On this day in music history: Strange Toys, by Joan Jeanrenaud (2008):

Strange Toys

Album by Joan Jeanrenaud,

released November 18, 2008.

Track list:

Sling Shot; Axis; Kaleidoscope; Transition; Tug of War; Dervish; Ink Blot; Blue Kite; Livre; Waiting; Rainkids; Air & Angels; Vermont Rules; Trottola.

On this day in movie history - Walk the Line (2005):

Walk the Line

directed by James Mangold,

written by Gill Dennis and James Mangold,

based on the book Man in Black: His Own Story in His Own Words and Cash: The Autobiography by Johnny Cash,

was released in the United States on November 18, 2005.

Music by T Bone Burnett.

Cast:

Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon, Ginnifer Goodwin, Robert Patrick, McGhee Monteith, Dallas Roberts, Dan John Miller, Larry Bagby, Shelby Lynne, Tyler Hilton, Waylon Payne, Shooter Jennings, Sandra Ellis Lafferty, Dan Beene, Clay Steakley, Johnathan Rice, Johnny Holiday, Ridge Canipe, Lucas Till.

On this day in movie history - Star Trek: Generations (1994):

Star Trek: Generations

directed by David Carson,

written by Ronald D. Moore and Brannon Braga,

was released in the United States on November 18, 1994.
Music by Dennis McCarthy.

Cast:

Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Malcolm McDowell, James Doohan, Walter Koenig, William Shatner, Alan Ruck, Jacqueline Kim, Jenette Goldstein, Thomas Kopache, Glenn Morshower, Tim Russ, Tommy Hinkley, John Putch, Christine Jansen, Michael Mack, Dendrie Taylor, Patti Yasutake, Granville Ames, Henry Marshall, Brittany Parkyn, Majel Barrett, Barbara March, Gwynyth Walsh, Rif Hutton, Brian Thompson, Marcy Goldman, Jim Krestalude, Judy Levitt, Kristopher Logan, Gwen Van Dam, Kim Braden, Christopher James Miller, Matthew Collins, Mimi Collins, Thomas Dekker, Madison Eginton, Olivia Hack, Sam Alejan, David Keith Anderson, Lena Banks, Scott Barry, Rina Bennett, Pam Blackwell, Cameron, Tracee Cocco, Debbie David, Andrew DePalma, Steve Diamond, Michael Echols, Tarik Ergin, Gunnel Eriksson, Whoopi Goldberg, Star Halm, Adolphus Hankins, Grace Harrell, Kerry Hoyt, Gary Hunter, Randy James, Dale Kasman, Stewart Lew, Lorine Mendell, Karlotta Nelson, Jerry L. Quinn, Keith Rayve, Raul Reformina, Lynn Salvatori, Richard Sarstedt, Penny Smartt-Juday, Patricia Tallman, John Alex Tampoya, Dennis Tracy, Guy Vardaman, D. Danny Warhol.

On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek: The Next Generation (1989)

Star Trek: Generations (1994)

Star Trek: Generations / novel (1994)

Star Trek: Voyager (1998)

Star Trek: Discovery (2021)

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Season 3. Episode 9.

Episode entitled: The Vengeance Factor.

Released November 18, 1989.

Directed by Timothy Bond.

Written by Sam Rolfe, Richard Danus.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Dennis McCarthy.

Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Wil Wheaton, Gates McFadden, Lisa Wilcox, Joey Aresco, Nancy Parsons, Stephen Lee, Marc Lawrence, Elkanah Burns, Rachen Assapiomonwait, Majel Barrett, James G. Becker, Michael Braveheart, Clay Hodges, Michael Lamper, Tim McCormack, Oliver Theess.

Star Trek: Generations

Directed by David Carson.

Written by Ronald D. Moore and Brannon Braga.

Released in the United States on November 18, 1994.

Music by Dennis McCarthy.

Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Malcolm McDowell, James Doohan, Walter Koenig, William Shatner, Alan Ruck, Jacqueline Kim, Jenette Goldstein, Thomas Kopache, Glenn Morshower, Tim Russ, Tommy Hinkley, John Putch, Christine Jansen, Michael Mack, Dendrie Taylor, Patti Yasutake, Granville Ames, Henry Marshall, Brittany Parkyn, Majel Barrett, Barbara March, Gwynyth Walsh, Rif Hutton, Brian Thompson, Marcy Goldman, Jim Krestalude, Judy Levitt, Kristopher Logan, Gwen Van Dam, Kim Braden, Christopher James Miller, Matthew Collins, Mimi Collins, Thomas Dekker, Madison Eginton, Olivia Hack, Sam Alejan, David Keith Anderson, Lena Banks, Scott Barry, Rina Bennett, Pam Blackwell, Cameron, Tracee Cocco, Debbie David, Andrew DePalma, Steve Diamond, Michael Echols, Tarik Ergin, Gunnel Eriksson, Whoopi Goldberg, Star Halm, Adolphus Hankins, Grace Harrell, Kerry Hoyt, Gary Hunter, Randy James, Dale Kasman, Stewart Lew, Lorine Mendell, Karlotta Nelson, Jerry L. Quinn, Keith Rayve, Raul Reformina, Lynn Salvatori, Richard Sarstedt, Penny Smartt-Juday, Patricia Tallman, John Alex Tampoya, Dennis Tracy, Guy Vardaman, D. Danny Warhol.

Star Trek: Generations

By John Vornholt.

Published by Pocket Books.

Published 1994.

ISBN-10: 0671519018

ISBN-13: 978-0671519018

Description:

The story begins with the launching of the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-B and the mysterious disappearance of Captain James T. Kirk. Then, seventy-eight years later, Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D receives a distress call from a remote scientific observatory. Picard learns that a newly developed superweapon has been stolen by a desperate scientist with an insane plot. Facing the most difficult task of his career, Captain Picard must seek out the one person with the power to help him, a person long thought dead: Captain James T. Kirk. Together, the two captains are tested as they've never been before. And both men are forced to make the greatest sacrifices of their careers to save countless millions from a madman with a plan for mass destruction.

Star Trek: Voyager

Season 5. Episode 6.

Episode entitled: Timeless.

Released November 18, 1998.

Directed by LeVar Burton.

Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

Written by Brannon Braga, Joe Menosky, Rick Berman, Bryan Fuller, Nick Sagan, Michael Taylor.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Dennis McCarthy.

Cast: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Biggs-Dawson, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang, Jeri Ryan, Christine Harnos, LeVar Burton, Majel Barrett, Tarik Ergin, Richard Sarstedt.

Star Trek: Discovery

Season 4. Episode 1.

Episode entitled: Kobayashi Maru.

Released November 18, 2021.

Directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi.

Created by Bryan Fuller, Alex Kurtzman.

Written by Michelle Paradise, Jenny Lumet, Alex Kurtzman, Glenise Mullins, Brandon Schultz.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Jeff Russo.

Cast: Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones, Anthony Rapp, Mary Wiseman, Wilson Cruz, Blu del Barrio, David Ajala, Oded Fehr, Ian Alexander, Chelah Horsdal, Bill Irwin, Emily Coutts, Patrick Kwok-Choon, Oyin Oladejo, Ronnie Rowe, Sara Mitich, Raven Dauda, David Benjamin Tomlinson, Orville Cummings, Luca Doulgeris, Rodrigo Fernandez-Stoll, Ache Hernandez, Vanessa Jackson, Jodi Jahnke, Avaah Blackwell, Alex McCooeye, David Sobolov, Adrian Walters, Victoria Dunsmore, Golden Madison, Shelley Owens.

On this day in movie history - Last Rites (1988):

Last Rites

directed and written by Donald P. Bellisario,

was released in the United States on November 18, 1988.
Music by Bruce Broughton.

Cast:

Tom Berenger, Daphne Zuniga, Chick Vennera, Anne Twomey, Dane Clark, Paul Dooley, Vassili Lambrinos, Adrian Paul, Deborah Pratt, Tony DiBenedetto, Christine Poor, Al Rodrigo, Jack Hallett, Louis Gigante, Ibi Kaufman, Frank Patton III, Maurizio Benazzo, Roberto Corbo, Leslie Arnett, Ernesto González, Mary Diveny, Julie Kenyon, Lynda Jordan, Tony Lip, Damien Leake, Phil Neilson, Peter J. Blanck, Shawn Gold, Ricky Rojas, Frank Simpson, Anthony Bishop, Tony Montana, Chelsea Berenger, Lisa Berenger, Troian Bellisario, Michael Bellisario, Kristin Andersen, Fernando Ramírez Romero.

On this day in music history - Rock a Little, by Stevie Nicks (1985):

Rock a Little

Album by Stevie Nicks,

released November 18, 1985.

Track list:

I Can’t Wait; Rock a Little (Go Ahead Lily); Sister Honey; I Sing for the Things; Imperial Hotel; Some Becomes Strangers; Talk to Me; The Nightmare; If I Were You; No Spoken Word; Has Anyone Ever Written Anything For You.

On this day in movie history - A Christmas Story (movie & novel):

A Christmas Story

directed by Bob Clark,

written by Jean Shepherd, Leigh Brown and Bob Clark,

based on the book In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash, by Jean Shepherd,

was released in the United States on November 18, 1983.
Narrated by Jean Shepherd.
Music by Paul Zaza and Carl Zittrer.

Cast:

Melinda Dillon, Darren McGavin, Scott Schwartz, Jean Shepherd, Ian Petrella, Tedde Moore, R.D. Robb, Zack Ward, Yano Anaya, Jeff Gillen, Peter Billingsley, Colin Fox, Paul Hubbard, Leslie Carlson, Jim Hunter, Patty Johnson, Drew Hocevar, David Svoboda, Dwayne McLean, Helen E. Kaider, John Wong, Johan Sebastian Wong, Fred Lee, Dan Ma, Rocco Bellusci, Tommy Wallace, Court Benson, Leigh Brown, Bob Clark, Giada Dobrzenska, Dave Duff, Don Geyer, Kathryn Hayzer, Gary Jones, John Kennedy, Bill Kravitz, Jordan-Patrick Marcantonio, Julie Matthews, Christine Powrie, Quinn Smith, Kristephan Warren-Stevens.

Recommended reading:

In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash

By Jean Shepherd.

Filmed as A Christmas Story (1983), directed by Bob Clark.

Published by Broadway Books.

Published 1966.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0385021747

ISBN-13: 978-0385021746

Description:

A collection of humorous and nostalgic Americana stories – the beloved, bestselling classic that inspired the movie A Christmas Story.

Before Garrison Keillor and Spalding Gray there was Jean a master monologist and writer who spun the materials of his all-American childhood into immensely resonant – and utterly hilarious – works of comic art. In God We Trust All Others Pay Cash represents one of the peaks of his achievement, a compound of irony, affection, and perfect detail that speaks across generations.

In God We Trust, Shepherd's wildly witty reunion with his Indiana hometown, disproves the adage “You can never go back.” Bending the ear of Flick, his childhood-buddy-turned-bartender, Shepherd recalls passionately his genuine Red Ryder BB gun, confesses adolescent failure in the arms of Junie Jo Prewitt, and relives a story of man against fish that not even Hemingway could rival. From pop art to the World's Fair, Shepherd's subjects speak with a universal irony and are deeply and unabashedly grounded in American Midwestern life, together rendering a wonderfully nostalgic impression of a more innocent era when life was good, fun was clean, and station wagons roamed the earth.

A comic genius who bridged the gap between James Thurber and David Sedaris, Shepherd may have accomplished for Holden, Indiana, what Mark Twain did for Hannibal, Missouri.

“Shepherd has a fine eye for absurdity, for the madness and idiocy in all of us.” – Best Sellers.

On this day in movie history - A Woman Under the Influence (1974):

A Woman Under the Influence

directed and written by John Cassavetes,

was released in the United States on November 18, 1974.
Music by Bo Harwood.

Cast:

Peter Falk, Gena Rowlands, Fred Draper, Lady Rowlands, Katherine Cassavetes, Matthew Labyorteaux, Matthew Cassel, Christina Grisanti, George Dunn, Mario Gallo, Eddie Shaw, Angelo Grisanti, Charles Horvath, James Joyce, John Finnegan, Cliff Carnell, Frank Richards, Hugh Hurd, Leon Wagner, Dominique Davalos, Xan Cassavetes, Pancho Meisenheimer, Sonny Aprile, Ellen Davalos, Joanne Moore Jordan, John Hawker, Sylvester Words, Elizabeth Deering, Jackie Peters, Elsie Ames, N.J. Cassavetes.