Born on this day – Barry Nelson:

Barry Nelson

Actor

April 16, 1917 – April 7, 2007

Credits:

A Guy Named Joe (1943); A Yank on the Burma Road (1942); Airborne Lifeboat (1945); Airport (1970); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1959); Allen Ludden's Gallery (1969); Bataan (1943); Battlestar Galactica (1978); Ben Casey (1963); Bicentennial Minutes (1975); Biography (2003); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1964); Cannon (1973); CBS Playhouse (1968); Circle of Fear (1973); Climax! (1954–1958); Climb an Angry Mountain (1972); Colgate Theatre (1950); Comet Over Broadway (1938); Command Decision (1948); Dallas (1981); David Cassidy - Man Undercover (1978); Don't Talk (1942); Dr. Kildare (1964); Dr. Kildare's Victory (1942); Eyes in the Night (1942); Fantasy Island (1983); Fitz and Bones (1981); Fools, Females and Fun (1974); Get the Message (1964); Greatest Heroes of the Bible (1978); Here's Boomer (1981); Hollywood Screen Test (1948); How to Get Killed in One Easy Lesson (1943); Hudson's Bay (1959); Island Claws (1980); I've Got a Secret (1952); J.J. Starbuck (1988); Johnny Eager (1941); Kaz (1978); Kraft Suspense Theatre (1964); Kraft Theatre (1950); Kraft Theatre (1960); Living Easy with Dr. Joyce Brothers (1974); Longstreet (1971); Love, American Style / Love and the Militant (1969); Lux Playhouse (1958); Magnum, P.I. (1982); Mary, Mary (1963); Mason (1977); McLean and Company (1970); Monsters (1990); Murder, She Wrote (1988); My Favorite Husband (1953–1955); My Wives Jane (1971); Nero Wolfe (1981); Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law (1972); Password (1962–1967); Personality (1967–1968); Pete 'n' Tillie (1972); Producers' Showcase (1956); Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (1950); Rio Rita (1942); Robert Montgomery Presents (1950); Salvage 1 (1979); Schlitz Playhouse (1955); Screen Directors Playhouse (1956); Seven in Darkness (1969); Shadow of the Thin Man (1941); Snap Judgment (1968); Starlight Theatre (1950); Stars for Israel (1967); Sucker Bait (1943); Suspense (1950–1951); Taxi (1981); Tenth Avenue Angel (1948); The 19th Annual Tony Awards (1965); The 20th Annual Tony Awards (1966); The 32nd Annual Tony Awards (1978); The Affairs of Martha (1942); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1964); The Beginning or the End (1947); The Borgia Stick (1967); The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre (1948–1950); The David Frost Show (1970); The Dennis Wholey Show (1969); The DuPont Show of the Week (1963); The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1960); The F.B.I. (1969); The Face Is Familiar (1966); The First Traveling Saleslady (1956); The Ford Theatre Hour (1949); The Fred Waring Show (1951); The Greatest Show on Earth (1964); The Human Comedy (1943); The Hunter (1952); The Joan Rivers Show (1968); The Love Boat (1979); The Luckiest Guy in the World (1947); The Man with My Face (1951); The Match Game (1963); The Mike Douglas Show (1966); The Name of the Game (1969); The Ropers (1979); The Shining (1980); The Twilight Zone (1964); Thriller (1973); Time to Kill (1945); To Tell the Truth (1962–1981); Undercover Maisie (1947); Vacation Playhouse (1967); Variety Club of Great Britain Awards for 1956 (1957); Washington: Behind Closed Doors (1977); What's My Line? (1961); Willys Theatre Presenting Ben Hecht's Tales of the City (1953); Winged Victory (1944); You're Putting Me On (1969); Zane Grey Theatre (1960).

Born on this day – Catherine Scorsese:

Catherine Scorsese

Actress

April 16, 1912 – January 6, 1997

Credits:

After Hours (1985); American Masters (1990); Cape Fear (1991); Casino (1995); China Girl (1987); Cinéma, de notre temps (1990); Easy Money (1983); Goodfellas (1990); Italianamerican (1974); It's Not Just You, Murray! (1964); Martin Scorsese: Back on the Block (1973); Mean Streets (1973); Men Lie (2004); Moonstruck (1987); Taxi Driver (1976); The Age of Innocence (1993); The Godfather Part III (1990); The King of Comedy (1982); The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984); Who's That Knocking at My Door (1967); Wise Guys (1986).

Born on this day – Christine McIntyre:

Christine McIntyre

Actress

Singer

April 16, 1911 – July 8, 1984

Credits:

A Blunderful Time (1950); A Knight and a Blonde (1944); A Modern Marriage (1950); A Pinch in Time (1948); All Gummed Up (1947); Back from the Front (1944); Beautiful But Broke (1944); Behind the Mask (1946); Blondie Takes a Vacation (1939); Border Buckaroos (1943); Boston Blackie (1951); Bride and Gloom (1947); Brideless Groom (1947); Bubble Trouble (1953); Cinderella Swings It (1943); Clunked in the Clink (1949); Colorado Ambush (1951); Community Sing: Strauss Waltzes (1939); Crazy Like a Fox (1944); Crime on Their Hands (1948); Dawn on the Great Divide (1942); Defective Detectives (1944); Doctor, Feel My Pulse (1944); Doggie in the Bedroom (1954); Dopey Dicks (1950); Flung by a Fling (1949); Forbidden Trails (1941); French Fried Frolic (1949); From Rogues to Riches (1951); Frontier Feud (1945); Fuelin' Around (1949); Garden of Eatin' (1943); Gasoline Alley (1951); Get Along Little Zombie (1946); Gun Talk (1947); Hectic Honeymoon (1947); He's in Again (1949); His Baiting Beauty (1950); His Hotel Sweet (1944); His Tale Is Told (1944); Honeymoon Blues (1946); Hot Heir (1947); Hot Water (1946); Hugs and Mugs (1950); Innocently Guilty (1950); Jiggers, My Wife (1946); Jitter Bughouse (1948); Kansas City Kitty (1944); Knutzy Knights (1954); Land of the Lawless (1947); Louisiana Hayride (1944); Love at First Bite (1950); Man from Headquarters (1942); Mark Saber (1952); Meet Mr. Mischief (1947); Men in Her Diary (1945); Micro-Phonies (1945); Microspook (1949); Missing Daughters (1939); Mopey Dope (1944); Mr. Wright Goes Wrong (1946); News Hounds (1947); No Dough Boys (1944); Of Cash and Hash (1955); Off Again, on Again (1945); Oh, Say Can You Sue (1953); Open Season for Saps (1944); Out West (1947); Pals and Gals (1954); Pardon My Terror (1946); Parlor, Bedroom and Wrath (1948); Partners of the Trail (1944); Pistol Packin' Nitwits (1945); Punchy Cowpunchers (1950); Racket Squad (1951); Radio Romeo (1947); Riders of the West (1942); Rock River Renegades (1942); Rolling Down to Reno (1947); Scotched in Scotland (1954); Sea Racketeers (1937); She Took a Powder (1951); Shivering Sherlocks (1948); Should Husbands Marry? (1947); Slappily Married (1946); Society Mugs (1946); Squareheads of the Round Table (1948); Studio Stoops (1950); Super Wolf (1949); Swing Fever (1937); Tall, Dark and Gruesome (1948); The Blonde Stayed On (1946); The Blue Danube (1941); The Crimson Canary (1945); The Fire Chaser (1954); The Gentleman from Texas (1946); The Gink at the Sink (1952); The Gunman from Bodie (1941); The Hot Scots (1948); The Mayor's Husband (1945); The Power of God (1942); The Range Rider (1951–1952); The Rangers' Round-Up (1938); The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947); The Sheepish Wolf (1948); The Stranger from Pecos (1943); The Three Troubledoers (1946); They Stooge to Conga (1943); Three Hams on Rye (1950); Three Little Pirates (1946); To Heir Is Human (1944); Trapped by a Blonde (1949); Two Jills and a Jack (1947); Two Nuts in a Rut (1948); Vagabond Loafers (1949); Valley of Fear (1947); Waiting in the Lurch (1949); Wanted: Dead or Alive (1951); Wedded Bliss (1944); Wedding Belle (1947); Wedlock Deadlock (1947); West of the Rio Grande (1944); When the Wife's Away (1946); Where the Pest Begins (1945); Who Done It? (1949); Who's Hugh? (1943); Wife Decoy (1945); Wife to Spare (1947); Wine, Women and Bong (1951); Woo, Woo! (1945).

Recommended reading - Blue City, by Ross Macdonald (1947):

Blue City

By Ross Macdonald.

Published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

First published 1947.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0307740730

ISBN-13: 978-0307740731

Description:

“[The] American private eye, immortalized by Hammett, refined by Chandler, brought to its zenith by Macdonald.” – New York Times Book Review.

“Macdonald should not be limited in audience to connoisseurs of mystery fiction.  He is one of a handful of writers in the genre whose worth and quality surpass the limitations of the form.” – Los Angeles Times.

“Most mystery writers merely write about crime.  Ross Macdonald writes about sin.” – The Atlantic.

“Without in the least abating my admiration for Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, I should like to venture the heretical suggestion that Ross Macdonald is a better novelist than either of them.” – Anthony Boucher.

“[Macdonald] carried form and style about as far as they would go, writing classic family tragedies in the guise of private detective mysteries.” – The Guardian (London).

“[Ross Macdonald] gives to the detective story that accent of class that the late Raymond Chandler did.” – Chicago Tribune.

He was a son who hadn’t known his father very well.  It was a town shaken by a grisly murder – his father’s murder.  Johnny Weatherly was home from a war and wandering.  When he found out that his father had been assassinated on a street corner and that his father’s seductive young wife had inherited a fortune, he started knocking on doors.  The doors came open, and Johnny stepped into a world of gamblers, whores, drug-dealers, and blackmailers, a place in which his father had once moved freely.  Now Johnny Weatherly was going to solve this murder – by pitting his rage, his courage, and his lost illusions against the brutal underworld that has overtaken his hometown.

W. Somerset Maugham, on reading:

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

- W. Somerset Maugham.

On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek: Voyager (1998)

Star Trek: Enterprise (2005)

These Are the Voyages - TOS: Season Three (2015)

Star Trek: Voyager

Season 4. Episode 21.

Episode entitled: The Omega Directive.

Released April 15, 1998.

Directed by Victor Lobl.

Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

Written by Lisa Klink, Jimmy Diggs, Steve J. Kay, Bryan Fuller.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Paul Baillargeon.

Cast: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Biggs-Dawson, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang, Jeri Ryan, Jeff Austin, Kevin McCorkle, Majel Barrett, Tarik Ergin, Glenn Goldstein.

Star Trek: Enterprise

Season 4. Episode 17.

Episode entitled: Bound.

Released April 15, 2005.

Directed by Allan Kroeker.

Written by Manny Coto.

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, William Lucking, Cyia Batten, Derek Magyar, Crystal Allen, Menina Fortunato, Christopher Jewett, Duncan K. Fraser, Alexandrea Ortiz, Jef Ayres, Solomon Burke Jr., Mark Correy, Joe Davis, Evan English, Henry Farnam, Peter Godoy, Tamara Hambly, John Jurgens, Melissa O'Keeffe, Bobby Pappas, Cecelia Specht, Aaron White.

These Are the Voyages - TOS: Season Three

By Marc Cushman & Susan Osborn.

Foreword by David Gerrold.

These Are The Voyages series.

Published by Jacobs Brown Press.

Published 2015.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0989238180

ISBN-13: 978-0989238182

Description:

Marc Cushman's biography of Star Trek the original series (TOS) takes you back in time for the final season of this iconic television show, to the production offices, the writers' room, onto the soundstages, and in front of your TV sets for what many thought would be Star Trek's final voyage. Included are hundreds of memos between Roddenberry, the producers and staff, production schedules, budgets, fan letters, behind-the-scene images, and the TV ratings. You'll find out the real reason Star Trek was cancelled. So buckle your seat belts, this final trek gets really bumpy.

On this day in music history:

White Stones by Secret Garden (1997)

Say You Will by Fleetwood Mac (2003)

Reflections 2000​-​2005, The Best of Michele McLaughlin by Michele McLaughlin (2006)

Trialogue by Sherry Finzer, Darin Mahoney & Will Clipman (2016)

White Stones

Album by Secret Garden,

released April 15, 1997.

Track list: Steps; Poeme; Hymn to Hope; Moving; First Day of Spring; Passacaglia; Reflection; Windancer; Appassionata; Escape; Sanctuary; Celebration; Home; Illumination.

Say You Will

Album by Fleetwood Mac,

released April 15, 2003.

Track list: What's the World Coming To; Murrow Turning over in His Grave; Illume (9-11); Thrown Down; Miranda; Red Rover; Say You Will; Peacekeeper; Come; Smile at You; Running Through the Garden; Silver Girl; Steal Your Heart Away; Bleed to Love Her; Everybody Finds Out; Destiny Rules; Say Goodbye; Goodbye Baby.

Reflections 2000​-​2005, The Best of Michele McLaughlin

Album by Michele McLaughlin,

released April 15, 2006.

Track list: I Love You (2005); The Beginning of Forever (2004); Without You (2003); The Greatest Gift (2002); Elysium (2001); Russian Music Box (2000); Coming Home (2005); Surrender (2004); Just Because (2003); A Fresh Start (2002); An Evening With Friends (2001); Not Without Flaw (2000); What You Mean To Me (2005); Enraptured (2004); A Tale of Courage (2003); Learning to Grieve (2002); The Fairies Dance (2001); The Lonely Ballerina (2005); Sunday Morning (2004); Swept Away (2003).

Trialogue

Album by Sherry Finzer, Darin Mahoney & Will Clipman,

released April 15, 2016.

Track list: Cote D'Ivoire; Mending Fences; Midnight in Marrakech; Confused; Dark Horse; Top Down; Alger Street; Woodland Lake; Thanks For Asking; Wolf Haven.