Patricia Highsmith, on writing:

When I am thickening my plots, I like to think: 

'What if ... What if ...'

Thus, my imagination can move from the likely, 

which everyone can think of, 

to the unlikely-but-possible, 

my preferred plot.

- Patricia Highsmith.

On this day in music history: The Ice Queen, by Sue Foley (2018):

The Ice Queen

Album by Sue Foley,
released February 3, 2018.

Track list:

Come To Me; 81; Run; The Ice Queen; The Lucky Ones; Gaslight; Fool's Gold; If I Have Forsaken You; Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair; Death of a Dream; The Dance; Cannonball Blues.

On this day in television history - Justified (2015):

Justified

Season 6. Episode 3.

Episode entitled: Noblesse Oblige.

Released February 3, 2015.

Directed by Peter Weller.

Written by Graham Yost, Taylor Elmore, Benjamin Cavell, Keith Schreier.

Based on the short story Fire in the Hole by Elmore Leonard.

Music by Steve Porcaro.

Cast:

Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Jere Burns, Joelle Carter, Jacob Pitts, Erica Tazel, Walton Goggins, Mary Steenburgen, Garret Dillahunt, Rick Gomez, Justin Welborn, Brent Briscoe, Scott Grimes, Duke Davis Roberts, Ryan Dorsey, Patrick Carlyle, Sam Elliott, Jonathan Kowalsky, Shawn Parsons, Russell Bertolino.

On this day in movie history - The Gladiator (1986):

The Gladiator

directed by Abel Ferrara,

written by William Bleich, Tom Schulman and Jeffrey Walker,

based on a story by William Bleich,

was released in the United States on February 3, 1986.
Music by David Frank.

Cast:

Ken Wahl, Nancy Allen, Robert Culp, Stan Shaw, Rosemary Forsyth, Bart Braverman, Brian Robbins, Rick Dees, Michael Young, Harry Beer, Garry Goodrow, Robert Phalen, Linda Thorson, Mary Baldwin, Thom Bierdz, José Flores, Stephen Anthony Henry, Gary Lev, Jan Merlin, Georgie Paul, Mort Sertner, Jim Wilkey, Royce D. Applegate, Jeannie Epper, Lyle Gold, Helen Kelly, Mark Munski, George A. Sack Jr., Chris Sundlee.

On this day in music history - Cheap Trick, by Cheap Trick (1977):

Cheap Trick

Album by Cheap Trick,

released February 3, 1977.

Track list:

ELO Kiddies (Single Version); Daddy Should Have Stayed in High School; Taxman, Mr. Thief; Cry, Cry; Oh, Candy; Hot Love; Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace; He's a Whore; Mandocello; The Ballad of TV Violence (I'm Not the Only Boy); Lovin' Money; I Want You to Want Me (Early Studio Version); Lookout (Studio Version); You're All Talk (Early Studio Version); I Dig Go-Go Girls (Outtake - 1977).

Born on this day – Melanie Anne Safka-Schekeryk:

Melanie Anne Safka-Schekeryk

aka Melanie or Melanie Safka

Singer

Songwriter

February 3, 1947 – January 23, 2024

Credits:

Am I Real or What (1985); Antlers (1997); Arabesque (1982); As I See It Now (1974); Ballroom Streets (1978); Beautiful People (1999); Born to Be (1968); Candles in the Rain (1970); Cowabonga – Never Turn Your Back on a Wave (1988); Crazy Love (2002); Ever Since You Never Heard of Me (2010); Garden in the City (1971); Gather Me (1971); Low Country (1997); Madrugada (1974); Melanie (1987); Melanie (aka Affectionately Melanie) (1969); Moments from My Life (2002); Old Bitch Warrior (1996); Paled by Dimmer Light (2004); Phonogenic – Not Just Another Pretty Face (1978); Photograph (1976); Seventh Wave (1983); Silence Is King (1993); Silver Anniversary (1993); Stoneground Words (1972); Sunset and Other Beginnings (1975); The Good Book (1971).

Born on this day – Clarence E. Mulford:

Clarence E. Mulford

Writer

February 3, 1883 – May 10, 1956

Credits:

Books:

Bar-20 (1906); Bar-20 Days / Hopalong Cassidy's Private War (1911); Bar-20 Three / Hopalong Cassidy Sees Red (1921); Black Buttes (1923); Bring Me His Ears (1922); Buck Peters, Ranchman (1912); Corson of the J.C. (1928); Cottonwood Gulch (1925); H. C. Returns (1923); Hopalong Cassidy (1910); Hopalong Cassidy and the Eagles Brood (1931); Hopalong Cassidy Serves a Writ (1941); Hopalong Cassidy Takes Cards (1937); Hopalong Cassidy's Saddle Mate (1926); Johnny Nelson (1920); Me An' Shorty (1929); Mesquite Jenkins (1928); Mesquite Jenkins, Tumbleweed (1932); On The Trail Of The Tumbling T (1935); Round-Up (1933); Rustler's Valley (1924); Tex (1922); The Bar-20 Rides Again (1926); The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories (1921); The Coming of Cassidy (1913); The Deputy Sheriff (1930); The Man from Bar 20 (1918); The Orphan (1908); Trail Dust (1934).

Movies and television:

Bar 20 (1943); Bar 20 Justice (1938); Bar 20 Rides Again (1935); Battle of the Buttes (1952); Border Justice (1951); Border Patrol (1943); Border Vigilantes (1941); Borderland (1937); Borrowed Trouble (1948); Call of the Prairie (1936); Cassidy of Bar 20 (1938); Colt Comrades (1943); Danger Trail (1951); Dangerous Venture (1947); Doomed Caravan (1941); False Colors (1943); False Paradise (1948); Fool's Gold (1946); Forty Thieves (1944); Heart of Arizona (1938); Heart of the West (1936); Hidden Gold (1940); Hills of Old Wyoming (1937); Hop-a-Long Cassidy (1935); Hopalong Cassidy (1952–1954); Hopalong Cassidy (1952–1954); Hopalong Cassidy Returns (1936); Hopalong Rides Again (1937); Hoppy Serves a Writ (1943); Hoppy's Holiday (1947); In Old Mexico (1938); Law of the Pampas (1939); Law of the Trigger (1952); Leather Burners (1943); Lost Canyon (1942); Lumberjack (1944); Mystery Man (1944); North of the Rio Grande (1937); Outlaws of the Desert (1941); Partners of the Plains (1938); Pirates on Horseback (1941); Prairie Vengeance (1951); Pride of the West (1938); Range War (1939); Renegade Trail (1939); Riders of the Deadline (1943); Riders of the Timberline (1941); Rustlers' Valley (1937); Santa Fe Marshal (1940); Secret of the Wastelands (1941); Silent Conflict (1948); Silver on the Sage (1939); Sinister Journey (1948); Stagecoach War (1940); Stick to Your Guns (1941); Strange Gamble (1948); Sunset Trail (1938); Texas Masquerade (1944); Texas Trail (1937); The Dead Don't Dream (1948); The Deadwood Coach (1924); The Devil's Playground (1946); The Eagle's Brood (1935); The Frontiersmen (1938); The Marauders (1947); The Orphan (1920); The Showdown (1940); Three Men from Texas (1940); Three on the Trail (1936); Trail Dust (1936); Twilight on the Trail (1941); Undercover Man (1942); Unexpected Guest (1947); Wide Open Town (1941 / 1953).