In the case of
good books,
the point is not
how many of them you can get through,
but rather how many can get through to you.
- Mortimer
Adler.
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Monday, October 27, 2025
Mortimer Adler, on books:
Recommended reading - The Valachi Papers
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The Valachi Papers
by Peter Maas.First published 1968.
Paperback.
ISBN-10:
006050742X
ISBN-13: 978-0060507428
Description:
“As
fascinating as fiction, a bloody history of the Mafia as lived by one of its
members." – New York Times Book Review.
The First
Inside Account of the Mafia.
The
Valachi Papers is a biography written by Peter Maas, telling the true story of
former mafia member Joe Valachi, a low-ranking member of the New York based
Genovese crime family, was the first ever government witness coming from the
American Mafia itself. His account of his criminal past revealed many
previously unknown details of the Mafia. The book was made into a film (The
Valachi Papers), released in 1972, starring Charles Bronson as Valachi. In
October 1963, Valachi testified before Senator John L. McClellan's
congressional committee on organized crime, the Permanent Subcommittee on
Investigations of the U.S. Senate Committee on Government Operations. In the
so-called Valachi hearings he gave the American public a firsthand account of
Mafia activities in the United States.
In the
1960s a disgruntled soldier in New York's Genovese Crime Family decided to
spill his guts. His name was Joseph Valachi. Daring to break the Mob's code of
silence for the first time, Valachi detailed the organization of organized
crime from the capos, or bosses, of every Family, to the hit men who
"clipped" rivals and turncoats. With a phenomenal memory for names,
dates, addresses, phone numbers – and where the bodies were buried – Joe
Valachi provided the chilling facts that led to the arrest and conviction of
America's major crime figures.
The rest
is history.
Never
again would the Mob be protected by secrecy. For the Mafia, Valachi's name
would become synonymous with betrayal. But his stunning exposé broke the back
of America's Cosa Nostra and stands today as the classic about America's Mob, a
fascinating tale of power and terror, big money, crime. . . and murder.
The bloody
history of the Mafia as lived by one of its members.
“A highly
readable narrative…. A story littered with bodies and unsolved crimes,
betrayals and beatings, oaths, ritual, and revenge.” – Newsweek.
“A classic
on crime.” – Life.
ISBN-13: 978-0060507428
Recommended reading - Leaving Las Vegas
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Leaving Las Vegas
by John O’Brien.First published 1990.
Paperback.
ISBN-10:
080212593X
ISBN-13: 978-0802125934
Description:
“Here is
that rarest jewel, a really fine novel. It’s a magical piece of work, one of
the best I’ve seen in a long time. John O’Brien has a very great talent.” –
Larry Brown, author of Joe and Big Bad Love.
ISBN-13: 978-0802125934
Leaving
Las Vegas, the first novel by John O’Brien, is a disturbing and emotionally
wrenching story of a woman who embraces life and a man who rejects it. Sera, a
prostitute, and Ben, an alcoholic, stumble together and discover in each other
a respite from their unforgiving lives. A testimony to the raw talent of its
young author, Leaving Las Vegas is a compelling story of unconditional love
between two disenfranchised and lost souls – an overlooked American classic.
“There is
not a false note in the novel . . . O’Brien has a strong tradition behind him
here, that of American naturalism, and he fits into it well. From Stephen Crane
to Hubert Selby, Jr. . . . [O’Brien] achieves real power in his writing. You
seldom encounter it anymore, but when you do you know you’ve been properly
whacked by a real talent.” – New York Daily News.
“This book
is not only dark and dire, it is crushing. How can a novel so absolutely devoid
of hope be so gripping? The portrait of Sera and Ben is a tour de force –
masterful and relentless. Leaving Las Vegas is the strongest and most extreme
look at alcohol I’ve ever read. This book moved and bothered me and weeks later
it is still in my mind. I think O’Brien is simply terrific.” – Ron Carlson,
author of Plan B for the Middle Class.
“A brutal
and unflinching portrait of the low life in the city of high rollers, Leaving
Las Vegas is both shocking and curiously exhilarating. John O’Brien was a
stunningly talented writer who created poetry from the most squalid materials.
This is a beautiful and horrifying novel.” – Jay McInerney, author of
Brightness Falls.
Born on this day – Niccolò Paganini:
Niccolò Paganini
Violinist
Composer
October 27, 1782 – May 27,
1840
Born on this day – Jane Murfin:
Jane Murfin
Writer
Director
October 27, 1884 – August 10, 1955
Credits:
The Women (2008); Ponds Theater (1953); Broadway Television Theatre (1953); Dragon Seed (1944); Cry 'Havoc' (1943); Flight for Freedom (1943); Smilin' Through (1941); Andy Hardy's Private Secretary (1941); Pride and Prejudice (1940); Northwest Passage (1940); The Women (1939); Stand Up and Fight (1939); The Shining Hour (1938); I'll Take Romance (1937); That Girl from Paris (1936); Come and Get It (1936); Alice Adams (1935); Roberta (1935); The Little Minister (1934); Romance in Manhattan (1934); The Fountain (1934); The Life of Vergie Winters (1934); This Man Is Mine (1934); The Crime Doctor (1934); Spitfire (1934); Little Women (1933); After Tonight (1933); Ann Vickers (1933); Double Harness (1933); The Silver Cord (1933); Our Betters (1933); Rockabye (1932); Smilin' Through (1932); What Price Hollywood? (1932); Young Bride (1932); Way Back Home (1931); Friends and Lovers (1931); Caught Plastered (1931); Too Many Cooks (1931); White Shoulders (1931); The Pay-Off (1930); Lawful Larceny (1930); The Runaway Bride (1930); Seven Keys to Baldpate (1929); Dance Hall (1929); Half Marriage (1929); Side Street (1929); Street Girl (1929); Lilac Time (1928); The Prince of Headwaiters (1927); The Notorious Lady (1927); Meet the Prince (1926); The Savage (1926); A Slave of Fashion (1925); White Fang (1925); The Love Master (1924); Flapper Wives / play entitled: The Flaming Sign (1924); Brawn of the North (1922); Smilin' Through/ play entitled: Smiling Through (1922); Flapper Wives (1924); The Silent Call (1921); Playthings of Destiny (1921); The Amateur Wife (1920); The Right to Lie (1919); A Temperamental Wife / play entitled: Information Please (1919); Marie, Ltd. (1919); Daybreak (1918).
Born on this day – Henry Townsend:
Henry Townsend
Blues singer
Guitarist
Pianist
October 27, 1909 –
September 24, 2006
Credits:
Albums:
Blues Piano and Guitar (2019); Cairo Blues (1973); Last of the Great Mississippi Delta Bluesmen: Live in Dallas (2007); More Devil's Music (2006); Mule / Expanded Edition (1980); Mule's Blues (2015); My Story (2001); St. Louis Blues Ace (1996); The 88 Blues (1998); The Blues in St. Louis, Vol. 3: Henry Townsend (1984); The Real St. Louis Blues (2001)
Movies and television:
10 Days Out: Blues from the Backroads (2007); Blues Like Showers of Rain (1970); Blues Like Showers of Rain / Legends of Country Blues Guitar (1994); Blues Story (2003); Thats the Way I Do It (1986); The Devil's Music (1979).
Born on this day – Dylan Thomas:
Dylan Thomas
Writer
October 27, 1914 – November 9, 1953
Credits:
Poems:
A Child's Christmas In Wales; A Grief Ago; A Letter To My Aunt; A Process In The Weather Of The Heart; A Refusal To Mourn The Death, By Fire, Of A Child In London; A Saint About To Fall; A Winter's Tale; After The Funeral (In Memory Of Ann Jones); All All And All; All All And All The Dry Worlds Lever; All That I Owe The Fellows Of The Grave; Altarwise By Owl-Light; Among Those Killed In The Dawn Raid Was A Man Aged A Hundred; And Death Shall Have No Dominion; Ballad Of The Long-Legged Bait; Because The Pleasure-Bird Whistles; Before I Knocked; Being But Men; Ceremony After A Fire Raid; Clown In The Moon; Deaths And Entrances; Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night; Do You Not Father Me; Dylan Thomas - Holy Spring; Ears In The Turrets Hear; Elegy; Especially When The October Wind; Fern Hill; Find Meat On Bones; From Love's First Fever To Her Plague; Grief Thief Of Time; Here In This spring; Hold Hard The Ancient Minutes; Hold Hard, These Ancient Minutes In The Cuckoo's Month; Holy Spring; How Shall My Animal; How Soon The Servant Sun; I Dreamed My Genesis; I Fellowed Sleep; I Have Longed To Move Away; I Make This In A Warring Absence; I See The Boys Of Summer; I, In My Intricate Image; If I Were Tickled By the Rub of Love; 'If my head hurt a hair's foot'; In Country Sleep; In My Craft Or Sullen Art; In The Beginning; In The White Giant's Thigh; Incarnate Devil; Into Her Lying Down Head; It Is The Sinners' Dust-Tongued Bell; January 1939; Lament; Lie Still, Sleep Becalmed; Light Breaks Where No Sun Shines; Limerick; Love In The Asylum; My Hero Bares His Nerves; My World Is Pyramid; Not From This Anger; Notes On The Art Of Poetry; O Make Me A Mask; On A Wedding Anniversary; On No Work Of Words; On The Marriage Of A Virgin; Once Below A Time; Once It Was The Colour Of Saying; Our Eunuch Dreams; Out Of The Sighs; Over Sir John's Hill; Poem In October; Poem On His Birthday; Prologue; Shall gods be said to thump the clouds; Should Lanterns Shine; Sometimes The Sky's Too Bright; The Conversation; The Conversation Of Prayer; The Force That Through The Green Fuse Drives The Flower; The Hand That Signed The Paper; The Hunchback In The Park; The Seed-At-Zero; The Tombstone Told When She Died; Then Was My Neophyte; There Was A Saviour; This Bread I Break; This Side Of The Truth; To Others Than You; To-Day, This Insect; Twenty Four Years; Unluckily For A Death; Was There A Time; We Lying By Seasand; When All My Five And Country Senses See; When I Woke; When Once The Twilight Locks No Longer; When, Like A Running Grave; Why East Wind Chills.
Movies and television
2nd House (1973); A Burning Hot Summer (2011); A Child's Christmas in Wales (1966 / 1987); A City Reborn (1945); A Dylan Thomas Memoir (1973); A Soldier Comes Home (1945); About Religion (1964); Alan Melville Takes You from A-Z (1959); Balloon Site 568 (1942); C.E.M.A. (1942); Camera Three (1961); Chaindance (1991); Chelsea Walls (2001); De schaduwlopers (1995); Doktor a besi (1966); Dylan Thomas: Return Journey (1990); Fern Hill (2005); Festival (1966); Folio (1959); Fuel for Battle (1944); Great Poets: In Their Own Words (2014); Interstellar (2014); Le beau samedi (1974); Miralls (1999); N'entre pas sans violence dans cette bonne nuit (2005); New Towns for Old (1942); No Room at the Inn (1948); Omnibus / Segment: Dylan Thomas Memorial (1953); On David's Day (1959); Onder het Melkwoud (1958); Our Country (1944); Paul Kelly: And Death Shall Have No Dominion (2018); Puerto Rico (1961); Rebecca's Daughters (1992); Rijanon (1984); Speaking Personally (1951–1959); Stone (1974); Stone Forever (1999); Tenth Edinburgh International Festival: An extract from Under Milk Wood (1956); The Battle for Freedom (1942); The Doctor and the Devils (1985); The Dying of the light (2020); The Hunchback in the Park (2014); The Mouse and the Woman (1980); The Outing (2019); The Poet Writes His Wife (2002); The Respectful Prostitute / Festival (1964); The Sunday Programme (2003); The Three Weird Sisters (1948); These Are the Men (1943); This Is Colour (1942); Titus (2001); Un siècle d'écrivains (1999); Under Milk Wood (1957 / 1971 / 1992 / 2014 / 2015 / 2021); Unter dem Milchwald (1960); Wales: Green Mountain, Black Mountain (1942); We Who Are Young Are Old (2010); Welsh Greats (2014).
Born on this day – Nanette Fabray:
Nanette Fabray
Actress
Singer
Dancer
October 27, 1920 – February 22,
2018
Born on this day – Ruby Dee:
Ruby Dee
Actress
Writer
October 27, 1922 – June 11, 2014
Credits:
Books:
Movies and
television:
Books:
My One Good
Nerve: Rhythms, Rhymes, Reasons (1986); Why Mosquitos Buzz in People's Ears /
Audio (1984); With Ossie and Ruby: In This Life Together (1998).
14th Annual
Screen Actors Guild Awards (2008); 1982 (2013); 2003 Trumpet Awards (2003);
22nd NAACP Image Awards (1990); 39th NAACP Image Awards (2008); 7th Annual
Screen Actors Guild Awards (2001); A Certain Magical Pimpdex: Extended Edition
(2019); A Colored Life: The Herb Jeffries Story (2008); A Place Out of Time:
The Bordentown School (2009); A Raisin in the Sun (1961); A Simple Wish (1997);
A Storm in Summer (2000); A Thousand Words (2012); A Time to Dance: The Life
and Work of Norma Canner (1998); A Walk Through the 20th Century with Bill
Moyers (1984); A Wealth of Wisdom (2004); Actor's Choice (1970); After Goodbye:
An AIDS Story (1993); Alcoa Premiere (1963); All About Us (2007); All God's
Children (1980); America (2009); America at the Movies (1976); American
Experience (1990); American Gangster (2007); American Masters (1995 / 1999);
American Playhouse (1985–1990); American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace
Lee Boggs (2013); An Ecstatic Experience (2015); An Evening at the Academy
Awards (2008); An Evening of Stars: A Celebration of Educational Excellence
(1998); An Evening of Stars: Tribute to Stevie Wonder (2006); An Evening with
Ossie Davis & Ruby Dee (2002); And When I Die, I Won't Stay Dead (2015);
Anyone for Tennyson? The Master Poets Collection (1976); Armchair Theatre
(1966); Baby Geniuses (1999); Baby of the Family (2002); Beah: A Black Woman
Speaks (2003); Betty and Coretta (2013); Betty Hughes and Friends (1970);
Between the Lions (2001); Bicentennial Minutes (1975); Biography (2005); Black
Girl (1972); Black Girls Rock (2010); Book TV (2004); Broadway Legends (2002);
Buck and the Preacher (1972); Camera Three (1960–1965); Captive Heart: The
James Mink Story (1996); Cat People (1982); CBC Show of the Week (1964);
Character Studies (2005); Charlie Rose (1997–1998); Chelsea D.H.O. (1973);
China Beach (1990); Christianity: The First Two Thousand Years (2001); Color
Adjustment (1992); Cool Red (1976); Cop & ½ (1993); Cosby (1999); Crossing
Over: How Roots Captivated an Entire Nation (2007); Crown Dick (1987); CSI:
Crime Scene Investigation (2007); Dateline NBC: American Gangster: First Look
(2007); Decoration Day (1990); Def Poetry (2004); Discovering William Greaves
(2006); Do the Right Thing (1989); Domestic Differences (1997); Dooley's Not
Dooby (2018); Dream Street (2010); East Side/West Side (1963); Easy to Get
(1947); Ebony/Jet Showcase (1988); Edge of the City (1957); Entertainment
Tonight (2008 / 2014); Evening Shade (1993); Fatherhood (2004); Finding Buck
McHenry (2000); For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots
(2010); Frankenpimp's Revenge: The Romeo and Juliet Massacre (2020); Freedom
Never Dies: The Legacy of Harry T. Moore (2001); Freedom Spectacular (1964);
Frontiers of Faith (1961); Go Man Go (1954); Go Tell It on the Mountain (1985);
God's Gonna Trouble the Water (1998); Gone Are the Days! (1963); Great
Performances (1982–1998); Great Performances / Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
(2021); Guiding Light (1952–2009); Hands Upon the Heart (1991); Happily Ever After:
Fairy Tales for Every Child (2000); Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First
100 Years (1999); HBO First Look (2007); He Said, She Said (1970); History of
the Negro People (1965); Homeward Bound (1994); Hughes' Dream Harlem (2002); I
Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1979); Iconoclasts (2007); In the Shadow of
Hollywood: Race Movies and the Birth of Black Cinema (2007); Inside TV Land
(2002); Intimate Portrait (2001); It's Good to Be Alive (1974); I've Got a
Secret (1963); Jazztime Tale (1991); Jungle Fever (1991); Just Cause (1995);
King of Stage: The Woodie King Jr. Story (2018); King: A Filmed Record...
Montgomery to Memphis (1969); La noche de los Oscar (2008); Lady Day: The Many
Faces of Billie Holiday (1990); Legends Ball (2006); Let Freedom Sing: How
Music Inspired the Civil Rights Movement (2009); Life's Essentials with Ruby
Dee (2014); Lincoln (1988); Little Bill (1999–2004); Little Bill Thinks Big!
(2003); Little Bill: Big Little Bill (2001); Lockdown, USA (2006); Long Day's
Journey Into Night (1982); Look Up and Live (1968); Lorraine Hansberry: The
Black Experience in the Creation of Drama (1975); Love at Large (1990); Love in
Syncopation (1946); Making Do the Right Thing (1989); Maxine's Baby: The Tyler
Perry Story (2023); Meet Mary Pleasant (2008); Middle Ages (1992); Minty
Comedic Arts (2019); Miss Smith of Georgia (1962); Mississippi, America (1996);
Mr. and Mrs. Loving (1996); Mumia: Long Distance Revolutionary (2012); Naming
Number Two (2006); Nick Jr. Favorites Holiday (2006); No Way Out (1950); NY TV:
By the People Who Made It - Part I & II (1998); On the Set of No. 2 (2007);
Ossie and Ruby! (1980); Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson (2007); Our Virgin
Island (1958); P.O.V. (2014); Passing Glory (1999); Password (1962); Peyton
Place (1968–1969); Play of the Week (1960–1961); Police Woman (1975); Politics
of Love (2011); Promised Land (1998); Reading Rainbow (1984–2001); Red &
Blue Marbles (2011); Roots: The Next Generations (1979); Seven Times Monday
(1962); Shelly Fisher (1999); Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart (2017); Sing Your Song
(2011); Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood (1998);
Soul! (1970–1972); Special Collector's Edition (2014); Spenser: For Hire
(1987); Sports on the Silver Screen (1997); St. Louis Blues (1958); Steam
(2007); Stories from the Edge / Segment: Tuesday Morning Ride (1996); Street
Gear (1995); Take a Giant Step (1959); Taking Back Our Town (2001); Tavis
Smiley (2008); Tenafly (1973); That Man of Mine (1946); The 15th Annual Women
in Film Crystal Awards (1991); The 16th Annual Diversity Awards (2008); The
16th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1964); The 16th Annual Tony Awards (1962);
The 2006 Black Movie Awards (2006); The 21st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards
(2015); The 31st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1979); The 43rd Annual Primetime
Emmy Awards (1991); The 48th Annual Tony Awards (1994); The 66th Primetime Emmy
Awards (2014); The 80th Annual Academy Awards (2008); The African Burial
Ground: An American Discovery (1994); The Atlanta Child Murders (1985); The
Balcony (1963); The Black Movie Awards (2005); The Bold Ones: The Protectors
(1969); The Business of Hunger (1984); The CBS Festival of Lively Arts for
Young People (1974); The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson (1990); The Defenders
(1965); The Dick Cavett Show (1970 / 1990); The Directors (2000); The Doctors
and the Nurses (1963); The DuPont Show of the Week (1962); The Ernest Green
Story (1993); The Feast of All Saints (2001); The Fight Never Ends (1948); The
First Year (1946); The Fugitive (1963); The Golden Girls (1990); The Great
Adventure (1963); The Great American Pastime (1956); The History Makers (2005);
The Incident (1967); The Insider (2004); The Interviews: An Oral History of
Television (2000); The Jackie Robinson Story (1950); The Kennedy Center Honors:
A Celebration of the Performing Arts (2004); The Landlord (2009); The Making of
American Gangster (2008); The Making of Stephen King's the Stand (1994); The
Merv Griffin Show (1967–1968); The Mike Douglas Show (1965–1971); The Mo'Nique
Show (2010); The New Neighbors (2009); The Oprah Winfrey Show (2008); The
Oscars (2015); The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll (2009); The Poetry Hall of Fame
(1993); The Roseanne Show (1998); The Sheriff (1971); The Sig Sakowicz Show
(1972); The Stand (1994); The Tall Target (1951); The Tonight Show Starring
Johnny Carson (1963); The Torture of Mothers (1980); The Tyra Banks Show
(2009); The Unfinished Journey (1999); The Wall / Segment: The Badge (1998);
The Way Back Home (2006); The Wendy Williams Show (2011); Theater Talk (2014);
Their Eyes Were Watching God (2005); To Be Young, Gifted, and Black (1972); To
Tell the Truth (1963); Today (1989); Tony Brown's Journal (1978); Touched by an
Angel (1999); Tuesday Morning Ride (1995); Turner Classic Movies Remembers 2014
(2014); TV in Black: The First Fifty Years (2004); Unchained Memories: Readings
from the Slave Narratives (2003); Unstoppable: Conversation with Melvin Van
Peebles, Gordon Parks, and Ossie Davis (2005); Uptight (1968); Video Girl
(2011); Watch Your Mouth (1978); Wattstax (1973); Wedding Band (1974); What a
Guy (1948); What's My Line? (1972); Whitewash (1994); Windmills of the Gods
(1988); Zur Nacht (1970).
Born on this day – Lara Parker:
Lara Parker
Actress
Writer
Teacher
October 27, 1938 – October 12,
2023
Credits:
The Job Interview (2016); Theatre Fantastique (2014); Doctor Mabuse: Etiopomar (2014); Doctor Mabuse (2013); Dark Shadows (2012); P.S.I. Luv U (1991); People Like Us (1990); The China Lake Murders (1990); The Highwayman (1988); Highway to Heaven (1987); One Life to Live (1985); Remington Steele (1983); Manimal (1983); Foxfire Light (1983); A New Day in Eden (1982); Rooster (1982); Capitol (1985-1986); Jessica Novak (1981); The Fall Guy (1981); This Is the Life (1980); Desperate Voyage (1980); Galactica 1980 (1980); Hagen (1980); Mrs. Columbo (1980); Hawaii Five-O (1978–1980); Once Upon a Family (1980); Barnaby Jones (1980); The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo (1979); The Solitary Man (1979); The Lazarus Syndrome (1979); Sword of Justice (1979); The Lazarus Syndrome (1978); Quincy M.E. (1977–1978); Baretta (1978); Switch (1976–1977); The Incredible Hulk (1977); Washington: Behind Closed Doors (1977); Alice (1976); Kojak (1973–1976); Stranded (1976); City of Angels (1976); Jigsaw John (1976); The Six Million Dollar Man (1974–1976); Doctors' Hospital (1976); Emergency! (1975); Mobile One (1975); Race with the Devil (1975); S.W.A.T. (1975); Adventures of the Queen (1975); Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1975); The Rockford Files (1975); Police Woman (1975); Lucas Tanner (1975); Airport 1975 (1974); The Chadwick Family (1974); Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law (1974); My Darling Daughters' Anniversary (1973); Medical Center (1973); Insight (1973); Save the Tiger (1973); The F.B.I. (1972); Kung Fu (1972); Night of Dark Shadows (1971); Dark Shadows (1967–1971); April in the Wind (1970); Hi, Mom! (1970); N.Y.P.D. (1968).
Books:
Dark Shadows novel series: Angelique's Descent (1998); The Salem Branch (2006); Wolf Moon Rising (2012); Heiress of Collinwood (2016).
Born on this day – Angus MacInnes:
Angus MacInnes
Actor
October 27, 1947 – December 23, 2024
Credits:
Don't (2025);
Bobster's Podblast (2021); Tour de Force: Angus MacInnes on 'Force 10 from
Navarone' (2020); Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016); Elstree 1976 (2015);
Captain Phillips (2013); Vikings (2013); I Am the Architect (2012); Talking
Piranhas (2010); I'll Be Right Here (2010); High Plains Invaders (2009); Dach
(2007); Flight of Fury (2007); USS Constellation: Battling for Freedom (2007);
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut (2006); The Big Forever (2006); The Black
Dahlia (2006); Living the Quake (2006); The Jacket (2005); Fooling Hitler
(2004); Hellboy (2004); Seven Wonders of the Industrial World (2003); Soraya
(2003); Amen. (2002); Formula 51 (2001); Enigma (2001); Too Much Sun (2000);
Yesterday's Children (2000); Rhythm & Blues (2000); Operation Delta Force
4: Deep Fault (1999); Eyes Wide Shut (1999); Space Island One (1998); McLibel!
(1997); Over Here (1996); Emmerdale Farm (1996); Judge Dredd (1995); Paris
(1994); Roughnecks (1994); Clue (1994); Between the Lines (1993); Lovejoy
(1993); Sleepers (1991); Ruth Rendell Mysteries (1990); Spies Inc. (1992); The
Play on One (1990); The Krays (1990); Screen Two (1990); Howards' Way (1989);
Gross Anatomy (1989); Tailspin: Behind the Korean Airliner Tragedy (1989);
Honor Bound (1988); Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988); A Father's Revenge (1988);
The New Statesman (1987); Half Moon Street (1986); Loose Ends (1986); Evergreen
(1985); John and Yoko: A Love Story (1985); Witness (1985); Bedroom Eyes
(1984); Best Revenge (1984); The Edison Twins (1984); Louisiane (1984); ABC
Weekend Specials (1984); Spasms (1983); Strange Brew (1983); Will There Really
Be a Morning? (1983); The Sender (1982); Murder by Phone (1982); If You Could
See What I Hear (1982); The Littlest Hobo (1980–1981); Outland (1981); The
Great Detective (1981); Superman II (1980); Dirty Tricks (1980); Atlantic City
(1980); Nothing Personal (1980); Force 10 from Navarone (1978); The English
Programme (1978); Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977); Space: 1999
(1977); BBC Play of the Month (1977); Wodehouse Playhouse (1976); Play for
Today (1975); Rollerball (1975).
Born on this day – Bernard Wrightson:
Bernard Wrightson
Artist
October 27, 1948 – March 18, 2017
Credits:
Comic books:
Music album artwork:
Meat Loaf: Dead Ringer (1981);
Obituary: Back from the Dead (1997).
Movies and television:
Alter Ego vol. 3, #41 (2004);
Aquaman Annual #4 (1998); Astonishing Tales #31 (cover inks) (1975); Back
Issue! #6 (2004); Badtime Stories (1972); Batman #265, 400 (interiors) #241,
320, Annual #22 (covers) (1972–1998); Batman/Aliens miniseries #1–2 (1997);
Batman: Hidden Treasures #1 (2010); Batman: Nevermore #1–5 (2003); Batman: The
Cult #1–4 (1988); Berni Wrightson: A Look Back (1991); Berni Wrightson: Back
for More (1978); Berni Wrightson: Master of the Macabre #1–4 (1983–1984); Berni
Wrightson: Master of the Macabre #5 (1984); Bernie Wrightson: MASTER OF THE
MACABRE (1993, Trading Card Series); Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein (1983);
Captain Marvel #41–42 (interiors) #43 (1975–1976); Captain Sternn: Running Out
of Time #1–5 (1993); Chamber of Darkness #7 (interior) #8 (1970); City of
Others #1–4 (2007); Clive Barker's Hellraiser #1 (1989); Collected Purple
Pictography #1 (1991); Comic Book Artist #4 (1999); Comic Book Marketplace #105
(2003); Comic Book Profiles #2 (1998); Conan the Barbarian #12 (1971); Creatures
on the Loose (King Kull) #10 (1971); Creepshow by Stephen King (1982); Creepy
#62–63, 77, 87, 95 (1974–1978); Cycle of the Werewolf, by Stephen King (1985);
Dead, She Said #1–3 (with Steve Niles) (2008); Detective Comics #425 (1972);
Doctor Strange Special Edition #1 (1983); Dreadstar #6–7 (1983); Eerie #58, 60,
62, 68, 72 (w/ Chaykin) (1974–1976); Epic Illustrated #8, 10, 22, 25, 30, 34
(interiors) #30 (1981–1986); Flinch #14 (2000); Frankenstein Alive, Alive! #1–3
(2012–2014); Frankenstein Mobster #7 (2004); Gargoyle #1 (1985); Ghostbusters:
The Ultimate Visual History by Daniel Wallace (2015); Giant-Size Chillers #3
(1975); Green Lantern Annual #7 (1998); Heavy Metal Special Editions vol. 10,
#1 (1996); Heroes Against Hunger (1986); Heroes for Hope starring the X-Men #1
(three pages only) (1985); House of Mystery (1969–1978); House of Mystery vol.
2 #9; (cover) #1 (2009); House of Secrets #92; (covers) #93–94, 96, 100, 103,
106–107, 135, 139 (1971–1976); JLA Annual #2 (1998); Jonah Hex #9 (1978); Kong
the Untamed #1–2 (covers) (1975); Marvel Graphic Novel #22 (Spider-Man:
"Hooky") #29 (The Hulk and the Thing: "The Big Change")
(1986–1987); MORE MACABRE (1994, Second Trading Card Series); National
Lampoon's Very Large Book Of Comical Funnies (1975); Night Terrors #1 (2000);
Nightmare #9–10 (1972); Nightmare Theater #1–4 (1997); Plop! #1, 5 (1973–1974);
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On this day in movie history - Black Widow (movie & novel):
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Black Widow
directed
by Nunnally Johnson,
written by
Nunnally Johnson, Hugh Wheeler, Richard W. Webb / Patrick Quentin,
based on the
novel Black Widow a.k.a Fatal Woman by
Patrick Quentin,
released in
the United States on October 27, 1954.
Music
by Leigh Harline.
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Cast:
Ginger
Rogers, Van Heflin, Gene Tierney, George Raft, Peggy Ann Garner, Reginald
Gardiner, Virginia Leith, Otto Kruger, Cathleen Nesbitt, Skip Homeier, Hilda
Simms, Mabel Albertson, Edward Astran, Bea Benaderet, Mary Benoit, Nesdon
Booth, Paul Bradley, Harry Carter, Paul Cristo, Oliver Cross, Frances Curry,
Richard H. Cutting, Anthony De Mario, Franklyn Farnum, Dick Gordon, Robert
Haines, Kenner G. Kemp, Paul Kruger, Robert Locke Lorraine, Virginia Maples,
Harold Miller, Forbes Murray, Monty O'Grady, Leoda Richards, Loretta Russell,
Cosmo Sardo, Jeffrey Sayre, Aaron Spelling, Bert Stevens, James Stone, Arthur
Tovey, Michael Vallon, Geraldine Wall, Pat White, Frank Wilcox, Wilson Wood.
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Recommended reading:
Black Widow
a.k.a Fatal
Woman
by Patrick Quentin.
ASIN:
B00231R78W
Published by
Simon & Schuster.
Published 1952.
Description:
Duluth, a Broadway producer and amateur detective, is baffled when his wife, Iris, discovers the body of Nanny Ordway, an aspiring writer he had recently befriended.
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On this day in movie history - Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
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Rebel Without a Cause
directed by Nicholas Ray,
written by Stewart Stern and Irving Shulman,
based on a story by Nicholas Ray,
was released in the United States on October 27, 1955.
Music by Leonard Rosenman.
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Cast:
James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, Jim Backus, Ann Doran, Corey Allen, William Hopper, Rochelle Hudson, Dennis Hopper, Edward Platt, Steffi Sidney, Marietta Canty, Virginia Brissac, Beverly Long, Ian Wolfe, Frank Mazzola, Robert Foulk, Jack Simmons, Tom Bernard, Nick Adams, Jack Grinnage, Clifford Morris, Dorothy Abbott, David Alpert, Jimmy Baird, Paul Birch, Harold Bostwick, Paul Bryar, John Close, Chuck Hamilton, Chuck Hicks, Skipper Huerta, Louise Lane, Nelson Leigh, David McMahon, Edward McNally, Peter Miller, Ralph Moratz, Bruce Noonan, House Peters Jr., Stephanie Pond-Smith, Charles Postal, Nicholas Ray, Gus Schilling, Almira Sessions, Joel Smith, Bert Stevens, Dick Wessel, Robert B. Williams.
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