Annie Proulx, on reading and writing:

You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page.

Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.

- Annie Proulx.

On this day in music history - Disconnect, by Helen Jane Long (2022):

The album Disconnect,

by Helen Jane Long,

was released on December 22, 2022.

On this day in music history - A Streetcar Named Desire, by Renée Fleming ... (1998):

The album A Streetcar Named Desire,

by Renée Fleming, Elizabeth Futral, Rodney Gilfry, Anthony Dean Griffey, San Francisco Opera and André Previn,

was released on December 22, 1998.

On this day in movie history - Grumpier Old Men (1995):

Grumpier Old Men

directed by Howard Deutch,

written by Mark Steven Johnson,

was released in the United States on December 22, 1995.
Music by Alan Silvestri.

Cast:

Walter Matthau, Jack Lemmon, Sophia Loren, Ann-Margret, Burgess Meredith, Daryl Hannah, Kevin Pollak, Katie Sagona, Ann Morgan Guilbert, James Andelin, Marcus Klemp, Max Wright, Cheryl Hawker, Wayne A. Evenson, Allison Levine, John Patrick Martin, Adam Ward, Ryan Waldoch, James Cada, Jaclyn Ross, Kyle Christopherson, Jeffrey L. Smith, Geraldo Rivera, Warren Schueneman, Jack Mitsch, Sterling Robson, Gregory Schuneman, Denny Schusted, Michelle Johnston, Wallace Olson, Carl Johnson, Eugene Karels, Lawrence Grivna, Joel Edwards, Larissa Lowthorp, Johnny Luckett, Tammara Melloy, Shirley Stoler, Ryan Wotherspoon.

On this day in movie history - Always (1989):

Always

directed by Steven Spielberg,

written by Jerry Belson and Diane Thomas,

was released in the United States on December 22, 1989.
Based on the movie A Guy Named Joe (1943), directed by Victor Fleming and John E. Burch.
Music by John Williams.

Cast:

Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter, Brad Johnson, John Goodman, Audrey Hepburn, Roberts Blossom, Keith David, Ed Van Nuys, Marg Helgenberger, Dale Dye, Brian Haley, James Lashly, Michael Steve Jones, Kim Robillard, Jim Sparkman, Doug McGrath, Shereil L. Bowens, Ascension Fuentes, Todd Jacobson, DeMarious T. Morganfield, Mike O'Neal, Larry Landless, Steve Shatnyski, James Pruitt, Joseph McCrossin, JD Souther, David Jackson, David Kitay, Gene Strimling, Roy E. Harrison, Ted Grossman, Gerry Rothschild, Loren Smothers, Taleena Ottwell, Dan Aykroyd, Michael Braveheart, Jim Dunkin, Douglas 'Hurricane' Hall, Tim Hiser, Jaclyn Nagata, Joseph Michael Roth.

On this day in movie history - Do Not Disturb (1965):

Do Not Disturb

directed by Ralph Levy and George Marshall,

written by Richard L. Breen and Milt Rosen,

based on the play Some Other Love by William Fairchild,

was released in the United States on December 22, 1965.
Music by Lionel Newman and Alexander Courage.

Cast:

Doris Day, Rod Taylor, Hermione Baddeley, Sergio Fantoni, Reginald Gardiner, Maura McGiveney, Aram Katcher, Leon Askin, Lisa Perav, Michael Romanoff, Albert Carrier, Barbara Morrison, Dick Winslow, Raquel Welch, Britt Ekland.

On this day in music history - Symphony No. 5, by Ludwig van Beethoven (1808):

Symphony No. 5

by Ludwig van Beethoven,

was first performed in Vienna on December 22, 1808.
Symphony in four movements.
Opus 67, in C minor.
Composed: 1804–1808.