Monday, August 4, 2025

Born on this day – Ethyle Cooke:


Ethyle Cooke


Actress

August 4, 1880 – April 20, 1949

Credits:

A Clothes-Line Quarrel (1913); A Deep Sea Liar (1913); A Dog's Love (1914); A Gentleman for a Day (1914); A Hatful of Trouble (1914); A Leak in the Foreign Office (1914); A Man's Sins (1916); A Messenger of Gladness (1914); A Woman's Loyalty (1914); Algy's Alibi (1914); All Aboard (1915); An Amateur Animal Trainer (1913); An American in the Making (1913); An Orphan's Romance (1913); Beauty in the Seashell (1913); Convict 993 (1918); Daughter of Kings (1915); Deborah the Jewish Maiden (1914); Do Unto Others (1915); Dottie's New Doll (1912); Ebenezer Explains (1915); Fashion and the Simple Life (1915); From the River's Depths (1915); Gussie, the Graceful Lifeguard (1915); Her Life and His (1917); Her New York (1917); His Guardian Auto (1915); His Sister's Kiddies (1915); His Two Patients (1915); His Vocation (1915); In the Conservatory (1914); In Wild Man's Land (1914); Inspiration (1915); It's an Ill Wind (1915); John Brewster's Wife (1916); Keeping a Husband (1914); Little Bobby (1915); Lucile (1912); Mr. Meeson's Will (1915); Mrs. Pinkhurst's Proxy (1914); Mrs. Van Ruyter's Stratagem (1914); Nicholas Nickleby (1912); Oh! Such a Beautiful Ocean (1913); Old Jane of the Gaiety (1915); Patsy (1917); Saint, Devil and Woman (1916); Snapshots (1915); Stronger Than Death (1914); The Butterfly Bug (1914); The Candy Girl (1917); The Commuted Sentence (1915); The Crogmere Ruby (1915); The Fear of Poverty (1916); The Fugitive (1916); The Game (1915); The Head Waiter (1913); The Infant Heart Snatcher (1914); The Merchant of Venice (1912); The Mother of Her Dreams (1915); The Necklace of Pearls (1915); The Pendulum of Fate (1914); The Pillory (1916); The Scrub Lady (1914); The Six-Cent Loaf (1915); The Small Town Girl (1917); The Smouldering Spark (1914); The Spirit of the Game (1916); The Star of Bethlehem (1912); The Turning of the Road (1914); The Two Cent Mystery (1915); The Wrecked Taxi (1912); Their Great Big Beautiful Doll (1913); Their Last Performance (1915); Twins and a Stepmother (1914); What Doris Did (1916); What Might Have Been (1913); When Love Was Blind (1917).

Recommended reading - Play Misty for Me, by Paul J. Gillette (1978):


Play Misty for Me

By Paul J. Gillette.

Novelization of the movie Play Misty for Me (1971), directed by Clint Eastwood,
written by Jo Heims and Dean Riesner, based on a story by Jo Heims.

Published by Star Books.
Published 1978.
ISBN-10: 0352302739
ISBN-13: 9780352302731

Description:

A Hitchcockian psychological thriller. – Evening Standard.

The trap is baited …

A beautiful, lonely, possessive girl; a successful, popular disc-jockey.

The trap is set …

A night of casual lust – no complications, no strings attached.

The trap begins to close …

Jealousy and revenge boil over in a nightmare of terror.

Barack Obama, on dedication:


If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking,
eventually you'll make progress.

- Barack Obama.

Ernest Hemingway, on writing:


We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

- Ernest Hemingway.

Sunday, August 3, 2025

On this day in music history - Let There Be Light – Deluxe Edition, by Tom Moore & Sherry Finzer (2018):


Let There Be Light – Deluxe Edition

Album by Tom Moore & Sherry Finzer,
released August 3, 2018.

Track list:

The Way of the White Clouds; First Light; Timeless Journey; Full Moon Night; A Celebration of Life; Sacred Ground; Waves of Light; Tides of Time; A Deeper Light; Dancing in the Light.

On this day in movie history - If I Didn’t Care (2007):


If I Didn’t Care

aka Blue Blood,
directed and written by Benjamin Cummings and Orson Cummings,
was released in the United States on August 3, 2007.
Music by Michael Tremante.


Cast:

Bill Sage, Susan Misner, Roy Scheider, Noelle Beck, Ronald Guttman, Brian McQuillan, Phyllis Somerville, Nico Yektai, Darius Yekati, Alex Kilgore, Mirelly Taylor, Constance Barron, Jack Marks, Sam Riley, Holly Barron, Patrick Collins, Eddie Kassam, Michelle Kelly, Billie Jean Fellingham, Jordyn Meyers, Orson Cummings, Ben Cummings, Mellanie Hubert, Piras Sebastian, Casey Van Maanen.

On this day in music history - Spa, by Hennie Bekker (1999):


Spa

Album by Hennie Bekker,
released August 3, 1999.

Track list:

Comfort; Elusive Sensation; Euphoria; Inner Peace; Revitalized; A State of Bliss.