Saturday, August 30, 2025

Don't forget to recharge your minds every night:


Read to recharge your mind.
Reading stimulates the imagination.

Recommended reading - The Magician's Wife (1965):


The Magician's Wife

By James M. Cain.

Published by Carnegie Mellon University Press.
Published 1965.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 0887480187
ISBN-13: 978-0887480188

Description:

In The Magician’s Wife, Cain returns to his classic themes of lust and greed. Clay Lockwood, a business executive, falls in love with the irresistible Sally Alexis, wife of a professional magician. Their story is one of the inexorable process of “wishes coming true” – the realization of which was always, for Cain, “a terrifying concept.”

James M. Cain was born in Annapolis in 1892. He lived and worked in Hollywood for seventeen years, and spent the last years of his life in Hyattsville, Maryland. His work, especially the best-sellers The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, Mildred Pierce, and The Butterfly, is known to millions in this country and abroad.

Frank Herbert, on writing:


There is no real ending.
It's just the place where you stop the story.

- Frank Herbert.

Friday, August 29, 2025

On this day in television history - Justified: City Primeval (2023):


Justified: City Primeval

Season 1. Episode 8.
Episode entitled: The Question.
Released August 29, 2023.
Directed by Michael Dinner.
Written by Dave Andron, Michael Dinner, Cole Quirk.
Based on City Primeval and Fire in the Hole by Elmore Leonard.
Music by Mark Isham.

Cast:

Timothy Olyphant, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Adelaide Clemens, Marin Ireland, Victor Williams, Norbert Leo Butz, Boyd Holbrook, Walton Goggins, Natalie Zea, Terry Kinney, Luis Guzmán, Ahna O’Reilly, Matt Craven, Dominic Fumusa, Yosef Kasnetzkov, David Koechner, Alexander Pobutsky, Vivian Olyphant, Audrey Francis, F. David Roth, Scott Anderson, CJ Cobb, Brenna DiStasio, Nick Druzbanski, John Grant Phillips, Callie Johnson, Eddie Martinez, Emma Kathryn Onderko, Bri Ranae Short, Jevon White, Shawn Dando, Russ Panzarella, Brent Whitlock.

On this day in movie history - Ad Astra (2019):


Ad Astra

directed by James Gray,
written by James Gray and Ethan Gross,
was released at the Venice Film Festival in Italy on August 29, 2019.
Music by Max Richter.

Cast:

Brad Pitt, Tommy Lee Jones, Ruth Negga, Donald Sutherland, Kimberly Elise, Loren Dean, Donnie Keshawarz, Sean Blakemore, Bobby Nish, LisaGay Hamilton, John Finn, John Ortiz, Freda Foh Shen, Kayla Adams, Ravi Kapoor, Liv Tyler, Elisa Perry, Daniel Sauli, Kimmy Shields, Kunal Dudheker, Greg Bryk, Alyson Reed, Sasha Compère, Justin Dray, Alex Luna, Natasha Lyonne, Zoro Saro Manuel Daghlian, Jacob Sandler, Elizabeth Willaman, Matthew Morley Daniel, Bayardo De Murguia, Lawrence Dex, Lori Dorfman, Vivian Fleming-Alvarez, Eliza Gerontakis, Luis Richard Gomez, Eleanor Goodall, Georgia James Gray, Danny Hamouie, Bayani Ison, Lea Jones, Matthew Jones, Donna Lee, Sheila M. Lockhart, Mallory Low, Kento Matsunami, Anne McDaniels, Noelle Messier, Jen Morillo, Jean-Pierre Mouzon, Melvin Payne Jr., Eloy Perez, Rochelle Rose, Valeri Ross, Brynn Route, Lisa Shows, Amanda Tudesco, Nicholas Walker, Robert J. Yowell.

On this day in movie history - Lawless (2012):


Lawless

directed by John Hillcoat,
written by Nick Cave,
based on the novel The Wettest County in the World by Matt Bondurant,
was released in the United States on August 29, 2012.
Music by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis.


Cast:

Shia LaBeouf, Tom Hardy, Jason Clarke, Guy Pearce, Jessica Chastain, Mia Wasikowska, Dane DeHaan, Chris McGarry, Tim Tolin, Gary Oldman, Lew Temple, Marcus Hester, Bill Camp, Alex Van, Noah Taylor, Mark Ashworth, Tom Proctor, Bruce McKinnon, Eric Mendenhall, Toni Byrd, Robert T. Smith, Jake Nash, William J. Harrison, Joyce Baxter, Jeff Braun, Malinda Baker, Tom Turbiville, Chad Randall, Terry Keasler, Duncan Nicholson, Ron Clinton Smith, Anna House, Ricky Muse, Peter Krulewitch, Chance Bartels, Darryl Booker, Charles Casey, Samantha Gillies Cox, Hannah Defler, Randall Franks, David Fritsch, Ronnie Kantorik, Larry Mainland, Wilson Moore, Joel Rogers, J.T. Seidler, Steve Warren, Jacqueline Marie Zwick.

On this day in movie history - Frida (2002):


Frida

directed by Julie Taymor,
written by Clancy Sigal, Diane Lake, Gregory Nava and Anna Thomas,
based on the book Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera,
was released at the Venice Film Festival in Italy on August 29, 2002.
Music by Elliot Goldenthal.

Cast:

Salma Hayek, Mía Maestro, Amelia Zapata, Alejandro Usigli, Diego Luna, Alfred Molina, Lucia Bravo, Valeria Golino, Patricia Reyes Spíndola, Loló Navarro, Roger Rees, Fermín Martínez, Roberto Medina, Ashley Judd, Antonio Banderas, Lila Downs, Martha Claudia Moreno, Maria Ines Pintado, Aida López, Ivana Sejenovich, Diego Espinosa, Ehécatl Chávez, Elliot Goldenthal, Edward Norton, Saffron Burrows, Didi Conn, Julian Sedgwick, William Raymond, Jorge Guerrero, Mary Luz Palacio, Geoffrey Rush, Margarita Sanz, Omar Chagall, Anthony Alvarez, Enoc Leaño, Karine Plantadit, Chavela Vargas, Jorge Zepeda, Benjamín Benítez, Thomas Ebert, Claudia Frías, Felipe Fulop, Joey Mazzarino, Andrés Montiel, Mauricio Osorio, Jorge Valdés García, Eszter Zakariás, Antonio Zavala Kugler.