Born on this day – Rudyard Kipling:

Rudyard Kipling

Writer

December 30, 1865 – January 18, 1936

Credits:

Books:

Puck of Pook’s Hill (1906); Rewards and Fairies (1910); The Jungle Book (1893); The Second Jungle Book (1895); The Light That Failed (1890); The Naulahka - A Story Of East And West (1892); Captains Courageous (1897); The Story of the Gadsbys (1899); Under The Deodars (1899); Kim (1901); They (1905); With the Night Mail (1909); The Man Who Would Be King (1888); The Return of Imray (1891); The Cat That Walked by Himself (1902); Plain Tales from the Hills (1888); The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Stories (1888); Life’s Handicap (1891); Barrack-Room Ballads (1893); Many Inventions (1893); Soldiers Three (1899); Indian Tales (1899); Just So Stories (1902); The Five Nations (1903); Traffics and Discoveries (1904); Kipling Poems (1907); The Day’s Work (1908); Actions and Reactions (1909); Sea Warfare (1916); A Diversity of Creatures (1917); The Eyes of Asia (1919); Rudyard Kipling’s Verse (1923); The Man Who Was (1924); Debits And Credits (1926); Limits And Renewals (1932); All The Mowgli Stories (1933); Phantoms and Fantasies (1965); Complete Verse (1972); Kiplings Science Fiction (1987); The Complete Supernatural Stories of Rudyard Kipling (1987); Kipling’s Fantasy Stories (1992); The Science Fiction Stories of Rudyard Kipling (1994); Selected Stories of Rudyard Kipling (1999); The Mark of the Beast and Other Horror Tales (2000); The Elephant, The Hare And The Black Cobra (2003); Victorian Short Stories of Troubled Marriages (2005); Rudyard Kipling’s Tales of Horror and Fantasy (2008); Ten Stories (2017); The Adventures of Mowgli: Stories from the Jungle Book (2018); The Elephant’s Child (1900); Letters of Marque (2009); Red Riding Hood (2008); Cinderella (2008); Jack and the Beanstalk (2008); Hansel and Gretel (2008); Beauty and the Beast (2008); Snow White (2009); Rumpelstiltskin (2009); Sleeping Beauty (2009); The Three Little Pigs (2009); Rapunzel: The Graphic Novel (2009); The Ugly Duckling (2009); The Princess and the Pea (2009); The Emperor’s New Clothes (2009); Thumbelina (2009); The Tall Tale of Paul Bunyan (2010); John Henry, Hammerin’ Hero (2010); Pecos Bill, Colossal Cowboy (2010); The Legend of Johnny Appleseed (2010); The Bremen Town Musicians (2011); The Golden Goose (2011); Tom Thumb (2011); The Elves and the Shoemaker (2011); How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin (2012); How the Leopard Got His Spots (2012); How the Camel Got His Hump (2012); How the Elephant Got His Trunk (2012); Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Comics (2013); Tall (2014); A Cat of a Different Color (2020); A Cat of Perfect Taste (2020); A Cat of Disdainful Looks (2020); A Cat of Strange Lands (2020); A Cat of Cozy Situations (2020); A Cat of Heroic Heart (2020); A Cat of Artistic Sensibilities (2021); A Cat of Fantastic Whims (2021); A Cat of Feral Instincts (2021); 50 Great Short Stories (1952); A St. Nicholas Anthology (1969); The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories (1984); Famous and Curious Animal Stories (1989); A Separate Star: A Tribute to Rudyard Kipling (1989); Tales of the Occult (1989); The Amis Story Anthology (1992); H.P. Lovecraft’s Book of Horror (1993); 100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories (1993); Fantasy Stories (1994); The Anthology of Love and Romance (1994); Spellbound (1995); World War One British Poets: Brooke, Owen, Sassoon, Rosenberg and Others (1997); Detection by Gaslight: 14 Victorian Detective Stories (1997); Time Machines (1997); A Treasury of Five-Minute Stories (2000); Dark (2000); On Glorious Wings (2003); The World’s Greatest Horror Stories (2004); The Little Big Book of California (2005); H. P. Lovecraft’s Book of the Supernatural (2006); Rotten English: A Literary Anthology (2007); Empire Tales (2008); Tales Before Narnia: The Roots of Modern Fantasy and Science Fiction (2008); Stories to Get You Through the Night (2010); 50 Classic Novellas (2011); The Most Dangerous Game and Other Stories of Adventure (2011); The Phantom Coach (2014); That Glimpse of Truth (2014); Red Sky (2014); The Dover Anthology of Cat Stories (2015); Writers: Their Lives and Works (2018); The Occult Fiction Collection (2019); 30 Occult & Supernatural Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die (2019); A Cat of Disdainful Looks (2020); Classic Cat Stories (2020); Hungry for Blood – Ultimate Halloween Collection (2023).

Movies and television:

A Cruel Romance (1984); A Fool There Was (1915 / 1922); A Hedgehog Plus a Turtle (1981); A Little Elephant (1967); A Maid of Mandalay (1913); A Poem (2019); Abel Classics (2023); American Playhouse (1983); Anansi Storytime (2018); Brave Sailor (1936); Captains Courageous (1937 / 1977 / 1996); Cherry Season (2015); Childhood (1974); Children of the Mist (1993); China Seas (1935); Christmas Glory 2000 (2000); Cineficción Radio (2020); Classical Baby: The Lullaby Show (2017); Creative Reader: The Jungle Book (1995); Dad's Army (1970); Das kommt davon (1976); Deadly Tales (1998); Dieu a choisi Paris (1969); Elephant Boy (1937–1973); Elephant's Child (1987); Everybody Does It (1949); Exorcism of Fleete Marish (2022); Fireside Reading of the Jungle Book (2022); Grande Teatro Tupi (1963); Gunga Din (1911 / 1939); Histoires comme ça (Série 1) (2009); Hollywood Insider (2021); How the Elephant Got His Trunk (1970 / 1985); How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin and How the Camel Got His Hump (1987); How the Whale Got His Throat (1970); It's pretty, but Is It Art? (2023); Jackanory (1966–1974); John Charles Thomas (1927); Jungelboka (1997); Jungle Cubs (1996–1998); Jungleboek (1992); Just So Stories (1979 / 1983 / 1991); Kak bylo napisano pervoe pismo (1984); Kim (1950 / 1955 / 1984); Kipling's Poem (2010); Kom skal vi lese! (1991); La bestia umana (1916); La luce che si spegne (1915); Må vi få en historie? (1965); Man Without a Saddle (2015); Mark of the Beast (2012); Mauglí (2013); Megi (1989); Merry-Go-Round (1964–1965); Metro Movietone Revue (1929); Metropolitan (1935); MJ's WORLD: The Mannii Show on YouTube Series (2023); Mowgli. Kidnapping (1968); Mowgli. Raksha (1967); Mowgli. Return to the People (1971); Mowgli. The Battle (1970); Mowgli. The Last Hunt of Akela (1969); Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle (2018); Mowgli: The New Adventures of the Jungle Book (1998); Mowgli's Brothers (1976); My Mowgli Boy (2019); Pack Up Your Troubles (1929); Puck of Pook's Hill (1951); Rabbit Ears: How the Leopard Got His Spots (1989); Rendez-vous au zoo (1952); Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (1965 / 1975 / 1976); Road to Mandalay (1991); Scape (2010); Selecciones de Cineficción Radio (2024); Sergeants 3 (1962); Shirley Temple's Storybook (1960); Smilin' Through (1941); Soldiers Three (1951); Stalky & Co. (1982); Studio One (1949–1953); Suspense (1950); Television Theater (2017); The Adventures of Mowgli (1973); The Adventures of the Maltese Cat (1991); The Ballad of Fisher's Boarding House (1922); The Cat That Walked by Himself (1968); The Cat Who Walked by Herself (1988); The Choir: Military Wives (2011); The City of Terrible Night (1915); The Ed Sullivan Show (1949–1951); The Encounter: Jungle Book Remake (2016); The Eye of Allah (1960); The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo (1964); The Fool (1913); The Frank Sinatra Show (1958); The Indian Tales of Rudyard Kipling (1964); The Jungle Book (1942 / 1967 / 1990 / 1992 / 1994 / 1995 / 2014 / 2016); The Jungle Book / TV series (2010–2019); The Jungle Book 2 (2003); The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story (1998); The Jungle Book: The Adventures of Mowgli (1989); The Jungle Book: The Movie (2012); The Jungle Book: The Mowgli Stories (2021); The Jungle Book: The New Adventures of Mowgli (1995); The King Crab (2015); The Light That Failed (1916 / 1923 / 1939 / 1961); The Man Who Would Be King (1975); The Muppet Show (1980); The Naulahka (1918); The Second Jungle Book: Mowgli & Baloo (1997); The Sun's Tear (2022); The Unforgiving Minute (2010); The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (1973); The Vampire (1910); The White Seal (1975); They Met in Bombay (1941); Vampire of the Desert (1913); Viidakkokirja (2005); Voices from a Locked Room (1995); Watch Your Stern (1960); Wee Willie Winkie (1937); When the Clouds Clear (2016); Wife, Husband and Friend (1939); Without Benefit of Clergy (1921); Words for Battle (1941); You Said a Mouthful (1932); Your Favorite Story (1953).

Recommended reading - Swag (1976):

Swag

By Elmore Leonard.

aka Ryan's Rules.

Published by Mariner Books.

First published 1976.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0062227866

ISBN-13: 978-0062227867

Description:

The smallest of small-time criminals, Ernest Stickley Jr. figures his luck's about to change when Detroit used car salesman Frank Ryan catches him trying to boost a ride from Ryan's lot. Frank's got some surefire schemes for getting rich quick – all of them involving guns – and all Stickley has to do is follow "Ryan's Rules" to share the wealth. But sometimes rules need to be bent, maybe even broken, if one is to succeed in the world of crime, especially if the "brains" of the operation knows less than nothing.

Plato, on books:

A house that has a library in it has a soul.

- Plato.

On this day in movie history - A Man Called Otto (2022):

A Man Called Otto

directed by Marc Forster,

written by David Magee,

based on the novel A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman,

was released in the United States on December 29, 2022.
Music by Thomas Newman.

Cast:

Tom Hanks, Truman Hanks, Mariana Treviño, Rachel Keller, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Cameron Britton, Juanita Jennings, Emonie Ellison, Peter Lawson Jones, Laval Schley, Mike Birbiglia, David Magee, John Higgins.

On this day in movie history - Blue Valentine (2010):

Blue Valentine

directed by Derek Cianfrance,

written by Derek Cianfrance, Cami Delavigne and Joey Curtis,

was released in the United States on December 29, 2010.
Music by Grizzly Bear.

Cast:

Ryan Gosling, Michelle Williams, Faith Wladyka, John Doman, Mike Vogel, Marshall Johnson, Jen Jones, Maryann Plunkett, James Benatti, Barbara Troy, Carey Westbrook, Ben Shenkman, Eileen Rosen, Enid Graham, Ashley Gurnari, Jack Parshutich, Samii Ryan, Mark Benginia, Timothy Liveright, Tamara Torres, Robert Russell, Michelle Nagy, Felicia Reid, Melvin Jurdem, Alan Malkin, Derik Belanger, Isabella Frogoletto, Madison Ledergerber, Jaimie Jensen, Joseph Basile, Ian Bonner, Robert Eckard, Michael J. Kraycik, Corey Sullivan.

On this day in television history - Space 1999 (1975):

Space 1999

Season 1. Episode 18.

Episode entitled: The Infernal Machine.

Released December 29, 1975.

Directed by David Tomblin.

Written by Anthony Terpiloff, Elizabeth Barrows.

Series created by Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson.

Music by Barry Gray.

Cast:

Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Barry Morse, Leo McKern, Clifton Jones, Zienia Merton, Nick Tate, Gary Waldhorn, Tony Allyn, Sarah Bullen, Loftus Burton, Andy Dempsey, Barbara Kelly, Quentin Pierre, Michael Stevens.

On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek (1966 & 1967)

Star Trek: The Next Generation (1990)

Star Trek

Season 1. Episode 15.

Episode entitled: Shore Leave.

Released December 29, 1966.

Directed by Robert Sparr.

Written by Theodore Sturgeon.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Alexander Courage, Gerald Fried.

Cast: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Nichelle Nichols, DeForest Kelley, Emily Banks, Oliver McGowan, Perry Lopez, George Takei, Bruce Mars, Barbara Baldavin, Marcia Brown, Sebastian Tom, Shirley Bonne, Paul Baxley, Bill Blackburn, John Carr, Frank da Vinci, Jim Gruzalski, Jeannie Malone, Eddie Paskey, Ron Veto.

Star Trek

Season 2. Episode 15.

Episode entitled: The Trouble with Tribbles.

Released December 29, 1967.

Directed by Joseph Pevney.

Written by David Gerrold.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Alexander Courage, Jerry Fielding.

Cast: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Nichelle Nichols, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Majel Barrett, William Schallert, William Campbell, Stanley Adams, Whit Bissell, Michael Pataki, Edwin Reimers, Walter Koenig, Charlie Brill, Paul Baxley, David L. Ross, Guy Raymond, Richard Antoni, Bobby Bass, Bill Blackburn, Dick Crockett, Frank da Vinci, Steve Hershon, Roger Holloway, William Frederick Knight, Jeannie Malone, Bob Miles, Bob Orrison, Eddie Paskey, Gary Wright.

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Season 4. Episode 10.

Episode entitled: The Loss.

Released December 29, 1990.

Directed by Chip Chalmers.

Written by Hilary J. Bader, Alan J. Adler, Vanessa Greene, Ronald D. Moore, Joe Menosky, David Carren, J. Larry Carroll.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Dennis McCarthy.

Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Kim Braden, Mary Kohnert, Whoopi Goldberg, Majel Barrett, Michael Braveheart, Tracee Cocco, Debbie David, Denise Deuschle, Teri Noel, Keith Rayve, Joyce Robinson.