Born on this day – Shannen Doherty:

Shannen Doherty

Actress

April 12, 1971 – July 13, 2024

Credits:

100 Greatest Teen Stars (2007); 101 Most Unforgettable SNL Moments (2004); 1991 MTV Video Music Awards (1991); 1992 MTV Video Music Awards (1992); 1993 MTV Video Music Awards (1993); 1st Annual TV Guide Awards (1999); 20 to 1 (2009); 21 Jump Street (1989); 50 Most Wicked Women of Primetime (2004); 90210 (2008–2009); A Burning Passion: The Margaret Mitchell Story (1994); Access Hollywood (2019–2024); Airwolf (1984); Alf Loves a Mystery (1987); All I Want for Christmas (2014); Almost Dead (1994); Animal Hope & Wellness: The Compassion Project Live on KNEKT TV (2017); Another Day (2001); Avid Merrion's XXXmas Special (2005); Back in the Day (2016); Bethany (2017); Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990–1994); Beverly Hills, 90210: 10-Year High School Reunion (2003); BH90210 (2019); Big Morning Buzz Live (2012); Blindfold: Acts of Obsession (1994); Blood Lake: Attack of the Killer Lampreys (2014); Bo! in the USA (2006); Borgore & Sikdope: Unicorn Zombie Apocalypse (2014); Breaking Up with Shannen Doherty (2006); Bubblegum Babylon (2002); Bukowski (2013); Burning Palms (2010); Category 7: The End of the World (2005); Celebrities Uncensored (2003–2004); Celebrity Blackjack (2004); Celebrity Name Game (2015); Celebrity Page (2019); Celebrity Profile (2000); Charmed (1998–2006); Charmed: Behind the Magic (2003); Chelsea (2016); Chelsea Lately (2012); Christmas Caper (2006); Circus of the Stars #10 (1985); Circus of the Stars #11 (1986); Dancing with the Stars (2010); Darkness of Man (2024); Defunct (2008); Domino (2005); Dying to Belong (2021); E! News Live (2008); E! True Hollywood Story (2001–2006); Encounter with Danger (2009); Entertainment Tonight (2007–2024); Escape My Life (2012); Extra (2016–2019); Fan des années 90 (2009); Fashion Police (2012); Fashion Week Diaries (2005); Faster Baby, Kill (1997); Father Murphy (1981); Forever Young (1991); Fortress (2021); FOX 25th Anniversary Special (2012); Freeze Frame (1990); Friends 'Til the End (1997); Gary & Mike (2001); Girls Just Want to Have Fun (1985); Golden Globe Awards (1992); Gone in the Night (1996); Good Morning America (2010–2023); Growing the Big One (2010); Hablando se entiende la basca (1992); Heathers (1988); Heathers / TV series (2018); Hell on Heels: The Battle of Mary Kay (2002); High Chaparall (2008); Highway to Heaven (1985); His & Hers (1984); Hot Seat (2022); How to Make a Deal with the Devil (2024); Howard Stern (2003); Idols (1991); I'm Telling! (1988); Intimate Portrait (2003); Into the Night (1991); It's OK to Say No to Drugs (1988); Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001); Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2003–2004); Kids Have Rights Too! (1988); Kiss Me Deadly (2008); KTLA Morning News (2008); La quinta marcha (1992); Last Call with Carson Daly (2003–2006); Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1999–2003); Late Show with David Letterman (2008); Let's Be Clear with Shannen Doherty (2023–2024); Life Goes On (1990); List of a Lifetime (2021); Little House on the Prairie (1982–1983); Little House: Bless All the Dear Children (1984); Little House: Look Back to Yesterday (1983); Little House: The Last Farewell (1984); Live with Kelly and Mark (1992–2023); Love, Inc. (2005); Magnum, P.I. (1983); Mallrats (1995); Mallrats: Deleted Scenes (1999); Mari-Kari (2010); Maury (1992); Mornings (2016); Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994); Night Shift (1982); No One Would Tell (2018); North Shore (2004–2005); Nowhere (1997); Obsessed (1992); Off the Map (2015); Oh, What a Lovely Tea Party (2004); On-Air with Ryan Seacrest (2004); Our House (1986–1988); Outlaws (1986); Parker Lewis Can't Lose (1992); PIX 11 Morning News (2008); Playboy Exposed: Playboy Mansion Parties Uncensored (2001); Playboy: Playmate Pajama Party (1999); Rachael Ray (2008); Radical Something: Naked in Venice (2012); Radical Something: Pure (2014); Rebel Highway (1994); Revealed with Jules Asner (2002); Riverdale (2019); Robert Kennedy and His Times (1985); Rock in a Hard Place (2016); Satan's School for Girls (2000); Saturday Night Live (1993); Saturday Night Live: The Best of Adam Sandler (1999); Scare Tactics (2003–2009); Seventeen: The Faces for Fall (1998); Shannen Says (2012); Slaughter: Real Love (1992); Sleeping with the Devil (1997); So Graham Norton (2001); Stand Up to Cancer (2016); Striking Poses (1998); Suite 7 (2011); Swatch Dogs and Diet Coke Heads (2001); Talk Stoop (2012); The 18th Annual People's Choice Awards (1992); The 1992 Billboard Music Awards (1992); The 1993 Annual Vision Awards (1993); The 43rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1991); The '90s: The Last Great Decade? (2014); The Anti Gravity Room (1995); The Arsenio Hall Show (1991–2014); The Bad Boys of Saturday Night Live (1998); The Bellamy Brothers: Guilty of the Crime (2009); The Condo (2015); The Daily Show (1998–1999); The Dennis Miller Show (1992); The Dr. Oz Show (2016); The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2004); The Graham Norton Effect (2004); The House of Halliwell (2024); The Kelly Clarkson Show (2021–2023); The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (2006); The Lost Treasure of the Grand Canyon (2008); The Meredith Vieira Show (2014); The New Leave It to Beaver (1985); The New Normal (2012); The Osbournes (2004); The Other Lover (1985); The Phoenix (1982); The Price of Fame (2002); The Rendering (2002); The Rosie O'Donnell Show (1997–1999); The Secret of Lost Creek (1989); The Secret of NIMH (1982); The Sharon Osbourne Show (2003); The Spin Crowd (2010); The Talk (2012–2021); The Ticket (1997); The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1994–2001); The Tony Danza Show (2005); The View (2003–2010); The Webventures of Justin & Alden (2010); The Wendy Williams Show (2010); The Women of Charmed (2000); TMZ Live (2015); Undateable John (2019); Ushi & Loesie (2010); V Graham Norton (2002); VH1 Presents the 80's (2001); View of Terror (2003); Voyagers! (1982); Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen (2012); Whatever Happened To? (2008); Win, Lose or Draw (1988); Witchslayer Gretl (2012); Wogan (1991); Women and the Pill: The Way It Works (1993); Woof! It's a Dog's Life with Matthew Margolis (1998).

Recommended reading - The Underground Man, by Ross Macdonald (1971):

The Underground Man

By Ross Macdonald.

# 16 in the Lew Archer series.

Published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

First published 1971.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0679768084

ISBN-13: 978-0679768081

Description:

"There are certain books that bide their time, like plants, waiting decades to flower.... If a copy of The Underground Man, a novel from 1971, by Ross Macdonald, has been sitting on your shelf for ages, unread and barely noticed, try opening it now. Suddenly it's a book in full bloom." – Anthony Lane, The New Yorker.

"A more serious and complex writer than Chandler and Hammett ever were." – Eudora Welty.

"Ross Macdonald is an important American novelist!" – San Francisco Chronicle.

"I should like to venture that Ross Macdonald is a better novelist than either...Dashiell Hammett or Raymond Chandler." – Anthony Boucher, The New York Times Book Review.

As a mysterious fire rages through the hills above a privileged town in Southern California, Archer tracks a missing child who may be the pawn in a marital struggle or the victim of a bizarre kidnapping. What he uncovers amid the ashes is murder – and a trail of motives as combustible as gasoline. The Underground Man is a detective novel of merciless suspense and tragic depth, with an unfaltering insight into the moral ambiguities at the heart of California's version of the American dream.

If any writer can be said to have inherited the mantle of Dashiell Hammet and Raymond Chandler, it was Ross Macdonald.  Between the late 1940s and his death in 1983, he gave the American crime novel a psychological depth and moral complexity that his predecessors had only hinted at.  And in the character of Lew Archer, Macdonald redefined the private eye as a roving conscience who walks the treacherous frontier between criminal guilt and human sin.

On this day in movie history - The Andromeda Strain (1971):

The Andromeda Strain

directed by Robert Wise,

written by Nelson Gidding and Robert Wise,

based on the novel by Michael Crichton,

was released in the United States on March 12, 1971.
Music by Gil Mellé.

Cast:

Arthur Hill, James Olson, David Wayne, Kate Reid, Paula Kelly, George Mitchell, Mark Jenkins, Peter Helm, Joe Di Reda, Ramon Bieri, Carl Reindel, Frances Reid, Peter Hobbs, Kermit Murdock, Richard O'Brien, Eric Christmas, Ken Swofford, John Carter, Richard Bull, James W. Gavin, Garry Walberg, Emory Parnell, Georgia Schmidt, Victoria Paige Meyerink, Don Messick, Michael Crichton.

On this day in movie history - THX 1138 (1971):

THX 1138

directed by George Lucas,

written by George Lucas and Walter Murch,

based the 1967 short film Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB by George Lucas,

was released in the United States on March 11, 1971.
Music by Lalo Schifrin.

Painting shown on the Unit Chapel booth screens:
Christ Giving His Blessing, by Hans Memling (1478).

Cast:

Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence, Maggie McOmie, Don Pedro Colley, Ian Wolfe, Marshall Efron, Sid Haig, John Pearce, James Wheaton, Irene Cagen, Gary Alan Marsh, John Seaton, Eugene I. Stillman, Jack Walsh, Mark Lawhead, Robert Feero, Johnny Weissmuller Jr., Claudette Bessing, Susan Stroh, Henry Jacobs, Bill Love, Doc Scortt, Gary Austin, Scott L. Menges, Toby L. Stearns, Paul K. Haje, Ralph Chesse, Dion M. Chesse, Bruce Chesse, Mello Alexandria, Brandyn Barbara Artis, Morris D. Erby, Willie C. Barnes, Richard Quinnell, Jean M. Durand, Scott Beach, Neva Beach, Terence McGovern, Julie Payne, James Cranna, Ruth Silveira, Bruce Mackey, David Ogden Stiers, Bart Patton, Dennis Falt, Jack Rigg, Matthew Robbins.

On this day in movie history - Cold Turkey (1971):

Cold Turkey

directed by Norman Lear,

written by Norman Lear and William Price Fox,

based on the novel I'm Giving Them Up for Good by Margaret and Neil Rau,

was released in the United States on February 19, 1971.
Music by Randy Newman.

Cast:

Dick Van Dyke, Bob Newhart, Pippa Scott, Tom Poston, Edward Everett Horton, Bob Elliott, Ray Goulding, Vincent Gardenia, Barnard Hughes, Graham Jarvis, Jean Stapleton, Barbara Cason, Judith Lowry, Sudie Bond, Helen Page Camp, Paul Benedict, Simon Scott, Raymond Kark, Peggy Rea, Woodrow Parfrey, George Mann, Charles Pinney, M. Emmet Walsh, Gloria LeRoy, Eric Boles, Jack Grimes, Walter Sande, Harvey Jason.

Recommended reading - Crawlspace, by Herbert Lieberman (1971):

Crawlspace

By Herbert Lieberman.

Published by Pocket.

First published 1971.

First Edition.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0671775324

ISBN-13: 978-0671775322

Description:

In this novel of mounting suspense from award-winning author Herbert Lieberman, a terrifying surprise waits beneath a couple’s New England home. Albert and Alice Graves live a normal, if monotonous, domestic life. They never had children; they spend their days tending to their home and enjoying their time together.

One day, when the oil man, Richard, is refilling their furnace, Alice invites him to dinner, never suspecting that a casual act of charity will lead to a horrifying, morbid discovery in the crawlspace underneath their beloved house.

The Graves take Richard into their lives, becoming attached to his presence as though to the son they never had. Their town, though, is not nearly so welcoming. When the locals lash out against the Graves and their strange houseguest, the contented household is irrevocably drawn into a darkness they could not have imagined.

Recommended reading - The Witnesses (1971):

The Witnesses

By Anne Holden.

Filmed as The Bedroom Window (1987), directed by Curtis Hanson.

Hardcover.
Published 1971.
Published by Macmillan.
ISBN 13: 9780333126486
ISBN 10: 0333126483
ASIN: 0333126483

Description:

A Joan Kahn-Harper novel of suspense.
A married woman visiting her lover witnesses a crime outside the window.
She couldn't possibly go to the police, could she?
But then ...
This is a tense, highly suspenseful, compelling tale.
Don't start to read it if you have an appointment you have to keep before you finish.

Recommended reading – The Cowboys (1971):

The Cowboys

By William Dale Jennings.

Published by Bantam.

First published 1971.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0552089796

ISBN-13: 978-0552089791

Description:

The time is 1877, the place the wild Wyoming-Montana territory. Will Anderson, a flinty old rancher, has a huge herd of cattle ripe for market when his regular hands, inflamed by gold fever, desert him. In desperation, he hires the only "men" available for the perilous 400 mile drive – a pack of scraggly schoolboys. Through skill and harsh discipline, Wil Anderson whips them from greenhorns into seasoned cowhands. But before the long drive is over, the boys discover that the price they must pay for manhood is a terrible one- murder and revenge! the stunning, heartbreaking climax of this extraordinary story will surprise you - and perhaps even sock you.