Wednesday, January 3, 2024

Born on this day – J. R. R. Tolkien:


J. R. R. Tolkien


Writer

January 3, 1892 – September 2, 1973

Credits:

A Middle English Vocabulary; Sir Gawain & The Green Knight; The Hobbit: or There and Back Again; Farmer Giles of Ham; The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of the King; The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book; Ancrene Wisse: The English Text of the Ancrene Riwle; Tree and Leaf; Smith of Wootton Major; The Road Goes Ever On: A Song Cycle; Bilbo’s Last Song; Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl and Sir Orfeo; The Father Christmas Letters; The Silmarillion; Pictures by J.R.R. Tolkien; Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-earth; Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien; The Old English ‘Exodus’; Mr. Bliss; Finn and Hengest: The Fragment and the Episode; The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays; The Book of Lost Tales, Part I; The Book of Lost Tales, Part II; The Lays of Beleriand; The Shaping of Middle-earth; The Lost Road and Other Writings; The Return of the Shadow; The Treason of Isengard; The War of the Ring; Sauron Defeated; Morgoth’s Ring; The War of the Jewels; The Peoples of Middle-earth; Roverandom; Tales from the Perilous Realm; The Children of Húrin; The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún; The Fall of Arthur; Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, together with Sellic Spell; Tolkien On Fairy-stories; The Story of Kullervo; A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages; The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun; Leaf by Niggle; Beren and Lúthien; The Fall of Gondolin; The Nature of Middle-earth; The Fall of Númenor; The Battle of Maldon, together with The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth.

George R. R. Martin, on reading:


I was born in Bayonne, New Jersey.
I grew up in the projects.
I never went anywhere.
But I have lived a thousand lives and I've loved a thousand loves.
I've walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time.
Because I read.

- George R. R. Martin.

Tuesday, January 2, 2024

On this day in music history: Play, by Roxanne Potvin (2011):

The album Play,
by Roxanne Potvin,
was released on January 2, 2011.

Born on this day – Charles Willeford:


Charles Willeford

Writer

January 2, 1919 – March 27, 1988

Credits:

Miami Blues (1984); New Hope for the Dead (1985); Sideswipe (1987); The Way We Die Now (1988); High Priest of California (1953); Pick Up (1954); Wild Wives (1956); The Black Mass of Brother Springer (aka Honey Gal) (1958); Lust Is a Woman (aka Made in Miami) (1958); The Woman Chaser (1960); Deliver Me from Dallas (aka The Whip Hand) (1961); Understudy for Death (1961); Cockfighter (1962); No Experience Necessary (1962); The Hombre From Sonora (aka The Difference) (1971); The Burnt Orange Heresy (1971); Kiss Your Ass Goodbye (1987); The Shark Infested Custard (1993); The Machine in Ward Eleven (1963); Everybody's Metamorphosis (1988); Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s (1997); The Second Half of the Double Feature (2003); Poontang (poems) (2011); The Ordainment of Brother Springer (play) (2009); The Old Man at the Bridge (2009); Strange (2011); Sentences (2013); Off the Wall (1980); Something About a Soldier (1986); New Forms of Ugly (1987); I Was Looking for a Street (1988); Cockfighter Journal (1989); The Collected Memoirs of Charles Willeford (2000); Writing and Other Blood Sports (2000); Wild Wives / High Priest of California (1956); Charles Willeford Omnibus (1991).

Born on this day – Vivi Gioi:


Vivi Gioi

Actress

January 2, 1917 – July 12, 1975

Credits:

Il baco da seta (1974); Dio non paga il sabato (1967); Il processo di Verona (1963); Farse d'altri tempi (1959); Festival della famiglia Gurgià (1958); Vento notturno (1958); Rice Girl (1956); Io sono Gionata Scrivener (1955); Stasera a Samarcanda (1954); Senza bandiera (1951); La portatrice di pane (1950); Women Without Names (1950); Mistress of the Mountains (1950); The Earth Cries Out (1949); Tragic Hunt (1947); Il marito povero (1946); La casa senza tempo (1945); Tutta la città canta (1945); Service de nuit (1944); ...und die Musik spielt dazu (1943); Harlem (1943); Cortocircuito (1943); Lascia cantare il cuore (1943); Piazza San Sepolcro (1942); Bengasi (1942); Giungla (1942); First Love (1941); L'amante segreta (1941); L'attore scomparso (1941); Il pozzo dei miracoli (1941); La canzone rubata (1940); Dopo divorzieremo (1940); Cento lettere d'amore (1940); Alessandro sei grande! (1940); Red Roses (1940); Vento di milioni (1940); Mille chilometri al minuto! (1939); Frenzy (1939); Bionda sotto chiave (1939); Il signor Max (1937); Ma non è una cosa seria (1936).

Born on this day – Anna Lee:


Anna Lee

Actress

Singer

January 2, 1913 – May 14, 2004

Credits:

General Hospital (1979–2003); Port Charles (2000); What Can I Do? (1994); Beverly Hills Brats (1989); Beverly Hills Brats (1989); Listen to Me (1989); Beyond the Next Mountain (1987); The Right Hand Man (1987); Glitter (1985); Scruples (1980); B.J. and the Bear (1979); The Night Rider (1979); Legend of the Northwest (1978); The Beasts Are on the Streets (1978); Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years (1977); Eleanor and Franklin (1976); Mannix (1968–1974); The F.B.I. (1973); My Darling Daughters' Anniversary (1973); The Streets of San Francisco (1973); Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law (1973); The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie (1972); The Bold Ones: The Senator (1970); Mission: Impossible (1970); Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1969); The Outcasts (1969); Star! (1968); Gunsmoke (1967); The Felony Squad (1967); Family Affair (1967); In Like Flint (1967); This Is the Life (1966); Picture Mommy Dead (1966); My Three Sons (1960); 7 Women (1965); Daniel Boone (1965); The Sound of Music (1965); Mr. Novak (1965); Combat! (1965); The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964); For Those Who Think Young (1964); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1964); The Movie Maker (1964); The Prize (1963); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1963); Dr. Kildare (1963); McHale's Navy (1962); Perry Mason (1962); What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962); Jack the Giant Killer (1962); Checkmate (1962); The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962); 77 Sunset Strip (1962); Two Rode Together (1961); Lock Up (1960–1961); Maverick (1961); Hawaiian Eye (1959–1960); Wagon Train (1960); The Barbara Stanwyck Show (1960); The Loretta Young Show (1959–1960); The Big Night (1960); One Step Beyond (1960); Jet Over the Atlantic (1959); The Crimson Kimono (1959); This Earth Is Mine (1959); The Horse Soldiers (1959); The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen (1959); Peter Gunn (1958); The Last Hurrah (1958); Studio One (1951–1958); Shirley Temple's Storybook (1958); Gideon of Scotland Yard (1958); The Charles Farrell Show (1956); Your Play Time (1955); The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse (1955); Where's Raymond? (1955); Armstrong Circle Theatre (1954); Kraft Theatre (1950–1952); Robert Montgomery Presents (1950–1952); Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (1952); A Date with Judy (1951); The Web (1950–1951); The Ford Theatre Hour (1950–1951); Lux Video Theatre (1951); Somerset Maugham TV Theatre (1950); The Clock (1950); Prison Warden (1949); Best Man Wins (1948); Fort Apache (1948); High Conquest (1947); The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947); G.I. War Brides (1946); Bedlam (1946); Summer Storm (1944); Flesh and Fantasy (1943); Hangmen Also Die! (1943); Forever and a Day (1943); Commandos Strike at Dawn (1942); Flying Tigers (1942); How Green Was My Valley (1941); My Life with Caroline (1941); Seven Sinners (1940); Return to Yesterday (1940); Young Man's Fancy (1939); The Secret Four (1939); Hollywood Picnic (1937); Non-Stop New York (1937); King Solomon's Mines (1937); You're in the Army Now (1937); The Man Who Lived Again (1936); Queen of Hearts (1936); First a Girl (1935); The Passing of the Third Floor Back (1935); Heat Wave (1935); The Camels Are Coming (1934); Lucky Loser (1934); Rolling in Money (1934); Faces (1934); Mannequin (1933); Chelsea Life (1933); The Bermondsey Kid (1933); Mayfair Girl (1933); Yes, Mr. Brown (1933); The King's Cup (1933); Say It with Music (1932); His Lordship (1932); Ebb Tide (1932).

Born on this day – Edith North Johnson:


Edith North Johnson

Blues singer

Pianist

Songwriter

January 2, 1903 – February 28, 1988