Born on this day – Claude Chabrol:

Claude Chabrol

Director

June 24, 1930 – September 12, 2010

Born on this day – Yves Jean Bonnefoy:

Yves Jean Bonnefoy

Writer

Poet

Art historian

June 24, 1923 – July 1, 2016

Credits:

Books:

Alberto Giacometti: A Biography of His Work (1993); Beginning and End of the Snow (2012); In the Shadow's Light (1991); Mythologies (1991); On the Motion and Immobility of Douve (1968); Poems: 1959-1975 (1985); Second Simplicity: New Poetry and Prose, 1991-2011 (2011); Shakespeare and the French Poet (2004); The Anchor's Long Chain (2015); The Curved Planks (2007); The Digamma (2014); The Lure and the Truth of Painting: Selected Essays on Art (1995); The Present Hour (2013); Together Still (2017).

Movies and television:

Feu! Chatterton - Avant qu'il n'y ait le monde (Live acoustique) (2021); Hamlet, Prince de Danemark (1960); Le Louvre imaginaire (1993); Le roi Lear (1965); Les Nuits de France Culture (1994); Qu'est-ce que la poésie? (2018); Un siècle d'écrivains (1995).

Born on this day – Martha Sleeper:

Martha Sleeper

Actress

June 24, 1910 – March 25, 1983

Credits:

A Punch in the Nose (1926); A Tailor Made Man (1931); A Ten-Minute Egg (1924); All Wet (1924); Along Came Auntie (1926); Are Husbands Human? (1925); Are Husbands Necessary? (1925); Baby Clothes (1926); Bad Boy (1925); Better Movies (1925); Big Red Riding Hood (1925); Bombshell (1933); Broken Dreams (1933); Bromo and Juliet (1926); Budding Youth (1924); Confessions of a Co-Ed (1931); Crazy Like a Fox (1926); Danger Street (1928); Days of Thrills and Laughter (1961); Don Key (Son of Burro) (1926); Every Man for Himself (1924); Fighting Fathers (1927); Flaming Fathers (1927); Fluttering Hearts (1927); Four Days Wonder (1936); Girls Demand Excitement (1931); Great God Gold (1935); Happy Days (1924); Hold Everything (1925); Hollywood Party (1934); Huddle (1932); Innocent Husbands (1925); Jewish Prudence (1927); Laughing Ladies (1925); Long Fliv the King (1926); Love 'em and Feed 'em (1927); Low Bridge (1924); Madam Satan (1930); Madame Mystery (1926); Merry Widower (1926); Midnight Mary (1933); Mum's the Word (1926); Never Too Old (1926); Our Blushing Brides (1930); Outdoor Pajamas (1924); Pass the Gravy (1928); Penthouse (1933); Plain and Fancy Girls (1925); Please, Teacher! (1924); Rasputin and the Empress (1932); Rhythm on the Range (1936); Sailing Along (1925); Say It with Babies (1926); Seeing Nellie Home (1924); Sex and the College Girl (1964); Sherlock Sleuth (1925); Should Husbands Pay? (1926); Should Landlords Live? (1924); Should Sailors Marry? (1925); Should Tall Men Marry? (1928); Skinner's Big Idea (1928); Spitfire (1934); Sure-Mike! (1925); Sweet Daddy (1924); Tame Men and Wild Women (1925); Taxi 13 (1928); Ten Cents a Dance (1931); The Air Legion (1929); The Bells of St. Mary's (1945); The Honorable Mr. Buggs (1927); The Little Yellow House (1928); The Mailman (1923); The Racing Kid (1924); The Rat's Knuckles (1925); The Republic Pictures Story (1991); The Royal Razz (1924); The Scoundrel (1935); The Secret of Madame Blanche (1933); The Voice of the Storm (1929); The Way of All Pants (1927); There Goes the Bride (1925); Thundering Fleas (1926); Tomorrow's Youth (1934); Too Many Mammas (1924); Trailing Trouble (1924); Two Sinners (1935); Ukulele Sheiks (1926); War Nurse (1930); West of the Pecos (1934); What's the World Coming To (1926); Wild Papa (1925); Wise Guys Prefer Brunettes (1926); Yale vs. Harvard (1927).

Recommended reading - Beware the Night, by Ralph Sarchie and Lisa Collier Cool (2001):

Beware the Night

By Ralph Sarchie and Lisa Collier Cool.

Filmed as Deliver Us from Evil (2014), directed by Scott Derrickson.

Published by St. Martin's Griffin.

Published 2001.

ISBN-10: 1250059496

ISBN-13: 9781250059499

Description:

DEMONIC POSSESSION. EXORCISM. HAUNTED HOUSES. SATANIC RITUALS.

For most people this is the stuff of nightmares, horror movies, folklore, and superstition. For New York City police sergeant Ralph Sarchie, it's as real -- and dangerous -- as midnight patrol...

HELL IS HIS BEAT

A sixteen-year NYPD veteran, Ralph Sarchie works out of the 46th Precinct in New York's South Bronx. But it is his other job that he calls "the Work": investigating cases of demonic possession and assisting in the exorcisms of humanity's most ancient -- and most dangerous -- foes. Now he discloses for the first time his investigations into incredible true crimes and inhuman evil that were never explained, solved, or understood except by Sarchie and his partner. Schooled in the rituals of exorcism, and an eyewitness to the reality of demonic possession, Ralph Sarchie has documented a riveting chronicle of the inexplicable that gives a new shape to the shadows in the dark.

In Beware the Night, he takes readers into the very hierarchy of a hell on earth to expose the grisly rituals of a Palo Mayombe priest; a young girl whose innocence is violated by an incubus; a home invaded by the malevolent spirit of a supposedly murdered nineteenth-century bride; the dark side of a couple who were literally, the neighbors from hell; and more. Ralph Sarchie's NYPD revelations are a powerful and disturbing documented link between the true-crime realities of life and the blood-chilling ice-grip of a supernatural terror.

Rebecca Stead, on writing:

The writing process is not just putting down one page after another –

it's a lot of writing and then rewriting,

restructuring the story,

changing the way things come together.

- Rebecca Stead.

On this day in movie history - Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All-Time. Vol 3: Comedy & Camp - June 23, 2020.

Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All-Time. Vol 3: Comedy & Camp

documentary directed by Danny Wolf,

was released in the United States on June 23, 2020.

Cast:

Diedrich Bader, John Cleese, David Cross, Joe Dante, Illeana Douglas, Peter Farrelly, Jim Gaffigan, Gina Gershon, Amy Heckerling, Jon Heder, Mike Judge, Ron Livingston, Tina Majorino, Michael McKean, John Cameron Mitchell, Kevin Pollak, Kevin Smith, John Waters, Fred Willard, Mary Woronov.

On this day in music history - Dark Before Dawn, by Breaking Benjamin (2015):

Dark Before Dawn

Album by Breaking Benjamin,
released June 23, 2015.

Track list:

Dark; Failure; Angels Fall; Breaking the Silence; Hollow; Close to Heaven; Bury Me Alive; Never Again; The Great Divide; Ashes of Eden; Defeated; Dawn.