Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Born on this day – Lyne Clevers:


Lyne Clevers

Actress

October 22, 1909 – November 28, 1991.

Born on this day – Sidney Kingsley:


Sidney Kingsley


Writer

October 22, 1906 – March 20, 1995

Credits:

Written work / plays:

Darkness at Noon (stage & TV adaptation) (1951); Dead End (1935); Detective Story (1949); Lunatics and Lovers (1954); Men in White (1933); Night Life (1962); Ten Million Ghosts (1936); The Patriots (1943); The World We Make (1939).

Movies and television:

Alta comedia (1974); American Masters (1989); Au théâtre ce soir (1972); Dead End (1937); Detective Story (1951 / 1963); Estudio 1 (1971–1978); Great Performances (1976); Homecoming (1948); ITV Play of the Week (1963); Men in White (1934); Moving Image Salutes Elia Kazan (1987); Polizeirevier 21 (1968); Primera fila (1964); Producers' Showcase (1955); Serpico (1973); Sonnenfinsternis (1963); Teatro estudio (1978); The DuPont Show of the Month (1960); The Ed Sullivan Show (1951); The Patriots (1963); We, the People (1949–1951); World in White (1957).

Born on this day – Constance Bennett:


Constance Bennett

Actress

Producer

October 22, 1904 – July 24, 1965

Born on this day – Franz Liszt:


Franz Liszt

Composer

Pianist

October 22, 1811 – July 31, 1886

Annette Funicello, on positivity:



Life doesn't have to be perfect to be wonderful.

- Annette Funicello.

October 22, 1942 - April 8, 2013.

Diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) in 1987.

In support of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) research:

http://www.nationalmssociety.org

https://www.cando-ms.org/

http://msfocus.org

https://multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com

http://www.momentummagazineonline.com/

http://positivelivingwithms.com

https://www.msmindshift.com/

http://mymsaa.org

https://mssociety.ca

https://fumsnow.com/

http://www.msra.org.au/

https://www.annerowlingclinic.org/

Twitter hashtags:

#BikeMS #Brain #ChronicIllnessWarrior #CureMS #Demyelination #Disease #FightMS #FuckMS #FuckYouMS #FUMS #Lesion #MovingMountainsForMS #MS #MSawareness #MSAwarenessMonth #MSeducation #MSOnMyMind #MultipleSclerosis #MSstrong #MSSucks #MSwarrior #MuckFestMS #Myelin #mymsme #OverMS #LivingWellWithMS #ThisIsMS #vertigo #WalkMS #WalkTogether #WeAreILLmatic #WeAreStrongerThanMS #WorldMSDay

NEVER GIVE UP!



Amy Tan, on words:


Words to me were magic.

You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever.

It was amazing to me that words had this power.

– Amy Tan.

Tuesday, October 21, 2025

On this day in music history - Synesthesia, by Sherry Finzer (2022):


Synesthesia

Album by Sherry Finzer,
released October 21, 2022.

Track list:

Beautiful Fields of Emerald Lights; Obsidian Shadows; Turquoise Shimmers Amidst Fairy Dust; Copper and Amber; Deep Within the Magenta Mist; Along the Sapphire Ridgeline; Desert Sand Passages; The Radiance of Gold; Crimson Evening Solitude; Rocky Shades of Gray; Lovely Saffron Rays.