On this day in movie history - Dawn of the Dead (2004)

Dawn of the Dead

directed by Zack Snyder,

written by James Gunn,

based on the novel by George A. Romero,

was released in the United States on March 19, 2004.

Music by Tyler Bates.

Soundtrack songs include:

• Have A Nice Day by Stereophonics.
• The Man Comes Around by Johnny Cash.
• Down With the Sickness by Richard Cheese & Lounge Against the Machine.
• People Who Died by The Jim Carroll Band.
• Down With the Sickness by Disturbed.

Cast:

Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Jake Weber, Mekhi Phifer, Ty Burrell, Michael Kelly, Kevin Zegers, Michael Barry, Lindy Booth, Jayne Eastwood, Boyd Banks, Inna Korobkina, R. D. Reid, Kim Poirier, Matt Frewer, Louis Ferreira, Hannah Lochner, Bruce Bohne, Ermes Blarasin, Natalie Brown, Zack Snyder, Scott Reiniger, Tom Savini, Ken Foree.

#LetsGoToTheMall #DownWithTheSickness #PeopleWhoDied #Zombie #DawnOfTheDead

On this day in movie history - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

directed by Michel Gondry,

written by Charlie Kaufman, Michel Gondry and Pierre Bismuth,

was released in the United States on March 19, 2004.

Music by Jon Brion.

Cast:

Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Gerry Robert Byrne, Elijah Wood, Thomas Jay Ryan, Mark Ruffalo, Jane Adams, David Cross, Kirsten Dunst, Tom Wilkinson, Ryan Whitney, Debbon Ayer, Amir Ali Said, Brian Price, Paulie Litt, Josh Flitter, Lola Daehler, Deirdre O'Connell, Lauren Adler.

On this day in music history - Lord of Light, by Fiona Joy Hawkins (2021)

Lord of Light

by Fiona Joy Hawkins,

was released on March 19, 2021.

Introvert humor:

 

Judy Blume, on writing:

 

The best books come from someplace inside.
You don't write because you want to, but because you have to.
- Judy Blume.

Recommended reading - MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors

MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors

by Richard Hooker.
 
Filmed as M*A*S*H (1970), directed by Robert Altman.
 
Published by William Morrow Paperbacks.
 
First published 1968.
Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0688149553
ISBN-13: 978-0688149550

Description:

Before the movie, this is the novel that gave life to Hawkeye Pierce, Trapper John, Hot Lips Houlihan, Frank Burns, Radar O'Reilly, and the rest of the gang that made the 4077th MASH like no other place in Korea or on earth. The doctors who worked in the Mobile Army Surgical Hospitals (MASH) during the Korean War were well trained but, like most soldiers sent to fight a war, too young for the job. In the words of the author, "a few flipped their lids, but most of them just raised hell, in a variety of ways and degrees."

For fans of the movie and the series alike, here is the original version of that perfectly corrupt football game, those martini-laced mornings and sexual escapades, and that unforgettable foray into assisted if incompleted suicide – all as funny and poignant now as they were before they became a part of America's culture and heart.

Born on this day – Margaret Culkin Banning:

 

Margaret Culkin Banning

Writer

March 18, 1891 – January 4, 1982

Credits:

Books:
 

A Handmaid of the Lord (1924); A New Design for the Defense Decade (1951 / 1952); A Week in New York (1941); Conduct Yourself Accordingly (1944); Country Club People (1923); Echo Answers (1960); Enough To Live On (1941); Fallen Away (1951); Give Us Our Years (1950); Half Loaves (1921); His Side Of It (1931); I Took My Love to the Country (1966); Letters from England, Summer 1942 (1943); Letters to Susan (1936); Lifeboat Number Two (1971); Mesabi (1969); Mixed Marriage (1930); Money Of Her Own (1928); Path of True Love (1933); Prelude To Love (1930); Pressure (1927); Rich Girl, Poor Girl (1928); Salud! A South American Journal (1941); Spellbinders (1922); Such Interesting People (1979); The Case for Chastity (1937); The Convert (1957); The Dowry (1955); The First Woman (1935); The Iron Will (1936); The Minnesota Arrowhead Country (1941); The Quality of Mercy (1963); The Splendid Torments (1976); The Third Son (1934); The Vine and The Olive (1964); The Will of Magda Townsend (1974); The Women of the Family (1926); This Marrying (1920); Too Young To Marry (1938); Women for Defense (1942); You Haven’t Changed (1938).

 

Movies and television:

Matinee Theatre (1956); Woman Against Woman (1938).