Wednesday, May 15, 2024

Barbara Kingsolver, on writing:


Close the door.
Write with no one looking over your shoulder.
Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you;
figure out what you have to say.
It's the one and only thing you have to offer.

- Barbara Kingsolver.

Tuesday, May 14, 2024

On this day in music history - Little Queen, by Heart (1977):

The album Little Queen,
by Heart,
was released on May 14, 1977.

Born on this day – Daniela Dessì:


Daniela Dessì

Opera singer

Soprano

May 14, 1957 – August 20, 2016

Credits:

Albums:

Antonio Vivaldi, The Farnace; Daniela Dessì sings Verdi; Domenico Cimarosa, Gli Horatii e i Curiazii; Enrico Toselli, Le Romanze Ritrovate; Francesco Cilea, Adriana Lecouvreur; James Puccini, Madama Butterfly; Giacomo Puccini, Manon Lescaut; Giacomo Puccini, Tosca; Gioachino Rossini, Ciro in Babilonia; Gioachino Rossini, The Barber of Seville; Giuseppe Verdi, Aida; La Traviata; Love Duets; Puccini Arias; Umberto Giordano, Andrea Chénier.

Movies and television:

Adriana Lecouvreur (2000); Aida (2003); Così fan tutte (1989); Don Carlo (1992); Don John oder Der bestrafte Wüstling (1992); Elizabeth, Queen of England (1985); Francesca da Rimini (2004); Jordan: Fedora (2018); Sicilian Vespers (2010); Il Regio nel paese del melodramma (2015); La Bohème (1998); The Maiden of the West (2005); The Touchstone (1982); Madama Butterfly (2004); Mephistopheles (1989); My Favourite Opera (1991); Norma (2008); Work Across the Atlantic (2007); Pavarotti 30th Anniversary Gala (1998); Profil, Poveste, Personaj (2009); Puccini: La Bohème (2016); Tosca (2004); Tosca (2010).

Born on this day – Anne Wiazemsky:


Anne Wiazemsky

Actress

Writer

May 14, 1947 – October 5, 2017

Credits:

1 P.M. (1971); 28' (2012); 30 million friends (1992); All's Well (1972); Apostrophes (1989); Au hasard Balthazar (1966); Bouillon de culture (1992–1996); Capricci (1969); Compression (2015–2024); Couleur flesh (1978); Midnight Words (2012); Two of the Wave (2010); Die Auslieferung (1974) Don Juan (1978); Fingerprints (2007–2010); Free Spirits (2007); George who? (1973); Godard Cinema (2022); Godard Mon Amour (2017); Godard by Godard (2023); Frogs (1983); Civil Wars in France / The Bloody Week (1978); Noisy History of Youth (2020); Never Without My Book (1993); My name is Elisabeth (2006); Joyce digital (1984); La bande à Bonnot (1968); La grande librairie (2012–2017); The Passion (1978); The Bloody Week (1976); The truth about the imaginary passion of a stranger (1974); Lamiel (1967); The Studio (1974); The Great Departure (1972); The great Inquisitor (1979); The Patron (1983); The Frontenac Mystery (1975); Black bread (1974–1975); The Testament of a Murdered Jewish Poet (1987); The imprint of the Giants (1980); The Secret Child (1979); Angels 1943, Story of a Film (2004); Les Gauloises bleues (1968); Ideas and Men (1976); Old Moons (1969); L'examen du petit (1969); Leningrad Hospital (1983); L'inchiesta (1971); Lotte in Italia (1971); Mag Bodard, un destin (2005); Marine terrace (1988); Same Les mômes ont du vague à l'âme (1980); My Heart Is Red (1976); One + One (1968); Pigsty (1969); Portrait of a young girl from the late 60s to Brussels (1994); For Pleasure (1966); Who kisses too much... (1986); Raphaël or the Debauchee (1971); Rendez-vous (1985); Return from Africa (1973); She Spent So Many Hours Under the Sun Lamps (1985); Be beautiful and shut up! (1981); TCM Remembers 2017 (2017); Teorema (1968); The Chinese (1967); The Last Train (1973); The Seed of Man (1969); All These Beautiful Promises (2003); A legend, a life (1974); Foreign City (1988); Voices (2006); Night Flight (2004–2007); Weekend (1967); Wind from the East (1970).

Born on this day – Loleh Bellon:


Loleh Bellon

Actress

Writer

Narrator

May 14, 1925 – May 22, 1999

Credits:

À l'assaut du ciel (1966); As Senhoras das Quintas Feiras (1988); Au cinéma ce soir (1974); Avis de recherche (1989); Casque d'Or (1952); Chili-Impressions (1978); Compression (2016); Crime et châtiment (1955); Énigmes de l'histoire (1957); Eugène Sue (1974); Gaslight (1959); Gustave Moreau (1961); Il faut que je tue Monsieur Rumann (1966); Italiques (1973); La comtesse de Tende (1964); La fabrique du roi (1965); La guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu (1984); La nuit des Molières (1988); La plaie et le couteau, Charles Baudelaire (1967); La vie de château (1985); L'art et les hommes (1959–1963); Le bel âge (1960); Le Cabinet des estampes (1955); Le gardian (1946); Le jet d'eau (1973); Le jeu de l'amour et de la mort (1961); Le mystère Barton (1949); Le parfum de la dame en noir (1949); Le point du jour (1949); Le prix (1975); Le thé sous les cyprès (1971); Le tribunal de l'impossible (1970); L'éloignement (1988); L'éloignement (2009); Les ailes de la colombe (1981); Les beaux quartiers (1983); Les cinq dernières minutes (1959); Les enfants du désordre (1989); Les heures chaudes de Montparnasse (1963); Les nouvelles aventures de Vidocq (1971); Les Nuits de France Culture (2023); Midi-Première (1978–1979); My Old Lady (2014); Nevermore, Forever (1976); Paris Saint-Lazare (1982); Philippe (1958); Présence du passé (1966); Quatre-vingt-treize (1962); Romulus le grand (1971); Siegfried (1963); Skipper Next to God (1951); Somewhere, Someone (1972); Un matin comme les autres (1956); Une question d'assurance (1960); Une seconde d'éternité (1977); Variations (1967).

Born on this day – Maria Michi:


Maria Michi

Actress

May 14, 1921 – April 7, 1980

Credits:

Appuntamento a Piazza di Spagna (1947); Brothers Blue (1973); Dedicato a un medico (1974); Down the Ancient Stairs (1975); Fatalità (1947); I problemi di Don Isidro (1978); Irene, Irene (1975); L'altra (1947); Last Tango in Paris (1972); Le ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis (1973); Legge di guerra (1961); Madam Kitty (1976); Mont-Dragon (1970); Paisan (1946); Redneck (1973); Rome, Open City (1945); Shamed (1947); The Breach (1970); The Charterhouse of Parma (1948); The Lady of Monza (1969); What Have You Done to Solange? (1972).

Born on this day – Albert Robida:


Albert Robida

Writer

Illustrator

Etcher

Lithographer

Caricaturist

May 14, 1848 – October 11, 1926

Credits:

Written work:

1430, les assiégés de Compiègne; Contes pour les bibliophiles, with Octave Uzanne; La Bête au bois dormant; La Bretagne (1900); La Fin des Livres, with Octave Uzanne; La Grande Mascarade Parisienne; La Guerre au vingtième siècle (1887); La Guerre au vingtième siècle (1887); La Part du hazard; La Sortie de l'opéra en l'an 2000 (1902); La Touraine (1892); La Vieille France series; Le 19e siècle; Le Vingtième Siècle (1883); Le Vingtième Siècle (1883); Le Vingtième Siècle / La vie électrique (1890); Le Vingtième siècle. La vie électrique (1890); Le Voyage de M. Dumollet; Le Voyage de M. Dumollet; Les Escholiers du temps jadis; Les Vieilles Villes d'Espagne, notes et souvenirs; Les Vieilles Villes d'Italie: notes et souvenirs; Les Vieilles Villes d'Italie: notes et souvenirs; L'horloge des siècles / The Clock of the Centuries (1902); L'Île de Lutèce: enlaidissements et embellissements de la Cité; L'Ingénieur von Satanas (1919); Normandie (1890); Paris de siècle en siècle; le cœur de Paris, splendeurs et souvenir; Paris, Splendeurs et Souvenirs (1992); Provence, Paris, À la Librairie illustrée (1893); Un caricaturiste prophète. La guerre telle qu'elle est; Un chalet dans les airs / Chalet in the Sky; Voyage de fiançailles au XXe siècle; Voyages très extraordinaires de Saturnin Farandoul (1879).

Movies and television:

Saturnino Farandola (1977); The Extraordinary Adventures of Saturnino Farandola (1913).