On this day in music history - Radio On!, by Lee Aaron (2021):

The album Radio On!,

by Lee Aaron,

was released on July 23, 2021.

On this day in movie history - Fear and Loathing in Aspen (2021):

Fear and Loathing in Aspen,

directed and written by Bobby Kennedy III,

was released in the United States on July 23, 2021.
Music by Wayne Kramer.

Cast:
Jay Bulger, Cheryl Hines, Laird Macintosh, Amaryllis Fox, Maxwell Loeb, Emily Garnet, Lincoln Nemeth, Paul Morgan, James Chambers, Henry Dills, Mac Hedges, Dabbs Anderson, Danny Power, Bobby Kennedy III, Weston Cage Coppola, Blair Carlyle, Carlo Lombardi, Kick Kennedy, Alexis Kelley, Charlie Oldman, Peyton Morse, Uma von Wittkamp, Maggie Nixon, Tage Plantell, Maya Ferrario, Micah Flamm, John Harper, Blake Lindsley, Damian Lund.

On this day in movie history - Wolf Creek (2005):

Wolf Creek,

directed and written by Greg McLean,

was released in Australia on July 23, 2005.
Inspired by the true Australian cases of Ivan Milat (1996) and Bradley Murdoch (2001).
Music by Frank Tétaz.

Cast:
John Jarratt, Cassandra Magrath, Kestie Morassi, Nathan Phillips, Gordon Poole, Guy O’Donnell, Phil Stevenson, Geoff Revell, Andy McPhee, Aaron Sterns, Michael Moody, Andrew Reimer, Vicki Reimer, Isabella Reimer, David Rock, Jenny Starvall, Guy Petersen, Paul Curran, Christian McMillan, Sean Gannon, Aaron J. March, Eddie White, Geoffrey Yu, Amy Schapel, Teresa Palmer, Bow Vayne, Renee Chomel, Noni Dunstone, John Henry Duncan, Chloe Gardner, Greg Sara, Renee Luna, Michael Soang, Niesha de Jong, Leesa Millhouse, Alex De Rosa, Darren Humphreys, Peter Alchin, Rory Walker, Jon Blaikie, Greg McLean, Jacob Francis Worrall.

Born on this day – Philip Seymour Hoffman:

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Actor

July 23, 1967 – February 2, 2014

Born on this day – Jon Landau:

Jon Landau

Producer

Production Manager

Writer

July 23, 1960 – July 5, 2024

Credits:

A Quiet Place: Day One (2018–2019); Alita: Battle Angel (2019); Andaaz (2014); Assorted Nightmares: Janitor (2008); Avatar (2009); Avatar: Creating the World of Pandora (2010); Avatar: Production Materials (2010); Avatar: The Way of Water (2022); Beyond Glory (2015); Big Kids (2009); Brian May's Brief History of 3D (2011); Burning Questions (2022); Campus Man (1987); Capturing Avatar (2010); Cinema 3 (2010); Crew Film: TheVolume (2010); Crysis 2 (2011); Dick Tracy (1990); Dream Job (2012); Entertainment Tonight (2010); E-penser (2019); E-penser (2019); E-penser (2019); F/X (1986); Face of the Frog (2019); Fantastic (2009); FX Movie Download (2014); HBO First Look (1997); HBO First Look (1997–2002); Hey Jenny (2010); Hey Johnny (2010); Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989); Inside Pandora's Box (2023); Key Exchange (1985); Life After Film School (2009); Love (2015); Made in Hollywood (2019); Made in Hollywood: Teen Edition (2012–2019); Making Mr. Right (1987); Manhunter (1986); Mr. H Reviews (2018); Poker Night Live (2018); Reflections on Titanic (2012); Requiem (1999); Scream Awards 2010 (2010); Scream Awards 2010 (2010); Secret Life of Old Rose: The Art of Gloria Stuart (2012); Solaris (2002); 'Solaris': Behind the Planet (2003); Tavis Smiley (2010); The 2018 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony (2018); The 28th Satellite Awards (2024); The 55th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1998); The 70th Annual Academy Awards (1998); The 82nd Annual Academy Awards (2010); The Fabulous Picture Show (2009); The Hollywood Machine (2002); The Imagineering Story (2019); The IMDb Show (2019); The Making of 'Alien³' (2003); The Most Magical Story on Earth: 50 Years of Walt Disney World (2021); The Oscars (2023); Titanic (1997); Titanic: Audio Commentary by Actress Kate Winslet, Actress Gloria Stuart, Actor Lewis Abernathy, Co-Producer Jon Landau and Executive Producer Rae Sanchini (2005); Titanic: Breaking New Ground (1998); Titanic: EPK Press Kit (2005); Titanic: The Final Word with James Cameron (2012); Titanic's Production: Behind the Scenes (2005); Today's Close Up (2010); Toruk: The First Flight (2016); Troldspejlet (2009); Up Close with Carrie Keagan (2009); Western Stars (2019); What's Trending (2011); XLTV (1998).

Born on this day – Bruce Surtees:

Bruce Surtees

Cinematographer

July 23, 1937 – February 23, 2012

With Clint Eastwood (left).

Credits:

Joshua (2002); And Never Let Her Go (2001); American Tragedy (2000); Thin Air (2000); The Lady in Question (1999); Lethal Vows (1999); That Championship Season (1999); Dash and Lilly (1999); Murder in a Small Town (1999); Just a Little Harmless Sex (1998); The Substitute (1996); The Stars Fell on Henrietta (1995); Corrina, Corrina (1994); The Birds II: Land's End (1994); The Crush (1993); That Night (1992); The Super (1991); Run (1991); Chains of Gold (1990); Men Don't Leave (1990); License to Drive (1988); Back to the Beach (1987); Ratboy (1986); Out of Bounds (1986); Psycho III (1986); Pale Rider (1985); Beverly Hills Cop (1984); Tightrope (1984); Sudden Impact (1983); Risky Business (1983); Bad Boys (1983); Honkytonk Man (1982); Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains (1982); White Dog (1982); Firefox (1982); Inchon (1981); Escape from Alcatraz (1979); Dreamer (1979); Movie Movie (1978); Big Wednesday (1978); Three Warriors (1977); The Shootist (1976); The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976); Sparkle (1976); Leadbelly (1976); Night Moves (1975); Lenny (1974); Hello Mother, Goodbye! (1974); The Outfit (1973); Blume in Love (1973); High Plains Drifter (1973); Joe Kidd (1972); Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972); The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid (1972); Dirty Harry (1971); Play Misty for Me (1971); The Beguiled (1971).

Born on this day – Evelyn Lambart:

Evelyn Lambart

Animator

Director

July 23, 1914 – April 3, 1999

Credits:

A Chairy Tale (1957); Around Is Around (1953); Begone Dull Care (1950); Challenge: Science Against Cancer (1950); Family Tree (1950); Fine Feathers (1968); Les femmes parmi nous (1961); Lines: Horizontal (1962); Lines: Vertical (1960); Mosaic (1966); Mr. Frog Went A-Courting (1974); Now Is the Time (1951); O Canada (1952); One Little Indian (1954); Paradise Lost (1970); Physical Regions of Canada (1954); Putting It Straight (1957); River with a Problem (1961); Rythmetic (1956); Short and Suite (1959); Sing a Little (1951); Story of a Violin (1947); The Blackbird (1958); The Colour of Life (1955); The Embryonic Development of Fish (1961); The Fight: Science Against Cancer (1950); The Hoarder (1969); The Impossible Map (1947); The Lion and the Mouse (1976); The Maple Leaf (1955); The Outlaw Within (1951); The Spruce Bog: An Essay in Ecology (1957); The Story of Christmas (1973); The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse (1980).

Born on this day – Aileen Pringle:

Aileen Pringle

Actress

July 23, 1895 – December 16, 1989

Credits:

1925 Studio Tour (1925); A Kiss in the Dark (1925); A Single Man (1929); A Thief in Paradise (1925); A Wave, a WAC and a Marine (1944); Adam and Evil (1927); Appointment for Love (1941); Beau Broadway (1928); Between Us Girls (1942); Body and Soul (1927); Boston Blackie / Front Page Detective (1951); By Appointment Only (1933); Calling Dr. Kildare (1939); Camille (1926); Convicted (1931); Criminal Lawyer (1937); Don't Marry for Money (1923); Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case (1943); Dream of Love (1928); Earthbound (1920); Happy Land (1943); His Hour (1924); Hollywood Guests at San Simeon (Hearst Castle);  (1931); In the Palace of the King (1923); Jane Eyre (1934); John Meade's Woman (1937); Laura (1944); Life in Hollywood No. 4 / 7 (1927); Love Past Thirty (1934); Man-Proof (1938); Married Flirts (1924); Murder at Midnight (1931); My American Wife (1922); Name the Man! (1924); Night Parade (1929); Nothing Sacred (1937); Oath-Bound (1922); Once to Every Bachelor (1934); One Year to Live (1925); Piccadilly Jim (1936); Police Court (1932); Prince of Diamonds (1930); Puttin' on the Ritz (1930); Screen Snapshots No. 2 (1925); Screen Snapshots Series 9, No. 18 (1930); She's No Lady (1937); Should a Girl Marry? (1939); Show People (1928); Since You Went Away (1944); Soldiers and Women (1930); Sons of Steel (1934); Soul Mates (1925); Souls for Sale (1923); Stolen Moments (1920); Subway Express (1931); Tea for Three (1927); Telephone Time (1956); Thanks for Listening (1937); The Age of Consent (1932); The Baby Cyclone (1928); The Bride's Bereavement; or, the Snake in the Grass (1932); The Christian (1923); The Cost (1920); The Five O'Clock Girl (1928); The Great Deception (1926); The Hardys Ride High (1939); The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1937); The Mystic (1925); The Night of Nights (1939); The Phantom of Crestwood (1932); The Sport of Kings (1920); The Strangers' Banquet (1922); The Tiger's Claw (1923); The Unguarded Hour (1936); The Wife of the Centaur (1924); The Wilderness Woman (1926); The Women (1939); The Youngest Profession (1943); They Died with Their Boots On (1941); Three Weeks (1924); Tin Gods (1926); Too Hot to Handle (1938); True As Steel (1924); Vanessa, Her Love Story (1935); Wall Street (1929); Wanted! Jane Turner (1936); Wickedness Preferred (1928); Wife vs. Secretary (1936); Wildfire (1925).

Born on this day – Florence Vidor:

Florence Vidor

Actress

July 23, 1895 – November 3, 1977

Credits:

A Heart in Pawn (1919); A Tale of Two Cities (1917); A Tour of the Thomas Ince Studio (1920); A Trip Through the World's Greatest Motion Picture Studios (1920); Afraid to Love (1927); Alice Adams (1923); American Methods (1917); Are Parents People? (1925); Barbara Frietchie (1924); Beau Revel (1921); Bill Peter's Kid (1916); Borrowed Husbands (1924); Chinatown Nights (1929); Christine of the Hungry Heart (1924); Conquering the Woman (1922); Curfew at Simpton Center (1916); Doomsday (1928); Dusk to Dawn (1922); Grounds for Divorce (1925); Hail the Woman (1921); Hashimura Togo (1917); Honeymoon Hate (1927); Husbands and Lovers (1924); Lying Lips (1921); Main Street (1923); Marry Me (1925); Old Wives for New (1918); One Woman to Another (1927); Poor Relations (1919); Real Adventure (1922); Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 12 (1936); Screen Snapshots, Series 1, No. 19 (1921); Screen Snapshots, Series 1, No. 2 (1920); Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 11 (1922); Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 2 (1922); Sea Horses (1926); Skin Deep (1922); Souls for Sale (1923); The Bravest Way (1918); The Cook of Canyon Camp (1917); The Countess Charming (1917); The Eagle of the Sea (1926); The Enchanted Hill (1926); The Family Honor (1920); The Girl of Gold (1925); The Grand Duchess and the Waiter (1926); The Hidden Pearls (1918); The Honor of His House (1918); The House That Shadows Built (1931); The Intrigue (1916); The Jack-Knife Man (1920); The Magnificent Flirt (1928); The Marriage Circle (1924); The Mirage (1924); The Other Half (1919); The Patriot (1928); The Popular Sin (1926); The Secret Game (1917); The Trouble with Wives (1925); The Virginian (1923); The White Man's Law (1918); The Widow's Might (1918); The World at Her Feet (1927); The Yellow Girl (1916); Till I Come Back to You (1918); Welcome Stranger (1924); Woman, Wake Up (1922); You Never Know Women (1926).

Born on this day – Raymond Chandler:

Raymond Chandler

Writer

July 23, 1888 – March 26, 1959

Credits:

Books to Die For (2012); Double Indemnity (1944); Farewell, My Lovely (1940); Five Murders (1944); Five Sinister Characters (1945); Goldfish (1981); Great Law and Order Stories (1990); Hard-Boiled Detectives (1953); I’ll Be Waiting (2020); Killer in the Rain (1964); Los Angeles Noir 2 (2010); Mandarin's Jade (1937); No Crimes In The Mountains (1941); Only to Sleep (2018); Pearls are a Nuisance (1958); Perchance to Dream (1991); Pickup on Noon Street (1952); Playback (1958); Poodle Springs (1989); Pulp Fiction - The Dames (2008); Pulp Frictions: Hardboiled Stories (1996); Red Wind (1946); Selected Letters (1981); Smart-Aleck Kill (1953); Spanish Blood (1946); The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century (2000); The Big Sleep (1939); The Black-Eyed Blonde (2014); The Blue Dahlia (1976); The Curtain (1936); The Finger Man (1947); The Goodbye Coast (2022); The High Window (1942); The Lady in the Lake (1943); The Little Book of Horrors: Tiny Tales of Terror (1992); The Little Sister (1949); The Long Goodbye (1953); The Longman Anthology of Detective Fiction (2004); The Mammoth Book of Private Eye Stories (1988); The Man Who Liked Dogs (1996); The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler (1976); The Oxford Book of American Detective Stories (1996); The Oxford Book of Detective Stories (2000); The Second Murderer (2023); The Simple Art of Murder (1950); The Smell of Fear (1965); The World of Raymond Chandler (2014); Trouble is My Business (1950); Try The Girl (1937); Writers: Their Lives and Works (2018); Writing Los Angeles (2002).

Movies and television:

77 Sunset Strip (1958); And Now Tomorrow (1944); Aspetterò (1978); Cineficción Radio (2021); Climax! (1954); Danger (1953); Double Indemnity (1944 / 1973); Fallen Angels (1993–1995); Farewell, My Lovely (1975); Ian Fleming and Raymond Chandler (2006); Ich werde warten (1982); Kraft Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1949); Lady in the Lake (1946); Los 10 magníficos (2008); Lux Video Theatre (1954); Marlowe (1969 / 2007 / 2022); Mike Case in: The Big Kiss Off (2013); Morning Patrol (1987); Murder, My Sweet (1944); Nash Airflyte Theatre (1951); Omnibus (1969); Once You Meet a Stranger (1996); Philip Marlowe (1959–1960); Philip Marlowe, Private Eye (1983–1986); Poodle Springs (1998); Robert Montgomery Presents (1950); Schlitz Playhouse (1957); Smart Philip (2003); Storyboard (1961); Strangers on a Train (1951); Studio One (1951–1953); The Big Sleep (1946 / 1978); The Blue Dahlia (1946); The Brasher Doubloon (1947); The Falcon Takes Over (1942); The Great Detectives (1999); The Long Goodbye (1973 / 2014); The Long Goodbye: Tom Williams on Raymond Chandler (2013); The Unseen (1945); Time to Kill (1942); Triple Feature (2016); TV de Vanguarda (1957).

Born on this day – Birt Acres:

Birt Acres

Photographer

Director

Cinematographer

Producer

July 23, 1854 – December 27, 1918

Recommended reading - Raymond Chandler: Stories and Early Novels (1995):

Raymond Chandler: Stories and Early Novels (1995).

Anthology by Raymond Chandler.

Edited by Frank MacShane.

ISBN-10: 1883011078

ISBN-13: 978-1883011079

Contents:

Pulp Stories: Blackmailers Don’t Shoot; Smart-Aleck Kill; Finger Man; Nevada Gas; Spanish Blood; Guns at Cyrano’s; Pick-Up on Noon Street; Goldfish; Red Wind; The King in Yellow; Pearls Are a Nuisance; Trouble Is My Business; I’ll Be Waiting. Novels: The Big Sleep; Farewell, My Lovely; The High Window. Chronology. Note on the texts. Notes.

Description:

In Raymond Chandler’s hands, the pulp crime story became a haunting mystery of power and corruption, set against a modern cityscape both lyrical and violent. With humor, and an unerring sense of dialogue and the telling detail, he created a fictional universe out of the dark side of aunlit Los Angeles. In the process, he transformed both the crime novel and American writing.

Stories and Early Novels includes the first three novels featuring Chandler’s great creation, private eye Philip Marlowe: tough, disillusioned, and sensitive. In The Big Sleep, Farewell, My Lovely, and The High Window, Marlowe’s investigations lead him from Los Angeles shanties and honkytonks to the highest reaches of power, encountering a world of gangsters and crooked politicians, lost souls and small-time operators. Thirteen stories from the pulp magazines Black Mask and Dime Detective include such classics as “Red Wind” and “Trouble Is My Business.” This volume, with its companion, Later Novels & Other Writings, comprises the most comprehensive edition available of America’s greatest mystery writer.

The Library of America, a nonprofit publisher, is dedicated to preserving the works of America’s greatest writers in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts.

Paul Auster, on writing:

Becoming a writer is not a 'career decision' like becoming a doctor or a policeman.

You don't choose it so much as get chosen,

and once you accept the fact that you're not fit for anything else,

you have to be prepared to walk a long, hard road for the rest of your days.

- Paul Auster.