Sunday, November 23, 2025

On this day in music history - Freak of Nature, by Anastacia (2001):


Freak of Nature

Album by Anastacia,
released November 23, 2001.

Track list:

Freak of Nature; Paid My Dues; Overdue Goodbye (Album Version); You’ll Never Be Alone; One Day In Your Life (European Version); How Come the World Won’t Stop; Why’d You Lie to Me; Don’tcha Wanna (Album Version); Secrets (Album Version); Don’t Stop (Doin’ It) (European Version); I Dreamed You; Overdue Goodbye (Reprise); I Thought I Told You That (featuring Faith Evans) (Album Version); Anastacia feat. Faith Evans; Someday My Prince Will Come (Album Version); Paid My Dues (The S-Man’s Darkstar Mix); One Day In Your Life (Hex Hector/Mac Quayle Club Mix); Why’d You Lie to Me (Nu Soul DnB Mix); Freak Of Nature (Live from Japan, 13 Sept 2002); Overdue Goodbye (Live from Japan, 13 Sept 2002).

Born on this day – Dominique Dunne:


Dominique Dunne

Actress

November 23, 1959 – November 4, 1982

Born on this day – Judy Irola:


Judy Irola


Cinematographer

Producer

Director

November 23, 1943 – February 21, 2021


Credits:

R3 (2003); Eban and Charley (2000); The Gold Cup (2000); The Settlement (1999); The Faithful Revoluton: Vatican II (1998); Eat Your Heart Out (1997); In der glanzvollen Welt des Hotel Adlon (1996); Ava's Magical Adventure (1994); Grandfather Sky (1993); Gregory K (1993); An Ambush of Ghosts (1993); CBS Schoolbreak Special (1991); Yuma Crossing (1990); Antigone/Rites of Passion (1990); Wilfrid's Special Christmas (1989); Calling the Shots (1988); King James Version (1988); Nova (1981–1987); Jeg elsker dig (1987); Working Girls (1986); Dead End Kids (1986); The Business of America... (1984); In the King of Prussia (1982); Artists at Work (1982); American Playhouse (1982); Fundi: The Story of Ella Baker (1981); The Willmar 8 (1981); Survivor (1980); Rebel Earth (1980); Free Voice of Labor: The Jewish Anarchists (1980); A Plague on Our Children (1979); The Wobblies (1979); A Bird for All Seasons (1979); Northern Lights (1978); The Yellow Wallpaper (1977).

Born on this day – Susan Anspach:


Susan Anspach

Actress

November 23, 1942 – April 2, 2018

Born on this day – Robert Barnard:


Robert Barnard

Writer

November 23, 1936 – September 19, 2013

Born on this day – Robert Towne:


Robert Towne


Writer

Director

November 23, 1934 – July 1, 2024

Credits:

47th Annual Academy Awards (1975); 50 Films to See Before You Die (2006); 8 Million Ways to Die (1986); A Classy Broad (2016); A Decade Under the Influence (2003); A Sad Flower in the Sand (2001); AFI Life Achievement Award (2008); AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes & Villains (2003); American Masters (1998–2008); Armageddon (1998); Ask the Dust (2006); Behind the Mission: The Making of 'M:I-2' (2000); Bonnie and Clyde (1967); Bookmark (1988); Breaking Point (1964); Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That (2005); Budd Boetticher: An American Original (2005); Cadillac Desert (1997); CBS Mornings (1990); Chinatown (1974); Chinatown Revisited with Roman Polanski, Robert Evans and Robert Towne (1999); Chinatown: Filming (2007); Chinatown: The Beginning and the End (2007); Chinatown: The Legacy (2007); Cisco Pike (1971); Creature from the Haunted Sea (1961); Crimson Tide (1995); Days of Thunder (1990); Deal of the Century (1983); Drive, He Said (1971); Fort McCoy (2011); Frantic (1988); Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984); Hal (2018); Halloween Monster Bash (1991); Heaven Can Wait (1978); Hollywood Insider (2021); Independent Lens (2006); Last Woman on Earth (1960); Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland (1989); Love Affair (1994); Mad Men (2014–2015); McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971); Mission: Impossible (1996); Mission: Impossible II (2000); Mission: Remarkable - 40 Years of Creating the Impossible (2006); Orca (1977); Personal Best (1982); Playing the Field: Sports and Sex in America (2000); Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film (2002); Rescued from the Closet (2001); Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde' (2008); Robert Towne (2009); Salinger (2013); Screenwriters: Word Into Image (1982); Shampoo (1975); Suspect Zero (2004); Tequila Sunrise (1988); The 32nd Annual Golden Globe Awards (1975); The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made (2004); The Bedroom Window (1987); The Celluloid Closet (1995); The Century: America's Time (1999); The Escape Artist (1982); The Firm (1993); The Godfather (1972); The Kid Stays in the Picture (2002); The Last Detail (1973); The Lloyd Bridges Show (1963); The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964); The Missouri Breaks (1976); The New Centurions (1972); The Outer Limits (1964); The Outsider (2005); The Parallax View (1974); The Pick-up Artist (1987); The Story of Film: An Odyssey (2011); The Tomb of Ligeia (1964); The Two Jakes (1990); The Yakuza (1974); The Young Racers (1963); The Zodiac Killer (1971); Tough Guys Don't Dance (1987); Villa Rides (1968); Welcome to the Basement (2013–2017); What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael (2018); Without Limits (1998); Wonderland (2003).

Born on this day – Johnny Mandel:


Johnny Mandel

Composer

November 23, 1925 – June 29, 2020