On this day in movie history - The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016)

The Autopsy of Jane Doe

directed by André Øvredal,

written by Ian Goldberg, Richard Naing,

released at the Toronto International Film Festival in Canada on September 9, 2016.

Music by Danny Bensi, Saunder Jurriaans.

 

Cast:

Brian Cox, Emile Hirsch, Ophelia Lovibond, Michael McElhatton, Olwen Catherine Kelly, Jane Perry, Parker Sawyers, Mary Duddy, Mark Phoenix, Sydney (the cat), Arath de la Torre, Yves O'Hara.

On this day in movie history - Sully (2016)

Sully

a.k.a. Sully: Miracle on the Hudson

directed by Clint Eastwood and written by Todd Komarnicki,

based on the book Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters by Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger and Jeffrey Zaslow,

was released in the United States on September 9, 2016.

Music by Christian Jacob and The Tierney Sutton Band.

Cast:

Tom Hanks, Aaron Eckhart, Valerie Mahaffey, Delphi Harrington, Mike O'Malley, Jamey Sheridan, Anna Gunn, Holt McCallany, Ahmed Lucan, Laura Linney, Laura Lundy, Onira Tares, Gary Weeks, Katie Couric, Jeff Kober, Blake Jones, Molly Bernard, Chris Bauer, Jane Gabbert, Ann Cusack, Molly Hagan, Purva Bedi, Max Adler, Sam Huntington, Christopher Curry, Ashley Austin Morris, Cooper Thornton, Autumn Reeser, Jeffrey Nordling, Patch Darragh, Robert C. Treveiler, Billy Richards, Aida Manassy, Pascal Yen-Pfister, Marcia DeBonis, Noel Fisher, Adam Boyer, Wilbur Fitzgerald, Michael Rapaport, Vincent Lombardi, Jeremy Luke, Bernardo Badillo, Jerry Ferrara, Viktoria Khartchenko, Randall Pinkston, Graham Sibley, Grant Roberts, Wayne Bastrup, Bobby Cuza, Billy Smith, Martin Barabas, E. Roger Mitchell, Robert Pralgo, Clayton Landey, Tracee Chimo Pallero, Brett Rice, Kristine Johnson, Larry Guthrie, Lucy Young, Lori Cline, Jon Witten, Vickie Adams, Shane P. Allen, Scott Alan Berk, Larry Blanks, Roger Brenner, Lisa Brown, Aric Bunch, Kris Bunch, Phil Cappadora, Christine J. Carlson, Leslie Castay, Marc Chouen, Sonia Conlin, Jameson Jamey Copeland, Vicki Damante, Venus Dana, Michael-Scott Druckenmiller, Payson Durant, Mark Falvo, D. Paul Faulkner, Cathy Fielding, Noelle Angelica Fink, Christopher G Gates, Tahseen Ghauri, Melissa Kay Glaze, Steve Goffner, Takako Haywood, Drew Neal Horton, Jedediah Jenk, Michael D. Joseph, Jay D. Kacho, Inder Kumar, Benny Laurence, Michael Layman, Kamron Leal, Scott Ledbetter, Taylor Lee, Lynn Marocola, Doris McCarthy, Lindsey McCollough, Kevin Edward McGinn, Scarlett Mellinger, Sierra Mellinger, Frank Mercuri, Gary Miller, Kelly L. Moran, Josh Mowery, Michael Peavey, Clay Pool, David Philip Reed, Shaun Rey, Patti Schellhaas, Denise Scilabra, Vanessa Scull, Daniel Patrick Shook, Nancy Ellen Shore, Megan Monaghan Smith, Patty Tobin, Miguel J. Torres, Brad Trettien, Brandon Van Vliet, Mark White, Justin Michael Woods.

On this day in music history - The album Signatures: Great Opera Scenes, by Renée Fleming (1997)

Signatures: Great Opera Scenes

by Renée Fleming

was released on September 9, 1997.

Track list:

Porgi, amor (from Le nozze di Figaro); E Susanna non vein! ... Dove sono i bei momenti (from Le nozze di Figaro); Nu, zaboltalas ya! ... Puskai pogibnu ya (Letter scene) (from Eugene Onegin) - Renee Fleming / LSO / Solti / Larissa Diadkova; Mesicku na nebi hlubokem (O silver moon) (from Rusalki); Era piu calmo? ...’ Piangea cantando nell’erma landa’ ... Ave Maria (from Otello) - Renee Fleming / LSO / Solti / Larissa Diadkova; Peter seems to have disapeared ... Embroidery in childhood was a luxury of idleness (Embroidery aria) - Renee Fleming / LSO / Solti / Jonathan Summers; Ich komme-ich komme (Transformation scene) (from Daphne).

On this day in music history: Second Time Around, by Joan Jeanrenaud & Charlie Varon (2016)

Second Time Around

by Joan Jeanrenaud & Charlie Varon,

was released on September 9, 2016.

Track list:

Overture and the Kid; Starting Over; Imagining a Grandson’s Visit; Lunch with Selma and Adele; Scotch and a Crossword; The Kid Returns; Truth Be Told.

Every book opens to a new adventure:

Every book opens to a new adventure.

Margaret Culkin Banning, on writing:

 

Fiction is not a dream.

Nor is it guesswork.
It is imagining based on facts,
and the facts must be accurate or the work of imagining will not stand up.
- Margaret Culkin Banning.

Recommended reading - The Wycherly Woman (1961)

 

The Wycherly Woman

by Ross Macdonald.
 
Vintage Crime / Black Lizard.
Paperback.
First published in 1961.
 
ISBN-10: 0375701443
ISBN-13: 978-0375701443
 
Description:
 
“A fine yarn…. The pace is fast, the plot well-knit, with plenty of suspense and surprise as extra dividends.” – Chicago Tribune.
 
Phoebe Wycherly was missing two months before her wealthy father hired Archer to find her. That was plenty of time for a young girl who wanted to disappear to do so thoroughly – or for someone to make her disappear. And before he can locate the Wycherly girl, Archer had to reckon with the Wycherly woman, Phoebe's mother, an eerily unmaternal blonde who keeps too many residences, had too many secrets, and left too many corpses in her wake.
 
“Macdonald is one of a handful of writers in the [mystery] genre whose worth and quality surpass the limitations of the form.” – Los Angeles Times.