Tuesday, February 3, 2026

Born on this day – Paul Auster:

 

Paul Auster


Writer

Director

February 3, 1947 – April 30, 2024
Credits:
 
Books and plays:
 
110 Stories (2004); 4 3 2 1 (2017); A Life in Words (2017); Auggie Wren's Christmas Story (1990); Baumgartner (2023); Bloodbath Nation (2023); Blue in the Face (1990); Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane (2021); Central Park: An Anthology (2012); City of Glass (1985); Collected Prose (2003); Collected Screenplays (2010); Dream Days in Hotel (1998); Ghosts (1986); Granta 58: Ambition (1997); Groundwork (2020); Hand to Mouth (1997); Here and Now (2012); In the Country of Last Things (1987); Invisible (2009); Leviathan (1992); Long Live King Kobe (2022); Lulu on the Bridge (1998); Man in the Dark (2008); Moon Palace (1989); Mr. Vertigo (1994); Oracle Night (2004); Paul Auster's New York (1997); Report from the Interior (2013); Smoke (1995); Sophie Calle: Double Game (1999); Strange Stories for Strange Kids (2001); Sunset Park (2010); Talking to Strangers (2019); The Art of Hunger (1983); The Book of Illusions (2002); The Brooklyn Follies (2005); The Future Dictionary of America (2004); The Inner Life of Martin Frost (2000); The Invention of Solitude (1985); The Locked Room (1986); The Music of Chance (1990); The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1983); The Red Notebook (1993); The Story of My Typewriter (2002); Timbuktu (1999); Translations (1997); Travels in the Scriptorium (2005); White Spaces (1980); Why Write? (1996); Winter Journal (2012).
 
Movies and television:
 
20 heures le journal (2001); 21 cm (2018); 50 anys en companyia (2009); 60 Minutes / Smoke Screen (1996); Act of God (2009); Amos Oz: The Nature of Dreams (2009); Ànima (2012); Apos' (1987); Apostrophes (1990); As Smart As They Are: The Author Project (2005); Avisa'ns quan arribi el 2000 (1998); Babel (2017); Bestseller (2002 / 2003); Blue in the Face (1995); Bonnie (2022); Broken Flowers (2005); C politique (2020); Café littéraire (2009); Ce soir (ou jamais!) (2009); Ceremonia de apertura - 55º Festival internacional de cine de San Sebastián (2007); Ceremonia de clausura - 55º festival internacional de cine de San Sebastián (2007); Charlie Rose (1997–2004); Cinema 3 (2007); Continuarà... (2008); Conversas de Escritores (2009); David Blaine: Beyond Magic (2016); Doc (2008); Double je (2002); Druckfrisch (2013); Edge of Outside (2006); El blog de Cayetana (2007); Èxit (2008); Fluxus (2004); Gomorron (2011); Hjemkomst (2004); I Remember (1999); In the Country of Last Things (2020); It Was Mine (2015); Joan Mitchell: Woman in Abstraction (2022); Kulturplatz (2013); Kulturzeit (2017); La grande librairie (2009–2022); La tarda (2008); La tele de tu vida (2007); Le carnet rouge (2004); Le cercle (1998); Le cercle de minuit (1997); Le Conversazioni, Close Up (2015); Les Carnets de route de François Busnel (2011); L'hora del lector (2008); Los 10 magníficos (2008); Los Siete Locos (2018); Lulu on the Bridge (1998); Mein Leben (2006); Newsnight (2017); Out of My Head (2018); Página 2 (2008–2017); Park Bench with Steve Buscemi (2015); Paul Auster: Le jeu du hasard (2019); Por Outro Lado (2005); Qwerty (2008–2012); Sabine Christiansen in Sabine Christiansen (2001); Saturday Review (1987); Skavlan (2013); Smoke (1995); Sqizo (2020); Talking Books (2012); The Accompanist (1992); The Center of the World (2001); The DVD Collection (2005); The Fall (1969); The Inner Life of Martin Frost (2007); The Look / Age (2011); The Music of Chance (1993); Titel, Thesen, Temperamente (2020); Tot el temps del món (2018); Un siècle d'écrivains (1999); Via llibre (2012).

Born on this day – Melanie Anne Safka-Schekeryk, a.k.a. Melanie or Melanie Safka:


Melanie Anne Safka-Schekeryk

a.k.a. Melanie or Melanie Safka:


Singer

Songwriter

February 3, 1947 – January 23, 2024

Credits:
Am I Real or What (1985); Antlers (1997); Arabesque (1982); As I See It Now (1974); Ballroom Streets (1978); Beautiful People (1999); Born to Be (1968); Candles in the Rain (1970); Cowabonga – Never Turn Your Back on a Wave (1988); Crazy Love (2002); Ever Since You Never Heard of Me (2010); Garden in the City (1971); Gather Me (1971); Low Country (1997); Madrugada (1974); Melanie (1987); Melanie (aka Affectionately Melanie) (1969); Moments from My Life (2002); Old Bitch Warrior (1996); Paled by Dimmer Light (2004); Phonogenic – Not Just Another Pretty Face (1978); Photograph (1976); Seventh Wave (1983); Silence Is King (1993); Silver Anniversary (1993); Stoneground Words (1972); Sunset and Other Beginnings (1975); The Good Book (1971).

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On this day in movie history - The Gladiator (1986)


The Gladiator


directed by Abel Ferrara,

written by William Bleich, Tom Schulman and Jeffrey Walker,

based on a story by William Bleich,

was released in the United States on February 3, 1986.

Music by David Frank.

Cast:
Ken Wahl, Nancy Allen, Robert Culp, Stan Shaw, Rosemary Forsyth, Bart Braverman, Brian Robbins, Rick Dees, Michael Young, Harry Beer, Garry Goodrow, Robert Phalen, Linda Thorson, Mary Baldwin, Thom Bierdz, José Flores, Stephen Anthony Henry, Gary Lev, Jan Merlin, Georgie Paul, Mort Sertner, Jim Wilkey, Royce D. Applegate, Jeannie Epper, Lyle Gold, Helen Kelly, Mark Munski, George A. Sack Jr., Chris Sundlee.

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

Star Trek: The Next Generation (1990)

Star Trek: Voyager (1999) 

Star Trek: The Next Generation
Season 3. Episode 13.

Episode entitled: Deja Q.

Released February 3, 1990.

Directed by Les Landau.

Written by Richard Danus, Ronald D. Moore.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Dennis McCarthy.

Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Wil Wheaton, Gates McFadden, John de Lancie, Whoopi Goldberg, Richard Cansino, Betty Muramoto, Rachen Assapiomonwait, Majel Barrett, Corbin Bernsen, Michael Braveheart, Carrie Crain, Robert Daniels, Eben Ham, Mark Lentry, Tim McCormack, James McElroy, Keith Rayve, Sandra Wild.

Star Trek: Voyager
Season 5. Episode 13.

Episode entitled: Gravity.

Released February 3, 1999.

Directed by Terry Windell.

Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

Written by Joe Menosky, Eileen Connors, Brannon Braga, Bryan Fuller, Nick Sagan, 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, Joseph Ruskin, LeRoy D. Brazile, Paul S. Eckstein, Lori Petty, Chuck Borden. 

On this day in television history - Justified (2015)

Justified
Season 6. Episode 3.

Episode entitled: Noblesse Oblige.

Released February 3, 2015.

Directed by Peter Weller.

Written by Graham Yost, Taylor Elmore, Benjamin Cavell, Keith Schreier.

Based on the short story Fire in the Hole by Elmore Leonard.

Music by Steve Porcaro.

Cast:
Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Jere Burns, Joelle Carter, Jacob Pitts, Erica Tazel, Walton Goggins, Mary Steenburgen, Garret Dillahunt, Rick Gomez, Justin Welborn, Brent Briscoe, Scott Grimes, Duke Davis Roberts, Ryan Dorsey, Patrick Carlyle, Sam Elliott, Jonathan Kowalsky, Shawn Parsons, Russell Bertolino.

Monday, February 2, 2026

Groundhog Day – February 2:

Happy Groundhog Day!



On this day in movie history - Groundhog Day (1993)

Groundhog Day

directed by Harold Ramis,

written by Harold Ramis and Danny Rubin,

based on a story by Danny Rubin,

was released in the United States on February 2, 1993.

Music by George Fenton.

Cast:
Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Chris Elliott, Stephen Tobolowsky, Brian Doyle-Murray, Marita Geraghty, Angela Paton, Rick Ducommun, Rick Overton, Robin Duke, Ken Hudson Campbell, David Pasquesi, Richard Henzel, Rob Riley, Hynden Walch, Michael Shannon, Les Podewell, Rod Sell, Harold Ramis.