Friday, March 6, 2026

Born on this day – Lidia Quaranta:


Lidia Quaranta


Actress

March 6, 1891 – March 5, 1928

Credits:

A drama among the beasts (1915); A Living Tomb (1912); A woman passed by (1922); Among roars of beasts (1913); An athlete's novel (1915); Auspicious Venus (1919); Baron Lagarde (1910); Buridano's donkey (1917); Cabiria (1914); Cheerful husbands (1914); Clio and Phyletes (1911); Diamonds and documents (1915); Fatal resemblance (1916); Flame in the flames (1917); Flame! (1920); Goodbye youth! (1913); I segreti dell'anima (1912); I want to cheat on my husband (1925); In the hands of destiny (1916); In the vortex of sin (1916); Iwna, the pearl of the Ganges (1914); Like a sister (1912); Margot (1914); Maria Bricca (1910); Mockery of Satan (1915); Mother's pity (1911); On the field of honor (1915); Pauline (1915); Pleasure train (1924); Severed from the World (1911); The avenging tiger (1918); The best revenge (1912); The Dagger Dance (1919); The dance of the veil (1918); The dangers of disguises (1914); The Dread of Doom (1913); The factory of the unexpected (1920); The Knights of Death (1910); The left jewel (1917); The Lost Daughter (1912); The Mad Mask (1915); The Man-Parrot (1917); The memories of the devil (1915); The Mysteries of Souls (1912); The Palace of Flames (1912); The Prince Adventurer (1916); The Race to Death (1917); The Romance of Death (1916); The smiles of a sunset (1913); The Solemn Hour (1912); The sweetest crown (1917); The Three Sentimentals (1921); The torn veil (1917); The treasure chest of millions (1914); The two orphans of Turin (1917); The unknown (1910); The Vampire (1914); The Vortex of Fate (1913); Tigris (1913); To like you more (1923); Treasure of the Louzate (1914); Unmasked (1913); When the hero returned (1918).

Born on this day – Ring Lardner:


Ring Lardner


Writer

March 6, 1885 – September 27, 1933

Credits:

Bib Ballads (1915); The Golden Honeymoon And Haircut (1926); First and Last (1934); Gullible's Travels, Etc (1917); How to Write Short Stories – With Samples (1924); June Moon (1929); Letters from Ring (1979); Letters of Ring Lardner (1995); My Four Weeks in France (1918); Own Your Own Home (1919); Regular Fellows I Have Met (1919); Ring Around Max: The Correspondence of Ring Lardner and Max Perkins (1973); Ring Around the Bases: The Complete Baseball Stories of Ring Lardner (1992); Ring Lardner's You Know Me Al: The Comic Strip Adventures of Jack Keefe (1979); Round Up: The Stories of Ring W. Lardner (1929); Say It With Oil / Say It With Bricks: A Few Remarks about Wives (1923); Selected Stories (1997); Shut Up, He Explained (1962); Stop Me – If You’ve Heard This One (1929); Symptoms of Being 35 (1921); The Annotated Baseball Stories of Ring W. Lardner (1914-1919); The Best Short Stories of Ring Lardner (1957 / 1959); The Big Town: How I and the Mrs. Go to New York to See Life and Get Katie a Husband (1921); The Lost Journalism of Ring Lardner (2017); The Love Nest: And Other Stories. Charles Scribner's Sons (1926); The Real Dope (1919); The Story of a Wonder Man: Being the Autobiography of Ring Lardner (1927); The Young Immigrunts (1920); Treat 'em Rough: Letters from Jack the Kaiser Killer (1918); What of It? (1925); You Know Me Al – A Busher’s Letters (1916); Zanzibar: A Comic Opera in Two Acts (1903).

Movies and television:

A Day with Conrad Green (1980); Actor's Studio (1949); Al You Know Me (1915); Alibi Ike (1935); An Evening with Orson Welles: The Golden Honeymoon (1972); And She Smiled (1996); Blonde Trouble (1937); Champion (1949); Climax! (1955); Elmer, the Great (1933); Fast Company (1929); Fore! (1922); Glorifying the American Girl (1929); Go and Get It (1920); Great Performances (1974); June Moon (1931); June Moon (1931); Kraft Theatre (1948); Letters from Bugs to Gus, No. 10 (1915); Letters from Bugs to Gus, No. 11 (1915); Letters from Bugs to Gus, No. 12 (1915); Letters from Bugs to Gus, No. 2 (1915); Letters from Bugs to Gus, No. 3 (1915); Letters from Bugs to Gus, No. 4 (1915); Letters from Bugs to Gus, No. 5 (1915); Letters from Bugs to Gus, No. 6 (1915); Letters from Bugs to Gus, No. 7 (1915); Letters from Bugs to Gus, No. 8 (1915); Letters from Bugs to Gus, No. 9 (1915); Mr. Carlis und seine abenteuerlichen Geschichten (1977); Oh, Baby! (1926); Ring Lardner's Harmony (2014); Ring Lardner's Horseshoes (2014); Ring Lardner's My Roomy (2014); Robert Montgomery Presents (1950); So This Is New York (1948); Star Tonight (1955); Studio One (1948); The Busher (1923); The Cowboy Quarterback (1939); The Fight (1930); The Golden Honeymoon (1980); The New Klondike (1926); Who Dealt? (1993).

Marianne Wiggins, on writing:


Because music is a language unto itself, when I'm writing, I need silence.
I need to hear the music and the rhythms of the words inside my thoughts.

- Marianne Wiggins.

Thursday, March 5, 2026

On this day in television history - Justified (2013):


Justified

Season 4. Episode 9.
Episode entitled: The Hatchet Tour.
Released March 5, 2013.
Directed by Lesli Linka Glatter.
Written by Graham Yost, Taylor Elmore, Leonard Chang, Ingrid Escajeda, VJ Boyd, Leonard Chang.
Based on the short story Fire in the Hole by Elmore Leonard.
Music by Steve Porcaro.

Cast:

Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Joelle Carter, Jacob Pitts, Erica Tazel, Natalie Zea, Walton Goggins, Jim Beaver, Jere Burns, Ron Eldard, Sam Anderson, Ned Bellamy, Mel Fair, Brian Howe, David Meunier, Lindsay Pulsipher, Brent Sexton, Patton Oswalt, Jonathan Kowalsky, Ryan McCann, Cathy Baron, Kathleen M. Darcy, Mino Mackic.

On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek: Picard (2020)


Star Trek: Picard
Season 1. Episode 7.
Episode entitled: Nepenthe.
Released March 5, 2020.
Directed by Doug Aarniokoski.
Created by Akiva Goldsman, Michael Chabon, Kirsten Beyer, Alex Kurtzman.
Written by Samantha Humphrey, Michael Chabon and Nick Zayas.
Based on Star Trek: The Next Generation, created by Gene Roddenberry.
Music by Jeff Russo.
Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jeri Ryan, Alison Pill, Michelle Hurd, Santiago Cabrera, Evan Evagora, Isa Briones, Evan Evagora, Jonathan Frakes, Marina Sirtis, Jonathan Del Arco, Peyton List, Tamlyn Tomita, Lulu Wilson, Derek Webster, Kay Bess, Guy Fernandez Jr., Harry Treadaway.

On this day in music history:

Dúlamán by Clannad (1976)
Chakra Sound Meditation by Tryshe Dhevney (2008)


Dúlamán
Album by Clannad,
released March 5, 1976.
Track list: Dulaman; Cumha Eoghain Rua Ui Neill; Two Sisters; Eirigh Suas a Stoirin; The Galtee Hunt; Eirigh Is Cuir Ort Do Chuid Eadaigh Coiriu; Siuil a Run; Mo Mhaire; Dtigeas a Damhsa; Cucanandy/The Jug of Brown Ale.


Chakra Sound Meditation
Album by Tryshe Dhevney,
released March 5, 2008.
Track list: Introduction to the Chakra Sound Meditation; Chakra Sound Meditation Instructions; Chakra One – I have; Chakra Two – I Feel; Chakra Three – I Act; Chakra Four – I Love; Chakra Five – I Speak, I Am Heard; Chakra Six – I See; Chakra Seven – I Know – Harmonic Blessing With Crystal Singing Bowls.

Born on this day – Samantha Eggar:


Samantha Eggar


Actress

March 5, 1939 – October 15, 2025

Credits:

007: Nightfire (2002); 1st & Ten (1988); A Case for Murder (1993); A Ghost in Monte Carlo (1990); A Name for Evil (1973); ABC Weekend Specials (1994); About Napoli (2009); AFI Life Achievement Award (1976); Age of the Psychics (2006); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1987); All My Children (2000); All the Kind Strangers (1974); Aloha Paradise (1981); American Masters (1986–2004); Anna and the King (1972); Baretta (1976); BBC Sunday-Night Play (1962); Birth Pains (2015); Burke's Law (1995); Cinema mil (2005); Cold Case (2004); Columbo (1977); Come to Silence with Samatha Eggar (2019); Commander in Chief (2005–2006); Confessions of a Horror Baby (2011); Corwin (1996); Curtains (1983); Dark Horse (1992); Darkroom (1982); Daytime's Greatest Weddings (2004); De película (1988); Demonoid (1981); Doctor Dolittle (1967); Doctor in Distress (1963); Dors: The Other Diana (1990); Double Indemnity (1973); Dr. Crippen (1963); Everything to Gain (1996); Falcon Crest (1981); Family (1977); Fantasy Island (1978–1979); Finder of Lost Loves (1985); For the Term of His Natural Life (1983); Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned (1999); George Burns Half-Hour Comedy Hour (1985); Ghost Squad (1963); Hagen (1980); Hart to Hart (1983); Hawaii Five-O (1978); Heartbeat (1989); Hercules (1997–1999); Hotel (1985); Inevitable Grace (1994); ITV Play of the Week (1963); ITV Television Playhouse (1963); James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing (2003); L.A. Law (1993); Loss of Faith (1998); Love Among Thieves (1987); Love Story (1973); Lucas Tanner (1975); Mag magazine (1988); Magnum, P.I. (1984); Mann & Machine (1992); Matlock (1990); Mental (2009); Metalocalypse (2012); Muchachada nui / Segment: Mundo viejuno: Pasa tiempo con tus hijos (2010); Murder, She Wrote (1984); New Release (1965); Nothing But Death (2018); Outlaws (1987); P.J. Sparkles (1992); Pop Culture Beast's Halloween Horror Picks (2015); Psyche 59 (1964); Ragin' Cajun (1990); Rendezvous (1961); Return from the Ashes (1965); Rob Roy (1961); Round Numbers (1992); She Spies (2003); Siegfried & Roy: Masters of the Impossible (1996); Star Trek: The Next Generation (1990); Starsky and Hutch (1977); Stingray (1987); Tales of the Unexpected (1985); Tax Shelter Terrors (2017); The 100 Greatest Family Films (2005); The 23rd Annual Golden Globe Awards (1966); The 24th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1967); The 38th Annual Academy Awards (1966); The 5th Annual American Cinema Awards (1988); The American Nightmare (2000); The Astronaut's Wife (1999); The Biggest Battle (1978); The Brood (1979); The Collector (1965); The Dead Are Alive (1972); The Dick Cavett Show (1971); The Exterminator (1980); The Hemingway Play (1976); The Hot Touch (1981); The Joey Bishop Show (1967); The Killer Who Wouldn't Die (1976); The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun (1970); The Legend of Prince Valiant (1991–1993); The Legendary Curse of the Hope Diamond (1975); The Light at the Edge of the World (1971); The Look of Stardom (2018); The Love Boat (1979–1981); The Magic Voyage (1992); The Magical World of Disney (1988); The Man of Destiny (1973); The Merv Griffin Show (1968–1973); The Molly Maguires (1970); The Nine Lives of Chloe King (2011); The Phantom (1996); The Princess and the Pea (1961); The Saint (1963); The Secrets of Lake Success (1993); The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976); The Time of Your Life (1985); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1966–1967); The Uncanny / Segment: Hollywood 1936 (1977); The Walking Stick (1970); This Is Joan Collins (2022); This Is Your Life (1983); Unknown Powers (1978); Valentines. A Bouquet of Letters and Poetry of Lovers (1994); Vicki! (1993); Walk Don't Run (1966); Welcome to Blood City (1977); Whicker's World (1980); Why Shoot the Teacher (1977); Young and Willing (1962); Ziegfeld: The Man and His Women (1978).