On this day in television history - Justified (2010):

Justified

Season 1. Episode 9.

Episode entitled: Hatless.

Released May 11, 2010.

Directed by Peter Werner.

Written by Graham Yost, Dave Andron, Wendy Calhoun and Chris Provenzano.

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, Malik Yoba, Jere Burns, David Eigenberg, Steven Flynn, Tom Kiesche, William Ragsdale, Travis Wester, Kimberly Arland, Joe Unger, Michael Maize, Sarah Baldwin, Lizabeth Allen, Joshua Bitton, Ezra Buzzington, David Hill.

On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek: The Next Generation 1991)

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Season 4. Episode 23.

Episode entitled: The Host.

Released May 11, 1991.

Directed by Marvin V. Rush.

Written by Michel Horvat, Ronald D. Moore, Joe Menosky, David Carren, J. Larry Carroll, Brannon Braga.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Jay Chattaway.

Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Barbara Tarbuck, Nicole Orth-Pallavicini, William Newman, Patti Yasutake, Franc Luz, Rachen Assapiomonwait, Majel Barrett, Joe Baumann, Thomas J. Booth, Michael Braveheart, Tracee Cocco, Gerard David Jr., Wendy L. Davies, Denise Deuschle, Jeremy Doyle, Elliot Durant III, Buddy Daniels Friedman, Keith Gearhart, Vanessa Grayson, Robert Harper, Grace Harrell, Melanie Hathorn, Dean Hirner, Randy James, Mark-Takeo Kosakura, Mark Lentry, Ivonne Perez Montijo, Denise Lynne Roberts, Joyce Robinson, Richard Sarstedt, K. Uchizono, Natalie Wood.

On this day in music history:

The Other Side of the Mirror by Stevie Nicks (1989)

Tear the World Down by We Are the Fallen (2010)

Reverie by Laura Sullivan (2020)

The Other Side of the Mirror

Album by Stevie Nicks,

released May 11, 1989.

Track list: Rooms on Fire; Long Way to Go; Two Kinds of Love; Ooh My Love; Ghosts; Whole Lotta Trouble; Fire Burning; Cry Wolf; Alice; Juliet; Doing the Best I Can; I Still Miss Someone.

Tear the World Down

Album by We Are the Fallen,

Released May 11, 2010.

Band members: Carly Smithson, Rocky Gray, John LeCompt, Ben Moody, Marty O’Brien.

Track list: Bury Me Alive; Burn; Paradigm; Don’t Leave Me Behind; Sleep Well, My Angel; Through Hell; I Will Stay; Without You; St. John; I Am Only One; Tear The World Down.

Reverie

Album by Laura Sullivan,

released May 11, 2020.

Track list: Reverie; Silueta; Canon in D (Remastered); The Serpent Mound (Remix); After Rain; Pictograph Cave (Remaster).

On this day in movie history - The Quiet Earth (1985 movie & novel):

The Quiet Earth

directed by Geoff Murphy,

written by Bill Baer, Bruno Lawrence, Sam Pillsbury,

based on the novel by Craig Harrison,

released at the Cannes Film Market in France on May 11, 1985.

Music by John Charles.

Cast: Bruno Lawrence, Alison Routledge, Pete Smith, Anzac Wallace, Norman Fletcher, Tom Hyde.

Recommended reading:

The Quiet Earth

By Craig Harrison.

Introduction by Bernard Beckett.

Filmed as The Quiet Earth (1985), directed by Geoff Murphy.

Published by Text Classics.

Published 1981.

ISBN-10: 1922147052

ISBN-13: 9781922147059

Description:

John Hobson, a geneticist, wakes one morning to find his watch stopped at 6:12. The streets are deserted, there are no signs of life or death anywhere, and every clock he finds has stopped: at 6:12. The Quiet Earth is a gripping, utterly absorbing New Zealand cult classic.

On this day in movie history - The Natural (1984 movie & novel):

The Natural

directed by Barry Levinson,

written by Roger Towne and Phil Dusenberry,

based on the novel by Bernard Malamud,

was released in the United States on May 11, 1984.
Music by Randy Newman.

Cast:

Robert Redford, Paul Sullivan Jr., Robert Duvall, Glenn Close, Rachel Hall, Kim Basinger, Wilford Brimley, Barbara Hershey, Robert Prosky, Richard Farnsworth, Joe Don Baker, Darren McGavin, Michael Madsen, John Finnegan, Alan Fudge, Ken Grassano, Mike Starr, Mickey Treanor, Jon Van Ness, Anthony J. Ferrara, George Wilkosz, Robert Rich III, Sibby Sisti.

Recommended reading:

The Natural

By Bernard Malamud.

Filmed as The Natural (1984), directed by Barry Levinson.

Paperback.

Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

First published 1952.

ISBN: 9780374502003

ISBN 10: 0374502005

ASIN: 0374502005

Description:

The Natural, Bernard Malamud's first novel, published in 1952, is also the first – and some would say still the best – novel ever written about baseball. In it, Malamud, usually appreciated for his unerring portrayals of postwar Jewish life, took on very different material – the story of a superbly gifted "natural" at play in the fields of the old daylight baseball era – and invested it with the hardscrabble poetry, at once grand and altogether believable, that runs through all his best work. Four decades later, Alfred Kazin's comment still holds true: "Malamud has done something which – now that he has done it! – looks as if we have been waiting for it all our lives. He has really raised the whole passion and craziness and fanaticism of baseball as a popular spectacle to its ordained place in mythology."

On this day in movie history - Fantastic Planet (1973 movie & novel):

Fantastic Planet

directed by René Laloux,

written by Roland Topor, René Laloux,

based on the novel Oms en série a.k.a. Oms Linked Together and Fantastic Planet by Stefan Wul,

released at the Cannes Film Festival in France on May 11, 1973.

Music by Alain Goraguer.

Cast: Jennifer Drake, Eric Baugin, Jean Topart, Jean Valmont, Sylvie Lenoir, Michèle Chahan, Yves Barsacq, Hubert de Lapparent, Gérard Hernandez, Claude Joseph, Philippe Ogouz, Jacques Ruisseau, Max Amyl, Denis Boileau, Madeleine Clervanne, William Coryn, Christian Echelard, Jeanine Forney, Pascal Kominakis, André Lambert, Mark Lesser, Serge Netter, Yvette Robin, André Rouyer, Irina Tarassov, Julien Thomast, Gilbert Vilhon, Paul Villé, Poupy de Monneron, Christian de Tillière, Cynthia Adler, Barry Bostwick, Mark Gruner, Nora Heflin, Marvin Miller, Monika Ramirez, Hal Smith, Olan Soule, Janet Waldo.

Recommended reading:

Fantastic Planet

By Stephan Wul.

Published by Creation Oneiros.

First published 1957.

ISBN-10: 1902197313

ISBN-13: 9781902197319

Description:

Now published for the very first time in English, Stephan Wul's Fantastic Planet (Oms En Serie) is a classic of Science Fiction and the inspiration for the award-winning 1973 animated film La Planete Sauvage (Fantastic Planet).

The last surviving humans are taken from Earth to the wild planet Ygam by the traags, a race of blue-skinned, red-eyed giants. Here they become known as oms, used as lowly servants and regarded as savages.

But little by little, led by a young man of superior intelligence named Terr, the oms regain their thirst for liberty and rise up against the draags to affirm their humanity in the face of oppression.

This deceptively simple story-line is vividly depicted by author Wul with fantastic detail and a stirring mythopoeic resonance.

The film Fantastic Planet won the Grand Prix at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival and remains a mind-bendingly entertaining touchstone of counterculture art; at last, English-language readers can enjoy the classic Sci-Fi novel that it was based on.

Born on this day – Nicky Katt:

Nicky Katt

Actor

Producer

May 11, 1970 – April 12, 2025

Credits:

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