Born on this day – E. L. Doctorow:

Writer

January 6, 1931 – July 21, 2015

Credits:

Welcome to Hard Times (1960); Big As Life (1966); The Book of Daniel (1971); Ragtime (1975); Drinks Before Dinner (1979); Loon Lake (1980); American Anthem (1982); World's Fair (1985); Billy Bathgate (1989); The Waterworks (1994); City of God (2000); The March (2005); Homer & Langley (2009); Andrew's Brain (2014); Lives of the Poets (1984); Daniel, Ragtime, Loon Lake (2003); Sweet Land Stories (2004); Poems for Life: A Special Collection of Poetry (2011); All the Time in the World (2011); Essays and Conversations (1983); Jack London, Hemingway, and the Constitution: Selected Essays, 1977-1992 (1993); Poets and Presidents: Selected Essays, 1977-92 (1994); Lamentation: 9/11 (2002); Reporting the Universe (2003); Creationists: Selected Essays, 1993-2006 (2006); Early Sorrow: Ten Stories of Youth (1986); Writing New York (1998); The Best American Short Stories 2000 (2000); The Good Parts (2000); Writers on Writing (2001).

Born on this day – Vic Tayback:

Actor

January 6, 1930 – May 25, 1990

Credits:

MacGyver (1985); Horseplayer (1990); All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989); Act Naturally (1989); Beverly Hills Bodysnatchers (1989); Criminal Act (1989); Loverboy (1989); Tales from the Darkside (1983); The Under Achievers (1987); The Three Kings (1987); Adderly (1986); The Love Boat (1977); Treasure Island (1986); Weekend Warriors (1986); Crazy Like a Fox (1984); Murder, She Wrote (1984); Alice (1976); Finder of Lost Loves (1984); The Jesse Owens Story (1984); Hotel (1983); Fantasy Island (1977); Matt Houston (1982); Mysterious Two (1982); The Shape of Things (1982); T.J. Hooker (1982); The Time Crystal (1981); Flo (1980); The Night the City Screamed (1980); CHiPs (1977); Gridlock (1980); Rage! (1980); This Year's Blonde (1980); Portrait of a Stripper (1979); Time Express (1979); Supertrain (1979); Sweepstakes (1979); The Eddie Capra Mysteries (1978); Vega$ (1978); The Cheap Detective (1978); Getting Married (1978); Hawaii Five-O (1968); James at 16 (1977); The Choirboys (1977); Little Ladies of the Night (1977); The Shaggy D.A. (1976); Mansion of the Doomed (1976); McCloud (1970); Special Delivery (1976); The Big Bus (1976); Family (1976); Bronk (1975); The Practice (1976); Medical Center (1969); No Deposit, No Return (1976); Dark Victory (1976); The Black Bird (1975); The Blue Knight (1975); Cannon (1971); Switch (1975); On the Rocks (1975); Insight (1960); Khan! (1975); Barney Miller (1975); Lepke (1975); Report to the Commissioner (1975); The Rookies (1972); Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974); The Gambler (1974); Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974); All in the Family (1971); Griff (1973); Maxie (1973); Papillon (1973); The Don Is Dead (1973); The Blue Knight (1973); The Alpha Caper (1973); Cops (1973); Emperor of the North (1973); Partners in Crime (1973); Emergency! (1972); The Partridge Family (1970); Honor Thy Father (1973); The Streets of San Francisco (1972); Mod Squad (1968); Gunsmoke (1955); Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law (1971); The Bold Ones: The New Doctors (1969); The Super (1972); Every Little Crook and Nanny (1972); Arlene Golonka in Call Holme (1972); The F.B.I. (1965); Longstreet (1971); Ironside (1967); Death Follows A Psycho (1972); Arnie (1970); They Call It Murder (1971); Mannix (1967); The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1969); Columbo (1971); Blood and Lace (1971); Bewitched (1964); The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970); The Young Lawyers (1969); The Silent Force (1970); Bonanza (1959); Here Come the Brides (1968); Lancer (1968); My World and Welcome to It (1969); Land of the Giants (1968); The Outsider (1968); The Good Guys (1968); The Felony Squad (1966); That Girl (1966); Mission: Impossible (1966); Bullitt (1968); With Six You Get Eggroll (1968); Star Trek (1966); Judd for the Defense (1967); The Monkees (1965); Cimarron Strip (1967); The Second Hundred Years (1967); Get Smart (1965); Captain Nice (1967); Occasional Wife (1966); Family Affair (1966); Gambit (1966); Daniel Boone (1964); Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966); Love on a Rooftop (1966); I Dream of Jeannie (1965); The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964); F Troop (1965); Rawhide (1959); The Lieutenant (1963); Arrest and Trial (1963); Love with the Proper Stranger (1963); Dr. Kildare (1961); Saints and Sinners (1962); Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962); Surftide 77 (1962); Five Minutes to Live (1961); 77 Sunset Strip (1958); North to Alaska (1960); Hotel de Paree (1959); Gangster Story (1959); Lock Up (1959); T-Bird Gang (1959); The Power of the Resurrection (1958); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955); Buckskin (1958).

Born on this day – Loretta Young:

Actress

January 6, 1913 – August 12, 2000

Credits:

The Spark (2018); Lady in the Corner (1989); Christmas Eve (1986); A Day at the Beach (1963); The Loretta Young Show (1953); It Happens Every Thursday (1953); Because of You (1952); Paula (1952); Family Theatre (1949); Half Angel (1951); Cause for Alarm! (1951); Key to the City (1950); Come to the Stable (1949); Mother Is a Freshman (1949); The Accused (1949); Rachel and the Stranger (1948); The Bishop's Wife (1947); The Farmer's Daughter (1947); The Perfect Marriage (1946); The Stranger (1946); Along Came Jones (1945); And Now Tomorrow (1944); Ladies Courageous (1944); China (1943); A Night to Remember (1942); Bedtime Story (1941); The Men in Her Life (1941); The Lady from Cheyenne (1941); He Stayed for Breakfast (1940); The Doctor Takes a Wife (1940); Eternally Yours (1939); The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939); Wife, Husband and Friend (1939); Kentucky (1938); Suez (1938); Three Blind Mice (1938); Four Men and a Prayer (1938); Second Honeymoon (1937); Wife, Doctor and Nurse (1937); Love Under Fire (1937); Café Metropole (1937); Love Is News (1937); Ladies in Love (1936); Ramona (1936); Private Number (1936); The Unguarded Hour (1936); Hollywood Extra Girl (1935); The Crusades (1935); Call of the Wild (1935); Shanghai (1935); Clive of India (1935); The White Parade (1934); Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back (1934); Born to Be Bad (1934); The House of Rothschild (1934); Caravan (1934); Man's Castle (1933); The Devil's in Love (1933); She Had to Say Yes (1933); Midnight Mary (1933); Heroes for Sale (1933); The Life of Jimmy Dolan (1933); Zoo in Budapest (1933); Grand Slam (1933); Employees' Entrance (1933); Hollywood on Parade No. A-6 (1933); They Call It Sin (1932); Life Begins (1932); Week-End Marriage (1932); Play Girl (1932); The Hatchet Man (1932); Taxi (1931); Platinum Blonde (1931); I Like Your Nerve (1931); The Ruling Voice (1931); How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 8: 'the Brassie' (1931); Big Business Girl (1931); Three Girls Lost (1931); The Stolen Jools (1931); Too Young to Marry (1931); Beau Ideal (1931); The Devil to Pay! (1930); The Right of Way (1930); The Truth About Youth (1930); Kismet (1930); Road to Paradise (1930); The Second Floor Mystery (1930); Show Girl in Hollywood (1930); The Man from Blankley's (1930); Loose Ankles (1930); Show of Shows (1929); The Forward Pass (1929); The Careless Age (1929); Fast Life (1929); The Girl in the Glass Cage (1929); The Squall (1929); Seven Footprints to Satan (1929); Scarlet Seas (1928); The Head Man (1928); The Magnificent Flirt (1928); Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928); The Whip Woman (1928); Her Wild Oat (1927); Naughty But Nice (1927); The Sheik (1921); White and Unmarried (1921); The Only Way (1919); Sirens of the Sea (1917); The Primrose Ring (1917).

Born on this day – Florence Turner:

Actress

January 6, 1885 – August 28, 1946

Credits:

Whistling in Brooklyn (1943); Thousands Cheer (1943); One Rainy Afternoon (1936); Hollywood on Parade (1934); He Couldn't Take It (1933); The Animal Kingdom (1932); The Sign of the Cross (1932); Sinners in the Sun (1932); The Trial of Vivienne Ware (1932); Taxi (1931); The Ridin' Fool (1931); King of Jazz (1930); The Rampant Age (1930); The Iron Mask (1929); The Kid's Clever (1929); The Pace That Kills (1928); Jazzland (1928); Walking Back (1928); The Road to Ruin (1928); Marry the Girl (1928); The Law and the Man (1928); Sally in Our Alley (1927); The Cancelled Debt (1927); The Chinese Parrot (1927); Stranded (1927); College (1927); The Broken Gate (1927); The Overland Stage (1927); Padlocked (1926); Flame of the Argentine (1926); The Last Alarm (1926); The Gilded Highway (1926); The Dark Angel (1925); The Price of Success (1925); Never the Twain Shall Meet (1925); The Mad Marriage (1925); Janice Meredith (1924); Women and Diamonds (1924); The Boatswain's Mate (1924); Sally Bishop (1923); Hornet's Nest (1923); Was She Justified? (1922); The Street Tumblers (1922); The Lights o' London (1922); The Little Mother (1922); The Old Wives' Tale (1921); All Dolled Up (1921); Passion Fruit (1921); Three Men in a Boat (1920); Blackmail (1920); The Ugly Duckling (1920); Thirty Minutes in Havana (1920); Old Dials for New (1920); The Brand of Lopez (1920); Oh, It's E.Z. (1919); Fool's Gold (1919); East Is East (1916); Grim Justice (1916); Doorsteps (1916); A Welsh Singer (1915); Far from the Madding Crowd (1915); Lost and Won (1915); My Old Dutch (1915); Alone in London (1915); As Ye Repent (1915); Snobs (1914); Shopgirls: or, The Great Question (1914); One Thing After Another (1914); Polly's Progress (1914); Through the Valley of Shadows (1914); The Shepherd Lassie of Argyle (1914); For Her People (1914); Flotilla the Flirt (1914); Daisy Doodad's Dial (1914); The Murdoch Trial (1914); Creatures of Habit (1914); The Harper Mystery (1913); The Lucky Stone (1913); The Younger Sister (1913); Pumps (1913); Rose of Surrey (1913); Jean's Evidence (1913); Up and Down the Ladder (1913); Counsellor Bobby (1913); The Deerslayer (1913); A Window on Washington Park (1913); Let 'Em Quarrel (1913); Checkmated (1913); The House in Suburbia (1913); Sisters All (1913); The One Good Turn (1913); Under the Make-Up (1913); Stenographer Troubles (1913); The Skull (1913); Cutey and the Twins (1913); Everybody's Doing It (1913); What a Change of Clothes Did (1913); The Wings of a Moth (1913); While She Powdered Her Nose (1912); The Signal of Distress (1912); Susie to Susanne (1912); The Servant Problem; or, How Mr. Bullington Ran the House (1912); Una of the Sierras (1912); The Face or the Voice (1912); When Persistency and Obstinacy Meet (1912); She Cried (1912); The Irony of Fate (1912); A Vitagraph Romance (1912); The Loyalty of Sylvia (1912); Two Cinders (1912); Flirt or Heroine (1912); Wanted... a Grandmother (1912); Aunty's Romance (1912); Her Diary (1912); Mrs. Carter's Necklace (1912); Indian Romeo and Juliet (1912); Jean Intervenes (1912); The Path of True Love (1912); A Red Cross Martyr; or, on the Firing Lines of Tripoli (1912); One Touch of Nature (1911); Hypnotizing the Hypnotist (1911); Auld Lang Syne (1911); Wig Wag (1911); The Answer of the Roses (1911); Forgotten; or, an Answered Prayer (1911); Cherry Blossoms (1911); Florence Turner in Jealousy (1911); The Thumb Print (1911); The Wrong Patient (1911); Birds of a Feather (1911); Intrepid Davy (1911); The Stumbling Block (1911); Proving His Love; or, the Ruse of a Beautiful Woman (1911); The Sacrifice (1911); The Show Girl (1911); Prejudice of Pierre Marie (1911); The Spirit of the Light; or, Love Watches on Through the Years (1911); For His Sake; or, the Winning of the Stepchildren (1911); Captain Barnacle's Courtship (1911); A Tale of Two Cities (1911); The New Stenographer (1911); Jean Rescues (1911); Where the Winds Blow (1910); Dixie Mother (1910); The Winning of Miss Langdon (1910); A Tin-Type Romance (1910); Love, Luck and Gasoline (1910); Francesca da Rimini (1910); Jean Goes Fishing (1910); In the Mountains of Kentucky (1910); Auld Robin Gray (1910); Brother Man (1910); Renunciation (1910); Jean the Match-Maker (1910); Rose Leaves (1910); The Men Haters' Club (1910); Back to Nature; or, the Best Man Wins (1910); Her Mother's Wedding Gown (1910); Peg Woffington (1910); Uncle Tom's Cabin (1910); Davy Jones and Captain Bragg (1910); Wilson's Wife's Countenance (1910); Over the Garden Wall (1910); Sisters (1910); St. Elmo (1910); For Her Sister's Sake (1910); Ranson's Folly (1910); Twelfth Night (1910); Caught in His Own Trap (1910); A Pair of Schemers; or, My Wife and My Uncle (1910); A Midsummer Night's Dream (1909); A Gift from Santa Claus (1909); The Heart of a Clown (1909); Launcelot and Elaine (1909); Florence Turner in His Masterpiece (1909); The Three Kisses (1909); Fuss and Feathers (1909); King Lear (1909); Kenilworth (1909); A Daughter of the Sun (1909); An Unexpected Santa Claus (1908); The Merchant of Venice (1908); Miss Sherlock Holmes (1908); The New Stenographer (1908); Saved by Love (1908); Ex-Convict No. 900 (1908); Richard III (1908); Romance of a War Nurse (1908); Love Will Find a Way (1908); Romeo and Juliet (1908); Macbeth (1908); Tale the Autumn Leaves Told (1908); Francesca di Rimini; or, the Two Brothers (1908); The Last Cartridge, an Incident of the Sepoy Rebellion in India (1908); The Gipsy's Warning (1907); Cast Up by the Sea (1907); Bargain Fiend; or, Shopping à la Mode (1907); Athletic American Girls (1907); How to Cure a Cold (1907).

Sylvia Plath, on inspiration and writing:

 

Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.

- Sylvia Plath.

Adulterers (2015) - free will ... and its consequences:

Adulterers (2015) - free will ... and its consequences:

Review by Jack Kost

Adulterers is a cautionary tale, a powerful drama inspired by true events, and far more compelling than the contrived Fatal Attraction (1987) and Unfaithful (2002).

How you feel at the end of Adulterers may depend on your personal experience of the subject it deals with.

It’s right there in the title.

If you’ve ever been cheated on by your significant other – then this movie might sting.

If you have cheated on your significant other – then this movie should rightly sting if you have any conscience and sense of guilt about the choice you made.

Consequences for making the wrong choice is the theme unflinchingly examined in this movie, released in the United States on January 5, 2016, written, produced and directed by H.M. Coakley.

Lead actor, Sean Farris threw himself into this role of a betrayed husband.

We see the anguish of his character, his pain, regret, broken heart, broken life, and ultimately broken mind.

Sean Farris is Samuel, a store assistant, working extra hours during a sweltering New Orleans afternoon.

It’s his first wedding anniversary; a special day in any marriage.

Samuel is a proud and happy man, deeply in love with his wife, Ashley (Danielle Savre).

He regrets having to work so many hours and laments at their lack of money, but he plans on making it up to Ashley.

He swings by his home halfway through his day, carrying his wife’s favorite flowers and chocolates.

Besides their money troubles, all seems right with Samuel’s world until he catches Ashley and her lover, Damien (Mehcad Brooks), naked, having sex in the bedroom.

Devastated, Samuel shoots them both.

This is not a spoiler; it happens within the first twelve minutes.

Downstairs, he sits on the couch, and drinks whiskey straight from the bottle.

Suffering a psychological break, he rethinks the situation.

This time, in his imagination, he doesn’t pull the trigger.

What if I’d waited instead of acting on impulse?

What would I say to them?

How far would I go to punish them?

What would they say to justify their sin, or lie their way out of the situation?

These questions are the basis for the imagined trial and torture he puts his wife and her lover through in that stifling room.

As Samuel struggles with the pain of betrayal and infidelity, the wedding ring, crucifix and Bible often the focus of the camera, he struggles with his faith.

Finally, as Samuel himself points out:

"You ain't sorry. You're just sorry that you got caught. It's time that you dealt with the consequences of your actions."

In forcing them to face the consequences of their actions, Samuel is then left to face the consequences of his own.

There are no winners in this story; everyone is destroyed.

Adultery … it’s all fun and games ... until you get caught!

On this day in movie history – The Purple Gang (1960)

The Purple Gang (1959)

directed by Frank McDonald

written by Jack DeWitt

was released in the United States on January 5, 1960.

Music by Paul Dunlap.

Cast:

Barry Sullivan, Robert Blake, Elaine Edwards, Marc Cavell, Jody Lawrance, Suzanne Ridgway, Joe Turkel, Victor Creatore, Paul Dubov, Ray Boyle, Kathleen Lockhart, Nestor Paiva, Lou Krugman, Robert Anderson, Mauritz Hugo, James Roosevelt.