On this day in movie history - Black Ice (1992)

Black Ice

a.k.a. A Passion for Murder

directed by Neill Fearnley,

written by Arne Olsen and John Alan Schwartz,

was released in the United States on December 2, 1992.

Music by Amin Bhatia.

Cast:

Joanna Pacula, Michael Nouri, Michael Ironside, Mickey Jones, Brent Neale, Rick Skene, Arne Olsen, Lee J. Campbell, Victor Cowie, Gene Pyrz, Thom Schioler, Harry Nelken, John Cassini.

On this day in movie history - Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1981)

Whose Life Is It Anyway?

directed by John Badham,

written by Reginald Rose,

based on the play by Brian Clark,

was released in the United States on December 2, 1981.

Music by Arthur B. Rubinstein.

Cast:

Richard Dreyfuss, John Cassavetes, Christine Lahti, Bob Balaban, Thomas Carter, Kaki Hunter, Kenneth McMillan, Janet Eilber.

On this day in movie history - A Few Good Men (1992)

A Few Good Men

directed by Rob Reiner,

written by Aaron Sorkin,

based on the play by Aaron Sorkin,

was released in the United States on December 2, 1992.

Music by Marc Shaiman.

Cast:

Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore, Kevin Bacon, Kiefer Sutherland, Kevin Pollak, James Marshall, J.T. Walsh, Christopher Guest, J.A. Preston, Matt Craven, Maud Winchester, Wolfgang Bodison, Xander Berkeley, John M. Jackson, Noah Wyle, Cuba Gooding Jr., Lawrence Lowe, Joshua Malina, Oscar Jordan, John M. Mathews, Aaron Sorkin, Alex Wexo, Frank Cavestani, Jan Munroe, Ron Ostrow, Matthew Saks, Harry Caesar, Michael DeLorenzo, Geoffrey Nauffts, Arthur Senzy, Cameron Thor, David Bowe, Gene Whittington, Christopher Coffel, Richard Lasting, Bernard Madrid, Jack Serino.

On this day in the Star Trek universe - Voyager, Discovery (1998, 2021)

Star Trek: Voyager
Season 5. Episode 8.

Episode entitled: Nothing Human.

Released December 2, 1998.

Directed by David Livingston.

Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

Written by Jeri Taylor, Bryan Fuller, Nick Sagan, Michael Taylor.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Dennis McCarthy.

Cast:

Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Dawson, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang, Jeri Ryan, David Clennon, Jad Mager, Frank Welker, Majel Barrett, Tarik Ergin.

 

Star Trek: Discovery
Season 4. Episode 3.

Episode entitled: Choose to Live.

Released December 2, 2021.

Directed by Christopher J. Byrne.

Created by Bryan Fuller, Alex Kurtzman.

Written by Terri Hughes Burton, Glenise Mullins, Brandon Schultz.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Jeff Russo.

Cast:

Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones, Anthony Rapp, Mary Wiseman, Wilson Cruz, Blu del Barrio, David Ajala, Oded Fehr, Ian Alexander, Chelah Horsdal, Ayesha Mansur Gonsalves, Tara Rosling, Sonja Sohn, Emily Coutts, Ronnie Rowe, David Benjamin Tomlinson, Khalil Abdul-Malik, Andreas Apergis, Mimi Côté, Luca Doulgeris, Ache Hernandez, Giovanni Spina.

On this day in music history - The album Pianoscapes for the Trails of North America, by Laura Sullivan (2003)

Pianoscapes for the Trails of North America

by Laura Sullivan

was released on December 2, 2003.

Track list:

Mountain Magic; Sunrise on Cloud Palace; Jumping Fish; Pachelbel for the Potomac; Voice from Sacred Wilderness; The Kettle Moraine; From Sea to Sapphire Sea; Sunset on Cloud Palace; Hope for the Trees; Witches Slow Dance.

Dorothy Day, on writing:

Writing is hard work.

But if you want to become a writer you will become one.

Nothing will stop you.

- Dorothy Day.

Recommended reading – Scarface

 

Scarface

by Armitage Trail.
 
Published by Must Have Books.
First published 1930.
Paperback.

ISBN-10: 1773237152
ISBN-13: 978-1773237152
 
Filmed as:
Scarface (1932), directed by Howard Hawks.
Scarface (1983), directed by Brian De Palma.
 
Description:
 

Scarface is the iconic fictionalization of one of history's most notorious gangsters, Al Capone. It follows Tony Guarino's harsh upbringing on the streets of Chicago, where a young man unwilling to contemplate a life of humble poverty hungers to reach the big time. Tony has grown up in a world where every gangster is a hero and every cop an enemy, so his path to power is paved with force and brutality. At only eighteen, Tony shoots dead gang boss Al Spingola, and this is just the beginning of his uncompromising journey into organized crime. He eventually becomes the most powerful and feared man in the Chicago underworld, luxuriating in a world of opulence, dames, and danger. But while Tony struggles to balance a life of violence with a code of honors, Scarface ultimately proves an ancient maxim - the fate of those who live by the sword.

Scarface was first published in 1930 and remains one of the most potent evocations of the origins of American gangster culture ever committed to print, and an ever-green work of cult fiction.