On this day in movie history - The Room (2000)

The Room

a ten-minute short directed by Rutger Hauer and Erik Lieshout,

written by Erik Lieshout, and based on a story by Harry Mulisch,

was released in the United States on September 26, 2000.

Music by Dyzack.

Cast:

Rutger Hauer, Mattijn Hartemink.

On this day in television history - Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987 - 1994)

Star Trek: The Next Generation

created by Gene Roddenberry,

was released in the United States on September 26, 1987,

and ran for seven seasons until May 23, 1994.

Music by Alexander Courage and Jerry Goldsmith.

Cast:

Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Denise Crosby, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Diana Muldaur, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Wil Wheaton, John de Lancie, Whoopi Goldberg, Majel Barrett, Brian Bonsall, Rosalind Chao, Denise Crosby, John de Lancie, Jonathan Del Arco, Michelle Forbes, Ashley Judd, Andreas Katsulas, Barbara March, Colm Meaney, Eric Menyuk, Lycia Naff, Natalia Nogulich, Robert O'Reilly, Suzie Plakson, Dwight Schultz, Carel Struycken, Tony Todd, Gwynyth Walsh, Patti Yasutake, Ken Thorley, Daniel Davis.

On this day in television history - Star Trek: Enterprise (2001 - 2005)

Star Trek: Enterprise

created by Rick Berman and Brannon Braga,

was released in the United States on September 26, 2001,

and ran for four seasons until May 13, 2005.

Music by Dennis McCarthy, Jay Chattaway, Brian Tyler, John Frizzell, Mark McKenzie, David Bell, Velton Ray Bunch, Kevin Kiner, Paul Baillargeon.

Opening theme: Faith of the Heart by Russell Watson.

End theme: Archer's Theme by Dennis McCarthy.

Cast:

Scott Bakula, Jolene Blalock, John Billingsley, Dominic Keating, Anthony Montgomery, Linda Park, Connor Trinneer, Nathan Anderson, Vaughn Armstrong, Molly Brink, Joanna Cassidy, Jeffrey Combs, Steven Culp, Daniel Dae Kim, Jim Fitzpatrick, John Fleck, Gary Graham, James Horan, Ken Lally, Scott MacDonald, Ada Maris, Sean McGowan, Randy Oglesby, Eric Pierpoint, Michael Reilly Burke, Daniel Riordan, Tucker Smallwood, Kellie Waymire, Joseph Will, Derek Magyar, Matt Winston, Rick Worthy, Kara Zediker.

On this day in music history - The album Renée Fleming, by Renée Fleming and Charles Mackerras (2000)

Renée Fleming

by Renée Fleming and Charles Mackerras

was released on September 26, 2000.

 

On this day in music history - Mahler: Symphony No. 4; Berg: Sieben frühe Lieder, by Renée Fleming, Claudio Abbado and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (2005)

 

Mahler: Symphony No. 4; Berg: Sieben frühe Lieder

by Renée Fleming, Claudio Abbado and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

was released on September 26, 2005.       

 

Jackie Kennedy, on books and reading:

 

Love of books is the best of all.

– Jackie Kennedy.

Recommended reading - Rope: A play

 

Rope: A play

Rope: A play
by Patrick Hamilton.

First published 1929.
a.k.a. Rope’s End.

Filmed as Rope (1948), directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
Published by Constable.
Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0094508607
ISBN-13: 978-0094508606

Description:

Genre: Drama.

Characters: 6 males, 2 females.

Scenery: Interior.

For the mere sake of adventure, danger, and the "fun of the thing," Wyndham Brandon persuades his weak-minded friend, Charles Granillo, to assist him in the murder of a fellow undergraduate, a perfectly harmless man named Ronald Raglan. They place the body in a wooden chest, and to add spice to their handiwork, invite a few acquaintances, including the dead youth's father, to a party, the chest with its gruesome contents serving as a supper table. The horror and tension are worked up gradually; thunder grows outside, the guests leave, and we see the reactions of the two murderers, watched closely by the suspecting lame poet, Rupert Cadell. Finally, they break down under the strain and confess their guilt.