Born on this day – Branwell Brontë:

Branwell Brontë

Writer

Painter

June 26, 1817 – September 24, 1848

Credits:

An Angrain Battle Song; An Historical Narrative of the War of Agression; An Historical Narrative of the War of Encroachment; Angria and the Angrians; Battell Book; Juvenilia; Letter from a Father on Earth to His Child in Her Grave; Letters from an Englishman; Life of Warner Howard Warner; Lines Spoken by a Lawyer on the Occasion of the Transfer of This Magazine; Mary's Prayer; Ode on the Celebration of the Great African Games; On Caroline; Penmaenmawr; Percy's Musings upon the Battle of Edwardston; Real Life in Verdopolis, volume 1–2; Real Rest; Remember Me; Sir Henry Tunstall; Tales of Angria (1838–1839); The End of All; The Fate of Regina; The Glass Town; The History of the Young Men from Their First Settlement to the Present Time (1829–1831); The Liar Detected; The Pirate A Tale; The Politics of Verdopolis; The Revenge A Tradgedy; The Young Men's Magazine, Number 1 – 3 (1830); Thorp Green.

Jhumpa Lahiri, on writing:

I approach writing stories as a recorder.

I think of my role as some kind of reporting device - recording and projecting.

- Jhumpa Lahiri.

On this day in movie history - Blade Runner (1982):

Blade Runner,

directed by Ridley Scott,

written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples,

based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick,

was released in the United States on June 25, 1982.
Music by Vangelis.

Cast:
Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, M. Emmet Walsh, Daryl Hannah, William Sanderson, Brion James, Joe Turkel, Joanna Cassidy, James Hong, Morgan Paull, Hy Pyke.

On this day in movie history - The Thing (1982):

The Thing,

directed by John Carpenter,

written by Bill Lancaster,

based on the novella Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell,

was released in the United States on June 25, 1982.
Music by Ennio Morricone.

Cast:
Kurt Russell, A. Wilford Brimley, T. K. Carter, David Clennon, Keith David, Richard Dysart, Charles Hallahan, Peter Maloney, Richard Masur, Donald Moffat, Joel Polis, Thomas Waites.

On this day in movie history - The Omen (1976):

The Omen,

directed by Richard Donner,

written by David Seltzer,

was released in the United States on June 25, 1976.
Music by Jerry Goldsmith.

Cast:
Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, David Warner, Billie Whitelaw, Harvey Stephens, Patrick Troughton, Martin Benson, Robert Rietty, Tommy Duggan, John Stride, Anthony Nicholls, Holly Palance, Roy Boyd, Freda Dowie, Sheila Raynor, Robert MacLeod, Bruce Boa, Don Fellows, Patrick McAlinney, Dawn Perllman, Nancy Manningham, Miki Iveria, Betty McDowall, Nicholas Campbell, Burnell Tucker, Ronald Leigh-Hunt, Guglielmo Spoletini, Ya’ackov Banai, Ann Barrass, Mark Baxter, Harvey Bernhard, Michael Byrne, Victor Harrington, Juba Kennerley, Leo McKern, Noel O’Connell, Bill Reimbold, Adam Rhodes, Massimo Serato, Tina Simmons, Christine Spooner, Damian John Spooner, Guy Standeven.

On this day in movie history - Rollerball (1975):

Rollerball,

directed by Norman Jewison,

written by William Harrison,

based on the short story Roller Ball Murder by William Harrison,

was released in the United States on June 25, 1975.

Music by André Previn.

Adagio in G minor by Tomaso Albinoni.

Cast:
James Caan, John Houseman, Maud Adams, John Beck, Moses Gunn, Pamela Hensley, Barbara Trentham, John Normington, Shane Rimmer, Burt Kwouk, Nancy Bleier, Richard LeParmentier, Robert Ito, Ralph Richardson.

On this day in movie history - Klute (1971):

Klute,

directed by Alan J. Pakula,

written by Andy and Dave Lewis,

was released in the United States on June 25, 1971.
Music by Michael Small.

Cast:
Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi, Roy Scheider, Dorothy Tristan, Rita Gam, Nathan George, Vivian Nathan, Morris Strassberg, Barry Snider, Betty Murray, Jane White, Shirley Stoler, Robert Milli, Anthony Holland, Fred Burrell, Richard B. Shull, Mary Louise Wilson, Marc Malvin, Rosalind Cash, Jean Stapleton, Jan Fielding, Antonia Rey, Robert Ronan, Richard Russell Ramos, Garrett Cassell, Jerome Collamore, Candy Darling, Kevin Dobson, Veronica Hamel, Richard Jordan, Margaret Linn, Tony Major, Harry Reems, Joe Silver, Ellen Stretton, Lee Wallace.