On this day in music history - The album Rossini: Armida, by Renée Fleming and Daniele Gatti (1994)

Rossini: Armida

by Renée Fleming and Daniele Gatti

was released on October 4, 1994.

On this day in movie history - The Rapture (1991)

The Rapture

directed and written by Michael Tolkin,

was released in the United States on October 4, 1991.

Music by Thomas Newman.

Cast:

Mimi Rogers, Darwyn Carson, Patrick Bauchau, Marvin Elkins, David Duchovny, Stéphanie Menuez, Sam Vlahos, Rustam Branaman, Scott Burkholder, Carole Davis, Patrick Dollaghan, James Le Gros, Dick Anthony Williams, DeVaughn Nixon, Johnny Mask, Christian Benz, Kimberly Cullum, Victoria Williams, Terri Hanauer, Douglas Roberts, Denney Pierce, Will Patton, Joshua Farrell, Andrew Pressman, Kerry Leigh Michaels, Henry Kingi, Linda Albertano, Michael David Lally, Bojan Bazelli, James Ent, Joshua Farrell, Kane Hodder, Bill A. Jones.

Born on this day – Damon Runyon:

Damon Runyon

Writer

October 4, 1880 – December 10, 1946

Credits:

Books:

The Tents of Trouble (1911); Rhymes of the Firing Line (1912); Guys and Dolls (1932); Little Miss Marker (1934); Money From Home (1935); More Than Somewhat (1937); Furthermore (1938); Take It Easy (1938); My Wife Ethel (1939); The Best of Runyon (1940); Damon Runyon Favorites (1942); Runyon a la Carte (1944); In Our Town (1946); The Three Wise Guys and Other Stories (1946); Poems for Men (1947); More Guys and Dolls (1950); Runyon On Broadway (1950); The Turps (1951); From First to Last (1954); A Treasury of Damon Runyon (1958); Slow Horses and Fast Women (1979); Guys and Dolls of Broadway (1986); Romance in the Roaring Forties and Other Stories (1986); Stories of Damon Runyan (1988); The Bloodhounds of Broadway and Other Stories (1990); Trials and Other Tribulations (1991); The Damon Runyon Omnibus (2001); Guys and Dolls and Other Writings (2008); The Informal Execution of Soupbone Pew (2010); A Slight Case of Murder (1940); My Old Man (1939); Short Takes (1946).

Movies and television:

40 Pounds of Trouble (1962); A New York State of Mind: Written by Damon Runyon (2007); A Slight Case of Murder (1938); A Very Honorable Guy (1934); Arm, aber Ehrlich (1964); At the Round Table (1930); At the Stroke of Twelve (1941); Bloodhounds of Broadway (1952 / 1989); Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists (2018); Broadway Stories (1994); Butch Minds the Baby (1942 / 1979); Butch passt aufs Baby auf (1961); Continental Showcase (1966); Daisy Kenyon (1947); Damon Runyon Theater (1955); Die Gräfin vom Naschmarkt (1980); George White's 1935 Scandals (1935); Guys and Dolls (1955); Hold 'Em Yale (1935); Irish Eyes Are Smiling (1944); It Ain't Hay (1943); Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President (1939); Johnny One-Eye (1950); Just a Cute Kid (1940); Lady for a Day (1933); Little Miss Marker (1934 / 1980); Madison Square Garden (1932); Midnight Alibi (1934); Million Dollar Ransom (1934); Miracles: The Canton Godfather (1989); Money from Home (1953); No Ransom (1934); Oh, Baby! (1926); Pocketful of Miracles (1961); Princess O'Hara (1935); Professional Soldier (1935); Racing Lady (1937); Sorrowful Jones (1949); Stop, You're Killing Me (1952); Straight Place and Show (1938); Suspense (1950); Talisman (1968); The 3 Wise Guys (1936); The Big Street (1942); The Ed Sullivan Show (1953); The Ford Television Theatre (1954); The Great White Way (1924); The Lemon Drop Kid (1934 / 1951); The Pride of the Yankees (1942); Three Wise Guys (2004); Tight Shoes (1941).

On this day in television history - Pushing Daisies (2007 - 2009)

Pushing Daisies

created by Bryan Fuller,

was released in the United States on October 3, 2007,

and ran for two seasons until June 13, 2009.

Narrated by Jim Dale.

Music by Jim Dooley.

Cast:

Lee Pace, Anna Friel, Chi McBride, Kristin Chenoweth, Ellen Greene, Swoosie Kurtz, Jim Dale, Field Cate, Sy Richardson, Sammi Hanratty, Stephen Root, David Arquette, Nicholas Khayyat, Diana Scarwid, Leyna Nguyen, Christine Adams, Jon Eric Price, George Hamilton, Raúl Esparza, Josh Randall, Paul Reubens, Brad Grunberg, Alex Miller, Marc Raducci, Diana Costa, Lee Arenberg, Barbara Barrie, Richard Benjamin, Shelley Berman, Matt Braunger, Danny Comden, Wilson Cruz, Nora Dunn, Patrick Fabian, Willie Garson, Beth Grant, Rachael Harris, Josh Hopkins, Orlando Jones, David Koechner, Riki Lindhome, Hamish Linklater, Jessica Lundy, Wendie Malick, Jayma Mays, Joel McHale, Ivana Miličević, Debra Mooney, Sam Pancake, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo, Mary Kay Place, Missi Pyle, George Segal, Molly Shannon, Grant Shaud, Christopher Sieber, Joey Slotnick, French Stewart, Eric Stonestreet, Paul F. Tompkins, Gina Torres, Jenny Wade, Mike White, Fred Willard, Ping Wu, Ron Yuan, Constance Zimmer.

Katherine Paterson, on reading:

 

Reading has made such a profound difference to my life.

I'm sure I became a writer because of the power of literature in my own life.
- Katherine Paterson.

Recommended reading - The Black Curtain

 

The Black Curtain

The Black Curtain
by Cornell Woolrich.

Filmed as Street of Chance (1942), directed by Jack Hively.
First published 1941.
Published by Centipede Press.
Hardcover.

ISBN-10: 1613471475
ISBN-13: 978-1613471470

Description:

A man is accused of a murder he cannot remember…

In a nightmare scenario, Frank Townsend has an apparently minor accident on his way home but he arrives to find his wife gone and doesn’t recognize his apartment. He had gone to work on a normal day but didn’t return for more than three years. Suffering from amnesia, he has to rediscover who he is, where he has been, and what he has done. A curtain has fallen to cut off all memories of his life.

First among the memories he wants to recover is whether he has committed the murder of which he has been accused. A mysterious stranger with a gun has been following him while he attempts to simultaneously understand what has happened in his past while doing all he can to extricate himself from a seemingly hopeless situation and regain his reputation. He does not yet know that he is in great jeopardy and there is no one he can trust to rescue him from the abyss.

The Black Curtain is the second of Cornell Woolrich’s celebrated “black” books, following The Bride Wore Black, which established his reputation as America’s greatest noir writer. It was adapted into film as the classic Street of Chance, starring Burgess Meredith and Claire Trevor.

Born on this day – Eleonora Duse:

Eleonora Duse

Actress

Writer

October 3, 1858 – April 21, 1924

Credit:

Stage actress who starred in only one movie during her entire career: Cenere (1917).