Showing posts with label April 21. Show all posts
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Monday, April 21, 2025

On this day in music history - The Undercurrent, by Sherry Finzer (2023):


The Undercurrent

Album by Sherry Finzer,
released April 21, 2023.

Track list:

Introspective; Hidden Emotions; Undercurrent; A Whole New World.

On this day in movie history - Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All-Time. Vol. 1: Midnight Madness (2020):


Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All-Time. Vol. 1: Midnight Madness,
documentary directed by Danny Wolf,
was released in the United States on April 21, 2020.

Cast:

Peter Bogdanovich, Barry Bostwick, Jeff Bridges, Gary Busey, Joe Dante, Illeana Douglas, Fran Drescher, Jeff Goldblum, Pam Grier, Michael McKean, Kevin Pollak, Rob Reiner, Penelope Spheeris, Anthony Timpone, John Turturro, John Waters.

On this day in music history - Live Texas Trio, by Carolyn Wonderland (2015):


Live Texas Trio

Album by Carolyn Wonderland,
released April 21, 2015.

Track list:

Palace of the King (Live); At the Crossroads (Live); Come Together (Live); Only God Knows When (Live); Samson and Delilah (Live); Money in the Game (Live); Nobody's Fault But Mine (Live); Walk on (Live); Heart (Live); Cumbia Raza (Live); When I Go Away (Live); Let's Go Get Stoned (Live).

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 - Ten Days in November, by Sue Foley (1998):


Ten Days in November

Album by Sue Foley,
released April 21, 1998.

Track list:

Highwayside; Baltimore Skyline; Long Way to Go; The Waiting Game; Give My Love to You; She Don't Belong to You; Through the Night; Winds of Change; The Forest; Promised Land; New Roads.

Born on this day – George DiCenzo:


George DiCenzo

Actor

April 21, 1940 – August 9, 2010

Born on this day – Reni Santoni:


Reni Santoni

Actor

April 21, 1938 – August 1, 2020

Born on this day – Charles Grodin:


Charles Grodin

Actor

Comedian

Writer

April 21, 1935 – May 18, 2021

Born on this day – Silvana Mangano:


Silvana Mangano

Actress

April 21, 1930 – December 16, 1989

Born on this day – Rita Macedo:


Rita Macedo

Actress

Writer

April 21, 1925 – December 6, 1993

Born on this day – Alistair MacLean:


Alistair MacLean

Writer

April 21, 1922 – February 2, 1987

Born on this day – Anthony Quinn:


Anthony Quinn

Actor

April 21, 1915 – June 3, 2001

Born on this day – Gilbert Taylor:


Gilbert Taylor


Cinematographer

April 21, 1914 – August 23, 2013

Credits:

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968); A British Horror Film (2003); A Day at the Beach (1970); A Hard Day's Night (1964); A Nice Girl Like Me (1969); A Prize of Arms (1962); Alive and Kicking (1958); Aquarius (1972); As Long as They're Happy (1955); Before Winter Comes (1968); Bottoms Up (1960); Breaking Up (1978); Brighton Rock (1948); Call Me Genius (1961); Circle of Danger (1951); Conan the Barbarian (1982); Crest of the Wave (1954); Cul-de-sac (1966); Damien: Omen II (1978); Department S (1969); Don't Get Me Started (1994); Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964); Dracula (1979); Duran Duran: The Chauffeur (1982); Escape Me Never (1935); Escape to Athena (1979); Fame Is the Spur (1947); Ferry Cross the Mersey (1964); Flash Gordon (1980); Follow the Beatles: The Story of the Making of 'A Hard Day's Night' (1964); Frenzy (1972); Front Page Story (1954); Glory at Sea (1952); Green Ice (1981); Hide and Seek (1964); High Treason (1951); Ice Cold in Alex (1958); Inside: 'Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb' (2000); It's Great to Be Young! (1956); Josephine and Men (1955); Journey Together (1945); Lassiter (1984); Losin' It (1982); Macbeth - Power and Corruption (1973); Macbeth (1971); Many Waters (1931); Me and My Girl (1939); Meetings with Remarkable Men (1979); Monopoly Star Wars (1997); My Brother Jonathan (1948); My Partner the Ghost (1969); My Wife's Family (1956); Nell Gwyn (1934); No Time for Tears (1957); No Trees in the Street (1959); Number 17 (1932); One Embarrassing Night (1930); Operation Bullshine (1959); Pathfinders (1972–1973); Paul Merton Looks at Alfred Hitchcock (2009); Petticoat Pirates (1961); Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx (1970); Repulsion (1965); Reputations (1999); Ring-A-Ding Rhythm! (1962); Sailor of the King (1953); Sands of the Desert (1960); Secret Flight (1946); Seven Days to Noon (1950); She Didn't Say No (1958); Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977); Stop Me Before I Kill! (1960); The Art of Stanley Kubrick: From Short Films to Strangelove (2000); The Avengers (1966–1969); The Baron (1966–1967); The Bedford Incident (1965); The Bedroom Window (1987); The Dam Busters (1955); The Good Companions (1957); The Man in a Looking Glass (1965); The Man Outside (1967); The New-Fangled Wandering Minstrel Show (1973); The Omen (1976); The One Show (2013); The Outsider (1948); The Punch and Judy Man (1963); The Silken Affair (1956); The Yellow Balloon (1953); Theatre of Death (1967); Things They Said Today (2002); Third Time Lucky (1931); Tommy the Toreador (1959); Trouble in the Glen (1954); Turn of the Tide (1935); Two Gangsters and an Island (2003); Undercovers Hero (1974); V.I.P.-Schaukel (1978); Venom (1981); Voyage of the Rock Aliens (1984); Woman in a Dressing Gown (1957); Work Is a Four Letter Word (1968); Yield to the Night (1956); Young and Willing (1954).

Born on this day – Eve Arnold:


Eve Arnold


Photographer

Journalist

April 21, 1912 – January 4, 2012

Credits:

Photographs:

Fashion Show, behind the scenes (1950); Horse Training for the Militia in Inner Mongolia (1979); Jacqueline Kennedy arranging flowers with daughter Caroline (1961); Marilyn Monroe (1960).

Books

All About Eve (2012); All in a Day’s Work (1989); Eve Arnold’s People (2010); Film Journal (2002); Flashback: The 50s (1978); Handbook (2005); In America (1983); In China (1980); In Retrospect (1995); Marilyn Monroe (2005); Marilyn Monroe: An Appreciation (1987); The Great British (1991); The Making of the White Nights (1985); The Unretouched Woman (1976).

Born on this day – Josh Billings:


Josh Billings

Writer

April 21, 1818 – October 14, 1885

Born on this day – Charlotte Brontë:


Charlotte Brontë


Writer

April 21, 1816 – March 31, 1855

Credits:

Books:

Emma (1860); Great Short Stories by English and Irish Women (2007); Hungry for Blood – Ultimate Halloween Collection (2023); Jane Eyre (1847); Legends of Angria (1933); Mina Laury (1838); My Angria And The Angrians (1830); Selected Letters (2007); Shirley (1849); Shirley, Vol. 1 of 3: A Tale (2018); Shirley, Vol. 2 of 3: A Tale (2018); Stancliffe's Hotel (2003); Tales of Angria (1839); Tales of the Islanders (1830); The Anthology of Love and Romance (1994); The Complete Poems of Charlotte Bronte (1923); The Foundling (1830); The Green Dwarf (1830); The Professor (1857); The Secret & Lily Hart (1830); The Secret (2006); The Spell (1830); Villette (1853); Women Who Wrote (2020); Writers: Their Lives and Works (2018).

Movies and television:

Acting for a Cause (2020); Ardiente secreto (1978); Die Waise (1919); Die Waise von Lowood (1926); El secreto (1963); Grande Teatro Tupi (1959); Guiding Light (1981); I Walked with a Zombie (1943); Jana Eyrová (1972); Jane Eyre (1910); Jane Eyre (1914); Jane Eyre (1915); Jane Eyre (1921); Jane Eyre (1934); Jane Eyre (1943); Jane Eyre (1946); Jane Eyre (1948); Jane Eyre (1955); Jane Eyre (1956); Jane Eyre (1957); Jane Eyre (1958); Jane Eyre (1961); Jane Eyre (1963); Jane Eyre (1968); Jane Eyre (1970); Jane Eyre (1973); Jane Eyre (1983); Jane Eyre (1996); Jane Eyre (1997); Jane Eyre (2006); Jane Eyre (2011); Kraft Theatre (1951); Le memorie di una istitutrice (1917); Matinee Theatre (1957); Mei gu (1956); Monodrama Theater (1953); National Theatre Live: Jane Eyre (2015); Novela (1965–1972); Recordarás mi nombre (1976); Sangdil (1952); Sargasso: A Caribbean Love Story (1991); Shirley (1922); Studio One (1949–1952); Teatre Lliure: Jane Eyre: una autobiografia (2020); The Autobiography of Jane Eyre (2013); The Castle of Thornfield (1915); The Mad Lady of Chester (1910); The Man I Love (1962); Theatre Parade (1937); TV de Vanguarda (1962); Villette (1957); Villette (1970); Wide Sargasso Sea (1993); Wide Sargasso Sea (2006); Woman and Wife (1918).

Recommended reading - Archer in Jeopardy, by Ross Macdonald (1979):


Archer in Jeopardy

By Ross Macdonald.

Anthology.
Published by by Alfred A. Knof.
Published 1979.
Hardcover.
ISBN 13: 9780394508047
ISBN 10: 0394508041
ASIN: 0394508041

Description:

Brings together three of the acclaimed mystery writer's Lew Archer novels – The Doomsters, The Zebra-Striped Hearse, & The Instant Enemy – three winners with the incomparable Macdonald touch.

Hilma Wolitzer, on writing:


Writing fiction is a solitary occupation, but not really a lonely one.
The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language.

- Hilma Wolitzer.