On this day in the Star Trek universe - The Next Generation (1988)

Star Trek: The Next Generation
Season 1. Episode 11.

Episode entitled: The Big Goodbye.

Released January 9, 1988.

Directed by Joseph L. Scanlan.

Written by Tracy Tormé.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Dennis McCarthy.

Cast:

Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Denise Crosby, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Wil Wheaton, Lawrence Tierney, Harvey Jason, William Boyett, David Selburg, Gary Armagnac, Mike Genovese, Dick Miller, Carolyn Allport, Rhonda Aldrich, Erik Cord, James G. Becker, Dexter Clay, Jeffrey Deacon, Susan Duchow, Nora Leonhardt, James McElroy, Lorine Mendell, Susan Raborn, Richard Sarstedt.

On this day in television history - Blade Runner: Black Lotus (2022)

Blade Runner: Black Lotus
Season 1. Episode 9.

Episode entitled: Free Will.

Released January 9, 2022.

Developed by Kenji Kamiyama, Shinji Aramaki.

Directed by Kenji Kamiyama, Shinji Aramaki.

Written by Brandon Auman, Margaret Dunlap, Eugene Son, Alex de Campi.

Based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick.

Opening theme: Feel You Now by Alessia Cara.

Music by Michael Hodges, Gerald Trottman.

Cast:

Jessica Henwick, Will Yun Lee, Brian Cox, Wes Bentley, Josh Duhamel, Maury Sterling, Ray Chase, Jim Pirri, Shinshû Fuji, Takaya Hashi, Takehito Koyasu, Taiten Kusunoki, Tony Nakajima, Arisa Shida.

On this day in music history - Rossini Heroines by Cecilia Bartoli (1992) and Key of Sea by Jennifer Thomas (2007)

Rossini Heroines

Album by Cecilia Bartoli,

was released on January 9, 1992.

Track list:

Rossini Heroines: Riedi Al Soglio – Zelmira; Rossini Heroines: Ah, Non Potrian Resistere - Le Nozze Di Teti E Di Peleo; Rossini Heroines: Giusto Ciel, in Tal Periglio - Maometto II; Rossini Heroines: Tanti Affetti in Tal Momento - la Donna Del Lago; Rossini Heroines: Quant’e Grato All’alma Mia - Elisabetta, Regina D’inghilterra; Rossini Heroines: Fellon, la Pena Avrai - Elisabetta, Regina D’inghilterra; Rossini Heroines: Ah! Che Invan Su Questo Ciglio - Maometto II; Rossini Heroines: Serena I Vaghi Rai... Bel Raggio Lusinghier – Semiramide.

 

Key of Sea

Album by Jennifer Thomas,

released January 9, 2007.

Track list:

A Beautiful Storm; Prelude in F; Release; You By My Side; Suite Dreams; Will’s Song; Old Movie Romance; Pure; O Mio Babbino Caro; The Red Aspens; Somewhere; The Tempest; Sospiro.

Beatrix Potter, on writing:

 
There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story.

You never quite know where they'll take you.

- Beatrix Potter.

James Patterson, on reading:

 

You see, one of the best things about reading is that you'll always have something to think about when you're not reading.
- James Patterson.

Recommended reading - Noir City Annual 2023

Noir City Annual 2023

by Eddie Muller.
Edited by Imogen Sara Smith.
 
No. 16
Published by Film Noir Foundation.
Published 2024.
Paperback.

ASIN: B0DG6XTLVL
ISBN-13: 979-8218508180
 
Description:
 

2024's NOIR CITY Annual 16, the best of the best from the Film Noir Foundation's 2023 NOIR CITY Magazines, is here – essays, profiles, interviews, and appreciations of classic and modern noir films from today's top writers. This year's contributors are Imogen Sara Smith, Danilo Castro, Rachel Walther, Jake Hinkson, Vince Keenan, Steve Kronenberg, John Wranovics, Jeremy Arnold, Peter Tonguette, Wallace Stroby, Andy Wolverton, Thomas Burchfield, Ben Terrall, and Eddie Muller. Book layout and design by Michael Kronenberg. And, as with any purchase from the FNF, when you buy the NOIR CITY Annual 16, you'll be helping fund the non-profit foundation's film restoration efforts.

Born on this day – Jim Farley:

Jim Farley

Actor

January 8, 1882 – October 12, 1947

Credits:

A Girl with Ideas (1937); A Lady's Name (1918); A Notorious Gentleman (1935); A Shriek in the Night (1933); A Son of His Father (1925); A Woman Against the World (1928); Abie's Irish Rose (1946); Afraid to Talk (1932); Air Hawks (1935); Alias Jimmy Valentine (1920); Among the Living (1941); An Innocent Adventuress (1919); Angels with Dirty Faces (1938); Bachelor of Arts (1934); Back Street (1932); Badlands of Dakota (1941); Bar Nothing (1921); Barbary Coast Gent (1944); Believe Me, Xantippe (1918); Bigger and Better Blondes (1927); Boy Crazy (1922); Boys of the City (1940); Breezing Home (1937); Brute Force (1917); Buck Privates Come Home (1947); Bucking the Line (1921); Buster Keaton: The Great Stone Face (1968); California Mail (1936); Call a Messenger (1939); Can't Help Singing (1944); Captain January (1936); Carnival (1935); Caught Plastered (1931); Charlie Chan at the Opera (1936); Chicago (1927); Christmas Holiday (1944); Courtin' Wildcats (1929); Crashing Hollywood (1938); Crime Ring (1938); Curley (1947); Dancing Pirate (1936); Danger Lights (1930); Death on the Diamond (1934); Desert Law (1918); Diamond Jim (1935); Dodge City (1939); Dynamite (1929); East Side Kids (1940); Exposed (1938); Fighting Caravans (1931); Fighting Fathers (1927); First Offenders (1939); Flaming Frontiers (1938); Flaming Gold (1932); Frisco Kid (1935); Front Page Woman (1935); Frontier Law (1943); Full Confession (1939); Gambler's Choice (1944); Gangway for Tomorrow (1943); Gentle Annie (1944); Glamour Boy (1941); Gleam O'Dawn (1922); Gold Is Where You Find It (1938); Great Guy (1936); Green Light (1937); Hail the Conquering Hero (1944); Heavenly Days (1944); Her Country First (1918); Here Comes the Groom (1934); High Speed (1932); His Exciting Night (1938); Hitler's Madman (1943); Hold 'Em Yale (1935); Home in Indiana (1944); Hot Foot (1943); I Dood It (1943); I Live for Love (1935); I Stole a Million (1939); I Wanted Wings (1941); In Old Arizona (1928); In Old California (1942); In Old New Mexico (1945); In the Navy (1941); Jealousy (1934); Junior G-Men (1940); Ladies' Man (1947); Leave Her to Heaven (1945); Let Them Live (1937); Let's Talk It Over (1934); Little Tokyo, U.S.A. (1942); Little Wildcat (1922); Look Who's Laughing (1941); Love 'em and Feed 'em (1927); Love Is a Headache (1938); Lucky Cowboy (1944); Lucky Larkin (1930); Mad Hour (1928); Mama Loves Papa (1945); Marshal of Gunsmoke (1944); Midnight Phantom (1935); Miss Polly (1941); Murder in the Music Hall (1946); Mutiny on the Blackhawk (1939); My Brother Talks to Horses (1947); My Life with Caroline (1941); My Wild Irish Rose (1922); Mysterious Crossing (1936); Night Nurse (1931); Northern Pursuit (1943); Northwest Rangers (1942); Not Exactly Gentlemen (1931); Nothing But the Truth (1941); Nugget Nell (1919); Pacific Blackout (1941); Princess O'Hara (1935); Professor Beware (1938); Queen of the Mob (1940); Quick Money (1937); Quiet Please: Murder (1942); Rawhide Rangers (1941); Reno (1939); Riders of Death Valley (1941); Risky Business (1939); Road to Paradise (1930); Roger Touhy, Gangster (1944); Roughly Speaking (1945); Rustling a Bride (1919); San Francisco (1936); San Quentin (1937); Santa Fe Trail (1940); Scandal for Sale (1932); She's Dangerous (1937); Silk Hat Kid (1935); Sins of Her Parent (1916); Sky Bandits (1940); Sky Raiders (1941); Sleepy Lagoon (1943); Song of the Saddle (1936); Speak Easily (1932); Stand-In (1937); State Fair (1945); Stranger on the Third Floor (1940); Strong for Love (1925); Submarine D-1 (1937); Sue of the South (1919); Sweethearts (1938); Texas Cyclone (1932); That Something (1920); The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944); The Arizonian (1935); The Bandit Trail (1941); The Bashful Bachelor (1942); The Battle of the Century (1927); The Bride Walks Out (1936); The Bride's Silence (1917); The Burning Silence (1917); The Californian (1937); The Captain Hates the Sea (1934); The Challenge of the Law (1920); The Chief (1933); The City That Never Sleeps (1924); The Dance of Life (1929); The Deadline (1931); The Devil Within (1921); The Flame Within (1935); The Forgotten Woman (1939); The Fourteenth Man (1920); The General (1926); The Girl and the Game (1916); The Girl in the Rain (1920); The Girl of the Golden West (1938); The Godless Girl (1928); The Great O'Malley (1937); The Green Hornet (1940); The Grip of the Yukon (1928); The Hal Roach Comedy Carnival (1947); The Highway of Hope (1917); The Hit Parade (1937); The House Across the Bay (1940); The Kid from Brooklyn (1946); The King of Kings (1927); The Lodge in the Wilderness (1926); The Man from Texas (1948); The Man Who Found Himself (1937); The Milky Way (1936); The One-Man Trail (1921); The Perfect Crime (1928); The Petrified Forest (1936); The Phantom Creeps (1939 / 1949); The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946); The Pride of the Yankees (1942); The Racket (1928); The Richest Man in Town (1941); The Shadow Sinister (1916); The Shady Lady (1928); The Silver Bullet (1942); The Spirit of '17 (1918); The Stainless Barrier (1917); The Strange Mr. Gregory (1945); The Tired Business Man (1927); The Valley of Decision (1945); The Voice of the City (1929); The Wet Parade (1932); The White Lie (1918); The Woman with Four Faces (1923); They Meet Again (1941); They Were Expendable (1945); This Gun for Hire (1942); Time Out of Mind (1947); Trail of the Vigilantes (1940); Transient Lady (1935); Travelin' on (1922); Trifling with Honor (1923); Two Alone (1934); Two Weeks to Live (1943); Unashamed (1932); Union Pacific (1939); Virginia City (1940); We Go Fast (1941); We Who Are About to Die (1936); Weary River (1929); Westward Ho (1935); What a Man! (1944); When Danger Smiles (1922); Wild Bill Hickok (1923); Winners of the West (1940); Wonder Man (1945); World Premiere (1941); Yokel Boy (1942); You Can't Escape Forever (1942); You Can't Take It with You (1938); You Never Saw Such a Girl (1919); Young Bride (1932); Zenobia (1939).