On this day in movie history - Frequency (2000)

Frequency

directed by Gregory Hoblit,

written by Toby Emmerich,

was released in the United States on April 28, 2000.

Music by Michael Kamen.

Cast:

Dennis Quaid, Jim Caviezel, Andre Braugher, Elizabeth Mitchell, Shawn Doyle, Noah Emmerich, Melissa Errico, Jordan Bridges, Peter MacNeill, Michael Cera, Marin Hinkle, Brian Greene, Daniel Henson, Stephen Joffe, Jack McCormack, Richard Sali, Nesbitt Blaisdell, Joan Heney, Jessica Meyer, Kirsten Bishop, Rocco Sisto, Rosemary De Angelis, Dick Cavett, Melissa Fitzgerald, John Di Benedetto, Terry Serpico, Brian Smyj, Nicole Brier, Brantley Bush, David Huband, Timothy Brown, Chuck Margiotta, Karen Glave, Frank McAnulty, Derek Aasland, Jim McAleese, Catherine Burdon, Jennifer Baxter, Desmond Campbell, Danny Johnson, Colm Magner, Brigitte Kingsley, Tucker Robin, Barney Cheng.

On this day in the Star Trek universe - The Next Generation, Voyager, Enterprise, Picard:

Star Trek: The Next Generation (1990)
Star Trek: Voyager (1999)
Star Trek: Enterprise (2004)
Star Trek: Picard (2022)

Star Trek: The Next Generation
Season 3. Episode 21.

Episode entitled: Hollow Pursuits.

Released April 28, 1990.

Directed by Cliff Bole.

Written by Sally Caves, Ronald D. Moore.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Dennis McCarthy.

Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Wil Wheaton, Dwight Schultz, Charley Lang, Colm Meaney, Whoopi Goldberg, Rachen Assapiomonwait, Majel Barrett, Joe Baumann, James G. Becker, Randy James, Casey Kono, Denise Lynne Roberts.

 

Star Trek: Voyager
Season 5. Episode 21.

Episode entitled: Someone to Watch Over Me.

Released April 28, 1999.

Directed by Robert Duncan McNeill.

Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

Written by Michael Taylor, Brannon Braga, Bryan Fuller, Nick Sagan.

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, Scott Thompson, Ian Abercrombie, David Burke, Brian McNamara, Janet Dey, Tarik Ergin, Sylvester Foster, Ken Gruz, Grace Harrell, Kerry Hoyt, Neal Kaz, Monika Kusley, Richard Sarstedt, Lisa Vanasco, Phoenix Wong.

 

Star Trek: Enterprise
Season 3. Episode 20.

Episode entitled: The Forgotten.

Released April 28, 2004.

Directed by LeVar Burton.

Written by Brannon Braga, Chris Black, David A. Goodman, André Bormanis.

Created by Rick Berman, Brannon Braga.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Opening theme song: Faith of the Heart, performed by Russell Watson.

Closing theme: Archer's Theme, by Dennis McCarthy.

Music by Paul Baillargeon.

Cast: Scott Bakula, John Billingsley, Jolene Blalock, Dominic Keating, Anthony Montgomery, Linda Park, Connor Trinneer, Randy Oglesby, Rick Worthy, Bob Morrisey, Seth MacFarlane, Kipleigh Brown, Alexandrea Ortiz, Solomon Burke Jr., Henry Farnam, James Groh, Glen Hambly, Amina Julianna, Chase Kim, Andrew Macbeth, Erin Leigh Price.

 

Star Trek: Picard
Season 2. Episode 9.

Episode entitled: Hide and Seek.

Released April 28, 2022.

Directed by Michael Weaver.

Created by Akiva Goldsman, Michael Chabon, Kirsten Beyer, Alex Kurtzman.

Written by Matt Okumura, Chris Derrick, Juliana James, Kiley Rossetter.

Based on Star Trek: The Next Generation, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Jeff Russo.

Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jeri Ryan, Alison Pill, Annie Wersching, Michelle Hurd, Santiago Cabrera, Evan Evagora, Orla Brady, James Callis, Madeline Wise, Sol Rodriguez, Kay Bess, Steve Gutierrez, Dylan Von Halle, Kosey Baskin, Vanessa Cater, Duke Conrad, Chris Cortez, Thomas Forbes-Johnson, Brandon Melendy, Malachi Mutakabbir, Gregory Schwabe, Jeff Wolfe, Nico Woulard, Nikkilette Wright.

On this day in music history - The album To The Wind…, by Fiona Joy Hawkins & Rebecca Daniel (2023)

Starman by David Bowie (1972)

To The Wind… by Fiona Joy Hawkins & Rebecca Daniel (2023)

Starman

Song by David Bowie,

released April 28, 1972.

 

To The Wind…

Album by Fiona Joy Hawkins & Rebecca Daniel,

released April 28, 2023.

Track list: Celtic Contemplation; Blue Dream; The Void; Light in the Darkness; My Hands Were Busy; Necessity for the Mundane; Rain On My Coat; Reverie.

Mary Wortley Montagu, on reading:

No entertainment is so cheap as reading,
nor any pleasure so lasting.
– Mary Wortley Montagu.

Born on this day – Mary Wollstonecraft:

Mary Wollstonecraft

Writer

Philosopher

April 27, 1759 – September 10, 1797

Credits:

Books and articles:

A Different Face: the Life of Mary Wollstonecraft; A most extraordinary pair: Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin; Feminist Interpretations of Mary Wollstonecraft; Feminist theory: a philosophical anthology; Her Own Woman: The Life of Mary Wollstonecraft; Impeccable Governess, Rational Dames, and Moral Mothers: Mary Wollstonecraft and the Female Tradition in Georgian Children's Books; Letters to Imlay, with prefatory memoir by C. Kegan Paul; Life of Mary Wollstonecraft; Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination; Mary Wollstonecraft and the Language of Sensibility; Mary Wollstonecraft and the literature of advice and instruction; Mary Wollstonecraft on education; Mary Wollstonecraft: A Biography; Mary Wollstonecraft: A Critical Biography; Mary Wollstonecraft: A Literary Life; Mary Wollstonecraft: A Revolutionary Life; Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and the Women Writers of Her Day; Mary Wollstonecraft's reception and legacies; Memoirs of Mary Wollstonecraft; Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman; On Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: The First of a New Genus; On the Reception of Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; Romantic Correspondence: Women, politics and the fiction of letters; Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley; Sea Changes: Essays on Culture and Feminism; Sensibility and the 'Walk of Reason': Mary Wollstonecraft's Literary Reviews as Cultural Critique; The Cambridge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft; The Collected Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft; The Complete Works of Mary Wollstonecraft; The Godwins and the Shelleys: The biography of a family; The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft; The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; The Mind and Career of Mary Wollstonecraft; The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer: Ideology as Style in the Works of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley and Jane Austen; The Vindications: The Rights of Men and The Rights of Woman; Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft; Wollstonecraft's daughters: womanhood in England and France, 1780–1920; Wollstonecraft's Letters Written ... in Sweden: Towards Romantic Autobiography; Women's Friendship in Literature.

Movies and television:

If Love Should Die (date?); Mary Wollstonecraft of Sector Seventeen (2008).

Born on this day – Jessie Redmon Fauset:

Jessie Redmon Fauset

Writer

Teacher

April 27, 1882 – April 30, 1961

Credits:

Books:

Comedy, American Style (1933); Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral (1928); The Chinaberry Tree: A Novel of American Life (1931); There Is Confusion (1924).

Poems:

'Courage!' He Said (1929); Dead Fires (date?); La Vie C'est La Vie (1922); Rondeau (1912).

Short stories:

Double Trouble (1923); Emmy (1912 / 1913); My House and a Glimpse of My Life Therein (1914).

Essays:

Dark Algiers the White (1925–26); Impressions of the Second Pan-African Congress (1921); The Gift of Laughter (1925); What Europe Thought of the Pan-African Congress (1921).

 

Born on this day – Arthur Somers Roche:

 

Arthur Somers Roche

Writer

April 27, 1883 – February 17, 1935

Credits:

Books:

A Lady of Resource (1938); Among Those Present (1930); Callingham's Girl (1937); Come to My House (1927); Conspiracy (1934); Death Was a Wedding Guest (1942); Devil-may-care (1926); Find the Woman (1921); Hard to Get (1937); Honest Crook (1941); In The Money (1936); Loot (1916); Marriage For Two (1929); No Stockings (1928); Penthouse (1935); Plunder (1917); Ransom! (1918); Shadow Of Doubt (1935); Slander (1933); The Case Against Mrs. Ames (1934); The Eyes of the Blind (1919); The Great Abduction (1933); The Pleasure Buyers (1925); The Sport Of Kings (1917); The Star of Midnight (1940); The Woman Hunters (1929); The Wrong Wife (1932); Uneasy Street (1920).

Movies and television:

Any Woman (1925); Come to My House (1927); Find the Woman (1922); Finger Prints (1927); Kissed (1922); Living Lies (1922); Loot (1919); Man, Woman and Wife (1929); Over the Wire (1921); Penthouse (1933); Shadow of Doubt (1935); Society Lawyer (1939); Star of Midnight (1935); The Case Against Mrs. Ames (1936); The Day of Faith (1923); The Girl from Chicago (1927); The Gray Ghost (1917); The Gray Ghost (1917); The Mystery Club (1926); The Pleasure Buyers (1925); The Simp (1920); The Sport of Kings (1920); The Wise Wife (1927); Trail's End (1922); Wolf's Clothing (1927).