Thursday, April 30, 2026

Born on this day – Jill Clayburgh:

 

Jill Clayburgh


Actress

April 30, 1944 – November 5, 2010

Credits:

17th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2011); ABC Wednesday Night Starter Kit (2008); Ally McBeal (1999–2001); An Unmarried Woman (1978); Beyond the Ocean (1990); Biography (1996 / 1999); Bridesmaids (2011); CBS Daytime 90 (1973); Crowned and Dangerous (1997); Dai nostri inviati: La Rai racconta la Mostra del cinema 1968-1979 (2011); De Palma (2015); De película (1987); Dirty Sexy Money (2007–2009); Dolce cinema (1984); Eligible Dentist (1993); Everything's Relative (1999); Falling (2001); Fear Stalk (1989); Firestorm: 72 Hours in Oakland (1993); First Monday in October (1981); Fools Rush In (1997); For the Love of Nancy (1994); Frasier (1998); Gable and Lombard (1976); Going All the Way (1997); Going Places (1973); Good Morning America (1979–1993); Griffin and Phoenix (1976); Hanna K. (1983); Hollywood: The Gift of Laughter (1982); Honor Thy Father and Mother: The True Story of the Menendez Murders (1994); Hustling (1975); I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can (1982); In Our Hands (1983); It's My Turn (1980); Jane Fonda in Five Acts (2018); Later with Bob Costas (1989); Law & Order (1998); Le grand pardon II (1992); Leap of Faith (2002); Lincoln (1992); Love & Other Drugs (2010); Luna (1979); Madonna in The Eighties (2016); Maude (1974); Medical Center (1974); Miles to Go... (1986); My Little Assassin (1999); N.Y.P.D. (1968); Naked in New York (1993); Never Again (2001); Nip/Tuck (2004); Portnoy's Complaint (1972); Pretty Hattie's Baby (1991); Reason for Living: The Jill Ireland Story (1991); Rich in Love (1992); Running with Scissors (2006); Saturday Night Live (1976–1978); Search for Tomorrow (1969–1970); Semi-Tough (1977); Sex: The Revolution (2008); Shock-a-bye, Baby (1973); Shy People (1987); Silver Streak (1976); Sins of the Mind (1997); Sois belle et tais-toi! (1981); Starting Over (1979); The 37th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1980); The 51st Annual Academy Awards (1979); The 52nd Annual Academy Awards (1980); The 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards (2011); The 65th Annual Academy Awards (1993); The 65th Annual Tony Awards (2011); The 83rd Annual Academy Awards (2011); The Art of Crime (1975); The Best of Chevy Chase (1987); The Choice (1969); The Face on the Milk Carton (1995); The Mike Douglas Show (1977); The Movies (2019); The Only Living Boy in New York (2000); The Only Thrill (1997); The Practice (2004); The Rockford Files (1974); The Snoop Sisters (1972); The Telephone Book (1971); The Terminal Man (1974); The Thief Who Came to Dinner (1973); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1991); The Wedding Party (1969); The Wonderful World of Disney (2003); Theater Talk (2010); Today (1979); Trial: The Price of Passion (1992); Trinity (1998–1999); Twentieth Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years (2000); Unspeakable Acts (1990); Untitled Eric Gilliland Project (2002); When Innocence Is Lost (1997); Where Are the Children? (1985); Whispers in the Dark (1992); Who Gets the Friends? (1988); Working in the Theatre (1976).

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

Star Trek: The Next Generation (1988 & 1994)

Star Trek: Voyager (1997)

Star Trek: Enterprise (2003)

 

Star Trek: The Next Generation
Season 1. Episode 23.

Episode entitled: We’ll Always Have Paris.

Released April 30, 1988.

Directed by Robert Becker.

Written by Deborah Dean Davis, Hannah Louise Shearer, Tracy Tormé, Hans Beimler, Richard Manning.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Ron Jones.

Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Denise Crosby, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Wil Wheaton, Michelle Phillips, Rod Loomis, Isabel Lorca, Dan Kern, Jean-Paul Vignon, Kelly Ashmore, Lance Spellerberg, Majel Barrett, James G. Becker, Darrell Burris, Dexter Clay, Jeffrey Deacon, Susan Duchow, Nora Leonhardt, Tim McCormack, Lorine Mendell, Guy Vardaman.

Star Trek: The Next Generation
Season 7. Episode 22.

Episode entitled: Bloodlines.

Released April 30, 1994.

Directed by Les Landau.

Written by Nick/Nicholas Sagan, René Echevarria, Naren Shankar.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Dennis McCarthy.

Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Ken Olandt, Lee Arenberg, Peter Marx/Slutsker, Amy Pietz, Michelan Sisti, Majel Barrett, Lena Banks, Joe Baumann, Shawn Belschner, Michael Braveheart, Cameron, Tracee Cocco, John Copage, Debbie David, Elliot Durant III, Holiday Freeman, Bill Hagy, Fumiko Hamada, Grace Harrell, Kerry Hoyt, Lorine Mendell, Christina Wegler Miles, Keith Rayve, Dee Giffin Scott, Sissy Sessions, Oliver Theess.

 

Star Trek: Voyager
Season 3. Episode 23.

Episode entitled: Distant Origin.

Released April 30, 1997.

Directed by David Livingston.

Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

Written by Brannon Braga, Joe Menosky, Lisa Klink.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by David Bell.

Cast: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Biggs-Dawson, Jennifer Lien, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang, Henry Woronicz, Christopher Liam Moore, Marshall R. Teague, Concetta Tomei, Nina Minton, Majel Barrett, Steve Carnahan, Tracee Cocco, Damaris Cordelia, Tarik Ergin, Ken Gruz, Dennis Madalone, Louis Ortiz, John Alex Tampoya.

 

Star Trek: Enterprise
Season 2. Episode 22.

Episode entitled: Cogenitor.

Released April 30, 2003.

Directed by LeVar Burton.

Written by Rick Berman, Brannon Braga, 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 Dennis McCarthy.

Cast: Scott Bakula, John Billingsley, Jolene Blalock, Dominic Keating, Anthony Montgomery, Linda Park, Connor Trinneer, Andreas Katsulas, F.J. Rio, Becky Wahlstrom, Laura Interval, Larissa Laskin, Stacie Lynn Renna, Alexandrea Ortiz, Jef Ayres, Solomon Burke Jr., Mark Correy, Sylva Cox, Nikki Flux, Hilde Garcia, Glen Hambly, Scott Sterling Hill, Aldric A. Horton, Yoshi Jenkins, Roy Joaquin, John Jurgens, Aouri Makhlouf, Marnie Martin, Michael McAdam, Bobby Pappas. 

On this day in music history - Signature – Solo, by Fiona Joy Hawkins (2015)


Signature – Solo


by Fiona Joy Hawkins,

was released on April 30, 2015.

Track list:

Ceremony; Grace; Fair Not; Once Upon Impossible (Solo Piano); Calling Earth; Invisible Train; Signature; Once Upon Impossible (Duet); From the Mist; Little Star.

Wednesday, April 29, 2026

Ursula K. Le Guin, on writing:

 

When people say, Did you always want to be a writer?
I have to say no! I always WAS a writer.
- Ursula K. Le Guin.


Born on this day – Ethel Moses:


Ethel Moses


Actress

April 29, 1904 – June 1, 1982
Credits:

Stage:

Black Birds of 1935 (1935); Keep Shuffling (1928); Show Boat (1932).

Movies and television:

American Masters (2008); Birthright (1924); Birthright (1938); Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho (1934); Cab Calloway's Jitterbug Party (1935); God's Step Children (1938); Gone Harlem (1938); Temptation (1935); Underworld (1937).

Born on this day – Fred Zinnemann:

 

Fred Zinnemann


Director

April 29, 1907 – March 14, 1997

Credits:

A Hatful of Rain (1957); A Man for All Seasons (1966); A Way in the Wilderness (1940); Act of Violence (1948); All Quiet on the Western Front (1930); And the Oscar Goes to... (2014); Arena (1998); Behold a Pale Horse (1964); Benjy (1951); Biography (1998); Camille (1936); Cinéma cinémas (1983); Darkness at High Noon: The Carl Foreman Documents (2002); De película (1983–1987); Decision (1958); Die Öscars (2016); Elstree Britain's Hollywood (1989); Exercise No. One (1962); Eyes in the Night (1942); Film Profile (1961); Filmmakers in Action (2005); Filmmakers vs. Tycoons (2005); Five Days One Summer (1982); Forbidden Passage (1941); Forgotten Victory (1939); Fred Zinnemann – Ein Hollywoodregisseur (1983); Friend Indeed (1937); From Here to Eternity (1953); George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey (1984); George Stevens: The Filmmakers Who Knew Him (2001); Hands Up! (1981); Hawaii (1966); He Walks in Beauty: The George Stevens Production 'The Greatest Story Ever Told' (2001); Help Wanted (1939); High Noon (1952); I Kiss Your Hand Madame (1929); Julia (1977); Kid Glove Killer (1942); Little Mister Jim (1946); Making Montgomery Clift (2018); Man Trouble (1930); Montgomery Clift: His Place in the Sun (1989); My Brother Talks to Horses (1947); Nana (1934); Oklahoma! (1955); On Location with 'The Sundowners' (1960); One Against the World (1939); Our World (1987); People on Sunday (1930); Peter Ibbetson (1935); Redes (1936); Screen Directors Playhouse (1956); Sidney Korshak, la face cachée d'Hollywood (2014); Sinatra: All or Nothing at All (2015); Sonntagsgespräch (1986); Spécial cinéma (1983); Sprengbagger 1010 (1929); Strand, Under the Dark Cloth (1991); Stuffie (1940); Teresa (1951); That Mothers Might Live (1938); The 24th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1967); The 39th Annual Academy Awards (1967); The 50th Annual Academy Awards (1978); The 69th Annual Academy Awards (1997); The Ash Can Fleet (1939); The Clock (1945); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1955); The Dark Angel (1935); The David Susskind Show (1960); The Day of the Jackal (1973); The Great Meddler (1940); The Greenie (1942); The Kid from Spain (1932); The Lady or the Tiger? (1942); The Making of 'High Noon' (1992); The Man from Yesterday (1932); The March of the Machines (1927); The Member of the Wedding (1952); The Men (1950); The Nun's Story (1959); The Old Man and the Sea (1958); The Old South (1940); The Search (1948); The Seventh Cross (1944); The Spy (1931); The Story of Doctor Carver (1938); The Sundowners (1960); The Wiser Sex (1932); They Live Again (1938); This Is Your Life (1956); Tracking the Sleeping Death (1938); Walt Disney Academy Awards: 26th Annual, 1954 / The 26th Annual Academy Awards (1954); Weather Wizards (1939); While America Sleeps / Series: Crime Does Not Pay (1939); Your Last Act (1941).

Born on this day – Jack Williamson:

Jack Williamson

Writer

April 29, 1908 – November 10, 2006

Credits:

Books:

A Sense of Wonder (1967); After World's End (1939); At the Human Limit (2011); Beachhead (1992); Bright New Universe (1967); Brother to Demons, Brother to Gods (1979); Darker Than You Think (1948); Darker Than You Think and Other Novels (2003); Demon Moon (1994); Dragon's Island / aka The Not-Men (1951); Dragon's Island and Other Stories (2002); Dreadful Sleep (1977); Farthest Star (1975); Firechild (1986); Gateway to Paradise (2008); Golden Blood (1933); H. G. Wells (1973); Islands of the Sun (1935); Jack Williamson SF Gateway Omnibus (2014); Jamboree (1969); Lady in Danger (1945); Land's End (1988); Lifeburst (1984); Manseed (1982); Mazeway (1990); One against the Legion (1939); People Machines (1971); Realm of Wizardry (1940); Rogue Star (1969); Salvage in Space (2011); Seetee Ship (1951); Seetee Shock (1950); Seventy-Five (2004); Spider Island (2002); Star Bridge (1955); Starchild (1965); Teaching Science Fiction (1980); Terraforming Earth (2001); The Alien Intelligence (1929); The Best of Jack Williamson (1978); The Black Sun (1997); The Blue Spot (1935); The Cometeers (1936); The Cosmic Express (2011); The Crucible of Power (2006); The Dome Around America / aka Gateway to Paradise (1955); The Early Williamson (1975); The Fortress of Utopia (1939); The Girl from Mars (1930); The Green Girl (1930); The Green Girl / The Robot Peril (2012); The Humanoid Touch (1980); The Humanoids (1949); The Humanoids and With Folded Hands (2002); The Legion of Space (1934); The Legion of Time (1938); The Metal Man and Others (1984); The Moon Children (1973); The Moon Era (1967); The Pandora Effect (1969); The Power of Blackness (1976); The Queen of the Legion (1982); The Reefs of Space (1964); The Reign of Wizardry (1964); The Silicon Dagger (1999); The Singers of Time (1991); The Stone from the Green Star (1931); The Stonehenge Gate (2005); The Trial of Terra (1962); The Ultimate Earth (2000); Trapped in Space (1968); Undersea City (1958); Undersea Fleet (1955); Undersea Quest (1954); Wall Around a Star (1975); With Folded Hands (2011); With Folded Hands . . . And Searching Mind (2010); Wizard's Isle (2000); Wolves of DarknessX (1999); Wonder's Child (1984); Xandulu (1934).

Movie, television and radio:

Dimension X (1950); Sci-Fi Buzz (1992); The Creation of the Humanoids (1962).