975); Sexy Susan Sins Again (1968); Soror (2022); Stay Away from Trinity... When He Comes to Eldorado (1972); The 5-Man Army (1969); The Case of the Bloody Iris (1972); The Girl in Room 2A (1974); The Naked Doorwoman (1976); The Night of the Scorpion (1972); The World of Shadows (2015); Trinity and Sartana Are Coming (1972); Un toro da monta (1976); Un'estate, un inverno (1971); Vedo nudo (1969); Violent Rome (1975); Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (1972).

On this day in movie history - Betty Blue (1986)

Betty Blue

directed and written by Jean-Jacques Beineix,

based on the novel by Philippe Djian,

was released in the United States on November 7, 1986.

Music by Gabriel Yared.

Cast:

Béatrice Dalle, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Gérard Darmon, Consuelo de Haviland, Jacques Mathou, Clémentine Célarié, Vincent Lindon, Louis Bellanti, Philippe Laudenbach, Claude Aufaure, Dominique Besnehard, Raoul Billerey, Jean-Pierre Bisson, Dominique Pinon.

On this day in movie history - Sid & Nancy (1986)

Sid & Nancy

directed by Alex Cox,

written by Alex Cox and Abbe Wool,

was released in the United States on November 7, 1986.

Music by Dan Wool.

Cast:

Gary Oldman, Chloe Webb, David Hayman, Debby Bishop, Andrew Schofield, Xander Berkeley, Perry Benson, Tony London, Sandy Baron, Sy Richardson, Edward Tudor-Pole, Biff Yeager, Courtney Love, Rusty Blitz, John Spacely, Coati Mundi, Ed Pansullo, Vincent J. Isaac, J. Steven Markus, Anne Lambton, Sallie Anne Field, Kathy Burke, Sara Sugarman, Mark Monero, Michele Winstanley, Andy Bradford, Tom Little, Barbara Coles, Pete Lee-Wilson, Graham Fletcher-Cook, Stuart Fox, Victoria Harwood, Jude Alderson, James Snell, Niven Boyd, Miguel Sandoval, Richard W. Barker III, Patti Tippo, John M. Jackson, Peter McCarthy, Desirée Erasmus, Gloria LeRoy, Milton Selzer, Bruce J. Magrane, Stefanie Auerbach, Jeffrey Kumer, Bradley Lieberman, Tricia Bartholome, Jeanne McCarthy, John Snyder, Ron Moseley, Fox Harris, Iggy Pop, Suchi Asano, Dan Wool, Mitch Dean, Circle Jerks, Angel Dove, Sherice Prince, Kelly Louise Lynn, Sri Johnston, Jamie L. Crowe, Julie St. Claire, Raymond Rosario, Daniel Louis Rivas, Favian Xavier, Al Alu, Bob Ellis, Peyton Kirkpatrick, Jimmy Emig, Keith Morris, Alexander Folk, Dick Rude, G.J. Thomson, Lawrence Bell Jr., Rome Jefferson Jr., Cat Vicious, Eric Barrett, Alex Cox, Colin Davis, Gary Finan, Peter Jaques, Ken Leicht, Branden Marlowe, David McCarthy, Slash, Anthony Straeger, Jaynie Sustar, Reg Thomason, Barrie Wild, Del Zamora.

On this day in movie history - Coming Attractions: A History of the Movie Trailer (2009)

 

Coming Attractions: A History of the Movie Trailer

documentary directed by Michael J. Shapiro and Jeff Werner,

written by Frederick L. Greene and Scott McIsaac,

was released at the Mar del Plata Film Festival in Argentina on November 7, 2009.

 

Cast:

Robert Osborne, Christopher Arnold, Dan Asma, John Barrymore, Saul Bass, Anne Baxter, Erica Benson, William Castle, Bruce Cohen, Benedict Coulter, Kate Cox, Joe Dante, Cecil B. DeMille, Howard Deutch, Margery Doppelt, Joseph Farrell, Pablo Ferro, Robert G. Friedman, Anthony Goldschmidt, Nancy Goliger, Mike Greenfeld, Jere Guldin, Dianne Harnell Cohen, Stewart Harnell, Lee Harry, Vinzenz Hediger, Stephen Herek, Paul Hirsch, Alfred Hitchcock, Jeff Joseph, Lisa Kernan, Stanley Kubrick, Andrew J. Kuehn, Don LaFontaine, Sherry Lansing, Leonard Maltin, Gregory McClatchy, Greg Morrison, Marykay Powell, Joel Salsburey, Joel Schumacher, Michael J. Shapiro, Tony Silver, Steven Spielberg, Laurette Taylor, François Truffaut, Jarik Van Sluijs, Jeff Werner, Robin Williams, Chuck Workman, Darryl F. Zanuck.

On this day in music history - The album Divenire, by Ludovico Einaudi (2006)

Divenire

by Ludovico Einaudi

was released on November 7, 2006.

On this day in music history - The album Christmas Dreams, by 2002 (2007)

 

Christmas Dreams

by 2002

was released on November 7, 2007.

On this day in music history - The album Close to Home, by Laura Sullivan (2008)

Close to Home

by Laura Sullivan

was released on November 7, 2008.

On this day in music history - The album And Winter Came..., by Enya (2008)

And Winter Came...

by Enya

was released on November 7, 2008.

On this day in music history - The album Almost Christmas, by Lee Aaron (2020)

Almost Christmas

by Lee Aaron

was released on November 7, 2020.