Born on this day – Bruce Bennett:

Bruce Bennett

Actor

May 19, 1906 – February 24, 2007

Credits:

77 Sunset Strip (1958); A Bundle of Bliss (1940); A Million to One (1936); A Stolen Life (1946); Amateur Crook (1937); Angels in the Outfield (1951); Atlantic Convoy (1942); Babies for Sale (1940); Beer Barrel Polecats (1946); Before I Hang (1940); Blake of Scotland Yard (1937); Blazing Six Shooters (1940); Blondie Brings Up Baby (1939); Boobs in the Woods (1940); Branded (1965); Cafe Hostess (1940); Cavalcade of America (1954); Cheyenne (1947); College Humor (1933); Convicted Woman (1940); Crossroads (1956); Daktari (1968); Damon Runyon Theater (1955); Danger Patrol (1937); Danger Signal (1945); Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer (1956); Daredevils of the Red Circle (1939); Dark Passage (1947); Deadhead Miles (1972); Death on the Diamond (1934); Dragonfly Squadron (1953); Dream Wife (1953); Escape to Glory (1940); Fireside Theatre (1953–1954); Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (1939); Five Little Peppers at Home (1940); Flaming Frontier (1958); Flying Fists (1937); Frontier Fury (1943); Girls of the Road (1940); Glamour for Sale (1940); Hawk of the Wilderness (1938); Hidden Guns (1956); His Bridal Fright (1940); Hi-Yo Silver (1940); Honolulu Lu (1941); I'm from Arkansas (1944); Invisible Stripes (1939); Island of Doomed Men (1940); Kraft Suspense Theatre (1965); Laat de dokter maar schuiven (1980); Land of Fighting Men (1938); Laramie (1960); Lassie (1970–1971); Lassie: Well of Love (1970); Lazy River (1934); Lost Island of Kioga (1966); Love Me Tender (1956); Lux Video Theatre (1953–1957); Madison Square Garden (1932); Meet the Baron (1933); Mildred Pierce (1945); Million Dollar Legs (1932); Million Dollar Racket (1937); Mooching Through Georgia / The Spook Speaks (1940); Mooching Through Georgia / The Taming of the Snood (1940); Movie Crazy (1932); Murder in Times Square (1943); My Son Is Guilty (1939); Mystery Street (1950); No Census, No Feeling (1940); Nora Prentiss (1947); O'Hara, U.S. Treasury (1971); Panic! (1958); Perry Mason (1958–1965); Playhouse 90 (1957); Rescue 8 (1958); Riptide (1934); Robbers' Roost (1955); Sabotage Squad (1942); Sahara (1943); Sappy Birthday (1942); Schlitz Playhouse (1954); Science Fiction Theatre (1955–1957); Shadow of Chinatown (1936); Shakedown (1950); Silks and Saddles (1936); Silver River (1948); Sky Racket (1937); Smart Girls Don't Talk (1948); So Long Mr. Chumps (1941); So You Won't Talk (1940); Stories of the Century (1954); Strategic Air Command (1955); Student Tour (1934); Submarine Raider (1942); Sudden Fear (1952); Tales of Wells Fargo (1958); Tarzan and the Green Goddess (1938); Tarzan at the Movies, Part 2: The Many Faces of Tarzan (1996); Task Force (1949); The Alligator People (1959); The Big Tip Off (1955); The Bottom of the Bottle (1956); The Case of the Dangerous Robin (1961); The Clones (1973); The Cosmic Man (1959); The Doctor and the Girl (1949); The Fiend of Dope Island (1960); The Fighting Devil Dogs (1938 / 1943); The Ford Television Theatre (1952–1954); The Great Missouri Raid (1951); The Heckler (1940); The House Across the Street (1949); The Last Outpost (1951); The Linkletter Show (1952); The Lone Ranger (1938); The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date (1940); The Loretta Young Show (1953); The Man from Tumbleweeds (1940); The Man I Love (1946); The Man with Nine Lives (1940); The More the Merrier (1943); The New Adventures of Tarzan (1935); The Officer and the Lady (1941); The Outsider (1961); The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse (1955); The Phantom Submarine (1940); The Second Face (1950); The Secret Seven (1940); The Texan (1958); The Three Outlaws (1956); The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948); The Virginian (1967); The Younger Brothers (1949); There's Something About a Soldier (1943); Three Girls About Town (1941); Three Missing Links / Dutiful But Dumb (1941); Three Missing Links / How High Is Up? (1940); Three Violent People (1956); To the Victor (1948); Torpedo of Doom (1966); Touchdown! (1931); Tramp, Tramp, Tramp! (1942); Treasure Island (1934); Two Latins from Manhattan (1941); Two Minutes to Play (1936); U-Boat Prisoner (1944); Underground Agent (1942); Undertow (1949); West of Abilene (1940); West Point (1957); Whirlybirds (1957–1959); With This Ring (1954); Without Honor (1949); You Can't Buy Everything (1934); Your Jeweler's Showcase (1952–1953).

Recommended reading - The Ross Macdonald Collection, by Ross Macdonald (2017):

The Ross Macdonald Collection

By Ross Macdonald.

Edited by Tom Nolan.

Published by Library of America.

Box edition.

Published 2017.

Hardcover.

ISBN-10: 1598535528

ISBN-13: 978-1598535525

Description:

“The finest series of detective novels ever written by an American.” – The New York Times Book Review.

“Macdonald brought a new method of psychological construction to the hard-boiled novel … he was in line with many of the important mid-century movements of American literary fiction, and deserves to be seen as a worthy addition to them.” – The Times Literary Supplement.

Ross Macdonald transformed the detective novel into a literary expression of unique psychological depth and drama. Here, for the first time in a deluxe three-volume Library of America boxed set, are eleven of his classic Lew Archer mysteries.

Contents: The Way Some People Die; The Barbarous Coast; The Doomsters; The Galton Case; The Zebra-Striped Hearse; The Chill; The Far Side of the Dollar; Black Money; The Instant Enemy; The Goodbye Look; The Underground Man.

Virginia Woolf, on writing:

The way to write well is to live intensely.

- Virginia Woolf.

On this day in television history - Rainn Wilson and the Geography of Bliss (2023):

Rainn Wilson and the Geography of Bliss

documentary directed by Niharika Desai,

written by Eric Weiner,

based on the book by Eric Weiner,

was released in the United States on May 18, 2023.

Cast:

Rainn Wilson, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Ari Meyers, Jón Gnarr, Georgi Gospodinov, Ivo Dimchev, Hreimur Örn Heimisson, Margaret Liefsdóttir, Tinna Thorlacius, Jewells Chambers.

On this day in music history: Auriga to Orion, by Majestica (2018):

Auriga to Orion

Album by Majestica,
aka Sherry Finzer & Cass Anawaty,
released May 18, 2018.

Track list:

Alpha Orionis; Kesil’s Light; Monte Alban; Auriga To Orion; Dark Years Away; Chasing The Leonids; Flaming Star.

On this day in music history - Equilibrium, by Kerani (2015):

Equilibrium

Album by Kerani,

released May 18, 2015.

Track list:

Equilibrium; Fragrant Mountain; Anchoress; Bouddica, Heart on Fire; Hypatia’s Universe; O, Aeterne Deus; Lady’s Grace; Avane; The Wyse Wytch.

On this day in television history - Justified (2010):

Justified

Season 1. Episode 10.

Episode entitled: The Hammer.

Released May 18, 2010.

Directed by John Dahl.

Written by Graham Yost, Fred Golan, Wendy Calhoun and Chris Provenzano.

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, Stephen Root, Doug E. Doug, Jenni Blong, Sean Bridgers, Brad Carter, Darin Heames, David Meunier, Walton Goggins, John Ainsworth, Jackson Bridgers, Gary Cairns, Dean Chekvala, Mel Fair, Pilar Holland, Peggy Stewart, Josh Wingate, David Dossett, David Hill.