Wednesday, October 2, 2024

Born on this day – Graham Greene:


Graham Greene


Writer

October 2, 1904 – April 3, 1991


Credits:

Books:

A Burnt-Out Case (1960); A Chance For Mr Lever (1936); A Gun for Sale / This Gun for Hire (1936); A Sense of Reality (1950); A Sort of Life (1971); A World of My Own: A Dream Diary (1992); Across the Bridge and Other Stories (1981); Alaska Stories (1995); Articles of Faith: The Collected Tablet Journalism of Graham Greene (2006); Babbling April (1925); bell hooks: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2023); Blood River (2007); Brighton Rock (1938); British Dramatists (1942); Cape Cod Stories (2002); Carving a Statue (1964); Chicago Stories (1993); Child's Ploy (1984); Christopher Hitchens (2017); Collected Essays (1969); Collected Stories (1973); Complete Short Stories (1990); Contemporary British Short Stories I (1971); Crime Never Pays (2001); David Bowie (2016); Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party (1980); England Made Me / The Shipwrecked (1935); Ernest Hemingway (2015); Escape to Mexico: An Anthology of Great Writers (2002); First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994); Florida Stories (1993); Fragments of Autobiography (1991); Fred Rogers: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2021); Frida Kahlo: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2020); Friendship (1990); Gabriel García Márquez (2015); Getting to Know the General (1984); Graham Greene: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2019); Graham Greene's Nineteen Stories (1947); Hannah Arendt: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (2013); Hunter S. Thompson (2018); In Patagonia (1977); In Search of a Character: Two African Journals (1961); It's a Battlefield (1934); J. D. Salinger (2016); J'Accuse (1982); James Baldwin: The Last Interview: and other Conversations (2014); Jane Jacobs (2016); Janet Malcolm: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations (2022); John Lewis: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (2021); Johnny Cash: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2021); Jorge Luis Borges (2012); Journey Without Maps (1936); Julia Child: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (2018); Kathy Acker: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2018); Kurt Cobain: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2022); Kurt Vonnegut (2011); Learning to Live Finally (2005); Little Fire Engine (1950); London Stories (2013); Lord Rochester's Monkey: Being the Life of John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester (1974); Los Angeles Stories (1991); Loser Takes All (1955); Lou Reed (2015); Lust: Lascivious Love Stories and Passionate Poems (1994); Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2017); May We Borrow Your Husband? & Other Comedies of the Sexual Life (1967); Monsignor Quixote (1982); New Orleans Stories (1992); No Man's Land (2004); Nora Ephron: The Last Interview (2015); Octavia E. Butler: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2023); Oliver Sacks (2016); Orient Express / Stamboul Train (1932); Our Man in Havana (1958); Philip K. Dick (2015); Pleasure Dome: The Collected Film Criticism, 1935-40 (1972); Ray Bradbury: The Last Interview (2014); Reflections (1990); Roberto Bolaño: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations (2009); Rumour at Nightfall (1931); San Francisco Stories (1990); San Francisco Thrillers (1995); Shades of Greene (1975); Shadow of the Silk Road (2007); Shirley Chisholm: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2021); Southwest Stories (1993); Texas Stories (1995); The Bear Fell Free (1935); The Captain and the Enemy (1988); The Collected Plays (1985); The Comedians (1966); The Complaisant Lover (1961); The Confidential Agent (1939); The Destructors (1955); The End of the Affair (1951); The Great Jowett (1981); The Heart of the Matter (1948); The Honorary Consul (1973); The Human Factor (1978); The Killing Spirit (1996); The Last Word and Other Stories (1990); The Lawless Roads / Another Mexico (1939); The Little Fire Engine (1973); The Little Horse Bus (1952); The Little Steamroller (1955); The Little Train (1946); The Living Room (1954); The Lost Childhood and Other Essays (1951); The Man Within (1929); The Ministry of Fear (1943); The Name of Action (1930); The Old School (1984); The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories (1987); The Portable Graham Greene (1973); The Potting Shed (1957); The Power and the Glory / The Labyrinthine Ways (1940); The Quiet American (1955); The Return of A. J. Raffles (1975); The Rings of Saturn (1995); The Tenth Man (1985); The Third Man (1949); The Third Man and Other Stories (2011); Third Man (1977); Three Entertainments (1952); Toni Morrison: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2020); Travels with My Aunt (1969); Triple Pursuit! (1971); Twenty-One Stories (1954); Under the Garden (1963); Ursula K. Le Guin: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (2019); Victorian Villainies (1984); Ways of Escape (1980); Why Do I Write? (1975); Writers: Their Lives and Works (2018); Yours etc.: Letters to the Press, 1945-89 (1991).

Movies and television:

21 Days Together (1940); A Little Place Off the Edgware Road (2013); A Shocking Accident (1982); A Very British Murder with Lucy Worsley (2013); About Religion (1964); Across the Bridge (1957); Alta comedia (1971); Arena (1987 / 1993); Au théâtre ce soir (1980); Beyond the Limit (1983); Brighton Rock (1948 / 2010); Celebrity Playhouse (1981); Cineficción Radio (2020); Confidential Agent (1945); Cüneyt Arkin in Yarali Kurt (1972); Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene (2013); Das Geheimnis (1957); Das Herz aller Dinge (1971); Day for Night (1973); De kamer waarin wij leven (1959); Den føjelige elsker (1963); Den nøysomme elsker (1967); Der letzte raum (1966); Die Kraft und die Herrlichkeit (1957); Double Take (2001); Dr. Fischer of Geneva (1984); El teatro (1974); Empire of the Censors (1995); England Made Me (1973); Estudio 1 (1982); François Truffaut: The Man Who Loved Cinema - Love & Death (1996); Frontiers of Faith (1955); Great Performances (1986); Günes dogmasin (1961); H.M. Tennent Globe Theatre (1956); Honorární konzul (1991); Il treno per Istanbul (1980–1981); ITV Play of the Week (1956); Jádro veci (1968); La fine dell'avventura (1969); La mano dello straniero (1954); Late Night Story (1978); Lights Out (1951); Los exclusivos del Nueve (1982); Loser Takes All (1956); May We Borrow Your Husband? (1986); Ministerstvo strachu (1966); Ministry of Fear (1944); Neodcudzitelný majetok (1984); Noche de teatro (1974); Novela (1976); Omnibus (1968); Orient Express (1934); Our Man in Havana (1959); Pelon talo (1966); Play of the Week (1959–1961); Primera función (1989); Quinta colonna (1966); Saint Joan (1957); Saturday Review (1986); Secrets of the Content (2010); Shades of Greene (1975–1976); Shadowing the Third Man (2004); Ship's Reporter (1950); Short Cut to Hell (1957); Sleuths, Sorcerers & Spies: Andrew Marr's Paperback Heroes (2016); Strike It Rich (1990); Studio 4 (1962); Studio One (1951); Tajný agent (1974); Television Theater (1998); Terror Toons 4 (2022); The Art of Dissent (2021); The Book Programme (1978); The Comedians (1967); The Comedians in Africa (1967); The Complaisant Lover (1961); The DuPont Show of the Month (1959); The End of the Affair (1955 / 1999 / 2006); The Fallen Idol (1948); The Fugitive (1947); The Future's in the Air (1937); The Green Cockatoo (1937); The Heart of the Matter (1953 / 1983); The Human Factor (1979); The Making of 'Saint Joan' (1957); The New Britain (1940); The Power and the Glory (1957 / 1961); The Quiet American (1958 / 2002); The Smugglers (1947); The Tenth Man (1988); The Third Man (1949–1965); The Unforeseen (1960); This Gun for Hire (1942 / 1991); Thursday Theatre (1965); To theatro tis Defteras (1976); Travels with My Aunt (1972); Una pistola in vendita (1970); Verschlossene Räume (1958); Went the Day Well? (1942).

Born on this day – Alice Ernestine Prin:


Alice Ernestine Prin

aka Queen of Montparnasse & Kiki de Montparnasse

Writer

Actress

Singer

Model

Painter

October 2, 1901 – April 29, 1953

Born on this day – Groucho Marx:


Groucho Marx

Actor

Comedian

Writer

Singer

October 2, 1890 – August 19, 1977

Born on this day – Bud Abbott:


Bud Abbott


Actor

Comedian

Producer

October 2, 1897 – April 24, 1974

Credits:

Abbott & Costello (1967); General Electric Theater (1961); Dance with Me, Henry (1956); Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955); Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops (1955); Fireman Save My Child (1954); The Abbott and Costello Show (1952–1954); Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1953); Abbott and Costello Go to Mars (1953); Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd (1952); Lost in Alaska (1952); Jack and the Beanstalk (1952); Comin' Round the Mountain (1951); Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951); Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion (1950); Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet the Killer Boris Karloff (1949); Africa Screams (1949); Mexican Hayride (1948); 10,000 Kids and a Cop (1948); Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948); The Noose Hangs High (1948); The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap (1947); Buck Privates Come Home (1947); The Time of Their Lives (1946); Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Little Giant (1946); Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood (1945); The Naughty Nineties (1945); Here Come the Co-eds (1945); Lost in a Harem (1944); In Society (1944); Hit the Ice (1943); It Ain't Hay (1943); Who Done It? (1942); Pardon My Sarong (1942); Rio Rita (1942); Ride 'Em Cowboy (1942); Keep 'Em Flying (1941); Hold That Ghost (1941); In the Navy (1941); The Andrews Sisters in Buck Privates (1941); One Night in the Tropics (1940).

Recommended reading - The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1973):


The Taking of Pelham One Two Three

By John Godey.

First published 1973.
Published by Penguin Publishing Group.
Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0425253309
ISBN-13: 978-0425253304

Description:

"Chillingly real." – Houston Chronicle.

"A cliff-hanger." – The New Yorker.

"Harrowing, terrifying, and so, so good." – Business Week.

THIS AFTERNOON IN NEW YORK CITY, AFTER A SUBWAY TRAIN LEFT THE PELHAM STATION AT 1:23 P.M., THE EVENTS OF THE DAY TOOK A TERRIFYING DETOUR…

“You will all remain seated. Anyone who tries to get up, or even moves, will be shot. There will be no further warning. If you move you will be killed…”

Four men, armed with submachine guns, have seized a New York City subway train, holding all seventeen passengers – and the entire city – hostage.

The identities of the hijackers are unknown.

Their demands seem impossible.

Their threats are real.

Their escape seems inconceivable.

Only one thing is certain: they aren’t stopping for anything.

Recommended reading - Glengarry Glen Ross: A Play (1983):


Glengarry Glen Ross: A Play

By David Mamet.

Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1984.

Published by Grove Press.
First published 1983.
Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0802130917
ISBN-13: 978-0802130914

Description:

Comic Drama Characters: 7 males.

2 interior sets.

“Who needs caffeine when you’ve got Glengarry Glen Ross? … David Mamet’s play about a dog-eat-dog real estate office in Chicago feels like having espresso pumped directly into your bloodstream…. Mr. Mamet hears American scheming with an exactitude and delight still surpassed by any other dramatist.” – New York Times.

Winner of the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, as well as the New York Drama Critic’s Circle Award for Best American Play and the Drama Desk and Tony Awards for Best American Play and the Drama Desk and Tony Awards for Best Revival of a Play, Glengarry Glen Ross is one of the most celebrated and widely performed plays of recent years. It is a scalding comedy is about small-time, cutthroat real esate salesmen trying to grind out a living by pushing plots of land onto reluctant buyers in a never-ending scramble for their fair share of the American dream. Here, Mamet is at his very best, writing with brutal power about the tough life of tough people who cajole, connive, wheel and deal for a piece of the action an existence where closing a sale can mean a brand-new Cadillac, but losing one can mean losing it everything.

Wonderfully funny … a play to see, remember and cherish.” – New York Post.

Julia Alvarez, on books:


A book does not discriminate against any reader.
All are welcome at the table of literature.

– Julia Alvarez.