On this day in television history - M*A*S*H (1972 - 1983)

 

M*A*S*H

developed by Larry Gelbart,

based on the novel MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors by Richard Hooker

was originally aired in the United States on CBS and ran for eleven seasons,

from September 17, 1972 – February 28, 1983.

Theme music by Johnny Mandel.

Cast:

Alan Alda, Wayne Rogers, McLean Stevenson, Loretta Swit, Larry Linville, Gary Burghoff, Jamie Farr, William Christopher, Mike Farrell, Harry Morgan, David Ogden Stiers, G. W. Bailey, Kellye Nakahara, Jeff Maxwell, Johnny Haymer, Allan Arbus, Edward Winter.

On this day in music history – Visions of Love: Mozart Arias, by Renée Fleming and Charles Mackerras (1996)

Visions of Love: Mozart Arias

by Renée Fleming and Charles Mackerras,

was released on September 17, 1996.

On this day in music history – Guilty Pleasures, by Renée Fleming and Sebastian Lang-Lessing (2013)

Guilty Pleasures

by Renée Fleming and Sebastian Lang-Lessing,

was released on September 17, 2013.

Jean Craighead George, on writing:

 

To be a writer you should read, write and talk to people, hear their knowledge, hear their problems.

Be a good listener.
The rest will come.
- Jean Craighead George.

Recommended reading – Pulp

Pulp

Pulp

by Charles Bukowski.
 
Published by Ecco.
Published in 1994.
Paperback.
 
ISBN-10: 9780876859261
ISBN-13: 978-0876859261
 
Description:
 
“Poet laureate of the down-and-out.” – LA Times.
 

Opening with the exotic Lady Death entering the gumshoe-writer's seedy office in pursuit of a writer named Cèline, this novel demonstrates Charles Bukowski's own brand of humor and realism, opening up a landscape of seamy Los Angeles.

 

Pulp is essential fiction from Buk himself.
 

Nicky Belane, private detective and career alcoholic, is a troubled man. He is plagued not just by broads, booze, lack of cash and a raging ego, but also by the surreal jobs he’s hired to do. Not only does he have to track down French classical author Cèline – who’s meant to be dead – but he also supposed to find the elusive Red Sparrow – which may or may not be real.

 

Pulp is Charles Bukowski’s brilliant, fantastical pastiche of a detective story.
 

Packed with wit, invention and Bukowski’s trademark lowlife adventures, it is the final novel by one of the most enjoyable and influential cult writers of the last century.

The value of reading and the power of imagination:

That moment when you're reading a book and the whole world around you doesn't exist anymore.

Born on this day – Isabel Jeans:

Isabel Jeans

Actress

September 16, 1891 – September 4, 1985