On this day in television history - M Squad (1960)

M Squad
Season 3. Episode 24.

Episode entitled: Race to Death.

Released March 1, 1960.

Directed by Jerry Hopper.

Written by Whitman Chambers.

Music by Benny Carter.

 
Cast:

Lee Marvin, Paul Newlan, Don O’Kelly, J. Pat O’Malley, Mary Munday, Diana Crawford, Bill Baldwin, Len Hendry.

On this day in the Star Trek universe - Star Trek, Voyager

Star Trek (1968)
Star Trek: Voyager (2000)

Star Trek
Season 2. Episode 23.

Episode entitled: The Omega Glory.

Released March 1, 1968.

Directed by Vincent McEveety.

Written by Gene Roddenberry.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Alexander Courage.

Cast: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Nichelle Nichols, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Majel Barrett, Walter Koenig, Morgan Woodward, Roy Jenson, Irene Kelly, Morgan Farley, David L. Ross, Lloyd Kino, Ed McCready, Frank Atienza, Bill Blackburn, Frank da Vinci, Ed Fury, Eddie Paskey, Frieda Rentie, Walter Soo Hoo, Adele Yoshioka.

 

Star Trek: Voyager
Season 6. Episode 18.

Episode entitled: Ashes to Ashes.

Released March 1, 2000.

Directed by Terry Windell.Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

Written by Robert Doherty, Ronald Wilkerson, Bryan Fuller, 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, Kim Rhodes, Marley McClean, Scarlett Pomers, Kevin Lowe, Manu Intiraymi, Kurt Wetherill, Cody Wetherill, Majel Barrett, Carter Edwards, Tarik Ergin, Tom Miller, Louis Ortiz.

On this day in music history:

Enya by Enya (1986)

Arctic Sunrise by Kerani (2014)

Altered States: Music for the Journey Within by Uma Silbey (2016)

Story of Ghosts by Fiona Joy Hawkins (2018)

Enya

Album by Enya,

released March 1986.

Exact release date unknown.

Track list: The Celts; Aldebaran; I Want Tomorrow; March Of The Celts; Deireadh An Tuath; The Sun In The Stream; To Go Beyond (l); Fairytale; Epona; Triad: St. Patrick/Cu Chulainn/Oisin; Portrait; Boadicea; Bard Dance; Dan Y Dwr; To Go Beyond (ll).

Arctic Sunrise

Album by Kerani,

released March 1, 2014.

Track list: Arctic Sunrise; Ice Kingdom; Far Away from Home; Norway; Drifting Ice; Aurora Sky; Discovery; Spirit of the Last Wilderness.

Altered States: Music for the Journey Within

Album by Uma Silbey,

released March 1, 2016.

Track list: Voices from the Deep; Morning Embrace; Mountain; Streaming; Cloudscapes; Levitation; Remembering; Moonscape; Tide Travel; Destination Infinity; Lightfield; Heartfelt.

Story of Ghosts

Album by Fiona Joy Hawkins,

released March 1, 2018.

Track list: Song For Dunnie; Story of Angels; Contemplating (Solo); Blue Dream (Solo); The Solo Tango; The White Light; Story of Ghosts; Twilight; Story of Insanity; Before The Light.

Steven Spielberg, on movies and stories:

 

The older I get, the more I look at movies as a moving miracle.
Audiences are harder to please if you're just giving them special effects ...
but they're easy to please if it's a good story.

- Steven Spielberg.

Recommended reading - Black Money

 

Black Money

by Ross Macdonald.
 
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard.
Published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

First published 1966.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0679768106
ISBN-13: 978-0679768104
 
Description:

“A Beautiful job … rich in plot and character…. The denouement is both surprising and shocking and the whole is up to Mr. Macdonald’s extraordinarily high standards.” – The New York Time Book Review.

When Lew Archer is hired to get the goods on the suspiciously suave Frenchman who's run off with his client's girlfriend, it looks like a simple case of alienated affections. Things look different when the mysterious foreigner turns out to be connected to a seven-year-old suicide and a mountain of gambling debts. Black Money is Ross Macdonald at his finest, baring the skull beneath the untanned skin of Southern California's high society.

“It was not just that Ross Macdonald taught is how to write; he taught us how to read, and how to think about life, and maybe in some small but mannered way, how to live.” – Robert B. Parker.

If any writer can be said to have inherited the mantle of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, it was Ross Macdonald. Between the late 1940s and his death in 1983, he gave the American crime novel a psychological depth and moral complexity that his predecessors had only hinted at. And in the character of Lew Archer, Macdonald redefined the private eye as a roving conscience who walks the treacherous frontier between criminal guilt and human sin.

Born on this day – Zero Mostel:

Zero Mostel

Actor

Comedian

Singer

Painter

February 28, 1915 – September 8, 1977

Credits:

Watership Down (1978); The Electric Company (1972–1977); The Little Drummer Boy Book II (1976); The Front (1976); Mastermind (1976); The CBS Festival of Lively Arts for Young People (1975); Journey Into Fear (1975); Foreplay (1975); Rhinoceros (1974); Marco (1973); Once Upon a Scoundrel (1973); Saga of Sonora (1973); Old Faithful (1973); The Hot Rock (1972); Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1970); The Angel Levine (1970); The Great Bank Robbery (1969); Great Catherine (1968); The White Bus / Ride of the Valkyrie (1967); Children of the Exodus (1967); The Producers (1967); A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966); Play of the Week (1959–1961); The World of Sholom Aleichem (1959); Zero Mostel (1959); The Model and the Marriage Broker (1951); The Guy Who Came Back (1951); Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell (1951); Sirocco (1951); The Enforcer (1951); Panic in the Streets (1950); The Ford Theatre Hour (1949); Off the Record (1948); Du Barry Was a Lady (1943).

Born on this day – Odette Laure:

Odette Laure

Actress

Singer

Writer

Producer

February 28, 1917 – June 10, 2004

Credits:

Le prof (2000); L'histoire du samedi (1999); La dilettante (1999); Entre terre et mer (1997); Alice boit du petit lait (1995); Maigret (1994); Méprise d'otage (1992); Poivre et sel (1992); Le secret du petit milliard (1992); Les mamies (1992); Little Nothings (1992); Stranger in the House (1992); Un beau petit milliard (1992); Le bal des casse-pieds (1992); Mamie by Night: Marathon Girl (1991); Jealousy (1991); Bébé express (1991); Daddy Nostalgia (1990); Chillers (1990); Périgord noir (1989); Julien Fontanes, magistrat (1983–1989); L'homme à tout faire (1988); Le gerfaut (1987); La bague au doigt (1986); Madame et ses flics (1985–1986); Un garçon de France (1985); Les nanas (1985); La guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu (1984); Bon anniversaire Juliette (1983); Le braconnier de Dieu (1983); Antoine et Julie (1981); L'atterrissage (1981); Les amours des années folles (1981); Le petit théâtre d'Antenne 2 (1978–1981); Les folies du samedi soir (1980); Les dames de coeur (1980); La plume (1980); Les amours de la belle époque (1979); Roméo et Baucis (1979); Au bout du bout du banc (1979); Les insulaires (1979); Le temps d'une République (1978); Lundi la fête (1978); Banlieue Sud-Est (1977–1978); Stop Calling Me Baby! (1977); Au théâtre ce soir (1973–1977); La vie de Marianne (1976); The Twelve Tasks of Asterix (1976); Le viager (1972); La visite de la vieille dame (1971); Boulevard des faits divers: 65-66 (1966); Quand on est deux (1962–1964); Vincent Scotto (1962); Guinguette (1959); L'école des cocottes (1958); Mitsou (1956); Flesh and the Woman (1954); La pocharde (1953); Jouons le jeu / La timidité (1952); Holiday for Henrietta (1952); Ce bon Monsieur Durand (1950); Lady Paname (1950); La Marie du Port (1950).