On this day in music history - Live Your Life Be Free, by Belinda Carlisle (1991):

Live Your Life Be Free

Album by Belinda Carlisle,
released October 14, 1991.

Track list:

Live Your Life Be Free; Do You Feel Like I Feel; Hate The World; You Came Out Of Nowhere; You’re Nothing Without Me; I Plead Insanity; Emotional Highway; Little Black Book; Love Revolution; World Of Love; Loneliness Game.

On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek: The Next Generation (1989)

Star Trek: Voyager (1998)

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Season 3. Episode 4.

Episode entitled: Who Watches the Watchers.

Released October 14, 1989.

Directed by Robert Wiemer.

Written by Richard Manning, Hans Beimler.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Ron Jones.

Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Wil Wheaton, Gates McFadden, Kathryn Leigh Scott, Ray Wise, James Greene, Pamela Adlon, John McLiam, James McIntire, Lois Hall, Michael Braveheart, Lorine Mendell, Tim Trella, Natalie Wood.

Star Trek: Voyager

Season 5. Episode 1.

Episode entitled: Night.

Released October 14, 1998.

Directed by David Livingston.

Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

Written by Brannon Braga, Joe Menosky, Bryan Fuller, Nick Sagan, Michael Taylor.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Jay Chattaway.

Cast: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Biggs-Dawson, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang, Jeri Ryan, Ken Magee, Steve(n) Dennis, Martin Rayner, Majel Barrett, Damaris Cordelia, Tarik Ergin, Grace Harrell, Steven Rankin, Kirsten Turner, Phoenix Wong.

On this day in music history - Heroes, by David Bowie (1977)

Heroes

Song by David Bowie,
released October 14, 1977.

On this day in movie history - Mean Streets (1973):

Mean Streets

directed by Martin Scorsese,

written by Martin Scorsese and Mardik Martin,

was released in the United States on October 14, 1973.

Cast:

Harvey Keitel, Robert De Niro, David Proval, Amy Robinson, Richard Romanus, Cesare Danova, George Memmoli, Harry Northup, Martin Scorsese, David Carradine, Jeannie Bell, Robert Carradine, Lois Walden, Juli Andelman, Catherine Scorsese.

On this day in television history - World on a Wire (TV series & novel):

World on a Wire

Original title: Welt am Draht,

2-part mini-series directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder,

written by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Fritz Müller-Scherz,

based on the novel Simulacron-3 by Daniel F. Galouye,

released in Germany on October 14, 1973.

Music by Gottfried Hüngsberg.

Cast:

Klaus Löwitsch, Barbara Valentin, Mascha Rabben, Karl Heinz Vosgerau, Wolfgang Schenck, Günter Lamprecht, Ulli Lommel, Adrian Hoven, Ivan Desny, Joachim Hansen, Kurt Raab, Margit Carstensen, Ingrid Caven, Gottfried John, Rudolf Lenz, Lilo Pempeit / Lieselotte Eder, Heinz Meier, Peter Chatel, Rainer Hauer, Ernst Küsters, El Hedi ben Salem, Karl Scheydt, Solange Pradel, Bruce Low, Elma Karlowa, Maryse Dellanoy, Werner Schroeter, Magdalena Montezuma, Christine Kaufmann, Rainer Langhans, Corinna Brocher, Dora Karras-Frank, Katrin Schaake, Peter Gauhe, Christiane Maybach, Walter Sedlmayr, Eddie Constantine, Rudolf Waldemar Brem, Peter Kern, Karsten Peters, Peter Moland, Doris Mattes, Wolfgang Hess, Arnold Marquis.

Recommended reading:

Simulacron-3

By Daniel F. Galouye.

Afterword by Mike Resnick.

Published by Phoenix Pick.

First published 1964.

ISBN: 9781612420202

ISBN10: 1612420206

ASIN: 1612420206

Description:

A virtual-reality novel from a time before virtual reality, Simulacron-3 is a prophetic tale of a future where nothing is as it appears to be. Douglas Hall is part of a team that builds an artificial environment to simulate reality. This enables them to get public opinion polls without waiting for the opinions of people around them. But then something goes terribly wrong and his partners on the program start disappearing. But is it a simulated disappearance, or is someone out to get them all? And what is the true nature of reality? Stories based on Simulacron-3 have been adapted for both television and movies, and the book is considered a favorite of many of the masters of science fiction.

On this day in movie history - Send Me No Flowers (movie & play):

Send Me No Flowers

directed by Norman Jewison,

written by Julius Epstein,

based on the play by Norman Barasch and Carroll Moore,

was released in the United States on October 14, 1964.
Music by Frank De Vol.

Cast:

Doris Day, Rock Hudson, Tony Randall, Paul Lynde, Clint Walker, Hal March, Edward Andrews, Clive Clerk, Patricia Barry, Dave Willock.

Recommended reading:

Send Me No Flowers

A play by Norman Barasch and Carroll Moore.

Originally published 1960.

Published by Concord Theatricals.

Paperback.

ASIN: B0D5SYSRF9

ISBN-10: 057361525X

ISBN-13: 978-0573615252

Description:

A comedy in three acts.

David Wayne starred on Broadway as George Kimball, a Westchester commuter whose favorite hobby is hypochondria. When he mistakenly overhears his doctor discussing another patient with heart trouble, he prepares to meet the end bravely, sure it is 'his time'. Putting his affairs in order, he writes a heartbreaking letter to his wife to be read as his eulogy. He even arranges a good second husband for his soon-to-be widow, with a cemetery plot for three: himself, his wife and the new future 'Mister Kimball'.

On this day in movie history - The Big Heat (movie & novel):

The Big Heat

directed by Fritz Lang,

written by Sydney Boehm,

based on the novel by William P. McGivern,

and the serial that ran in the Saturday Evening Post,

was released in the United States on October 14, 1953.
Music by Henry Vars.

Cast:

Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Jocelyn Brando, Alexander Scourby, Lee Marvin, Jeanette Nolan, Peter Whitney, Willis Bouchey, Robert Burton, Adam Williams, Howard Wendell, Dorothy Green.

Recommended reading:

The Big Heat

By William P. McGivern.

First published 1953.

Published by Ibooks.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0743452704

ISBN-13: 978-0743452700

Description:

A tough suspense novel of hero cops, cool killers and hot broads...

“A powerful story, powerfully told.” – New York Times.

MURDER WAS IN THE AIR. A COP HAD KILLED HIMSELF, AND EVERY CROOK IN TOWN KNEW THAT WOULD BE SURE TO BRING ON THE BIG HEAT. It started almost innocently when a cop committed suicide – worry over ill health, said his wife. Detective Dave Bannion wasn’t so sure, but when he started digging, he was told to lay off – fast! Instead, he turned in his badge and started stalking the city streets and bars in search of the truth where he uncovers a red-hot story of murder and corruption that would blow Philadelphia’s underworld sky high. Bannion was big, strong, and angry enough to kill, but he was only one honest man in a city full of mobsters and crooked cops. The big heat was on.