Born on this day – Angela Greene:

Angela Greene

Actress

February 24, 1921 – February 9, 1978

Credits:

Futureworld (1976); Baretta (1975); Medical Center (1973–1975); The Day of the Locust (1975); Police Story (1974); The Waltons (1973); Pete 'n' Tillie (1972); Room 222 (1972); Banacek (1972); Adam-12 (1969–1972); Love, American Style / Love and the Waitress (1971); Lassie (1970); Nancy (1970); The Immortal (1970); Marcus Welby, M.D. (1969); The Good Guys and the Bad Guys (1969); Mod Squad (1969); The F.B.I. (1968); The Fugitive (1966); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1966); Batman (1966); Tickle Me (1965); The Rogues (1965); Ben Casey (1964); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1964); The Donna Reed Show (1958–1963); Wagon Train (1958–1963); Hawaiian Eye (1962); Lawman (1962); The Law and Mr. Jones (1962); 77 Sunset Strip (1961–1962); Bus Stop (1962); Surfside 6 (1961–1962); The Joey Bishop Show (1961); Cheyenne (1961); Thriller (1961); Lock Up (1961); U.S. Marshal (1960); Bachelor Father (1960); Johnny Midnight (1960); Markham (1960); The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1956–1960); General Electric Theater (1960); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1959); Perry Mason (1959); Whirlybirds (1958–1959); Frontier Doctor (1959); Tales of Wells Fargo (1959); The Cosmic Man (1959); The Danny Thomas Show (1959); Schlitz Playhouse (1955–1958); Behind Closed Doors (1958); Night of the Blood Beast (1958); Sally (1958); M Squad (1958); El coyote (1957); Spoilers of the Forest (1957); Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers (1957); Affair in Reno (1957); The 20th Century-Fox Hour (1956); Ethel Barrymore Theater (1956); The Adventures of Hiram Holliday (1956); Lux Video Theatre (1956); Four Star Playhouse (1956); The Ford Television Theatre (1953–1956); Steve Donovan, Western Marshal (1956); Waterfront (1955); Crossroads (1955); Shotgun (1955); Stage 7 (1955); The Whistler (1955); Adventures of the Falcon (1955); Patrick Henry (1955); Passport to Danger (1954); Topper (1954); The Royal African Rifles (1953); Chevron Theatre (1953); Loose in London (1953); A Perilous Journey (1953); The Lady Wants Mink (1953); The Cases of Eddie Drake (1952); Fireside Theatre (1952); Racket Squad (1952); Sky King (1952); Jungle Jim in the Forbidden Land (1952); Dick Tracy (1950); At War with the Army (1950); Wallflower (1948); King of the Bandits (1947); Escape Me Never (1947); Love and Learn (1947); Stallion Road (1947); That Way with Women (1947); The Time, the Place and the Girl (1946); Humoresque (1946); Cinderella Jones (1946); Too Young to Know (1945); Mildred Pierce (1945); Coney Island Honeymoon (1945); Law of the Badlands (1945); Hollywood Canteen (1944); The Very Thought of You (1944); Musical Movieland (1944); Mr. Skeffington (1944); Grandfather's Follies.

Born on this day – August Derleth:

August Derleth

Writer

February 24, 1909 – July 4, 1971

Credits:

A Collector of Stones (1946); A Corner for Lucia (1953); A Dinner at Imola (1929); A Boy's Way (1947); A Cloak From Messer Lando (1934); A Gentleman from Prague (1944); A Knocking in the Wall (1951); A Little Knowledge (1948); A Matter of Faith (1934); A Matter of Sight (1930); A Praed Street Dossier (1968); A Room in a House (1950); A Thin Gentleman with Gloves (1943); A Traveler in Time (1953); A Wig for Miss DeVore (1943); Across the Hall (1930); After You, Mr. Henderson (1940); Alannah (1945); Altimer's Amulet (1941); An Elegy for Mr. Danielson (1933); An Eye for History (1975); An Occurrence in an Antique Shop (1929); And You, Thoreau! (1944); Any Day Now (1938); Atmosphere of Houses (1939); August Derleth's Eerie Creatures (2009); Balu (1949); Bat's Belfry (1926); Baynter's Imp (1943); Beachheads in Space (1952); Beyond the Threshold (1941); Beyond Time and Space (1950); Birkett's Twelfth Corpse (1933); Bishop's Gambit (1947); Blessed Are the Meek (1948); Bramwell's Guardian (1940); Bright Journey (1940); By Rocket to the Moon (1965); Carousel (1945); Century Jumper (1953); Clark Ashton Smith: Master of Fantasy (1974); Colonel Markesan (1934); Colonel Markesan and Less Pleasant People (1966); Columbus and the New World (1957); Come to Me! (1941); Compliments of Spectro (1941); Concord Rebel: A Life of Henry D. Thoreau (1962); Consider Your Verdict (1937); Country Growth (1940); Country Matters (1996); Country Poems (1956); Countryman's Journal (1963); Dark Mind, Dark Heart (1962); Dark Things (1971); Dead Man's Shoes (1946); Death by Design (1953); Death Holds the Post (1936); Dwellers in Darkness (1976); Emerson, Our Contemporary (1970); Empire of Fur (1953); Evening in Spring (1941); Far Boundaries (1951); Father Marquette and the Great Rivers (1959); Feigman's Beard (1934); Fell Purpose (1953); Ferguson's Capsules (1966); Forest Orphans: Carl Marty and His Animal Friends (1964); From Other Worlds (1964); Gangster Stories (1930); Glory Hand (1937); H.P. Lovecraft And His Work (1963); H.P.L.: A Memoir (1945); Habitant of Dusk (1946); Halloween for Mr. Faulkner (1959); Harrigan's File (1975); Hawk on the Wind (1938); He Shall Come (1929); Headlines for Tod Shayne (1942); Here on a Darkling Plain (1940); Here, Daemos! (1942); In Lovecraft's Shadow (1998); In Re: Sherlock Holmes – The Adventures of Solar Pons (1945); In the Left Wing (1932); Incubus (1934); Innsmouth Clay (1971); Invaders from the Microcosm (1953); Ithaqua (1941); It's a Boy's World (1948); Jacksnipe Over (1971); Journals (Sac Prairie Saga); Just a Song at Twilight (1930); Kingsridge 214 (1949); Lady Macbeth of Pimley Square (1944); Lamplight for the Dark (1941); Land of Gray Gold (1954); Land of Sky Blue Waters (1955); Lansing's Luxury (1942); Laughter in the Night (1932); Lesandro's Familiar (1936); Logoda's Heads (1939); Lonesome Places (1962); Lovecraft and "The Pacer" (1959); Man and the Cosmos (1935); Man Track Here (1939); Mara (1948); Mark VII (1954); McElwin's Glass (1943); McGovern's Obsession (1937); McIlvaine's Star (1952); Melodie in E Minor (1929); Mischief in the Lane (1944); Miss Esperson (1962); Mr. Ames' Devil (1942); Mr. Berbeck Had a Dream (1935); Mr. Fairlie's Final Journey (1968); Mr. George (1947); Mr. George and Other Odd Persons (1963); Mrs. Bentley's Daughter (1930); Mrs. Corter Makes Up Her Mind (1942); Mrs. Elting Does Her Part (1939); Mrs. Lannisfree (1945); Mrs. Manifold (1949); Muggridge's Aunt (1935); Murder Stalks the Wakely Family (1934); Nellie Foster (1933); New Horizons: Yesterday's Portraits of Tomorrow (1998); New Worlds for Old (1963); Night's Yawning Peal: A Ghostly Company (1952); No Future for Luana (1945); No Light for Uncle Henry (1943); Not Long for this World (1948); Old Mark (1929); Oliver, The Wayward Owl (1945); Omega (1934); Only Deserted (1937); Open, Sesame! (1949); Over the Edge (1964); Pacific 421 (1944); Parrington's Pool (1947); Pikeman (1946); Place of Hawks (1935); Poetry Out of Wisconsin (1937); Portals of Tomorrow (1954); Potts' Triumph (1950); Prince Borgia's Mass (1931); Protoplasma (1975); Providence: Two Gentlemen Meet at Midnight (1948); Psyche (1953); Red Hands (1932); Rendezvous in a Landscape (1952); Restless is the River (1939); Return to Sac Prairie (1996); Return to Walden West (1970); Riders in the Sky (1928); Rind of Earth (1942); Sac Prairie People (1948); Saint Ignatius and the Company of Jesus (1956); Saunder's Little Friend (1948); Scarlatti's Bottle (1929); Selected Poems (1944); Sentence Deferred (1939); Sexton, Sexton, in the Wall (1953); Shadow of Night (1943); Shane's Girls (aka Happiness is a Gift) (1948); Sign of Fear (1935); Sleep No More (1944); Some Notes on H. P. Lovecraft (1959); Someone in the Dark (1941); Something from Out There (1951); Something in Wood (1948); Something Left Behind (1971); Something Near (1945); Spawn of the Maelstrom (1939); Still is the Summer Night (1937); Still Small Voice (1940); Strange Ports of Call (1948); Sweet Genevieve (1942); Sweet Land of Michigan (1962); Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos (1969); That Is Not Dead: The Black Magic & Occult Stories by August Derleth (2009); The Adventure of the Ball of Nostradamus (1955); The Adventure of the Black Cardinal (1930); The Adventure of the Intarsia Box (1964); The Adventure of The Orient Express (1964); The Adventure of the Snitch in Time (1953); The Adventure of the Unique Dickensians (1968); The Ancestor (1957); The Beast in Holger's Woods (1968); The Bishop Sees Through (1932); The Black Castle (1927); The Black Island (1952); The Blue Spectacles (1949); The Bridge of Sighs (1931); The Captain Is Afraid (1931); The Captive Island (1952); The Carven Image (1933); The Casebook of Solar Pons (1965); The Chronicles of Solar Pons (1973); The Churchyard Yew (1947); The Closing Door (1950); The Coffin of Lissa (1926); The Conradi Affair (1928); The Country of the Hawk (1952); The Dark Boy (1956); The Dark Brotherhood (1966); The Deserted Garden (1929); The Detective and the Senator (1953); The Devil's Pay (1926); The Disc Recorder (1953); The Drifting Snow (1939); The Dweller in Darkness (1944); The Ebony Stick (1953); The Edge of Night (1945); The Elixir of Life (1926); The Extra Passenger (1947); The Fifth Child (1950); The Figure with the Scythe (1973); The Final Adventures of Solar Pons (1998); The Gable Window (1957); The Ghost of Blackhawk Island (1961); The Ghost Walk (1947); The God-Box (1945); The Hills Stand Watch (1960); The Horror from the Middle Span (1967); The House by the River (1965); The House In the Magnolias (1932); The House in the Oaks (1971); The House in the Valley (1953); The House of Moonlight (1953); The House on the Highway (1929); The House on the Mound (1958); The Inheritors (1929); The Inverness Cape (1945); The Irregulars Strike Again (1964); The Island Out of Space (1950); The Keeper of the Key (1951); The Lair of the Star-Spawn (1932); The Lamp of Alhazred (1957); The Lilac Bush (1930); The Lonesome Place (1948); The Lost Day (1945); The Lost Path (1952); The Lost Sac Prairie Novels (2000); The Lurker at the Threshold (1945); The Man on All Fours (1934); The Man on B-17 (1950); The Man Who Rode the Saucer (1951); The Marmoset (1926); The Martian Artifact (1957); The Mask of Cthulhu (1958); The Maugham Obsession (1953); The Mechanical House (1954); The Memoirs of Solar Pons (1951); The Metronome (1934); The Mill Creek Irregulars (1959); The Milwaukee Road: Its First Hundred Years (1948); The Moon Tenders (1958); The Narracong Riddle (1940); The Night Rider (1927); The Night Road (1952); The Night Side (1947); The Night Side (1947); The Night Train to Lost Valley (1948); The Occupant of the Crypt (1947); The Odyssey of Janna Meade (1949); The Ormolu Clock (1950); The Other Side of the Moon (1949); The Other Side of the Wall (1951); The Outer Reaches (1951); The Owl on the Moor (1928); The Pacer (1930); The Pacer (1930); The Panelled Room (1937); The Peabody Heritage (1957); The Penfield Misadventure (1954); The Philosophers' Stone (1928); The Pinkertons Ride Again (1960); The Place in the Woods (1954); The Place of Desolation (1952); The Portrait (1930); The Prince Goes West (1968); The Remarkable Dingdong (1954); The Reminiscences of Solar Pons (1961); The Return of Andrew Bentley (1933); The Return of Hastur (1939); The Return of Sarah Purcell (1936); The Return of Solar Pons (1958); The River (1927); The Sandwin Compact (1940); The Satin Mask (1936); The Seal of R'lyeh (1957); The Second Print (1939); The Seven Who Waited (1943); The Shadow on the Sky (1932); The Shadow Out of Space (1957); The Sheraton Mirror (1932); The Shield of the Valiant (1945); The Shores of Night (1947); The Shuttered House (1937); The Shuttered Room (1959); The Slayers and the Slain (1949); The Sleepers (1927); The Sleepers and Other Wakeful Things (2009); The Sleeping and the Dead (1947); The Sleeping and the Dead (1963); The Solar Pons Omnibus (1982); The Song of the Pewee (1949); The Statement of Justin Parker (1928); The Survivor (1954); The Survivor and Others (1957); The Telephone in the Library (1936); The Tenant (1928); The Tenant at Number Seven (1928); The Tent Show Summer (1963); The Testament of Claiborne Boyd (aka The Gorge Beyond Salapunco) (1949); The Thing that Walked on the Wind (1933); The Three-Storied House (1928); The Time of Infinity (1963); The Trail of Cthulhu (1962); The Trail of Cthulhu (aka The House on Curwen Street) (1944); The Tsantsa in the Parlor (1948); The Turret Room (1927); The Unquiet Grave (1963); The Vanishing of Simmons (1933); The Vengeance of Ai (1939); The Watcher from the Sky (1945); The Watcher on the Heights (1966); The Watchers Out of Time (1974); The Watchers Out of Time and Others (1974); The Whippoorwills in the Hills (1948); The Whistler (1930); The White Moth (1933); The Wind from the River (1937); The Wind in the Cedars (aka Happiness Shall Not Escape (1946); The Wind in the Lilacs (1948); The Wisconsin: River of a Thousand Isles (1942); The Woman at Loon Point (1936); They Shall Rise (1936); Thinker, Mark VII (1954); This Wound (1962); Those Who Seek (1932); Three Gentlemen in Black (1938); Three Problems for Solar Pons (1952); Three Straw Men (1970); Three Who Died (1935); Time to Come (1954); To a Spaceship (1934); Travellers by Night (1967); Twilight Play (1949); Village Daybook (1947); Village Year: A Sac Prairie Journal (1941); Vincennes: Portal to the West (1968); Walden West (1961); Wentworth's Day (1957); West of Morning (1960); When Evil Wakes (1963); Who Knocks? (1946); Who Shall I Say is Calling & Other Stories (2009); Who Shall I Say is Calling? (1952); Wilbur, The Trusting Whippoorwill (1959); Wild Grapes (1934); Wind in the Elms (1941); Wind Over Wisconsin (1938); Wisconsin Country: A Sac Prairie Journal (1965); Wisconsin Earth: A Sac Prairie Sampler (1948); Wisconsin in Their Bones (1961); Wisconsin Murders (1968); Worlds of Tomorrow (1953).

Recommended reading - Scenes from the Life of Bohemia, by Henri Murger (1849):

Scenes from the Life of Bohemia

Scènes De La Vie De Bohême

By Henri Murger.

First published 1849.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0359742505

ISBN-13: 978-0359742509

Description:

The inspiration for Puccini’s great opera La Bohème, Henri Murger’s episodic story of the bohemians of mid-19th century Paris is a lively, eccentric and amusing narrative – it is presented here with the original 33 drawings. Less a novel and more a series of entertaining encounters, Murger’s work constructs a picture of artistic community and madcap association – aspiring painters, musicians and writers, all with strange stories to tell. Though struggling with poverty, the bohemians are blessed with occasional good fortune; eccentric but monied clients, or jobs landed by sheer luck and opportunistic panache. More than this however is the abiding theme of bonhomie between the young associates; all share the same dream – recognition and money for their creative endeavours – and are bound together by their place of meeting and low social standing. The café where the group gather to socialize serves as the genesis for several plotlines; here the protagonists commiserate and collaborate in equal measure.

Mario Batali, on reading:

Reading is a key feature in the life of every single successful person I have ever met.

- Mario Batali.

On this day in music history - Intermundia, by Olivia Belli (2024):

Intermundia

Album by Olivia Belli,

released February 23, 2024.

Track list:

Anima I; Bet Ha-Chaim; Respiro 1; Valadier; Diomedea; Respiro 2; Mirando; Anima II; Pian Perduto; Respiro 3; Amber Maze; Frater; Respiro 4; Sibyl.

On this day in movie history - Annihilation (2018):

Annihilation

directed by Alex Garland,

based on the novel by Jeff VanderMeer,

was released in the United States on February 23, 2018.

Music by Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow.

Cast:

Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gina Rodriguez, Tessa Thompson, Tuva Novotny, Oscar Isaac, Benedict Wong, Sonoya Mizuno, David Gyasi, Sammy Hayman, Josh Danford.

On this day in television history - Justified (2011):

Justified

Season 2. Episode 3.

Episode entitled: The I of the Storm.

Released February 23, 2011.

Directed by Peter Werner.

Written by Graham Yost, Dave Andron, Benjamin Cavell and VJ Boyd.

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

Music by Steve Porcaro.

Cast:

Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Joelle Carter, Jacob Pitts, Erica Tazel, Natalie Zea, Walton Goggins, Jeremy Davies, Will Harris, Brad William Henke, Damon Herriman, Michael Mosley, Peter Murnik, Channon Roe, Joseph Lyle Taylor, Dave Alvin, Tyler Nimmons, Darrell Davis, Leonard Kelly-Young, John A. Lorenz, Jes Macallan, Abby Miller, Katie Locke O’Brien, Nathan Sutton, Paul Edney.