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”.

On this day in television history - Everybody Loves Raymond (1996 - 2005):

Everybody Loves Raymond

was released on September 13, 1996,

and ran for nine seasons until May 16, 2005.

Cast:

Ray Romano, Patricia Heaton, Brad Garrett, Doris Roberts, Peter Boyle, Monica Horan, Madylin Sweeten, Sawyer Sweeten, Sullivan Sweeten, Katherine Helmond, Philip Rosenthal, Robert Culp, Chris Elliott, Fred Willard, Kevin James, Fred Stoller, Jon Manfrellotti, Amy Aquino, Andy Kindler, Bob Odenkirk, Tom McGowan, Skyler Gisondo, Charles Durning, Julie Hagerty, Len Lesser, Victor Raider-Wexler, Dave Mallow, Sarah Rush, Alex Meneses, Sherri Shepherd, Tina Arning, Stephanie Courtney, Sam Anderson.

On this day in music history - A Woman and a Man, by Belinda Carlisle (1996):

A Woman and a Man

Album by Belinda Carlisle,
released September 11, 1996.

Track list:

In Too Deep; California; A Woman And A Man; Remember September; Listen To Love; Always Breaking My Heart; Love Doesn’t Live Here; He Goes On; Kneel At Your Feet; Love In The Key Of C; My Heart Goes Out To You.

On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek (1966)
Star Trek: Voyager (1995 & 1996)

Star Trek

Season 1. Pilot episode.

Episode entitled: The Cage.

Released at the Cleveland, Ohio, World Science Fiction Convention on September 4, 1966.

Directed by Robert Butler.

Written by Gene Roddenberry.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Alexander Courage.

Cast: Jeffrey Hunter, Susan Oliver, Leonard Nimoy, Majel Barrett / M. Leigh Hudec, John Hoyt, Peter Duryea, Laurel Goodwin, John Burnside, Carol Daniels, Michael Dugan, Joe Evans, Sandra Lee Gimpel, Clegg Hoyt, Anthony Jochim, Bob Johnson, Jon Lormer, Ed Madden, William McCarter, Joseph Mell, Leonard Mudie, William H. O'Brien, Robert Phillips, Janos Prohaska, Adam Roarke, Gene Roddenberry, Serena Sande, Rube Schaffer, Georgia Schmidt, Felix Silla, Malachi Throne, Meg Wyllie.

Star Trek: Voyager

Season 2. Episode 2.

Episode entitled: Initiations.

Released September 4, 1995.

Directed by Winrich Kolbe.

Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

Written by Kenneth Biller, Lisa Klink.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Dennis McCarthy.

Cast: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Biggs-Dawson, Jennifer Lien, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang, Aron Eisenberg, Patrick Kilpatrick, Tim de Zarn, Majel Barrett, Tarik Ergin, Heather Ferguson, Norman Alexander Gibbs, Julie Jiang, Jordan Monheim, Louis Ortiz, Rob Plaza, Daunette Saunders, Jeff Witzke.

Star Trek: Voyager

Season 3. Episode 1.

Episode entitled: Basics, Part II.

Released September 4, 1996.

Directed by Winrich Kolbe.

Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

Written by Michael Piller, Lisa Klink.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Dennis McCarthy.

Cast: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Biggs-Dawson, Jennifer Lien, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang, Brad Dourif, Anthony De Longis, Martha Hackett, Nancy Hower, Simon Billig, Scott Haven, David Cowgill, Michael Bailey Smith, John K. Shull, Russ Fega, Majel Barrett, Tarik Ergin, Heather Ferguson, Jennifer Gundy, Susan Henley, Kerry Hoyt, Donald R. Jankiewicz, Pat Jankiewicz, Emily Leibovitch, Susan Lewis, Dennis Madalone, Linda L.C. Madalone, Mark Major, Lorin McCraley, Tom Morga, Louis Ortiz, Shepard Ross, Charles Spector, John Alex Tampoya.

Recommended reading - The Mammoth Book of Pulp Fiction (1996):

The Mammoth Book of Pulp Fiction

Hardboiled writing from Dashiell Hammett, Donald E. Westlake, Mickey Spillane, John D. MacDonald, Jim Thompson and many more…

Edited by Maxim Jakubowski.

Mammoth Books.

Published 1996.

ISBN-10: 0786703008

ISBN-13: 978-0786703005

Back cover description:

Fast action and wild, wild pleasure: a massive collection of seven decades of pure, unadulterated pulp fiction.

The paper may have yellowed and crumbled away but the stories and a thousand thrills still hit the spot. Join the shady operators, voluptuous molls, ruthless big shots, crooked and sometimes honest cops on a rollercoaster ride through the mean streets of popular literature in the company of such superlative writers as: Dashiell Hammett, Donald E. Westlake, Ross Macdonald, Charles Willeford, David Goodis, Frederic Brown, Robert Bloch, Karlan Ellison, John D. MacDonald, Jim Thompson, William P. McGivern, Lawrence Block, Bill Pronzini, Mickey Spillane.

And twenty other leading lights of the hardboiled school of writing, as the action moves back from the silver screen to the pages where it all began, Just watch out for open windows and flying bullets!

Contents:

Acknowledgements; Introduction; Too Many Have Lived, by Dashiell Hammett; Flight to Nowhere, by Charles Williams; Black, by Paul Cain; Finders Killers! by John D. MacDonald; Murder’s Mandate, by W. T. Ballard; Cigarette Girl, by James M. Cain; The Getaway, by Gil Brewer; Preview of Murder, by Robert Leslie Bellem; Forever After, by Jim Thompson; The Bloody Tide, by Day Keene; Death Comes Gift-Wrapped, by William P. McGivern; The Girl Behind the Hedge, by Mickey Spillane; Enter Scarface, by Armitage Trail; A Candle for the Bag Lady, by Lawrence Block; Black Pudding, by David Goodis; A Matter of Principal, by Max Allan Collins; Citizen’s Arrest, by Charles Willeford; Sleeping Dog, by Ross Macdonald; The Wench is Dead, by Fredric Brown; So Dark for April, by Howard Browne; We Are All Dead, by Bruno Fischer; Death is a Vampire, by Robert Bloch; Divide and Conquer, by Jack Ritchie; A Real Nice Guy, by William F. Nolan; Stacked Deck, by Bill Pronzini; So Young, So Fair, So Dead, by John Lutz; Effective Medicine, by B. Traven; Killing Bernstein, by Harlan Ellison; The Second Coming, by Joe Gores; Hibiscus and Homicide, by William Campbell Gault; Hell on Wheels, by Thomas S. Roche; Ordo, by Donald E. Westlake.

On this day in movie history - The Frighteners (1996 movie & novel):

The Frighteners

directed by Peter Jackson,

written by Fran Walsh and Peter Jackson,

was released in the United States on July 19, 1996.
Music by Danny Elfman.

Cast:

Michael J. Fox, Trini Alvarado, Peter Dobson, John Astin, Jeffrey Combs, Dee Wallace Stone, Jake Busey, Chi McBride, Jim Fyfe, Troy Evans, Julianna McCarthy, R. Lee Ermey, Elizabeth Hawthorne, Angela Bloomfield, Desmond Kelly, Jonathan Blick, Todd Rippon, John Sumner, Michael Robinson, Jim McLarty, Anthony Ray Parker, Paul Yates, Melanie Lynskey, John Leigh, Nicola Cliff, Ken Blackburn, Stuart Devenie, Genevieve Westcott, K.C. Kelly, Leslie Wing, Leslie Klein, Frank Edwards, Alan O’Leary, Danny Lineham, Charlie McClellan, William Pomeroy, George Port, Billy Jackson, Sophie Watkins, Taea Hartwell, Max Grover, George Grover, Tony Hopkins, Lewis Martin, Clay Nelson, Matthew Chamberlain, Vivienne Kaplan, Liz Mullane, Matt Aitken, Grae Burton, Michael Elsworth, Nic Farra, Peter Jackson, Rhys Jordan, Paul Kingdom, Isaac Lucas, Michael Maxwell, Bryce McCawe, Nicolas Pegg, April Phillips, Tracey Savage, Jeff Slaven, Clinton Ulyatt, Fran Walsh.

Recommended reading:

The Frighteners

By Michael Jahn.

Published by Boulevard Book.

Published 1996.

Movie tie-in.

ISBN-10: 0157297187

ISBN-13: 9780157297188

Description:

When a serial killer reaches out from beyond the grave and, in the guise of the Grim Reaper, embarks on a New England killing spree, it is up to a hapless young man with special powers, aided by some friendly earthbound spirits, to stop him.

On this day in movie history - Escape Clause (1996):

Escape Clause

directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith,

written by Danilo Bach,

was released in the United States on July 14, 1996.

Music by Richard Marvin and Ken Thorne.

Cast:

Andrew McCarthy, Paul Sorvino, Connie Britton, Kate McNeil, Stan Egi, Kenneth Welsh, John Evans, Peter Donaldson, Victor A. Young, Sean Dick, Dawn Greenhalgh, Chantel Dick, Lupe Arenas, Tara Rosling, Peter Langley, Claire Rankin, Yanira Contreras, Stephen Bogaert, Roger Honeywell, Ron Hartmann, Bob Clout, Robbie Rox, Gord Mackenzie, Phillip Jarrett, Scott Wickware, John Boylan, Shawn Lawrence, Chuck Shamata, Laura Catalano, Carol Chwaiewsky, Tricia Brioux, Garnet Harding, Djanet Sears, Stephanie Roth Haberle, Linda Goranson, Julie Evans.

On this day in music history:

Walk in the Sun by Sue Foley (1996)

Sacred Alliance by Anima (2015)

Walk in the Sun

Album by Sue Foley,

released July 9, 1996.

Track list: Try to Understand; Give It to Me; Walk in the Sun; The Snake; Wayward Girl; The Wind; Lover’s Call; Better; Train to Memphis; Love Sick Child; Long Distance Lover.

Sacred Alliance

Album by Anima,

released July 9, 2015.

Track list: Great Mother’s Dominion; Surrender; Sewa; Sacred Lands; Offering; Camino De Pedro; Gonawindua; Kogi Transmission; Ancestral Fathers of the Stars.

On this day in movie history - Stanley Kubrick: The Invisible Man (1996):

Stanley Kubrick: The Invisible Man

documentary directed and written by Paul Joyce,

was released in the United Kingdom on June 20, 1996.

Cast:

Ken Adam, Garrett Brown, Arthur C. Clarke, Shelley Duvall, R. Lee Ermey, James B. Harris, Michael Herr, Diane Johnson, Stanley Kubrick, Malcolm McDowell, Matthew Modine, Jonathan Pryce, Leonard Rosenman, Kate Sheldon, Bryan Singer, David Thomson.

On this day in music history:

The Spell by Kevin Braheny & Tim Clark (1996)

Confluence by Nancy Rumbel, David Michael, & Benjy Wertheimer (2019)

The Spell

Album by Kevin Braheny and Tim Clark,

released May 21, 1996.

Track list: The Magician; A Perfect Evening For Flying Carpets; Time In The Mirror (Transporter Version); Palace Of Dreams; The Spell; Merlin’s Last Voyage; The Sail Of Argo Navis; Sorceror’s Parade.

Confluence

Album by Nancy Rumbel, David Michael, & Benjy Wertheimer,

released May 21, 2019.

Track list: Confluence; Mirage; Daybreak; Incantation; Sea Star; Silver and Gold; Elixir; Falling Leaves; Saraswati’s Grace; Taking Wing; Bobo’s Farewell; Kim’s Tango.

On this day in movie history - Moonshine Highway (1996):

Moonshine Highway

directed and written by Andy Armstrong,

was released in the United States on May 5, 1996.
Music by Steve Dorff.

Cast:

Kyle MacLachlan, Randy Quaid, Maria del Mar, Alex Carter, Gary Farmer, Jeremy Ratchford, Leslie Carlson, Dennis Fitzgerald, Raliegh Wilson, Michael Copeman, Jody Racicot, Rick Roberts, Lori Hallier, Eleanor Joy Lind, Dick Callahan, Doug Lennox, David Cronenberg, Beau Starr, Andy Armstrong, Stuart Hughes, J. Winston Carroll, Todd Schroeder, Mike Lee, Jason Deline.