Friday, April 11, 2025

Born on this day – Marlen Haushofer:


Marlen Haushofer


Writer

April 11, 1920 – March 21, 1970


Credits:

Books:

Die Mansarde / The Loft (1969); Die Tapetentür / The Jib Door (1957); Die Wand / The Wall (1963); Eine Handvoll Leben / A Handful of Life (1955); Himmel, der nirgendwo endet / Nowhere Ending Sky (1966); Schreckliche Treue / Terrible Faithfulness (1968); Wir töten Stella / We Murder Stella (1958).

Movies and television:

Killing Stella (2017); The Wall (2012).

Born on this day – Shirley Grey:


Shirley Grey


Actress

April 11, 1902 – August 12, 1981

Credits:

City for Conquest (1940); Phantom Ship (1935); The Public Menace (1935); The Girl Who Came Back (1935); The People's Enemy (1935); Circumstantial Evidence (1935); Public Opinion (1935); Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round (1934); Wednesday's Child (1934); Girl in Danger (1934); Beyond the Law (1934); His Greatest Gamble (1934); The Defense Rests (1934); Green Eyes (1934); One Is Guilty (1934); The Crime of Helen Stanley (1934); Sisters Under the Skin (1934); I Like It That Way (1934); Bombay Mail (1934); Twin Husbands (1933); Murder on the Campus (1933); Hold the Press (1933); Too Much Harmony (1933); Don't Bet on Love (1933); The Life of Jimmy Dolan (1933); The Girl in 419 (1933); Terror Aboard (1933); The Little Giant (1933); Out All Night (1933); Private Jones (1933); From Hell to Heaven (1933); Treason (1933); Uptown New York (1932); Virtue (1932); Drifting Souls (1932); Cornered (1932); Back Street (1932); The Hurricane Express (1932); Get That Girl (1932); The Riding Tornado (1932); Texas Cyclone (1932); Air Eagles (1931); One Man Law (1931); Secret Service (1931); The Public Defender (1931); The Golf Specialist (1930); Who's Got the Body? (1930); Hot Bridge (1930).

Born on this day – Marshall Neilan:


Marshall Neilan


Actor

Director

Producer

Writer

April 11, 1891 – October 27, 1958

Credits:

A Bottled Romance (1914); A Busy Day in the Jungle (1912); A Coupon Courtship (1913); A Face in the Crowd (1957); A Girl of Yesterday (1915); A Little Princess (1917); A Model Wife (1915); A Mountain Tragedy (1912); A Peach at the Beach (1914); A Star Is Born (1937); A Strange Adventure (1917); A Substitute for Pants (1914); A Thing or Two in Movies (1915); Absent Minded Abe (1913); Accidents Will Happen (1912); Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley (1918); An Elopement in Rome (1914); Bits of Life (1921); Black Waters (1929); Bob Hampton of Placer (1921); Broadway Gold (1923); Bud, Bill and the Waiter (1914); Calamity Anne's Ward (1912); Catch-As Catch-Can (1931); Chloe, Love Is Calling You (1934); Classmates (1914); Cupid Backs the Winners (1914); Cupid Through Padlocks (1912); Cupid's Lariat (1913); Curing Her Extravagance (1913); Daddy-Long-Legs (1919); Dinty (1920); Diplomacy (1926); Dippy's Dream (1914); Don't Ever Marry (1920); Don't Monkey with the Buzz Saw (1914); Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall (1924); Everybody's Acting (1926); Ex-Sweeties (1931); Father's Favorite (1912); Fatty's Busy Day (1913); Fatty's Deception (1913); Fleeing from the Fleas (1914); Fools First (1922); For the Good of Her Men (1912); Forever Yours (1930); Freckles (1917); Getting Father's Goat (1915); Go and Get It (1920); Ham and the Sausage Factory (1915); Ham and the Villain Factory (1914); Ham at the Garbage Gentleman's Ball (1915); Ham the Iceman (1914); Ham the Lineman (1914); Ham, the Piano Mover (1914); Heart of the Wilds (1918); Hell's Angels (1930); Her Kingdom of Dreams (1919); Her Wild Oat (1927); His Last Haul (1928); Hit-the-Trail Holliday (1918); Hollywood Boulevard (1936); How Jim Proposed (1912); In Love and War (1913); In Old Kentucky (1919); Jones' Jonah Day (1913); Judith of Bethulia (1914); Landing the Hose Reel (1915); Little Pal (1915); Lizzie the Life Saver (1914); Love, Oil and Grease (1914); Madame Butterfly (1915); Man's Duty (1913); May Blossom (1915); McBride's Bride (1914); Men and Women (1914); Mental Suicide (1913); Mice and Men (1916); Mike (1926); Minnie (1922); M'Liss (1918); One, Two, Three (1912); Only One Shirt (1914); Out of a Clear Sky (1918); Parcel Post Johnnie (1913); Partners (1913); Pat, the Cowboy (1913); Penrod (1922); Percy's Wooing (1913); Put Me Off at Wayville (1915); Rags (1915); Ranch Girls on a Rampage (1912); Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1917); Rube, the Interloper (1914); Sally's Guardian (1913); Saved from Court Martial (1912); Screen Snapshots No. 2 (1925); Screen Snapshots, Series 1, No. 11 (1920); Screen Snapshots, Series 1, No. 21 (1921); Screen Snapshots, Series 1, No. 9 (1920); Screen Snapshots, Series 2, No. 17-F (1921); Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 6 (1922); Seeing Stars (1922); Sherlock Bonehead (1914); Sing While You're Able (1937); Si's Wonderful Mineral Spring (1914); Social Register (1934); Souls for Sale (1923); Spooks (1916); Stella Maris (1918); Stung (1914); Sweethearts on Parade (1930); Swing It Professor (1937); Take Me Home (1928); Tanned Legs (1929); Taxi 13 (1928); Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1924); Thanks for Listening (1937); 3-Ring Marriage (1928); The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938); The Animal (1913); The Awful Truth (1929); The Bandit of Point Loma (1912); The Best Man Wins (1912); The Billionaire (1914); The Bingville Fire Department (1914); The Black Hand (1913); The Bold Banditti and the Rah, Rah Boys (1914); The Bottle Imp (1917); The Brand (1912); The Bravest Girl in California (1913); The Cat and the Bonnet (1913); The Chronicles of Bloom Center (1915); The Cold Storage Egg (1913); The Come Back of Percy (1915); The Comedy Team's Strategy (1913); The Commanding Officer (1915); The Country Boy (1915); The Country That God Forgot (1916); The Crisis (1916); The Cycle of Fate (1916); The Deadly Battle at Hicksville (1914); The Egyptian Mummy (1913); The Eternal Three (1923); The 'Fired' Cook (1913); The Foreclosure (1912); The Girl at Home (1917); The Greaser and the Weakling (1912); The Great Love (1925); The Guerilla Menace (1913); The Harvest of Flame (1913); The Hash House Count (1913); The Hobo and the Myth (1913); The Horse That Wouldn't Stay Hitched (1913); The House of Discord (1913); The Intrusion at Lompoc (1912); The Jaguar's Claws (1917); The Kidnapped Conductor (1912); The Lemon Drop Kid (1934); The Lotus Eater (1921); The Love Route (1915); The Manicurist and the Mutt (1913); The Matrimonial Venture of the 'Bar X' Hands (1913); The Mission of a Bullet (1913); The Outlaw Colony (1912); The Pasadena Peach (1912); The Peace Offering (1912); The Phony Singer (1913); The Picket Guard (1913); The Powder Flash of Death (1913); The Prince Chap (1916); The Reformation of Dad (1913); The Reformation of Ham (1914); The Rendezvous (1923); The Reward of Valor (1912); The River's End (1920); The Romance of a Dry Town (1912); The Rube and the Boob (1913); The Sentimental Sister (1914); The Sheriff of Stone Gulch (1913); The Silent Partner (1917); The Skyrocket (1926); The Slavery of Foxicus (1914); The Spirit of the Flag (1913); The Sporting Venus (1925); The Stranger at Coyote (1912); The Strangers' Banquet (1922); The Tattered Duke (1914); The Tell-Tale Shells (1912); The Tenderfoot's Troubles (1912); The Tides of Barnegat (1917); The Toilers (1915); The Unpardonable Sin (1919); The Vagabond Lover (1929); The Vengeance That Failed (1912); The Wages of Sinn (1914); The Wall of Money (1913); The Wanderer (1913); The Weaker Brother (1912); The Wedding Gown (1913); The Will of James Waldron (1912); The Winning Whiskers (1914); The Wooers of Mountain Kate (1912); This Is the Life (1935); Those Without Sin (1917); Three Men and a Girl (1919); Three Suitors and a Dog (1913); Toothache! (1913); Trixie and the Press Agent (1913); Vaccinating the Village (1914); Venus of Venice (1927); Walk, -- You, Walk! (1912); Wanted: An Heir (1914); War Mamas (1931); War Relief (1918); When Men Wear Skirts (1914); When the Fire-Bells Rang (1912); When Women Are Police (1913); Why Tightwad Tips (1912); Wild Oats Lane (1926); Women and War (1913).

Recommended reading - The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, by Mordecai Richler (1959):


The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

By Mordecai Richler.

Filmed as The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974), directed by Ted Kotcheff.

Published by Gallery Books.
First published 1959.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 0671028472
ISBN-13: 978-0671028473

Description:

It is time to recognize Mr. Richler as one of North America's most powerful novelists. – The Washington Times.

A rasping humor pervades the book....It burgeons with its special talent and a vulgar vitality. – Chicago Tribune.

A fast-moving, entertaining, and bawdy novel. – The Washington Times.

Funny in the biting, subversive manner of Joseph Heller and Philip Roth. – Los Angeles Times.

Duddy Kravitz [is] Richler's most famous creation. – Minneapolis Star Tribune.

Richler has been praised for his clear-eyed vision and his realistic style.... The total effect is as brash and blatant as a sports car rally -- and as suggestive of power. It comes off brilliantly. – Alfred Kazin, The New York Times Book Review.

From Mordecai Richler, one of our greatest satirists, comes one of literature's most delightful characters, Duddy Kravitz -- in a novel that belongs in the pantheon of seminal twentieth century books.

Duddy -- the third generation of a Jewish immigrant family in Montreal -- is combative, amoral, scheming, a liar, and totally hilarious. From his street days tormenting teachers at the Jewish academy to his time hustling four jobs at once in a grand plan to "be somebody," Duddy learns about living -- and the lesson is an outrageous roller-coaster ride through the human comedy. As Richler turns his blistering commentary on love, money, and politics, The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitz becomes a lesson for us all ... in laughter and in life.

Danielle LaPorte, on creativity:


I focus for periods of time on creative work and I'm very insular during those times - not a lot of socializing.
I play when I want.
That means I can take off on a retreat, catch a matinee, make friends.
My core desired feelings are my time management system.

- Danielle LaPorte.

National Pet Day - April 11:

National Pet Day - April 11



Dogs have a way of finding the people who need them,
filling an emptiness we don't even know we have.

- Thom Jones.


My animals are a really important part of my life.

– Lisa Scottoline.

Thursday, April 10, 2025

On this day in music history - Live at the Q, by Fiona Joy Hawkins and The Blue Dream Ensemble (2015):


Live at the Q

Album by Fiona Joy Hawkins and The Blue Dream Ensemble,
released April 10, 2015.

Track list:

View from My Studio (Live); Freedom (Live); Feeling Sunshine (Live); From the Outside (Live); Sapphire Interlude (Live); Standing Up (Live); Cerulean Interlude (Live); Blue Dream (Live); Moving On (Live); Through Cloud (Live); Love in Winter (Live); Improvisation (Live); 600 Years (Live); Flight of the Albatross (Live); The Void (Live).