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Mortimer Adler, on books:

 

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.

Recommended reading - Leaving Las Vegas

 

Leaving Las Vegas

Leaving Las Vegas

By John O’Brien.
 
Published by Grove Press.
First published 1990.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 080212593X
ISBN-13: 978-0802125934
 
Description:
 

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.

 

“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.
 

“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.

Recommended reading - The Valachi Papers

The Valachi Papers

The Valachi Papers
by Peter Maas.
 
Published by Harper Perennial.
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.

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 – Lee Krasner:

Lee Krasner

Painter

October 27, 1908 – June 19, 1984

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 – John Carson:

John Carson

Actor

October 27, 1910 – January 2, 1963

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 – Teresa Wright:

Teresa Wright

Actress

October 27, 1918 – March 6, 2005

Born on this day – Nanette Fabray:

Nanette Fabray

Actress

Singer

Dancer

October 27, 1920 – February 22, 2018

Born on this day – Sylvia Plath:

Sylvia Plath

Writer

October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963

Born on this day – Steve Sandor:

Steve Sandor

Actor

October 27, 1937 – April 5, 2017

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 – Carrie Snodgress:

Carrie Snodgrass

Actress

October 27, 1945 – April 1, 2004

Born on this day – Bernard Wrightson:

Bernard Wrightson

Artist

October 27, 1948 – March 18, 2017

Credits:
 
Comic books:
 
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); Punisher P.O.V. #1–4 (1991); Punisher: Purgatory #1–4 (1998–1999); Savage Tales (King Kull) #2 (1973); Secrets of Haunted House #5, 44 (covers) (1975–1982); Shadows & Light #1 (1998); Showcase (Nightmaster) #83–84 (1969); So Dark the Rose #1 (1995); Spectre #9 (1969); Spectre vol. 3 #58 (1997); Stuff Out'a My Head, by Joseph M. Monks (2002); Sub-Mariner #36 (inker) (1971); Superman/Batman Annual #3 (2009); Swamp Thing #1–10 (1972–1974); Tales of the Unexpected #4 (2007); Tarzan Le Monstre #11–12 (1998); The Art of Wrightson: A Pop-Up Portfolio (1996); The Berni Wrightson Treasury (1975); The Conan Grimoire, by L. Sprague de Camp (1972); The Conan Reader, by L. Sprague de Camp (1968); The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla, by Stephen King (2006); The House of Mystery by Jack Oleck (1973); The Incredible Hulk #197 (1976); The Lost Frankenstein Pages (1993); The Monsters Color the Creature Book (1974); The Mutants (1980); The National Lampoon Encyclopedia of Humor (1973); The Reaper of Love and Other Stories #1 (1988); The Reaper of Love and Other Stories (1988); The Shadow Vol. 2 #3, (1974); The Stand-Complete and Uncut by Stephen King (1990); The Studio (1979); The Tomb of Dracula #43 (1976); The Unexpected #116, 119, 128 (1970–1971); The Weird #1–4 (1988); Toe Tags Featuring George Romero #1–6 (2004–2005); Tower of Shadows #8–9 (covers) (1971); Treehouse of Horror #11 (2005); Twisted Tales #2 (1983); Web of Horror #1–3 (1969–1970); Weird Mystery Tales #1 (interiors) #21 (1972–1975); Welcome Back to the House of Mystery #1 (1998); Werewolf by Night #35 (1976); Witching Hour #3, 5 (1969); Wonder Woman Annual #7 (1998); Zombie Jam, by David J. Schow (2005).
 
Music album artwork:
 
Meat Loaf: Dead Ringer (1981); Obituary: Back from the Dead (1997).
 
Movies and television:
 

Batman and Harley Quinn (2017); Better Things: The Life and Choices of Jeffrey Catherine Jones (2012); Biker Mice from Mars (2006); Bird of Steel!; COMIX: Beyond the Comic Book Pages (2016); Creepshow (1982); Creepy (2012); Dark Country (2009); Dark Dreamers (2011); Dita in Distress (1999); Fantastic Forum (2010); Frankenstein (2025); Frazetta: Painting with Fire (2003); Galaxy Quest (1999); Ghostbusters (1984); Heavy Metal (1981); Jennifer (2004); Just Desserts: The Making of 'Creepshow' (2007); Justice League Action (2016–2017); Justice League Action Shorts (2017); Justice League Dark (2017); Justice League Dark: Apokolips War (2020); Land of the Dead (2005); Miracles and Mystery: Creating 'the Green Mile' (2006); Monsters Among Us: The Creature FX of 'The Mist' (2008); Reign of Fire (2002); Riding the Bullet (2004); Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics (2010); Slimer Mode (2009); Space Truckers (1996); Spider-Man (2002); Superpowered: The DC Story (2023); Swamp Thing (1990–1993); Swamp Thing (2019); Tales from the Crypt: From Comic Books to Television (2004); Teen Titans GO! To the Movies (2018); The Faculty (1998); The Horror of It All: The Visual FX of 'The Mist' (2008); The Masters of Comic Book Art (1987); The Mist (2007); The Pit and the Pendulum (1991); The Return of Swamp Thing (1989); The Walking Dead (2017); The Wednesday Club (2017); Thir13en Ghosts (2001); Titans (2023); Untold Legends of Comic Books (2024); Walking the Mile (2000); When Darkness Came: The Making of 'The Mist' (2008); When Zombies Attack!! (2001).

On this day in movie history - Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

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.

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.

On this day in movie history - The Valachi Papers (1972)

The Valachi Papers

directed by Terence Young,

written by Stephen Geller, Massimo De Rita and Dino Maiuri,

based on the book by Peter Maas,

was released in the United States on October 27, 1972.

Music by Armando Trovajoli and Riz Ortolani.

Cast:

Charles Bronson, Lino Ventura, Jill Ireland, Walter Chiari, Joseph Wiseman, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Amedeo Nazzari, Fausto Tozzi, Pupella Maggio, Angelo Infanti, Guido Leontini, María Baxa, Mario Pilar, Franco Borelli, Alessandro Sperli, Natasha Chevelev, Anthony Dawson, Fred Valleca, John Alarimo, Calogero Azzaretto, Joe Don Baker, Steve Belloise, Angelo Boscariol, Nestore Cavaricci, Massimo Ciprari, Giacomo De Michelis, Bruno Di Luia, Gianni Di Segni, Richard Dunne, Arny Freeman, Alfonso Giganti, Ron Gilbert, Frank Gio, Syl Lamont, Imelde Marani, Isabelle Marchall, Jason McCallum, Franco Ressel, Sabine Sun, Robert Trout, Steve Vignari.

On this day in movie history - Kill Me Again (1989)

Kill Me Again 

directed by John Dahl,

written by John Dahl and Rick Dahl,

was released in the United States on October 27, 1989.

Music by William Olvis.

Cast:

Val Kilmer, Joanne Whalley, Michael Madsen, Robert Schuch, Duane Tucker, Molly Flanegin, Dominic Dinino, Daniel Dorse, Bibi Besch, Jim Boeke, Jon Gries, Michael Sharrett, Debby Lynn Ross, Pat Mulligan, Nick Dimitri, Stanley Brown, Dan Sturdivant, Jeff Morrell, Jeff LeBeau, Michael Greene, James Henriksen, Lee Wilkof, Joseph Carberry, Roy Kieffer, Victoria Hirsch, Ralph M. Cardinale, Bruce Claessens, Darrel Wayne, Sheldon Haun, Jeri Arredondo, Hubert Ergenbright, Jeff Smolek, David Ward.