On this day in movie history - Signs (2002)

Signs

directed and written by M. Night Shyamalan,

was released in the United States on August 2, 2002.

Music by James Newton Howard.

Cast:

Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix, Rory Culkin, Abigail Breslin, Cherry Jones, M. Night Shyamalan, Patricia Kalember, Ted Sutton, Merritt Wever, Lanny Flaherty, Marion McCorry, Michael Showalter, Kevin Pires, Clifford David, Rhonda Overby, Greg Wood, Paul L. Nolan, Ukee Washington, Babita Hariani, Adam Way, Angela Eckert, Jose L. Rodriguez, Paul Wilson, Thomas Griffin, Mark Falvo, Derek Mears, Chuck Pressler, Samantha Steffen.

Sharon Creech, on books and reading:

 

I love the way that each book – any book – is its own journey.

You open it, and off you go.
You are changed in some way, large or small, by having traveled with those characters.
- Sharon Creech.

Recommended reading - Shooting Star / Terror in the Night

Shooting Star / Terror in the Night

by Robert Bloch.

ASIN: B000HWBAFU

Published by Ace Books, Inc.

Published 1958.

Two novels in one volume from the author of Psycho.

Born on this day – Herman Melville:

 

Herman Melville

Writer

August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891

Credits:

Books:

40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology (2000); 50 Classic Novellas (2011); 50 Great American Short Stories (1963); Bartleby: The Scrivener (1853); Billy Budd (1924); Classic Sea Stories (1996); Famous and Curious Animal Stories (1989); I Would Prefer Not To (2021); Israel Potter (1855); Keys to the Bureau (2013); Mardi (1849); Moby Dick (1851); Mysterious Sea Stories (1987); Omoo (1847); Pierre (1852); Redburn (1849); The Apple-Tree Table (1922); The Best Crime Stories Ever Told (2002); The Confidence-Man (1857); The Great Sea Adventure (2019); The Piazza Tales (1856); The Short Story: 30 Masterpieces (1992); Typee (1846); War: An Anthology (1969); White-Jacket (1850); Writers: Their Lives and Works (2018); Writing New York (1998).

Movies and television:

2010: Moby Dick (2010); A Baleia Branca - Uma Ideia de Deus (2007); Age of the Dragons (2011); Animated Epics: Moby Dick (1999); As Ilhas Encantadas (1965); Bartleby - Geschichte der Wall Street (2010); Bartleby (1963 / 1969 / 1970 / 1976 / 2001 / 2016 / 2023); Bartleby le scribe (2010); Bartleby l'écrivain (1957); Bartleby ou Les hommes au rebut (1993); Bartleby the Scrivener (1977); Beau Travail (1999); Beer and Board Games (2016); Benito Cereno (1969); Billy Budd (1962 / 1966 / 1988 / 1998 / 2001 / 2010 / 2017); Billy Budd, fra Den Norske Opera & Ballett (2019); Camera Three (1955); Capitaine Achab (2004); Captain Ahab (2007); Dämon des Meeres (1931); Enchanted Island (1958); Encounter (1955); Explained (2018); History's Mysteries (2000); Home of the Brave: A Film by Laurie Anderson (1986); Hora once (1972); I riassuntini (2018); Ishmael (2022); Last of the Pagans (1935); Le théâtre de la jeunesse (1964); L'homme silencieux (2021); Los libros (1974); Mobi Dik (1972); Moby Dick (1930 / Moby Dick (1954 / 1956 / 1978 / 1998 / 2000 / 2011); Moby Dick et le secret de Mu (2005); Moby Dick Rehearsed (1955); Moby-Dick (1977 / 2013); Mythos Wal (2017); NBC Experiment in Television (1970); NBC Television Opera Theatre (1952); NET Playhouse (1967); Omoo-Omoo the Shark God (1949); One Man's Story (1953); Parlez-moi de Vous (2016); Partanen (2003); Pisar Bartleby (1966); Pola X (1999); Ponds Theater (1955); Rappresentazione della terribile caccia alla balena bianca Moby Dick (1973); Revenge of the Whale (2001); Salinger (2013); Schlitz Playhouse (1952); Siesta Z (2017); Strange Stories (1953); The Adventures of Moby Dick (1996); The DuPont Show of the Month (1959); The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo (1964); The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003); The Lighthouse (2019); The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1969); The Sea Beast (1926); The White Whale of Mu (1980); War is Kind: Poetry of the Civil War (1999); Your Favorite Story / A Tale of the Enchanted Isles (1953); Zwischen Meer und Himmel (1957).

Born on this day – Madlaine Traverse:

 

Madlaine Traverse

Actress

August 1, 1875 – January 7, 1964

Credits:

Fruits of Desire (1916); Gambling in Souls (1919); Leah Kleschna (1913); Lost Money (1919); Rose of the West (1919); Sins of Ambition (1917); Snares of Paris (1919); The Caillaux Case (1918); The Closing Net (1915); The Danger Zone (1918); The Hell Ship (1920); The Iron Heart (1920); The Love That Dares (1919); The Other Woman (1913); The Penalty (1920); The Poor Little Rich Girl (1917); The Shielding Shadow (1916); The Spirit of Good (1920); The Splendid Sin (1919); The Tattlers (1920); Three Weeks (1914); What Would You Do? (1920); When Fate Decides (1919).

Born on this day – Erle C. Kenton:

Eric C. Kenton

Director

August 1, 1896 – January 28, 1980

Born on this day – Jerome Moross:

 

Jerome Moross

Composer

August 1, 1913 – July 25, 1983