Born on this day – Charles Baudelaire:

Charles Baudelaire

Writer

April 9, 1821 – August 31, 1867

Credits:

Written work:

Arts in Paris 1845–1862 (1965); Baudelaire as a Literary Critic (1964); Belgium Stripped Bare (2019); Critique d'art; Critique musicale (1992); Curiosités Esthétiques (1868 / 1962); Fusées (1897); La Fanfarlo (1847); L'art romantique (1868); Le Peintre de la Vie Moderne (1863); Le Spleen de Paris (1869 / 2021); Les Fleurs du mal / The Flowers of Evil (1857); Les paradis artificiels (1860); Mirror of Art (1955); Mon Cœur Mis à Nu, 1897 / My Heart Laid Bare & Other Texts (2017 / 2020); Œuvres Complètes, 1922–53 (19 volumes) (date?); Œuvres Posthumes et Correspondance Générale (1887–1907); Réflexions sur Quelques-uns de mes Contemporains (1861); Salon de 1845 (1845); Salon de 1846 (1846); Selected Letters of Charles Baudelaire (1986); Selected Writings on Art and Artists (1972); The Essence of Laughter (1956); The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays (1964); Translations from Charles Baudelaire (1869); Twenty Prose Poems (1988).

Movies, television and podcast series:

A bor lelke (1999); A Single Man (2009); Assommons les pauvres (1969); At the Top of the Stairs (1983); Aux arts et cætera (2022); Brunner ist dran (1973); Catalogue of Ships (2008); Chibamar Bronx em As Flores do Mal (2024); Cineficción Radio (2020–2024); Correspondances (1954); De mes amours décomposées (1970); Delirium (2018); Don Juan és a kövendég (1978); El mundo de Gaudí (1976); Épique Épochè (2022); Exclosion (2007); Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life (2010); Gustave Courbet (1999); Gustave Courbet, les origines de son monde (2007); Histoires extraordinaires à faire peur ou à faire rire... (1949); Il veleno (2012); Ivo Livi, dit Yves Montand (2011); La joie de vivre (1956); La plaie et le couteau, Charles Baudelaire (1967); L'art et les hommes (1958); Le doc Stupéfiant (2021); Le plaisir croit avec l'usage (1999); Les Colocs: L'Intégrale 1993-2000 (2000); Les dites cariatides (1984); Les fleurs du mal (1991); Les Fleurs du mal de Charles Baudelaire (2022); Les Nuits de France Culture (2016); Les passagers (1999); Lil' Women 9 - Go to Jail! (1989); L'invitation au voyage (1927); Literaturverfilmung (1973); Man and the Sea (2018); Messengers (2004); Montand International (1983); Ocean Terminal (1952); Opéra pour Baudelaire (1974); Par coeur (1998); Poèmes à voir (2004); Poésie (dans un monde de brutes) (2020); Portraits of Mistresses (2013); Puissance de la parole (1988); Selecciones de Cineficción Radio (2024); Sigfrido Oliva - Monologo sull'arte (2013); Soleil mouillé (Carnet filmé: 23 décembre 2021) (2022); Le Chat / The Cat (2013); The Eddy (2020); The Passionate Spectator (2003); The Pit and the Pendulum (1964); The Queen's Gambit (2020); Through the Mist (2009); Une Dame de Coeur (2004); Variations La Fontaine (2012); Wilson chante Montand (2017); You Can Only Stand or Walk (2019).

Recommended reading - The Name Is Archer, by Ross MacDonald (1955):

The Name Is Archer

By Ross MacDonald.

Part of the Lew Archer mystery series.

Paperback

Published by Grand Central Pub.

First published 1955.

ISBN 13: 9780446361569

ISBN10: 0446361569

ASIN: 0446361569

Description:

Anthology containing the following stories: Find the woman; Gone girl; The bearded lady; The suicide; Guilt-edged blonde; The sinister habit; Wild goose chase; Midnight blue; Sleeping dog.

Patricia A. McKillip, on imagination:

Imagination is the golden-eyed monster that never sleeps.

It must be fed; it cannot be ignored.

- Patricia A. McKillip.

On this day in television history - Justified (2014):

Justified

Season 5. Episode 13.

Episode entitled: Restitution.

Released April 8, 2014.

Directed by Adam Arkin.

Written by Graham Yost, Fred Golan, Dave Andron, Leonard Chang.

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, Michael Rapaport, Rick Gomez, Deidrie Henry, Jacob Lofland, Jesse Luken, Don McManus, Alicia Witt, Justin Huen, Leslie Riley, Mary Steenburgen, Natalie Zea, Alex Alexander, Jonathan Kowalsky, Casey McCarthy, Daniel Moncada, Heather Olt, Emiliano Torres, Russell Bertolino, Nicole Bosworth, Cici Leah Campbell, Lisa Pevc.

On this day in music history - Hopes & Dreams, by Lisa Lynne (2003):

Hopes & Dreams

Album by Lisa Lynne,

released April 8, 2003.

Track list:

Earth & Sky; Living in Love; Dreamdance; Circle the Sun; Bamboo Morning; Soliloquy; Sea March; Home; Interlude; Natural World.

Born on this day – James Herbert:

James Herbert

Writer

April 8, 1943 – March 20, 2013

Credits:

Books:

The Rats (aka Deadly Eyes) (1974); Lair (1979); Domain (1983); The City (1994); Haunted (1988); The Ghosts Of Sleath (1994); '48 (1996); Ash (2012); The Fog (1975); The Survivor (1976); Fluke (1977); The Spear (1978); The Dark (1980); The Jonah (1981); Shrine (1983); Moon (1985); The Magic Cottage (1986); Sepulchre (1987); Creed (1990); Portent (1992); Others (1999); Once... (2001); Nobody True (2003); The Secret of Crickley Hall (2006); James Herbert's Dark Places (1993); Gaslight & Ghosts (1988); Now We Are Sick (1991); Ghost Movies (1995); The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, #11 (2000); The Mammoth Book of Body Horror (2012).

Movies and television:

Afternoon Live (1997); Deadly Eyes (1982); Fear in the Dark (1991); Fluke (1995); Haunted (1995); In Search of Dracula with Jonathan Ross (1996); Light Lunch (1997); The Perfect Scary Movie (2005); The Secret of Crickley Hall (2012); The Survivor (1981); The Survivor: Robert Powell on James Herbert (2017); The Survivor: The Legacy of James Herbert (2017); The Unholy (2021); The Vault of Horror (1992); The Wright Stuff (2006–2012); The Write Stuff (1989); This Is Your Life (1995–2003); Today with Des and Mel (2003); V Graham Norton (2002); Wogan (1985–1991).

Born on this day – John Gavin:

John Gavin

Actor

April 8, 1931 – February 9, 2018

John Gavin (left), Vera Miles (right), in Psycho (1960).

Credits:

A Bob Hope Comedy Special (1966); A Breath of Scandal (1960); A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958); Alcoa Premiere (1962); All-Star Party for 'Dutch' Reagan (1985); Back Street (1961); Behind the High Wall (1956); Bicentennial Minutes (1975); Biography (1998); Boogeymen: The Killer Compilation (2001); Cinemassacre's Monster Madness (2007); Compression (2023); Convoy (1965); Cutter's Trail (1970); Dateline: Hollywood (1967); Destry (1964); Disclosure (2020); Doctors' Private Lives (1979); Dream Girl of '67 (1967); Entertainment Tonight (2018); Everybody's Talking (1967); Fantasy Island (1978–1981); Flying High (1978); Four Girls in Town (1957); Hart to Hart (1980); Here's Hollywood (1961); Hour Magazine (1986); Imitation of Life (1959); Insight (1960); It's Your Bet (1972–1973); Jennifer (1978); Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon (1974); Keep It in the Family (1973); Kraft Suspense Theatre (1964); La casa de las sombras (1976); Mannix (1973); Maurice Woodruff Predicts (1969); Medical Center (1976); Midnight Lace (1960); Nefertiti y Aquenatos (1973); Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's (1997); OSS 117 Murder for Sale (1968); Password (1965–1975); Pat Boone in Hollywood (1967); Pedro Páramo (1967); Pop Culture Beast's Halloween Horror Picks (2015); Psycho (1960); Psycho Path (1998); Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You (1970); Quantez (1957); Raw Edge (1956); Rock Hudson: Dark and Handsome Stranger (2010); Romanoff and Juliet (1961); Snap Judgment (1967); Sophia Loren: Her Own Story (1980); Spartacus (1960); Tammy Tell Me True (1961); TCM Remembers 2018 (2018); Terror in the Aisles (1984); The 16th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1959); The 17th Golden Globe Awards (1960); The 44th Annual Academy Awards (1972); The 45th Annual Academy Awards (1973); The 56th Annual Academy Awards (1984); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1963–1965); The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema (2001); The City of Gods (1968); The Doris Day Show (1971); The Horror Show (1979); The Irv Kupcinet Show (1969); The Lives of Jenny Dolan (1975); The Love Boat (1977); The Madwoman of Chaillot (1969); The Making of 'Far from Heaven' (2002); The Merv Griffin Show (1971); The Mike Douglas Show (1965–1971); The New Adventures of Heidi (1978); The Pat Boone Show (1967); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1965); The Virginian (1964); The Wide World of Mystery (1974); This Is Your Life (1973); Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967); To Tell the Truth (1973); Today (1985); True Fear: The Making of Psycho (2015); You Don't Say (1965); Your First Impression (1964).