Born on this day – Florence Bates:

Florence Bates

Actress

April 15, 1888 - January 31, 1954

Credits:

Ethel Barrymore Theater (1956); The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1953); Paris Model (1953); Street to Broadway (1953); Private Secretary (1953); My Little Margie (1952–1953); My Hero (1953); The Hank McCune Show (1951–1953); Our Miss Brooks (1952); Hollywood Opening Night (1952); Four Star Playhouse (1952); I Married Joan (1952); Les Miserables (1952); The San Francisco Story (1952); I Love Lucy (1952); The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (1951–1952); Havana Rose (1951); The Bigelow Theatre (1951); The Tall Target (1951); Father Takes the Air (1951); Lullaby of Broadway (1951); Dick Tracy (1950); Hollywood Theatre Time (1950); County Fair (1950); The Second Woman (1950); Belle of Old Mexico (1950); On the Town (1949); Oboler Comedy Theatre (1949); The Girl from Jones Beach (1949); A Letter to Three Wives (1949); Portrait of Jennie (1948); My Dear Secretary (1948); Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven (1948); River Lady (1948); Winter Meeting (1948); The Inside Story (1948); I Remember Mama (1948); The Judge Steps Out (1948); Desire Me (1947); The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947); Love and Learn (1947); The Brasher Doubloon (1947); The Time, the Place and the Girl (1946); The Man I Love (1946); Cluny Brown (1946); Claudia and David (1946); The Diary of a Chambermaid (1946); Whistle Stop (1946); San Antonio (1945); Saratoga Trunk (1945); Out of This World (1945); Tonight and Every Night (1945); Tahiti Nights (1944); Belle of the Yukon (1944); Kismet (1944); Since You Went Away (1944); The Mask of Dimitrios (1944); His Butler's Sister (1943); Heaven Can Wait (1943); Mr. Lucky (1943); Mister Big (1943); Slightly Dangerous (1943); They Got Me Covered (1943); My Heart Belongs to Daddy (1942); The Moon and Sixpence (1942); The Tuttles of Tahiti (1942); Mexican Spitfire at Sea (1942); We Were Dancing (1942); Kathleen (1941); The Chocolate Soldier (1941); Love Crazy (1941); Strange Alibi (1941); The Devil and Miss Jones (1941); Road Show (1941); Kitty Foyle (1940); Hudson's Bay (1940); The Son of Monte Cristo (1940); Calling All Husbands (1940); Rebecca (1940); The Man in Blue (1937); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1952); Stump the Stars (1950).

Recommended reading - These Are the Voyages - TOS: Season Three, by Marc Cushman & Susan Osborn (2015):

These Are the Voyages - TOS: Season Three

By Marc Cushman & Susan Osborn.

Foreword by David Gerrold.

These Are The Voyages series.

Published by Jacobs Brown Press.

Published 2015.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0989238180

ISBN-13: 978-0989238182

Description:

Marc Cushman's biography of Star Trek the original series (TOS) takes you back in time for the final season of this iconic television show, to the production offices, the writers' room, onto the soundstages, and in front of your TV sets for what many thought would be Star Trek's final voyage. Included are hundreds of memos between Roddenberry, the producers and staff, production schedules, budgets, fan letters, behind-the-scene images, and the TV ratings. You'll find out the real reason Star Trek was cancelled. So buckle your seat belts, this final trek gets really bumpy.

Introvert insight:

Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.

– Liv Tyler.

I am a minimalist.
I like saying the most with the least.

– Bob Newhart.

I owe everything that I have done to the fact that I am very much at ease being alone.

– Marilynne Robinson.

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.

– Bertrand Russell.

Anais Nin, on writing:

If you do not breathe through writing,

if you do not cry out in writing,

or sing in writing,

then don't write,

because our culture has no use for it.

– Anais Nin.

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

Justified

Season 6. Episode 13.

Episode entitled: The Promise.

Released April 14, 2015.

Directed by Adam Arkin.

Written by Graham Yost, Fred Golan, Dave Andron, 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, Sam Elliott, Kaitlyn Dever, David Koechner, Jonathan Tucker, Jack Conley, Jason Gedrick, Jeffrey Pierce, Robert Dolan, Chad Todhunter, Natalie Zea, Ryder Cohen, Mel Fair, Christopher Grove, Eden Henderson, Otto Krause, Robert Neary, Russell Bertolino, Abby Miller, Mark Parrish, Nathan Szczotka, Mykelti Williamson.

On this day in movie history - American Psycho (2000):

American Psycho

directed by Mary Harron,

written by Mary Harron and Guinevere Turner,

based on the novel by Bret Easton Ellis,

was released in the United States on April 14, 2000.
Music by John Cale.

Picture shown in Patrick Bateman’s apartment is part of the Men in the Cities series by Robert Longo:

Cast:

Christian Bale, Justin Theroux, Josh Lucas, Bill Sage, Chloë Sevigny, Reese Witherspoon, Samantha Mathis, Matt Ross, Jared Leto, Willem Dafoe, Cara Seymour, Guinevere Turner, Stephen Bogaert, Monika Meier, Reg E. Cathey, Blair Williams, Marie Dame, Kelley Harron, Patricia Gage, Krista Sutton, Landy Cannon, Park Bench, Catherine Black, Margaret Ma, Peter Tufford Kennedy, Mark Pawson, Jessica Lau, Lilette Wiens, Glen Marc Silot, Charlotte Hunter, Kiki Buttignol, Joyce R. Korbin, Reuben Thompson, Bryan Renfro, Ross Gibby, Christina McKay, Alan McCullough, Anthony Lemke, Connie Chen, Brett Alexander, Peter Loung, Joseph Oliveira, Leanne Poirier, Somaya Reece, Kate Steen.

On this day in movie history - Hollywood Confidential (1997):

Hollywood Confidential

directed by Reynaldo Villalobos,

written by Anthony Yerkovich,

was released in the United States on April 14, 1997.

Music by Marc Bonilla.

Cast:

Edward James Olmos, Rick Aiello, Angela Alvarado, Christine Harnos, A. Day Henden, Richard T. Jones, Brendan Kelly, Charlize Theron, Thomas Jane, Evelina Fernández, Valarie Rae Miller, Marissa Ribisi, J. Downing, Sarah Lassez, Brent Huff, Kristen Dalton, Amanda Pays, William James Jones, Patrick Dollaghan, Billy Marti, Thomas Patti, Anthony Hickox, Ivana Milicevic, Kaylan Romero, Brendon Chad, Rene Mujica, Warren Reno, Madison Clark, Billy Kane, Paul Goodman, Robyn Lees, Anthony Yerkovich.