Thursday, July 16, 2026

Born on this day – Philece Sampler:


Philece Sampler


Actress

Director

Writer

Producer

July 16, 1953 – July 1, 2021

Credits:
A Fortunate Man (2018); A Letter to Momo (2011); A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures (2010); Aaahh!!! Real Monsters (1994–1996); Adventures in Odyssey Club: One More Name (2017); Adventures in Voice Acting (2008); Aggretsuko (2019); Ai Yori Aoshi (2002); AI: The Somnium Files (2019); Air Bound (2015); All Grown Up! (2004); Angelium (2004); Another World (1987–1989); Arc the Lad (1999); Arcania: Gothic 4 (2010); Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura (2001); Argentosoma (2000); B.J. and the Bear (1979); Ba Da Bean (2021); Babes in Toyland (1997); Battle B-Daman (2002); Berserk (2017); Black Angel Vol. 1 (1998); Black Jack (1998); BlazBlue: Alter Memory (2013); BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger (2008); BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma (2012); BlazBlue: Continuum Shift (2010); BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extend (2011); Bleach (2004–2005); Blue Dragon (2006); Blue Exorcist (2011); Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo (2003–2005); Bottle Fairy (2003); Brigadoon: Marin to Melan (2000); Burn-Up Scramble (2004); Cardcaptor Sakura: Leave it to Kero! (2000); Cardcaptor Sakura: The Sealed Card (2000); Castlevania: Harmony of Despair (2010); Castlevania: Judgment (2008); Celebrity Deathmatch (2000); Code Geass (2006–2008); Cutter to Houston (1983); Darling (2003); Days of Our Lives (1981–1984); Deadly Premonition 2: A Blessing in Disguise (2020); Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - The Hinokami Chronicles (2021); Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - The Movie: Mugen Train (2020); Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (2019); Detatoko Princess (1997); Diablo III (2012); Digimon Adventure (1999); Digimon Adventure 02 (2000–2001); Digimon Adventure 02: Revenge of Diaboromon (2001); Digimon Adventure tri. Part 1: Reunion (2015); Digimon Adventure tri. Part 2: Determination (2016); Digimon Adventure Tri. Part 3: Confession (2016); Digimon Adventure tri. Part 4: Loss (2017); Digimon Adventure tri. Part 5: Coexistence (2017); Digimon Adventure tri. Part 6: Future (2018); Digimon Data Squad (2008); Digimon Racing (2004); Digimon Tamers: Battle of Adventurers (2001); Digimon Tamers: Runaway Locomon (2002); Digimon: Digital Monsters (1999–2003); Digimon: The Movie (2000); DinoZaurs (2000); Dragon Ball Super (2015–2016); Duckman: Private Dick/Family Man (1994); Duel Masters (2006); Early Reins (2003); Eiken (2003); El retorno de D'Artacan (1990); Eureka Seven (2005–2006); Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick (2003); eX-Driver (2000–2001); EX-Driver the Movie (2002); Ex-Driver: Nina and Rei Danger Zone (2002); Fantasy Island (1980); Father of the Pride (2004); Figure 17 (2001–2002); Final Fantasy XI (2002); Fire Emblem Heroes (2017); Ghost in the Shell SAC_2045 (2020); Gladiator Academy (2002); God Eater 2: Rage Burst (2015); God Eater: Resurrection (2015); Gods Eater Burst (2010); Goldie and Bear (2015–2018); Great Teacher Onizuka (1999–2000); Green Green (2003); .hack//G.U. Last Recode (2017); .hack//G.U. Vol.2//Reminisce (2006); .hack//G.U. Vol.3//Redemption (2007); .hack//Liminality Vol. 1: In the Case of Mai Minase (2002); Hanaukyô meido-tai (2001); Haré+Guu (2001); Haré+Guu Deluxe (2002); Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft (2014); Heat Guy J (2002–2004); Here Is Greenwood (1991); Heroes of the Storm (2015); Heroes: Legend of the Battle Disks (2015); Home for Christmas (2019); Hotel (1983); Hunter (1986); Hyouka (2012); Idaten Jump (2005–2006); Idol Project - Super Pop Anthology (1995); Invader ZIM (2001); Jason and the Heroes of Mount Olympus (2001); JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (2015); Kaze No Yojimbo (2001); KILL la KILL (2013–2014); King's Quest VIII: Mask of Eternity (1998); Knots Landing (1981); Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Furious Five (2008); Last Exile (2003); League of Legends (2009); Legends of Runeterra (2020); Lego Friends: Girls on A Mission (2018); Lilly's Light (2010); Lilly's Light: The Movie (2020); Live Twice, Love Once (2019); Love Hina (2000–2001); Lucky Star (2007); Lupin the 3rd (1978–1979); Madagascar (2005); Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008); MahoRomatic (2001); Marine-a-Go-Go (2001); Marmalade Boy (1994–2005); Mars Daybreak (2004); Midnight Sleazy Train (2002); Miraculous: Ladybug & Cat Noir, the Movie (2023); Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir (2015–2022); Mix Master (2006); Mob Psycho 100 (2016); Mobile Suit Gundam F91 (1991); Mon Colle Knights (2001–2002); Moonlight Lady (2000); Mouse (2003); Mr. Brooks (2007); Nightmares Come at Night (1970); NiNoKuni (2019); O Grilo Feliz (2001); Overkill's The Walking Dead (2018); Please Twins! (2003–2004); Pom Poko (1994); Pororo to the Cookie Castle (2004); Pretty Smart (1987); Radiata Stories (2005); Requiem from the Darkness (2003); Rituals (1984); Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997); Rugrats (1997); Rune Factory 4 (2012); Rune Factory 5 (2021); Rurouni Kenshin (1996–1998); Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love (2005); Sakura Wars: The Movie (2001); Samurai Girl: Real Bout High School (2001); s-CRY-ed (2001); SD Gundam Force (2003); SD Gundam Force: Showdown! (2004); Shadow Chasers (1985); Shadow of Destiny (2001); Shenmue III (2019); Shin Megami Tensei Devil Children (2001); Shinzo (2000–2001); Shopkins Wild (2018); Simsala Grimm - Die Märchen der Brüder Grimm (1999); Soul Meets (2018); Stanley (2001–2004); Stanley's Dinosaur Round-Up (2006); Sublustrum (2008); Suikoden V (2006); Sword Gai: The Animation (2018); T.J. Hooker (1983); Tales of Legendia (2005); Tales of the Abyss (2005); Teaching Mrs. Tingle (1999); The Academy of Magic (2020); The Angry Beavers (1997); The Audition (2014); The Bonfire of Destiny (2019); The Chronicles of Riddick (2004); The Follies Experience (2009); The Hunchback of Notre Dame II (2002); The Incredible Hulk (1980–1997); The Interior (2007); The Legend of Korra (2014); The Loud House (2019); The Marine (2006); The Merv Griffin Show (1985); The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo (1980); The Nutcracker and the Mouseking (2004); The Office Party (2018); The Promised Neverland (2019); The Regis Philbin Show (1981); The Seniors (1978); The Twelve Kingdoms (2002–2003); Tokko - 特公 (2006); Tokyo Godfathers (2003); Tom and Huck (1995); Touhou Koumakyou: the Embodiment of Scarlet Devil (2002); Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2000); Treehouse Detectives (2018); Vampire Princess Miyu (1997–1998); Vandread (2000–2001); Viewtiful Joe (2004); Vinland Saga (2019); We Bare Bears (2016–2018); What Lies Beneath (2000); Wild Arms 4 (2005); Wild ARMs: Twilight Venom (1999); Wolf's Rain (2003); World of Warcraft (2005); World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth (2018); World of Warcraft: Legion (2016); X (2001–2002); X: An Omen (2001); Xenosaga Episode I: Der Wille zur Macht (2002); Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon (2020); Yukikaze (2003–2005); Zatch Bell! (2005); Zatch Bell!: Mamodo Fury (2005).

On this day in movie history - Key Largo (1948)

Key Largo

directed by John Huston,

written by Richard Brooks and John Huston,

based on the play by Maxwell Anderson,

was released in the United States on July 16, 1948.

Music by Max Steiner.

Cast:
Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall, Lionel Barrymore, Claire Trevor, Thomas Gomez, Harry Lewis, John Rodney, Marc Lawrence, Dan Seymour, Monte Blue, William Haade, Jay Silverheels, Rodd Redwing.

On this day in movie history - Akira (1988)


Akira


directed by Katsuhiro Otomo,

written by Katsuhiro Otomo and Izo Hashimoto,

based on the Akira manga comic book series,

written and illustrated by Katsuhiro Otomo,

was released in Japan on July 16, 1988.



On this day in movie history - Nuremberg (2000 TV mini-series & book):

Nuremberg


2-part TV mini-series directed by Yves Simoneau,

written by David W. Rintels,

based on the book Nuremberg: Infamy on Trial by Joseph E. Persico,

released in the United States on July 16, 2000.

Music by Richard Grégoire.

Cast:
Alec Baldwin, Brian Cox, Christopher Plummer, Jill Hennessy, Christopher Heyerdahl, Roger Dunn, David McIlwraith, Christopher Shyer, Hrothgar Mathews, Herbert Knaup, Frank Moore, Frank Fontaine, Raymond Cloutier, Bill Corday, Ken Kramer, Sam Stone, Douglas O'Keeffe, Benoît Girard, James Bradford, Frank Burns, Erwin Potitt, Tom Rack, Roc Lafortune, Dennis St John, Griffith Brewer, Gabriel Gascon, Julien Poulin, Alain Fournier, René Gagnon, Len Cariou, David Francis, Len Doncheff, Paul Hébert, Colm Feore, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Robert Joy, Michael Ironside, Matt Craven, Geoffrey Pounsett, Scott Gibson, Steve Adams, Paul Hopkins, Mark Walker, Howard Bilerman, Max von Sydow, Alain Goulem, Rob Burns, Guy Sprung, Mark Houghton, Rebecca Jenkins, Susan Glover, Sally Taylor-Isherwood, Bobo Vian, Peter Colvey, Mark Ryan, Adam MacDonald, Joris Jarsky, Shawn Baichoo, Joe Cobden, David La Haye, Larry Day, Ilona Elkin, Lorne Brass, Norman Mikeal Berketa, Marc Gourdeau, Emidio Michetti, Josh Trager, François Vaqué, Eric LeBoeuf, Timothy Mooney, Pierre Gaudette, Constantine Kourtidis.
 
Recommended reading:

Nuremberg: Infamy on Trial

by Joseph E. Persico.

Published by Penguin Publishing Group.
Published 1994.

ISBN-10: 014016622X
ISBN-13: 9780140166224

Description:

A vivid reconstruction of the actions of the wartime allies and the Nazi elite at Nuremberg. Persico eaily carries us into a deeper understanding of the trials. – New York Newsday.

A vivid reconstruction of the actions of the wartime allies and the Nazi elite at Nuremberg … Persico easily carries us into a deeper understanding of the trials. – New York Newsday.

This book deserved a wider readership than any of its predecessors. … Here were the leaders of the most evil regime in recorded history – all save their leader – called to account for their deeds. … The whole world now knows why they were there; and every generation needs a book like this to remind us of it. – The Washington Post Book World.

Perisco captures both the sweep and the detail of the war crimes trials in an account that sometimes reads like a Ludlum novel. – Los Angeles Times.

It is not often that a book works at once as historical tract, morality play, and crime thriller. This one does. – The Philadelphia Inquirer.

The Nuremberg trials remain, after nearly a half a century, the benchmark for judging international crimes. Using new sources – ground-breaking research in the papers of the Nuremberg prison psychiatrist and commandant, the letters and journals of the prisoners, and accounts of the judges and prosecutors as they struggled through each day making compromises and steeling their convictions – Joseph Persico retells the story of Nuremberg, combining sweeping history with psychological insight. Here are brilliant, chilling portraits of the Nazi warlords and riveting descriptions of the tensions between law and vengeance, between East and West, and of the friction already present in the early stages of the Cold War.

On this day in movie history - Stanley Kubrick’s Boxes (2008)

 

Stanley Kubrick’s Boxes


documentary directed and written by Jon Ronson,

released in the United States on July 16, 2008.

Music by Simon Fisher-Turner.


Cast:
Stanley Kubrick, Jon Ronson, Anthony Frewin, Jan Harlan, Christiane Kubrick, Manuel Harlan, Anya Kubrick, Julian Senior, Vincent Tilsley, Rick Senat, Deborah Davis, Judy Tobey, Van Boudreaux, Leon Vitali, Terry Needham, Bernd Eichhorn.

On this day in music history - Portrait and Illumination:

Portrait by Susan Graham (2007)

Illumination by Jennifer Thomas (2012)


Portrait

Album by Susan Graham,

released July 16, 2007.

Track list: Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492; Voi che sapete, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Non so più cosa son, cosa faccio, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Alcina, opera, HWV 34; Di te mi rido, by George Frederick Handel; Mi lusinga il dolce affetto, by George Frederick Handel; Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, for voice & piano, by Ned Rorem; Early in the Morning, for voice & piano, by Ned Rorem; O you whom I often and silently come, for voice & piano (from “Poems of Walt Whitman”), by Ned Rorem; La Damnation de Faust, for mezzo-soprano, tenor, baritone, bass, chorus and orchestra, (“légende dramatique”) H. 111 (Op. 24); Autrefois un roi de Thulé, by Hector Berlioz; Béatrice et Bénédict, opera, H. 138; Dieu! Que viens-je d’entendre?, by Hector Berlioz; Dead Man Walking, opera, by This journey. This journey to Christ, by Jake Heggie; Who will walk with me?, by Jake Heggie; He will gather us around, by Jake Heggie; Zigeunerlieder (8), for voice & piano (arranged from Op. 103); Kommt dir manchmal in den Sinn, by Johannes Brahms; Rote Abendwolken ziehn am Firmament, by Johannes Brahms; Early Songs (7), for voice & piano (or orchestra); Die Nachtigal, by Alban Berg; Traumgekrönt, by Alban Berg; Im Zimmer, by Alban Berg; Poèmes (5) de Baudelaire, song collection for voice & piano, L. 64; Harmonie du soir, by Claude Debussy; Le Jet d’eau, by Claude Debussy; The Circus Band, song for voice & piano, S. 229 (K. 6B20), by Charles Ives; The Cage, song for voice & piano, S. 221 (K. 6B42), by Charles Ives; Ciboulette, operetta in 3 acts; C’est pas Paris, c’est sa banlieue, by Reynaldo Hahn; Toi c’est moi, operetta; Vagabonde, by Moisés Simóns.

Illumination

Album by Jennifer Thomas,

released July 16, 2012.

Track list: Etude for the Dreamer; After the Storm; Illumination; Gymnopédie No. 1; New Life; Beyond the Summit; Into the Forest; Secrets; Toccata and Fugue; Rainforest; Fire Dance; Pachelbel’s Canon (a Duet); Across the Starlit Sky; Requiem for a Dream; Sonata Minoré; Eventide; New World Symphony.

Wednesday, July 15, 2026

Introvert insight:

In my quiet, I was working something out.

- Keanu Reeves.

 

I'm constantly around people that talk a lot but say nothing.

A sad case.

- Henry Rollins.


Do you hate people?

I don't hate them ... I just feel better when they're not around.

- Charles Bukowski.



People empty me.

I have to get away to refill.

- Charles Bukowski.