Born on this day – Chance Perdomo:

Chance Perdomo

Actor

October 19, 1996 – March 30, 2024

Credits:

After Ever Happy (2022); After Everything (2023); After We Fell (2021); Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018–2020); Chilling Adventures of Sabrina 3: Straight to Hell (2020); Gen V (2023); Hetty Feather (2017); Killed by My Debt (2018); Longfield Drive (2016); Marvel Let's Play (2019); Midsomer Murders (2018); Moominvalley (2022); Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators (2018); The Art of Trying (2017); The Cipher (2020–2021); The Importance of Skin (2017); The Most Impossible Quiz (2019); This Week in Marvel (2019).

On this day in music history:

Chant d’amour by Cecilia Bartoli (1996)

Soul Be It by Deborah Coleman (2002)

Desert Suite by Greg Maroney & Sherry Finzer (2021)

Chant d’amour

Album by Cecilia Bartoli,

released October 15, 1996.

Track list: Chant D’amour; Ouvre Ton Coeur; Adieux De L’hotesse Arabe; Tarentelle; La Coccinelle; Les Filles De Cadix; Hai Luli!; Havanaise; Les Filles De Cadix; La Mort d’Ophelie; Zaide; Chanson Francaise; Chanson Espagnole; Chanson Italienne; Chanson Hebraique; Vocalise-Etude (En Forme De Habanera); Kaddisch; L’Enigme Eternelle; Tripatos.

Soul Be It

Album by Deborah Coleman,

released October 15, 2002.

Track list: Brick; My Heart Bleeds Blue; Don’t Lie to Me; I’m a Woman; You’re with Me; I Believe; The Dream; Goodbye Misery.

Desert Suite

Album by Greg Maroney & Sherry Finzer,

released October 15, 2021.

Track list: Saguaro Sunrise; On the Great Colorado; The Gentle Night Surrounds Us; Mesa Grande; Through an Eagles Eye; Cave of the Wind; Wide Open Spaces; Rare the Snow Falls; Wild Horses Run Free; Through the Winding Canyon; Saguaro Sunset.

On this day in television history – Moll Flanders (1996 TV mini-series & novel):

The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders

4-part mini-series directed by David Attwood,

written by Andrew Davies, Dominic Minghella,

based on the novel Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe,

released in the United States on October 13, 1996.

Music by Jim Parker, Mark Springer.

Cast:

Alex Kingston, Daniel Craig, James Bowers, Trevyn McDowell, Patti Love, Colin Buchanan, Nicola Walker, Roger Morlidge, Nicola Kingston, Geoffrey Beevers, Sam Halpenny, Tom Ward, Anthony O'Donnell, Lucy Evans, Jenna Hodges, Diana Rigg, Anthony Bessick, Matthew O'Neill, Lucy Fitzmaurice, James Fleet, Struan Rodger, Dan D. Fough, Claire Keepie, John Savident, Bill Thomas, Chrissie Cotterill, Jonathan Weir, Brian Rawlinson, Peter Jonfield, Anna Welsh, Neville Phillips, Will Tacey, Alison Lomas, Maureen O'Brien, Guy Scantlebury, Irving Czechowicz, Ronald Fraser, Catherine Keis, Anthony Milner, Ian Driver, Ruth Mitchell, Caroline Harker, Anya Phillips, Dallas Campbell, Milton Johns, Dawn McDaniel, David Burston, David Norman, Ken McDonald, Mary Healey, Elizabeth Skelton, Jeff Nuttall, Philip Fox, Caroline Trowbridge, Victoria Scarborough, Jeffrey Robert, James Larkin, Christopher Fulford, Michael Johnson, Andrew Mayor, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Evie Garratt, James Helm, Colin Alltree, Sarah Dorsett, Alistair Donkin, Alex Brown, Tim Jefferis, David Mitchell, Maia Lucas.

Recommended reading:

Moll Flanders

By Daniel Defoe.

First published 1772.

Published by Random House Publishing Group.

ISBN 13: 9780375760105

ISBN 10: 0375760105

ASIN:0375760105

Description:

Written in a time when criminal biographies enjoyed great success, Daniel Defoe’s Moll Flanders details the life of the irresistible Moll and her struggles through poverty and sin in search of property and power. Born in Newgate Prison to a picaresque mother, Moll propels herself through marriages, periods of success and destitution, and a trip to the New World and back, only to return to the place of her birth as a popular prostitute and brilliant thief. The story of Moll Flanders vividly illustrates Defoe’s themes of social mobility and predestination, sin, redemption and reward.

On this day in movie history - Trees Lounge (1996):

Trees Lounge

directed and written by Steve Buscemi,

was released in the United States on October 11, 1996.
Music by Evan Lurie.

Cast:

Steve Buscemi, Chloë Sevigny, Mark Boone Junior, Anthony LaPaglia, Elizabeth Bracco, Eszter Balint, Carol Kane, Daniel Baldwin, Mimi Rogers, Debi Mazar, Seymour Cassel, Samuel L. Jackson, Larry Gilliard Jr., Michael Imperioli, Charlie Newmark, Kevin Corrigan, Michael Buscemi, John Ventimiglia, Bianca Hunter, Suzanne Shepherd, Rockets Redglare.

On this day in movie history - The Apartment (1996):

The Apartment

French title: L'Appartement,

directed and written by Gilles Mimouni,

was released in the United States on October 2, 1996.

Music by Peter Chase.

Cast:

Monica Bellucci, Romane Bohringer, Vincent Cassel, Jean-Philippe Écoffey, Sandrine Kiberlain, Olivier Granier, Paul Pavel, Nelly Alard, Bruno Leonelli, Tateo Isaizaki, Tsuyu Shimizu, Ricardo Mateo, Vincent Nemeth, Bruno Fernández Vella, Juan Carlos Martín Alonso, Claude Hirch, Hervé Jakubowicz, Oury Milshtein, Roger Patrice Bernard, Vanessa Soboul, Sandra Gayarre, Marcel Godot, André Haber, Bruno Ricci, Fenia Papadodima, Edouard Baer, Michel Bompoil, Michèle Rème, Jorge Bosch, Eva Ionesco, Diane Calma, César Chiffre.

On this day in movie history - Last Man Standing (1996):

Last Man Standing

written and directed by Walter Hill,

based on Yojimbo (1961) by Akira Kurosawa,

was released in the United States on September 20, 1996.
Music by Ry Cooder.

Cast:

Bruce Willis, Bruce Dern, William Sanderson, Christopher Walken, David Patrick Kelly, Karina Lombard, Ned Eisenberg, Michael Imperioli, R. D. Call, Alexandra Powers, Ken Jenkins, Ted Markland, Leslie Mann, Patrick Kilpatrick.

Recommended reading - Murderous Schemes: An Anthology of Classic Detective Stories (1996)

Murderous Schemes: An Anthology of Classic Detective Stories

Edited by Donald E Westlake and J. Madison Davis.

Published by Oxford University Press.

Published in 1996.

First Edition.

Hardcover.

ISBN-10: 0195103211

ISBN-13: 978-0195103212

Description:

Since the inception of the detective short story with Edgar Allan Poe, various plotlines and common elements have become prevalent in the genre. Murderous Schemes: An Anthology of Classic Detective Stories categorizes thirty-two suspenseful tales by formula, a unique and exceptional arrangement that illustrates how the detective story has evolved. Just as the “standards” of jazz become reinterpreted by new performers, basic story structures develop new and alluring twists in the hands of some of the best-known writers of detective fiction. From “I Confess!” to “The Armchair Detective” to “Over the Edge,” each variation on the theme will be fascinating reading for every fan of the genre.

On this day in music history:

Visions of Love: Mozart Arias by Renée Fleming & Charles Mackerras (1996)

Guilty Pleasures by Renée Fleming & Sebastian Lang-Lessing (2013)

Visions of Love: Mozart Arias

Album by Renée Fleming and Charles Mackerras,

released September 17, 1996.

Track list: Le nozze di Figaro: Giunse alfin il momento...Deh, vieni; Don Giovanni: In quali eccessi...Mi tradi; Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail: Ach, ich liebte, war so glucklich; Il re pastore: L’amero, saro costante - Renee Fleming/Krista Bennion Feeney; Die Zauberflote: Ach, ich fuhl’s, es ist verschwunden; La finta giardiniera: Geme la Tortorella; La finta giardiniera: Crudeli, fermate, crudeli, oh Dio! fermate-; La finta giardiniera: Ah, dal pianto, dal singhiozzo; Zaide: Ruhe sanft; Il sogno di Scipione: Lieve son al par del vento; Le nozze di Figaro: Giunse alfin il momento...Al desio; Con aria, K383: Nehmt meinen Dank.

Guilty Pleasures

Album by Renée Fleming and Sebastian Lang-Lessing,

released September 17, 2013.

Track list: Berlioz: Les nuits d’été, Op. 7: 1. Villanelle; Duparc: Phidylé; Refice: Ombra di nube; Falla: Siete canciones populares españolas: 5. Nana; Falla: Siete canciones populares españolas: 6. Canción; Tchaikovsky: Undina: Undina’s Aria; Rachmaninoff: Sumerki (Twilight), Op. 21, No. 3; Delibes: Les Filles de Cadix; Delibes: Lakmé / Act 1: “Sous le dôme épais” (Flower Duet); Canteloube: Chants d’Auvergne: 7. La Delaissado; Canteloube: Chants d’Auvergne: 13. Malurous qu’o uno Fenno; Dvořák: Armida: “Za Štíhlou Gazelou”; Smetana: The Kiss (Hubicka) - Opera in 2 Acts: Lullaby; J. Strauss II: Walzer aus Wien: “Frag mich oft”; Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder, WWV 91: V. Träume; Corigliano: The Ghosts of Versailles / Act II: “Once There Was A Golden Bird”; Traditional: “O Danny Boy”.