On this day in movie history - Sarah’s Key (2011)

Sarah’s Key

directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner,

written by Serge Joncour and Gilles Paquet-Brenner,

based on the novel by Tatiana de Rosnay,

was released in the United States on July 22, 2011.

Music by Max Richter.

Cast:
Kristin Scott Thomas, Natasha Mashkevich, Arben Bajraktaraj, Mélusine Mayance, Charlotte Poutrel, Niels Arestrup, Dominique Frot, Frédéric Pierrot, Michel Duchaussoy, Gisèle Casadesus, Aidan Quinn, George Birt, Paige Jennifer Barr.

On this day in movie history - Star Trek: Beyond (2016)

Star Trek: Beyond

directed by Justin Lin,

written by Simon Pegg and Doug Jung,

was released in the United States on July 22, 2016.

Music by Michael Giacchino.

Cast:

Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban, Zoe Saldana, Simon Pegg, John Cho, Anton Yelchin, Idris Elba, Sofia Boutella, Joe Taslim, Lydia Wilson, Sara Maria Forsberg, Deep Roy, Melissa Roxburgh, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Greg Grunberg, Danny Pudi, Kim Kold, Anita Brown, Dan Payne, Shea Whigham, Leonard Nimoy, George Takei, Walter Koenig, William Shatner, James Doohan, DeForest Kelley, Nichelle Nichols, Jeff Bezos.

On this day in music history - The album Beyond Dreams: Pathways To Deep Relaxation, by Hennie Bekker (2016)

Beyond Dreams: Pathways To Deep Relaxation

by Hennie Bekker

was released on July 22, 2016.

Track list:

Self Connect; Floating to Forever; Letting Go; The Calm; Quiescence; Beyond Dreams.

On this day in music history - Moonwheel, by City of Dawn & Sherry Finzer (2022)

Moonwheel

by City of Dawn & Sherry Finzer,

was released on July 22, 2022.

Track list:

Drift; Amity; Solis Occasum; Moonwheel.

Jim Rohn, on reading:

Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary.

We must not permit anything to stand between us and the book that could change our lives.

- Jim Rohn. 

Recommended reading - The Shootist

The Shootist

by Glendon Swarthout.

Introduction by Miles Swarthout.

Filmed as The Shootist (1976), directed by Don Siegel.

Published by Bison Books.
First published 1975.

ISBN-10: 0803238231
ISBN-13: 9780803238237

Description:

"Such style...such a strong central idea...the showdown is an unremitting as the build-up." – Sunday Times of London.

"This is an extremely well-written Western and gives the reader vivid insight into the workings of the mind of a wanderer and gunman." – Baton Rouge, Louisiana Sunday Advocate.

"The Shootist by Glendon Swarthout is the taleof the Old West's version of the modern 'hit man'. It is a splendid story, well-told and with a really satisfying ending." – Charleston, South Carolina Evening Post.

The Shootist is John Bernard Books, a man of principle and the only surviving gunfighter in a vanishing American West. He rides into El Paso in the year 1901, on the day Queen Victoria died, there to be told by a doctor that he must soon confront the greatest shootist of all: Death. In such a showdown, against such an antagonist, he cannot win. Most men may end their days in bed or take their own lives, but a man-killer has a 3rd option, one which Books decides to exercise. He may choose his own executioner.

As word spreads that the famous assassin has reached the end of his rope, an assortment of vultures gathers to feast upon his corpse--among them a gambler, a rustler, an undertaker, an old love, a reporter, even a boy. Books outwits them, however, by selecting the where, when, who, and why of his death, and writing in fire from a pair of Remingtons the last courageous act of his own legend. The climatic gunfight itself is an incredible performance by an incredible man, and by his creator, Glendon Swarthout.

 

The Shootist will rank with such classics as Shane and The Ox-Bow Incident, but it is much more than a Western. When, in the final afternoon of his life, J. B. Books crosses a street and enters a saloon to make something of his death, we cross, we enter, with him. He is us.

From a corner of the south window Gillom Rogers spied on the new lodger. The man unpacked his valise and put things in a drawer of the chiffonier, then hung his Price Albert coat in the closet. When he turned from the closet he was in shirt and vest. The boy's eyes rounded. Sewn to each side of the vest was a holster, reversed, and in each holster was a pistol, butt forward. As he watched, sucking in his breath, the man took the weapons out, revolved the cylinders, filled a chamber in one he had evidently fired, and replaced them before hanging the vest, too, in the closet. The pistols were a pair of nickel-plated, short-barreled, unsighted, single-action .44 Remingtons, obviously manufactured to order. The handle of one was black gutta-percha, the other pearl.

Gillom slipped away to take the horse to the livery, letting the breath of revelation out of his lungs. He was seventeen, and spent much of his time in saloons. He was not yet served, but he enjoyed himself and picked up a great deal of miscellaneous information, some of it true, some of it of doubtful authenticity. But the man in corner room was no stranger to him now. He had heard enough scalp-itch, blood-freeze tales to know that only one man carried a similar pair of guns in a similar manner...

Born on this day – Alice Hechy:

 

Alice Hechy

Actress

Opera singer (soprano)

July 21, 1893 – May 26, 1973

Credits:

Nanon (1938); His Late Excellency (1935); 1914, die letzten Tage vor dem Weltbrand (1931); Das Kabinett des Dr. Larifari (1930); Das Mädel aus U.S.A. (1930); Gustav Mond, Du gehst so stille (1928); Zuflucht (1928); Batalla de damas (1928); Der rosa Diamant (1926); Variety (1925); Die abenteuerliche Hochzeit (1925); Die Puppe vom Lunapark (1925); This Ancient Law (1923); So sind die Männer (1923); Wien, du Stadt der Lieder (1923); Der Kampf ums Ich (1922); Tobias Buntschuh - Das Drama eines Einsamen (1921); Zpev zlata (1921); Das Land der Sehnsucht (1918); Dorittchens Vergnügungsreise (1916); Der Mann, den das Schicksal sandte (1916); Dorrits Eheglück (1916); Die Verkaufte Braut (1916); Hoffmanns Erzählungen (1916); Teufelchen (1915); Liebet die Männer (1915); Sugar and Spice (1915); Problematische Naturen (1915); Kammermusik (1915); Die Finsternis und ihr Eigentum (1915); Miss Piccolo (1915); Wenn Wunden heilen (1914); Pauline (1914); The Man in the Cellar (1914); Ilse und ihre drei Freier (1913); Red Powder (1913); Im Schatten der Schuld (1912).