Showing posts with label August 21. Show all posts
Showing posts with label August 21. Show all posts
Thursday, August 21, 2025
On this day in movie history - The Big Easy (1987):
The Big Easy
directed by Jim McBride,
written by Daniel Petrie,
Jr.,
was released in the United States on August 21, 1987.
Music by Brad Fiedel.
Music by Brad Fiedel.
Dennis Quaid, Ellen
Barkin, Ned Beatty, John Goodman, Lisa Jane Persky, Ebbe Roe Smith, Tom O'Brien,
Charles Ludlam, Grace Zabriskie, Marc Lawrence, Solomon Burke, Gailard Sartain,
Jim Chimento, Edward Saint Pe, Robert Lesser, Cheryl Starbuck, Margie O'Dair, Arden
Lo, Rickey Pierre, Nick Krieger, Gary Anthony Sturgis, Byron Nora, Archie
Sampier, Jeff Hollis, Joy N. Houck Jr., Steve Broussard, Eliott Keener, August
Krinke, John Schluter, Zephirin Hymel IV, Jack Harris, George Dureau, Patrick
Frederic, Lane Trippe, Nik Hagler, Don Lutenbacher, Carol Sutton, Peter Gabb, Jim
Garrison, Dave Petitjean, Buddy Quaid, Dennis Curren, Rico Wheat, Robert Kearney,
Joe Catalanotto, Terrance Simien, Gene Chambers, Popp Esprite, Earl Sally, Rudy
Chambers, Phillip V. Caruso, Duane Delco.
On this day in movie history - An American Werewolf in London (1981):
An American Werewolf in London
directed and written
by John Landis,
was released in the United
States on August 21, 1981.
Music by Elmer Bernstein.
Music by Elmer Bernstein.
David Naughton, Griffin
Dunne, David Schofield, Joe Belcher, Brian Glover, Lila Kaye, Rik Mayall, Sean
Baker, Paddy Ryan, Jenny Agutter, Anne-Marie Davies, John Woodvine, Frank Oz, Don
McKillop, Paul Kember, Colin Fernandes, Albert Moses, Jim Henson, Michele
Brisigotti, Mark Fisher, Gordon Sterne, Paula Jacobs, Claudine Bowyer, Johanna
Crayden, Nina Carter, Geoffrey Burridge, Brenda Cavendish, Christopher Scoular,
Mary Tempest, Cynthia Powell, Sydney Bromley, Frank Singuineau, Will Leighton, Michael
Carter, Elizabeth Bradley, Rufus Deakin, Lesley Ward, George Hilsdon, Gerry
Lewis, Dennis Fraser, Alan Ford, Peter Ellis, Denise Stephens, Christine
Hargreaves, Linzi Drew, Lucien Morgan, Dave Cooper, Susan Spencer, Bob Babenia,
Ken Sicklen, John Salthouse, John Altman, Keith Hodiak, John Owens, Roger
Rowland, Lewis Alexander, Jack Armstrong, Vic Armstrong, Alan Austen, Roy Beck,
Kevin Brennan, John Cannon, Ina Clare, Simon van Collem, Harry Fielder, Noel
Flanagan, Alan Flyng, Ryan Folsey, Laurie Goode, Dave Griffiths, Brendan Hughes,
John Ketteringham, John Landis, Dave Lanning, Aileen Lewis, Tommy Little, Derek
Lyons, Lou Morgan, Ralph G. Morse, James Muir, Terence Mustoo, George Oliver, James
Payne, Quentin Pierre, Jack Ross, Terry Sach, Alecia St Leger, David Stone, John
Timberlake, Terry Walsh.
On this day in movie history - The Longest Yard (1974):
The Longest Yard
aka The Mean Machine,
directed by Robert Aldrich,
written by Tracy
Keenan Wynn,
based on a story by Albert S.
Ruddy,
was released in the United States on August 21, 1974.
Music by Frank De Vol.
Music by Frank De Vol.
Burt Reynolds, Eddie Albert, Ed Lauter, Michael Conrad, James
Hampton, Harry Caesar, John Steadman, Charles Tyner, Mike Henry, Jim Nicholson,
Bernadette Peters, Pervis Atkins, Tony Cacciotti, Anitra Ford, Michael Fox, Joe
Kapp, Richard Kiel, Pepper Martin, Mort Marshall, Ray Nitschke, Tony Reese, Sonny
Sixkiller, Robert Tessier, Dino Washington, Ernie Wheelwright, Joe Dorsey, Gus Carlucci,
Jack Rockwell, Sonny Shroyer, Ray Ogden, Don Ferguson, Chuck Hayward, Alfie
Wise, Steve Wilder, George A. Jones, Wilbur Gillian, Wilson Warren, Joe Jackson,
Howard Silverstein, Donald Hixon.
Born on this day – Frank Perry:
Director
Writer
Producer
Actor
August 21, 1930 – August 29, 1995
Credits:
ABC
Stage 67 (1966); Adventures in Rainbow Country (1969); Among the Paths to Eden (1967);
Compromising Positions (1985); David and Lisa (1962); Diary of a Mad Housewife
(1970); 'Doc' (1971); Dummy (1979); Faye (2024); Federico Fellini - un
autoritratto ritrovato (2000); Festival of Family Classics (1973); Hawkeye and
the Last of the Mohicans (1957); Hello Again (1987); Howard K. Smith (1963); Island
Women (1958); J.F.K.: A One-Man Show (1984); Ladybug Ladybug (1963); Last
Summer (1969); Man on a Swing (1974); Mommie Dearest (1981); Monsignor (1982); Moving
Image Salutes Sidney Lumet (1985); On the Bridge (1992); Play It As It Lays
(1972); Playwright at Work (1961–1962); Rancho Deluxe (1975); Skag (1980); The
68th Annual Academy Awards (1996); The David Frost Show (1970–1971); The Dick
Cavett Show (1971); The Merv Griffin Show (1970); The Story of the Swimmer
(2014); The Swimmer (1968); The Thanksgiving Visitor (1968); The Tonight Show
Starring Johnny Carson (1970); Today (1973); Trilogy (1969).
Born on this day – Albert S. Rogell:
Director
August 21, 1901 – April 7, 1988
Credits:
A
Damsel in Distress (1937); Air Hawks (1935); Air Hostess (1933); Aloha (1931); Among
the Missing (1934); Argentine Nights (1940); Atlantic Adventure (1935); Below
the Sea (1933); Broken Arrow (1957–1958); Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow
(1987); Butch Minds the Baby (1942); Carnival Boat (1932); Cheyenne (1929); City
Streets (1938); Courageous Fool (1925); Crack o' Dawn (1925); Cyclone Cavalier
(1925); Desperate Chances (1921); Double Reward (1922); Earl Carroll Sketchbook
(1946); East of Fifth Avenue (1933); Easy Money (1925); Escape from Devil's
Island (1935); Fighting Fate (1925); Fog (1933); For Love or Money (1939); Fugitive
Lady (1934); Galloping Gallagher (1924); Geared to Go (1924); Goat Getter (1925);
Grand Jury (1936); Grinning Guns (1927); Hawaiian Nights (1939); Heaven Only
Knows (1947); His Brother's Blood (1922); Hit Parade of 1943 (1943); Hollywood
(1980); I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby (1940); In Old Oklahoma (1943);
Jail House Blues (1942); Laugh It Off (1939); Lightning Romance (1924); Li'l
Abner (1940); Love, Honor and Goodbye (1945); Mamba (1930); Men of Daring (1927);
Men of the Night (1926); Murder in Greenwich Village (1937); My Friend Flicka
(1956); Name the Woman (1934); No Man's Gold (1922); No More Women (1934); North
of Nevada (1924); Northwest Stampede (1948); Painted Faces (1929); Phantom of
the Hills (1922); Priorities on Parade (1942); Private Affairs (1940); Public
Enemies (1941); Red Hot Leather (1926); Roaming Lady (1936); Rough and Ready (1927);
Sailors on Leave (1941); Senor Daredevil (1926); Shadow of Fear (1955); Sleepytime
Gal (1942); Somewhere in Sonora (1927); Song of India (1949); Start Cheering
(1938); Streak of Yellow (1922); Suicide Fleet (1931); Super Speed (1925); Sweepstakes
(1931); Tangled Trails (1921); The 20th Century-Fox Hour (1956–1957); The
Admiral Was a Lady (1950); The Black Cat (1941); The California Mail (1929); The
Canyon of Adventure (1928); The Circus Cyclone (1925); The Claim Jumpers (1922);
The Danger Point (1922); The Dangerous Coward (1924); The Devil's Saddle (1927);
The Eagle Man (1921); The Fear Fighter (1925); The Fighter of Diamond X (1921);
The Fighting Sap (1924); The Fighting Three (1927); The Flying Marine (1929); The
Ford Television Theatre (1956); The Glorious Trail (1928); The Greatest Menace
(1923); The Hell Cat (1934); The Knockout Kid (1925); The Last Warning (1938); The
Lone Wolf in Paris (1938); The Lone Wolf's Daughter (1929); The Magnificent
Rogue (1946); The Man from the West (1926); The Mask of Lopez (1924); The
Midlanders (1920); The Overland Stage (1927); The Patent Leather Pug (1925); The
Phantom City (1928); The Queen of Hearts (1921); The Ranch Mystery (1921); The
Red Raiders (1927); The Rider of Death Valley (1932); The Shepherd of the Hills
(1928); The Silent Stranger (1924); The Snob Buster (1925); The Sphinx (1933); The
Stranger (1921); The Sunset Derby (1927); The Tip-Off (1931); The Unknown
Cavalier (1926); The Upland Rider (1928); The Western Rover (1927); The Western
Whirlwind (1927); The Wrecker (1933); Thundering Hoofs (1924); Tight Shoes
(1941); True to the Army (1942); Unknown Woman (1935); West Meets East (1922); You
May Be Next! (1936); Youth on Parade (1942); Youth's Gamble (1925).
Recommended reading - The Revenant (2002):
The Revenant
By Michael Punke.
Published by Picador.
Movie tie-in edition
published in 2015.
Published 2002.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 9781250072689
ISBN-13: 978-1250072689
Description:
Read the book that
inspired to major motion picture.
A thrilling tale of
betrayal and revenge set against the nineteenth-century American frontier, the
astonishing story of real-life trapper and frontiersman Hugh Glass.
The year is 1823, and
the trappers of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company live a brutal frontier life.
Hugh Glass is among the company’s finest men, an experienced frontiersman and
an expert tracker. But when a scouting mission puts him face-to-face with a grizzly
bear, he is viciously mauled and not expected to survive. Two company men are
dispatched to stay behind and tend to Glass before he dies. When the men rob
and abandon him instead, Glass is driven to survive by one desire: revenge.
With shocking grit and determination, Glass sets out, crawling at first, across
hundreds of miles of uncharted American frontier. Based on a true story, The
Revenant is a remarkable tale of obsession, the human will stretched to its
limits, and the lengths that one man will go to for retribution.
“The makings of a
western classic, Michael Punke's novel The Revenant provides muscle and
sinew to the vengeful and epic tale of mountain man Hugh Glass that even a sow
Grizzly couldn't rend asunder.” – Craig Johnson, author of the Walt Longmire
novels.
“One
of the great tales of the nineteenth-century West.” – The Salt Lake Tribune.
Monday, August 21, 2017
Solar Eclipse / Monday, August 21, 2017:
My wife
and I took time out from work this afternoon, sat out back of the house, and made
our own sun viewer out of a Triscuit box.
We only
got a partial eclipse, but it was still neat to see the light change for that
couple of minutes.
We
burned sage, meditated, gave thanks for all we are blessed with, exchanged affirmations,
expressed our love for each other, and wished happiness, good health, peace and
prosperity to everyone.
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