On this day in movie history - Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

Blade Runner 2049

directed by Denis Villeneuve,

written by Hampton Fancher and Michael Green,

based on a story by Hampton Fancher,

was released in the United States on October 6, 2017.

Music by Benjamin Wallfisch and Hans Zimmer.

Cast:

Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Ana de Armas, Sylvia Hoeks, Robin Wright, Mackenzie Davis, Carla Juri, Lennie James, Dave Bautista, Jared Leto, Edward James Olmos, Barkhad Abdi, Hiam Abbass, David Dastmalchian, Wood Harris, Tómas Lemarquis, Sean Young, Loren Peta.

Jean Craighead George, on books:

 

Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book.
- Jean Craighead George.

Recommended reading - To Die For

To Die For

To Die For

by Joyce Maynard.

First published 1992.

Published by Open Road Media.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 1497643821

ISBN-13: 978-1497643826

Description:

“That’s the beauty of television. It’s like an eye that’s on you all the time…. Kind of like God, if you want to get heavy.”

Local weather reporter Suzanne Maretto craves nothing more than to transcend life at her suburban cable television news station and follow in the footsteps of her idol: Barbara Walters. When she concludes that her unglamorous husband is getting in the way of her dream of stardom, the solution seems obvious: Get rid of him. She seduces a fifteen-year-old admirer, Jimmy, and persuades him to do her dirty work. Mission accomplished, Suzanne takes to the airwaves in her new role as grieving widow, in search of a TV deal. If that means selling Jimmy down the river, she’s ready.

Maynard’s brilliant, funny, and groundbreaking novel – adapted by Gus Van Sant into the cult classic movie of the same name, starring Nicole Kidman – was first published in 1992 before the era of manufactured stardom and the phenomenon of televised murder trials as entertainment. The book still stands as a razor-sharp satire of celebrity-fixated culture and the American obsession with TV – a novel that imagined the phenomenon of reality television before its creation, with alternately bone-chilling and hilarious accuracy.

“A seductive page turner.” – The New York Times Book Review.

“A triumph.” – The Boston Globe.

“A powerful novel of murder and sexual obsession. . . .  Chilling.” – The Star-Ledger. 

Born on this day - Benjamin Stoloff:

Benjamin Stoloff 

Director

Producer

Production Manager

October 6, 1895 – September 8, 1960

Credits:

Home Run Derby (1960); Footlight Varieties (1951); It's a Joke, Son! (1947); Johnny Comes Flying Home (1946); Take It or Leave It (1944); Bermuda Mystery (1944); The Mysterious Doctor (1943); The Hidden Hand (1942); Secret Enemies (1942); Three Sons o' Guns (1941); The Great Mr. Nobody (1941); The Marines Fly High (1940); The Lady and the Mob (1939); The Affairs of Annabel (1938); Radio City Revels (1938); Fight for Your Lady (1937); Super-Sleuth (1937); Sea Devils (1937); Don't Turn 'em Loose (1936); Two in the Dark (1936); To Beat the Band (1935); Swellhead (1935); Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round (1934); Palooka (1934); Night of Terror (1933); Obey the Law (1933); The Devil Is Driving (1932); The Night Mayor (1932); By Whose Hand? (1932); Destry Rides Again (1932); Just Pals (1932); Perfect Control (1932); Slide, Babe, Slide (1932); Goldie (1931); Not Exactly Gentlemen (1931); Soup to Nuts (1930); Rough Romance (1930); New Movietone Follies of 1930 (1930); The Girl from Havana (1929); Happy Days (1929); Protection (1929); Speakeasy (1929); Mind Your Business (1928); The Bath Between (1928); Plastered in Paris (1928); Horseman of the Plains (1928); Silver Valley (1927); The Gay Retreat (1927); The Circus Ace (1927); The Canyon of Light (1926); It's a Pipe (1926); A1 Society (1926); Matrimony Blues (1926); The Mad Racer (1926); Pawnshop Politics (1926); The Fighting Tailor (1926); East Side, West Side (1925); The Heart Breaker (1925); Love and Lions (1925); Sweet Marie (1925); On the Go (1925); A High Jinx (1925); Papa's Darling (1925); Say It with Flour (1925); Help Yourself! (1925); The House of Flickers (1925); Lion Love (1925); Grief in Bagdad (1925); Roaring Lions at Home (1924); Stolen Sweeties (1924); In-Bad the Sailor (1924); Stretching the Truth (1924); When Wise Ducks Meet (1924); On the Job (1924); Be Yourself (1924); Highly Recommended (1924); Slow and Sure (1923); Full Speed Ahead (1923); Play Ball with Babe Ruth (1920).           

 

Born on this day – Mitchell Leisen:

Mitchell Leisen

Director

Art director

Costume designer

October 6, 1898 – October 28, 1972

Credits:

Spree (1967); The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. (1966–1967); Adventures in Paradise (1961–1962); Follow the Sun (1961); Wagon Train (1961); Open Windows (1960); General Electric Theater (1955–1960); Thriller (1960); Markham (1960); The Twilight Zone (1959–1960); Shirley Temple's Storybook (1958); The Girl Most Likely (1957); Bedevilled (1955); Tonight We Sing (1953); Young Man with Ideas (1952); Darling, How Could You! (1951); The Mating Season (1951); No Man of Her Own (1950); Captain Carey, U.S.A. (1949); Song of Surrender (1949); Bride of Vengeance (1949); Dream Girl (1948); Golden Earrings (1947); Suddenly It's Spring (1947); To Each His Own (1946); Masquerade in Mexico (1945); Kitty (1945); Practically Yours (1944); Frenchman's Creek (1944); Lady in the Dark (1944); No Time for Love (1943); Take a Letter, Darling (1942); The Lady Is Willing (1942); Hold Back the Dawn (1941); I Wanted Wings (1941); Arise, My Love (1940); Remember the Night (1939); Midnight (1939); Artist and Models (1937); The Big Broadcast of 1938 (1938); Easy Living (1937); Swing High, Swing Low (1937); The Big Broadcast of 1937 (1936); 13 Hours by Air (1936); Hands Across the Table (1935); Four Hours to Kill! (1935); Behold My Wife! (1934); Murder at the Vanities (1934); Death Takes a Holiday (1934); Bolero (1934); Cradle Song (1933); The Eagle and the Hawk (1933).

Born on this day – Janet Gaynor:

Janet Gaynor

Actress

October 6, 1906 – September 14, 1984

Born on this day – Carole Lombard:

Carole Lombard

Actress

October 6, 1908 – January 16, 1942

Born on this day – Jacqueline Pagnol:

Jacqueline Pagnol

Actress

October 6, 1920 – August 22, 2016

Born on this day – Stanley Myers:

Stanley Myers

Composer

October 6, 1930 – November 9, 1993

Born on this day – Richard T. Heffron:

Richard T. Heffron

Director

October 6, 1930 – August 27, 2007

Born on this day – Fay Spain:

Fay Spain

Actress

October 6, 1932 – May 8, 1983

On this day in movie history - The Breaking Point (1950)

The Breaking Point

directed by Michael Curtiz,

written by Ranald MacDougall,

based on the novel To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway,

was released in the United States on October 6, 1950.

Music by Max Steiner.

Cast:
Ryan, Ralph Dumke, Guy Thomajan, William Campbell, Sherry Jackson, Donna Jo Boyce, Victor Sen Yung.

On this day in movie history - Pillow Talk (1959)

Pillow Talk

directed by Michael Gordon,

written by Russell Rouse, Maurice Richlin, Stanley Shapiro and Clarence Greene,

was released in the United States on October 6, 1959.

Music by Frank De Vol.

Cast:

Doris Day, Rock Hudson, Tony Randall, Thelma Ritter, Nick Adams, Karen Norris, Julia Meade, Allen Jenkins, Marcel Dalio, Lee Patrick, Mary McCarty, Alex Gerry, Hayden Rorke, Valerie Allen, Jacqueline Beer, Arlen Stuart.

On this day in movie history - Spartacus (1960)

Spartacus

directed by Stanley Kubrick,

written by Dalton Trumbo, and based on the novel by Howard Fast,

was released in the United States on October 6, 1960.

Music by Alex North.

Cast:

Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov, Tony Curtis, John Gavin, John Dall, Nina Foch, John Ireland, Herbert Lom, Charles McGraw, Joanna Barnes, Harold J. Stone, Woody Strode, Peter Brocco, Paul Lambert, Robert J. Wilke, Nicholas Dennis, John Hoyt, Frederic Worlock, Gil Perkins, Cliff Lyons.

On this day in movie history - Midnight Express (1978)

Midnight Express

directed by Alan Parker,

written by Oliver Stone, and based on the book by Billy Hayes and William Hoffer,

was released in the United States on October 6, 1978.

Music by Giorgio Moroder.

Cast:

Brad Davis, Irene Miracle, Bo Hopkins, Paolo Bonacelli, Paul L. Smith, Randy Quaid, Norbert Weisser, John Hurt, Kevork Malikyan, Yashaw Adem, Mike Kellin, Franco Diogene, Michael Ensign, Gigi Ballista, Peter Jeffrey, Michael Giannatos.

On this day in movie history - The Proposition (2005)

The Proposition

directed by John Hillcoat,

written by Nick Cave,

was released in Australia on October 6, 2005.

Music by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis.

Cast:

Richard Wilson, Noah Taylor, Jeremy Madrona, Jae Mamuyac, Guy Pearce, Mick Roughan, Shane Watt, Ray Winstone, Robert Morgan, David Gulpilil, Bryan Probets, Oliver Ackland, Danny Huston, David Vallon, Daniel Parker, Carl Rush, Gary Waddell, Iain Gardiner, Emily Watson, Bogdan Koca, Sue Dwyer, Lance Medlin, John Hurt, David Wenham, Rodney Boschman, Boris Brkic, Ned Rose, Leah Purcell, Tom Budge, Tommy Lewis, Ralph Cotterill, Max Age, Jerry Solomon.