On this day in movie history - The Martian (2015):

The Martian

directed by Ridley Scott,

written by Drew Goddard,

based on the novel by Andy Weir,

was released at the Toronto International Film Festival in Canada on September 11, 2015.
Music by Harry Gregson-Williams.

Cast:

Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig, Jeff Daniels, Michael Peña, Sean Bean, Kate Mara, Sebastian Stan, Aksel Hennie, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Benedict Wong, Mackenzie Davis, Donald Glover, Nick Mohammed, Shu Chen, Eddy Ko, Enzo Cilenti, Jonathan Aris, Gruffudd Glyn, Geoffrey Thomas, Yang Haiwen, Narantsogt Tsogtsaikhan, Brian Caspe, Matt Devere, Mike Kelly, Szonja Oroszlán, Greg De Cuir, Mark O'Neal, Peter Linka, Declan Hannigan, Peter Schueller, Waleska Latorre, Frederik Pleitgen, Nikolett Barabas, Karen Gagnon, Lili Bordán, Charlie Gardner, Nóra Hörich, Kamilla Fátyol, Yang Liu, Xue Xuxing, Richard Rifkin, Nick Wittman, Balázs Medveczky, Ben O'Brien, Scott Alexander Young, Jason Ryan, James Dougherty, Irén Bordán, Dilyana Bouklieva, Dora Endre, Björn Freiberg, James Fred Harkins Jr., Minouche Kaftel, Gayathri Kasupathipillai, Viktor Mitev, Arnold Montey, Tom Nguyen, Tamás Sebe, Sam Spruell, Norbert Szekeres, Dominika Szosznyák, Zalán Takács, Lara Ilona Thompson, Balázs Veres, Henry Winkler.

On this day in movie history - My Voyage to Italy (1999):

My Voyage to Italy

documentary directed by Martin Scorsese,

written by Kent Jones, Raffaele Donato, Suso Cecchi d'Amico and Martin Scorsese,

was released in Italy on September 11, 1999.

Hosted by Martin Scorsese.

Movies discussed:

1860 (1934); 8½ (1963); Bellissima (1951); Bicycle Thieves (1948); Cabiria (1914); Days of Glory (1945); Divorce, Italian Style (1961); Europa '51 (1952); Fabiola (1949); Fantasia sottomarina (1940); Germany Year Zero (1947); Gli uomini, che mascalzoni! (1932); I vitelloni (1953); Il signor Max (1937); Journey to Italy (1954); La Dolce Vita (1960); La Notte (1961); La Prise de pouvoir par Louis XIV (1966); La Strada (1955); La terra trema (1948); L'avventura (1960); L'eclisse (1962); Nights of Cabiria (1957); Ossessione (1943); Paisà (1946); Rome, Open City (1945); Senso (1954); Shoeshine (1946); Stromboli (1950); The Flowers of St. Francis (1950); The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970); The Gold of Naples (1954); The Iron Crown (1941); The Lower Depths (1936); The Miracle, segment of L'Amore (1948); The Roof (1956); Two Women (1961); Umberto D (1952).

On this day in music history - A Woman and a Man, by Belinda Carlisle (1996):

The album A Woman and a Man,

by Belinda Carlisle,

was released on September 11, 1996.

On this day in movie history - After Hours (1985):

After Hours

directed by Martin Scorsese,

written by Joseph Minion,

based on a story by Joe Frank,

was released in the United States on September 11, 1985.
Music by Howard Shore.

Cast:

Griffin Dunne, Rosanna Arquette, Verna Bloom, Tommy Chong, Linda Fiorentino, Teri Garr, John Heard, Cheech Marin, Catherine O'Hara, Dick Miller, Will Patton, Robert Plunket, Bronson Pinchot, Rocco Sisto, Larry Block, Victor Argo, Murray Moston, John P. Codiglia, Clarke Evans, Victor Bumbalo, Bill Elverman, Joel Jason, Rand Carr, Clarence Felder, Henry Judd Baker, Margo Winkler, Victor Magnotta, Robin Johnson, Stephen Lim, Frank Aquilino, Maree Catalano, Paula Raflo, Rockets Redglare, Catherine Scorsese, Charles Scorsese, Martin Scorsese, John Spacely.

On this day in movie history - 99 River Street (1953):

99 River Street

directed by Phil Karlson,

written by Robert Smith,

was released in the United States on September 11, 1953.
Based on the short story Crosstown, by George Zuckerman,

originally published in the October, 1945, edition of Cosmopolitan.
Music by Arthur Lange and Emil Newman.

Cast:

John Payne, Evelyn Keyes, Brad Dexter, Frank Faylen, Peggie Castle, Jay Adler, Jack Lambert, Glenn Langan, Eddy Waller, John Daheim, Ian Wolfe, Peter Leeds, William Tannen, Gene Reynolds, Hal Baylor, Paul Bryar, Claire Carleton, G. Pat Collins, Sayre Dearing, Tom Greenway, Harry Hines, John Indrisano, Vivi Janiss, Helen Kleeb, Joey Ray, Dick Rich, Ric Roman, Michael Ross, Frank J. Scannell, Arthur Tovey, John Wald.

Born on this day – Betsy Drake:

Betsy Drake

Actress

Writer

Psychotherapist

September 11, 1923 – October 27, 2015

Credits:

American Masters (2004); Becoming Cary Grant (2017); Biography (1993); Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man (1988); Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion (1965); Dancing in the Dark (1949); Every Girl Should Be Married (1948); General Electric Theater (1958); Houseboat (1958); Intent to Kill (1958); Next to No Time! (1958); Off to See the Wizard (1967); Pretty Baby (1950); Room for One More (1952); TCM Remembers 2015 (2015); The 17th Golden Globe Awards (1960); The Second Woman (1950); Wanted: Dead or Alive (1959); Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957).

Born on this day – Herbert Lom:

Herbert Lom

Actor

September 11, 1917 – September 27, 2012

Born on this day – Anne Seymour:

Anne Seymour

Actress

September 11, 1909 – December 8, 1988

Born on this day – Jazz Gillum:

Jazz Gillum

Blues harmonicist

September 11, 1904 – March 29, 1966

Credits:

Songs:

Alberta Blues; Boar Hog Blues; Crazy About You; Down south blues; Early in the Morning; Gillum's Windy Blues; Go Back to the Country; Good Old 51 Highway; Got to Reap What You Sow; Harmonica Stomp; I Want You by My Side; I'll Get Along Somehow; I'm Gonna Get It; I'm Gonna Train My Baby; Is That a Monkey You Got?; Jazz Gillum's Blues; Just Like Jesse James; Key to the Highway; Look on Yonder Wall; Mule Blues; Reefer Head Woman; Sarah Jane; Signifying Woman; Stavin' chain; Sweet Sweet Woman; Take A Little Walk With Me; Take One More Chance With Me; The Race of the Jim Lee and the Katy Adam; War Time Blues; Worried and Bothered; You Got to Run Me Down; You're Laughing Now.

Born on this day – Barbecue Bob:

Barbecue Bob

Blues singer

Guitarist

September 11, 1902 – October 21, 1931

Credits:

Songs:

Bad Times Blues; Barbecue Blues; Black Skunk Blues; Blind Pig Blues; California Blues; Cloudy Sky Blues; Easy Rider Don't You Deny My Name; 'Fo Day Creep; Freeze to Me Mama; Going up the Country; Good Time Rounder; Honey Your Going Too Fast; I'm on My Way Down Home; It Just Won't Hay; It's Just Too Bad; Jacksonville Blues; Me and My Whiskey; Mississippi Heavy Water Blues; Motherless Chile Blues; My Mistake Blues; New Mojo Blues; Poor Boy a Long Ways From Home / Poor Boy Long Way From Home; She Moves It Just Right; She's Coming Back Some Cold Rainy Day; Spider and the Fly; Tellin' It to You; Thinkin' Funny Blues; Twistin’ Your Stuff; We Sure Got Hard Times; When the Saints Go Marching In; Yo Yo Blues.

Albums:

ABC Of The Blues Vol 2 (2010); Atlanta Blues (2021); Atlanta Moan (2019); Barbecue Blues (2007); Barbecue Bob Vol. 1 (1927 - 1928) (2005); Barbecue Bob Vol. 2 (1928 - 1929) (2005); Barbecue Bob Vol. 3 (1929 - 1930) (2005); Blues (2024); Blues Essentials (2011); Chef's Blues (2015); Chocolate To The Bone (1992); New Standards (1992); Presenting Barbecue Bob (1927); Rough Guide To Barbecue Bob (2015); Textures in Hi-Fi with Pete Rugolo and his Orchestra (1999); Winter Awhile (2022); Winter Awhile / 2023 Remaster (2023).

Born on this day – Herbert Stothart:

Herbert Stothart

Songwriter

Conductor

Composer

September 11, 1880 – February 1, 1949

Credits:

10 Items or Less (2006); A Family Affair (1937); A Guy Named Joe (1943); A Lady's Morals (1930); A Night at the Opera (1935); A Slight Case of Larceny (1953); A Tale of Two Cities (1935); Absolute Quiet (1936); Adventure (1945); After the Thin Man (1936); Age of Indiscretion (1935); Ah Wilderness! (1935); Anchors Aweigh (1945); Andy Hardy's Private Secretary (1941); Angelyne (2022); Anna Karenina (1935); Asteroid City (2023); Baby Love (1986); Bachelor Bait (1934); Balalaika (1939); Banda sonora (2012); Bandstand (1966–1967); BBC Proms (2009); Because of the Wonderful Things It Does: The Legacy of Oz (2005); Big Jack (1949); Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss (1998); Biography of a Bachelor Girl (1935); Bitter Sweet (1940); Blonde (2001 / 2022); Blossoms in the Dust (1941); Broadway Serenade (1939); Cairo (1942); Call of the Flesh (1930); Camille (1936); Captain Kidd's Treasure (1938); Carrie Fisher: Wishful Drinking (2010); Cathouse: The Musical (2008); Cavalcade of the Academy Awards (1940); Chained (1934); Chanel No. 5: Number 5! (1994); Chasing Yesterday (1935); China Seas (1935); Christopher Bean (1933); Combat America (1943); Come Live with Me (1941); Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (2004); Conquest (1937); Crazy House (1943); Cry of the Hunted (1953); Dancing on Ice (2009); Dancing with the Stars (2006); David Copperfield (1935); Day by Day (1989); Dean Martin / Chevrolet Presents the Golddiggers (1973); Death Note (2017); Der Andro-Jäger (1983); Desire Me (1947); Desperate Search (1952); Devil-May-Care (1929); Die Hausmeisterin (1992); Diff'rent Strokes (1979); DogMan (2023); Dragon Seed (1944); Dynamite (1929); DysFunktional Family (2003); Edison, the Man (1940); Evelyn Prentice (1934); Exclusive Story (1936); Fast Company (1953); Florida Lady (1994); Ford Star Jubilee (1956); Game Boys (2008); Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1955); Georgia (1995); Girl, Interrupted (1999); Going Hollywood (1933); Golden Dawn (1930); Grand Hotel (1932); Grand Piano (2013); Heavenly Creatures (1994); Henry Goes Arizona (1939); Here Comes the Band (1935); High Barbaree (1947); Hills of Home (1948); Hinter Gittern - Der Frauenknast (2002); Home for the Holidays (1995); House of 1000 Corpses (2003); I Live My Life (1935); I Married an Angel (1942); Idiot's Delight (1939); Idol (2005); If Winter Comes (1947); In Gay Madrid (1930); Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond (2017); King of the Hill (1993); Kismet (1944); Kovacs on Music (1959); Laughing Boy (1934); Le chanteur de Séville (1931); Les Patterson Saves the World (1987); Little Voice (1998); Lost in a Harem (1944); Love, Marilyn (2012); Lukas (2001); M*A*S*H (1978–1979); Madam Satan (1930); Madame Curie (1943); Man of the People (1937); Man on the Moon (1999); Mannequin (1937); Marie Antoinette (1938); Master Will Shakespeare (1936); Maytime (1937); Men of Boys Town (1941); M-G-M Jubilee Overture (1954); MGM Parade (1955–1956); Monkeybone (2001); Montana Moon (1930); Moonlight Murder (1936); Mrs. Miniver (1942); Muppets Tonight (1996); Murder, She Wrote (1987); Musical Masterpieces (1946); Mutiny on the Bounty (1935); Mystery Science Theater 3000 (1992 / 2017); National Velvet (1944); Naughty Marietta (1935); New Moon (1930 / 1940); Night Flight (1933); Nip/Tuck (2007); Nobody Else But You (2011); Norma Jean & Marilyn (1996); Northwest Passage (1940); Of Human Hearts (1938); Oh! Europa (1994); One Fine Day (1996); Our Miss Brooks (1955); Outcast Lady (1934); Outer Range (2022); Peg o' My Heart (1933); Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (1959); Pierre of the Plains (1942); Pride and Prejudice (1940); Pursuit (1935); Queen Christina (1933); Queer as Folk (2004); Radio Days (1987); Random Harvest (1942); Rasputin and the Empress (1932); Reckless (1935); Rio Rita (1942); Riptide (1934); Robin Hood of El Dorado (1936); Rogue's March (1953); Romeo and Juliet (1936); Rosalie (1937); Rose-Marie (1936); Rosemarie (1965); San Francisco (1936); Saturday Night Live (1981); School Daze (1988); Scoob! (2020); Sequoia (1934); Sevilla de mis amores (1930); Shoot the Moon (1982); Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004); Small Town Girl (1936); Smash (2012); Smilin' Through (1941); So You Think You Can Dance (2012); Some Like It Hot (1959); Son of Lassie (1945); Strassman: Careful What You Wish For (2014); Such a Long Journey (1998); SuperStar KZ (2004); Susan and God (1940); Sweethearts (1938); Tåg 56 (1943); Tarzan's New York Adventure (1942); Tennessee Johnson (1942); Teresa the Thief (1973); That's Entertainment! (1974); That's Entertainment! III (1994); That's Entertainment, Part II (1976); The 37th Annual Tony Awards (1983); The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938); The Affairs of Martha (1942); The Age of Ballyhoo (1973); The Bad Man of Brimstone (1937); The Barbarian (1933); The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934 / 1957); The Benny Hill Show (1973); The Brady Bunch (1973); The Cat and the Fiddle (1934); The Chocolate Soldier (1941); The Comeback (2005); The Critic (1994); The Cuban Love Song (1931); The Defenders (2010); The Devil Is a Sissy (1936); The Devil's Cabaret (1930); The Dreamer of Oz (1990); The Dreamers (2003); The End of St. Petersburg (1927); The Firefly (1937); The Flame Song (1934); The Florodora Girl (1930); The Girl of the Golden West (1938); The Golden Girls (1992); The Good Earth (1937); The Gorgeous Hussy (1936); The Great Diamond Robbery (1954); The Great Morgan (1946); The Green Years (1946); The Heartbreak Kid (2007); The Hollywood Palace (1966); The Human Comedy (1943); The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996); The Kennedy Years: JFK Remembered (1993); The Last Patrol (2000); The Legend of Marilyn Monroe (1965); The Lottery Bride (1930); The Love Boat (1980); The Love Goddesses (1965); The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1962); The March of Time (1930); The Merry Widow (1934); The Mighty McGurk (1947); The Miniver Story (1950); The Night Is Young (1935); The Painted Veil (1934); The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945); The Prodigal (1931); The Rainbow Pass (1937); The Rogue Song (1930); The Romance of Betty Boop (1985); The Romance of Celluloid (1937); The Royal Variety Performance 1962 (1962); The Sea of Grass (1947); The Secret of Madame Blanche (1933); The Son-Daughter (1932); The Song of the Flame (1930); The Sopranos (2000); The Spectacle Maker (1934); The Squaw Man (1931); The Stratton Story (1949); The Telephone Always Rings Twice (1985); The Three Musketeers (1948); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1973); The Unfinished Dance (1947); The Valley of Decision (1945); The Voice of Firestone (1949–1951); The Wednesday Play (1965); The White Cliffs of Dover (1944); The White Sister (1933); The Winning Ticket (1935); The Wizard of Oz (1939); The Wizard of Oz in Concert: Dreams Come True (1995); The Wonder Years (1990); The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic (1990); The Yearling (1946); They Met in Bombay (1941); They Were Expendable (1945); Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944); Thousands Cheer (1943); Three Daring Daughters (1948); Three Hearts for Julia (1943); Three Little Words (1950); Three Seats for the 26th (1988); Titans (2018); To Oz! The Making of a Classic (2009); Today We Live (1933); Treasure Island (1934); Tu cara me suena (2011); Turn Back the Clock (1933); Undercover Maisie (1947); Undercurrent (1946); Unmarried Couples: A Comedy That Will Break You Up (1997); Vanessa, Her Love Story (1935); Vita da Star: Cristiano Malgioglio (2008); Viva Villa! (1934); Waterloo Bridge (1940); We Must Have Music (1941); What Every Woman Knows (1934); Wife vs. Secretary (1936); Wonder Boys (2000); Wreck-It Ralph (2012); Yves Montand on Broadway (1961); Ziegfeld Girl (1941).

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Recommended reading - Sleuths of the Century (2000):

Sleuths of the Century

Edited by Ed Gorman and John L. Breen.

Published in 2000.

Published by Carroll & Graf.

First Edition.

Hardcover.

ISBN-10: 0786707097

ISBN-13: 978-0786707096

Description:

Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe, Lord Peter Wimsey and Hercule Poirot, Matt Scudder and Easy Rawlins, Spenser and Dalgliesh - they stand among the most popular of twentieth-century heroes. And now the award-winning mystery novelist Ed Gorman and novelist-critic Jon L. Breen present a full century of the world's favorite sleuths in tales by such classic writers as G. K. Chesterton, Ellery Queen, Dorothy Sayers, and Agatha Christie as well as contemporary giants like Sharyn McCrumb, Walter Mosley, Ed McBain, Lawrence Block, P. D. James, and Ruth Rendell. A hefty, handsome volume, Sleuths of the Century also offers serious suspense from Dashiell Hammett, Patricia Highsmith, Tony Hillerman, Rex Stout, Donald E. Westlake, and John D. MacDonald. Crossing the decades with a gallery of sleuths impeccably styled for every generation, this collection provides exciting, literate tales of detection and danger that will keep the reader on tenterhooks well into the next century.

Ann Patchett, on reading:

Reading is a private act, private even from the person who wrote the book.

Once the novel is out there, the author is beside the point.

The reader and the book have their own relationship now,

and should be left alone to work things out for themselves.

- Ann Patchett.

Remembering September 11, 2001:

Honoring the victims of September 11, 2001 (9/11), their families and friends,

and the responders who risked their own lives to save others.

We will never forget.