On this day in movie history - Her First Biscuits (1909)

Her First Biscuits

directed by D.W. Griffith,

written by Frank E. Woods,

released in the United States on June 17, 1909.

Cast: John R. Cumpson, Florence Lawrence, Linda Arvidson, Charles Avery, Dorothy Bernard, Clara T. Bracy, Charles Craig, Flora Finch, Guy Hedlund, Anita Hendrie, Arthur V. Johnson, Marion Leonard, Jeanie Macpherson, Violet Mersereau, David Miles, Mrs. Herbert Miles, Owen Moore, George Nichols, Anthony O'Sullivan, Mary Pickford, Herbert Prior, Mack Sennett, Harry Solter, Marion Sunshine.

On this day in movie and book history - The Anderson Tapes (1971)

The Anderson Tapes

directed by Sidney Lumet,

written by Frank Pierson,

based on the novel by Lawrence Sanders,

was released in the United States on June 17, 1971.

Music by Quincy Jones.

Cast:

Sean Connery, Dyan Cannon, Martin Balsam, Ralph Meeker, Alan King, Dick Anthony Williams, Val Avery, Garrett Morris, Stan Gottlieb, Christopher Walken, Conrad Bain, Margaret Hamilton, Anthony Holland, Scott Jacoby, Judith Lowry, Meg Myles, Norman Rose, Max Showalter, Janet Ward, Paul Benjamin, Richard B. Shull.

Recommended reading:

The Anderson Tapes

by Lawrence Sanders.

Filmed as The Anderson Tapes (1971), directed by Sidney Lumet.

Published by DELL PUBL CO.
First published 1970.

ISBN-10: 0440102170
ISBN-13: 9780440102175
 
Description:

With clockwork precision, Lawrence Sanders outlines the inspiration, planning and execution of an ambitious robbery of an apartment building on New York's Upper East Side in The Anderson Tapes, the best-selling thriller that established him as one of the most popular suspense writers of his generation. The premise is clever – the entire story is told in surveillance tape transcripts and reports from law enforcement agencies, each of which seems to be observing some aspect of the situation in which the robbery takes place.

John "Duke" Anderson was recently paroled from Sing Sing, after serving time on a charge of breaking and entering. A rich woman picks him up one evening and takes him back to her apartment, in a small but elegant building on the Upper East Side. 

Anderson is intrigued by the situation in the building, seeing it as a possible target for a large-scale robbery. He needs backing, though, and he gets it through his contacts with the underworld. What Anderson does not know is that much of what he is already doing is being captured as evidence through electronic surveillance. The catch is that the different entities doing the surveillance are not communicating with each other. The evidence is assembled and the puzzle solved, after the robbery takes place and ends violently, by NYPD Capt. Edward X. Delaney.

The Anderson Tapes marks the first appearance in a Sanders novel of Delaney, a character who will be central to the author's Deadly Sin series of thrillers. Sanders brilliantly unfolds the story in short, fact-filled chapters constructed as police reports and tape transcripts, some of which are tantalizingly garbled. The Anderson Tapes won for Sanders the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar as the Best First Mystery Novel of 1970.

On this day in movie history - Full Metal Jacket (1987)

Full Metal Jacket

directed by Stanley Kubrick,

written by Stanley Kubrick, Michael Herr, and Gustav Hasford,

based on the novel The Short-Timers by Gustav Hasford,

was released in the United States on June 17, 1987.

Music by Vivian Kubrick, as Abigail Mead.

Cast:

Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin, Vincent D’Onofrio, R. Lee Ermey, Dorian Harewood, Kevyn Major Howard, Arliss Howard, Ed O’Ross, John Terry, Kieron Jecchinis, Kirk Taylor, Tim Colceri, Jon Stafford, Bruce Boa, Ian Tyler, Sal Lopez, Gary Landon Mills, Papillon Soo, Peter Edmund, Ngoc Le, Leanne Hong, Tan Hung Francione, Marcus D’Amico, Costas Dino Chimona, Gil Kopel, Keith Hodiak, Peter Merrill, Herbert Norville, Nguyen Hue Phong, Duc Hu Ta, Martin Adams, Kevin Albridge, Del Anderson, Philip Bailey, Louis Barlotti, John Beddows, Patrick Benn, Steve Boucher, Adrian Bush, Tony Carey, Gary Cheeseman, Wayne Clark, Chris Cornibert, Danny Cornibert, John Curtis, John Davis, Harry Davies, Kevin Day, Gordon Duncan, Phil Elmer, Colin Elvis, Hadrian Follett, Sean Frank, David George, Laurie Gomes, Brian Goodwin, Nigel Goulding, Tony Hague, Steve Hands, Chris Harris, Robert E. Hartenberger, Derek Hart, Barry Hayes, Tony Hayes, Robin Hedgeland, Duncan Henry, Kenneth Head, Liam Hogan, Trevor Hogan, Luke Hogdal, Steve Hudson, Tony Howard, Sean Lamming, Dan Landin, Tony Leete, Nigel Lough, Terry Lowe, Frank McCardle, Gary Meyer, Brett Middleton, David Milner, Sean Minmagh, Tony Minmagh, John Morrison, Russell Mott, John Ness, Robert Booth Nichols, David Parry, Peter Rommely, Pat Sands, Jim Sarup, Chris Maybach, Al Simpson, Russell Slater, Gary Smith, Roger Smith, Tony Smith, Anthony Styliano, Bill Thompson, Mike Turjansky, Dan Weldon, Dennis Wells, Michael Anthony Williams, John Wilson, John Wonderling, Robin Blair-Crawford, Stanley Kubrick, Vivian Kubrick, David Palffy, Ken Shane, John Ward, Mark White.

On this day in movie history - The Diamond Fleece (1992)

The Diamond Fleece

directed by Al Waxman,

written by Michael Norell,

was released in the United States on June 17, 1992.

Music by James McVay.

Cast:

Ben Cross, Kate Nelligan, Brian Dennehy, Tony Rosato, Janet-Laine Green, Ron Lea, David Huband, Jonathan Welsh, Kurt Reis, John Swindells, Tom Butler, Jack Newman, Gene Mack, Ronnie Pulval, Conrad Bergschneider, Chris Benson, Janet Bailey, Lindsay Leese, Paul Brown.

On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek: The Next Generation (1989)
 

Star Trek: The Next Generation
Season 2. Episode 19.

Episode entitled: Manhunt.

Released June 17, 1989.

Directed by Rob Bowman.

Written by Tracy Tormé / Terry Devereaux, Melinda M. Snodgrass.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Dennis McCarthy.

Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Wil Wheaton, Diana Muldaur, Majel Barrett, Robert Costanzo, Carel Struycken, Rod Arrants, Colm Meaney, Robert O'Reilly, Rhonda Aldrich, Mick Fleetwood, Wren T. Brown, Rachen Assapiomonwait, James G. Becker, Dexter Clay.

On this day in music history - Bryan Adams, Majestica, 10000 Maniacs:

Summer of ’69 by Bryan Adams (1985)

Love Among the Ruins by 10,000 Maniacs (1997)

In The Midst of Stars by Majestica / aka Sherry Finzer & Cass Anawaty (2016)

Summer of ‘69

Song by Bryan Adams.

Released June 17, 1985.

Love Among the Ruins

Album by 10,000 Maniacs.

Released June 17, 1997.

Track list: Rainy Day; Love Among the Ruins; Even with My Eyes Closed; Girl on a Train; Green Children; A Room for Everything; More Than This; Big Star; You Won't Find; All That Never Happens; Shining Light; Across the Fields.

 

In The Midst of Stars

Album by Majestica / a.k.a. Sherry Finzer & Cass Anawaty.

Released June 17, 2016.

Track list: In the Midst of Stars; Carousel; In Bloom; Close of Day; Lone Mountain; View from the Summit; How Does It Feel; Aurora Australis.

Jhumpa Lahiri, on writing:

 

It is a magical thing for a handful of words, artfully arranged, to stop time.

To conjure a place, a person, a situation, in all its specificity and dimensions.

To affect us and alter us, as profoundly as real people and things do.

 

- Jhumpa Lahiri.