Thursday, May 15, 2025

Born on this day – Katherine Anne Porter:


Katherine Anne Porter


Writer

May 15, 1890 – September 18, 1980

Credits:

Books:

40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology (2000); 50 Great Short Stories (1952); A Wreath for the Gamekeeper (1959); Collected Essays and Occasional Writings (1973); Collected Stories and Other Writings (2008); Conversations (1987); Downhome (1995); Downward Path to Wisdom (1939); Eudora Welty (1941); Flowering Judas and Other Stories (1935); Gertrude Stein, a self-portrait (1953); Gracious Greatness (1964); Growing Up in the South (1991); Hacienda (1934); Katherine Anne Porter's Poetry (1996); Letters of Katherine A. Porter (1990); Noon Wine (1937); Outline of Mexican popular arts and crafts (1922); Selected Letters of Katherine Anne Porter (2012); Ship of Fools (1962); Short Story Masterpieces: 35 Classic American and British Stories from the First Half of the 20th Century (1954); Stories of the Modern South (1977); The Best American Short Stories of the Century (2000); The Collected Stories (1965); The Cracked Looking-Glass (2018); The Days Before (1952); The Flower of Flowers (1950); The Grave (2013); The Leaning Tower And Other Stories (1944); The Never-Ending Wrong (1977); The Old Order (1955); The Short Story: 30 Masterpieces (1992); This Strange, Old World and Other Book Reviews (2008); Uncollected Early Prose (1993); Women and Fiction (1975).

Movies and television:

ABC Stage 67 (1966); American Masters (1986); American Playhouse (1985); Boston Blackie (1952); Camera Three (1956–1964); Camera Three (1959–1961); Climax! (1956); Ship of Fools (1965); The Circus (1990); The DuPont Show of the Week (1962); The Fig Tree (1987); The Jilting of Granny Weatherall (1980); The Martyr (2010); The Wednesday Play (1964).

Introvert insight:


I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.

- Rainer Maria Rilke.

Solitude is creativity's best friend, and solitude is refreshment for our souls.

- Naomi Judd.

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

- Albert Einstein.

Without great solitude no serious work is possible.

- Pablo Picasso.

Barbara Kingsolver, on writing:


Close the door.
Write with no one looking over your shoulder.
Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you;
figure out what you have to say.
It's the one and only thing you have to offer.

- Barbara Kingsolver.

Wednesday, May 14, 2025

On this day in music history - Little Queen, by Heart (1977):


Little Queen

Album by Heart,
released May 14, 1977.

Track list:

Barracuda; Love Alive; Sylvan Song; Dream Of The Archer; Kick It Out; Little Queen; Treat Me Well; Say Hello; Cry To Me; Go On Cry; Too Long A Time; Stairway to Heaven.

On this day in movie history - Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975):


Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

directed and written by Chantal Akerman,
was released at the Cannes Film Festival in France on May 14, 1975.

Cast:

Delphine Seyrig, Jan Decorte, Henri Storck, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, Yves Bical, Chantal Akerman.

Born on this day – Daniela Dessì:


Daniela Dessì


Opera singer

Soprano

May 14, 1957 – August 20, 2016

Credits:

Albums:

Antonio Vivaldi, The Farnace; Daniela Dessì sings Verdi; Domenico Cimarosa, Gli Horatii e i Curiazii; Enrico Toselli, Le Romanze Ritrovate; Francesco Cilea, Adriana Lecouvreur; James Puccini, Madama Butterfly; Giacomo Puccini, Manon Lescaut; Giacomo Puccini, Tosca; Gioachino Rossini, Ciro in Babilonia; Gioachino Rossini, The Barber of Seville; Giuseppe Verdi, Aida; La Traviata; Love Duets; Puccini Arias; Umberto Giordano, Andrea Chénier.

Movies and television:

Adriana Lecouvreur (2000); Aida (2003); Così fan tutte (1989); Don Carlo (1992); Don John oder Der bestrafte Wüstling (1992); Elizabeth, Queen of England (1985); Francesca da Rimini (2004); Jordan: Fedora (2018); Sicilian Vespers (2010); Il Regio nel paese del melodramma (2015); La Bohème (1998); The Maiden of the West (2005); The Touchstone (1982); Madama Butterfly (2004); Mephistopheles (1989); My Favourite Opera (1991); Norma (2008); Work Across the Atlantic (2007); Pavarotti 30th Anniversary Gala (1998); Profil, Poveste, Personaj (2009); Puccini: La Bohème (2016); Tosca (2004); Tosca (2010).

Born on this day – Anne Wiazemsky:


Anne Wiazemsky


Actress

Writer

May 14, 1947 – October 5, 2017

Credits:

1 P.M. (1971); 28' (2012); 30 million friends (1992); All's Well (1972); Apostrophes (1989); Au hasard Balthazar (1966); Bouillon de culture (1992–1996); Capricci (1969); Compression (2015–2024); Couleur flesh (1978); Midnight Words (2012); Two of the Wave (2010); Die Auslieferung (1974) Don Juan (1978); Fingerprints (2007–2010); Free Spirits (2007); George who? (1973); Godard Cinema (2022); Godard Mon Amour (2017); Godard by Godard (2023); Frogs (1983); Civil Wars in France / The Bloody Week (1978); Noisy History of Youth (2020); Never Without My Book (1993); My name is Elisabeth (2006); Joyce digital (1984); La bande à Bonnot (1968); La grande librairie (2012–2017); The Passion (1978); The Bloody Week (1976); The truth about the imaginary passion of a stranger (1974); Lamiel (1967); The Studio (1974); The Great Departure (1972); The great Inquisitor (1979); The Patron (1983); The Frontenac Mystery (1975); Black bread (1974–1975); The Testament of a Murdered Jewish Poet (1987); The imprint of the Giants (1980); The Secret Child (1979); Angels 1943, Story of a Film (2004); Les Gauloises bleues (1968); Ideas and Men (1976); Old Moons (1969); L'examen du petit (1969); Leningrad Hospital (1983); L'inchiesta (1971); Lotte in Italia (1971); Mag Bodard, un destin (2005); Marine terrace (1988); Same Les mômes ont du vague à l'âme (1980); My Heart Is Red (1976); One + One (1968); Pigsty (1969); Portrait of a young girl from the late 60s to Brussels (1994); For Pleasure (1966); Who kisses too much... (1986); Raphaël or the Debauchee (1971); Rendez-vous (1985); Return from Africa (1973); She Spent So Many Hours Under the Sun Lamps (1985); Be beautiful and shut up! (1981); TCM Remembers 2017 (2017); Teorema (1968); The Chinese (1967); The Last Train (1973); The Seed of Man (1969); All These Beautiful Promises (2003); A legend, a life (1974); Foreign City (1988); Voices (2006); Night Flight (2004–2007); Weekend (1967); Wind from the East (1970).