Born on this day – Mario Nascimbene:

Mario Nascimbene

Composer

November 28, 1913 – 6 January 6, 2002

Born on this day – David Miller:

David Miller

Director

Writer

Producer

November 28, 1909 – April 14, 1992

Directing Doris Day and Tony Curtis, on the set of Midnight Lace (1960).

Credits:

Goldie and the Boxer Go to Hollywood (1981); Goldie and the Boxer (1979); Love for Rent (1979); The Best Place to Be (1979); Bittersweet Love (1976); Executive Action (1973); Hail, Hero! (1969); Hammerhead (1968); Captain Newman, M.D. (1963); Lonely Are the Brave (1962); Back Street (1961); Midnight Lace (1960); Happy Anniversary (1959); The Story of Esther Costello (1957); The Opposite Sex (1956); Diane (1956); Twist of Fate (1954); Sudden Fear (1952); Saturday's Hero (1951); Our Very Own (1950); Love Happy (1949); Top o' the Morning (1949); Women in Defense (1946); Flying Tigers (1942); Further Prophecies of Nostradamus (1942); Sunday Punch (1942); Billy the Kid (1941); More About Nostradamus (1941); The Happiest Man on Earth (1940); Drunk Driving (1939); Ice Antics (1939); The Great Heart (1938); Nostradamus (1938); Fisticuffs (1938); It's in the Stars (1938); Modeling for Money (1938); Penny's Party (1938); La Savate (1938); Equestrian Acrobats (1937); Tennis Tactics (1937); Penny Wisdom (1937); Gilding the Lily (1937); Dexterity (1937); Hurling (1936); Dare-Deviltry (1936); Aquatic Artistry (1936); Racing Canines (1936); Table Tennis (1936); Let's Dance (1936); A Sports Parade Subject: Crew Racing (1935); Trained Hoofs (1935).

Recommended reading - City Sleuths and Tough Guys: Crime Stories from Poe to the Present (1989):

City Sleuths and Tough Guys:
Crime Stories from Poe to the Present

Edited by David Willis McCullough.

Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Published 1989.

Hardcover.

ISBN-10: 0395513189

ISBN-13: 978-0395513187

Description:

Trace the hard-boiled mystery back to its roots with this collection of twenty-eight detective stories set in tough, urban settings. From classics by Poe and Vidocq to contemporary favorites such as Hammett and Spillane, this is a literary feast for all mystery fans.

Contents: Introduction, by David Willis McCullough; The simple art of murder, by Raymond Chandler; The clue of the yellow curtains, by Francois Eugene Vidocq; The mystery of Marie Roget, by Edgar Allen Poe; The lodger, by Marie Belloc Lowndes; Princess Sonia's bath, by Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre; The investors, by Edgar Wallace; The tenth clew, by Dashiell Hammett; The rubber trumpet, by Roy Vickers; No proof, by Yoh Sano; Dead-end for Delia, by William Campbell Gault; At the Etoile du Nord, by Georges Simenon; I always get the cuties, by John D. MacDonald; This world, then the fireworks, by Jim Thompson; The gold fever tapes, by Mickey Spillane; Wild goose chase, by Ross MacDonald; The nine-to-five man, by Stanley Ellin; Small homocide, by Ed McBain; Blind man with a pistol, by Chester Himes; Pigeon blood, by Paul Cain; Just one of those days, by Donald E. Westlake; Election day, by Joseph Hansen; The Parker shotgun, by Sue Grafton; The Johore murders, by Paul Theroux; Sure, blue, and dead, too, by Janwillem van de Wetering; Skin deep, by Sara Paretsky; Death by water, by William Marshall; Flake piece, by Carolyn Wheat; Dead soldier, by Loren D. Estleman; Double indemnity, the screenplay, by Raymond Chandler and Billy Wilder.

William E. Gladstone, on books:

Books are delightful society.

If you go into a room and find it full of books - 

even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you,

to bid you welcome.

- William E. Gladstone.

On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek: The Next Generation (1993)

Star Trek: Voyager (1995 & 1996)

Star Trek: Enterprise (2002)

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Season 7. Episode 11.

Episode entitled: Parallels.

Released November 27, 1993.

Directed by Robert Wiemer.

Written by Brannon Braga, René Echevarria, Naren Shankar.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Dennis McCarthy.

Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Wil Wheaton, Patti Yasutake, Mark Bramhall, Majel Barrett, David Keith Anderson, Michael Braveheart, Cameron, Tracee Cocco, Debbie David, Elliot Durant III, Gunnel Eriksson, Holiday Freeman, Kevin Grover, Bill Hagy, Gary Hunter, Lorine Mendell, Christina Wegler Miles, Joyce Robinson, John Alex Tampoya, Oliver Theess, Mikki Val, Guy Vardaman.

Star Trek: Voyager

Season 2. Episode 12.

Episode entitled: Resistance.

Released November 27, 1995.

Directed by Winrich Kolbe.

Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

Written by Lisa Klink, Michael Jan Friedman, Kevin J. Ryan, Kenneth Biller.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Dennis McCarthy.

Cast: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Biggs-Dawson, Jennifer Lien, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang, Alan Scarfe, Tom Todoroff, Glenn Morshower, Joel Grey, Andre Campbell, Tracee Cocco, Debbie David, Icilda Davis, Lou Degrado, Gunnel Eriksson, Norman Alexander Gibbs, Ken Gruz, Julie Jiang, Irving E. Lewis, Dennis Madalone, Mark Major, Louis Ortiz, Tami Peterson, Shepard Ross, Scott Strozier, Katy Summerland, Leland Sun.

Star Trek: Voyager

Season 3. Episode 11.

Episode entitled: The Q and the Grey.

Released November 27, 1996.

Directed by Cliff Bole.

Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

Written by Kenneth Biller, Shawn Piller, Lisa Klink.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Dennis McCarthy.

Cast: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Biggs-Dawson, Jennifer Lien, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang, Suzie Plakson, Harve Presnell, John de Lancie, Adriana del Pomar, Michele Edison, Traci Murray, Heather Rattray, Richard Sarstedt, Martin Squires.

Star Trek: Enterprise

Season 2. Episode 10.

Episode entitled: Vanishing Point.

Released November 27, 2002.

Directed by David Straiton.

Written by Rick Berman, Brannon Braga, André Bormanis.

Created by Rick Berman, Brannon Braga.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Opening theme song: Faith of the Heart, performed by Russell Watson.

Closing theme: Archer's Theme, by Dennis McCarthy.

Music by Jay Chattaway.

Cast: Scott Bakula, John Billingsley, Jolene Blalock, Dominic Keating, Anthony Montgomery, Linda Park, Connor Trinneer, Keone Young, Gary Riotto, Ric Sarabia, Morgan H. Margolis, Carly Thomas Smith, Alexandrea Ortiz, Mark Correy, Hilde Garcia, Glen Hambly, Bryan Heiberg, John Jurgens, Marnie Martin, Lidia Sabljic.

On this day in movie history - Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991):

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

directed by Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper and Eleanor Coppola,

written by Fax Bahr and George Hickenlooper,

was released in the United States on November 27, 1991.
Music by Todd Boekelheide.
Documentary on the making of Apocalypse Now (1979), directed by Francis Ford Coppola.

Cast:

Francis Ford Coppola, Eleanor Coppola, Orson Welles, John Milius, George Lucas, Tom Sternberg, Sam Bottoms, Albert Hall, Frederic Forrest, Laurence Fishburne, Gian-Carlo Coppola, Roman Coppola, Sofia Coppola, Dean Tavoularis, Fred Roos, Martin Sheen, Vittorio Storaro, Robert Duvall, Rona Barrett, Tom Snyder, Monty Cox, Doug Claybourne, Dennis Hopper, Marlon Brando, Randy Carter, Robert De Niro, J. David Jones.

On this day in movie history – Network (movie & book):

Network

directed by Sidney Lumet,

written by Paddy Chayefsky,

was released in the United States on November 27, 1976.
Music by Elliot Lawrence.

Cast:

Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch, Robert Duvall, Wesley Addy, Ned Beatty, Arthur Burghardt, Bill Burrows, John Carpenter, Jordan Charney, Kathy Cronkite, Ed Crowley, Jerome Dempsey, Conchata Ferrell, Gene Gross, Stanley Grover, Cindy Grover, Darryl Hickman, Mitchell Jason, Paul Jenkins, Ken Kercheval, Kenneth Kimmins, Lynn Klugman, Carolyn Krigbaum, Zane Lasky, Michael Lipton, Michael Lombard, Pirie MacDonald, Russ Petranto, Bernard Pollock, Roy Poole, William Prince, Sasha von Scherler, Lane Smith, Ted Sorel, Beatrice Straight, Fred Stuthman, Cameron Thomas, Marlene Warfield, Lydia Wilen, Lee Richardson, Robert P. Cohen, Andrew Duncan, Todd Everett, John Gabriel, Tom Gibney, Lance Henriksen, Raymond Martino, John Pashley, Michael Tucker.

Recommended reading:

Mad as Hell:

The Making of Network and the Fateful Vision of the Angriest Man in Movies

By Dave Itzkoff.

Published by Picador.

Published 2015.

ISBN-10: 1250062241

ISBN-13: 9781250062246

Description:

"Dave Itzkoff takes us on an extraordinary journey, and in the process reveals Chayefsky's prognosis for TV, a prognosis we've chosen to ignore even as it's come true before our eyes." – Forbes.

"I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!"

Those words, spoken by an unhinged anchorman named Howard Beale, "the mad prophet of the airwaves," took America by storm in 1976, when Network became a sensation. With a superb cast (including Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch, and Robert Duvall) directed by Sidney Lumet, the film won four Oscars and indelibly shaped how we think about corporate and media power.

In Mad As Hell, Dave Itzkoff of The New York Times recounts the surprising and dramatic story of how Network made it to the screen, and of Paddy Chayefsky, the tough, driven, Oscar-winning screenwriter who envisioned a world – outlandish for its time – that is all too real today. Itzkoff vividly re-creates the action behind the camera at a time of swirling cultural turmoil. The result is a riveting account that enriches our appreciation of this prophetic and still-startling film.