On this day in movie history - Contact (1997 movie & novel):

Contact

directed by Robert Zemeckis,

written by James V. Hart and Michael Goldenberg,

based on the novel by Carl Sagan,

was released in the United States on July 11, 1997.
Music by Alan Silvestri.

Cast:

Jodie Foster, Jena Malone, Matthew McConaughey, David Morse, Tom Skerritt, James Woods, John Hurt, William Fichtner, Angela Bassett, Jake Busey, Rob Lowe, Geoffrey Blake, Max Martini, Steven Ford, Jay Leno, Larry King, Ann Druyan.

Recommended reading:

Contact

By Carl Sagan.

Published 1985.

A science-fiction novel.

ISBN-10: 0671004107

ISBN-13: 978-0671004101

Description:

In December, 1999, a multinational team journeys out to the stars, to the most awesome encounter in human history.

Who – or what – is out there?

In Cosmos, Carl Sagan explained the universe.

In Contact, he predicts its future – and our own.

Recommended reading - Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s (1997):

Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s

Published by Library of America.

Published 1997.

ISBN-10: 1883011493

ISBN-13: 9781883011499

Description:

Contents: The Killer Inside Me, by Jim Thompson; The Talented Mr. Ripley, by Patricia Highsmith; Pick-up, by Charless Willeford; Down There, by David Goodis; The Real Cool Killers, by Chester Himes.

This adventurous volume, with its companion devoted to the 1930s and 40s, presents a rich vein of modern American writing. Evolving out of the terse and violent style of the pulp magazines, noir fiction expanded over the decades into a varied, innovative, and profoundly influential body of work. The five novels presented here are authentic underground classics: Jim Thompson’s The Killer Inside Me, with its psychotic narrator, a murderous West Texas Sheriff; Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr. Ripley, an astonishing study of the seductiveness of evil and the vagaries of personal identity; Pick-Up, Charles Willeford’s nihilistic love story of two lost souls adrift in San Francisco’s lower depths; David Doodis’ haunted, lyrical Down There (the inspiration for Truffaut’s classic film Shoot the Piano Player); and Chester Himes’ The Real Cool Killers, an explosive and sometimes wildly comic novel featuring Harlem detectives Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones. With this Library of America publication, these works are at last being recognized for their powerful literary qualities and their unique, sometimes subversive role in shaping modern American language and culture.

The Library of America, a nonprofit publisher, is dedicated to preserving America’s best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritive texts.

On this day in movie history - Dobermann (1997):

Dobermann

directed by Jan Kounen,

written by Joël Houssin,

was released in France on June 18, 1997.
Music by Brune, Jean-Jacques Hertz, Philippe Mallier, François Roy and Schyzomaniac.

Cast:

Vincent Cassel, Tchéky Karyo, Monica Bellucci, Antoine Basler, Dominique Bettenfeld, Pascal Demolon, Marc Duret, Romain Duris, François Levantal, Ivan Merat-Barboff, Stéphane Metzger, Chick Ortega, Patrick Rocca, Florence Thomassin, Roland Amstutz, Jean Lescot, Arnaud Arbessier, José Camacho, Jean-François Catton, Rodolph Freytt, Attica Guedj, Marcel Leguilloux, Laura Mañá, Bruno Richard, Francia Seguy, Virginie Arnaud, Marc Baschet, Affif Ben Badra, Lucie Bizart, Frédéric Camus, Marc Caro, Elle Chocho, Anthéa Cintract, Gilles Conseil, David Defever, Franck Del, Julie Dossavi, Valérie Druguet, Niels Dubost, Frédérique Dumas-Zajdela, Ernest Evrard, Roger Faillu, Annie Girard, Pierre Heitz, Caroline Lallemant, Alexis Luce, Sylvain Maury, Soria Moufakkir, Michel Moyon, Éric Névé, Mostapha Birzine, Roulian, Paul Scortésia, Lucine Thomas, Philippe Guégan, Patrick Lambert, Gaspar Noé, Carmela Valente, Xitron, Jan Kounen.

On this day in music history:

Destination Anywhere by Jon Bon Jovi (1997)

Not That Kind by Anastacia (2000)

Destination Anywhere

Album by Jon Bon Jovi,

released June 16, 1997.

Track listing (some versions of this album include two bonus tracks):

Queen of New Orleans; Janie, Don’t Take Your Love to Town; Midnight in Chelsea; Ugly; Staring at Your Window with a Suitcase in My Hand; Every Word Was a Piece of My Heart; It’s Just Me; Destination Anywhere; Learning How to Fall; Naked; Little City; August 7, 4:15; Cold Hard Heart; Cold Hard Heart (Demo); I Talk to Jesus (Demo).

Not That Kind

Album by Anastacia,

released June 16, 2000.

Track list:

Not That Kind; I’m Outta Love; Cowboys & Kisses; Why’d You Lie to Me; Who’s Gonna Stop the Rain; I Ask of You; Don’tcha Wanna; Late Last Night; Made For Lovin’ You; Black Roses; Yo Trippin’; One More Chance; Same Old Story.

On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek: Voyager (1997)

Star Trek: Enterprise (2003)

Star Trek: Voyager

Season 3. Episode 26.

Episode entitled: Scorpion.

Released May 21, 1997.

Directed by David Livingston.

Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

Written by Brannon Braga, Joe Menosky, Lisa Klink.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Jay Chattaway.

Cast: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Biggs-Dawson, Jennifer Lien, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang, John Rhys-Davies, Patrick Barnitt, Jeff Cadiente, John Copage, Neo Edmund, Tarik Ergin, Grace Harrell, Susan Henley, Kerry Hoyt, Julie Jiang, Zach LeBeau, Tom Morga, Louis Ortiz, Alexander Xavier Ponce-Bonano, Keith Rayve, Craig Reed, Joey Sakata, Richard Sarstedt, John Alex Tampoya.

Star Trek: Enterprise

Season 2. Episode 26.

Episode entitled: The Expanse.

Released May 21, 2003.

Directed by Allan Kroeker.

Written by Brannon Braga, Rick Berman, André Bormanis.

Created by Rick Berman, Brannon Braga.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Opening theme song: Faith of the Heart, performed by Russell Watson.

Closing theme: Archer's Theme, by Dennis McCarthy.

Music by Dennis McCarthy.

Cast: Scott Bakula, John Billingsley, Jolene Blalock, Dominic Keating, Anthony Montgomery, Linda Park, Connor Trinneer, John Fleck, Vaughn Armstrong, Gary Graham, Daniel Riordan, James Horan, Bruce Wright, Dan Desmond, Josh Cruze, David Figlioli, Gary Bullock, Alexandrea Ortiz, Jef Ayres, Vince Deadrick Jr., Kevin Derr, Nikki Flux, Duncan K. Fraser, Hilde Garcia, Glen Hambly, Scott Sterling Hill, Dieter Horneman, Jim Lau, Aouri Makhlouf, Marnie Martin, Louis Ortiz.

On this day in movie history - Night Falls on Manhattan (1996):

Night Falls on Manhattan

directed and written by Sidney Lumet,

based on the novel Tainted Evidence by Robert Daley,

was released in the United States on May 16, 1997.
Music by Mark Isham.

Cast:

Andy Garcia, Ian Holm, James Gandolfini, Lena Olin, Shiek Mahmud-Bey, Colm Feore, Ron Leibman, Richard Dreyfuss, Dominic Chianese, Paul Guilfoyle, Bonnie Rose, Norman Matlock, Sidney Armus, James Murtaugh, Melba Martinez, Santo Fazio, Anthony Alessandro, David Fonteno, John Seitz, Stephen Beach, Nafisah Sayyed, Robert Sean Miller, Marcia Jean Kurtz, Jude Ciccolella, John Randolph Jones, Chuck Pfeiffer, Clark D. Williams, Bill Boggs, Tamara Phillips, Louis Guss, Richard Bright, Ronald von Klaussen, John Di Benedetto, Kevin Ramsey, Kermit Frazier, Veronica Hall, Vic Noto, Jim Moody, Socorro Santiago, Fran Anthony, Donna Hanover, Jack Cafferty, Kaity Tong, Allen Collodow, Dennis Paladino, Mike Cammallere, Jim Mauro, Salvatore Paul Piro, Mike Sheehan, Joseph Mosso, Teddy Coluca, Roslyn Cohn, Elliot Cuker, Yvette Mercedes, Kristina Lear, Joe Drago, Catherine Schreiber, Bobby Cannavale, Marshall Dancing Elk Lucas, Adam Alexi-Malle, Debbie Benitez, Barry Bradford, Ray Campbell, Vernon Campbell, Lisa Collins, Patrick Coleman Duncan, Arthur K. Flam, Nathan George, Mark Robert Gordon, Chandler Hill, Michael Luggio, Takeo Matsushita, Dale Resteghini, James Rosin, John Rowe Jr., Anthony Sinopoli, Leonard Tepper, Bebie Waller, J.D. Walters, David Watkin, Ted West.

On this day in movie history - TwentyFourSeven (1997):

TwentyFourSeven

directed by Shane Meadows,

written by Paul Fraser and Shane Meadows,

was released in the United States on May 1, 1998.
Music by Boo Hewerdine and Neil MacColl.

Cast:

Bob Hoskins, Danny Nussbaum, Justin Brady, James Hooton, Darren O. Campbell, Karl Collins, Johann Myers, Jimmy Hynd, Mat Hand, James Corden, Frank Harper, Bruce Jones, Jo Bell, Toby, Annette Badland, Krishan Beresford, Anthony Clarke, Dominic Dillon, Ian Smith, Tanya Myers, Tony Nyland, Collin Higgins, Pamela Cundell, Gina Aris, Sammy Pasha, Paul Fraser, Ladene Hall, Dena Smiles, John Baxter, Maureen O'Grady, Shane Meadows, Ben Rothwell, Ron Bissel, Mick Bleakley, Derek Osborne, Derek Groombridge, Liam Walsh, Kevin Wallace, Dave Miller, Ginger Keane, Sun Hand, Sarah Thom.