On this day in television history - Justified: City Primeval (2023)

Justified: City Primeval
Season 1. Episode 4.

Episode entitled: Kokomo.

Released August 1, 2023.

Directed by Gwyneth Horder-Payton.

Written by Taylor Elmore, Dave Andron, Michael Dinner, Cole Quirk.

Based on City Primeval and Fire in the Hole by Elmore Leonard.

Music by Mark Isham.

Cast:

Timothy Olyphant, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Adelaide Clemens, Marin Ireland, Victor Williams, Norbert Leo Butz, Boyd Holbrook, Terry Kinney, Ravi Patel, Jessika Van, Jalen Gilbert, Yosef Kasnetzkov, Alexander Pobutsky, Nick Druzbanski, Eddie Martinez, Erin Minervini, Evan Mulrooney, Andre Bellos.

August in music history - David Bowie, Fiona Joy Hawkins, and more:

I’m John Lee Hooker by John Lee Hooker (1959)

Ashes To Ashes by David Bowie (1980)

Mystical America by Laura Sullivan (2004)

Blue Dream by Fiona Joy Hawkins (2008)

August by Amy Lauren (2010)

Moments from the Life Stories of Strangers Part One by The Luminous World Orchestra (2013)

Transformation by Sherry Finzer & Darin Mahoney (2013)

The Flowers Suite by Barbara Hills (2018)

I’m John Lee Hooker

Album by John Lee Hooker,

released August 1959.

Exact release date unknown.

Track list: Dimples; Hobo Blues; I’m So Excited; I Love You Honey; Boogie Children; Little Wheel; I’m In The Mood; Maudie; Crawlin’ King Snake; Every Night; Time Is Marching; Baby Lee.

 

Ashes To Ashes

Song by David Bowie,

released August 1, 1980.

Mystical America

Album by Laura Sullivan,

released August 1, 2004.

Track list: America’s Stonehenge; Chaco Canyon; Coral Castle; The Bighorn Medicine Wheel; Tongass Islands; The Serpent Mound; Red Rock Ridge; Pictograph Cave; The Heavener Runestone; Sedona; Hawaiian Islands; Mt. Shasta (Arrangement of the Moonlight Sonata).

 

Blue Dream

Album by Fiona Joy Hawkins,

released August 1, 2008.

Track list: Contemplating; Sunrise At Ularu; Samite’s Interlude (Fiona Joy Hawkins & Samite Mulondo); Song Phonique; Indigo Interlude; The Void; Turquoise Interlude (Fiona Joy Hawkins & Philip Aaberg); Voice of Angels; Cobalt Interlude; Prelude to a Painting; The Midnight Interlude; Moving On; Azure Interlude; Somewhere.

 

August

Album by Amy Lauren,

released August 1, 2010.

Track list: I’ll Follow You; Travel This River; Fireflies; The Distance; Fly Away; Road to Allay; The Rain Came Down; Sunset Serene; August; Keeper of Light; Resolution; Summer’s End.

Moments from the Life Stories of Strangers Part One

Album by The Luminous World Orchestra,

conducted by Steven Chesne,

released August 1, 2013.

Track list: Invocation; For When the Love Will Rain Down Upon You; Yorkietown; Flicker of the Glistening; Glory Story #2; Coaxed to Grow; Morning Hocket; Change, Your Oldest Friend; Lumiere Du Soleil.

 

Transformation

Album by Sherry Finzer & Darin Mahoney,

released August 1, 2013.

Track list: Alger St; Confused; Reflection; Early Spring; Joplin; White Sky In November; Jane’S Song; The Door.

 

The Flowers Suite

Album by Barbara Hills,

released August 1, 2018.

Track list: Love-In-A-Mist; Among Lilies; Through Iris Halls; The First Snowdrop; When Cherry Blossoms Fall; On Hawkweed Bank; Sweet William; Forget-Me-Nots; Creeping Buttercup; Where Heather Grows; Hedgerow Walk; Canyons of the Black Tulip.

Lemmy Kilmister, on books and reading:

 
There are a lot of good books around.
People don't read anymore.
It's a sad state of affairs.
Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination.
When you watch films it's someone else's vision, isn't it?
- Lemmy Kilmister.

Recommended reading - The Ivory Grin, by Ross MacDonald (1952).

 

The Ivory Grin, a.k.a. Marked for Murder 

by Ross MacDonald.

 
ISBN-10: 0307278999
ISBN-13: 978-0307278999
 
Back cover description:
 

“Archer-Macdonald are working together at their peak, piecing together a most modern American Tragedy, making literature out of the thriller form, gazing more clearly than ever into the future as it rolls through the smog.” – Newsweek.

 

A hard-faced woman clad in a blue mink stole and dripping with diamonds hires Lew Archer to track down her former maid, who she claims has stolen her jewelry. Archer can tell he's being fed a line, but curiosity gets the better of him and he accepts the case. He tracks the wayward maid to a ramshackle motel in a seedy, run-down small town, but finds her dead in her tiny room, with her throat slit from ear to ear. Archer digs deeper into the case and discovers a web of deceit and intrigue, with crazed number-runners from Detroit, gorgeous triple-crossing molls, and a golden-boy shipping heir who's mysteriously gone missing.

Traveling from sleazy motels to stately seaside manors, The Ivory Grin is one of Lew Archer's most violent and macabre cases ever.

 
“Ross Macdonald must be ranked high amongst American thriller writers.” – The Times Literary Supplement.

Born on this day – Yvonne Howell:

 

Yvonne Howell

Actress

July 31, 1905 – May 27, 2010

Credits:

George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey (1984); Working Girls (1931); Take Me Home (1928); The Junior Year (1928); Hop Off (1928); The Great Mail Robbery (1927); Somewhere in Sonora (1927); Fashions for Women (1927); The Knight Before Christmas (1927); The Lady of Lyons, N.Y. (1926); A Fraternity Mixup (1926); Flaming Flappers (1925); Transients in Arcadia (1925); Harem Follies (1924).

Born on this day – Mario Bava:

Mario Bava

Director

Cinematographer

Special Effects

July 31, 1914 – April 27, 1980

Credits:

A Bay of Blood (1971); A Dog's Life (1950); Amor non ho! Però, però.. (1951); Anfiteatro Flavio (1947); Anthony of Padua (1949); Asesinato desde la Roja Oscuridad (2019); Attack of the Normans (1962); Balocchi e profumi (1953); Barber of Seville (1947); Baron Blood (1972); Beautiful But Dangerous (1955); Ben-Hur (1959); Black Sabbath (1963); Black Sunday (1960); Blood and Black Lace (1964); Buonanotte... avvocato! (1955); Caltiki, the Immortal Monster (1959); Canzone di primavera (1951); Capitan Tempesta (1942); Capriccio musicale (1950); Città di notte (1957); Cops and Robbers (1951); Cose da pazzi (1954); Danger: Diabolik (1968); Deducoria (2018); Doctor Stein (2019); Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs (1966); Dream House (2009); È arrivato il cavaliere! (1950); Ecco la felicità (1940); Elixir of Love (1947); Erik the Conqueror (1961); Esther and the King (1960); Five Dolls for an August Moon (1970); Four Times That Night (1971); Gladiators 7 (1962); Gli eroi della domenica (1952); Goya (1950); Grass Hook Massacre (2019); Graziella (1955); Hatchet for the Honeymoon (1970); Hercules (1958); Hercules and the Captive Women (1961); Hercules in the Haunted World (1961); Hercules Unchained (1959); High School (1954); Il bacio dell'Aurora (1953); Il leone di Damasco (1942); Il tacchino prepotente (1939); Il viale della speranza (1953); Incubo per una mosca bianca (2015); Inferno (1980); It Happened in the Park (1953); Kill, Baby... Kill! (1966); King Ripple (2015); Knives of the Avenger (1966); La compagnia della teppa (1941); La famiglia Passaguai (1951); La famiglia Passaguai fa fortuna (1952); La Venere d'Ille (1979); La vispa Teresa (1939); L'avventura di Annabella (1943); Legenda Sinfonica (1947); Life Is Tough, Eh Providence? (1972); Lisa and the Devil (1973); L'orecchio (1946); L'ospedale del delitto (1950); Love of a Clown - Pagliacci (1948); Lust of the Vampire (1957); Mad About Opera (1948); Mario Bava speaks (2006); Mario Bava: Maestro of the Macabre (2000); Mario Bava: Operazione paura (2004); Masks (2011); Minnesota Clay (1964); Miss Italia (1950); Morgan the Pirate (1960); Moses the Lawgiver (1974); Moxina (2012); Mysteria (2016); Naked You Die (1968); Natale al campo 119 (1947); Nero's Mistress (1956); Non c'è amore più grande (1955); Odissea (1968); Orlando e i Paladini di Francia (1956); Papà diventa mamma (1952); Perdonami! (1953); Planet of the Vampires (1965); Rabid Dogs (1974 / 2015); Roja Oscuridad (2018); Roy Colt & Winchester Jack (1970); S.O.S. Submarine (1941); Santa notte (1947); Sant'Elena, piccola isola (1943); Savage Gringo (1966); Scream Creek (2024); Shock (1977); Silver Slime (1981); Sins of Casanova (1955); Son of Samson (1960); Spartaco (1953); Suspiria (1977); The Day the Sky Exploded (1958); The Evil Eye (1963); The Giant of Marathon (1959); The House of Exorcism (1975); The Last Days of Pompeii (1959); The Last of the Vikings (1961); The Old Man in the Rocking Chair (2022); The Road to Fort Alamo (1964); The Taming of Dorothy (1950); The Whip and the Body (1963); The White Ship (1941); The White Warrior (1959); The Wonders of Aladdin (1961); Two Guns and a Coward (1968); Ulysses (1954); Uomini e cieli (1947); Variazioni sinfoniche (1949); War of the Zombies (1964); Waterloo (1970); We Stole a Tram (1954); Winchester Jack (1970); Yellow (2006).

Born on this day – Gerald Butler:

 

Gerald Butler

Writer

July 31, 1907 – February 1, 1988

Credits:
 
Books:
 

Choice of Two Women (1951); Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (1940); Mad with Much Heart (1945); Slippery Hitch (1948); Their Rainbow Had Black Edges (1943); There Is a Death, Elizabeth (1972); They Cracked Her Glass Slipper (1941).

 

Movies and television:
 
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (1948); On Dangerous Ground (1951); The Fatal Night (1948); Third Time Lucky (1949).