Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Born on this day – Harry Harrison:

 

Writer

March 12, 1925 – August 15, 2012

Credits:

Books:

100 Astounding Little Alien Stories (1996); 50 in 50 (2001); A Rebel in Time (1983); A Science Fiction Reader (1973); A Stainless Steel Rat is Born (1985); Analog 6 (1969); Analog Science Fiction and Fact, January 1965 (1965); Analog Science Fiction And Fact, March 1967 (1967); Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, March 1969 (1969); Antigrav (1975); Apeman, Spaceman (1968); Arm of the Law (1958); Backdrop of Stars (1968); Best From Fantasy And Science Fiction: 18th Series (1973); Best SF: 1968 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 2 (1969); Best SF: 1969 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 3 (1970); Best SF: 1970 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 4 (1971); Best SF: 1971 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 5 (1972); Best SF: 1975 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 9 (1976); Beyond the Moons of Fomalhaut (2010); Bill, the Galactic Hero (1965); Blast Off (1969); Captive Universe (1969); Confessions Illustrated (2022); Deathworld (1960); Deathworld 3 (1968); Deathworld II: The Ethical Engineer (1964); Decade: The 1940's (1975); Decade: The 1950s (1976); Decade: The 1960s (1977); Fantastic Stories Presents the Fantastic Universe Super Pack #2 (2016); Farewell, Fantastic Venus / All About Venus (1968); Favorite Science Fiction Stories, Volume 2 (2010); Final Stage: The Ultimate Science Fiction Anthology (1974); Four for the Future (1969); Frontline Combat Volume 2 (2019); Frontline Combat Volume 3 (2021); Frontline Combat, Vol. 1 (2008); Galactic Dreams (1995); Great Balls of Fire (1977); Harry Harrison! Harry Harrison! (2014); Hell's Cartographers (1975); Homeworld (1980); In Our Hands, the Stars / The Daleth Effect (1970); Invasion: Earth (1982); King and Emperor (1996); Make Room! Make Room! (1966); Mechanismo (1978); Montezuma's Revenge (1972); Navy Day (1954); Nebula Award Stories #2 (1966); Nova 1 (1970); Nova 2 (1972); Nova 3 / The Outdated Man (1973); Nova IV (1974); Nova One (1971); On the Planet of Bottled Brains (1990); On the Planet of Tasteless Pleasure (1990); On the Planet of Zombie Vampires (1991); One King's Way (1994); One Step from Earth (1970); Plague from Space (1965); Planet of No Return (1981); Planet of the Damned / A Sense of Obligation (1962); Planet Story (1979); Prime Number (1970); Psychoanalysis (2020); Queen Victoria's Revenge (1974); Return to Eden (1988); Science Against Man (1970); SF Authors' Choice 2 (1970); SF Authors' Choice 3 (1973); SF: Author's Choice (1968); Skyfall (1976); Spacecraft In Fact and Fiction (1979); Spaceship Medic (1970); Stainless Steel Rat (1961); Stainless Steel Visions (1992); Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers (1974); Stars and Stripes Forever (1998); Stars and Stripes in Peril (2000); Stars and Stripes Triumphant (2001); Starworld (1981); Stonehenge: Where Atlantis Died (1972); Study War No More (1977); Tales from the Crypt Volume 3 (2023); Tales From the Forbidden Planet (1987); Tales from the Planet Earth (1986); The 6th Annual Best SF 72 (1973); The Astounding Analog Reader (1972); The Astounding-Analog Reader, Book Two (1973); The Best of Harry Harrison (1977); The California Iceberg (1975); The Drabble Project (1988); The EC Archives: Crime SuspenStories Volume 4 (2019); The EC Archives: Panic Volume 2 (2018); The EC Archives: The Haunt of Fear Volume 4 (2017); The EC Archives: The Haunt of Fear Volume 5 (2018); The EC Archives: The Vault of Horror Volume 3 (2005); The EC Archives: The Vault of Horror Volume 5 (2019); The EC Archives: The Vault of Horror Volume 5 (2019); The EC Archives: Two-Fisted Tales Volume 1 (2015); The EC Archives: Weird Fantasy Volume 3 (2018); The Eighth Galaxy Reader (1965); The Final Incoherent Adventure! (1992); The Fourth Science Fiction Megapack (2012); The Golden Age of Science Fiction - Volume IV (2018); The Golden Age of Science Fiction - Volume VI (2016); The Golden Age of Science Fiction - Volume X (2018); The Golden Age of Science Fiction - Volume X (2018); The Golden Age of Science Fiction - Volume XIV (2018); The Hammer and the Cross (1993); The Idols of Wuld & Planet of the Damned (2016); The John W. Campbell Memorial Anthology / Astounding (1973); The Jupiter Legacy (1970); The Jupiter Plague (1965); The K-Factor (1960); The Lifeship / Lifeboat (1975); The Light Fantastic (1971); The Man from P.I.G. (1968); The Men from P.I.G. and R.O.B.O.T. (1974); The Misplaced Battleship (1960); The Monster Book of Monsters (1988); The Planet of the Hippies from Hell / On the Planet of Ten Thousand Bars (1991); The Planet of the Robot Slaves (1989); The QEII is Missing (1980); The Repairman (1958); The Stainless Steel Rat for President (1982); The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted (1987); The Stainless Steel Rat Goes to Hell (1996); The Stainless Steel Rat Joins the Circus (1999); The Stainless Steel Rat Returns (2010); The Stainless Steel Rat Saves The World (1971); The Stainless Steel Rat Sings the Blues (1994); The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You! (1978); The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge (1970); The Technicolor Time Machine (1967); The Turing Option (1992); The Velvet Glove (1956); The Year 2000 (1970); The Year's Best Science Fiction No. 3 (1970); The Young Oxford Book of Aliens (1999); There Won't Be War (1991); Toy Shop (2010); Toy Shop and Two Others (2009); Tunnel Through the Deeps / A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah! (1972); Two Tales and Eight Tomorrows (1965); Two-Fisted Tales Volume 1 (2007); Two-Fisted Tales Volume 3 (2016); Two-Fisted Tales, Vol. 2 (2007); War with the Robots (1962); Weekend Book of Science Fiction (1981); Weird Fantasy Volume 1 (2016); Weird Science Volume 1 (2006); Weird Science, Vol. 2 (2007); West of Eden (1984); Wheelworld (1981); Winter in Eden (1986); Wondermakers 2 (1974); Worlds of If, February 1969 (1969); You Can Be the Stainless Steel Rat (1985).

Movies and television:

Bill the Galactic Hero (2014); New Nightmares (1993); Perversions of Science (1997); Prisoners of Gravity (1993); Soylent Green (1973); The Book Programme (1975–1979); The History of the SF Film (1982); Time Out of Mind (1979).


Born on this day – Jack Kerouac:

 

Writer

March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969

Credits:

Books:

And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (1945); Atop an Underwood (1987); Beat Generation (1992); Big Sur (1962); Book of Blues (1995); Book of Dreams (1960); Book of Haikus (2003); Book of Sketches (1957); Collected Poems (1971); Dear Carolyn (1983); Departed Angels (2004); Desolation Angels (1965); Door Wide Open (2000); Dr. Sax (1959); Escape to Mexico: An Anthology of Great Writers (2002); Field of Fantasies (2014); Good Blonde & Others (1993); Heaven and Other Poems (1977); Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters (2010); Lonesome Traveler (1960); Mexico City Blues (1959); Old Angel Midnight (1973); On the Road (1957); Orpheus Emerged (2002); Pic (1971); Piers of the Homeless Night (2018); Pomes All Sizes (1992); Reel Verse: Poems about the Movies (2019); San Francisco Blues (1991); Satori in Paris (1966); Scattered Poems (1971); Selected Letters, 1940-1956 (1995); Selected Letters, 1957-1969 (1999); Some of the Dharma (1997); The Dharma Bums (1958); The Haunted Life (2014); The Scripture of the Golden Eternity (1960); The Sea Is My Brother (1942); The Subterraneans (1958); The Town and the City (1950); The Unknown Kerouac (2016); Trip Trap (1973); Tristessa (1960); Vanity of Duluoz (1967); Visions of Cody (1960); Visions of Gerard (1963); Wake Up (2008); Windblown World (1947); Writers: Their Lives and Works (2018); Writing Los Angeles (2002).

Movie:

On the Road (2012).



Born on this day – Millard Kaufman:

 

Writer

March 12, 1917 – March 14, 2009

Credits:

Books:

Bowl of Cherries (novel) (2008); Misadventure (2010); Plots & Characters: A Screenwriter on Screenwriting (2001).

Movies and television:

Aladdin and His Lamp (1952); Bad Day at Black Rock (1955); Convicts 4 (1962); Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb (1980); Expanding World Relationships (1947); Gun Crazy (1950); Kung-Fu Magoo (2010); Living Free (1972); Montgomery Clift: His Place in the Sun (1989); Never So Few (1959); Police Story (1976); Punchy de Leon (1950); Ragtime Bear (1949); Raintree County (1957); Raintree County (1957); Take the High Ground! (1953); The Klansman (1974); The Nativity (1978); The War Lord (1965); Trouble Indemnity (1950); Unknown World (1951).


Born on this day – Jesse Fuller:

 

Blues singer

Songwriter

Harmonica player

Guitarist

March 12, 1896 – January 29, 1976


Kimberly Willis Holt, on writing:


Write every day.
Make writing a part of your life, but also don't be afraid of learning from others because I think you can.
I still try to think of myself as a beginner because that way I can keep on learning.
- Kimberly Willis Holt.


Monday, March 11, 2024

On this day in movie history - 9 Rides (2016)

 
9 Rides

directed and written by Matthew A. Cherry,

was released at the South by Southwest Film Festival in the United States on March 11, 2016.

Music by Donald Hayes.


Cast:
Dorian Missick, Omar J. Dorsey, Robinne Lee, Xosha Roquemore, Amin Joseph, Thomas Q. Jones, Skye P. Marshall, Aasha Davis, Tracie Thoms, Andra Fuller, Sujata Day, Nadine Ellis, Frank Califano, Dominique Columbus, Alice Ensor, Malcolm Matthews, Jake McLean, Brittany Richards, Capri Sampson, Kayla Smith, Tiffany Snow.


On this day in movie history - Diva (1981)

Diva

directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix,

written by Jean-Jacques Beineix and Jean Van Hamme,

based on the novel by Delacorta,

was released in France on March 11, 1981.

Music by Vladimir Cosma.


Cast:
Frédéric Andréi, Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez, Roland Bertin, Richard Bohringer, Gérard Darmon, Chantal Deruaz, Jacques Fabbri, Patrick Floersheim, Thuy An Luu, Jean-Luc Porraz, Laure Duthilleul, Dominique Pinon, Dominique Besnehard, Isabelle Mergault, Anny Romand, Jean-Jacques Moreau, Raymond Aquilon, Eugène Berthier, Gérard Chaillou, Andrée Champeaux, Nathalie Dalyan, Laurence Darpy, Michel Debrane, Etienne Draber, Nane Germon, Gabriel Gobin, Jim Adhi Limas, Louise Malapert, Dimo Mally, Vaneta Mally, Alain Marcel, Marthe Moudiki-Moreau, Robyn Bernard, Yann Roussel, Brigitte Lahaie, Jean-Louis Vitrac, Tania Zabaloieff, Vladimir Cosma.