Jack Kost

Monday, June 23, 2025

Born on this day – Bob Fosse:

Bob Fosse

Actor

Choreographer

Dancer

Director

June 23, 1927 – September 23, 1987

Born on this day – Irene Worth:

Irene Worth

Actress

June 23, 1916 – March 10, 2002

Credits:

9th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2003); A Birthday Gala Tribute Noel Coward (1970); American Playhouse (1988); An Evening with... (1970); Another Shore (1948); Antigone (1949); Anyone for Tennyson? The Master Poets Collection (1978); Arena (1976); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1953–1955); Bicentennial Minutes (1975); Camera Three (1965–1978); Counsel's Opinion (1949); Deathtrap (1982); Drama Into Opera: Oedipus Rex (1961); Eyewitness (1981); Fast Forward (1985); Festival (1962); First Night (1964); Forbidden (1984); Great Performances (1980); Happy Days (1980); ITV Play of the Week (1957–1966); ITV Television Playhouse (1960); Just the Ticket (1998); King Lear (1970); Kraft Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1950); Ladies in Charge (1986); Lost in Yonkers (1993); Men, Women and Clothes (1957); Myself a Stranger (1949); Nicholas and Alexandra (1971); Omnibus (1959 / 1968); One Night with You (1948); Onegin (1999); Orders to Kill (1958); Orson Welles Great Mysteries (1974); Release (1968); Remember WENN (1996); Rich Kids (1979); Secret People (1952); Separate Tables (1983); Seven Seas to Calais (1962); Storyboard (1983); Tempo (1968); The 19th Annual Tony Awards (1965); The 30th Annual Tony Awards (1976); The 32nd Annual Tony Awards (1978); The 45th Annual Tony Awards (1991); The BBC Television Shakespeare (1984); The Displaced Person (1977); The Duchess of Malfi (1949); The Film Society Of Lincoln Center Annual Gala Tribute to Alec Guinness (1987); The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (1996); The Poetry Hall of Fame (1993); The Scapegoat (1959); The Shell Seekers (1989); The Stratford Adventure (1954); The Tragedy of Coriolanus (1984); The Way of the World (1975); The Winslow Boy / A Touch of Venus (1969); Thermidor (1964); Thirty-Minute Theatre (1965); This Is Your Life (1980); To Die in Madrid (1963); Under This Sky (1979); Wednesday Theatre (1953); Working in the Theatre (1990).

Born on this day – Lillian Hall-Davis:

Lillian Hall-Davis

Actress

June 23, 1898 – October 25, 1933

Credits:

My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock (2022); Shepperton Babylon (2005); Many Waters (1931); Her Reputation (1931); Just for a Song (1930); Volga Volga (1928); Tommy Atkins (1928); The Farmer's Wife (1928); King's Mate (1928); The Ring (1927); Boadicea (1927); As We Lie (1927); Roses of Picardy (1927); La proie du vent (1927); Blighty (1927); Nitchevo (1926); If Youth But Knew (1926); Adventure Mad (1926); Liebe macht blind (1926); Der Farmer aus Texas (1925); Blitzzug der Liebe (1925); The Passionate Adventure (1924); The Eleventh Commandment (1924); The Unwanted (1924); Quo Vadis? (1924); Castles in the Air (1923); Afterglow (1923); I pagliacci (1923); Should a Doctor Tell? (1923); The Hotel Mouse (1923); Married Love (1923); The Knockout (1923); The Right to Strike (1923); A Royal Divorce (1923); If Four Walls Told (1922); The Faithful Heart (1922); Brown Sugar (1922); The Game of Life (1922); Stable Companions (1922); The Wonderful Story (1922); Ernest Maltravers (1920); The Honeypot (1920); Carry On (1919); The Admirable Crichton (1918); La p'tite du sixième (1917).

Forrest Gump

By Winston Groom.

Filmed as Forrest Gump (1994), directed by Robert Zemeckis.

Published by Vintage.
Published 1986.
ISBN-10: 0307947394
ISBN-13: 9780307947390

Description:

Six foot six, 242 pounds, and possessed of a scant IQ of 70, Forrest Gump is the lovable, surprisingly savvy hero of this classic comic tale. His early life may seem inauspicious, but when the University of Alabama’s football team drafts Forrest and makes him a star, it sets him on an unbelievable path that will transform him from Vietnam hero to world-class Ping-Pong player, from wrestler to entrepreneur. With a voice all his own, Forrest is telling all in a madcap romp through three decades of American history.

The Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. Cookbook:
Recipes and Reflections from FORREST GUMP

By Southern Living Magazine.
Foreword by Winston Groom.

Published by TI Inc. Books.
Published 1994.
ISBN-10: 9780848714796
ISBN-13: 9780848714796
ASIN: 0848714792

Description:

Forrest Gump stepped out of the pages of Winston Groom’s novel, up onto the silver screen, and into the hearts of more than 30 million Americans. If you’re lucky, you count yourself among them.

Now you can open to any page... and just like Forrest’s mama said about life... “You never know what you’re gonna get.” There are shrimp kabobs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo, shrimp cocktail... over 75 recipes all told, and every mouth-watering one of them heaven-sent.

And speaking of heaven, Forrest wanted to remember his mama with these recipes, and his best friend, Bubba, too. And he didn’t want Li’l Forrest to grow up without knowing the Gump family shrimp secrets. These recipes are so downright delicious, you’ll know that “miracles do happen every day.”

Forrest Gump has never been a man to complicate things... he’s a simple man, but one who “knows what love is.” Try some of the shrimp recipes in this book, and you’ll know what he means.

Forrest’s mama loved the South, and its magazine, Southern Living. “They just have a way with food,” she used to say. Try these shrimp fixings, all tested in the Southern Living kitchens, and you’ll say his mama was right every time. Even if the President of the United States knocks on your door, you’ll have the very thing to put on his plate. Tell him Forrest Gump said to say hello... and to remember his own mama.

The Firm

By John Grisham.

Filmed as The Firm (1993), directed by Sydney Pollack.

Published by Vintage.
Published 1991.
ISBN-10: 0440245923
ISBN-13: 9780440245926

Description:

Mitch McDeere has worked hard to get where he is: third in his class at Harvard Law. Aggressively recruited by all the top firms, and initially headed for Wall Street, Mitch surprises everyone by joining Bendini, Lambert & Locke, a very private, very rich tax firm in Memphis. Mitch and his wife, Abby, move to Tennessee and quickly settle into their new life: they’re young, happy, and on the fast track. Or so they think.

Soon, though, Mitch senses trouble: two of the partners die in a suspicious diving accident off Grand Cayman; the firm’s management is overly proud of the fact that no one has ever resigned; and security measures at the firm, even for a company with billionaire clients, are more than a little stringent. Then, suddenly, Mitch’s vague suspicions come to life.

The FBI has the lowdown on Mitch’s firm and needs his help. Now Mitch is caught between a rock and a hard place. The FBI will bust him if he doesn’t cooperate, and the firm will kill him if he does. There’s no way out.

Or is there?

Elie Wiesel, on writing:

A word is worth a thousand pictures.

- Elie Wiesel.