On this day in television history - Justified (2015):

Justified

Season 6. Episode 13.

Episode entitled: The Promise.

Released April 14, 2015.

Directed by Adam Arkin.

Written by Graham Yost, Fred Golan, Dave Andron, Benjamin Cavell, Keith Schreier.

Based on the short story Fire in the Hole by Elmore Leonard.

Music by Steve Porcaro.

Cast:

Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Jere Burns, Joelle Carter, Jacob Pitts, Erica Tazel, Walton Goggins, Sam Elliott, Kaitlyn Dever, David Koechner, Jonathan Tucker, Jack Conley, Jason Gedrick, Jeffrey Pierce, Robert Dolan, Chad Todhunter, Natalie Zea, Ryder Cohen, Mel Fair, Christopher Grove, Eden Henderson, Otto Krause, Robert Neary, Russell Bertolino, Abby Miller, Mark Parrish, Nathan Szczotka, Mykelti Williamson.

On this day in movie history - American Psycho (2000 movie & novel):

American Psycho

directed by Mary Harron,

written by Mary Harron and Guinevere Turner,

based on the novel by Bret Easton Ellis,

was released in the United States on April 14, 2000.
Music by John Cale.

Picture shown in Patrick Bateman’s apartment is part of the Men in the Cities series by Robert Longo:

Cast:

Christian Bale, Justin Theroux, Josh Lucas, Bill Sage, Chloë Sevigny, Reese Witherspoon, Samantha Mathis, Matt Ross, Jared Leto, Willem Dafoe, Cara Seymour, Guinevere Turner, Stephen Bogaert, Monika Meier, Reg E. Cathey, Blair Williams, Marie Dame, Kelley Harron, Patricia Gage, Krista Sutton, Landy Cannon, Park Bench, Catherine Black, Margaret Ma, Peter Tufford Kennedy, Mark Pawson, Jessica Lau, Lilette Wiens, Glen Marc Silot, Charlotte Hunter, Kiki Buttignol, Joyce R. Korbin, Reuben Thompson, Bryan Renfro, Ross Gibby, Christina McKay, Alan McCullough, Anthony Lemke, Connie Chen, Brett Alexander, Peter Loung, Joseph Oliveira, Leanne Poirier, Somaya Reece, Kate Steen.

Recommended reading:

American Psycho

By Bret Easton Ellis.

Filmed as American Psycho (2000), directed by Mary Harron.

Published by Picador.

First published 1991.

Paperback.

ISBN 13: 9780330319928

ISBN 10: 0330319922

ASIN: 0330319922

Description:

Patrick Bateman is twenty-six and he works on Wall Street, he is handsome, sophisticated, charming and intelligent. He is also a psychopath. Taking us to head-on collision with America's greatest dream – and its worst nightmare – American Psycho is bleak, bitter, black comedy about a world we all recognise but do not wish to confront.

Cover Illustration by Marshall Arisman.

On this day in movie history - Hollywood Confidential (1997):

Hollywood Confidential

directed by Reynaldo Villalobos,

written by Anthony Yerkovich,

was released in the United States on April 14, 1997.

Music by Marc Bonilla.

Cast:

Edward James Olmos, Rick Aiello, Angela Alvarado, Christine Harnos, A. Day Henden, Richard T. Jones, Brendan Kelly, Charlize Theron, Thomas Jane, Evelina Fernández, Valarie Rae Miller, Marissa Ribisi, J. Downing, Sarah Lassez, Brent Huff, Kristen Dalton, Amanda Pays, William James Jones, Patrick Dollaghan, Billy Marti, Thomas Patti, Anthony Hickox, Ivana Milicevic, Kaylan Romero, Brendon Chad, Rene Mujica, Warren Reno, Madison Clark, Billy Kane, Paul Goodman, Robyn Lees, Anthony Yerkovich.

On this day in television history - Turner Classic Movies (TCM) (1994):

Turner Classic Movies (TCM)

founded by Ted Turner,

debuted in the United States on April 14, 1994.

The first movie screened on TCM was Gone with the Wind (1939).

On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek: The Next Generation (1989)

Star Trek: Picard (2022)

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Season 2. Episode 14.

Episode entitled: The Icarus Factor.

Released April 14, 1989.

Directed by Robert Iscove.

Written by David Assael, Robert L. McCullough, Melinda M. Snodgrass.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Ron Jones.

Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Wil Wheaton, Colm Meaney, Mitchell Ryan, Lance Spellerberg, Majel Barrett, James G. Becker, John L. Bennett, Michael Braveheart, Josef Cannon, Tim McCormack, Lorine Mendell, Robert Smithson, Teo Smoot, John Tesh.

Star Trek: Picard

Season 2. Episode 7.

Episode entitled: Monsters.

Released April 14, 2022.

Directed by Joe Menendez.

Created by Akiva Goldsman, Michael Chabon, Kirsten Beyer, Alex Kurtzman.

Written by Matt Okumura, Juliana James, Jane Maggs, Chris Derrick, Kiley Rossetter.

Based on Star Trek: The Next Generation, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Jeff Russo.

Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jeri Ryan, Alison Pill, Annie Wersching, Michelle Hurd, Santiago Cabrera, Evan Evagora, Orla Brady, James Callis, Madeline Wise, Sol Rodriguez, Ito Aghayere, Jay Karnes, Ivo Nandi, Steve Gutierrez, Dylan Von Halle, Marti Matulis, Oscar Torre, Travis Walck, Cyrus Zoghi, Jonathan Flaugher, Philip Krohnengold, Sunny Ozell, Mark Stepro, Mason Stoops.

On this day in music history - Lakmé, by Léo Delibes (1883):

Lakmé

by Léo Delibes,

was first performed at the Salle Favart in Paris, France, on April 14, 1883.
Opera in three acts.
Based on Les babouches du Brahmane, by Théodore Pavie,
and the novel Le Mariage de Loti by Pierre Loti.

Born on this day – Lynda Obst:

Lynda Obst

Producer

Writer

April 14, 1950 – October 22, 2024

Credits:

Books:

Dirty Dreams: A Novel (1990); Hello, He Lied (1996); Sleepless in Hollywood: Tales from the New Abnormal in the Movie Business (2013); The Sixties (1978).

Movies and television:

A Single Man (2009); Abandon (2002); Above Suspicion (2019); Adventures in Babysitting (1987 / 1989); Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (2008); Bad Girls (1994); Charlie Rose (1996); Contact (1997); Et la femme créa Hollywood (2016); Everything Is Copy (2015); Finding the 'Wonder Woman' Within (2017); Flashdance (1983); From Weepies to Chick Flicks (2010); Good Girls Revolt (2015–2016); GPS Fareed Zakaria (2018); Heartbreak Hotel (1988); Helix (2014–2015); Helix: Fabricating the Plague (2014); Hello, He Lied & Other Truths from the Hollywood Trenches (2002); Hope Floats (1998); Hot in Cleveland (2010–2015); How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003); I Love Your Work (2003); Inside 'Interstellar' (2015); Interstellar (2014); Naked Hollywood (1991); One Fine Day (1996); Pie in the Sky (1995); Red Carpet Report (2019); Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women (2014); Releasing the 'Flashdance' Phenomenon (2007); Sleepless in Seattle (1993); Someone Like You (2001); The 40th Annual Women in Film Crystal and Lucy Awards (2016); The '60s (1999); The Cycle (2013); The Fisher King (1991); The History of 'Flashdance' (2007); The Hot Zone (2019–2021); The Independents (2014); The Invention of Lying (2009); The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst (2015–2024); The Making of 'the Siege' (2000); The Media Show (1988); The Siege (1998); The Soul Man (2012–2014); This Is My Life (1992); Very Scary People (2020).