On this day in movie history - The Star Chamber (1983):

The Star Chamber

directed by Peter Hyams,

written by Roderick Taylor and Peter Hyams,

based on a story by Roderick Taylor,

was released in the United States on August 5, 1983.
Music by Michael Small.

Cast:

Michael Douglas, Hal Holbrook, Yaphet Kotto, Sharon Gless, James Sikking, Joe Regalbuto, Don Calfa, John DiSanti, Otis Day, Jack Kehoe, Larry Hankin, Dick Anthony Williams, Margie Impert, Dana Gladstone, David Proval, Robin Gammell, Matthew Faison, Fred McCarren, Michael Ensign, Jason Bernard, Jerry Taft, Michael Austin, Sheldon Feldner, James Margolin, Hexin E. McPhee, Diana Douglas, Keith Buckley, Domingo Ambriz, Frances Bergen, Charlie Stavola, Robert Costanzo, Paul Brennan, Kate Zentall, George Cooper, Gary Rebstock, David Faustino, Jason Tomarken, George Dickerson, Eddy C. Dyer, John C. Garrett, Danna Hyams, Alan Oliney, Don Pulford, Ron Cummins, Jack Slate, David Armstrong, Robert Board, Robert Buckingham, Fritzi Burr, Robert Cole, George Lane Cooper, Paul DeCeglie, Ken DuMain, Brent Dunsford, Len Felber, George Golden, Raven Grey Eagle, Charles Hallahan, Bob Harks, Robert Hitchcock, George Holmes, Ethelreda Leopold, Phil Niekro, Betty Oakland, Norman Palmer, Leoda Richards, Arnold Roberts, Hank Robinson, Roberto Rodriguez, Bernard Sell, Robert Strong, Paul Van, Richard Wakasa, Tom Willett.

Born on this day – Devin Harjes:

Devin Harjes

Actor

July 29, 1983 – May 27, 2025

Credits:

Blue Bloods (2012); Blue-Eyed Mary (2009); Boardwalk Empire (2011); Boyz of Summer (2012); Daredevil (2015); Elementary (2018); FBI (2019); Gotham (2014); Manifest (2020–2021); Orange Is the New Black (2013); Rebel in the Rye (2017); Surprise Surprise, Mr. Conovy (2011); The Big Picture (2010); The Day I Lost My Mind (2009); The Forest Is Red (2012); The Sixth Round (2009); What is Reality? (2017); When the Shadow Falls (2012).

On this day in music history:

Harp And Soul by Georgia Kelly (1983)

We Are Not Alone by Breaking Benjamin (2004)

Beautiful Things by Lee Aaron (2006)

Top 40: Anastacia by Anastacia (2017)

Harp And Soul

Album by Georgia Kelly,

released June 29, 1983.

Track list: Evergreen; The Rose; Three Gymnopedies by Eric Satie; Chiavenna; Duration.

We Are Not Alone

Album by Breaking Benjamin,

released June 29, 2004.

Track list: So Cold; Simple Design; Follow; Firefly; Break My Fall; Forget It; Sooner Or Later; Breakdown; Away; Believe; Rain.

Beautiful Things

Album by Lee Aaron,

released June 29, 2006.

Track list: Museum; Joan of Arc; The Why Song; Boy Glory; Faith, Hope, Truth, love; Private Billie Holiday; Heart Shaped Hole; Handcuffed to a Fence in Mississippi; Beautiful Things; Lo & Behold; Silent Serenade; Do I Move You.

Top 40: Anastacia

Album by Anastacia,

released June 29, 2017.

Track list: I’m Outta Love; Paid My Dues; Left Outside Alone; One Day In Your Life; Not That Kind; Cowboys & Kisses; Pieces Of A Dream; Take This Chance; Why’d You Lie To Me; Heavy On My Heart; Lifeline; Welcome To My Truth; Sweet Child O’ Mine; Made For Lovin’ You; Stupid Little Things; What Can We Do (Deeper Love); Time; How Come The World Won’t Stop; Burning Star; Sick And Tired; I Belong To You; Boom; Freak Of Nature; Best Of You; I Can Feel You; Staring At The Sun; Love Is A Crime; Seasons Change; I Dreamed You; You’ll Never Be Alone; I Ask Of You; Army Of Me; Absolutely Positively; Apology; Defeated; Love Is Alive; Who’s Gonna Stop The Rain; I’m Outta Love.

Born on this day – Verónica Echegui:

Verónica Echegui

Actress

Director

Writer

June 16, 1983 – August 24, 2025

Credits:

&Me (2013); 23 premios Goya (2009); 26 Premios Forqué (2021); 3 Caminos (2021); 36 premios Goya (2022); 50 años de (2009); 51 premis Sant Jordi de cinematografia (2007); 6 Points About Emma (2011); 8 citas (2008); Actrices (2011); Alguna pregunta més? (2012–2021); Apaches (2017); Àrtic (2016); Atención obras (2016–2024); Bigas x Bigas (2016); Book of Love (2022); Buenafuente (2008); Bunny and the Bull (2009); Cartelera (2008); Casting: El camino del éxito (2007); Ceremonia de inauguración - 56º Festival internacional de cine de San Sebastián (2008); Cerrojos (2004); Cine de barrio (2023); Cinema 3 (2008–2016); Cites (2024); Ciudad de sombras (2025); Continuarà... (2006–2012); Corazón, corazón (2007); Cuéntame cómo pasó (2014); De par en par (2008); Días de cine (2009–2024); Divendres (2012–2016); El álbum blanco (2005); El club (2006–2007); El hormiguero (2013–2021); El intermedio (2006); El menor de los males (2007); El patio de mi cárcel (2008); Els matins a TV3 (2012); Estepas (2022); Èxit (2008); Family United (2013); Fortitude (2015–2017); Gente (2012); Gente hablando (2018); Half of Oscar (2010); Intimacy (2022); IV Premis Gaudí de l'Acadèmia del Cinema Català (2012); Jo què sé! (2011); Justicia artificial (2024); Kamikaze (2014); Katmandú, un espejo en el cielo (2011); Kiki, Love to Love (2016); La casa de mi padre (2008); La gran familia española: Los procesos (2014); La mandrágora (2005); La mandrágora (2007); La reunión (2017); La tarda (2008); La via làctia (2008); La visita (2017); Le Prochain (2018); Let Yourself Go (2017); Línea 57 (2006); Loops! (2008); Los Felices veinte (2022); Los Goya 26 edición (2012); Los Goya 28 edición (2014); Los pacientes del doctor García (2023); Lost & Found (2022); Love You to Death (2025); Mi vida (2019); Miradas 2 (2005–2012); Mist & the Maiden (2017); More the Merrier (2021); My Heart Goes Boom! (2020); No culpes al karma de lo que te pasa por gilipollas (2016); No disparen al pianista (2008); Noche Hache (2006–2007); Paco y Veva (2004); Paquita Salas (2018 / 2019); Pasapalabra (2013–2021); Penélope, camino a los Oscar (2007); Premios Feroz (2021); Premios Goya 30 edición (2016); Premios Goya 35 edición (2021); Requirements to Be a Normal Person (2015); Resumen - 56º Festival internacional de cine de San Sebastián (2008); Sala 33 (2012); Sexo en el plató (2007); Silenci? (2007); Sobradamente directores (2012); Stories Not to Be Told / Segment: París (2022); Tell in Eve's Comet (2020); Tetequiquiero (2010); The Cold Light of Day (2012); The Hunter's Prayer (2017); The Offering (2020); Three Days of Christmas (2019); Tocar el cielo (2007); Tócate (2018); Tótem Loba (2020); Trust (2018); Un difunto, seis mujeres y un taller (2007); Una nueva vida (2003); Unici (2015); Unknown Origins (2020); V premis Barcelona de cinema (2006); Verbo (2011); Versión española (2014–2020); Vert (date?); What Is Love (2019); XIII Premis Gaudí (2021); XVIII Premio Cinematográfico José María Forqué (2013); XXI Premios Anuales de la Academia (2007); Yo no soy esa (2024); Yo soy la Juani (2006); You're Killing Me Susana (2016).

On this day in movie history - Travis McGee (1983 movie & novel):

Travis McGee

directed by Andrew V. McLaglen,

written by Stirling Silliphant,

based on the novel The Empty Copper Sea by John D. MacDonald,

was released in the United States on May 18, 1983.
Music by Jerrold Immel.

Cast:

Sam Elliott, Gene Evans, Barry Corbin, Richard Farnsworth, Geoffrey Lewis, Amy Madigan, Vera Miles, Katharine Ross, Marshall R. Teague, Walter Olkewicz, Jack Murdock, Greta Blackburn, Owen Orr, Pilar Del Rey.

Recommended reading:

The Empty Copper Sea

By John D. MacDonald.

Introduction by Lee Child.

Filmed as Travis McGee (1983), directed by Andrew V. McLaglen.

# 17 in the Travis McGee series.

Published by Random House Trade Paperbacks.

First published 1978.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0812984080

ISBN-13: 978-0812984088

Description:

“John D. MacDonald is a shining example for all us in the field. Talk about the best.” – Mary Higgins Clark.

From a beloved master of crime fiction, The Empty Copper Sea is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat.

Asking for help is something a proud man like Van Harder would never do. So when he shows up at the Busted Flush, Travis McGee knows that he must be the man’s last resort. What Harder wants salvaged is his reputation. After a long career as a seaman, he was piloting a boat the night his employer fell overboard. Harder is certain he’s been set up, but to help him, McGee must prove that a dead man is actually alive.

The fateful ride started with Harder at the helm of Hubbard Lawless’s luxury cruiser. It ends with him coming to, fuzzy and disoriented, and Hub lost to the water. Now everyone is saying that Harder got drunk, passed out, and is negligent in his boss’s death. The thing is, Van’s not a drinker . . . at least, not anymore.

Who would want to frame the good captain, and to what end? Dead or alive, Lawless is worth a lot of money. People are always eager to get a piece of that action – including some, as McGee soon finds, who are willing to take a piece out of anyone who gets in their way.

Features a new Introduction by Lee Child.

On this day in music history:

Midnight at the Lost and Found by Meat Loaf (1983)

Flowers Of Fire by Kathy Raimey (2001)

600 Years in a Moment by Fiona Joy Hawkins (2013)

Sound Currents by Tom Moore & Sherry Finzer (2019)

Casta Diva by Cecilia Bartoli (2024)

Midnight at the Lost and Found

Album by Meat Loaf,

released May 17, 1983.

Track list: Razor’s Edge; Midnight at the Lost and Found; Wolf at Your Door; Keep Driving; The Promised Land; You Can Never Be Too Sure About the Girl; Priscilla; Don’t You Look at Me Like That; If You Really Want to; Fallen Angel.

Flowers Of Fire

Album by Kathy Raimey,

released May 17, 2001.

Track list: Flowers of Fire; Reverie; Questions to the Sea; Farewell to Lee; Shimmer Float.

600 Years in a Moment

Album by Fiona Joy Hawkins,

released May 17, 2013.

Track list: 600 Years; Naked Love; The Journey; Earthbound; Gliding; Tango on Wednesday; Running on Joy; Ancient Albatross; The Lost Ballerina; Antarctica; Captured Freedom; Forgivness.

Sound Currents

Album by Tom Moore & Sherry Finzer,

released May 17, 2019.

Track list: A Sound Traveler’s Dream; Following The Current; Canyon Echoes; Star Trails; Timeless Flow; Night Tides; Midnight Mystique; This Side of Silence; Theta Waves.

Casta Diva

Album by Cecilia Bartoli,

released May 17, 2024.

Track list: “Casta Diva” (Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi); Nacqui All’affanno E Al Pianto” - “Non Più Mesta; “Cari Giorni” (Romanza Der Ines); Una Parola.Chiedi All’aura; “Mira, O Norma” (Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi); “Si, Fino All’ore Estreme” (Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi); Prendi: L’anel Ti Dono [Edit]; No Mia Vita, Mio Tesoro; O Rendetemi la Speme; Ira Del Ciel; Vaga Luna Che Inargenti; La Danza; No. 12, Voi Che Sapete; Il Cor VI Dono; Se Mai Senti Spirarti Sul Volto; Come Nave in Mezzo All’onde; Di’ Cor Mio; Ma Quando Tornerai.

On this day in movie history - Breathless (1983):

Breathless

directed by Jim McBride,

written by L. M. Kit Carson and Jim McBride,

was released in the United States on May 13, 1983.
A remake of Breathless, French title: À bout de souffle (1960), written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard.
Music by Jack Nitzsche.

Cast:

Richard Gere, Valérie Kaprisky, Art Metrano, John P. Ryan, William Tepper, Robert Dunn, Garry Goodrow, Lisa Jane Persky, James Hong, Waldemar Kalinowski, Jack Leustig, Eugène Lourié, Georg Olden, Miguel Pinero, Henry G. Sanders, Bruce Vilanch, Robert Mark Quesada, Nora Gaye, Andres Aybar, Isabel Cooley, L. Jerry Greenberg, Javier Grajeda, Robert Snively, John Wyler, Jeni Vici, Carl Munoz, Christopher White, Brien Varady, Keith Addis, Martin Erlichman, Peggy Ann Stevens, Raymond Bear, David Carson, Tracy McBride, Jesse McBride, Helen Kelly, Jennifer Leigh Rice, Bruce Scivally.

On this day in movie history - Blue Thunder (1983):

Blue Thunder

directed by John Badham,

written by Dan O’Bannon and Don Jakoby,

was released in the United States on May 13, 1983.
Music by Arthur B. Rubinstein.

Cast:

Roy Scheider, Malcolm McDowell, Daniel Stern, Candy Clark, Warren Oates, Joe Santos, Paul Roebling, David Sheiner, Anthony James, Ed Bernard, Jason Bernard, Mario Machado, James Murtaugh, Pat McNamara, Jack Murdock, Clifford A. Pellow, Robin Braxton, Anna Forrest, Paul Lambert, Phil Feldman, John Garber, Ricky Slyter, Reid Cruickshanks, Billy Ray Sharkey, Fred Slyter, John Gladstein, Ross Reynolds, Karl A. Wickman, James W. Gavin, Thomas H. Friedkin, James Read, Mickey Gilbert, William T. Lane, Lolly Boroff, Patti Clifton, Ernest Harada, Frances E. Nealy, Jose Pepe R. Gonzales, Jerry Ziesmer, Tom Lawrence, John Ashby, Tony Brubaker, Norman Alexander Gibbs, Bill M. Ryusaki, Gary Davis, Thomas Rosales Jr., Larry Randles, Peter Miller, Mike H. McGaughy, Lucinda Crosby, John Badham, Bob Bowen, Calvin Bronx, Shaaron Claridge, Eurlyne Epper, Fritz Ford, Dorothy Hack, Bob Harks, Lars Hensen, Clay Hodges, Ted King, Terry Leonard, Frank Morriss, Ve Neill, Danny Nero, Bernadette Pelletier, Hank Robinson, Walter Smith, Steve Wagner.