Saturday, September 27, 2025

Born on this day – Olive Tell:


Olive Tell


Actress

September 27, 1894 – June 8, 1951

Credits:

A Woman's Business (1920); Baby, Take a Bow (1934); Brilliant Marriage (1936); Chickie (1925); Clothes (1920); Cock o' the Walk (1930); Delicious (1931); Devotion (1931); Easy to Take (1936); False Faces (1932); Four Hours to Kill! (1935); Good Medicine (1929); Hearts in Exile (1929); Her Sister (1917); In His Steps (1936); Ladies' Man (1931); Lawful Larceny (1930); Love Without Question (1920); National Red Cross Pageant (1917); Polo Joe (1936); Private Scandal (1934); Sailors' Wives (1928); Secret Strings (1918); Shanghai (1935); Slaves of Beauty (1927); Soft Living (1928); Strictly Personal (1933); Summer Bachelors (1926); Ten Cents a Dance (1931); The Girl and the Judge (1918); The Prince of Tempters (1926); The Right of Way (1930); The Right of Way (1930); The Scarlet Empress (1934); The Silent Master (1917); The Trap (1919); The Trial of Mary Dugan (1929); The Unforseen (1917); The Very Idea (1929); The Witching Hour (1934); The Wrong Woman (1920); To Hell with the Kaiser! (1918); Under Southern Stars (1937); Wings of Pride (1920); Woman Hungry (1931); Womanhandled (1925); Worlds Apart (1921); Yours for the Asking (1936); Zaza (1938).

Iris Murdoch, on literature:


The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature,
since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations.

– Iris Murdoch.

Friday, September 26, 2025

On this day in music history - Dark Passion Play, by Nightwish (2007):


Dark Passion Play

Album by Nightwish,
released September 26, 2007.

Track list:

The Poet and the Pendulum; Bye Bye Beautiful; Amaranth; Cadence of Her Last Breath; Master Passion Greed; Eva; Sahara; Whoever Brings the Night; For the Heart I Once Had; The Islander; Last of the Wilds; 7 Days to the Wolves; Meadows of Heaven; Escapist.

On this day in music history - Mahler: Symphony No. 4; Berg: Sieben frühe Lieder, by Renée Fleming ... (2005):


Mahler: Symphony No. 4; Berg: Sieben frühe Lieder

Album by Renée Fleming, Claudio Abbado and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra,
released September 26, 2005.

Track list:

Mahler: Symphony No. 4 - II. In gemächlicher Bewegung, ohne Hast (Live); Mahler: Symphony No. 4 - III. Ruhevoll, poco adagio (Live); Mahler: Symphony No. 4 - IV. Wir geniessen die Himmlischen Freuden. Sehr behaglich (Live); Berg: 7 frühe Lieder (1928 Orch. Version) - No. 1, Nacht (Live at Philharmonie, Berlin, 2005); Berg: 7 frühe Lieder (1928 Orch. Version) - No. 2, Schilflied (Live at Philharmonie, Berlin, 2005); Berg: 7 frühe Lieder (1928 Orch. Version) - No. 3, Die Nachtigall (Live at Philharmonie, Berlin, 2005); Berg: 7 frühe Lieder (1928 Orch. Version) - No. 4, Traumgekrönt (Live at Philharmonie, Berlin, 2005); Berg: 7 frühe Lieder (1928 Orch. Version) - No. 5, Im Zimmer (Live at Philharmonie, Berlin, 2005); Berg: 7 frühe Lieder (1928 Orch. Version) - No. 6, Liebesode (Live at Philharmonie, Berlin, 2005); Berg: 7 frühe Lieder (1928 Orch. Version) - No. 7, Sommertage (Live at Philharmonie, Berlin, 2005).

On this day in music history - Renée Fleming, by Renée Fleming and Charles Mackerras (2000):


Renée Fleming

Album by Renée Fleming and Charles Mackerras,
released September 26, 2000.

Track list:

Puccini: _: Puccini: Quando m’en vo (Musetta’s Waltz song) [La Bohème]; Puccini: _: Puccini: Signore, ascolta [Turandot]; Leoncavallo: _: Leoncavallo: Stridono lassù [Pagliacci]; Cilea: _: Cilèa: Io son l’umile ancella [Adriana Lecouvreur]; Catalani: _: Catalani: Ebben? Ne andrò lontana [La Wally]; Massenet: _: Massenet: Je suis encore [Manon]; Massenet: _: Massenet: Adieu, notre petite table [Manon]; Bizet: _: Bizet: Je dis que rien ne m’épouvante (Micaela’s aria) [Carmen]; Gounod: _: Gounod: Ah, je veux vivre [Roméo et Juliette]; Verdi: _: Verdi: Come in quest’ora bruna [Simon Boccanegra]; Bellini: _: Bellini: Casta Diva [Norma]; Verdi: _: Verdi: Merci, jeunes amies (Mercè, dilette amiche) [I vespri siciliani].

On this day in movie history - The Room (2000):


The Room

a ten-minute short directed by Rutger Hauer and Erik Lieshout,
written by Erik Lieshout,
based on a story by Harry Mulisch,
was released in the United States on September 26, 2000.
Music by Dyzack.


Cast:

Rutger Hauer, Mattijn Hartemink.

On this day in television history - Fallen Angels (1993):


Fallen Angels

Season 1. Episode 6.
Episode entitled: Since I Don’t Have You.
Released September 26, 1993.
Directed by Jonathan Kaplan.
Written by Steven Katz.
Created by William Horberg.
Based on the story by James Ellroy.
Theme music by Peter Bernstein.


Cast:

Cindy Ambuehl, Dino Anello, Gary Busey, Al Evans, Aimee Graham, Gary Grossman, Elaine Hendrix, Ken Lerner, Tim Matheson, Bruce Meade, Michael Milgrom, Dick Miller, Bob Minor, George Rodriguez, Lynette Walden, James Woods, Simone Wright, Douglas W. Randall.