Born on this day – Melanie Anne Safka-Schekeryk:

Melanie Anne Safka-Schekeryk

aka Melanie or Melanie Safka

Singer

Songwriter

February 3, 1947 – January 23, 2024

Credits:

Am I Real or What (1985); Antlers (1997); Arabesque (1982); As I See It Now (1974); Ballroom Streets (1978); Beautiful People (1999); Born to Be (1968); Candles in the Rain (1970); Cowabonga – Never Turn Your Back on a Wave (1988); Crazy Love (2002); Ever Since You Never Heard of Me (2010); Garden in the City (1971); Gather Me (1971); Low Country (1997); Madrugada (1974); Melanie (1987); Melanie (aka Affectionately Melanie) (1969); Moments from My Life (2002); Old Bitch Warrior (1996); Paled by Dimmer Light (2004); Phonogenic – Not Just Another Pretty Face (1978); Photograph (1976); Seventh Wave (1983); Silence Is King (1993); Silver Anniversary (1993); Stoneground Words (1972); Sunset and Other Beginnings (1975); The Good Book (1971).

Born on this day – Michael Cimino:

Michael Cimino

Director

Producer

Writer

February 3, 1939 – July 2, 2016

Credits:

City of Life (2009); Desperate Hours (1990); Eastman Kodak: Yesterdays (1967); Finding Home (2003); Heaven's Gate (1980); Il pianto della statua / The Wind Sculpture (2007); Magnum Force (1973); Platoon (1986); Silent Running (1972); The Big Brass Ring (1999); The Deer Hunter (1978); The Rose (1979); The Sicilian (1987); The Sunchaser (1996); Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974); To Each His Own Cinema (2007); United Airlines: Take Me Along (1967); Year of the Dragon (1985).

Born on this day – Hilary Masters:

Hilary Masters

Writer

February 3, 1928 – June 14, 2015

Credits:

An American Marriage (1969); Clemmons (1985); Cooper (1987); Elegy for Sam Emerson (2006); Hammertown Tales (1986); Home Is the Exile (1996); How the Indians Buried Their Dead (2009); In Montaigne's Tower (2000); Last Stands: Notes from Memory (1982); Manuscript for Murder (1987); Palace of Strangers (1971); Post: A Fable (2011); Shadows On a Wall: Juan O'Gorman and the Mural in Patzcuaro (2005); Strickland (1989); Success: New and Selected Short Stories (1992); The Common Pasture (1967).

Born on this day – Clarence E. Mulford:

Clarence E. Mulford

Writer

February 3, 1883 – May 10, 1956

Credits:

Bar-20 (1906); Bar-20 Days / Hopalong Cassidy's Private War (1911); Bar-20 Three / Hopalong Cassidy Sees Red (1921); Black Buttes (1923); Bring Me His Ears (1922); Buck Peters, Ranchman (1912); Corson of the J.C. (1928); Cottonwood Gulch (1925); H. C. Returns (1923); Hopalong Cassidy (1910); Hopalong Cassidy and the Eagles Brood (1931); Hopalong Cassidy Serves a Writ (1941); Hopalong Cassidy Takes Cards (1937); Hopalong Cassidy's Saddle Mate (1926); Johnny Nelson (1920); Me An' Shorty (1929); Mesquite Jenkins (1928); Mesquite Jenkins, Tumbleweed (1932); On The Trail Of The Tumbling T (1935); Round-Up (1933); Rustler's Valley (1924); Tex (1922); The Bar-20 Rides Again (1926); The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories (1921); The Coming of Cassidy (1913); The Deputy Sheriff (1930); The Man from Bar 20 (1918); The Orphan (1908); Trail Dust (1934).

George W. Buchanan, on reading:

The novel is an event in consciousness.

Our aim isn't to copy actuality, but to modify and recreate our sense of it.

The novelist is inviting the reader to watch a performance in his own brain.

- George W. Buchanan.

On this day in television history – James Ellroy's L.A.: City of Demons: L.A. Serial Killers (2011):

James Ellroy's L.A.: City of Demons
Documentary.
Season 1.
Episode 3.
Episode entitled: L.A. Serial Killers.
Released: February 2, 2011.
Series directors: Brian Coughlin, Gabe Torres, Brian Coughlin and Robert Kirk.

Cast:
James Ellroy, Shaun Gerardo, Tiffany Turner, Ryan Beard, Kenneth Bianchi, Roger W. Boren, Pamela Bozanich, Angelo Buono Jr., Saul Faerstein, Jared Jacobs, Ted Jonas, Phil LaMarr, Glynn Martin, Danny McCluskey, Martin T. Orne, Eliana Saenz, Mitchell Salberg, Frank Salerno.

On this day in music history - Star Crossed Lovers, by Plácido Domingo and Renée Fleming (1999):

The album Star Crossed Lovers,

by Plácido Domingo and Renée Fleming,

was released on February 2, 1999.