On this day in music history - Close Your Eyes, by Amy Lauren (2011):

Close Your Eyes

Album by Amy Lauren,

released August 12, 2011.

Track list:

A Mother’s Prayer; Bed of Stars; Calm Is the Night; I’m Right Here; Drifting Starlight; Angels Are Sleeping; Nighttime Falls; Midnight Song; Search the Stars; When You Sleep; Close Your Eyes; Goodnight.

On this day in music history - Crossing the Stone, by Catrin Finch (2003):

Crossing the Stone

Album by Catrin Finch,

released August 12, 2003.

Track list:

Mountain Dance; Harpers Bizarre; James; Over the Stone (Tros y Garreg), concerto for 2 harps & orchestra; Crossing the Stone (Tros y Garreg); Partita for solo violin No. 3 in E major, BWV 1006; Prelude / Johann Sebastian Bach; Electric Counterpoint, for electric guitar, bass guitar & tape; 3rd movement; Over the Stone (Tros y Garreg), concerto for 2 harps & orchestra; Eternal Dream; Solomon, oratorio, HWV 67; The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba / George Frederick Handel; Over the Stone (Tros y Garreg), concerto for 2 harps & orchestra; Café Vamp Latino; Spain, for voice & ensemble; Buenos Aires hora cero (Zero Hour), tango; Clair de lune, for orchestra or other arrangement (from “Suite Bergamasque” for piano), L. 75/3 / Claude Debussy; Meditation on Prelude No. 1 of Bach, for violin or cello & piano with organ or cello ad lib. (or other instrumental arrangement) / Johann Sebastian Bach / Charles Gounod; Thingamujig; Suo Gân (Lullaby), song / Traditional / Welsh Traditional; Palladio, for string orchestra (or band); 1st movement (Dance mix version).

On this day in movie history - Young Guns (1988):

Young Guns

directed by Christopher Cain,

written by John Fusco,

was released in the United States on August 12, 1988.

Music by Anthony Marinelli and Brian Banks.

Cast:

Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Charlie Sheen, Dermot Mulroney, Casey Siemaszko, Terence Stamp, Jack Palance, Terry O'Quinn, Sharon Thomas Cain, Geoffrey Blake, Alice Carter, Brian Keith, Thomas Callaway, Patrick Wayne, Lisa Banes, Sam Gauny, Cody Palance, Gadeek, Victor Izay, Allen Keller, Craig Erickson, Jeremy Lepard, Danny Kamin, Richela Renkun, Pat Finn-Lee, Gary Kanin, Forrest Broadley, Alan Tobin, Joey Hamlin, Loyd Lee Brown, Elena Parres, Tom Cruise, Tomas Moore, John Pattison, W. Thomas Snyder, Lee Sollenberger, Randy Travis.

On this day in movie history - Darker Than Amber (1970):

Darker Than Amber

directed by Robert Clouse,

written by Ed Waters,

based on the novel by John D. MacDonald,

was released in the United States on August 12, 1970.

Music by John Carl Parker.

Cast:

Rod Taylor, Theodore Bikel, Suzy Kendall, Ahna Capri, William Smith, Janet MacLachlan, Robert Phillips, Jane Russell, James Booth, Oswaldo Calvo, Sherry Faber, Marcia Knight, James H. Frysinger, Harry A. Wood, Jack Nagle, Judy Wallace, Michael DeBeausset, Jeff Gillen, Chris Robinson, Warren Bauer, Wayne Bauer, Don Schoff, Ted Swanson.

Born on this day – John Cazale:

John Cazale

Actor

August 12, 1935 – March 13, 1978

Credits:

Al Pacino, le Bronx et la fureur (2022); Based on a True Story (2004); Dog Day Afternoon (1975); 'Dog Day Afternoon': The Story (2006); I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale (2009); Lumet: Film Maker (1975); N.Y.P.D. (1968); Premio Donostia a Meryl Streep (2008); The American Way (1962); The Box (1969); The Conversation (1974); The Deer Hunter (1978); The Freshman (1990); The Godfather (1972); The Godfather (2006); The Godfather and the Mob (2006); The Godfather Family: A Look Inside (1990); The Godfather Part II (1974); The Godfather Part III (1990); The Godfather Saga (1977); The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980 (1992); The Godfather: Behind the Scenes (1971); The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't (2008).

Born on this day – William Goldman:

William Goldman

Writer

August 12, 1931 – November 16, 2018

Credits:

Books:

Absolute Power (1997); Adventures in the Screen Trade (1983); Blood Sweat and Stanley Poole (1962); Boys and Girls Together (1969); Brothers (1986); Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid (1969); Control (1982); Father's Day (1971); Five Screenplays with Essays (1984); Four Screenplays with Essays (1994); Heat / aka Edged Weapons (1985); Hype and Glory (1990); Magic (1976); Marathon Man (1974); No Way to Treat A Lady (1964); Soldier in the Rain (1963); The Best of All Possible Worlds (1980); The Big Picture (2000); The Color of Light (1984); The Great Waldo Pepper (1975); The Princess Bride (1973); The Season (1969); The Silent Gondoliers (1983); The Temple of Gold (1957); The Thing of It Is... (1967); Tinsel (1979); Wait Till Next Year (1988); Which Lie Did I Tell? (2000); Wigger (1974); Your Turn to Curtsy, My Turn to Bow (1958).

Movies and television:

5 Minutes (2018); A Bridge Too Far (1977); A Cinematic Life: The Art & Influence of Conrad Hall (2010); A Few Good Men (1992); Absolute Power (1997); AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes: America's Greatest Quips, Comebacks and Catchphrases (2005); AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies (1998); All Aboard: Riding the Rails of American Film (1993); All of What Follows Is True: The Making of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' (2006); All the President's Men (1976); Amateur (2005); American Experience (2002); American Masters (2000); Animaniacs (2020–2023); Arena (2000); As You Wish: The Story of 'The Princess Bride' (2001); Be Water / 30 for 30 (2014); Biography (1995–2000); Butch and Sundance: The Early Days (1979); Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969); Chaplin (1992); Charlie Rose (1997); Checkpoint Echo (2006); Da Vinci (1996); Dateline NBC (2006); Dolores Claiborne (1995); Dreamcatcher (2003); Fierce Creatures (1997); Film Genre (2002); Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light (2006); Fry's Planet Word (2011); Going the Distance: Remembering 'Marathon Man' (2001); Good Will Hunting (1997); Harper (1966); HBO First Look (2003); Hearts in Atlantis (2001); Heat (1986); History vs. Hollywood (2001); Hollywood Insider (2021); Home Movie: The Princess Bride (2020); Inside the Actors Studio (1994); Last Action Hero (1993); Magic (1978); Malice (1993); Marathon Man (1976); Masquerade (1965); Maverick (1994); Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992); Minty Comedic Arts (2019); Miracles and Mystery: Creating 'the Green Mile' (2006); Misery (1990); Misery Loves Company (2002); Movie Night Extravaganza (2022); Moving Pictures (1990); Mr. Horn (1979); NBA 100 Greatest Plays (1999); No Way to Treat a Lady (1968); On Location with 'Gunga Din' (2004); Out of the Shadows: The Man Who Was Deep Throat (2006); Papillon (1973); Pierrot the Fool / Cannes Film Festival (1988); Richard Attenborough: A Life (2014); Screenwriters: Word Into Image (1982); Screenwriting for Dummies (2006); ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway (2007); Soldier in the Rain (1963); Tales from the Script (2009); Talking Pictures (1988); TCM Remembers 2018 (2018); Telling the Truth About Lies: The Making of 'All the President's Men' (2006); The 45th Annual Academy Awards (1973); The 49th Annual Academy Awards (1977); The Chamber (1996); The Garden's Defining Moments (2015); The General's Daughter (1999); The Ghost and the Darkness (1996); The Gospel According to Bill (2010); The Great Waldo Pepper (1975); The Hot Rock (1972); The Human Face (2001); The Making of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' (1970); The Oscars (2019); The Princess Bride (1987 / 1999 / 2012); The Princess Bride Making Of (1987); The South Bank Show (1990–2009); The Stepford Wives (1975); The War of the Roses (1989); True Love: The Princess Bride Phenomenon - Entering the Zeitgeist (2012); Twins (1988); Under Suspicion (2000); Wild Card (2015); Year of the Comet (1992).

Born on this day – Olympe Bradna:

Olympe Bradna

Actress

Dancer

August 12, 1920 – November 5, 2012

Credits:

Meet the Stars #5: Hollywood Meets the Navy (1941); International Squadron (1941); Highway West (1941); Knockout (1941); South of Pago Pago (1940); The Night of Nights (1939); Say It in French (1938); Stolen Heaven (1938); Souls at Sea (1937); The Last Train from Madrid (1937); College Holiday (1936); Three Cheers for Love (1936); Flofloche (1934); Roger la Honte (1933).