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Tuesday, December 17, 2024
On this day in television history - The Stand (2020–2021):
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The Stand
9-episode mini-series.
Directed by Josh Boone, Bridget
Savage Cole, Danielle Krudy, Chris Fisher, Vincenzo Natali and Tucker Gates.
Written by Stephen King,
Josh Boone, Benjamin Cavell, Jill Killington, Owen King, Knate Lee, Eric
Dickinson, Taylor Elmore.
Based on the novel by
Stephen King.
Released in the United
States on December 17, 2020 – February 11, 2021.
Music by Mike Mogis and Nate
Walcott.
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Cast:
James
Marsden, Odessa Young, Alexander Skarsgård, Whoopi Goldberg, Gordon Cormier, Amber
Heard, Jovan Adepo, Owen Teague, Irene Bedard, Brad William Henke, Nat Wolff, Henrique
Zaga, Greg Kinnear, Nicholas Lea, Eion Bailey, Katherine McNamara, Olivia Cheng,
Fiona Dourif, Tarun Keram, Ezra Miller, Gabrielle Rose, Natalie Martinez, Jason
Burkart, Paul Jarrett, Mark Gibbon, Sunita Prasad, Seth Whittaker, Hamish
Linklater, Kendall Joy Hall, Daniel Sunjata, Cameron McDonald, Luis Javier, J.K.
Simmons, Kristy Dawn Dinsmore, Jennifer-Juniper Angeli, Curtiss Cook Jr., Angus
Sampson, Heather Graham, Spencer Drever, Reese Alexander, M.J. Kokolis, Primo
Allon, Harrison MacDonald, Nyla Alleyne, Clifton Collins Jr., Ariana Nica, Todd
Matthews, Isla Crerar, Peter Anderson, Rob McEachern, Troy Mundle, Jagua Arneja,
Briar Diallo, Tim Carlson, Tebo Nzeku, Alexis Paige Dixon, Shadi Janho, Bruce
Blain, David Parent, Miles Chalmers, Brandyn Eddy, Lisa Chandler, Arkie Kandola,
Darren Dolynski, TJ Kayama, Mariessa Portelance, Angela Moore, Joe Costa, Fletcher
Donovan, Donald Sales, Liza Huget, Lissa Neptuno, Veena Sood, Kim Kondrashoff, Eddie
Flake, Hugo Raymundo, Jesse Stanley, Camden Filtness, Jasmine Lukuku, Mike
Wasko, J. Douglas Stewart, Shishy Gebru, Myles McCarthy, Leah Hennessey, Jeremy
Jones, Richard Meen, Sean Millington, Jenny Mitchell, Iris Paluly, Luvia
Petersen, Lisa Renee Pitts, Michel Issa Rubio, Eric Ruggieri, Carolyn Tinglin, Danny
Wattley, Bryan Cranston, Steve Ellis, Stephen King, Mick Garris, Jeremy Angel.
On this day in movie history - Black Swan (2010):
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Black Swan
directed by Darren Aronofsky,
written by Mark Heyman,
Andres Heinz and John McLaughlin,
based on a story by Andres Heinz,
was released
in the United States on December 17, 2010.
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Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel, Barbara
Hershey, Winona Ryder, Benjamin Millepied, Ksenia Solo, Kristina Anapau, Janet
Montgomery, Sebastian Stan, Toby Hemingway, Sergio Torrado, Mark Margolis, Tina
Sloan, Abraham Aronofsky, Charlotte Aronofsky, Marcia Jean Kurtz, Shaun O'Hagan,
Chris Gartin, Deborah Offner, Stanley B. Herman, Michelle Rodriguez Nouel, Kurt
Froman, Marty Krzywonos, Leslie Lyles, John Epperson, Arkadiy Figlin, Tim Fain,
Sarah Lane, Liam Flaherty, Patrick Heusinger, Marina Stavitskaya, Olga
Kostritzky, Christine Redpath, Alexandra Damiani, Rebecca Azenberg, Laura
Bowman, Holly L. Fusco, Abigail Mentzer, Barette Vance, Lillian di Piazza, Megan
Dickinson, Jessy Hendrickson, Geneviève Lebean, Rachel Jambois, Ryoko Sadoshima,
Kaia A. Tack, Lauren Fadeley, Sarah Hay, Adrianna de Svastich, Jamie Wolf, Carrie
Lee Riggins, Gina Artese, Anne Bergstedt, Alyson Cambridge, Andrew Daly, John
Farrer, Dj Jess, Daralina Komar, Tim Lacatena, Meredith Miles, Todd Miller, Michael
Stein, Carmella Stolyar.
On this day in movie history - Narc (2002):
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Narc
directed and written by Joe Carnahan,
was released in the
United States on December 17, 2002.
Music by Cliff Martinez.
Music by Cliff Martinez.
Cast:
Jason Patric, Ray Liotta,
Chi McBride, A.C. Peterson, Lina Giornofelice, Karen Robinson, Krista Bridges, Myles
Donaldson, Gavyn Donaldson, Anne Openshaw, Stacey Farber, Carly Marie Alves, Mallory
Mahoney, Alan van Sprang, Donna Croce, Paulino Nunes, Thomas Patrice, Tony De
Santis, John Ortiz, Marilo Nunez, Busta Rhymes, Richard Chevolleau, Bishop
Brigante, Carson Durven, Lloyd Adams, Booth Savage, Dan Leis, Kevin Rushton, Darren
John.
On this day in television history - The Blue Knight (1975 - 1976):
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The Blue Knight
created by Albert
Ruben and E. Jack Neuman,
based on the novel by Joseph
Wambaugh,
was released in the United States on December 17, 1975, and ran for
two seasons until October 20, 1976.
Theme music by Henry Mancini.
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George Kennedy, John
Steadman, Barbara Rhoades, Lee Weaver, Lucy Saroyan, Robert Hays, Phillip Pine,
Al Hansen, Jess Nadelman, Don Maxwell, Bruce Glover, Gerald McRaney, Tom Bower,
Anthony Geary, James A. Watson Jr., Jason Bernard, Ben Frank, Kelly Thordsen, Marc
Alaimo, Hoke Howell, Don Hanmer, Byron Mabe, Phillip Simms, Jonathan Goldsmith,
Jan Peters, Harry Lauter, Ross Elliott, Alex Rocco, Vic Tayback, Joanna Moore, Mitchell
Ryan, John Ireland, Verna Bloom, Steve Sandor, Suzanne Charny, Carmen Zapata, Jacqueline
Scott, T.J. Castronovo, Mel Novak, Juno Dawson, Christina Hart, Claire Brennen,
Edward James Olmos, Judson Pratt, Lewis Charles, Claudia Bryar, Thomas Carter, Joseph
Wambaugh, Kitty Carl, Paul Fierro, Peter Brandon, Booth Colman, Roy West, Lisa
Moore, Dorothy Dells, William C. Coleman, Hilary Beane, Sharon Compton, Lieux
Dressler, Jason Sommers, Curtis Henderson, Dorothy Meyer, Rita Gomez, Brooks Almy,
Michael O'Keefe, Aneta Corsaut, Anjanette Comer, Judith McConnell, Janet
MacLachlan, Charles Aidman, Davis Roberts, Kathryn Reynolds, Michael Swan, Helen
Craig, Lucy Marlow, Jeff Goldblum, Sherry Jackson, P. J. Soles, Katherine
Helmond, Gary Lockwood, Joanne Linville, Elisha Cook Jr., Jim Davis, James
Whitmore Jr., Salome Jens, Norman Fell, Guy Stockwell, John Quade, John Lone, Woodrow
Parfrey, Hampton Fancher, Jillian Kesner, Kathleen Hughes, Rudy Ramos.
Born on this day – Bernard Hill:
Bernard Hill
Actor
December 17, 1944 – 5 May 5, 2024
10th
Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2004); 2003 MTV Movie Awards (2003); 2nd
House (1974); 30 Greatest Political Comedies (2006); A Dirty Knight's Work
(1976); A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999); A Question of Faith (2000); A Very
Social Secretary (2005); About Face (1991); Alan Davies' Teenage Revolution (2010);
Analogue Love (2011); Ancient Egyptians (2004); Auntie's Bloomers (1991–2001); BBC2
Play of the Week (1977–1978); Beatles Biggest Secrets (2004); Bellman and True
(1987); Bernard Hill Remembers... Boys from the Blackstuff (2022); Between the
Lines (1993); Big-atures / The Passing of an Age / Home of the Horse Lords (2004);
Billy Connolly: An Audience with Billy Connolly (1985); Bombay Railway (2007); Boys
from the Blackstuff (1982); Breakfast Time (1986); Brief History of Disbelief
(2004); Cameras in Middle-Earth (2004); Canoe Man (2010); Childhood (1974); Christmas
University Challenge (2014); CR: Titanic (2011); Crime Story (1992); Crown
Court (1976); Cruel Sea: The Penlee Disaster (2006); Dispatches (2009); Double
Helix: The DNA Years (2004); Double X: The Name of the Game (1992); Drowning by
Numbers (1988); Drug-Taking and the Arts (1993); Du kommst nicht vorbei - Fans
im Bann des Ringes (2005); Eisenstein (2000); El corazón de la tierra (2007); Equinox
(1997); Europe, a Modern Profile (1992–1993); Everyman (1985 / 1986); Exodus
(2007); Fable III (2010); Fairy Tales (2008); Falcón (2012); First Knight (1995);
Five Days (2010); Folk America (2009); Forever Young (2023); Fox (1980); Franklyn
(2008); From There to Here (2014); Gandhi (1982); Going Off Big Time (2000); Golden
Moustache (2016); Golden Years (2016); Gothika (2003); Great Expectations (1999);
Have I Got News for You (2005); HBO First Look (1997); Heatwave (2005); Hope
and Wire (2014); Horizon (2001–2016); How Britain Worked (2012); I, Claudius
(1976); Indian Hill Railways (2010); India's Frontier Railways (2015); Interlude
City (2016); It Could Happen to You (1976); Jackanory (1985); John Lennon: A
Journey in the Life (1985); Joy Division (2006); Ken Dodd in the Dock (2002); Lego
the Lord of the Rings (2012); Lipstick on Your Collar (1993); Love Is Not
Enough: The Journey to Adoption (2000–2001); Madagascar Skin (1995); Mania
(2007); Match of the Eighties (1997); Midsummer Dream (2005); Milwr Bychan
(1987); Mountain Men (1986); Mountains of the Moon (1990); Mr. Toad's Wild Ride
(1996); No Go: The Free Derry Story (2006); No Surrender (1985); North v South
(2015); Olly's Prison (1993); On the Set of 'Gothika' (2004); On the Set: The
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002); Once Upon a Time in the North (1994);
OutPost 11 (2013); ParaNorman (2012); Pickersgill People (1978); Play for Today
(1973–1981); Premiere (1977); Raphael: A Mortal God (2004); Reflections on
Titanic (2012); Restless Natives (1985); Reunited Apart (2020); Revealed (2006);
Richard III (1983); Ring*Con 2004 (2004); Ringens disipler (2004); Rooms (1977);
Runners (1983); Samson and Delilah (1985); Save Angel Hope (2007); Saxon Gold:
Finding the Hoard (2010); Say No to Strangers (1981); Scenes by the Sea:
Takeshi Kitano (2000); Screen Two (1985–1994); Screenplay (1990); Second City Firsts
(1977); Secret Lives (1997); Secrets of the Deep (2006); See You in the
Future... (2004); Segunda oportunidad (2018); Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
(1992); Shepherd on the Rock (2014); Shirley Valentine (1989); Shrinks (1991); Special
Collector's Edition (2011); Squaring the Circle (1984); Stages (1994); Still
Life (1984); Sunshine (2008); Surviving Disaster (2006); Telford's Change (1979);
Telltale (1993); The 60s: The Beatles Decade (2006); The Big Game (1995); The
Black Stuff (1980); The Bounty (1984); The Boys & Girl from County Clare
(2003); The Breaker (2014); The Chain (1984); The Children's Rebellion (1985); The
Criminal (1999); The Crumblegiant (2007); The Deal (2004); The Death Train (1998);
The Devil: An Unauthorised Biography (1998); The First Part of Henry the Sixth
(1983); The Fremantle Conspiracy (1988); The Gambling Man (1995); The Ghost and
the Darkness (1996); The Glamour Girls (1980); The Great White Mountain (1986);
The Greatest (2001); The Grid (2004); The Hunt for Jill Dando's Killer (2003); The
Kid (2010); The King's Speech: Revealed (2011); The Last Tommy (2005); The
League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse (2005); The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse:
Deleted Scenes (2005); The Long March to Freedom (2011); The Lord of the Rings:
Aragorn's Quest (2010); The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003); The
Lord of the Rings: The Third Age (2004); The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
(2002); The Loss of Sexual Innocence (1998); The Making of 'the Bounty' (1984);
The Mill on the Floss (1997); The Moor (2023); The Responder (2024); The
Sailor's Return (1978); The Scorpion King (2002); The Second Part of Henry the
Sixth (1983); The Sorrows (2013); The Theban Plays by Sophocles (1986); The
Third Part of Henry the Sixth (1983); The Titanic Chronicles (1999); The Wraith
(2011); Timewatch (1999–2002); Titanic (1997); Titanic Explorer (1998); Titanic:
Deleted Scenes (2012); Titanic: Secrets Revealed (1998); Titanic: Southampton
Remembers (2012); Titanic's Final Mystery (2012); Titus: The Gorilla King (2008);
Tory! Tory! Tory! (2006); True Crime (1999); Unforgotten (2015); Unforgotten
Takes Us Back to the 70s (2015); Unforgotten: Building the Series (2017); Unforgotten:
Domestic Turmoil (2017); Unnatural Acts (1998); Valkyrie (2008); Village Hall
(1974); Warship (1977); What Is Unforgotten? (2015); What We Were Watching (2019);
Wild China (2008); Wimbledon (2004); Wolf Hall (2015).
Born on this day – Patrice Wymore:
Patrice Wymore
Actress
December 17, 1926 – March 22, 2014
Credits:
77
Sunset Strip (1961); About Faces (1961); Chamber of Horrors (1966); Cheyenne
(1961); Death Valley Days (1959); Die VII. Internationalen Filmfestspiele (1957);
Errol Flynn: Portrait of a Swashbuckler (1983); F Troop (1965–1967); Hollywood
and the Stars (1964); Hollywood Christmas Lane Parade of the Stars (1960); I'll
See You in My Dreams (1951); In the Wake of the Zaca (2005); Jefferson Drum
(1958); Juke Box Jury (1965); King's Rhapsody (1955); Lux Video Theatre (1953);
Mister Roberts (1966); Never Too Young (1965–1966); Ocean's Eleven (1960); Perry
Mason (1963–1965); Rocky Mountain (1950); She's Back on Broadway (1953); She's
Working Her Way Through College (1952); Starlift (1951); Stump the Stars (1959–1964);
Tales of Wells Fargo (191); Tasmanian Devil: The Fast and Furious Life of Errol
Flynn (2007); Tea for Two (1950); That Regis Philbin Show (1964); The 18th
Annual Golden Globe Awards (1961); The Adventures of Errol Flynn (2005); The
Big Trees (1952); The Deputy (1960); The Ed Sullivan Show (1949–1952); The
Errol Flynn Theatre (1956–1957); The Lamb's Gambol (1949); The Littlest Hobo
(1964); The Man Behind the Gun (1953); The Mike Douglas Show (1964); The
Monkees (1967); The Roaring 20's (1960); The Sad Horse (1959); The Tonight Show
Starring Johnny Carson (1963).
Born on this day – Richard Sale:
Richard Sale
Writer
Producer
Director
December 17, 1911 – March 4, 1993
Born on this day – David Butler:
David Butler
Director
Actor
Writer
December 17, 1894 – June 14, 1979
C'mon, Let's Live a
Little (1967); Camp Runamuck (1966); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1964–1965);
The Patty Duke Show (1964–1965); Daniel Boone (1965); Leave It to Beaver (1959–1963);
The Twilight Zone (1963); I Love My Doctor (1962); The Hathaways (1962); Wagon
Train (1958–1962); The Deputy (1959–1961); The Right Approach (1961); Bringing
Up Buddy (1960); Overland Trail (1960); General Electric Theater (1959); M
Squad (1959); Buckskin (1958–1959); 77 Sunset Strip (1959); Schlitz Playhouse (1957–1959);
Bachelor Father (1958); Captain Z-Ro (1955–1956); The Girl He Left Behind
(1956); Screen Directors Playhouse (1956); Glory (1956); Studio 57 (1955); Jump
Into Hell (1955); King Richard and the Crusaders (1954); The Command (1954); Calamity
Jane (1953); By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953); April in Paris (1952); Where's
Charley? (1952); The Story of Will Rogers (1952); Painting the Clouds with
Sunshine (1951); Lullaby of Broadway (1951); Tea for Two (1950); The Daughter
of Rosie O'Grady (1950); The Story of Seabiscuit (1949); It's a Great Feeling
(1949); Look for the Silver Lining (1949); John Loves Mary (1949); Two Guys
from Texas (1948); Marlon Brando Screentest for Rebel Without a Cause (1947); My
Wild Irish Rose (1947); The Time, the Place and the Girl (1946); San Antonio
(1945); The Princess and the Pirate (1944); Shine on Harvest Moon (1944); Thank
Your Lucky Stars (1943); They Got Me Covered (1943); Road to Morocco (1942); Playmates
(1941); Caught in the Draft (1941); You'll Find Out (1940); If I Had My Way
(1940); That's Right - You're Wrong (1939); East Side of Heaven (1939); Kentucky
(1938); Straight Place and Show (1938); Kentucky Moonshine (1938); You're a
Sweetheart (1937); Ali Baba Goes to Town (1937); Pigskin Parade (1936); White
Fang (1936); Captain January (1936); The Littlest Rebel (1935); Doubting Thomas
(1935); The Little Colonel (1935); Bright Eyes (1934); Have a Heart (1934); Handy
Andy (1934); Bottoms Up (1934); My Weakness (1933); Hold Me Tight (1933); Handle
with Care (1932); Down to Earth (1932); Business and Pleasure (1932); Delicious
(1931); A Connecticut Yankee (1931); Just Imagine (1930); High Society Blues
(1930); Nertz (1929); Sunny Side Up (1929); Salute (1929); Chasing Through
Europe (1929); Fox Movietone Follies of 1929 (1929); Masked Emotions (1929); Prep
and Pep (1928); Win That Girl (1928); News Parade (1928); High School Hero
(1927); The Rush Hour (1927); Should Second Husbands Come First? (1927); 7th
Heaven (1927); Girl in the Rain (1927); Nobody's Widow (1927); The Quarterback
(1926); Womanpower (1926); The Blue Eagle (1926); Meet the Prince (1926); Oh,
Baby! (1926); Too Many Relations (1926); The Sap (1926); His Own Lawyer (1926);
The Gold Hunters (1925); The Plastic Age (1925); Wages for Wives (1925); The
Phantom Express (1925); The People vs. Nancy Preston (1925); The Man on the Box
(1925); Havoc (1925); His Majesty, Bunker Bean (1925); Tracked in the Snow
Country (1925); Private Affairs (1925); Code of the West (1925); The Narrow
Street (1925); In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter (1924); The Arizona
Express (1924); Hoodman Blind (1923); The Temple of Venus (1923); Cause for
Divorce (1923); Desire (1923); The Fog (1923); Mary of the Movies (1923); A
Noise in Newboro (1923); Poor Men's Wives (1923); The Hero (1923); Conquering
the Woman (1922); The Village Blacksmith (1922); According to Hoyle (1922); The
Wise Kid (1922); The Milky Way (1922); Bing Bang Boom (1922); Making the Grade
(1921); The Sky Pilot (1921); Girls Don't Gamble (1920); The County Fair (1920);
Fickle Women (1920); Smiling All the Way (1920); Don't Ever Marry (1920); The
Triflers (1920); The Pointing Finger (1919); Bonnie Bonnie Lassie (1919); The
Other Half (1919); A Petal on the Current (1919); Nugget Nell (1919); Better
Times (1919); Upstairs and Down (1919); The Unpainted Woman (1919); The Girl
Who Stayed at Home (1919); The Greatest Thing in Life (1918); Intolerance
(1916); The Deathlock (1915); The Alien (1915); The Birth of a Nation (1915); The
Adventures of Kathlyn (1913); The Sea Wolf (1913); The Face at the Window (1910).
Recommended reading - The Stand (1978):
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The Stand
By Stephen King.First published 1978.
Published by Doubleday.
Hardcover.
ISBN-10: 0385199570
ISBN-13: 978-0385199575
Description:
Stephen King’s
apocalyptic vision of a world blasted by plague and tangled in an elemental
struggle between good and evil remains as riveting – and eerily plausible – as
when it was first published.
One of The Atlantic’s
Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years! This edition includes all of the
new and restored material first published in The Stand: The Complete and
Uncut Edition.
A
patient escapes from a biological testing facility, unknowingly carrying a
deadly weapon: a mutated strain of super-flu that will wipe out 99 percent of
the world’s population within a few weeks. Those who remain are scared,
bewildered, and in need of a leader. Two emerge – Mother Abagail, the
benevolent 108-year-old woman who urges them to build a peaceful community in
Boulder, Colorado; and Randall Flagg, the nefarious “Dark Man,” who delights in
chaos and violence. As the dark man and the peaceful woman gather power, the
survivors will have to choose between them – and ultimately decide the fate of
all humanity.
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Ursula K. Le Guin, on being an introvert and a writer:
Hardly anybody ever writes anything nice about introverts.
Extroverts rule.
This is rather odd when you realise that about nineteen writers out of twenty are introverts.
We are being taught to be ashamed of not being 'outgoing'.
But a writer's job is ingoing.
- Ursula K. Le Guin.
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