On this day in movie history - The Room (2003):

The Room

directed and written by Tommy Wiseau,

was released in the United States on June 27, 2003.
Music by Mladen Milicevic.

Cast:

Tommy Wiseau, Juliette Danielle, Greg Sestero, Philip Haldiman, Carolyn Minnott, Robyn Paris, Mike Holmes, Dan Janjigian, Kyle Vogt, Greg Ellery, Piper Gore, Kari McDermott, Jennifer Vanderbliek, Bennett Dunn, Padma Moyer, Daron Jennings, Thomas E. Webster, Nora DeMarcky, Arelle Mitkowski, Frank Willey, Amy Von Brock.

Recommended reading - Blade Runner: The Inside Story, by Don Shay (2003):

Blade Runner: The Inside Story

By Don Shay.

Published by Titan Books.

Published 2003.

ISBN-10: 1840232102

ISBN-13: 9781840232103

Description:

In 1982, to coincide with Blade Runner's original release, Cinefex, the respected magazine devoted to movie design and special effects devoted an entire, extended issue to Ridley Scott's sci-fi masterpiece. That issue has been out of print since then, but in constant demand – copies now sell on the collector's market for over $100. Titan Books is proud to bring this classic back into print, in a remastered hardcover edition.

Described as 'the single most comprehensive examination of Blade Runner's special effects', this must-have book contains scores of images not available elsewhere, as well as authoritative text, containing in-depth, exclusive interviews with director Ridley Scott and the legendary designer Syd Mead.

On this day in movie history - King of the Ants (2003):

King of the Ants

directed by Stuart Gordon,

written by Charlie Higson,

based on the novel by Charlie Higson,

was released in the United States on June 13, 2003.
Music by Bobby Johnston.

Cast:

Chris McKenna, Kari Wuhrer, George Wendt, Vernon Wells, Lionel Mark Smith, Timm Sharp, Daniel Baldwin, Carissa Kosta, Briana Beghi, Carlie Westerman, Ian Patrick Williams, Antoine Joseph, Shuko Akune, Steve Heller, Ken ‘Bam Bam’ Johnson Jr., Tino Marquez Jr., Adam Noble, Joe Davis, Mike Hawks, Ron Livingston.

On this day in music history - Reflections, by B.B. King (2003):

Reflections

Album by B.B. King,

released June 10, 2003.

Track list:

Exactly Like You; On My Word Of Honor; I Want A Little Girl; I’ll String Along With You; I Need You So; A Mother’s Love; (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons; Neighborhood Affair; Tomorrow Night; There I’ve Said It Again; Always On My Mind; Cross My Heart; What A Wonderful World.

On this day in music history - Piano Solos, by Laura Sullivan (2003):

Piano Solos

Album by Laura Sullivan,
released June 1, 2003.

Track list:

Hope for the Sun; Dreaming Underwater; Selling Water by the River; Lullaby Wind; Sleepwalking (On a Tightrope); Claire De Lune; Calls to Spirit; Brave Mourning; Of Land & Sea, Of Mortal & Divine; The Voyage Home; In Last Hours.

On this day in music history: Alcohol & Salvation, by Carolyn Wonderland (2003):

Alcohol & Salvation

Album by Carolyn Wonderland,

released May 6, 2003.

Track list:

I’m Innocent; I’m Out Sick; How Many Crowes; Brick Wall; The Only Girl You Knew; Worst Day of My Life; Bad Girl; Beer; Pieces of a Postcard; Feed Me to the Lions; Sober; I’m the Man; Gospel Song; I Don’t Wanna Fall for You.

On this day in music history - Couldn't Have Said It Better, by Meat Loaf (2003):

Couldn’t Have Said It Better

Album by Meat Loaf,

released April 21, 2003.

Track list:

I Couldn't Have Said It Better Myself; Did I Say That; Why Isn't That Enough; Love You Out Loud; Man of Steel; Testify; Tear Me Down; You're Right, I Was Wrong; Because of You; Do It; Forever Young.

On this day in music history - Say You Will, by Fleetwood Mac (2003):

The album Say You Will,

by Fleetwood Mac,

was released on April 15, 2003.

On this day in music history - Hopes & Dreams, by Lisa Lynne (2003):

Hopes & Dreams

Album by Lisa Lynne,

released April 8, 2003.

Track list:

Earth & Sky; Living in Love; Dreamdance; Circle the Sun; Bamboo Morning; Soliloquy; Sea March; Home; Interlude; Natural World.

On this day in music history - Artist Portrait: Susan Graham, by Susan Graham (2003):

Artist Portrait: Susan Graham

Album by Susan Graham,

released March 10, 2003.

Track list:

Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492; Voi che sapete; Non so più cosa son, cosa faccio; Alcina, opera, HWV 34; Di te mi rido; Mi lusinga il dolce affetto; Mio bel Tesoro; Verdi prati; Iphigénie en Tauride, opera in 4 acts, Wq. 46; O malheureuse Iphigénie!; Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, for voice & piano; Early in the Morning, for voice & piano; The Santa Fe Songs, song cycle of 12 poems of Witter Bynner for medium voice, violin, viola, cello & piano; The Wintry Mind; O you whom I often and silently come, for voice & piano (from "Poems of Walt Whitman"); Béatrice et Bénédict, opera, H. 138; Comment le dédain pourrait-il mourir?; Dieu! Que viens-je entendre?; Dead Man Walking, opera; This journey to Christ; Who will walk with me?; Dead Man Walking!; He will gather us around; Toi c'est moi, operetta; C'est ça la vie, c'est ça l'amour; Yes, musical; Yes; Coups de roulis, operetta; Les hommes sont bien tous les mêmes.

Recommended reading - Shutter Island, by Dennis Lehane (2003):

Shutter Island

By Dennis Lehane.

Published by William Morrow Paperbacks.

First published 2003.

Mass Market Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0062068415

ISBN-13: 978-0062068415

Description:

“Fasten your seat belts for a bumpy, breakneck ride…utterly absorbing… is an express train with no local stops…engrossing.” – Boston Globe.

“The ride this novel provides is as good as entertainment gets.” – Miami Herald.

“Combines the claustrophobia of . . . Agatha Christie . . . with the creepiness of a good Stephen King yarn. . . . Good luck putting this one down. – San Francisco Chronicle Book Review.

“Startlingly original…instantly cinematic… unfolds with increasing urgency until it delivers a visceral shock in its final moments.” – New York Times.

“There is no mystery…about how good this book is; like Mystic River, it’s a tour de force.” – Publishers Weekly.

“A lollapalooza of a corkscrew thriller…sure to be the most talked–about thriller of the year.” – Kirkus Reviews.

“Nightmarish…it’s not a book to start before bedtime. Even if you finish before dawn, Shutter Island will trouble your sleep.” – Orlando Sentinel.

The year is 1954. U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, have come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to investigate the disappearance of a patient. Multiple murderess Rachel Solando is loose somewhere on this remote and barren island, despite having been kept in a locked cell under constant surveillance. As a killer hurricane relentlessly bears down on them, a strange case takes on even darker, more sinister shades – with hints of radical experimentation, horrifying surgeries, and lethal countermoves made in the cause of a covert shadow war. No one is going to escape Shutter Island unscathed, because nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is what it seems. But then neither is Teddy Daniels.

On this day in music history - Under the Stars, by Renée Fleming and Bryn Terfel (2003):

Under the Stars

Album by Renée Fleming and Bryn Terfel,

released February 11, 2003.

Track list:

"Not While I'm Around" (From Sweeney Todd By Stephen Sondheim); "Moonfall" (From the Mystery of Edwin Drood By R. Holmes); "I Don't Remember You the Happy Tim" and "Sometimes a Day Goes By" (From Woman of the Year By Kander & Ebb); "All the Love I Have" (from The Beautiful Game by Ben Elton & Andrew Lloyd Webber); "I Wish I Could Forget You / Loving You" (From Passion By Stephen Sondheim); "Stars" (From Les Misirables By Boublil & Schvnberg); "All I Ask of You" (From the Phantom of the Opera By Andrew Lloyd Webber); "Hello, Young Lovers" (From the King and I By Rodgers & Hammerstein); "Pretty Women" (From Sweeney Todd By Stephen Sondheim); "Aimer" (From Romio Et Juliette By Presgurvic); "All the Wasted Time" (From Parade By J. Brown); "Seventy-Six Trombones" (From the Music Man By Willson); "How Could I Ever Know" (From the Secret Garden By Simon and Norman); "So in Love" (From Kiss Me Kate By Cole Porter); "Wheels of a Dream" (From Ragtime By Ahrens & Flaherty).

On this day in movie history - Bukowski: Born Into This (2003):

Bukowski: Born Into This

directed by John Dullaghan,

was released at the Sundance Film Festival in the United States on January 18, 2003.
Music by James Stemple.

Cast:

Charles Bukowski, Bono, John Bryan, Linda Lee Bukowski, Marina Bukowski, Neeli Cherkovski, Joyce Fante, FrancEyE, Taylor Hackford, John Martin, Mike Meloan, Jack Micheline, Pam 'Cupcakes' Miller, Dom Muto, William Packard, Sean Penn, Steve Richmond, Barbet Schroeder, Harry Dean Stanton, Tom Waits, Carl Weissner, Liza Williams, James Stemple.

On this day in music history - Pianoscapes for the Trails of North America, by Laura Sullivan (2003):

The album Pianoscapes for the Trails of North America,

by Laura Sullivan,

was released on December 2, 2003.

On this day in movie history - 21 Grams (2003):

21 Grams

directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu,

written by Guillermo Arriaga,

based on a story by Alejandro González Iñárritu,

was released in the United States on November 21, 2003.
Music by Gustavo Santaolalla.

Cast:

Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Benicio del Toro, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Melissa Leo, Danny Huston, John Rubinstein, Clea DuVall, Eddie Marsan, Marc Thomas Musso, Paul Calderón, Denis O'Hare, Kevin Chapman, Lew Temple, Carly Nahon.