Born on this day – Carl Weathers:

Carl Weathers

Actor

Director

Producer

Writer

January 14, 1948 – February 1, 2024

Credits:

18 Wheels of Justice (2000–2001); A Burger and a Bullet (2018); ABC / TTV Micro-Mini Series: Not Now, Kitty (2004); Action Jackson (1988); Actors and Athletes Against Gang Violence (2023); After the Wedding (2019); Alien Siege (2005); Always Night (2013); American Warships (2012); Arrested Development (2004–2013); Assault on Death Mountain (1999); Assault on Devil's Island (1997); Balto III: Wings of Change (2004); Barnaby Jones (1976); Battlefield 2: Modern Combat (2005); Braker (1985); Bronk (1975); Brothers (2009); Bucktown (1975); Cannon (1975); Catwoman: The Game (2004); Chadam (2010); Chicago Fire (2016–2017); Chicago Justice (2017); Chicago Med (2021–2023); Chicago P.D. (2016–2017); Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977); Colony (2016); Dangerous Passion (1990); Danny and the Deep Blue Sea (2017); Death Hunt (1981); Defrost: The Virtual Series (2019); Eight Crazy Nights (2002); Elevator Seeking (1999); ER (2008); Explosion Jones (2017); FBI (2022); For the People (2002); Force 10 from Navarone (1978); Fortune Dane (1986); Friday Foster (1975); Good Times (1975); Happy Gilmore (1996); Hawaii Five-0 (2019); Hurricane Smith (1992); In the Heat of the Night (1993–1995); James Brown: Living in America (1985); Johnny Staccato (1977); Kung Fu (1975); Law & Order (2022); Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2018); Little Nicky (2000); Magnum Force (1973); Magnum P.I. (2018); McCloud (1976); Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction (2005); Mortal Kombat X (2015); Most Wanted (1976); OP Center (1995); Pensacola: Wings of Gold (1999–2000); Phoo Action (2008); Predator (1987); Psych (2010); Red Faction: Guerrilla (2009); Regular Show (2011–2013); Renegade (1995); Rocky (1976); Rocky II (1979); Rocky III (1982); Rocky IV (1985); S.W.A.T. (1975); Sasquatch Gang (2006); Saturday Night Live (1988); Semi-Tough (1977); Serpico (1976); Sheena (2001–2002); Sheriff Tom Vs. The Zombies (2013); Silk Stalkings (1993–1997); Star vs. the Forces of Evil (2017–2019); Starsky and Hutch (1976); Stranger Things (2017); Street Justice (1991–1993); Strong Medicine (2001); Switch (1975); Tales of the Unexpected (1977); The Artful Escape (2021); The Bermuda Depths (1978); The Comebacks (2007); The Defiant Ones (1986); The Four Deuces (1975); The Hostage Heart (1977); The Last O.G. (2021); The Mandalorian (2019–2023); The Pointer Sisters: He Turned Me Out (1988); The Shield (2003–2007); The Six Million Dollar Man (1975); The Streets of San Francisco (1977); The Sweet Spot (2003); Think Like a Man Too (2014); Tour of Duty (1989–1990); Toy Story 4 (2019); Toy Story of Terror (2013); Transformers: The Game (2007).

On this day in television history - Justified (2014)

 

Justified
Season 5. Episode 2.

Episode entitled: The Kids Aren’t All Right.

Released January 14, 2014.

Directed by Bill Johnson.

Written by Graham Yost, Dave Andron, Leonard Chang.

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

Music by Steve Porcaro.

Cast:

Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Jere Burns, Joelle Carter, Jacob Pitts, Erica Tazel, Walton Goggins, Michael Rapaport, James Le Gros, Sam Anderson, Xander Berkeley, Riley Bodenstab, Gabrielle Dennis, Kaitlyn Dever, Rick Gomez, Shashawnee Hall, Steve Harris, Wood Harris, Damon Herriman, Jesse Luken, Don McManus, Amy Smart, Bill Tangradi, Karolina Wydra, Mickey Jones, William Gregory Lee, Justin Welborn, Boo Arnold, Cathy Baron, Cascy Beddow, Kaitlin Ferrell, Jonathan Kowalsky, Clifford McGhee, Livia Treviño, Aubrey Wood, Gregoer Boru, Lisbeth Kingsley, Natasha Kojic, Lisa Pevc.

On this day in movie history - Killer Force, a.k.a. The Diamond Mercenaries (1976)

Killer Force

a.k.a. The Diamond Mercenaries,

directed by Val Guest,

written by Val Guest, Gerald Sanford and Michael Winder,

was released in the United States on January 14, 1976.

Music by Georges Garvarentz.

Cast:

Telly Savalas, Peter Fonda, Hugh O'Brian, Christopher Lee, O.J. Simpson, Maud Adams, Ian Yule, Michael Mayer, Victor Melleney, Richard Loring, Stuart Brown, Marina Christelis, Frank Shelley, Peter van Dissel, Cocky Tlhotlhalemaje, Ian Hamilton, Dale Cutts, Don McCorkindale, Marigold Russell, Frank Douglas, Kevin Basel, Stuart Parker, Albert Raphael, Russell Newman, Clive Scott, Robert Davies, David C. Anderson, Anthony Fridjhon, Giles Ridley.

Born on this day – Claude Borelli:

Claude Borelli

Actress

January 14, 1934 – November 15, 1960

Credits:

The Gangsters (1957); Gestatten, mein Name ist Cox (1955); Le fil à la patte (1954); The Scheming Women (1954); This Man Is Dangerous (1953); When You Read This Letter (1953); La plus belle fille du monde (1951); Orpheus (1950); L'école des resquilleurs (1934); Jeanne (1934); L'éternelle chanson (1932).

Stephen King, on writing:

Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about.

It is this genuine caring, not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style.

- Stephen King

James Ellroy, on writing:

 

Cats gotta scratch.
Dogs gotta bite.
I gotta write.
- James Ellroy.

Recommended reading – The Cowboys

The Cowboys

by William Dale Jennings.
 
Published by Bantam.
First published 1971.
Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0552089796
ISBN-13: 978-0552089791
 
Description:
 

The time is 1877, the place the wild Wyoming-Montana territory. Will Anderson, a flinty old rancher, has a huge herd of cattle ripe for market when his regular hands, inflamed by gold fever, desert him. In desperation, he hires the only "men" available for the perilous 400 mile drive – a pack of scraggly schoolboys. Through skill and harsh discipline, Wil Anderson whips them from greenhorns into seasoned cowhands. But before the long drive is over, the boys discover that the price they must pay for manhood is a terrible one- murder and revenge! the stunning, heartbreaking climax of this extraordinary story will surprise you - and perhaps even sock you.