On this day in movie history - Midnight Run (1988)

Midnight Run

directed by Martin Brest,

written by George Gallo,

was released in the United States on July 20, 1988.

Music by Danny Elfman.

“There’s a couple of nice-lookin’ people here. Better class of people. Your people. Probably all embezzlers, too.”

– Robert De Niro, as Jack Walsh.

Cast:

Robert De Niro, Charles Grodin, Yaphet Kotto, John Ashton, Dennis Farina, Joe Pantoliano, Richard Foronjy, Robert Miranda, Jack Kehoe, Wendy Phillips, Danielle DuClos, Philip Baker Hall, Tom McCleister, Fran Brill.

On this day in movie history - Sunshine (2007)

Sunshine

directed by Danny Boyle,

written by Alex Garland,

was released in the United States on July 20, 2007.

Music by John Murphy and Underworld.

Cast:

Cliff Curtis, Chipo Chung, Cillian Murphy, Michelle Yeoh, Hiroyuki Sanada, Rose Byrne, Benedict Wong, Chris Evans, Troy Garity, Mark Strong, Paloma Baeza, Archie Macdonald, Sylvie Macdonald, Kevin Hudson.

On this day in music history - Timeless, by Jami Sieber (2013)

Timeless

by Jami Sieber

was released on July 20, 2013.

Track list:

The Invitation; A Love Song for Humanity; River of Sky; Dancing with Tinkerbell; The Burning Dawn; Jewels in Indra’s Web; Following My Father’s Song; Dream Raga; River of Rain; A World Behind the World; Stillness; Begin Again.

On this day in music history - Somewhere New, by Sherry Finzer & Mark Holland (2018)

Somewhere New

by Sherry Finzer & Mark Holland,

was released on July 20, 2018.

Track list:

Never Forgotten; As the Night Blooms; When Stillness Comes; In Search of Somewhere New; Evening Star; Leaving All Shadows Behind; Five Shades; The Beauty Lies Within; Golden Daybreak; Silence of a Cavern; Deeper Distance; Dolphin Dreams.

Walt Whitman, on writing:

 

The secret of it all, is to write in the gush, the throb, the flood, of the moment – to put things down without deliberation – without worrying about their style – without waiting for a fit time or place. I always worked that way. I took the first scrap of paper, the first doorstep, the first desk, and wrote – wrote, wrote…By writing at the instant the very heartbeat of life is caught.

- Walt Whitman.

Recommended reading - The Frighteners

 

The Frighteners

by Michael Jahn.

Published by Boulevard Book.
Published 1996.
Movie tie-in.

ISBN-10: 0157297187
ISBN-13: 9780157297188

Description:

When a serial killer reaches out from beyond the grave and, in the guise of the Grim Reaper, embarks on a New England killing spree, it is up to a hapless young man with special powers, aided by some friendly earthbound spirits, to stop him.

Born on this day – Robert Leslie Bellem:

 

Robert Leslie Bellem

Writer

July 19, 1902 – April 1, 1968

Credits:

Written work:

30 Seconds (1937); Back Home to Hell (1940); Beyond the Veil (1936); Bitter Reckoning (1937); Blood for the Vampire Dead (1940); Castle Sinister (1935); Cats of Cassandra (1935); Cavern of the Faceless (1936); Command to Kill (1935); Corpse Without a Face (1935); Curse of the Lovely Torso (1940); Dark Eyes of Hell (1938); Dark Splendor (1936); Dead Legs Walk (1935); Dealer in Death (1938); Death Orchids (1935); Death's Bright Halo (1935); Death's Chrysalis (1936); Death's Detour (1937); Death's Detour: The Surgeon of Souls Collection, Volume 1 (2002); Death's Nocturne (1936); Death's Passport (1940); Doom of the Half-Dead (1936); Fangs of the Bat (1935); Fate of the Faulains (1936); Fiend's Feast (1938); Flowers of Desire (1936); Forever Vengeance (1942); From the Sea (1936); Gallows Heritage (1937); Gallows Heritage: The Surgeon of Souls Collection, Volume 2 (2003); Ghost Cavalcade (1938); Ghoul's Trap (1937); Girl of Flame (1940); Graveyard Honeymoon (1936); Hell's Dark Fragrance (1936); Heritage of Madness (1937); Homicide Hunch (1943); I Am a Monster (1937); I Must Have Five Corpses (1936); Introducing the Author - Robert Leslie Bellem (1941); Kill That Headline (1939); Labyrinth of Monsters (1936); Letter / Amazing Stories, June 1934 (1934); Lorelei of Lynnwold Light (1935); Low Bridge (1941); Master of Death (1935); Mesa of Madness (1941); Message from the Grave (1942); Mirror Magic (1938); Mistress of Serpents (1935); Murder from Nowhere (1935); Murder Mine (1947); Murder's Migrants (1943); Pancho Diego, Villain (1936); Pearl of Hell (1941); Portals of Peril (1939); Portrait of Terror (1936); Princess of Dreams (1938); Program for Plunder (1939); Red Thirst (1939); Reunion Beyond (1936); Robots Can't Lie (1941); Room of Dreams (1938); Shadow from Eleusis (1938); Shadows Pass (1936); She Who Was Dead (1936); Six Lives for One (1940); Sonance Sinister (1940); Strange Journey (1938); Surgeon of Souls (1936); Taupoo Dance (1936); Televised Frame / comic strip (1949); The Belled Rat (1935); The Blood Drinkers (1935); The Corpse Screams Twice (1937); The Crimson Crone (1935); The Dark Tower (1937); The Executioner (1935); The Green Death Walks (1936); The Man Who Was Not (1935); The Moon-God Takes (1936); The Short-Wave Superman (1941); The Soul Eater (1938); The Surgeon of Souls and Other Tales of Terror (2009); The Thing in the Shaft (1939); Through Fire (1940); Tryst with Death (1936); Vampire's Castle (1938); Variant: "I Must Have 5 Corpses" (2015); Variant: Blood for Sale (1942); Variant: Cats of Cassandra (1935); Variant: Death Orchids (1935); Variant: Dog of Death (1942); Variant: Eyes of the Cat (1942); Variant: Fork the in Road (1942); Variant: I Must Have Five Corpses (1936); Variant: Miracle Man (1942); Variant: Murder Moon (1942); Variant: Nameless Dread of the Savage Sirens (1949); Variant: Payment in Blood (1942); Variant: The Blood Drinkers (1935); Variant: Will O' the Wisp (1942); Welcome to Hell (1941); When the Dead Awaken (1937); Wooed by a Werewolf (1939); You Are a Murderer (1940).

Movies and television: 

77 Sunset Strip (1963–1964); Adventures of Superman (1956–1958); Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (1953); Assignment: Underwater (1961); Behind Closed Doors (1959); Blackmail (1947); Boston Blackie / Front Page Detective (1951 / 1953); Broken Arrow (1957–1958); Captain Midnight (1955–1956); Chevron Theatre (1953); Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective (1990); Death Valley Days (1965); Dick Tracy (1950–1952); Eye Witness (1953); General Electric Summer Originals (1956); Iron Horse (1967); Johnny Midnight (1960); Mackenzie's Raiders (1958–1959); Man Without a Gun (1957–1959); Perry Mason (1961–1964); Schlitz Playhouse (1953–1954); Steve Donovan, Western Marshal (1956); Superman (1973); Temple Houston (1963); The Californians (1959); The Case of the Dangerous Robin (1961); The F.B.I. (1965–1967); The Forsaken Westerns (2017); The Lone Ranger (1956–1957); The Millionaire (1957–1959); The New Adventures of Charlie Chan (1957); The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse (1954); The Restless Gun (1958); The Texan (1960); The Third Man (1963); The Web (1957); Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964); Wanted: Dead or Alive (1959).