Born on this day – Dorothy Parker:

Dorothy Parker

Writer

August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967

Credits:

Poems:

A Certain Lady; A Dream Lies Dead; A Fairly Sad Tale; A Pig's-Eye View Of Literature; A Portrait; A Very Short Song; A Well-Worn Story; After Spanish Proverb; Afternoon; Alexandre Dumas And His Son; Alfred, Lord Tennyson; Anecdote; August; Autobiography; Autumn Valentine; Ballade at Thirty-five; Ballade Of A Great Weariness; Ballade of Unfortunate Mammals; Bohemia; Braggart; Bric-a-Brac; But Not Forgotten; Chant For Dark Hours; Charles Dickens; Coda; Comment; Condolence; Convalescent; D.G. Rossetti; Daylight Saving; De Profundis; Dilemma; Distance; Epitaph; Experience; Fable; Fair Weather; Faute De Mieux; Fighting Words; Finis; For A Favorite Granddaughter; For A Lady Who Must Write Verse; For A Sad Lady; For An Unknown Lady; From A Letter From Lesbia; Frustration; Fulfillment; Garden-Spot; General Review Of The Sex Situation; George Gissing; George Sand; Godmother; Godspeed; Guinevere at Her Fireside; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Healed; Hearthside; I Know I Have Been Happiest; I Shall Come Back; Incurable; Indian Summer; Inscription for the Ceiling of a Bedroom; Interior; Interview; Inventory; Iseult Of Brittany; Landscape; Liebestod; Light Of Love; Lines On Reading Too Many Poets; Little Words; Love Song; Lullaby; Men; Midnight; Mortal Enemy; My Own; Neither Bloody Nor Bowed; News Item; Ninon De Lenclos, On Her Last Birthday; Nocturne; Now At Liberty; Observation; Of a Woman, Dead Young; On Being A Woman; One Perfect Rose; Ornithology For Beginners; Oscar Wilde; Parable For A Certain Virgin; Partial Comfort; Paths; Pattern; Penelope; Philosophy; Plea; Portrait of the Artist; Post-Graduate; Pour Prendre Conge; Prayer For a New Mother; Prayer For A Prayer; Prisoner; Prologue to a Saga; Prophetic Soul; Purposely Ungrammatical Love Song; Rainy Night; Recurrence; Renunciation; Requiescat; Rhyme Against Living; Roundel; Salome's Dancing-Lesson; Sanctuary; Sight; Social Note; Solace; Somebody's Song; Song in a Minor Key; Song Of One Of The Girls; Song of Perfect Propriety; Sonnet For The End Of A Sequence; Sonnet On An Alpine Night; Summary; Superfluous Advice; Surprise; Sweet Violets; Symptom Recital; Temps Perdu; Testament; The Apple Tree; The Burned Child; The Choice; The Danger Of Writing Defiant Verse; The Dark Girl's Rhyme; The Dramatists; The Evening Primrose; The False Friends; The Flaw In Paganism; The Gentlest Lady; The Homebody; The Immortals; The Lady's Reward; The Last Question; The Leal; The Little Old Lady in Lavender Silk; The New Love; The Red Dress; The Satin Dress; The Sea; The Searched Soul; The Second Oldest Story; The Small Hours; The Thin Edge; The Trifler; The Trusting Heart; The Veteran; The Whistling Girl; The White Lady; The Willow; Theory; There Was One; They Part; Thomas Carlyle; Thought For A Sunshiny Morning; Threnody; To A Much Too Unfortunate Lady; Tombstones in the Starlight; Transition; Two-Volume Novel; Ultimatum; Unfortunate Coincidence; Vers Demode; Verse For a Certain Dog; Victoria; Wail; Walter Savage Landor; Wisdom; Words of Comfort to Be Scratched on a Mirror.

Books:

50 Great American Short Stories (1963); 50 Great Short Stories (1952); After Such Pleasures (1940); Alaska Stories (1995); Big Blonde and Other Stories (1929); Cape Cod Stories (2002); Chicago Stories (1993); Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules (2005); Death and Taxes (1931); Enough Rope (1926); First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994); Florida Stories (1993); Here Lies (1939); Here We Are, a Telephone Call (2001); Laments for the Living (1930); Life Stories (2000); Los Angeles Stories (1991); Lust: Lascivious Love Stories and Passionate Poems (1994); Men I'm Not Married To (1922); New Orleans Stories (1992); Not Much Fun (1996); Not So Deep as a Well (1937); Points of View (1956); San Francisco Stories (1990); San Francisco Thrillers (1995); Sayings of Dorothy Parker (1992); Secret Ingredients (2007); Selected Readings from the Portable Dorothy Parker (1976); Selected Stories (1995); Sisters (2009); Southwest Stories (1993); Such a Pretty Little Picture and Other Stories (2023); Sunset Gun: Poems (1940); Texas Stories (1995); The Coast of Illyria (1990); The Collected Poetry of Dorothy Parker (1944); The Collected Short Stories (1942); The Ladies of the Corridor (1954); The Portable Dorothy Parker (1944); The Sexes (1944); Women Writers at Work (1989); Wonderful Town (2000).

Movies and television:

2nd House (1975); A Cat in Paris (2010); A Star Is Born (1954); A Telephone Call (2014); American Masters (1987); August (2013); Big Blonde (1980); Bomb Girls (2012); Candide (1988 / 2024); Desert Hearts (1985); Dick Stabile and His Orchestra (1952); Dorothy and Alan at Norma Place (1982); Dynamite (1929); Een heel kleintje maar (1967); Grande Teatro Tupi (1952); Hands Across the Table (1935); Here Is My Heart (1934); I Live on Your Visits (2024); I Wished on the Moon (1935); In the Pink (1982); ITV Play of the Week (1960); Jerry Gray and the Band of Today (1950); Ladies of the Corridor (1975); Lady Be Careful (1936); Language of Love (1964); Licorice Pizza (2021); Life Together (2016); Madonna Feat. Massive Attack: I Want You (1995); Madonna: Celebration - The Video Collection (2009); Movie Melodies on Parade (1936); Moving Pictures (1995); O Telefonema (2010); Pakinateatteri (1960); Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951); Public Speaking (2010); Queen for a Day (1951); Remodeling Her Husband (1920); Saboteur (1942); Shoestring Theatre (1959–1962); Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman (1947); Something to Read (1959); Stars and the Moon: Betty Buckley Live at the Donmar (2002); Stranded in Canton (2005); Suzy (1936); Sweethearts (1938); Teatterituokio (1966); The Ben Hecht Show (1959); The Big Broadcast of 1936 (1935); The Cowboy and the Lady (1938); The David Susskind Show (1959); The Day of the Locust (1975); The Fan (1949); The Flower of My Secret (1995); The Game (2004); The Green Helmet (1961); The Hoodlum Saint (1946); The Little Foxes (1941); The Lovely Leave (1999); The Maker (1997); The Moon's Our Home (1936); The Night Before Christmas (1957); The Plymouth Playhouse (1953); The Sexes (2008); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1959); Three Married Men (1936); T'odio, amor meu (1996); Trade Winds (1938); Weekend for Three (1941); Woman Chases Man (1937); Women and Men: Stories of Seduction (1990); You Were Perfectly Fine (2009).

Born on this day – Henry "Son" Sims:

Henry "Son" Sims

Blues fiddler

Songwriter

August 22, 1890 – December 23, 1958

Recommended reading - The Illustrated Man (1951):

The Illustrated Man (1951).

By Ray Bradbury.

Published by Panther.

1977 edition.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0586043594

ISBN-13: 978-0586043592

Description:

Anthology of 18 science fiction short stories.

Contents:

Prologue: The Illustrated Man; The Veldt; Kaleidoscope; The Other Foot; The Highway; The Man; The Long Rain; The Rocket Man; The Fire Balloons; The Last Night of the World; The Exiles; No Particular Night or Morning; The Fox and the Forest; The Visitor; The Concrete Mixer; Main article: Marionettes, Inc.; The City; Zero Hour; The Rocket; Epilogue.

Sample:

It was a warm afternoon in early September when I first met the Illustrated Man. I didn’t know he was Illustrated then. …

He took his shirt off. He was covered with Illustrations from the blue tattooed ring about his neck to his belt line. He was a riot of rockets and fountains and people. There were yellow meadows and blue rivers and mountains and stars and suns and planets spread in a Milky Way across his chest.

“You see,” said the Illustrated Man, “the Illustrations predict the future. It’s all right in sunlight. But at night the pictures move. The pictures change. Don’t you look at them, I warn you. Turn the other way when you sleep.”

The night was serene. I lay back a few feet from him. He didn’t seem violent, and the pictures were beautiful. I let my eyes fill up on them.

Sixteen illustrations, sixteen tales. I counted them one by one.

Primarily my eyes focused upon a scene, a large house with two people in it. I saw a flight of vultures on a blazing flesh sky, I saw yellow lions, and I heard voices.

The first Illustrations quivered and came to life. …

Larry L. King, on writing:

Write.

Rewrite.

When not writing or rewriting, read.

I know of no shortcuts.

- Larry L. King.

On this day in music history - Sacred Heart, by Shakespear’s Sister (1989):

The album Sacred Heart,

by Shakespear’s Sister,

was released on August 21, 1989.

On this day in movie history - The Big Easy (1987):

The Big Easy,

directed by Jim McBride,

written by Daniel Petrie, Jr.,

was released in the United States on August 21, 1987.
Music by Brad Fiedel.

Cast:
Dennis Quaid, Ellen Barkin, Ned Beatty, John Goodman, Lisa Jane Persky, Ebbe Roe Smith, Tom O'Brien, Charles Ludlam, Grace Zabriskie, Marc Lawrence, Solomon Burke, Gailard Sartain, Jim Chimento, Edward Saint Pe, Robert Lesser, Cheryl Starbuck, Margie O'Dair, Arden Lo, Rickey Pierre, Nick Krieger, Gary Anthony Sturgis, Byron Nora, Archie Sampier, Jeff Hollis, Joy N. Houck Jr., Steve Broussard, Eliott Keener, August Krinke, John Schluter, Zephirin Hymel IV, Jack Harris, George Dureau, Patrick Frederic, Lane Trippe, Nik Hagler, Don Lutenbacher, Carol Sutton, Peter Gabb, Jim Garrison, Dave Petitjean, Buddy Quaid, Dennis Curren, Rico Wheat, Robert Kearney, Joe Catalanotto, Terrance Simien, Gene Chambers, Popp Esprite, Earl Sally, Rudy Chambers, Phillip V. Caruso, Duane Delco.

On this day in movie history - An American Werewolf in London (1981):

An American Werewolf in London,

directed and written by John Landis,

was released in the United States on August 21, 1981.
Music by Elmer Bernstein.

Cast:
David Naughton, Griffin Dunne, David Schofield, Joe Belcher, Brian Glover, Lila Kaye, Rik Mayall, Sean Baker, Paddy Ryan, Jenny Agutter, Anne-Marie Davies, John Woodvine, Frank Oz, Don McKillop, Paul Kember, Colin Fernandes, Albert Moses, Jim Henson, Michele Brisigotti, Mark Fisher, Gordon Sterne, Paula Jacobs, Claudine Bowyer, Johanna Crayden, Nina Carter, Geoffrey Burridge, Brenda Cavendish, Christopher Scoular, Mary Tempest, Cynthia Powell, Sydney Bromley, Frank Singuineau, Will Leighton, Michael Carter, Elizabeth Bradley, Rufus Deakin, Lesley Ward, George Hilsdon, Gerry Lewis, Dennis Fraser, Alan Ford, Peter Ellis, Denise Stephens, Christine Hargreaves, Linzi Drew, Lucien Morgan, Dave Cooper, Susan Spencer, Bob Babenia, Ken Sicklen, John Salthouse, John Altman, Keith Hodiak, John Owens, Roger Rowland, Lewis Alexander, Jack Armstrong, Vic Armstrong, Alan Austen, Roy Beck, Kevin Brennan, John Cannon, Ina Clare, Simon van Collem, Harry Fielder, Noel Flanagan, Alan Flyng, Ryan Folsey, Laurie Goode, Dave Griffiths, Brendan Hughes, John Ketteringham, John Landis, Dave Lanning, Aileen Lewis, Tommy Little, Derek Lyons, Lou Morgan, Ralph G. Morse, James Muir, Terence Mustoo, George Oliver, James Payne, Quentin Pierre, Jack Ross, Terry Sach, Alecia St Leger, David Stone, John Timberlake, Terry Walsh.