The album Sketches,
by Michele McLaughlin,
was released on December
5, 2020.
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Thursday, December 5, 2024
On this day in movie history - Beverly Hills Cop (1984):
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Beverly Hills Cop
directed by Martin
Brest,
written by Daniel Petrie Jr.,
based
on a story by Danilo Bach and Daniel
Petrie Jr.,
was released in the United States on December 5, 1984.
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Eddie Murphy, Judge
Reinhold, John Ashton, Lisa Eilbacher, Ronny Cox, Steven Berkoff, James Russo, Jonathan
Banks, Stephen Elliott, Gilbert R. Hill, Art Kimbro, Joel Bailey, Bronson
Pinchot, Paul Reiser, Michael Champion, Frank Pesce, Gene Borkan, Michael
Gregory, Alice Cadogan, Philip Levien, Karen Mayo-Chandler, Gerald Berns, William
Wallace, Israel Juarbe, Randy Vasquez, Damon Wayans, Chuck Adamson, Chip Heller,
Rick Overton, Rex Ryon, Mike Pniewski, Douglas Warhit, Paul Drake, Tom Everett,
Sally Kishbaugh, Barry Shade, Jack Heller, Michael Harrington, David Wells, Scott
Murphy, Dennis Madden, John Achorn, John Pettis, Nicholas Shields, Carl
Weintraub, Anthony De Fonte, Darwyn Carson, Mark E. Corry, Thomas J. Hageboeck,
Martin Brest, Earl Jolly Brown, Donald Chaffin, Dan Cotter, Bob Davis, Peter
Paul Eastman, Robert Hitchcock, David Patrick Kelly, Paul LeClair, Freeman Love,
Farrell Mayer, Danny Nero, Walter Spear, Nico Stevens.
On this day in movie history - Serpico (1973):
Serpico
directed by Sidney Lumet,
written by Waldo Salt and Norman
Wexler,
based on the book by Peter Maas,
was released in the United States on December
5, 1973.
Music by Mikis Theodorakis.
Music by Mikis Theodorakis.
Cast:
Al Pacino, John Randolph,
Jack Kehoe, Biff McGuire, Barbara Eda-Young, Cornelia Sharpe, Edward Grover, Tony
Roberts, Allan Rich, Albert Henderson, Joseph Bova, Woodie King Jr., James
Tolkan, Bernard Barrow, Nathan George, M. Emmet Walsh, Ted Beniades, F. Murray
Abraham, Judd Hirsch.
Born on this day – Adan Canto:
Adan Canto
Actor
December 5, 1981 – January 8, 2024
The Cleaning Lady (2022);
Agent Game (2022); Entertainment Tonight (2022); The Devil Below (2021); The
Shot (2020); 2 Hearts (2020); Bruised (2020); The Hypnotist's Love Story (2019);
Designated Survivor (2016–2019); The Marilyn Denis Show (2018); Amanda &
Jack Go Glamping (2017); CTV's Big Fall Preview 2017 (2017); The Catch (2016); Second
Chance (2016); Blood & Oil (2015); Narcos (2015); Before Tomorrow (2014); Pilot
(2014); Almost Thirty (2014); Classification: M (2014); E! News (2014); Mixology
(2014); X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014); Good Day L.A. (2013); The Following
(2013); Al Ras (2012); Amar no es querer (2011); Santiago del otro lado (2011);
Te presento a Laura (2010); Los Minondo (2010); Sin memoria (2010); Estado de
Gracia (2009).
Born on this day – Lisa Sheridan:
Lisa Sheridan
Actress
Producer
December 5, 1974 – February 25, 2019
Credits:
Strange Nature (2018); Six
LA Love Stories (2016); Murder in the First (2016); Still the King (2016); The
Fosters (2016); A Christmas Eve Miracle (2015); Only God Can (2015); Sick Day
(2014); A Magic Christmas (2014); Taken Away (2014); Halt and Catch Fire (2014);
Category 5 (2014); Elsa & Fred (2014); Perception (2013); Scandal (2013); Tiny
Little Words (2012); Home Invasion (2012); Private Practice (2011); CSI: NY (2011);
Healing Hands (2010); NCIS (2009); The Mentalist (2009); Conspiracy (2008); McCartney's
Genes (2008); Saving Grace (2008); Shark (2008); CSI: Miami (2007–2008); Journeyman
(2007); Moonlight (2007); The 4400 (2007); Invasion (2005–2006); Strong
Medicine (2005); Without a Trace (2005); Monk (2004); CSI: Crime Scene
Investigation (2004); Las Vegas (2004); The Practice (2003); Carolina (2003); Pirates
(2003); FreakyLinks (2000–2001); Beat (2000); Diagnosis Murder (1999); Legacy (1998–1999);
Any Day Now (1998); Step by Step (1997).
Born on this day – Carrie Hamilton:
Carrie Hamilton
Actress
Writer
December 5, 1963 – January 20, 2002
Credits:
Lunchtime Thomas (2001);
The Pretender (2000); P.1 (1999); The X-Files (1999); Brooklyn South (1998); Touched
by an Angel (1997); Walker, Texas Ranger (1995); Cool World (1992); A Mother's
Justice (1991); Thirtysomething (1991); Beverly Hills, 90210 (1991); Equal
Justice (1991); Murder, She Wrote (1990); Checkered Flag (1990); Carol &
Company (1990); The 61st Annual Academy Awards (1989); Single Women Married Men
(1989); Tokyo Pop (1988); Knightwatch (1988); Shag (1988); Tokyo Pop (1988); Hostage
(1988); Fame (1986–1987); Love Lives On (1985).
Born on this day – Pamela Blair:
Pamela Blair
Actress
December 5, 1949 – July 23, 2023
Credits:
21
Grams (2003); 42nd Street: The Musical (2019); All My Children (1985–1992); Angelo
(1999); Annie (1982); Another World (1994); Beavis and Butt-Head Do America
(1996); Before and After (1996); Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age (2021); Donahue
(1990); Family Feud (1985); Great Performances (1971); Law & Order (1994); Loving
(1983–1985); Maneater (2009); Me and Veronica (1992); Mighty Aphrodite (1995); Night
of 100 Stars (1982); Ryan's Hope (1980); Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1998); Svengali
(1983); The Cosby Mysteries (1994); The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd (1989); The
Last Dance (2000); Tomorrow Morning (2022).
Born on this day – J.J. Cale:
J.J. Cale
Singer
Guitarist
Songwriter
Sound engineer
December 5, 1938 – July
26, 2013
Born on this day – Joan Didion:
Joan Didion
Writer
December 5, 1934 – December 23, 2021
Credits:
Run River (1963); Play
It As It Lays (1970); A Book of Common Prayer (1977); Democracy (1984); The
Last Thing He Wanted (1996); Vintage Didion (2004); The 1960s & 70s (2019);
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968); The White Album (1979); Salvador (1983); Miami
(1987); Some Women (1990); After Henry (1992); Sentimental Journeys (1993); Perspectives
on the Individual (1998); Political Fictions (2001); Fixed Ideas (2003); Where
I Was From (2003); Live and Learn (2005); The Year of Magical Thinking (2005); We
Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live (2006); Blue Nights (2011); Insider
Baseball (2016); South and West (2017); Collected Essays (2018); Let Me Tell
You What I Mean (2021); Bonds of War (2022); What She Means (2022); The Writer
on Her Work (1980); Women Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews (1989); Florida
Stories (1993); Writing Women's Lives (1994); Writing New York (1998); The
Eloquent Essay (2000); Writing Los Angeles (2002); The Little Big Book of
California (2005); 40 Model Essays (2005); The Believer Book of Writers Talking
to Writers (2005).
Movies and television:
Born on this day – Ray Austin:
Ray Austin
Director
Writer
Producer
Stuntman
Actor
December 5, 1932 – May 17,
2023
Born on this day – Virginia Lee Corbin:
Virginia Lee Corbin
Actress
December 5, 1910 – June 5, 1942
Credits:
3
Keys (1925); Ace High (1918); Adventure in Diamonds (1940); Aladdin and the
Wonderful Lamp (1917); All's Swell on the Ocean (1924); Bare Knees (1928); Behind
Life's Stage (1916); Broken Laws (1924); By Conscience's Eye (1916); Chasing
Choo Choos (1927); Driven from Home (1927); Enemies of Children (1923); Fan Fan
(1918); Fight and Win (1924); Footlights and Fools (1929); Forgotten Women
(1931); Hands Up! (1926); Headlines (1925); Heart Strings (1917); Intolerance
(1916); Jack and the Beanstalk (1917); Jazz Mamas (1929); Jazzland (1928); Knee
High (1929); Ladies at Play (1926); Let Katie Do It (1916); Letter of
Introduction (1938); Lilies of the Streets (1925); Morals for Women (1931); No
Place to Go (1927); North Star (1925); Pidgin Island (1916); Play Safe (1927); Shotgun
Pass (1931); Sinners in Silk (1924); Six-Shooter Andy (1918); So Ends Our Night
(1941); Somebody Lied (1917); The Babes in the Woods (1917); The Cafe of Fallen
Angels (1923); The Castle of Despair (1916); The Chorus Girl and the Kid (1916);
The Chorus Lady (1924); The City That Never Sleeps (1924); The Cloud Rider
(1925); The Forbidden Room (1919); The Handsome Brute (1925); The Head of the
Family (1928); The Honeymoon Express (1926); The Light of Love (1917); The
Little Snob (1928); The Old Toymaker (1917); The Perfect Sap (1927); The
Splendid Sin (1919); The White Dove (1920); The Whole Town's Talking (1926); The
Woman He Feared (1916); Three Women of France (1917); Treasure Island (1917); Vengeance
of the Dead (1917); Wine of Youth (1924); X Marks the Spot (1931).
Born on this day – Otto Preminger:
Otto
Preminger
Director
Producer
Actor
December 5, 1905 – April 23, 1986
Born on this day – Fritz Lang:
Fritz Lang
Director
Writer
Producer
Actor
December 5, 1890 – August 2, 1976
Credits:
American Guerrilla in
the Philippines (1950); Bande-annonce de 'Le mépris' (1963); Bettler GmbH (1919);
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956); Clash by Night (1952); Cloak and Dagger (1946);
Confirm or Deny (1941); Contempt (1963); Der Herr der Liebe (1919); Destiny
(1921); Die 1000 Glotzböbbel vom Dr. Mabuse (2018); Die Frau mit den Orchideen
(1919); Die Frauen des Josias Graffenreuth (1918); Die Herrin der Welt 8. Teil
- Die Rache der Maud Fergusson (1920); Die Hochzeit im Excentricclub (1917); Die
Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge (1924); Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924); Die
Peitsche (1916); Die Rache ist mein (1919); Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922); Four
Around the Woman (1921); Fury (1936); Grande Teatro Tupi (1951); Hangmen Also
Die! (1943); Harakiri (1919); Hilde Warren und der Tod (1917); House by the
River (1950); Human Desire (1954); Journey to the Lost City (1960); Liliom
(1934); Lilith and Ly (1919); M (1931); M (1951); M. le maudit (1982); Man Hunt
(1941); Metropolis (1927); Metropolis (2001); Metropolis Retrofit (2023); Ministry
of Fear (1944); Moonfleet (1955); Moontide (1942); Mysteries of India, Part II:
Above All Law (1921); Paparazzi (1964); Pest in Florenz (1919); Rancho
Notorious (1952); Scarlet Street (1945); Secret Beyond the Door... (1947); Spies
(1928); The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1960); The Big Heat (1953); The Black
Vampire (1953); The Blue Gardenia (1953); The Dance of Death (1919); The Halfbreed (1919); The
Indian Tomb (1959); The Return of Frank James (1940); The Spiders - Episode 1:
The Golden Sea (1919); The Spiders - Episode 2: The Diamond Ship (1920); The
Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933); The Tiger of Eschnapur (1959); The Wandering
Image (1920); The Woman in the Window (1944); Western Union (1941); While the
City Sleeps (1956); Wolkenbau und Flimmerstern (1919); Woman in the Moon (1929);
You and Me (1938); You Only Live Once (1937).
Recommended reading - Serpico (1973):
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Serpico
By Peter Maas.
First published 1973.
Published by Harper
Perennial.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 0060738189
ISBN-13: 978-0060738181
Description:
THE CLASSIC TRUE STORY
OF THE COP WHO COULDN'T BE BOUGHT.
With an Afterword by
Frank Serpico.
The 1960s was a time of
social and generational upheaval felt with particular intensity in the melting
pot of New York City. A culture of corruption pervaded the New York Police
Department, where payoffs, protection, and shakedowns of gambling rackets and
drug dealers were common practice. The so-called blue code of silence protected
the minority of crooked cops from the sanction of the majority.
Into this maelstrom came
a working class, Brooklyn-born, Italian cop with long hair, a beard, and a
taste for opera and ballet. Frank Serpico was a man who couldn't be silenced – or
bought – and he refused to go along with the system. He had sworn an oath to
uphold the law, even if the perpetrators happened to be other cops. For this
unwavering commitment to justice, Serpico nearly paid with his life.
"I don't think
anyone can come away from Serpico without admiration for one man's lonely
integrity." – New York Times.
"A penetrating . .
. exciting story." – San Francisco Chronicle.
"[A] raw and moving
portrait." – Chicago Sun-Times.
"An absorbing story
of what one angry, honest man can do." – Detroit News.
"Excellent."
– Newsweek.
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