On this day in movie history - The Last Detail (1973)

The Last Detail

directed by Hal Ashby,

written by Robert Towne,

based on the novel by Darryl Ponicsan,

was released in the United States on December 12, 1973.

Music by Johnny Mandel.

Cast:

Jack Nicholson, Otis Young, Randy Quaid, Clifton James, Carol Kane, Michael Moriarty, Nancy Allen, Gilda Radner, Jim Hohn, Luana Anders.

On this day in movie history - Mars Attacks! (1996)

Mars Attacks!

directed by Tim Burton,

written by Jonathan Gems,

based on the 1962 Topps Mars Attacks trading card series,

was released in the United States on December 12, 1996.

Music by Danny Elfman.

Cast:

Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close, Annette Bening, Pierce Brosnan, Danny DeVito, Martin Short, Sarah Jessica Parker, Michael J. Fox, Rod Steiger, Tom Jones, Lukas Haas, Natalie Portman, Jim Brown, Lisa Marie, Sylvia Sidney, Paul Winfield, Pam Grier, Jack Black, Janice Rivera, Ray J, Brandon Hammond, Joe Don Baker, O-Lan Jones, Christina Applegate, Brian Haley, Jerzy Skolimowski, Timi Prulhiere, Barbet Schroeder, Chi Hoang Cai, Tommy Bush, Joseph Maher, Gloria M. Malgarini, Betty Bunch, Gloria Hoffmann, Willie Garson, John Roselius, Michael Reilly Burke, Valerie Wildman, Richard Irving, Jonathan Emerson, Tamara 'Gingir' Curry, Rebecca Broussard, Steve Valentine, Coco Leigh, Jeffrey King, Enrique Castillo, Don Lamoth, C. Wayne Owens, Joseph Patrick Moynihan, Roger Peterson, John Finnegan, Ed Lambert, John Gray, Gregg Daniel, J. Kenneth Campbell, Rance Howard, Jeanne Mori, Richard Assad, Velletta Carlson, Kevin Mangan, Rebeca Silva, Josh Philip Weinstein, Julian Barnes, Ken Thomas, Darelle Porter Holden, Christi Black, Sharon Hendrix, Frank Welker, Jim Beatty, John Bradley, Colleen Ann Brah, Greg Bronson, JoAnn Bush, Mac Canepi, George Cheung, Maria Celeste Genitempo, Geri Gilmore, Matt Gulbranson, Roger Jackson, Anthony Kopczynski, Walter Ludwig, Johnny Mansbach, Stephanie Masoner, Scott McKinley, Bob Pepper, Kelly Lynn Richards, David Sherrill, William Victor Skrabanek, Alexandra Smothers, Jay So, Edward Tubbs, Carl Washington, Don Winsor.

On this day in movie history - The Godfather Part II (1974)

 

The Godfather Part II

directed by Francis Ford Coppola,

written by Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola,

based on the novel by Mario Puzo,

was released in the United States on December 12, 1974.

Music by Nino Rota.

 
Cast:

Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Robert De Niro, John Cazale, Talia Shire, Lee Strasberg, Michael V. Gazzo, G.D. Spradlin, Richard Bright, Gastone Moschin, Tom Rosqui, Bruno Kirby, Frank Sivero, Francesca De Sapio, Morgana King, Marianna Hill, Leopoldo Trieste, Dominic Chianese, Amerigo Tot, Troy Donahue, John Aprea, Joe Spinell, Abe Vigoda, Tere Livrano, Gianni Russo, Maria Carta, Oreste Baldini, Giuseppe Sillato, Mario Cotone, James Gounaris, Fay Spain, Harry Dean Stanton, James Murdock, Carmine Caridi, Danny Aiello, Carmine Foresta, Nick Discenza, Joseph Medaglia, William Bowers, Joseph Della Sorte, Carmen Argenziano, Joe Lo Grippo, Ezio Flagello, Livio Giorgi, Kathleen Beller, Saveria Mazzola, Tito Alba, Johnny Naranjo, Elda Maida, Salvatore Po, Ignazio Pappalardo, Andrea Maugeri, Peter LaCorte, Peter Donat, Tom Dahlgren, Paul B. Brown, Phil Feldman, Roger Corman, Ivonne Coll, Joe De Nicola, Edward Van Sickle, Gabriella Belloni, Richard Watson, Venancia Grangerard, Erica Yohn, Teresa Tirelli, Margaret Bacon, Al Beaudine, Jack Berle, James Caan, Dick Cherney, Italia Coppola, Roman Coppola, Sofia Coppola, Victor Pujols Faneyte, Len Felber, Julie Gregg, Raven Grey Eagle, Larry Guardino, Dan Harris, George Holmes, Buck Houghton, Shep Houghton, Karyn Jansen, Kathryn Janssen, Ken Koc, Shô Kosugi, Gary Kurtz, Alan Lee, Laura Lyons, Alan Marston, Richard Matheson, John Megna, Joe Pine, Felipe Polanco, Jay Rasumny, Harrison Ressler, Al Roberts, Hank Robinson, Rhea Ruggiero, Carmelo Russo, George Simmons, Filomena Spagnuolo, Nico Stevens, Arthur Tovey, Julian Voloshin, Wally West, Judith Woodbury.

On this day in movie history - Gran Torino (2008)

Gran Torino

directed by Hal Ashby,

written by Nick Schenk,

was released in the United States on December 12, 2008.

Music by Kyle Eastwood and Michael Stevens.

Cast:

Clint Eastwood, Christopher Carley, Bee Vang, Ahney Her, Brian Haley, Geraldine Hughes, Dreama Walker, Brian Howe, John Carroll Lynch, William Hill, Brooke Chia Thao, Chee Thao, Choua Kue, Scott Eastwood, Xia Soua Chang, Sonny Vue, Doua Moua, Greg Trzaskoma, John Johns, Davis Gloff, Thomas D. Mahard, Cory Hardrict, Nana Gbewonyo, Arthur Cartwright, Austin Douglas Smith, Conor Liam Callaghan, Michael E. Kurowski, Julia Ho , Maykao K. Lytongpao, Carlos Guadarrama, Andrew Tamez-Hull, Ramon Camacho, Antonio Mireles, Ia Vue Yang, Zoua Kue, Elvis Thao, Jerry Lee, Lee Mong Vang, Tru Hang, Alice Lor, Tong Pao Kue, Douacha Ly, Parng D. Yarng, Nelly Yang Sao Yia, Marty Bufalini, My-Ishia Cason-Brown, Clint Ward, Stephen Kue, Rochelle Winter, Claudia Rodgers, Sean Baligian, Darline Bucchare, Shelagh Conley, Jeffrey Feingold, William C. Fox, Vong Lee, Arnold Montey, Rio Scafone, Jeffrey Scott Basham, Tony Stef'Ano, Carey Torrice, Kevin Walsh.

On this day in music history - The album Winds of Change, by Denise Young (2019)

Winds of Change

by Denise Young

was released on December 12, 2019.

Annie Dillard, on reading:

Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed?

Can the writer isolate and vivify all in experience that most deeply engages our intellects and our hearts?

Can the writer renew our hope for literary forms?

Why are we reading if not in hope that the writer will magnify and dramatize our days,

will illuminate and inspire us with wisdom, courage, and the possibility of meaningfulness,

and will press upon our minds the deepest mysteries,

so that we may feel again their majesty and power?

– from The Writing Life, by Annie Dillard.

Recommended reading - Speedbumps: Flooring it Through Hollywood, by Teri Garr, with Henriette Mantel (2005)

Speedbumps: Flooring it Through Hollywood

by Teri Garr, with Henriette Mantel.
 
Published 2005.
Published by Hudson Street Press.
Hardcover.

ISBN-10: 1594630070
ISBN-13: 978-1594630071
 
Description:
 

In her laugh-out-loud funny and inspiring autobiography, Teri Garr, one of Hollywood’s best-loved comediennes, muses about movies, men, motherhood, and MS.

 

From the directors she’s worked with and admired to the men she’s loved; from sipping cokes with Elvis Presley on Good Friday to hangin’ with the Beatles; from her secrets to succeeding in Hollywood without losing her sanity, to dealing with the fear, anxiety, and denial of being plagues by mysterious physical problems that eluded diagnosis for over twenty years – the insights in Speedbumps, while always couched in Garr’s trademark humor, are honest, heartfelt, and often profound.

 

Since she was eight years old, little Terry Ann Garr was a natural performer, staging elaborate productions for the neighborhood in her family’s garage, captivating her teachers, and easing the tensions between her alcoholic, gambling vaudevillian father and her hard-working Rockette mother with her natural charm and wit. By the age of thirteen – two years after her father’s premature death catalyzed her to “get serious” about becoming a dancer – she was touring with a San Franscisco ballet company; at seventeen, she was swiveling her hips alongside Elvis and Ann-Margret in Viva Las Vegas.

 

By the time she was thirty, Teri had become known as one of Hollywood's best-loved comic actresses, starring in such classic films as Young Frankenstein; Oh, God!; Close Encounters of the Third Kind; and Mr. Mom; and receiving an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her performance alongside Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie.

 

In October 2002, Teri announced on national television that she had multiple sclerosis, making headlines across the country. Since then, she has become a leading advocate in raising awareness for MS and the latest treatments for the disease, traveling around the United States speaking to corporations, physicians, and patients about her experience.

 

Now, in a book that is at once Hollywood hilarious and personally moving, Teri writes about her life – speedbumps and all – with the same characteristic wit and warmth that have won the hearts of fans and Hollywood for more than three decades.

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