Monday, April 8, 2024

On this day in music history - Hopes & Dreams, by Lisa Lynne (2003):

The album Hopes & Dreams,
by Lisa Lynne,
was released on April 8, 2003.

Born on this day – James Herbert:


James Herbert

Writer

April 8, 1943 – March 20, 2013

Credits:

The Rats (aka Deadly Eyes) (1974); Lair (1979); Domain (1983); The City (1994); Haunted (1988); The Ghosts Of Sleath (1994); '48 (1996); Ash (2012); The Fog (1975); The Survivor (1976); Fluke (1977); The Spear (1978); The Dark (1980); The Jonah (1981); Shrine (1983); Moon (1985); The Magic Cottage (1986); Sepulchre (1987); Creed (1990); Portent (1992); Others (1999); Once... (2001); Nobody True (2003); The Secret of Crickley Hall (2006); James Herbert's Dark Places (1993); Gaslight & Ghosts (1988); Now We Are Sick (1991); Ghost Movies (1995); The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, #11 (2000); The Mammoth Book of Body Horror (2012).

Born on this day – Douglas Trumbull:


Douglas Trumbull

Director

Writer

Inventor

Special effects supervisor

April 8, 1942 – February 7, 2022


Credits:

10th Annual Visual Effects Society Awards (2012); 2001 and Beyond (2001); 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968); 2001: FX and Early Conceptual Artwork (2007); 2001: The Making of a Myth (2001); 2001: The Science of Futures Past (2012); Ain't It Cool with Harry Knowles (2012); Back to the Future... The Ride (1991); Big Ball (1983); Blade Runner (1982); Blade Runner: Convention Reel (1982); Brainstorm (1983); Candy (1968); Chesley Bonestell: A Brush with the Future (2018); Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977); Cyberspace (1996); Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner (2007); Douglas Trumbull - Lighting the Starship Enterprise (2016); Douglas Trumbull: Then and Now (2002); Exploring 'the Tree of Life' (2011); Fantasy Film Festival (1979); Golden Eyes (2011); Gravity: Looking to the Stars - The Evolution of Space Films (2015); Greatest Sci-Fi Movies (2015); HypaSpace (2008); In Search of the Obelisk (1993); Inglorious Treksperts (2019); James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction (2018); Kubrick's Universe: The Stanley Kubrick Podcast (2021); Leonardo's Dream (1989); Les ateliers du rêve: les grands studios de cinéma dans le monde (1985); Let's Go (1985); Lights, Camera, Action!: A Century of the Cinema (1996); Making Close Encounters (1990); Miradas 2 (2008); Movies and Stuff (2015); Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind (2020); New Magic (1983); Night of Dreams (1978); On the Edge of 'Blade Runner' (2000); Phenomenon Blade Runner (2021); Secret Access: UFOs on the Record (2011); Silent Running (1972); 'Silent Running': By Director Douglas Trumbull (2002); Since '45 - In the Extraordinary House of History (2017); Since '45 (1979); Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers Centennial Gala (2016); Splice Here: A Projected Odyssey (2022); Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001 (2007); Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (2001); Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979); Starlost (1973); The 16th Annual Satellite Awards (2011); The Andromeda Strain (1971); The Andromeda Strain: Making the Film (2001); The Gate to the Mind's Eye (1993); The Gate to the Mind's Eye (1994); The History of the SF Film (1982); The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' (2001); The Making of 'Silent Running' (1974); The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot (2018); The Real History of Science Fiction (2014); The Reality Trip (1997); The Starlost (1973); The Starlost (1973–1974); The Starlost: Deception (1980); The Tree of Life (2011); Theater of Time (1993); To Dream of Roses (1990); To the Moon and Beyond (1964); Tour of the Universe (1985); Trumbull Land (2018); Valkokangas (1984); Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001 (2007).

Born on this day – Eric Porter:


Eric Porter

Actor

April 8, 1928 – May 15, 1995

Born on this day – María Félix:


María Félix

Actress

Singer

April 8, 1914 – April 8, 2002

Born on this day – Marion Mack:


Marion Mack

Actress

Writer

April 8, 1902 – May 1, 1989

Born on this day – Carmen Boni:


Carmen Boni

Actress

April 8, 1901 – November 19, 1963

Credits:

Man to Men (1948); The Count of Monte Cristo (1943); Cleo, robes et manteaux (1935); Quella vecchia canaglia (1934); Ne sois pas jalouse (1932); La femme en homme (1932); La riva dei bruti (1931); La vacanza del diavolo (1931); Il richiamo del cuore (1930); Katharina Knie (1929); La grazia (1929); Quartier Latin (1929); Der Adjutant des Zaren (1929); The Art of Love (1928); The Jolly Peasant (1928); Liebeskarneval (1928); Scampolo (1928); La storia di una piccola Parigina (1928); Die Gefangene von Shanghai (1927); Gehetzte Frauen (1927); Ihr letztes Liebesabenteuer (1927); Venus im Frack (1927); Addio giovinezza! (1927); L'ultimo lord (1926); La bocca chiusa (1925); Il focolare spento (1925); La preda (1924); La moglie bella (1924); Il riscatto (1924); La piccola ignota (1923); La dama de Chez Maxim's (1923); Passione di Popolo (1921); Mio zio Barbassous (1921); La preda (1921); Ma non è una cosa seria (1921); La scimitarra di Barbarossa (1921); Monella di strada (1920); Il fiore del Caucaso (1920); Ave Maria (1920); Miss Dorothy (1920); La pecorella (1920); Ave Maria, gratia plena! (1919).