On this day in movie history - The Day After Tomorrow (2004)

The Day After Tomorrow

directed by Roland Emmerich,

written by Roland Emmerich and Jeffrey Nachmanoff,

based on a story by Roland Emmerich,

was released in the United States on May 24, 2004.

Music by Harald Kloser.

Cast:

Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Emmy Rossum, Dash Mihok, Jay O. Sanders, Sela Ward, Austin Nichols, Arjay Smith, Tamlyn Tomita, Sasha Roiz, Ian Holm, Nassim Sharara, Carl Alacchi, Kenneth Welsh, Michel ‘Gish’ Abou-Samah, Robin Wilcock, Jason Blicker, Kenneth Moskow, Tim Hamaguchi, Glenn Plummer, Adrian Lester, Richard McMillan, Nestor Serrano, Sylvain Landry, Chris Britton, Vlasta Vrana, Pauline Little, Alan Fawcett, Howard Bilerman, John Maclaren, Frank Schorpion, Rachelle Glait, Pierre Leblanc, Richard Zeman, Perry King, Frank Fontaine, Mimi Kuzyk, Al Vandecruys, Vitali Makarov, Russell Yuen, Tim Bagley, Pierre Lenoir, Don Kirk, Lisa Canning, Terry Rhoads, Nicolas Feller, J.P. Manoux, Chuck Shamata, Phillip Jarrett, Ayana O’Shun, Tony Calabretta, Vivian Winther, Sheila McCarthy, Tom Rooney, Amy Sloan, David Schaap, Marylou Belugou, Nobuya Shimamoto, Bunrey Miyake, Karen Glave, Jennifer Morehouse, Christian Tessier, Joe Cobden, Caroline Keenan, Aaron Lustig, Sam Woods, Jesus Perez, Jack Laufer, Luke Letourneau, John Sanford Moore, William Francis McGuire, Michael McNally, Anne Day-Jones, Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais, Lynne De Bel, Mikio Owaki, Terry Simpson, Alvin Tam, Joey Elias, Ron Darling, José Ramón Rosario, Kwasi Songui, John Colton, Dilva Henry, Mark Thompson, Wendy L. Walsh, Mark Pfister, Ana Garcia, Lauren Sanchez, Rob Fukuzaki, Ross King, Robert Holguin, Suzanne Michaels, Leyna Nguyen, Lina Patel, Rosey Edeh, Lori Graham, Jesse Todd, Gordon Masten, Matt Adler, Ray Légaré, Matt Holland, Greg Kramer, Joel McNichol, Rick Hoffman.

On this day in movie history - An Inconvenient Truth (2006)

An Inconvenient Truth

directed by Davis Guggenheim,

a documentary written by and presented by Al Gore,

was released in the United States on May 24, 2006.

Music by Michael Brook.

Song I Need to Wake Up by Melissa Etheridge.

#GlobalWarming #BigBlueMarble #SaveOurEnvironment #Environment

On this day in music history - The album Memoirs, by Michele McLaughlin (2019)

Memoirs

by Michele McLaughlin

was released on May 24, 2019. 

Track list:

Thankful; Pure Joy; Dark Moon; Triumph; Little Love; My Life with You; Beneath the Surface; Alone; Winter; Northern Lights; Peace; Dismissed.

On this day in movie history - Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

directed by Steven Spielberg,

written by Jeffrey Boam,

based on a story and characters by George Lucas and Menno Meyjes,

was released in the United States on May 24, 1989.

Music by John Williams.

Cast:

Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, Denholm Elliott, Alison Doody, John Rhys-Davies, Julian Glover, River Phoenix, Michael Byrne, Kevork Malikyan, Robert Eddison, Richard Young, Alexei Sayle, Alex Hyde-White, Paul Maxwell, Isla Blair, Vernon Dobtcheff, J.J. Hardy, Bradley Gregg, Jeff O’Haco, Vince Deadrick Sr., Marc Miles, Ted Grossman, Tim Hiser, Larry Sanders, Will Miles, David Murray, Frederick Jaeger, Jerry Harte, Billy J. Mitchell, Martin Gordon, Paul Humpoletz, Tom Branch, Graeme Crowther, Luke Hanson, Chris Jenkinson, Nicola Scott, Louis Sheldon, Stefan Kalipha, Peter Pacey, Pat Roach, Suzanne Roquette, Eugene Lipinski, George Malpas, Julie Eccles, Nina Armstrong, Vic Armstrong, Roy Beck, Dickey Beer, Peter Diamond, Hugh Elton, Albert Evansky, Nick Gillard, Martin Grace, Paul Heasman, Ronald Lacey, Derek Lyons, Paul Markham, Wayne Michaels, Lee Richards, Michael Sheard, Tip Tipping, Chris Webb.

Born on this day – Lilli Palmer:

Lilli Palmer

Actress

Writer

May 24, 1914 – January 27, 1986

Credits:

The Other Side of the Wind (2018); Peter the Great (1986); The Holcroft Covenant (1985); The Love Boat (1984); Eine etwas sonderbare Dame (1982); Imaginary Friends (1982); Feine Gesellschaft - beschränkte Haftung (1982); Kinder (1981); Elvira's Movie Macabre (1981); Sarah in America (1981); Weekend (1980); Kaninchen im Hut und andere Geschichten mit Martin Held (1980); Eine Frau bleibt eine Frau (1972–1979); The Boys from Brazil (1978); Lotte in Weimar (1975); Derrick (1974); The Zoo Gang (1974); What the Peeper Saw (1972); Der Kommissar (1971); Murders in the Rue Morgue (1971); Hauser's Memory (1970); Only the Cool (1970); The House That Screamed (1969); De Sade (1969); Hard Contract (1969); The High Commissioner (1968); Oedipus the King (1968); Sebastian (1968); The Diary of Anne Frank (1967); Jack of Diamonds (1967); Paarungen (1967); Le voyage du père (1966); Der Kongreß amüsiert sich (1966); An Affair of States (1966); Le tonnerre de Dieu (1965); The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders (1965); Operation Crossbow (1965); Le grain de sable (1964); Das große Liebesspiel (1963); Torpedo Bay (1963); Miracle of the White Stallions (1963); L'amore difficile (1962); Adorable Julia (1962); Le rendez-vous de minuit (1962); The Counterfeit Traitor (1962); Finden sie, daß Constanze sich richtig verhält? (1962); Dark Journey (1961); Frau Cheneys Ende (1961); The Pleasure of His Company (1961); Conspiracy of Hearts (1960); Frau Warrens Gewerbe (1960); But Not for Me (1959); Life as a Couple (1958); Mädchen in Uniform (1958); Montparnasse 19 (1958); Eine Frau, die weiss, was sie will (1958); The Glass Tower (1957); Tempestuous Love (1957); Between Time and Eternity (1956); Anastasia: The Czar's Last Daughter (1956); The Taming of the Shrew (1956); Teufel in Seide (1956); Fireworks (1954); Four Star Playhouse (1954); Kraft Theatre (1953); Main Street to Broadway (1953); Omnibus (1952); Lux Video Theatre (1952); The Four Poster (1952); The Lilli Palmer Show (1951); The Long Dark Hall (1951); Kraft Theatre (1950); The Ford Theatre Hour (1949); Suspense (1949); Wicked City (1949); No Minor Vices (1948); My Girl Tisa (1948); Body and Soul (1947); Cloak and Dagger (1946); Beware of Pity (1946); Notorious Gentleman (1945); Her Man Gilbey (1944); The Gentle Sex (1943); Thunder Rock (1942); Chamber of Horrors (1940); Blind Folly (1939); One Night, One Day... (1939); Take Two Eggs (1939); A Girl Must Live (1939); Little Ladyship (1939); Suicide Legion (1939); The Man with 100 Faces (1938); Bath H. & C. (1938); S-s-s-h! The Wife! (1938); Starlight (1938); Moving Furniture (1938); Round the Film Studios (1937); Command Performance (1937); Silent Barriers (1937); Good Morning, Boys! (1937); Where There's a Will (1936); Secret Agent (1936); The First Offence (1936); Wolf's Clothing (1936); Crime Unlimited (1935); Rivaux de la piste (1933).

Recommended reading - The Shining

The Shining

by Stephen King.
 
Filmed as:
The Shining (1980), movie directed by Stanley Kubrick.
The Shining (1997), TV miniseries directed by Mick Garris.
 
Published by Hodder.
First published 1977.

ISBN 13: 9780340920930
ISBN 10: 0340920939
ASIN: 0340920939

Paperback.

Description:
 
Danny is only five years old, but he is a 'shiner', aglow with psychic voltage. When his father becomes caretaker of an old hotel, his visions grow out of control. Cut off by blizzards, the hotel seems to develop an evil force, and who are the mysterious guests in the supposedly empty hotel?

Somewhere, somehow there is an evil force in the hotel and that too has begun to shine...

Recommended reading - Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, by Susan Cain (2013)

 

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking

by Susan Cain.
 
Published by Crown.
Published 2013.
 
ISBN-10: 0307352153
ISBN-13: 9780307352156
 
Description:

The book that started The Quiet Revolution.

At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking; who innovate and create but dislike self-promotion; who favor working on their own over working in teams. It is to introverts — Rosa Parks, Chopin, Dr. Seuss, Steve Wozniak — that we owe many of the great contributions to society.

In Quiet, Susan Cain argues that we dramatically undervalue introverts and shows how much we lose in doing so. She charts the rise of the Extrovert Ideal throughout the twentieth century and explores how deeply it has come to permeate our culture. She also introduces us to successful introverts — from a witty, high-octane public speaker who recharges in solitude after his talks, to a record-breaking salesman who quietly taps into the power of questions. Passionately argued, impeccably researched, and filled with indelible stories of real people, Quiet has the power to permanently change how we see introverts and, equally important, how they see themselves.