Born on this day – Will Sampson:

Will Sampson

Actor

Painter

Rodeo performer

September 27, 1933 – June 3, 1987

Credits:

Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story (1980); American Playhouse (1986); Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters (2006); Born to the Wind (1981); Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976); Completely Cuckoo (1997); Cowboysan (1978); Crazy Mama (1975); Eastwood in Action (1976); Entretien avec Philippe Guedj (2024); Firewalker (1986); Fish Hawk (1979); From Here to Eternity (1979 / 1980); Great Spirit Within the Hole (1983); Hell Hath No Fury (1999); I Am (2010); Images of Indians (1979–1980); Insignificance (1985); One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975); Orca (1977); Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986); Relentless (1977); Reservation Dogs (2022); Standing Tall (1978); Tall Tales & Legends (1986); TCM Remembers 2023 (2023); The Gunfighters (1987); The Hunted Lady (1977); The Mystic Warrior (1984); The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976); The White Buffalo (1977); The Yellow Rose (1983–1984); Vega$ (1978–1980); Wildside (1985).

Toni Morrison, on life & art:

Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
- Toni Morrison.

Rebecca Stead, on pajamas:

 

Pajamas are good for the soul.

- Rebecca Stead.

I can't imagine a world without art:

Earth without art is just "eh".

- Author unknown.

Recommended reading – Nightwebs

Nightwebs

Nightwebs
by Cornell Woolrich.

Short story anthology.

Includes the short story The Corpse Next Door, filmed as Union City (1980), directed by Mark Reichert.

Paperback.
Published Orion Books.
First published 1971.

ISBN 13: 9780752851709
ISBN 10: 0752851705
ASIN: 0752851705

Description:
“Possibly the finest mystery writer of the twentieth century.” – The Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection.

Cornell Woolrich was a haunted man who lived a life of reclusive misery, but he was also a uniquely gifted writer who explored the classic noir themes of loneliness, despair and futility. His stories are masterpieces of psychological suspense and mystery, and they have inspired classic movies like Hitchcock's Rear Window and Truffaut's The Bride wore Black. This collection brings together twelve of his finest, most powerful and disturbing tales.

Contents: Graves for the Living; The Red Tide; The Corpse Next Door; You'll Never See Me Again; Dusk to Dawn; Murder at the Automat; Death in the Air; Mamie 'n' Me; The Screaming Laugh; One and a Half Murders; Dead on Her Feet; One Night in Barcelona; The Penny-a-Worder; The Number's Up; Too Nice a Day to Die; Life is Weird Sometimes.

Born on this day – John Chapman, a.k.a. Johnny Appleseed:

John Chapman
a.k.a. Johnny Appleseed

Missionary

Gardener

September 26, 1774 – March 18, 1845

Born on this day – T. S. Eliot:

T. S. Eliot

Writer

September 26, 1888 – January 4, 1965

Credits:

Written work:

Prufrock and Other Observations (1917); Ara Vus Prec. (1919); The Waste Land (1922); Poems 1909-1925 (1925); Journey of the Magi (1927); A Song for Simeon (1928); Animula (1929); Selected Poems (1930); Ash Wednesday (1930); Marina (1930); Triumphal march (1931); Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939); East Coker (1941); The Dry Salvages (1941); T.S. Eliot's Little Gidding (1942); Four Quartets (1943); Burnt Norton (1943); Collected Poems of T. S. Eliot: 1909-1935 (1945); The Undergraduate Poems of T. S. Eliot (1948); The Complete Poems and Plays (1952); The Cultivation of Christmas Trees (1954); Collected Poems, 1909-1962 (1963); Poems Written In Early Youth (1967); The Poems of T. S. Eliot (2018); Eeldrop and Appleplex & Ezra Pound (1917); Sweeney Agonistes (1932); The Rock (1934); Murder in the Cathedral (1935); The Family Reunion (1939); The Cocktail Party (1949); The Confidential Clerk (1950); The Film of Murder in The Cathedral (1952); The Elder Statesman (1959); Collected Plays (1962); The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot (2014); Ezra Pound (1918); The Sacred Wood and Major Early Essays (1920); Homage to John Dryden (1924); John Dryden (1924); Shakespeare and the Stoicism of Seneca (1927); For Lancelot Andrewes (1928); Dante (1929); Thoughts after Lambeth (1931); Charles Whibley: A Memoir (1931); Essays On Elizabethan Drama (1932); After Strange Gods (1934); Essays Ancient and Modern (1936); Christianity and Culture (1939); Idea of a Christian Society (1939); A Choice of Kipling's Verse (1941); Introducing James Joyce (1942); Reunion By Destruction (1943); What is a classic? (1945); Notes Towards a Definition of Culture (1948); Milton; Annual Lecture on a Master Mind (1948); From Poe to Valery (1948); The Aims of Poetic Drama (1949); Selected Essays (1950); Poetry and Drama (1951); An Address to Members of the London Library (1952); The Value and Use of Cathedrals in England To-Day (1952); American Literature and the American Language (1953); The Three Voices of Poetry (1954); Religious Drama: Mediaeval and Modern (1954); The Literature of Politics (1955); The Frontiers of Criticism (1956); On Poetry And Poets (1957); Geoffrey Faber, 1889-1961 (1961); George Herbert (1962); The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism (1964); To Criticize the Critic and Other Writings (1965); Elizabethan Essays (1969); The Classics And The Man Of Letters (1974); Knowledge and Experience in the Philosophy of F.H. Bradley (1989); The Letters of T.S. Eliot: Volume 1 (1988); The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 2 (2009); The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 3 (2012); The Letters of T. S. Eliot: Volume 4 (2013); The Letters of T. S. Eliot: Volume 5 (2014); The Letters of T. S. Eliot: Volume 6 (2016); Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 7 (2017); Letters of T. S. Eliot: Volume 8 (2019); The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 9 (2021); Identity And Self Respect (1952); Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews (1957); The Caedmon Treasury of Modern Poets Reading Their Own Poetry (1992); Watch for the Light: Readings for Advent and Christmas (2001); Writers: Their Lives and Works (2018).

Movies and television:

A Lovesong (2016); Aline (2020); American Playhouse (1983); America's Got Talent (2019); Animal Practice (2012); Apocalypse Now (1979); Arena (2009); Ashes (1975); Assassinio nella Cattedrale (1966); Assassinio nella cattedrale (2006 / 2012); Barbra Streisand: Memory (1981); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1955); Birthday Girl (2001); BoJack Horseman (2014); Broadway on Broadway (2000); BumtsiBum! (2021); Cats (2019); Cocktailparty (1967); Coctail party (1960); Conflict (1967); Connie and Carla (2004); Cover to Cover (1936); Der Familientag (1965); Der Privatsekretär (1963 / 1977); Deutschland sucht den Superstar (2003); Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (2011); Die Cocktailparty (1964); Diminishing Returns (2019–2020); Diminishing Returns Diminisodes (2020); Diva (2006); Eufòria (2023); Fame (1985); Four Quartets (2022); Funny People (2009); Glee (2014); Going to Seed (2009); Great Performances (1998–2003); Great Poets: In Their Own Words (2014); Hengaillaan (2023); Hollow Men (2012); Il canto d'amore di Prufrock (1967); In Living Color (1991); Koktel (1967); Logan's Run (1976); Love Flesh (2011); Melvyn Bragg on Class & Culture (2012); Mord im Dom (1962); Murder in the Cathedral (1947 / 1951 / 1962); Mystery Science Theater 3000 (2022); New in November 2011 (2012); No me la puc treure del cap (2010); Omnibus (1971); Omnibus / Segment: The Confidential Clerk (1954); Post Grad (2009); Raphael: Mi gran noche (2013); Rio 2 (2014); Saturday Night Live (1992); School of Rock (2003); Shining Time Station (1989); Solo (1970); Sopro (2021); Stars and the Moon: Betty Buckley Live at the Donmar (2002); Startime (1960); Teatro estudio (1978); Television Theater (1997); Ten Great Writers of the Modern World (1988); Terra desolata (2008); Thames Film (1987); The 37th Annual Tony Awards (1983); The 39th Annual Tony Awards (1985); The 40th Annual Tony Awards (1986); The 43rd Annual Tony Awards (1989); The 51st Annual Tony Awards (1997); The 52nd Annual Tony Awards (1998); The Cocktail Party (1952 / 1957); The Debridement of Rome (2012); The Family Reunion (1959); The Hollow Men (1975 / 2015); The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (2013); The Madhouse on Castle Street / BBC Sunday-Night Play (1960); The Magic of David Copperfield V (1983); The Marvels (2023); The Masked Singer (2022); The Mind and Times of Virginia Woolf (2002); The Reader (2008); The Respectful Prostitute (1964); The Rum Tum Tugger (1984); The Simpsons (2011); The Sunday Programme (2004–2005); The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (2019); The Twentieth Century (1960); The Waste Land (1981 / 1996 / 1999); The Wasteland (2015); The White Chateau (1938); Theatre 625 (1966); Theatre Parade (1936); This Is My Life (1992); Thursday Theatre (1964); Till Human Voices Wake Us (2015); Timeshift (2005); Total Eclipse (1995); Triptych (2018); Tu cara me suena (2016); Wellow (2021); What Happens to the Mountain (2017); Wurlitzer (1985); XI Premis Gaudí de l'Acadèmia del Cinema Català (2019); Yellowjackets (2021).