Born on this day – Robert Browning:

Robert Browning

Writer

May 7, 1812 – December 12, 1889

Credits:

A Death in the Desert; A Grammarian's Funeral; A Toccata of Galuppi's; Abt Vogler; An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Karshish, the Arab Physician; Andrea Del Sarto; Aristophanes' Apology (1875); Asolando: Prologue / Summum Bonum / Bad Dreams III / Flute-Music, with an Accompaniment / Epilogue (1889); Balaustion's Adventure (1871); Bells and Pomegranates (1841–46); Bells and Pomegranates No. I: Pippa Passes (play) (1841); Bells and Pomegranates No. II: King Victor and King Charles (play) (1842); Bells and Pomegranates No. III: Dramatic Lyrics (1842); Bells and Pomegranates No. IV: The Return of the Druses (play) (1843); Bells and Pomegranates No. V: A Blot in the 'Scutcheon (play) (1843); Bells and Pomegranates No. VI: Colombe's Birthday (play) (1844); Bells and Pomegranates No. VII: Dramatic Romances and Lyrics (1845); Bells and Pomegranates No. VIII: Luria and A Soul's Tragedy (plays) (1846); Bishop Blougram's Apology; By the Fire-side; Caliban upon Setebos; Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came; Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day (1850); Cleon; Count Gismond; Dramatic Idyls (1879); Dramatic Idyls: Second Series (1880); Dramatis Personae (1864); Evelyn Hope; Ferishtah's Fancies (1884); Fifine at the Fair (1872); Fra Lippo Lippi; Home Thoughts from Abroad; How It Strikes a Contemporary; How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix; Jocoseria (1883); Johannes Agricola in Meditation; La Saisiaz and The Two Poets of Croisic (1878); Love Among the Ruins; Master Hugues of Saxe-Gotha; Meeting at Night; Memorabilia; Men and Women (1855); Mr. Sludge, "The Medium"; My Last Duchess; My Star; Numpholeptos; Pacchiarotto, and How He Worked in Distemper (1876); Pan and Luna; Paracelsus (1835); Parleyings with Certain People of Importance in Their Day (1887); Pauline: A Fragment of a Confession (1833); Porphyria's Lover; Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau, Saviour of Society (1871); Prospice; Rabbi Ben Ezra; Red Cotton Night-Cap Country, or, Turf and Towers (1873); Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister; Sordello (1840); Strafford (play) (1837); Thamuris Marching; The Agamemnon of Aeschylus (1877); The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church; The Inn Album (1875); The Laboratory; The Last Ride Together (1855); The Lost Leader; The Patriot; The Pied Piper of Hamelin; The Ring and the Book (1868–69); The Statue and the Bust; The Year's at the Spring.

Movies and television:

A Blot on the 'Scutcheon (1912); A Light Woman (1920); About Religion (1964); Abra Cadabra (1983); As Husbands Go (1934); Child of M'sieu (1919); Classic Tales (2008); Directions (1965); Faerie Tale Theatre (1985); Fluteman (1982); It's the Pied Piper, Charlie Brown (2000); James Lee's Wife (1913); Kummatty (1979); Kunt u mij de weg naar Hamelen vertellen, mijnheer? (1972–1976); Magic Hands (2016); My Last Duchess (2020); Pied Piper of Hamelin (1903); Pied Piper of Hamelin (2015); Pippa Passes; or, the Song of Conscience (1909); The Flight of the Duchess (1916); The Light Woman (1913); The Pied Piper (1907); The Pied Piper (1933); The Pied Piper (1972); The Pied Piper (1986); The Pied Piper by Adrian Mitchell (1986); The Pied Piper of Guadalupe (1961); The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1911); The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1913); The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1918); The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1926); The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1957); The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1981); The Pied Piper of Hamlin (1992); The Reluctant Dragon (1987); The Ring and the Book (1914); The Sweet Hereafter (1997); Women and Roses (1914).

Recommended reading - Master Shots Volume 2, by Christopher Kenworthy (2011):

Master Shots

Volume 2

100 Ways to Shoot Great Dialogue Scenes

By Christopher Kenworthy.

Published by Michael Wiese Productions.

Published 2011.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 1615930558

ISBN-13: 978-1615930555

Description:

Dialogue scenes are the most important moments in your film, but most directors get them wrong. If you block your scenes well, you do more than capture the basic scene; you echo the meaning, emotion, and drama of every moment. That is never more important than with dialogue. Whatever your budget, there is an exciting way to capture dialogue. It is a tragedy that so many directors are happy to open a scene with a moving master shot, and then just settle into dull coverage for the dialogue. You can do better than that and Master Shots Vol 2 gives you 100 ways to shoot dynamic dialogue.

Bonnie Friedman, on writing:

Writing teaches writing.

Your writing will teach you how to write if you work hard enough and have enough faith.

- Bonnie Friedman.

On this day in movie history - James Ellroy's Feast of Death (2001):

James Ellroy's Feast of Death

documentary directed by Vikram Jayanti,

was released in the United Kingdom on May 6, 2001.
Music by Rob Lane.

Cast:

James Ellroy, Rick Jackson, Brian M. Carr, Mike Berchem, Eric J. Mosher, Tim Marcia, David Lambkin, Paul W. Coulter, William Stoner, Ray Peavy, Frank Merriman, Rey Verdugo, Louis D. Danoff, Nick Nolte, Helen Knode, Larry Harnisch, Karen Hilliker, Janet T. Klock, M. Brian Klock, Mindy Klock, Elizabeth Short, Ron Riekki.

On this day in movie history - Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead (1994):

Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead

directed and written by Don Coscarelli,

was released in the United States on May 6, 1994.
Music by Fred Myrow and Christopher L. Stone.

Cast:

Reggie Bannister, A. Michael Baldwin, Bill Thornbury, Gloria Lynne Henry, Kevin Connors, Cindy Ambuehl, John Davis Chandler, Brooks Gardner, Angus Scrimm, Irene Roseen, Sarah Scott Davis, Duane Tucker, Claire Benedek, Wendy Way, Robert Beecher, Chuck Butto, Beau Lotterman, Paula Irvine, Jennifer Bross, Samantha Phillips, Kathy Lester.

On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek: The Next Generation (1989)

Star Trek: Voyager (1996 & 1998)

Star Trek: Enterprise (2005)

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Season 2. Episode 16.

Episode entitled: Q Who.

Released May 6, 1989.

Directed by Rob Bowman.

Written by Maurice Hurley, 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, John de Lancie, Lycia Naff, Colm Meaney, Whoopi Goldberg, Majel Barrett, Rob Bowman, Michael Braveheart, Jeffrey Deacon, Maurice Hurley, Tim Trella.

Star Trek: Voyager

Season 2. Episode 24.

Episode entitled: Tuvix.

Released May 6, 1996.

Directed by Cliff Bole.

Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

Written by Kenneth Biller, Andrew Shepard Price, Mark Gaberman, Lisa Klink.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Jay Chattaway.

Cast: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Biggs-Dawson, Jennifer Lien, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang, Tom Wright, Simon Billig, Bahni Turpin, John Copage, Tarik Ergin, Holiday Freeman, Kerry Hoyt, Bob Mascagno, Louis Ortiz, John Alex Tampoya.

Star Trek: Voyager

Season 4. Episode 24.

Episode entitled: Demon.

Released May 6, 1998.

Directed by Anson Williams.

Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

Written by Kenneth Biller, André Bormanis, Bryan Fuller, Lisa Klink.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by David Bell.

Cast: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Biggs-Dawson, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang, Jeri Ryan, Alexander Enberg, Susan Lewis, Majel Barrett, Tarik Ergin, Sylvester Foster, John Alex Tampoya.

Star Trek: Enterprise

Season 4. Episode 20.

Episode entitled: Demons.

Released May 6, 2005.

Directed by LeVar Burton.

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 Paul Baillargeon.

Cast: Scott Bakula, John Billingsley, Jolene Blalock, Dominic Keating, Anthony Montgomery, Linda Park, Connor Trinneer, Harry Groener, Eric Pierpoint, Peter Mensah, Patrick Fischler, Adam Clark, Steve Rankin, Johanna Watts, Tom Bergeron, Peter Weller, Christine Romeo, Alexandrea Ortiz, David Keith Anderson, Ron Balicki, Bill Blair, Scott Booker, Daphney Damaraux, Amy Earhart, Evan English, Tarik Ergin, Nikki Flux, Glen Hambly, Scott Sterling Hill, Dieter Horneman, Chase Hoyt, Michael Ivins, Janis Jones, Rafeedah Keys, Andrew Macbeth, Mark Major, Tom Miller, Melissa O'Keeffe, Alexander Xavier Ponce-Bonano, Linwood Porter, Jay D. Schwartz, Pablo Soriano, Trey Stokes, Ator Tamras, Henry T. Yamada.

On this day in music history:

Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison by Johnny Cash (1968)

Alcohol & Salvation by Carolyn Wonderland (2003)

Natalie Merchant by Natalie Merchant (2014)

Within Temptation: The Invisible Force (2025)

Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison

Album by Johnny Cash,

released May 6, 1968.

Track list: Folsom Prison Blues; Busted; Dark as the Dungeon; I Still Miss Someone; Cocaine Blues; 25 Minutes to Go; Orange Blossom Special; The Long Black Veil; Send a Picture of Mother; The Wall; Dirty Old Egg-Suckin’ Dog; Flushed from the Bathroom of Your Heart; Joe Bean; Jackson; Give My Love to Rose; I Got Stripes; The Legend of John Henry’s Hammer; Green, Green Grass of Home; Greystone Chapel (Reprise).

Alcohol & Salvation

Album by Carolyn Wonderland,

released May 6, 2003.

Track list: I’m Innocent; I’m Out Sick; How Many Crowes; Brick Wall; The Only Girl You Knew; Worst Day of My Life; Bad Girl; Beer; Pieces of a Postcard; Feed Me to the Lions; Sober; I’m the Man; Gospel Song; I Don’t Wanna Fall for You.

Natalie Merchant

Album by Natalie Merchant,

released May 6, 2014.

Track list: Ladybird; Maggie Said; Texas; Go Down Moses; Seven Deadly Sins; Giving up Everything; Black Sheep; It's A-Coming; Lulu (Introduction); Lulu; The End.

Within Temptation: The Invisible Force

Documentary directed by Arjen Sinninghe Damsté.

Released May 6, 2025.

Cast: Sharon den Adel, Robert Westerholt, Within Temptation.