Jack Kost: 08/22/23

Tuesday, August 22, 2023

On this day in music history - Rossini arias, by Cecilia Bartoli (1989):

The album Rossini arias,

by Cecilia Bartoli,

was released on August 22, 1989.

On this day in movie history - Stand by Me (1986):

Stand by Me,

directed by Rob Reiner,

written by Bruce A. Evans and Raynold Gideon,

based on the novella The Body by Stephen King,

was released in the United States on August 22, 1986.

Narrated by Richard Dreyfuss.

Music by Jack Nitzsche.

Cast:
Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Jerry O'Connell, Kiefer Sutherland, Casey Siemaszko, Gary Riley, Bradley Gregg, Jason Oliver Lipsett, Marshall Bell, Frances Lee McCain, Bruce Kirby, William Bronder, Scott Beach, Richard Dreyfuss, John Cusack, Madeleine Swift, Popeye (the dog, as Chopper), Geanette Bobst, Art Burke, Matt Williams, Andy Lindberg, Dick Durock, O.B. Babbs, Charlie Owens, Kenneth Hodges, John Hodges, Susan Thorpe, Korey Scott Pollard, Rick Elliott, Kent W. Luttrell, Chance Quinn, Jason Naylor, Sky Siewerski.

Born on this day – Cindy Williams:

Cindy Williams

Actress

Producer

August 22, 1947 – January 25, 2023

Born on this day – Valerie Harper:

Valerie Harper

Actress

August 22, 1939 – August 30, 2019

Born on this day – Honor Blackman:

Honor Blackman

Actress

August 22, 1925 – April 5, 2020

Born on this day – Ray Bradbury:

Ray Bradbury

Writer

August 22, 1920 – June 5, 2012

Credits:

Death is a Lonely Business (1985); A Graveyard for Lunatics (1990); Let's All Kill Constance (2003); Dandelion Wine (1957); Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962); Farewell Summer (2006); Summer Morning, Summer Night (2008); Fahrenheit 451 (1953); The Halloween Tree (1972); Green Shadows, White Whale (1992); Ahmed and the Oblivion Machines (1998); From the Dust Returned (2001); Dark Carnival (1947); The Martian Chronicles (1950); The Illustrated Man (1951); A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories (1952); The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953); The October Country (1955); The Day It Rained Forever (1959); A Medicine for Melancholy (1959); The Small Assassin (1962); R Is for Rocket (1962); The Machineries of Joy (1964); The Vintage Bradbury (1965); The Autumn People (1965); Twice 22 (1966); Tomorrow Midnight (1966); S is for Space (1966); Fever Dream And Other Fantasies (1968); I Sing the Body Electric (1969); Ray Bradbury (1975); Long After Midnight (1976); Ray Bradbury Collected Short Stories (1979); The Stories of Ray Bradbury (1980); The Last Circus and the Electrocution (1980); Dinosaur Tales (1984); A Memory of Murder (1984); The Toynbee Convector (1988); Selected from Dark They Were and Golden-Eyed (1990); Classic Stories 2 (1990); Quicker Than the Eye (1996); Driving Blind (1997); One More for the Road (2002); Stories Volume 2 (2003); Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales (2003); The Cat's Pajamas (2004); Now and Forever (2007); We'll Always Have Paris (2009); A Pleasure to Burn (2010); The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury: Critical Edition Vol 1 (2011); The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury: Critical Edition Vol 2 (2014); The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury: Critical Edition Vol 3 (2017); Killer, Come Back To Me (2020); Venus Remembered (2020); The Poems (1945); Skeletons (1945); The Homecoming (1946); The Black Ferris (1948); The Blue Bottle / Death-Wish (1950); There Will Come Soft Rains (By: Leonard Nimoy) (1950); The Veldt (1950); A Sound of Thunder (1951); The Fog Horn (1951); The Playground (1953); All Summer in a Day (1954); The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit (1972); The Mummies of Guanajuato (1978); One Timeless Spring (1980); The Love Affair (1982); Death Has Lost Its Charm For Me (1987); Fever Dream (1987); The Thing at the Top of the Stairs (1988); The Dragon Who Ate His Tail (2007); Marionettes, Inc. (2009); Defense Mech (2021); Why Man Explores (1977); The Art of Playboy (1985); Zen in the Art of Writing (1987); Folon's Folons (1990); Yestermorrow (1991); Rod Steiger: Memoirs of a Friendship (1998); Imagining Space: Achievements, Predictions, Possibilities 1950-2050 (2001); Conversations with Ray Bradbury (2004); Bradbury Speaks (2005); Match to Flame (2007); Listen to the Echoes (2010); When Elephants Last In The Dooryard Bloomed (1973); Where Robot Mice & Robot Men Run Round in Robot Towns (1977); This Attic Where the Meadow Greens (1979); The Haunted Computer and the Android Pope (1981); The Complete Poems of Ray Bradbury (1982); Kaleidoscope (1940); The Anthem Sprinters and Other Antics (1963); Pillar of Fire and Other Plays for Today, Tomorrow, and Beyond Tomorrow (1975); Nemo! (2012); Star Science Fiction Stories No. 2 (1953); Learning to Live Finally (2005); Roberto Bolaño: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations (2009); Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview (2011); Jorge Luis Borges (2012); Hannah Arendt: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (2013); James Baldwin: The Last Interview: and other Conversations (2014); Ray Bradbury (2014); Gabriel García Márquez (2015); Lou Reed (2015); Ernest Hemingway (2015); Nora Ephron: The Last Interview (2015); Philip K. Dick (2015); J. D. Salinger (2016); Oliver Sacks (2016); Jane Jacobs (2016); David Bowie (2016); Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2017); Christopher Hitchens (2017); Hunter S. Thompson (2018); Kathy Acker: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2018); Julia Child: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (2018); Ursula K. Le Guin (2019); Graham Greene: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2019); Toni Morrison: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2020); Frida Kahlo: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2020); Shirley Chisholm: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2021); Fred Rogers: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2021); Johnny Cash: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2021); John Lewis: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (2021); Janet Malcolm: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations (2022); Kurt Cobain: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2022); bell hooks: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2023); Octavia E. Butler: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2023); Fahrenheit 451: The Authorized Adaptation (2009); Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles: The Authorized Adaptation (2011); Something Wicked This Way Comes: The Authorized Adaptation (2011); Invasion From Mars:Interplanetary Stories (1949); Star Science Fiction Stories 3 (1955); Alfred Hitchcock Presents 13 More Stories They Wouldn't Let Me Do on TV (1957); Stories for the Dead of Night (1957); The Ghoul Keepers (1961); The Bedside Playboy (1963); Alfred Hitchcock's Monster Museum: Twelve Shuddery Stories for Daring Young Readers (1965); The Microcosmic God (1965); Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories That Scared Even Me (1967); Worlds to Come: New Science Fiction Adventures (1967); Time Untamed (1967); 21 Great Stories (1969); Nova 1 (1970); Young Demons (1972); The Devil's Generation (1973); Galaxy Science Fiction - October 1973 (1973); Gooseflesh (1974); Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow... (1974); Beyond Midnight (1976); The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction 22nd Series (1976); Extraterrestrial Intelligence (1976); The Late Great Future (1976); The 10th Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1977); Weird Legacies (1977); Rod Serling's Other Worlds (1978); They Came from Outer Space: 12 Classic Science Fiction Tales That Became Major Motion Pictures (1979); Ghosts That Haunt You (1980); The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction (1980); Dark Forces: New Stories of Suspense and Supernatural Horror (1980); Weekend Book of Science Fiction (1981); Scaremongers (1981); Perspectives in Literature: A Book of Short Stories, Vol. 1 (1983); 13 Horrors of Halloween (1983); The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories (1984); Fourth Planet from the Sun (1984); Cutting Edge (1986); The Monster Book of Monsters (1988); Science Fiction Stories (1988); Tales of the Occult (1989); Great Baseball Stories (1990); The Horror Hall of Fame (1991); The Short Story: 30 Masterpieces (1992); Monsters in Our Midst (1993); The Ultimate Witch (1993); Sea-Cursed (1994); Space Movies (1995); Night Screams (1996); Mystery Stories (1996); Dark Terrors 3 (1997); Time Machines (1997); The Young Oxford Book of Nasty Endings (1998); A Magic-Lover's Treasury of the Fantastic (1998); Eleventh Annual Collection (1998); The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: The 50th Anniversary Anthology (1999); October Dreams (2000); The Writer's Guide to Fantasy Literature (2002); Stranger: Dark Tales of Eerie Encounters (2002); Writing Los Angeles (2002); Murder On The Railways (2003); Dark Delicacies (2005); A Tangled Web (2005); Nightmares on Congress Street, Part V (2006); Masques V (2006); Selected Shorts (2008); The Best of Cemetery Dance II (2008); Zombies: Encounters with the Hungry Dead (2009); The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction (2010); Like Water for Quarks (2011); Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury (2012); A Carnivàle of Horror (2012); Psychos (2012); Other Worlds (2013); The Time Traveler's Almanac (2013); Fantastic Stories Presents (2014); Field of Fantasies (2014); Darker Terrors 7 (2016); Grave Predictions (2016); Ex Libris: Stories of Librarians, Libraries, and Lore (2017); Lost Mars (2018); The Science Fiction Collection #1 (2018); Flight or Fright (2018); 99 Classic Science-Fiction Short Stories (2019); The Science Fiction Collection (2019); One Hundred (2020); The Ultimate Short Story Bundle (2020).