Born on this day – Nina Companeez:

Nina Companeez

Director

Writer

Editor

August 26, 1937 – April 9, 2015

Born on this day – Otto Binder:

Otto Binder

Writer

August 26, 1911 – October 13, 1974

Credits:

Books and comic books:

Action Comics (1948–1969); Adam Link—Robot (1965); Adventure Comics (1948–1967); All Winners Comics (1947); America's Greatest Comics (1942–1943); Anton York, Immortal (1965); Bulletman (1942–1946); Captain America Comics (1941–1947); Captain Marvel Adventures (1942–1953); Captain Marvel Jr. (1942–1951); Destination Moon (1950); Detective Comics (1948–1955); Doctor Solar, Man of the Atom (1964); Doll Man (1943); Enslaved Brains (1965); House of Mystery (1954–1978); Ibis the Invincible (1942–1943); Kid Komics (1943–1944); Lords of Creation (1949); Marvel Classics Comics (1976); Marvel Family (1945–1950); Marvel Mystery Comics (1943–1946); Mary Marvel (1945–1948); Master Comics (1941–1943); Metal Men (1968); Mystery in Space (1954–1966); National Comics (1942); Showcase / Lois Lane (1957); Star-Spangled Comics (1948–1949); Strange Adventures (1954–1967); Superboy (1954–1968); Superman (1955–1969); Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane (1958–1967); Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen (1954–1969); The Avengers Battle the Earth-Wrecker (1967); What We Really Know about Flying Saucers (1967); Whiz Comics (1941–1943); World's Finest Comics (1948–1960); Young Allies (1944–1946).

Movies and television:

Batman & Bill (2017); Black Adam (2022); Confessions of a Teenage Supergirl (2006); DC League of Super-Pets (2022); Death Battle (2022); Justice League (2001–2004); MultiVersus (2024); Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023); Skids (2016); Supergirl (1973); Supergirl IV: The Submerged Tangled Web (2014); Supergirl V: Deadly Seduction (2015); Supergirl: Endurance (2013); Supergirl: Stranger in a Strange Land (2013); Superman/Batman: Apocalypse (2010); Superman: The Animated Series (1997); Superman: Unbound (2013); The Flash (2023); The Outer Limits (1964 / 1995).

Born on this day – Maxwell Shane:

Maxwell Shane

Director

Writer

Producer

August 26, 1905 – October 25, 1983

Credits:

A Dangerous Game (1941); A Letter from Bataan (1942); Adventure in Sahara (1938); Adventure Island (1947); Aerial Gunner (1943); Alaska Highway (1943); Art Linkletter and the Kids (1954); Big Town (1946); Big Town After Dark (1947); Big Town Scandal (1948); Checkmate (1960); City Across the River (1949); Comin' Round the Mountain (1940); Conquer by the Clock (1942); Cowboy in Manhattan (1943); Danger Street (1947); Dark Mountain (1944); Double Exposure (1944); Eyes of the Underworld (1942); Fear in the Night (1946); Federal Man-Hunt (1938); Flying Blind (1941); Follow That Woman (1945); Forced Landing (1941); Gambler's Choice (1944); General Electric Theater (1953); Golden Gloves (1940); Grand Jury Secrets (1939); Hell's Island (1955); High Explosive (1943); High Powered (1945); Hitting a New High (1937); I Cover Big Town (1947); I Live on Danger (1942); M Squad (1959–1960); Maya (1968); Midnight Manhunt (1945); Minesweeper (1943); Mr. Reckless (1948); Nightmare (1956); No Hands on the Clock (1941); One Body Too Many (1944); Paramount Victory Short No. T2-2: We Refuse to Die (1942); Paramount Victory Short No. T2-3: The Price of Victory (1942); People Are Funny (1946); Power Dive (1941); S.O.S. Tidal Wave (1939); Saturday's Heroes (1937); Scared Stiff (1945); Seven Were Saved (1947); Shaggy (1948); She's Got Everything (1937); Submarine Alert (1943); Take It Big (1944); The Glass Wall (1953); The Invisible Killer (1939); The Leather Pushers (1940); The Man Who Dared (1946); The Mummy's Hand (1940); The Naked Street (1955); The Navy Way (1944); The Virginian (1962–1963); They Made Me a Killer (1946); This Way Please (1937); Three Hours to Kill (1954); Thrill of a Lifetime (1937); Thriller (1960–1961); Timber Queen (1944); Tip-Off Girls (1938); Tokyo Rose (1946); Too Many Blondes (1941); Top Sergeant (1942); Tornado (1943); Torpedo Boat (1942); Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie (1952); Wildcat (1942); Wrecking Crew (1942); You Can't Beat Love (1937); You're a Sweetheart (1937).

Born on this day – Martin Amis:

Martin Amis

Writer

August 25, 1949 – May 19, 2023

Born on this day – Marshall Brickman:

Marshall Brickman

Writer

Director

Producer

August 25, 1939 – November 29, 2024

Credits:

50 Films to See Before You Die (2006); A Decade Under the Influence (2003); American Masters (2011); Ann in Blue (1974); Annie Hall (1977); Candid Camera (1960); Conversations for our Daughters (2021); Film Genre (2002); For the Boys (1991); Funny (1988); Hootenanny (1963); Intersection (1994); Jersey Boys (2014); Jersey Boys Live! (2022); Julie: My Favorite Things (1975); Late Night with David Letterman (1983); Lovesick (1983); Manhattan (1979); Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993); Off Campus (1977); Out to Sea (1997); Rock Family Trees (1998); Simon (1980); Sister Mary Explains It All (2001); Sleeper (1973); Sounds from a Town I Love (2001); Super Size Me (2004); That's Adequate (1989); The 24th Annual Guild Hall Academy of the Arts Lifetime Achievement Awards (2009); The 47th Annual Writers Guild Awards (1995); The 50th Annual Academy Awards (1978); The 60th Annual Tony Awards (2006); The Carson Podcast (2014–2018); The Cemetery Club (1993); The Dick Cavett Show (1971–1978); The Johnny Carson Special (1969); The Kraft Music Hall (1967); The Manhattan Project (1986); The Merv Griffin Show (1965); The Muppet Show: Sex and Violence (1975); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1963–1970); We Interrupt This Week (1978).

Born on this day – Frederick Forsyth:

Frederick Forsyth

Writer

Producer

Actor

August 25, 1938 – June 9, 2025

Credits:

Books:

A Tangled Web (2005); Avenger (2003); Emeka (1991); English Crime Stories of Today (1993); Great Flying Stories (1991); Icon (1996); No Comebacks (1982); Revenge of Odessa (2025); The Afghan (2006); The Art of the Matter (2001); The Biafra Story: The Making of an African Legend (1969); The Citizen (2000); The Cobra (2010); The Day of the Jackal (1971); The Deceiver (1991); The Devil's Alternative (1979); The Dogs of War (1974); The Emperor (1982); The Fist of God (1994); The Fourth Protocol (1984); The Fox (2018); The Kill List (2013); The Miracle (2000); The Negotiator (1989); The Odessa File (1972); The Outsider: My Life in Intrigue (2015); The Phantom of Manhattan (1996); The Shepherd (1975); The Veteran and Other Stories (2020); Used In Evidence (2005); Whispering Wind (2000).

Movies and television:

8 al dia (2014); A fondo (1980); A Little Piece of Sunshine (1990); Alexandria (2004); Avenger (2006); Boulevard Bio (1991–2003); Breakfast (2001–2010); Bücherjournal (2015); Code Name: Wolverine (1996); Crime in the City (1987); Cry of the Innocent (1980); DAS! (2000–2015); De película (1987); Dinner with Portillo (2003); Dispatches (2006); Frederick Forsyth Presents (1989–1990); Friday Night, Saturday Morning (1980); Good Morning Australia (2004); Good Morning Britain (2017); Great Welsh Writers (2013); HARDtalk (2003); I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life & Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal (2007); Icon (2005); III nach neun (2007); Im Dialog (2003); ITV Play of the Week (1973); Jesus Christ Airlines (2001); Just Another Secret (1989); Koschwitz (2002); Kulturjournal (2015); Kulturplatz (2006); Lads Army (2005); Larry King Live (2000); Leute (1985); Lo + plus (1996); Love Never Dies (2012); Mark Lawson Talks to... (2006); Markus Lanz (2015–2019); M-show (1972); Never Mind the Full Stops (2007); Outsiders (2024); Página 2 (2011); Pebble Mill at One (1994); Pride and Extreme Prejudice (1989); Question Time (1997–2007); Reading the Decades (2002); Reputations (1997); Sabine Christiansen (1998); Skavlan (2014); Sleuths, Sorcerers & Spies: Andrew Marr's Paperback Heroes (2016); Soldiers (1985); Sunday AM (2016); The Book Programme (1979); The Crime Thriller Club (2013); The Day of the Jackal (1973 / 2024); The Devil's Day (1994); The Dogs of War (1980); The Fourth Protocol (1987); The Merv Griffin Show (1980); The Odessa File (1974); The Shepherd (2022 / 2023); The Sunday Programme (2003); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1971–1972); The Write Stuff (1989); This Week (2005); Titel, Thesen, Temperamente (2015–2019); Trigger Happy TV (2001 / 2002); Tubridy Tonight (2006); Two by Forsyth (1984); Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (2005 / 2014).

Born on this day – Roberto De Simone:

Roberto De Simone

Composer

Director

Writer

Actor

August 25, 1933 – April 6, 2025

Credits:

A Night Full of Rain (1978); After the Fox (1966); All Is Fake (2002); Così fan tutte (1996); De Pretore Vincenzo (1976); Des morceaux de ma femme (2000); Die Zauberflöte, Opera tedesca in due atti (1995); Don Giovanni (1999); È una domenica sera di novembre (1981); Eleonora (1999); Fontamara (1980); Gli esami non finiscono mai (1976); Great Performances (1996); I ladri (1959); I ragazzi di padre Tobia (1968–1970); Il Maestro di Cappella (1995); Il segreto di Luca (1969); (In)visibility (2009); La fucilazione di Pulcinella (1973); La ragazzola (1965); L'arte della commedia (1976); Lo frate 'nnamorato (1990); Lungo il fiume e sull'acqua (1973); Nabucco (1987); Omnibus (1977); Quanto è bello lu murire acciso (1975); Respiro (2002); Sempre più difficile (1981); Siamo fatti di memoria (2009); Sicily (1967); Signora Ava (1975); Tammurriata (1994); The Biggest Bundle of Them All (1968); The Devil in Love (1966); The Dolls / Segment: La minestra (1965); The Gold of Naples / Segment: Pizze a credito (1954); The Skin (1981); Una questione d'onore (1966); Unici (2015); Uomo e galantuomo (1975); Viaggio nei luoghi del sacro (1999); Will Our Heroes Be Able to Find Their Friend Who Has Mysteriously Disappeared in Africa? (1968).

Born on this day – Leonard Bernstein:

Leonard Bernstein

Conductor

Composer

Pianist

Teacher

Writer

Humanitarian

August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990

Born on this day – Ted Key:

Ted Key

Cartoonist

Writer

August 25, 1912 – May 3, 2008

Born on this day – A. S. Byatt:

A. S. Byatt

Writer

August 24, 1936 – November 16, 2023

Credits:

Books:

A Stone Woman (2011); A Whistling Woman (2002); Angels and Insects (1992); Babel Tower (1996); Best European Fiction 2013 (2012); Black Water 2 (1990); Body Art (2011); Deadly Sins (1994); Degrees of Freedom (1994); Dolls' Eyes (2013); Elementals (1998); Ghostly (2015); Life (2013); Medusa's Ankles (2021); Memory (2008); Mistresses of the Dark (1998); New Writing 4 (1995); On Histories and Stories (2000); Passions of the Mind (1990); Peacock & Vine (2016); Portraits in Fiction (2001); Possession (1990); Ragnarok (2011); Raw Material (2011); Short Stories (2009); Sightlines (2001); Still Life (1985); Stories for Mothers and Daughters (2025); Sugar (1987); The Biographer's Tale (2000); The Children's Book (2009); The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye (1994); The Game (1967); The Literary Ghost (1991); The Little Black Book of Stories (2003); The Matisse Stories (1975); The New Uncanny (2008); The Oxford Book of English Short Stories (1998); The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (1996); The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories (1984); The Pink Ribbon (2011); The Shadow of the Sun (1991); The Thing in the Forest (2011); The Virgin in the Garden (1978); The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Sixth Annual Collection (1993); The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Twelfth Annual Collection (1999); Unruly Times (1970); White Fire (1991).

Movies and television:

Angels and Insects (1995); Bestseller (2001); Bookmark (1995–1996); Ceramics: A Fragile History (2011); Cover to Cover (1987); Inside the News (1975); Late Night Line-Up (1968); Mark Lawson Talks to... (2009); Medusa's Ankles (2018); Newsnight at 30 (2010); Omnibus (1989); Possession (2002); Read All About It (1978–1979); Roundhead or Cavalier: Which One Are You? (2012); Samtaler i natten (1996); Take It or Leave It (1967–1970); The Andrew Neil Show (1996); The Brains Trust (1996); The Burgess Variations (1999); The Late Show (1992–1994); The South Bank Show (1990); The Worlds of Fantasy (2008); Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022); Un siècle d'écrivains (1997).

Born on this day – Victor Halperin:

Victor Halperin

Actor

Director

Producer

Writer

August 24, 1895 – May 17, 1983

Credits:

Bachelor Bait (1934); Buried Alive (1939); Convoy (1927); Dance Magic (1927); Double Reward (1922); Ex-Flame (1930); Girls' Town (1942); Greater Than Marriage (1924); I Conquer the Sea! (1936); In Borrowed Plumes (1926); Nation Aflame (1937); Party Girl (1930); Racing Blood (1936); Revolt of the Zombies (1936); School for Wives (1925); She Goes to War (1929); Supernatural (1933); Tea: With a Kick! (1923); The Danger Point (1922); The Lone Star Trail (1943); The Unknown Lover (1925); Torture Ship (1939); Underseas (2018); When a Girl Loves (1924); White Zombie (1932).

Born on this day – Nelson DeMille:

Nelson DeMille

Writer

August 23, 1943 – September 17, 2024

Credits:

Books:

A Poison That Leaves No Trace: With Mystery Jigsaw Puzzle (2002); An Acceptable Sacrifice (2012); Blood Lines (2023); Book Club (2014); By the Rivers of Babylon (1978); Cannibal (1975); Cathedral (1981); Citadel (2016); Condor in the Stacks (2015); Dead Dames Don't Sing (2016); Death Benefits (2012); Death Leaves a Bookmark (2012); Every Seven Years (2015); From the Queen (2015); From the Queen (2015); Getaway (2017); Hoodoo Harry (2017); In the Shadow of the Master (2003); It's in the Book (2014); MatchUp (2017); Mayday (1979); Mystery, Inc. (2015); Night Fall (2004); Plum Island (1997); Pronghorns of the Third Reich (2012); Radiant Angel / A Quiet End (2015); Reconciliation Day (2016); Remaindered (2014); Rendezvous (2012); Rides a Stranger (2013); Seven Years (2018); Spencerville (1994); Tales of Terror (1986); The Agent of Death / The Death Squad (1975); The Best American Mystery Stories 2004 (2004); The Book Case (2012); The Book of Ghosts (2013); The Book of the Lion (2015); The Book of Virtue (2012); The Book Thing (2012); The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository (2018); The Charm School (1988); The Compendium of Srem (2014); The Cuban Affair (2017); The Dark Door (2022); The Deserter (2019); The Final Testament (2013); The Gate House (2008); The General's Daughter (1992); The Girl Who Did Say No (2020); The Gold Coast (1990); The Gospel of Sheba (2014); The Hammer of God (1974); The Haze (2016); The Hemingway Valise (2018); The Honeymoon Trap (2022); The Last Honest Horse Thief (2018); The Lion (2010); The Lion's Game (2000); The Little Men (2015); The Long Sonata of the Dead (2013); The Maze (2022); The Nature of My Inheritance (2014); The Night of the Phoenix (1975); The Panther (2012); The Plot Thickens (1997); The Pretty Little Box (2018); The Quest (1975); The Rich and the Dead (2011); The Scroll (2014); The Sequel (2014); The Smack Man (1975); The Sniper (1974); The Talbot Odyssey (1984); The Terrorists (1974); The Traitor (2022); The Travelling Companion (2016); Up Country (2002); What's in a Name? (2014); Wild Fire (2006); Word of Honor (1985).

Movies and television:

History of Air Combat: Fight for the Sky: Air War Over Germany (1997); ITW ThrillerFest Banquet Awards (2015); Life or Breath (2004); Mayday (2005); Megyn Kelly Today (2018); Silent Madness (1984); The 2nd Annual Quill Awards (2006); The Charm School (2024); The General's Daughter (1999); The General's Daughter: Behind the Secrets (1999); Word of Honor (2003).

Born on this day – Albert Capellani:

Albert Capellani

Director

Writer

Producer

August 23, 1874 – September 26, 1931

Credits:

Has Damsel in Distress (1919) A Dutch Love Story (1913) A Pair of White Gloves (1908); A Princess in Disguise (1904); A Slave's Love (1907); Aladdin and His Wonder Lamp (1906); Albert Capellani: Un cinéma di grandeur 1905-1911 (2011); American Maid (1917); Anna Karenina (1912); Athallah (1911); Béatrice Cenci (1908); Beauty and the Beast (1908); Benvenuto Cellini (1908); Boireau émigré (1908); Beer wrestler (1907); Boireau roi des voleurs (1907); Camille (1915); Cinderella (1907); Cyrano and d'Assoucy (1911); Daybreak (1918); Two colleagues (1911); Gift Juan (1908); Donkey Skin (1906); Drama of Passion (1906) Drink (1908); Engulfed in Quicksands (1908); Eye for Eye (1918); Unfortunate mistake (1910); Fra Diavolo (1910); Germinal; or, The Toll of Labor (1913); Gribouille stole the Mona Lisa (1911); William Tell (1908); Harlequin's Story (1907) Her Dramatic Career (1909); Hernani (1910); His Sweetheart's Child (1914) In Walked Mary (1920); Jacintha the innkeeper (1911); Joan of Arc (1909); Josette (1912); La belle limonadière (1914); La Bohème (1912); The Milk Bottle (1910); The Accomplice (1910); The dancer of Siva (1911); The Last Cart (1908); La haine (1910); The house of the bather (1914); The Mummy (1911); The Death of Lincoln (1910); The Duke's death d'Enghien (1912); The Orphan's Doll (1911); The Power of Remembrance (1910); The King's Ransom (1909); The Vagabond (1911); The Vengeance of the Dead (1910); The victim of Sophie (1910); La vie de Bohème (1916); The Vision of Brother Benedict (1911); La zingara (1913); The Age of the Heart (1906); L'Arlésienne (1908); The Congress of sweepers (1912); The Tragic Corso (1908); The Model (1914); The Nabob (1913); The Nabot (1911); The Bread of the Little Birds (1911); The Forbidden Dream (1913); The Black Curtain (1911); Le roi s'amuse (1909); Le roman d'un jour (1911); The plunderer (1910); The Tragic Love of Mona Lisa (1912); The Visitor (1911); The envious (1911); Horror (1911); Les apprentissages de Boireau (1907); The Adventures Cyrano de Bergerac (1912); The Two Kids (1914 / 1916); The Two Sisters (1911); The Stages of Love (1912); Les Misérables, Part 1: Jean Valjean (1913); The Misérables, Part 2: Fantine (1913); Les Misérables, Part 3: Cosette (1913); The Misérables, Part 4: Cosette and Marius (1913); The Image (1910); The Intriguing (1911); The Bird Flies (1911); Lucrezia Borgia (1909); Madame Du Barry (1912); Madame Tallien (1912); Manon Lescaut (1912); Mary Tudor (1913 / 1917); Marion de Lorme (1912); Mary Stuart (1908); Mortelle idylle (1906); Mr. Fuzz (1908); Mysteries of Paris (1912); Oh Boy! (1919); Our Band's Going to the Competition (1907); Out of the Fog (1919); Paganini (1911); Out of Respect for the Child (1911); Paul and Francesca (1910); Poor Mother (1906); Pour l'honneur (1910); Prix de vertu (1911); Pro Patria (1914); Puss in Boots (1908) Ninety-Three (1921); Quentin Durward (1910); Rigadin as an actor (1911); Robert Bruce, episode of the wars of Scottish independence (1911); Salome (1908); Samson and Delilah (1908); Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 15 (1922); Sganarelle (1907); Sisters (1922); Sleeping Beauty (1908); Social Hypocrites (1918); Under the Terror (1910); Tarakanowa and Catherine II (1909); Tarquin the Superb (1908); The Accomplice (1910); The Bell Ringer's Daughter (1906) The Common Law (1916); The Courier of Lyons (1911); The Dark Silence (1916); The Death of the Duke D'Enghien (1909); The Easiest Way (1917); The End of Robespierre (1912); Tea Escape from the Tuileries (1910); The Face in the Moonlight (1915); The Feast of Life (1916); The Flash of an Emerald (1915); The Foolish Virgin (1916) The Fortune Teller (1920) The House of Mirth (1918); The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1911); The Impostor (1915) The Inside of the Cup (1921); The Law of Pardon (1906); The Love Cheat (1919) The Magic Handkerchief (1908); The Marked Man (1912); The Missing Bride (1911) The Parisian Tigress (1919); The Red Lantern (1919) The Reign of Terror (1914) The Richest Girl (1918); The Siren (1913) The Six Little Drummers (1912) The Talisman or Sheep's Foot (1907); The Tower of Nesle (1909) The Tramp (1906) The Troubadour (1908); The Two Orphans (1910); The Vestal (1908) The Violin Maker of Cremona (1909); The Virtuous Model (1919) The Voice of Conscience (1906) The Wild Ass's Skin (1909); The Wild Goose (1921) The Woodchopper's Daughter (1907) The Wrestler's Wife (1906) The Young Diana (1922) Betrayed (1910); Tristan and Yseult (1912); Two Daughters of Havana (1911); Two Sisters (1907); A clear of moon under Richelieu (1911); A Drama in a Wagon (1910); A gentleman with a tic (1911); Veil of Happiness (1910); Voyage de Boireau (1908).

Born on this day – James Gunn:

James Gunn

Writer

Producer

August 22, 1920 – September 22, 1966

Credits:

Book:

Deadlier Than the Male (1942).

Movies and television:

77 Sunset Strip (1959–1960); 87th Precinct (1962); Affair in Trinidad (1952); Alcoa Premiere (1962); All I Desire (1953); Because They're Young (1960); Born to Kill (1947); Bronco (1959); Checkmate (1960–1961); Chevron Theatre (1953); Cheyenne (1956–1958); City Detective (1954); Colt .45 (1957–1958); Conflict (1956–1957); Corps et biens (1986); Dr. Kildare (1963); Fireside Theatre (1950–1953); Harriet Craig (1950); Hollywood Opening Night (1953); Kraft Suspense Theatre (1964); Lady of Burlesque (1943); Lux Video Theatre (1956); Maverick (1960); Mike Hammer (1958); Over-Exposed (1956); Soldiers of Fortune (1956–1957); State Trooper (1957); Studio 57 (1954–1956); Sugarfoot (1957–1959); The Barefoot Mailman (1951); The Flying Missile (1950); The Forsaken Westerns (2018); The Investigators (1961); The Long, Hot Summer (1965); The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse (1953–1955); The Revlon Mirror Theater (1953); The Texan (1960); The Unfaithful (1947); The Young Philadelphians (1959); Two of a Kind (1951); Wagon Train (1959); Warner Brothers Presents (1956).

Born on this day – Ray Bradbury:

Ray Bradbury

Writer

August 22, 1920 – June 5, 2012

Recommended reading:

The Illustrated Man

By Ray Bradbury.

Published by Panther.

First published 1951.

1977 edition.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0586043594

ISBN-13: 978-0586043592

Description:

Anthology of 18 science fiction short stories.

Contents:

Prologue: The Illustrated Man; The Veldt; Kaleidoscope; The Other Foot; The Highway; The Man; The Long Rain; The Rocket Man; The Fire Balloons; The Last Night of the World; The Exiles; No Particular Night or Morning; The Fox and the Forest; The Visitor; The Concrete Mixer; Main article: Marionettes, Inc.; The City; Zero Hour; The Rocket; Epilogue.

Sample:

It was a warm afternoon in early September when I first met the Illustrated Man. I didn’t know he was Illustrated then. …

He took his shirt off. He was covered with Illustrations from the blue tattooed ring about his neck to his belt line. He was a riot of rockets and fountains and people. There were yellow meadows and blue rivers and mountains and stars and suns and planets spread in a Milky Way across his chest.

“You see,” said the Illustrated Man, “the Illustrations predict the future. It’s all right in sunlight. But at night the pictures move. The pictures change. Don’t you look at them, I warn you. Turn the other way when you sleep.”

The night was serene. I lay back a few feet from him. He didn’t seem violent, and the pictures were beautiful. I let my eyes fill up on them.

Sixteen illustrations, sixteen tales. I counted them one by one.

Primarily my eyes focused upon a scene, a large house with two people in it. I saw a flight of vultures on a blazing flesh sky, I saw yellow lions, and I heard voices.

The first Illustrations quivered and came to life. …

Credits:

Books:

Death is a Lonely Business (1985); A Graveyard for Lunatics (1990); Let's All Kill Constance (2003); Dandelion Wine (1957); Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962); Farewell Summer (2006); Summer Morning, Summer Night (2008); Fahrenheit 451 (1953); The Halloween Tree (1972); Green Shadows, White Whale (1992); Ahmed and the Oblivion Machines (1998); From the Dust Returned (2001); Dark Carnival (1947); The Martian Chronicles (1950); The Illustrated Man (1951); A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories (1952); The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953); The October Country (1955); The Day It Rained Forever (1959); A Medicine for Melancholy (1959); The Small Assassin (1962); R Is for Rocket (1962); The Machineries of Joy (1964); The Vintage Bradbury (1965); The Autumn People (1965); Twice 22 (1966); Tomorrow Midnight (1966); S is for Space (1966); Fever Dream And Other Fantasies (1968); I Sing the Body Electric (1969); Ray Bradbury (1975); Long After Midnight (1976); Ray Bradbury Collected Short Stories (1979); The Stories of Ray Bradbury (1980); The Last Circus and the Electrocution (1980); Dinosaur Tales (1984); A Memory of Murder (1984); The Toynbee Convector (1988); Selected from Dark They Were and Golden-Eyed (1990); Classic Stories 2 (1990); Quicker Than the Eye (1996); Driving Blind (1997); One More for the Road (2002); Stories Volume 2 (2003); Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales (2003); The Cat's Pajamas (2004); Now and Forever (2007); We'll Always Have Paris (2009); A Pleasure to Burn (2010); The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury: Critical Edition Vol 1 (2011); The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury: Critical Edition Vol 2 (2014); The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury: Critical Edition Vol 3 (2017); Killer, Come Back To Me (2020); Venus Remembered (2020); The Poems (1945); Skeletons (1945); The Homecoming (1946); The Black Ferris (1948); The Blue Bottle / Death-Wish (1950); There Will Come Soft Rains (By: Leonard Nimoy) (1950); The Veldt (1950); A Sound of Thunder (1951); The Fog Horn (1951); The Playground (1953); All Summer in a Day (1954); The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit (1972); The Mummies of Guanajuato (1978); One Timeless Spring (1980); The Love Affair (1982); Death Has Lost Its Charm For Me (1987); Fever Dream (1987); The Thing at the Top of the Stairs (1988); The Dragon Who Ate His Tail (2007); Marionettes, Inc. (2009); Defense Mech (2021); Why Man Explores (1977); The Art of Playboy (1985); Zen in the Art of Writing (1987); Folon's Folons (1990); Yestermorrow (1991); Rod Steiger: Memoirs of a Friendship (1998); Imagining Space: Achievements, Predictions, Possibilities 1950-2050 (2001); Conversations with Ray Bradbury (2004); Bradbury Speaks (2005); Match to Flame (2007); Listen to the Echoes (2010); When Elephants Last In The Dooryard Bloomed (1973); Where Robot Mice & Robot Men Run Round in Robot Towns (1977); This Attic Where the Meadow Greens (1979); The Haunted Computer and the Android Pope (1981); The Complete Poems of Ray Bradbury (1982); Kaleidoscope (1940); The Anthem Sprinters and Other Antics (1963); Pillar of Fire and Other Plays for Today, Tomorrow, and Beyond Tomorrow (1975); Nemo! (2012); Star Science Fiction Stories No. 2 (1953); Learning to Live Finally (2005); Roberto Bolaño: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations (2009); Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview (2011); Jorge Luis Borges (2012); Hannah Arendt: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (2013); James Baldwin: The Last Interview: and other Conversations (2014); Ray Bradbury (2014); Gabriel García Márquez (2015); Lou Reed (2015); Ernest Hemingway (2015); Nora Ephron: The Last Interview (2015); Philip K. Dick (2015); J. D. Salinger (2016); Oliver Sacks (2016); Jane Jacobs (2016); David Bowie (2016); Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2017); Christopher Hitchens (2017); Hunter S. Thompson (2018); Kathy Acker: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2018); Julia Child: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (2018); Ursula K. Le Guin (2019); Graham Greene: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2019); Toni Morrison: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2020); Frida Kahlo: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2020); Shirley Chisholm: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2021); Fred Rogers: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2021); Johnny Cash: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2021); John Lewis: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (2021); Janet Malcolm: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations (2022); Kurt Cobain: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2022); bell hooks: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2023); Octavia E. Butler: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2023); Fahrenheit 451: The Authorized Adaptation (2009); Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles: The Authorized Adaptation (2011); Something Wicked This Way Comes: The Authorized Adaptation (2011); Invasion From Mars:Interplanetary Stories (1949); Star Science Fiction Stories 3 (1955); Alfred Hitchcock Presents 13 More Stories They Wouldn't Let Me Do on TV (1957); Stories for the Dead of Night (1957); The Ghoul Keepers (1961); The Bedside Playboy (1963); Alfred Hitchcock's Monster Museum: Twelve Shuddery Stories for Daring Young Readers (1965); The Microcosmic God (1965); Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories That Scared Even Me (1967); Worlds to Come: New Science Fiction Adventures (1967); Time Untamed (1967); 21 Great Stories (1969); Nova 1 (1970); Young Demons (1972); The Devil's Generation (1973); Galaxy Science Fiction - October 1973 (1973); Gooseflesh (1974); Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow... (1974); Beyond Midnight (1976); The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction 22nd Series (1976); Extraterrestrial Intelligence (1976); The Late Great Future (1976); The 10th Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1977); Weird Legacies (1977); Rod Serling's Other Worlds (1978); They Came from Outer Space: 12 Classic Science Fiction Tales That Became Major Motion Pictures (1979); Ghosts That Haunt You (1980); The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction (1980); Dark Forces: New Stories of Suspense and Supernatural Horror (1980); Weekend Book of Science Fiction (1981); Scaremongers (1981); Perspectives in Literature: A Book of Short Stories, Vol. 1 (1983); 13 Horrors of Halloween (1983); The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories (1984); Fourth Planet from the Sun (1984); Cutting Edge (1986); The Monster Book of Monsters (1988); Science Fiction Stories (1988); Tales of the Occult (1989); Great Baseball Stories (1990); The Horror Hall of Fame (1991); The Short Story: 30 Masterpieces (1992); Monsters in Our Midst (1993); The Ultimate Witch (1993); Sea-Cursed (1994); Space Movies (1995); Night Screams (1996); Mystery Stories (1996); Dark Terrors 3 (1997); Time Machines (1997); The Young Oxford Book of Nasty Endings (1998); A Magic-Lover's Treasury of the Fantastic (1998); Eleventh Annual Collection (1998); The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: The 50th Anniversary Anthology (1999); October Dreams (2000); The Writer's Guide to Fantasy Literature (2002); Stranger: Dark Tales of Eerie Encounters (2002); Writing Los Angeles (2002); Murder On The Railways (2003); Dark Delicacies (2005); A Tangled Web (2005); Nightmares on Congress Street, Part V (2006); Masques V (2006); Selected Shorts (2008); The Best of Cemetery Dance II (2008); Zombies: Encounters with the Hungry Dead (2009); The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction (2010); Like Water for Quarks (2011); Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury (2012); A Carnivàle of Horror (2012); Psychos (2012); Other Worlds (2013); The Time Traveler's Almanac (2013); Fantastic Stories Presents (2014); Field of Fantasies (2014); Darker Terrors 7 (2016); Grave Predictions (2016); Ex Libris: Stories of Librarians, Libraries, and Lore (2017); Lost Mars (2018); The Science Fiction Collection #1 (2018); Flight or Fright (2018); 99 Classic Science-Fiction Short Stories (2019); The Science Fiction Collection (2019); One Hundred (2020); The Ultimate Short Story Bundle (2020).

Movies and television:

100 Years of Horror: The Evil Unseeable (1996); 451 (2012); 451° Fahrenheita / Audioplay (2018); A Century of Science Fiction (1996); A Conversation with Ray Bradbury (2008); A Piece of Wood (2005); A Sound of Thunder (2005); A Very Careful Man (2010); Alcoa Premiere (1962); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1956–1986); Aliens, Dragons, Monsters and Me (1983); All Summer in a Day (1982 / 2014); All Things Shining (2012); Amargosa (2000); Amazing Worlds of Science Fiction and Fantasy (1991); American Masters (2008); American Playhouse (1982); An Unfathomable Friendship (2003); Animation Lookback (2014); Apostrophes (1978); Ararman Uterord Ory (1980); Arena (1994); Armchair Theatre (1963); Before the Night Is Gone (2012); Behind the Attraction (2021); Besuch bei Ray Bradbury (2001); Budet laskovyy dozhd (1984); Camera Three (1978); CBS Library (1982); CBS Television Workshop (1952); Charles Beaumont: The Short Life of Twilight Zone's Magic Man (2010); Chesley Bonestell: A Brush with the Future (2018); Chrysalis (2008); Cineficción Radio (2020–2021); Clarinda y el tiempo en una botella (1985); Cock & Bull Story (2002); Comic-Con '08 Live (2008); Comic-Con '09 Live (2009); Comic-Con 2006 Live (2006); Comic-Con 2007 Live (2007); Comic-Con 2010 Live (2010); Comic-Con Begins / Podcast Series (2021); Con palos y piedras (2000); Corwin (1996); Cosmic Thoughts (2003); Curiosity Shop (1971); Dark Night of the Scarecrow 2 (2022); Day at Night (1974); Death and the Maiden (2016); Dennis Miller (2004); Dimension X (1950–1951); Dominus (1990); Druckfrisch (2008); Dust (2019); El Marciano (1965); El que espera (2004); El umbral (2003); Elektronnaya babushka (1985); Embracing Chaos: Making the African Queen (2010); Eternos (2019); Ex Libris (1990); Fahrenheit 451 (1966 / 2018); Fahrenheit 451, the Novel: A Discussion with Author Ray Bradbury (2003); Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman (2007); Father Electrico: Ray Bradbury Lives Forever! (2017); Fireside Theatre (1954); Flesh of the Universe (2017); Future Fantastic (1996); Good Morning America (1979); Great Books (1996–2001); Habia una vez (1985); Hardball with Chris Matthews (2004); Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius (1989); Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius / Universal Horror (1998); Here There Be Tygers (1989); Historias para no dormir (1966); Hollywood Legenden (2004); Hooray for Horrorwood (1991); How Shakespeare Changed My Life (2016); How to Live Forever (2009); Hugh Hefner: American Playboy Revisited (1998); Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel (2009); Icarus Montgolfier Wright (1962); Ich auf Bestellung (1968); I'm King Kong!: The Exploits of Merian C. Cooper (2005); In Search of Tarzan with Jonathan Ross (1998); It Came from Outer Space (1953); It Came from Outer Space II (1996); ITV Television Playhouse (1963); Jack in the Box (2013); Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre (1956); Journey to the Unknown (1968); King of Kings (1961); Komnata (1987); La botella (2023); Last Sunset (2012); Late Night Story (1978); Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1995); Le grand échiquier (1983); Lights Out (1951); Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland (1989); Live Forever: The Ray Bradbury Odyssey (2013); Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces (2000); Los Siete Locos (1997); Malls R Us (2009); Man in Space / The Optimistic Futurist (2004); Mañana puede ser verdad (1962 / 1964); Marionettes, Inc. (1965); Martanská kronika (1964); Melodrama infernal (1969); Mirrors (1978); Moby Dick (1956); Night Caller (1973); Omnibus (1980); On Camera (1955); On the Fourth (2020); Out of the Unknown (1965); Out There (1951); Písen pro Rudolfa III. (2019); Playboy's 25th Anniversary Celebration (1979); Playhouse 90 (1957); Prisoners of Gravity (1993); Pulp Fiction: The Golden Age of Storytelling (2009); Quest (1984); Racconti di fantascienza (1979); Ray Bradbury's Kaleidoscope (2012); Ray Bradbury's the Martian Chronicles Adventure Game (1995); Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan (2011); Ray Harryhausen: The Early Years Collection (2005); Rendezvous (1959); Retro Static Radio (2020); Rich and Famous (1981); Savannen (1983); Science Fiction Film Awards (1978); Sci-Fi Buzz (1995); Sneak Preview (1956); Something Wicked This Way Comes (1972 / 1983 / 2014); Spaceship Earth (1982); Special Collector's Edition (2012); Stan Freberg Federal Budget Review (1982); Star Tonight (1955); Star Trek Phase II (2007); Steve Canyon (1958); Stories to Stay Awake (2021); Story of... (1962); Studio 57 (1956); Suspense (1952); Tales of Tomorrow (1953); Tattooed Steiger (1969); TCM Guest Programmer (2008); Telescope (1969); That Regis Philbin Show (1964); The 10th Annual National CableACE Awards (1989); The 13th Annual CableACE Awards (1992); The 64th Annual Academy Awards (1992); The AckerMonster Chronicles! (2012); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1964); The American Comic Strip (1978); The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953); The Best of Hollywood (2018); The Bob Braun Show (1982); The Cure (2011); The Dennis Miller Show (1992); The Disappointment of Jonathan Bender (2012); The Dream Pioneers: Visionaries of Science Fiction (2000); The Electric Grandmother (1982); The Famous Monsters 1993 World Convention Souvenir Video (1993); The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal (1986); The Fly Papers: The Buzz on Hollywood's Scariest Insect (2000); The Fox, the Forest (2015); The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl (2010); The Ghost of Graham Springs (2012); The Halloween Tree (1993); The Harryhausen Chronicles (1998); The High Frontier: The Untold Story of Gerard K. O'Neill (2021); The Hollywood Librarian: A Look at Librarians Through Film (2007); The Illustrated Man (1969); The Jar (2011 / 2020); The Last Night (2016); The last night of the world (2022); The Magical World of Chuck Jones (1992); The Making of 'Fahrenheit 451' (2003); The Man in the Air (1993); The Martian Chronicles (1980); The Martian Chronicles / Podcast Series (2014); The Murderer (1976); The Music of 'Fahrenheit 451' (2003); The Oscars (2013); The Pedestrian (2001 / 2008); The Picasso Summer (1969); The Puppetoon Movie Volume 3 (2023); The Ray Bradbury Theater (1985–1992); The Rocket (1952); The Sci-Fi Boys (2006); The Screaming Woman (1972); The Screen Savers (2003); The Small Assassin (2011); The Smile (1996); The Stan Freberg Commercials / Segment: Brave New Prune (1999); The Third Expedition (2012); The Tiger and the Snow (2005); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1978); The Tramp and the Dictator (2002); The Twilight Zone (1962–1986); The Unexplained (1956); The Veldt (1979); The Whimsical World of Oz (1985); The Whole Town's Sleeping (2014); The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit (1998); The Wonderful World of Disney (2001); The Young Set (1965); Through the Forest (2016); Time Travel: Fact, Fiction and Fantasy (1985); Tin Can (2010); Today (1985–1989); Tomorrow Coast to Coast (1974); Trailer Trash (2008); Troubleshooters (1959); Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez (2004); Universal Horror (1998); Vampirismus (1980–1982); Veld (1987); Voyager: To the Final Frontier (2012); Walking on Air (1987); When the World Breaks (2010); Who Is Norman Lloyd? (2007); Windows (1955); Wogan (1990); X Minus One / Podcast Series (1955); You Bet Your Life (1956).

Born on this day – Dorothy Parker:

Dorothy Parker

Writer

August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967

Credits:

Poems:

A Certain Lady; A Dream Lies Dead; A Fairly Sad Tale; A Pig's-Eye View Of Literature; A Portrait; A Very Short Song; A Well-Worn Story; After Spanish Proverb; Afternoon; Alexandre Dumas And His Son; Alfred, Lord Tennyson; Anecdote; August; Autobiography; Autumn Valentine; Ballade at Thirty-five; Ballade Of A Great Weariness; Ballade of Unfortunate Mammals; Bohemia; Braggart; Bric-a-Brac; But Not Forgotten; Chant For Dark Hours; Charles Dickens; Coda; Comment; Condolence; Convalescent; D.G. Rossetti; Daylight Saving; De Profundis; Dilemma; Distance; Epitaph; Experience; Fable; Fair Weather; Faute De Mieux; Fighting Words; Finis; For A Favorite Granddaughter; For A Lady Who Must Write Verse; For A Sad Lady; For An Unknown Lady; From A Letter From Lesbia; Frustration; Fulfillment; Garden-Spot; General Review Of The Sex Situation; George Gissing; George Sand; Godmother; Godspeed; Guinevere at Her Fireside; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Healed; Hearthside; I Know I Have Been Happiest; I Shall Come Back; Incurable; Indian Summer; Inscription for the Ceiling of a Bedroom; Interior; Interview; Inventory; Iseult Of Brittany; Landscape; Liebestod; Light Of Love; Lines On Reading Too Many Poets; Little Words; Love Song; Lullaby; Men; Midnight; Mortal Enemy; My Own; Neither Bloody Nor Bowed; News Item; Ninon De Lenclos, On Her Last Birthday; Nocturne; Now At Liberty; Observation; Of a Woman, Dead Young; On Being A Woman; One Perfect Rose; Ornithology For Beginners; Oscar Wilde; Parable For A Certain Virgin; Partial Comfort; Paths; Pattern; Penelope; Philosophy; Plea; Portrait of the Artist; Post-Graduate; Pour Prendre Conge; Prayer For a New Mother; Prayer For A Prayer; Prisoner; Prologue to a Saga; Prophetic Soul; Purposely Ungrammatical Love Song; Rainy Night; Recurrence; Renunciation; Requiescat; Rhyme Against Living; Roundel; Salome's Dancing-Lesson; Sanctuary; Sight; Social Note; Solace; Somebody's Song; Song in a Minor Key; Song Of One Of The Girls; Song of Perfect Propriety; Sonnet For The End Of A Sequence; Sonnet On An Alpine Night; Summary; Superfluous Advice; Surprise; Sweet Violets; Symptom Recital; Temps Perdu; Testament; The Apple Tree; The Burned Child; The Choice; The Danger Of Writing Defiant Verse; The Dark Girl's Rhyme; The Dramatists; The Evening Primrose; The False Friends; The Flaw In Paganism; The Gentlest Lady; The Homebody; The Immortals; The Lady's Reward; The Last Question; The Leal; The Little Old Lady in Lavender Silk; The New Love; The Red Dress; The Satin Dress; The Sea; The Searched Soul; The Second Oldest Story; The Small Hours; The Thin Edge; The Trifler; The Trusting Heart; The Veteran; The Whistling Girl; The White Lady; The Willow; Theory; There Was One; They Part; Thomas Carlyle; Thought For A Sunshiny Morning; Threnody; To A Much Too Unfortunate Lady; Tombstones in the Starlight; Transition; Two-Volume Novel; Ultimatum; Unfortunate Coincidence; Vers Demode; Verse For a Certain Dog; Victoria; Wail; Walter Savage Landor; Wisdom; Words of Comfort to Be Scratched on a Mirror.

Books:

50 Great American Short Stories (1963); 50 Great Short Stories (1952); After Such Pleasures (1940); Alaska Stories (1995); Big Blonde and Other Stories (1929); Cape Cod Stories (2002); Chicago Stories (1993); Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules (2005); Death and Taxes (1931); Enough Rope (1926); First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994); Florida Stories (1993); Here Lies (1939); Here We Are, a Telephone Call (2001); Laments for the Living (1930); Life Stories (2000); Los Angeles Stories (1991); Lust: Lascivious Love Stories and Passionate Poems (1994); Men I'm Not Married To (1922); New Orleans Stories (1992); Not Much Fun (1996); Not So Deep as a Well (1937); Points of View (1956); San Francisco Stories (1990); San Francisco Thrillers (1995); Sayings of Dorothy Parker (1992); Secret Ingredients (2007); Selected Readings from the Portable Dorothy Parker (1976); Selected Stories (1995); Sisters (2009); Southwest Stories (1993); Such a Pretty Little Picture and Other Stories (2023); Sunset Gun: Poems (1940); Texas Stories (1995); The Coast of Illyria (1990); The Collected Poetry of Dorothy Parker (1944); The Collected Short Stories (1942); The Ladies of the Corridor (1954); The Portable Dorothy Parker (1944); The Sexes (1944); Women Writers at Work (1989); Wonderful Town (2000).

Movies and television:

2nd House (1975); A Cat in Paris (2010); A Star Is Born (1954); A Telephone Call (2014); American Masters (1987); August (2013); Big Blonde (1980); Bomb Girls (2012); Candide (1988 / 2024); Desert Hearts (1985); Dick Stabile and His Orchestra (1952); Dorothy and Alan at Norma Place (1982); Dynamite (1929); Een heel kleintje maar (1967); Grande Teatro Tupi (1952); Hands Across the Table (1935); Here Is My Heart (1934); I Live on Your Visits (2024); I Wished on the Moon (1935); In the Pink (1982); ITV Play of the Week (1960); Jerry Gray and the Band of Today (1950); Ladies of the Corridor (1975); Lady Be Careful (1936); Language of Love (1964); Licorice Pizza (2021); Life Together (2016); Madonna Feat. Massive Attack: I Want You (1995); Madonna: Celebration - The Video Collection (2009); Movie Melodies on Parade (1936); Moving Pictures (1995); O Telefonema (2010); Pakinateatteri (1960); Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951); Public Speaking (2010); Queen for a Day (1951); Remodeling Her Husband (1920); Saboteur (1942); Shoestring Theatre (1959–1962); Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman (1947); Something to Read (1959); Stars and the Moon: Betty Buckley Live at the Donmar (2002); Stranded in Canton (2005); Suzy (1936); Sweethearts (1938); Teatterituokio (1966); The Ben Hecht Show (1959); The Big Broadcast of 1936 (1935); The Cowboy and the Lady (1938); The David Susskind Show (1959); The Day of the Locust (1975); The Fan (1949); The Flower of My Secret (1995); The Game (2004); The Green Helmet (1961); The Hoodlum Saint (1946); The Little Foxes (1941); The Lovely Leave (1999); The Maker (1997); The Moon's Our Home (1936); The Night Before Christmas (1957); The Plymouth Playhouse (1953); The Sexes (2008); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1959); Three Married Men (1936); T'odio, amor meu (1996); Trade Winds (1938); Weekend for Three (1941); Woman Chases Man (1937); Women and Men: Stories of Seduction (1990); You Were Perfectly Fine (2009).

Born on this day – Hugh Wilson:

Hugh Wilson

Director

Writer

August 21, 1943 – January 14, 2018

Born on this day – Frank Perry:

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 – Theresa Saldana:

Theresa Saldana

Actress

Activist

Writer

August 20, 1954 – June 6, 2016

Credits:

240-Robert (1979); All My Children (1970–2011); American Playhouse (1983); An Evening at the Improv (1992); Angel Town (1990); Batman Beyond (2001); Buck James (1988); Cagney & Lacey (1985); Captain Planet and the Planeteers (1994); Carlo's Wake (1999); CBS Schoolbreak Special (1987); Confessions of Crime (1991); Defiance (1980); Diagnosis Murder (1997); Double Revenge (1988); Falcon Crest (1988); Gang Warz (2004); Home Movies (1979); Hunter (1987); I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978); Illusion Infinity (1999); Jonny Quest Versus the Cyber Insects (1995); Law & Order (1995); MacGyver (1990); Martial Law (1998); Matlock (1986); New Kids on the Block (1990); Nothing Sacred (1997); Nunzio (1978); Nurse (1981); Of Men and Angels (1989); Raging Bull (1980); Ready to Run (2000); Rocco's Star (1983); Santa Barbara (1987); Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1983); Shameful Secrets (1993); She Woke Up Pregnant (1996); Simon & Simon (1986); Sophia Loren: Her Own Story (1980); T.J. Hooker (1983); Tales from the Darkside (1986); The 23rd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2017); The 51st Annual Golden Globe Awards (1994); The Bernie Mac Show (2003); The Chuck Woolery Show (1991); The Commish (1991–1996); The Dennis Miller Show (1992); The Evil That Men Do (1984); The Gangster Chronicles (1981); The Highwayman (1987); The Night Before (1988); The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest (1996–1997); The Twilight Zone / Segment: Dead Woman's Shoes (1985); Thrill Seekers (1999); Victims for Victims: The Theresa Saldana Story (1984); Werewolf (1987).

Born on this day – Greg Bear:

Greg Bear

Writer

Illustrator

August 20, 1951 – November 19, 2022

Blood Music

By Greg Bear.

Published in 1985.

ISBN-10: 1497637023

ISBN-13: 978-1497637023

Book cover description:

“A Childhood’s End for the 1980s, replacing aliens and mysterious mental evolution with the effects of genetic engineering run wild … Like Arthur Clarke, Bear goes to the limits.” – Locus.

Vergil Ulam is a brilliant but unorthodox researcher working to develop biochips – the next quantum leap in computer technology, using the complexities of cellular structure (notably DNA) as a means of information processing. But Vergil goes several steps further, and soon has produced intelligent clumps of cellular material, able to outperform rats in laboratory tests. In doing so, he has exceeded, without authorization, guidelines laid down for genetic research, and when he is found out he loses his job and is told to destroy his experimental material.

Determined to salvage something, he injects himself with part of the culture – intending to retrieve it later – and walks out of the laboratory carrying within him a seed that will develop far beyond the limits of his brilliant but blinkered imagination.

Based on his Hugo and Nebula Award winning story, Blood Music is an extraordinary novel which establishes Greg Bear among the new masters of science fiction. From its firm grounding in current research, the novel unfolds vistas of imaginative possibility, logical yet surprising, which demand comparison with the best of Arthur C. Clarke, and with Olaf Stapledon.

“Only seldom does a brilliant short story give rise to an even better novel, but in blood Music, Greg Bear has made it happen. A dazzling flight of disciplined imagination.” – Poul Anderson.

Credits:

Books:

A Flag Full of Stars (1991); A Forest Apart (2003); Across the Universe (1999); Allegiance (2007); Allegiance in Exile (2013); Anvil of Stars (1992); Assignment: Eternity (1998); Bear's Fantasies (1988); Beyond Heaven's River (1980); Beyond the Farthest Suns (2016); Black Fire (1983); Blood Music (1985); Bloodthirst (1987); Cast No Shadow (2011); Chain of Attack (1987); Children of the Jedi (1995); Choices of One (2011); City at the End of Time (2008); Classic Jurassic Park (1993); Classic Jurassic Park, Volume 2 (2011); Classic Jurassic Park, Volume 4 (2012); Cloak of Deception (2000); Corona (1984); Country Of The Mind (1998); Crisis on Coruscant (2010); Crosscurrent (2010); Crossroad (1994); Crucible (2013); Cryptum (2011); Dangerous Games (2012); Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader (2006); Darksaber (1995); Darth Maul Shadow Hunter (2001); Darth Maul's Revenge (2000); Darth Plagueis (2012); Darwin's Children (2002); Darwin's Radio (1999); Dead Lines (2001); Death Count (1992); Death Star (2007); Death Troopers (2009); Dinosaur Summer (1998); Double, Double (1989); Dragons of Light (1980); Dwellers in the Crucible (1985); Early Harvest (1988); Eon (1984); Eternity (1988); Ex Machina (2004); Excelsior: Forged in Fire (2007); Faces of Fire (1992); Far Thoughts and Pale Gods (2016); Firestorm (1994); First Frontier (1995); Fool's Bargain (2004); Foundation and Chaos (1998); Foundation's Fear (1997); Foundation's Triumph (2000); From the Depths (1993); Future Visions (2015); Ghost-Walker (1991); Grave Predictions (2016); Hackers (1996); Hardfought (1988); Heads (1990); Hegira (1953); Home Is the Hunter (1990); Hull Zero Three (2010); I, Jedi (1998); Ice Trap (1992); In the Name of Honor (2002); Infinity Concerto (1984); Into the Void: Dawn of the Jedi (2013); Ishmael (1985); Jango Fett: Bounty Hunter (2002); Jedi Trial (2004); Jurassic Park Vol. 5 (2013); Just Over the Horizon (2016); Kenobi (2013); Killing Time (1985); Killing Titan (2015); Knight Errant (2011); Labyrinth of Evil (2005); Legacy (1994); Like Water for Quarks (2011); Lost Souls (1982); Lost Tribe of the Sith (2012); Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor (2008); Mariposa (2009); Maul: Lockdown (2012); Millennium Falcon (2008); Mind Meld (1997); Mirrorshades (1986); Mississippi Review 47 / 48 (1988); Moving Mars (1993); Mudd in Your Eye (1997); Multiverse (2014); Murasaki (1992); Nebula Awards 49 (2015); New Legends (1995); New Skies: An Anthology of Today's Science Fiction (2003); Omni Visions Two (1994); Outbound Flight (2006); Paragons (1996); Pawns and Symbols (1985); Petra (1982); Planet of Twilight (1997); Prime Directive (1991); Primordium (2011); Psychlone (1979); Quantico (2007); Queen of Angels (1990); Ready, Set, Podrace! (2007); Recovery (1995); Red Harvest (2010); Renegade (1991); Riptide (2011); Rogue Planet (2000); Sanctuary (1992); Scoundrels (2013); Scourge (2012); Shadow Games (2011); Shadow Lord (1985); Shadows of the Empire (2011); Shatterpoint (2003); Shell Game (1993); Silentium (2013); Sisters (1992); Slant (1997); Sleepside (1988); Songs of Earth and Power (1984); Splinter of the Mind's Eye (1978); Strength of Stones (1981); Survivor's Quest (2004); Take Back the Sky (2016); Tales from the New Republic (1999); Tangents (1989); Tatooine Ghost (2003); Telling Tales: The Clarion West 30th Anniversary Anthology (2013); The Abode of Life (1982); The Adventures of Lando Calrissian (1983); The Approaching Storm (2002); The Ascent of Wonder (1994); The Better Man (1994); The Captain's Daughter (1995); The Cestus Deception (2004); The Children of Kings (2010); The Collected Stories of Greg Bear (2002); The Courtship of Princess Leia (1994); The Crystal Star (1994); The Devils in the Desert (2011); The Disinherited (2007); The Fearful Summons (1995); The Final Nexus (1988); The First Omni Book of Science Fiction (1983); The Forge of God (1987); The Great Starship Race (1993); The Han Solo Adventures (1979); The IDIC Epidemic (1988); The Joy Machine (1996); The Lost Years (1989); The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction (2006); The New Rebellion (1996); The Patrian Transgression (1994); The Prometheus Design (1982); The Rift (1991); The Rings of Tautee (1996); The Ruins of Dantooine (2003); The Serpent Mage (1984); The Starship Trap (1993); The Tears of the Singers (1984); The Three-Minute Universe (1988); The Truce at Bakura (1994); The Unfinished Land (2019); The Venging (1983); The Vulcan Academy Murders (1984); The Wind from a Burning Woman (1983); The Wounded Sky (1983); Third Annual Collection (1989); Tomorrow: New Worlds of Science Fiction (1975); Traitor Winds (1994); Triangle (1983 / 1991); Twilight's End (1996); Uhura's Song (1985); Visions of the Future (2015); Vitals (2002); Vulcan's Glory (1989); Vulcan's Heart (1999); War Dogs (2014); We Don't Do Weddings (1995); Web of the Romulans (1983); Winner Lose All (2012); Women in Deep Time (2003); Year's Best SF 11 (2006); Yoda: Dark Rendezvous (2004).

Movies and television:

Comic-Con Begins (2021); Future Fantastic (1996); Grunge, Punk, Politics and the Fight Against Ballot Measure 9 (2017); Halo Legends / The Making of 'Halo Legends' (2010); Heroes Manufactured: Creators Unleashed (2020); New Nightmares (1993); Prisoners of Gravity (1993); Prophets of Science Fiction (2006); Sci-Fi Buzz (1992); Sightings / Segment: The Sci-Fi Prophet (1994–1996); Tales from the Bridge (2021–2022); The AckerMonster Chronicles! (2012); The Daily Show (2007); The Twilight Zone / Segment: Dead Run (1986); Time Machine: Fantastic Voyage - The Evolution of Science Fiction (2002).