Colors, Critters, Cats, and my Journey with MS

Sunday, March 31, 2024

Born on this day – Arthur B. Rubinstein:

Composer

March 31, 1938 – April 23, 2018

Credits:

60 Minutes / Rubinstein (1975); ABC Weekend Specials (1978); Addie and the King of Hearts (1976); All the Way Home (1971); Amazing Stories (1985); Another Stakeout (1993); Aunt Mary (1979); Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire (1991); Baywatch: Panic at Malibu Pier (1989); Beat the Clock (1979); Biography (1987); Blue Thunder (1983); Bring 'Em Back Alive (1983); Bulba (1981); Caught in the Act (1993); Chinese Puzzle (2013); Crazy from the Heart (1991); Crazy Like a Fox (1984); Dead Man's Island (1996); Deal of the Century (1983); Defense Play (1988); Demolition (2015); Doing Life (1986); Double Jeopardy (1996); Doubletake (1985); Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven' (1992); Eastwood on Eastwood (1997); Face Value (2001); Fake-Out (1982); Fame (1978); Fatal Friendship (1991); Floating Away (1998); Flying High (1978–1979); Gary Cooper: American Life, American Legend (1989); reat Performances (1974–1975); Gridlock (1980); Guts and Glory: The Rise and Fall of Oliver North (1989); Harper Valley P.T.A. (1981–1982); Hart to Hart Returns (1993); Hart to Hart: Crimes of the Hart (1994); Hart to Hart: Home Is Where the Hart Is (1994); Hart to Hart: Old Friends Never Die (1994); Hart to Hart: Secrets of the Hart (1995); Harvey (1972); Hyper Sapien: People from Another Star (1986); Impromptu (2013); Incident at Crestridge (1981); Indiscreet (1988); Inherit the Wind (1988); Internal Affairs (1988); It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (1984); ITV Saturday Night Theatre (1971); Janek: The Silent Betrayal (1994); Johnny Staccato (1989); Las noches de Tefía (2023); Late Night with Seth Meyers (2016); Le gendarme de Abobo (2019); Les audacieux (1993); Line of Fire: The Morris Dees Story (1991); Look Homeward, Angel (1972); Lost in America (1985); Love Among Thieves (1987); Murder Among Friends (1985); Murder in Black and White (1990); Murder in Space (1985); Murder Times Seven (1990); Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home to (1990); Nick of Time (1995); Nightmare at Bittercreek (1988); Not Just Another Affair (1982); On the Right Track (1981); Once Upon a Texas Train (1988); Portrait of a Rebel: The Remarkable Mrs. Sanger (1980); Portrait of a Stripper (1979); Pride (2014); Radio Days (1987); Return Engagement (1978); Ride with the Angels: Making 'Blue Thunder' (2006); Rivkin: Bounty Hunter (1981); Roses Are for the Rich (1987); Sawyer and Finn (1983); Scarecrow and Mrs. King (1983–1986); Secrets (1992); Sherlock Holmes (1981); Shirley (1979); Shooting War: World War II Combat Cameramen (2000); Sins of the Past (1984); Skeezer (1982); Sledge Hammer! (1986); Small World (1958); Stakeout (1987); Superintelligence (2020); Taxi!! (1978); The Best of Times (1986); The Betty Ford Story (1987); The Cartier Affair (1984); The David Frost Show (1970); The Death of Maranzano (2013); The Easter Promise (1975); The Great Bank Hoax (1977); The Great Ships (1996–1999); The Hard Way (1991); The Heist (1989); The Hollywood Detective (1989); The House Without a Christmas Tree (1972); The Last Debate (2000); The Love Boat (1977–1978); The Man in the Brown Suit (1989); The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks (1973); The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor (1973); The Men Who Made the Movies: Raoul Walsh (1973); The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller (2002); The Parade (1984); The Phoenix (1981–1982); The Plucky Duck Show (1992); The Price (1971); The Prince of Central Park (1977); The Princess Stallion (1997); The Red Hand Gang (1977); The Ruby Ring (1997); The Simpsons (1990); The Spanish Apartment (2002); The Special: Building Blue Thunder (2006); The Starlost (1974); The Streets of Beverly Hills (1992); The Thanksgiving Treasure (1973); The Wizard (1986–1987); Tiny Toon Adventures (1990); Unconquered (1989); WarGames (1983); When No One Would Listen (1992); Where the Hell's That Gold?!!? (1988); Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1981); You Can't Take It with You (1979).

Born on this day – Patrick Magee:

Actor

March 31, 1922 – August 14, 1982

Credits:

Play for Today (1979–1982); Horace (1982); The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne (1981); The Black Cat (1981); The Monster Club / Humgoo Story (1981); Chariots of Fire (1981); Hawk the Slayer (1980); The Sleep of Death (1980); Sir Henry at Rawlinson End (1980); The Greeks: A Journey in Space and Time (1980); Rough Cut (1980); Churchill and the Generals (1979); The Brontë Sisters (1979); Oresteia (1979); Kidnapped (1978); Telefon (1977); Who Pays the Ferryman? (1977); BBC Play of the Month (1965–1977); Beasts (1976); Barry Lyndon (1975); Quiller (1975); Thriller (1974–1975); Galileo (1975); King Lear (1974); The Adventures of Black Beauty (1974); Simona (1974); Luther (1974); Orson Welles' Great Mysteries (1973); The Final Programme (1973); She Stoops to Conquer (1973); Lady Ice (1973); And Now the Screaming Starts! (1973); The Protectors (1973); Thirty-Minute Theatre (1968–1972); Demons of the Mind (1972); Pope Joan (1972); Young Winston (1972); Asylum / Framing story (1972); Beware My Brethren (1972); Tales from the Crypt / Blind Alleys (1972); A Clockwork Orange (1971); The Trojan Women (1971); King Lear (1970); You Can't Win 'Em All (1970); Cromwell (1970); Canterbury Tales (1969); Destiny of a Spy (1969); Hard Contract (1969); The Birthday Party (1968); ITV Playhouse (1968); The Champions (1968); The Wednesday Play (1967–1968); Decline and Fall... of a Birdwatcher (1968); Portrait in Terror (1968); Anzio (1968); Jonathan Swift (1967); Marat / Sade (1967); Conflict (1967); Die, Monster, Die! (1965); The Skull (1965); Dr. Finlay's Casebook (1965); Theatre 625 (1964); The Masque of the Red Death (1964); Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964); Dixon of Dock Green (1964); Zulu (1964); The Plane Makers (1963–1964); The Avengers (1963); The Sentimental Agent (1963); Compact (1963); The Servant (1963); Zero One (1963); Dementia 13 (1963); Operacija Ticijan (1963); Moonstrike (1963); The Very Edge (1963); ITV Television Playhouse (1957–1963); Ricochet (1963); The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (1961–1963); The Young Racers (1963); Antigone (1962); A Prize of Arms (1962); The Boys (1962); ITV Play of the Week (1959–1962); A Great Ship (1962); Z Cars (1962); Never Back Losers (1961); Armchair Theatre (1961); About Religion (1961); No Hiding Place (1961); Young, Willing and Eager (1961); The Concrete Jungle (1960); The Madhouse on Castle Street (1960); Here Lies Miss Sabry (1960); Deadline Midnight (1960); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1955–1959); Dial 999 (1958); The Green Man (1956).

Born on this day – Etta Baker:

Blues singer

Guitarist

Banjoist

March 31, 1913 – September 23, 2006

Albums:

Banjo (2009); Carolina Breakdown (2005); Etta Baker with Taj Mahal (2004); Instrumental Music from the Southern Appalachians (1956); Knoxville Rag, with Kenny Wayne Shepherd (2006); One-Dime Blues (1991); Railroad Bill (1999); Railroad Bill (2015); The North Carolina Banjo Collection (1998).

Born on this day – Johann Sebastian Bach:

Composer

March 31, 1685 – July 28, 1750

Johann Sebastian Bach portrait

by Elias Gottlob Haussmann (1748).

Harlan Ellison, on writing:

People on the outside think there's something magical about writing,
that you go up in the attic at midnight and cast the bones and come down in the morning with a story, but it isn't like that.

You sit in back of the typewriter and you work, and that's all there is to it.

- Harlan Ellison.

Saturday, March 30, 2024

On this day in movie history - The Lookout (2007)

The Lookout

directed and written by Scott Frank,

was released in the United States on March 30, 2007.

Music by James Newton Howard.

Cast:

Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jeff Daniels, Matthew Goode, Isla Fisher, Carla Gugino, Bruce McGill, Alberta Watson, Alex Borstein, Sergio Di Zio, David Huband, Laura Vandervoort, Greg Dunham, Morgan Kelly, Aaron Berg, Tinsel Korey, Suzanne Kelly, Brian Edward Roach, Martin Roach, Ofield Williams, Julie Pederson, Stephen Eric McIntyre, Janaya Stephens, Marc Devigne, Courtney-Jane White, Thanya Romero, Paul Christie, Tracy Beemer, Gordie Farrell, Toni Reimer, Ted Felbel, Charles Crossin, Chuck Robinson, Kalyn Bomback, John Bluethner, Leslie Bais, Harry Nelken, Andrew Degryse, Shailee Ferguson, Kevin Michayluk.