Tuesday, June 11, 2024

Roald Dahl, on books:


So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,
go throw your TV set away,
and in its place you can install,
a lovely bookcase on the wall.

- Roald Dahl.

Monday, June 10, 2024

On this day in music history - Reflections, by B.B. King (2003):

The album Reflections,
by B.B. King,
was released on June 10, 2003.

On this day in music history - The Wild Heart, by Stevie Nicks (1983):

The album The Wild Heart,
by Stevie Nicks,
was released on June 10, 1983.

On this day in music history - One of These Nights, by the Eagles (1975):

The album One of These Nights,
by the Eagles,
was released on June 10, 1975.

On this day in music history - Singin' the Blues, by B.B. King (1957):

The album Singin' the Blues,
by B.B. King,
was released on June 10, 1957.

Born on this day – Manny Coto:


Manny Coto

Writer

Director

Producer

June 10, 1961 – July 9, 2023

Credits:

24 (2006–2010); 24 Season 6: Inside the Writers Room (2007); 24: Day Six - Debrief (2007); 24: Legacy (2016–2017); 24: Live Another Day (2014); 24: Redemption (2008); 24: Solitary (2014); 24-7: The Untold Story (2009); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1988); American Horror Stories (2021–2023); American Horror Story (2018–2022); Cover-Up (1991); Dead at 21 (1994); Dexter (2010–2013); Dr. Giggles (1992); Dr. Giggles: Special Edition (2023); Hostile Intent (1997); In Creative Company (2020); Inglorious Treksperts (2023); Jack in the Box (1989); Jack Is Back (2014); Mirror Universe: Part 2 (2008); Monsters (1989); Moving Pictures (1990); Next (2020); Odyssey 5 (2002–2003); Playroom (1990); Sidekick Vs Superhero (2013); Star Kid (1997); Star Trek Phase II (2007); Star Trek: Enterprise (2003–2005); Star Trek: Inside the Roddenberry Vault (2016); Star Trek: The Journey to the Silver Screen (2016); Strange World (1999–2002); Tales from the Crypt (1991); Tales from the Cryptkeeper (1993); The ½ Hour News Hour (2007); The 29th Annual Imagen Awards (2014); The Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek (2022); The Exorcist (2017); The Other Me (2000); The Outer Limits (1995); The Playboy Morning Show (2014); The Writers' Room (2013); Zenon: The Zequel (2001).

Born on this day – Judy Garland:


Judy Garland

Actress

Singer

June 10, 1922 – June 22, 1969

Credits:

Music:

Alone (1957); Judy (1956); Judy Garland Second Souvenir Album (1943); Judy Garland Souvenir Album (1940); Judy in Love (1958); Meet Me in St. Louis (1944); Miss Show Business (1955); That's Entertainment! (1960); The Garland Touch (1962); The Letter (1959).

Movies and television:

100 Years at the Movies (1994); 100 Years of the London Palladium (2010); 13 Steps (2011); 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year (2009); 20/20 (2020); 3 Seconds (2016); 60 Minutes II / Segment – Classic: Judy (1999); 9 (2009); A Child Is Waiting (1963); A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Hollywood (1967); A Holiday in Storyland (1930); A Life in Words and Music (2007); A Night at the Movies: Merry Christmas! (2011); A Star Is Born (1954); A Star Is Born World Premiere (1954); A Star Is Born: Special Features (2010); A Year in Music (2019); ABC 2000: The Millennium (1999); Adam Neely (2021); Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story (2002); AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies (2004); All You Need Is Love (1977); Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy (1998); America at the Movies (1976); America in Color (2018); American Experience (2005–2009); American Masters (1987–2012); And the Oscar Goes to... (2014); Andy Hardy Comes Home (1958); Andy Hardy Meets Debutante (1940); Andy Williams: My Favorite Duets (2004); Annie Get Your Gun Intro with Susan Lucci (2000); Arena (1994); Atop the Fourth Wall (2010–2014); Australia (2008); Autopsy: The Last Hours of (2017); Babes in Arms (1939); Babes on Broadway (1941); Backstory (2001); Beauty (2022); Because of the Wonderful Things It Does: The Legacy of Oz (2005); Becoming Attractions: The Trailers of Judy Garland (1996); Before Stonewall (1984); Bevor der letzte Vorhang fällt (2014); Biography (1995–2004); Bitte umblättern (1969); Bob Hope: Hollywood's Brightest Star (1996); Bob Hope's Overseas Christmas Tours: Around the World with the Troops - 1941-1972 (1980); Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters (2006); Britain's Most Dangerous Songs: Listen to the Banned (2014); Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937); Brother Can You Spare a Dime (1975); Bubbles (1930); California's Gold (2010); Caramba! (1989); Catalogue of Ships (2008); Catch Me If You Can (2002); Cavalcade of the Academy Awards (1940); CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley (2022); CBS: The Stars' Address (1963); Celebrity Page (2018–2019); Century of Cinema (1995); Charlie Jade (2005); Cheap (2005); Christmas from Hollywood (2003); Contact (1997); Cruella (2021); Curb Your Enthusiasm (2002); Dancing in Small Spaces (2014); Dead to Me (2019); Decàleg Ferran. Vida i poesia de Jaume Ferran (2019); Dieter & Andreas (1989); Doctors (2009); Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty (2003); Down with Love (2003); E! Mysteries & Scandals (1998); E! True Hollywood Story (2001–2002); Easter Parade (1948); Easter Parade: On the Avenue (2005); Electrical Power (1938); Entertaining the Troops (1988); Entertainment Tonight (1987–2024); Eterna Magia (2007); Euphoria (2022); Eva y Adán, agencia matrimonial (1990); Every Sunday (1936); Everybody Sing (1938); Fame in the Twentieth Century (1993); FDR (1982); Film Profile (1957); For Me and My Gal (1942); Ford Star Jubilee (1955); Frank Sinatra. Die Stimme Amerikas (2015); Fred Astaire Salutes the Fox Musicals (1974); Freunde fürs Leben (1997); From the Ends of the Earth (1939); Gay Purr-ee (1962); General Electric Theater (1956); Gilmore Girls (2001–2005); Girl Crazy (1943); Good Morning Britain (2018); Great Performances (1985–2005); Great Romances of the 20th Century (1999); Gypsy (1965); Hanging Up (2000); Happiness Is Just a Thing Called Joe (1998); Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC (1988); Harry Benson: Shoot First (2016); Haunted Hotels of Hollywood (2018); Here's Hollywood (1961–1962); Here's Looking at You, Warner Bros. (1991); Héros (2007); Hewy's Animated Movie Reviews (2009); Hildegarde (2001); Holiday Greetings from 'The Ed Sullivan Show' (1992); Hollywood and the Stars (1963–1964); Hollywood Goes to Town (1938); Hollywood Greats (1978–2001); Hollywood Insider (2021–2022); Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage (1983); Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 2 (1999); Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression (2009); Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1940s: Stars, Stripes and Singing (2009); Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical Treasure (2008); Hollywood Treasures (2018); Hollywood, la vie rêvée de Lana Turner (2019); Hollywood, Unapologetic! (2017); Hollywood: Style Center of the World (1940); Hollywood: The Dream Factory (1972); Hollywood: The Gift of Laughter (1982); Hollywood: The Great Stars (1963); Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies and the American Dream (1998); Hollywood's Children (1982); How We Used to Live (1982); I Can't Give You Anything But Love: The Jimmy McHugh Story (2023); I Could Go on Singing (1963); If I Forget You (1940); Il partigiano Johnny (2000); In the Cool of the Day (1963); In the Good Old Summertime (1949); In the Good Old Summertime Intro (2004); Independent Lens (2005); Inside (2007); Inside Edition (2015–2024); Inside Edition Weekend (2021–2022); Jack Paar Comes Home (1986); Jack Paar: Smart Television (2003); Jacqueline Susann and the Valley of the Dolls (1968); James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate (1984); Jimmy Van Heusen: Swingin' With Frank & Bing (2014); Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me (2009); Judgment at Nuremberg (1961); Judy and Her Guests, Phil Silvers and Robert Goulet (1963); Judy and Liza at the Palladium (1964); Judy Garland Duets (2005); Judy Garland in Concert (1964); Judy Garland: Scandalized (2020); Judy Garland's Hollywood (1997); Judy in a Land Called Oz (1992); Junket Whore (1998); Katy Perry: Part of Me (2012); La Fiesta de Santa Barbara (1935); Legends of Entertainment Video (1995); Les couples mythiques du cinema (2019); Les mille et une vies de Yul Brynner (2020); Leslie Caron: The Reluctant Star (2016); Life Begins for Andy Hardy (1941); Life on Mars (2009); Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows (2001); Listen, Darling (1938); Little Nellie Kelly (1940); Little Nicky (2000); Little Voice (1998); Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story (2024); Look Me Over: Liberace (2021); Love Find Andy Hardy Intro (2004); Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938); Lovecraft Country (2020); Lucy and Desi (2022); Lynch/Oz (2022); Madame K (2018); Made in America (1993); Making the Boys (2011); Martine (2002); Meet Me in St. Louis (1944); Meet the Stars #4: Variety Reel #2 (1941); Memories of Oz (2001); Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's World Famous Musical Hits! (1962); MGM Christmas Trailer (1937); MGM Parade (1955–1956); MGM Sing-Alongs: Being Happy (1997); MGM: When the Lion Roars (1992); Michael Feinstein's American Songbook (2010); Mildred Pierce (2011); Milk (2008); Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood (2010); Molly (1999); Moments in Music (1950); Mondo Trasho (1969); Monte Video (1994); More of 'the Best of the Hollywood Palace' (1993); Movie Star Commercials and Important Messages (1983); Moviestar Cartoons (1983); Mr Selfridge (2013); Mrs. America (2020); MsMojo (2019–2023); My Music: Movie Songs (2007); My Music: Songbook Standards - As Time Goes By (2015); Nana Mouskouri - Momente ihres Lebens (2020); NBC News on Stage (2006); Nostalgia Greats (1982); Omnibus (1972); On Broadway Tonight (1965); Ondas (1986); Our World (1987); Oz Tribute: The Art of Imagination (2005); P.S. I Love You (2007); Pageant (2008); Paul Merton's Palladium Story (1994); Pepe (1960); Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (1966); Peter Allen: The Boy from Oz (1995); Pigskin Parade (1936); Pop Utopia (2020); Presenting Lily Mars (1943); Prettier Than Ever: The Restoration of Oz (2005); Private Screenings (2006); Quantum Leap (1991); Queens of Heartache (2006); Quest for Camelot Sing-Alongs (1998); Quotidien (2020); Radio Star - die AFN-Story (1995); Rainbow: Black Masquerade (2013); Rainbow: Japan Tour (1984); Rainbow: Live Between the Eyes (1982); Rainbow: Live in Munich 1977 (2006); Rainbow: Memories in Rock (2016); Red Cross Fund Program (1951); Reunited at MGM: Astaire and Rogers Together Again (2005); Rituals and Resolutions (1999); Robert Capa: The Man Who Believed His Own Legend (2004); Royal Wedding: June, Judy and Jane (2007); RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars (2019); Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 12 (1936); Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 9: Sports in Hollywood (1940); Screen Snapshots: Spike Jones in Hollywood (1953); Sex and the City (2008); Sex 'n' Pop (2004); Showbiz Ballyhoo (1982); Showbiz Goes to War (1982); Sid & Judy (2019); Silver Rainbow (2009); Six by Sondheim (2013); Some of the Best: Twenty-Five Years of Motion Picture Leadership (1949); Somebody's Daughter, Somebody's Son (2004); Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World' (1991); Somewhere Over the Rainbow (2014); Somewhere Over the Rainbow: Harold Arlen (1999); Songs That Won the War (1994); Special Gala to Support Kennedy Campaign (1960); Steve Reviews (2019); Stonewall (1995); Strictly G.I. (1943); Strike Up the Band (1940); Summer Stock (1950); Super 8½ (1994); Superstore (2016); Surviving Christmas (2004); Svaki put kad se rastajemo (1997); Swan Song (2021); Taking Woodstock (2009); Television's Christmas Classics (1994); Terms of Endearment (1983); That's Dancing! (1985); That's Entertainment! (1974); That's Entertainment! III (1994); That's Entertainment, Part II (1976); The 100 Greatest Musicals (2003); The 14th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1962); The 18th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1961); The 1930's: Music, Memories & Milestones (1988); The 19th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1962); The 33rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1981); The 37th Annual Academy Awards (1965); The '70s (2000); The Andy Williams Show (1965); The Best of the Ed Sullivan Show (1992); The Big Revue (1929); The Boys (2022); The Bread (2008); The Cat in the Hat (1971); The Clock (1945); The Dick Cavett Show (1968); The Ed Sullivan Show (1963–1966); The Fabulous Allan Carr (2017); The Family Stone (2005); The Fazbear Records (2023); The Final Redpill (2022); The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies (1995); The Game Show Show (2023); The Good Life (2007); The Harvey Girls (1946); The Hollywood Palace (1965–1970); The Judy Garland Show (1962); The Knickerbocker Beer Show (1953); The Last Performance (1970); The Legend Floyd: The Dark Side of the Rainbow (2000); The Lego Movie (2014); The Les Crane Show (1965); The Linkletter Show (1964); The London Palladium Show (1969); The Long Day Closes (1992); The Long Firm (2004); The Lost Daughter (2021); The Magic of David Copperfield (1978); The Man in the High Castle 2016–2018); The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2022); The Merv Griffin Show (1968); The Mike Douglas Show (1968); The Miracle of Sound (1940); The Movies (2019); The Music According to Antonio Carlos Jobim (2012); The Next Best Thing (2000); The Night Before Christmas (1957); The Nightclub Years (2001); The One and Only Dick Gregory (2021); The Pirate (1948); The Pirate: A Musical Treasure Chest (2007); The Project (2024); The Red Skelton Hour (1955); The Sammy Davis, Jr. Show (1966); The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender (1997); The Sixties (2014); The Soupy Sales Hour (1966); The Tonight Show (1954); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1962–1964); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1968–1992); The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien (2009); The Twentieth Century (1964); The Very Best of the Ed Sullivan Show (1991); The Wedding of Jack and Jill (1930); The Whimsical World of Oz (1985); The Wizard of Lies (2017); The Wizard of Oz (1939); The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic (1990); The X-Files (1999); The Yellow Brick Road and Beyond (2009); Them (2021); This Hour Has Seven Days (1965); Thoroughbreds Don't Cry (1937); Thousands Cheer (1943); Till the Clouds Roll By (1946); Timeless: Live in Concert (2001); 'Tis the Season: The Holidays on Screen (2022); To Oz! The Making of a Classic (2009); Today (1967); Today Tonight (2009); Too Young to Die (2015); Toys of Anti-Christ (2011); True Blood (2008); Twenty Years After (1944); Twoja twarz brzmi znajomo (2018); Un paseo por el tiempo (1995); Unapologetic with Amala Ekpunobi (2023); Underworld Histories (2007); Upstairs Downstairs (2012); Val Parnell's Sunday Night at the London Palladium (1963); Vegas (2012); Vegas: The City the Mob Made (2009); Vito (2011); Wait in the Wings (2020); Walk on By: The Story of Popular Song (2001); We Must Have Music (1941); Werewolf by Night (2022); What's My Line? (1967); When the Applause Died (1990); Wizard of Oz 3: Dorothy Goes to Hell (2006); Wonder Boys (2000); Words and Music (1948); You Must Remember This (2016); You'll Never Walk Alone (2017); Ziegfeld Follies (1945); Ziegfeld Girl (1941); Ziegfeld Girl Intro (2004).