Born on this day – Butterfly McQueen:

Butterfly McQueen

Actress

January 8, 1911 – December 22, 1995

Credits:

The Magical World of Disney (1989); The Mosquito Coast (1986); American Playhouse (1986); ABC Afterschool Specials (1972); ABC Weekend Specials (1977); Amazing Grace (1974); The Phynx (1970); The Green Pastures (1957); Beulah (1950); Lux Video Theatre (1950); Studio One (1948); Reet, Petite, and Gone (1947); Duel in the Sun (1946); Mildred Pierce (1945); Flame of Barbary Coast (1945); Since You Went Away (1944); I Dood It (1943); Cabin in the Sky (1943); Affectionately Yours (1941); Gone with the Wind (1939); The Women (1939).

Born on this day – Elvis Presley:

Elvis Presley

Singer

Actor

January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977

Born on this day – David Bowie:

David Bowie

Singer

Songwriter

Actor

January 8, 1947 – January 10, 2016

Credits:

Albums:

David Bowie (1967); David Bowie (1969); The Man Who Sold the World (1970); Hunky Dory (1971); The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972); Aladdin Sane (1973); Pin Ups (1973); Diamond Dogs (1974); Young Americans (1975); Station to Station (1976); Low (1977); "Heroes" (1977); Lodger (1979); Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) (1980); Let's Dance (1983); Tonight (1984); Never Let Me Down (1987); Black Tie White Noise (1993); The Buddha of Suburbia (1993); Outside (1995); Earthling (1997); Hours (1999); Heathen (2002); Reality (2003); The Next Day (2013); Blackstar (2016).

Movies:

Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces (2014); Bandslam (2009); August (2008); SpongeBob SquarePants (1999); Arthur and the Invisibles (2006); The Prestige (2006); Extras (2005); Nathan Barley (2005); Zoolander (2001); Empty (2000); The Hunger (1997); The Nomad Soul (1999); Mr. Rice's Secret (1999); Il mio West (1998); B.U.S.T.E.D (1998); Basquiat (1996); Full Stretch (1993); Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992); The Linguini Incident (1991); Dream On (1990); Tina Turner & David Bowie: Tonight (1988); The Last Temptation of Christ (1988); Labyrinth (1986); Absolute Beginners (1986); Into the Night (1985); Yellowbeard (1983); Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983); The Hunger (1983); The Snowman (1982); Baal (1982); Christiane F. (1981); Just a Gigolo (1978); The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976); The Looking Glass Murders (1970); The Virgin Soldiers (1969); The Image (1969); Theatre 625 (1964).

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On this day in television history - M Squad (1960)

 

M Squad

Season 3. Episode 16.

Episode entitled: The Man Who Went Straight.

Released January 8, 1960.

Directed by Francis D. Lyon.

Written by Stuart Jerome and Leonard Neubauer.

Music by Benny Carter.

Cast:
Lee Marvin, Paul Newlan, Robert H. Harris, Harry Bartell, Jarl Victor, Harry Landers, Rand Brooks, Don Kohler.

On this day in television history - Justified (2013)

 

Justified
Season 4. Episode 1.

Episode entitled: Hole in the Wall.

Released January 8, 2013.

Directed by Michael Dinner.

Written by Graham Yost, Ingrid Escajeda, VJ Boyd, Leonard Chang.

Based on the short story Fire in the Hole by Elmore Leonard.

Music by Steve Porcaro.
 
Cast:

Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Joelle Carter, Jacob Pitts, Erica Tazel, Walton Goggins, Patton Oswalt, Ron Eldard, Joseph Mazzello, Chris Chalk, Brian Howe, Jenn Lyon, David Meunier, Abby Miller, Lindsay Pulsipher, Alexandra Kyle, Casey Brown, David Ury, Raymond J. Barry, Nicole Alvarez, Murphy Dunne, Aja Evans, Jesse Luken, Howard S. Miller, Terry Dale Parks, Joe Stevens, Leslie Stevens, Christopher Weir, Jorga Caye, Trevor Hammonds.

 

Recommended reading - The Exorcist (1971) and Legion (1983) by William Peter Blatty

The Exorcist: A Novel (1971).

by William Peter Blatty.
 
Published by Harper Paperbacks
Paperback.
 
ISBN-10: 006209436X
ISBN-13: 978-0062094360
 
Description:
 

Four decades after it first shook the nation, then the world, William Peter Blatty’s thrilling masterwork of faith and demonic possession returns in an even more powerful form. Raw and profane, shocking and blood-chilling, it remains a modern parable of good and evil and perhaps the most terrifying novel ever written.

 

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Legion (1983).

by William Peter Blatty.
 
Published by Tor Books.
Paperback.
 
ISBN-10: 0765327139
ISBN-13: 978-0765327130
 
Description:
 
“Jesus asked the man his name, and he answered, ‘Legion, for we are many.’” – Mark 5:9.
 

A young boy is found horribly murdered in a mock crucifixion. Is the murderer the elderly woman who witnessed the crime? A neurologist who can no longer bear the pain life inflicts on its victims? A psychiatrist with a macabre sense of humor and a guilty secret? A mysterious mental patient,in silent isolation?

 

Lieutenant Kinderman follows a bewildering trail that links all these people, confronting new enigmas at every turn, even as more murders occur. Why does each victim suffer the same dreadful mutilations? Why are two priests among the dead? Is there a connection between these crimes and another series of murders that took place twelve years ago – one that supposedly ended with the death of the killer?

 

Legion is a novel of breathtaking energy and suspense. But more than this, it is an extraordinary journey into the uncharted depths of the human mind and the most agonizing questions of the human condition.

 

The answers are revealed in a climax so stunning that it could only have been written by the author of The Exorcist – William Peter Blatty.

Born on this day – Lawrence Clark Powell:

Lawrence Clark Powell

Writer

Librarian

Bibliographer

September 3, 1906 – March 14, 2001

Credits:

Books:

A Passion for Books (1958); A Southwestern Century; Books in My Baggage (1960); California Classics: The Creative Literature of the Golden State (1971); Eucalyptus Fair (1992); Fortune & Friendship: An Autobiography (1968); Heart of the Southwest; Islands of Books; Land of Fiction; Life Goes On: Twenty More Years of Fortune and Friendship (1986); Philosopher Pickett; Photographs of the Southwest (1976) (with Ansel Adams); Robinson Jeffers, the Man and His Work; Southwestern Book Trails (1982); The Alchemy of Books (1954); The Blue Train (1977); The Little Package (1964); The Malibu (with W.W. Robinson); The Manuscripts of D.H. Lawrence; The River Between (1979); Winter Crossing 1952 - Travel Notes from a Bygone era (1986).