Born on this day – Guy Hamilton:

Guy Hamilton

Director

September 16, 1922 – April 20, 2016

Born on this day – Lawrence Dobkin:

Lawrence Dobkin

Director

Actor

Writer

September 16, 1919 – October 28, 2002

Born on this day – Isabel Jeans:

Isabel Jeans

Actress

September 16, 1891 – September 4, 1985

Credits:

A Breath of Scandal (1960); Alan Melville Takes You from A-Z (1959); Banana Ridge (1942); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1953–1955); Breakdowns of 1938 (1938); Clouds of Witness (1972); Downhill (1927); Easy Virtue (1927); Elizabeth of Ladymead (1948); Fools for Scandal (1938); Further Adventures of a Flag Officer (1927); Garden of the Moon (1938); Gigi (1958); Good Girls Go to Paris (1939); Great Day (1945); Hard to Get (1938); Heavens Above! (1963); It Happened in Rome (1957); ITV Television Playhouse (1961); Loves of a Dictator (1935); Man About Town (1939); Modern Love (2006); Playhouse 90 (1959); Power Over Men (1929); Rolling in Money (1934); Romance and Reality (1921); Sally Bishop (1932); Secrets of an Actress (1938); Seven Deadly Sins (1966); Suspicion (1941); The Crouching Beast (1935); The Magic Christian (1969); The Profligate (1917); The Rat (1925); The Return of the Rat (1929); The Third Man (1959); The Triumph of the Rat (1926); Tilly of Bloomsbury (1921); True Fear: The Making of Psycho (2015); Victoria Regina (1961); Windsor Castle (1926); Words and Music (1959); Youth Takes a Fling (1938).

The value of reading and the power of imagination:

That moment when you're reading a book

and the whole world around you doesn't exist anymore.

Recommended reading - Pulp (1994):

Pulp

By Charles Bukowski.

Published by Ecco.

Published in 1994.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 9780876859261

ISBN-13: 978-0876859261

Description:

“Poet laureate of the down-and-out.” – LA Times.

Opening with the exotic Lady Death entering the gumshoe-writer's seedy office in pursuit of a writer named Cèline, this novel demonstrates Charles Bukowski's own brand of humor and realism, opening up a landscape of seamy Los Angeles.

Pulp is essential fiction from Buk himself.

Nicky Belane, private detective and career alcoholic, is a troubled man. He is plagued not just by broads, booze, lack of cash and a raging ego, but also by the surreal jobs he’s hired to do. Not only does he have to track down French classical author Cèline – who’s meant to be dead – but he also supposed to find the elusive Red Sparrow – which may or may not be real.

Pulp is Charles Bukowski’s brilliant, fantastical pastiche of a detective story.

Packed with wit, invention and Bukowski’s trademark lowlife adventures, it is the final novel by one of the most enjoyable and influential cult writers of the last century.

Jean Craighead George, on writing:

To be a writer you should read, write and talk to people, hear their knowledge, hear their problems.

Be a good listener.

The rest will come.

- Jean Craighead George.

On this day in music history - Evolution, by Anastacia (2017):

Evolution

Album by Anastacia,

released September 15, 2017.

Track list:

Caught in the Middle; Redlight; Stamina; Boxer; My Everything; Nobody Loves Me Better; Reckless; Not Coming Down; Before; Pain; Why; Boomerang; Higher Livin’.