Monday, January 15, 2024

Honoring Martin Luther King, Jr.


The time is always right to do what is right.

- Martin Luther King Jr.


Introvert insight:


Solitude matters.
And for some people it’s the air they breathe.
 
– Susan Cain.
 


For introverts, to be alone with our thoughts is as restorative as sleeping, as nourishing as eating.
 
– Jonathan Rauch.
 


People say things to me like, ‘It’s really cool that you don’t go out and get drunk all the time and go to clubs.’
I appreciate that, but I’m an introverted kind of person just by nature.
 
– Emma Watson.



I am primarily a loner.
I don’t go to clubs.
I don’t hang out with people.
I don’t know many people.
It’s just the way it ended up.
It’s not a sob story; it’s fine for me.
 
– Henry Rollins.


On this day in television history - Hill Street Blues (January 15, 1981 - May 12, 1987)


Hill Street Blues

created by Steven Bochco and Michael Kozoll,

was released in the United States on January 15, 1981,

and ran for seven seasons until May 12, 1987.

Theme music by Mike Post.

Cast:
Daniel J. Travanti, Veronica Hamel, Michael Conrad, Bruce Weitz, Joe Spano, Michael Warren, Charles Haid, James B. Sikking, Betty Thomas, Kiel Martin, Taurean Blacque, René Enriquez, Ed Marinaro, Barbara Bosson, Robert Prosky, Ken Olin, Mimi Kuzyk, Dennis Franz, Robert Clohessy, Megan Gallagher, Jon Cypher, Robert Hirschfeld, Barbara Babcock, Trinidad Silva, Jeffrey Tambor, Dennis Dugan, George Wyner, Lisa Sutton, Jennifer Tilly, Del Zamora, Judith Hansen, Peter Jurasik, Panchito Gomez, Larry D. Mann, Lee Weaver, Deborah Richter, Pat Corley, David Caruso, Bobby Ellerbee, Alfre Woodard, Terry Alexander, Jonathan Banks, Michael Biehn, David Caruso, Don Cheadle, Vance Colvig, Bryan Cranston, James Cromwell, Hector Elizondo, Martin Ferrero, Laurence Fishburne, Jonathan Frakes, Robin Gammell, Andy Garcia, Paul Gleason, Crispin Glover, Danny Glover, Cuba Gooding Jr., Linda Hamilton, Penny Johnson Jerald, Anne-Marie Johnson, Jane Kaczmarek, Stanley Kamel, Terry Kiser, Yaphet Kotto, Michael Lerner, Whitman Mayo, Barney Martin, Paul McCrane, James McDaniel, Frances McDormand, Chuck Mitchell, Chris Noth, Edward James Olmos, Chazz Palminteri, Joe Pantoliano, Felton Perry, Joaquin Phoenix, CCH Pounder, Daphne Reid, James Remar, Michael Richards, Ron Rifkin, Tim Robbins, Mimi Rogers, Leo Rossi, Saul Rubinek, Joe Santos, Dwight Schultz, Helen Shaver, Ally Sheedy, Brent Spiner, Dolph Sweet, Joe E. Tata, Lawrence Tierney, Jennifer Tilly, Meg Tilly, James Tolkan, George Wallace, Tracey Walter, Keenen Ivory Wayans, Forest Whitaker.

On this day in movie history - Carl Laemmle:

 

Carl Laemmle

documentary directed and written by James L. Freedman,

was released at the Miami Jewish Film Festival in the United States on January 15, 2019.

Narrated by James L. Freedman.

Music by David Carbonara.

Cast:
Antonia Carlotta, Ahilan Arulanantham, Bob Balaban, Peter Bogdanovich, Mel Brooks, Colin Clive, Buffalo Bill Cody, Melvyn Douglas, George Eastman, Thomas A. Edison, Bramwell Fletcher, John Ford, James L. Freedman, Willie Garson, Will H. Hays, Marvin Hier, Cordell Hull, Boris Karloff, Paul Kohner, Richard Koszarski, Rosemary Laemmle Hilb, Carla Laemmle, Florence Lawrence, Breckenridge Long, Bela Lugosi, Werner Maas, Leonard Maltin, Ron Meyer, Ludwig Muhlfelder, Max Obernauer, Jeff Pirtle, Joseph Roos, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Anthony Slide, Irving Thalberg, Ernest Thesiger, Lupita Tovar Kohner, Woodrow Wilson, William Wyler, Carl Laemmle Jr., Carl Laemmle.


On this day in movie history - The Book of Eli (2010)


The Book of Eli

directed by Albert Hughes and Allen Hughes,

written by Gary Whitta,

was released in the United States on January 15, 2010.

Music by Atticus Ross, Leopold Ross and Claudia Sarne.


Cast:
Denzel Washington, Gary Oldman, Mila Kunis, Ray Stevenson, Jennifer Beals, Evan Jones, Joe Pingue, Frances de la Tour, Michael Gambon, Tom Waits, Chris Browning, Richard Cetrone, Lateef Crowder, Keith Splinter Davis, Don Thai Theerathada, Thom Khoury Williams, Lora Martinez-Cunningham, Scott Wilder, Heidi Pascoe, Jennifer Caputo, Eddie Perez, Spencer Sano, Karin Silvestri, Mike Gunther, John Koyama, Mike McCarty, Scott Michael Morgan, Sala Baker, Arron Shiver, Justin Tade, Mike Seal, Richard A. Smith, Paul Crawford, Ed Duran, David Wald, Jermaine Washington, Kofi Elam, Clay Donahue Fontenot, Al Goto, Brad Martin, Tim Rigby, Luis Bordonada, Robert Powell, Angelique Midthunder, Todd Schneider, Darrin Prescott, Laurence Chavez, Brian Neal Lucero, David Midthunder, Steve Blacksmith, Joe Cabezuela, Vivi Devereaux, Christopher Fodge, David J. Goldfarb, Jo King, Josiah D. Lee, Gregory Leiker, Malcolm McDowell, Levi Nolasco, Francisco Peramos, Frank Powers, David T. Quan, Jason Rice, Daniel Teller, Mario Telles.

On this day in movie history - Moonstruck (1988)


Moonstruck

directed by Norman Jewison,

written by John Patrick Shanley,

was released in the United States on January 15, 1988.

Music by Dick Hyman.


Cast:
Cher, Nicolas Cage, Olympia Dukakis, Vincent Gardenia, Danny Aiello, Julie Bovasso, Louis Guss, John Mahoney, Feodor Chaliapin Jr., Anita Gillette, Leonardo Cimino, Paula Trueman, Nada Despotovich, Joe Grifasi, Gina DeAngeles, Robin Bartlett, Helen Hanft, David S. Howard, Robert Weil.

On this day in movie history - Dead Reckoning (1947)


Dead Reckoning

directed by John Cromwell,

written by Steve Fisher and Oliver H.P. Garrett,

based on a story by Gerald Drayson Adams, Sidney Biddell and Allen Rivkin,

was released in the United States on January 15, 1947.

Music by Marlin Skiles.


Cast:
Humphrey Bogart, Lizabeth Scott, Morris Carnovsky, Charles Cane, William Prince, Marvin Miller, Wallace Ford, James Bell, George Chandler, William Forrest, Ruby Dandridge.