Born on this day – Guy Hamilton:

Guy Hamilton

Director

September 16, 1922 – April 20, 2016

Credits:

A Touch of Larceny (1960); An Inspector Calls (1954); Battle of Britain (1969); Charley Moon (1956); Diamonds Are Forever (1971); Evil Under the Sun (1982); Force 10 from Navarone (1978); Funeral in Berlin (1966); Goldfinger (1964); Live and Let Die (1973); Lucy Pinder for Nuts (2007); On Location with 'The Man with the Golden Gun' (2006); Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (1985); Stowaway Girl (1957); The Best of Enemies (1961); The Colditz Story (1955); The Devil's Disciple (1959); The Intruder (1953); The Man with the Golden Gun (1974); The Mirror Crack'd (1980); The Party's Over (1965); The Ringer (1952); The Winston Affair (1964); Try This One for Size (1989).

Born on this day – Lawrence Dobkin:

Lawrence Dobkin

Director

Actor

Writer

September 16, 1919 – October 28, 2002

Credits:

77 Sunset Strip (1958); Above and Beyond (1952); Adventures in Paradise (1962); Adventures of Superman (1953); Adventures of the Falcon (1954); African Manhunt (1954); Alcoa Theatre (1958); Almost Grown (1989); Angels in the Outfield (1951); Arrest and Trial (1963); At Night the Sun Shines (1992); Bachelor Father (1961); Bannerline (1951); Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time (1991); Behind Closed Doors (1959); Biff Baker, U.S.A. (1953); Big Town (1954); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1965); Bret Maverick (1981); Bronco (1960); Buck James (1987); Cain's Hundred (1961); Captain David Grief (1959); CBS Playhouse (1967); Chain of Circumstance (1951); Chevron Hall of Stars (1956); Cheyenne (1960); City Detective (1953); Civil Wars (1992); Climax! (1956); Code 3 (1957); Cover Up (1985); Crossroads (1955); Crusader (1956); Curiosity Kills (1990); D.O.A. (1949); Dangerous Assignment (1952); Day of Triumph (1954); Deadline - U.S.A. (1952); Destry (1964); Diplomatic Courier (1952); Dr. Christian (1956); Duffy's Tavern (1954); Empire (1963); Family Theatre (1957); Four Star Playhouse (1953); Frenchie (1950); Gang Busters (1952); General Electric Theater (1954); Geronimo (1962); Going My Way (1963); Grand Jury (1960); Grindl (1964); Gunsmoke (1956); Have Gun - Will Travel (1957); Hawaii Five-O (1979); Hawaiian Eye (1961); Hong Kong (1961); Hotwire (1980); I Love Lucy (1953); Illegal (1955); I'm the Law (1953); In Search of Historic Jesus (1979); Insight (1960–1968); Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre (1956); Johnny Yuma (1966); Judd for the Defense (1968); Judging Amy (2001); Julius Caesar (1953); Jump Into Hell (1955); Kiss of Fire (1955); Klondike (1961); Knight Rider (1982); Kraft Suspense Theatre (1964); L.A. Law (1990–1994); Las Vegas Beat (1961); Law of the Plainsman (1960); Lawman (1959); Loan Shark (1952); Lux Video Theatre (1955); M Squad (1957); Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation (1952); MacGyver (1986–1987); Man with a Camera (1959); Man Without a Gun (1959); Markham (1959); Matinee Theatre (1956); Matlock (1991); Melrose Place (1994–1998); Men of Annapolis (1958); Michael Hayes (1998); Mike Hammer (1958); Mission: Impossible (1971); Mr. & Mrs. North (1953); Mr. Adams and Eve (1957); My Hero (1953); Naked City (1960–1963); Navy Log (1955); Never Fear (1950); Night Court (1991); North by Northwest (1959); Not Wanted (1949); NYPD Blue (2001); Official Detective (1958); O'Hara, U.S. Treasury (1971); On the Loose (1951); On Trial (1956); Our Miss Brooks (1953); Panic! (1957); Passport to Danger (1955); Patton (1970); Peck's Bad Girl (1959); People Will Talk (1951); Perry Mason (1960); Playhouse 90 (1956); Popular (2001); Portland Exposé (1957); Profiler (1997); Raiders of Old California (1957); Rawhide (1961–1965); Red Skies of Montana (1952); Remains to Be Seen (1953); Richard Diamond, Private Detective (1957); Riders to the Stars (1954); Riverboat (1959); Rock Hudson (1990); Roswell (1994); Sabaka (1954); Sam Benedict (1962); Scarecrow and Mrs. King (1987); Schlitz Playhouse (1953); Soldiers of Fortune (1955); Space Academy (1977); Space Patrol (1953); Spycraft: The Great Game (1996); Stage 7 (1955); Stagecoach West (1961); Star Stage (1955); Star Trek: The Next Generation (1991); Steel and America (1965); Studio 57 (1954); Studio One (1958); Sweet Smell of Success (1957); Target: The Corruptors (1961); Telephone Time (1957); That Certain Feeling (1956); The 20th Century-Fox Hour (1956); The Adventures of Jim Bowie (1957); The Affairs of Dobie Gillis (1953); The Ann Sothern Show (1959); The Badge of Marshal Brennan (1957); The Best of the Post (1960); The Best Years of Our Lives (1946); The Big Moment (1954); The Big Operator (1959); The Big Valley (1968); The Bob Cummings Show (1959); The Cabinet of Caligari (1962); The Charmings (1988); The Danny Thomas Show (1957); The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951); The Defiant Ones (1958); The Detectives (1959); The Dick Powell Theatre (1962); The Donna Reed Show (1958); The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1960); The F.B.I. (1974); The Felony Squad (1967); The First Time (1952); The Ford Television Theatre (1954); The Gene Krupa Story (1959); The Great Gildersleeve (1956); The Hall of Presidents (2017); The Killer Is Loose (1956); The Lineup (1959); The Living Christ Series (1951); The Long Wait (1954); The Loretta Young Show (1957); The Lost Missile (1958); The Midnight Man (1974); The Millionaire (1956); The Mob (1951); The Name of the Game (1970); The O. Henry Playhouse (1957); The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse (1954); The Practice (1998); The Rape of Doctor Willis (1991); The Red Skelton Hour (1957); The Rifleman (1958–1962); The Roaring 20's (1960); The Silent Service (1957); The Silver Chalice (1954); The Streets of San Francisco (1972); The Tab Hunter Show (1961); The Ten Commandments (1956); The Untouchables (1959); The Waltons (1974); Them! (1954); Tokyo After Dark (1959); Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear (1999); Trackdown (1957); TV Reader's Digest (1955); Twelve O'Clock High (1949); Undercurrent (1956–1957); Underground (1970); Voyagers! (1982); Wagon Train (1958); Wanted: Dead or Alive (1959); War and Remembrance (1989); Washington Story (1952); Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1959); Whirlpool (1950); Whirlybirds (1957); Wild Heritage (1958); Wire Service (1956); You Are There (1953).

Born on this day – Isabel Jeans:

Isabel Jeans

Actress

September 16, 1891 – September 4, 1985

Credits:

A Breath of Scandal (1960); Alan Melville Takes You from A-Z (1959); Banana Ridge (1942); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1953–1955); Breakdowns of 1938 (1938); Clouds of Witness (1972); Downhill (1927); Easy Virtue (1927); Elizabeth of Ladymead (1948); Fools for Scandal (1938); Further Adventures of a Flag Officer (1927); Garden of the Moon (1938); Gigi (1958); Good Girls Go to Paris (1939); Great Day (1945); Hard to Get (1938); Heavens Above! (1963); It Happened in Rome (1957); ITV Television Playhouse (1961); Loves of a Dictator (1935); Man About Town (1939); Modern Love (2006); Playhouse 90 (1959); Power Over Men (1929); Rolling in Money (1934); Romance and Reality (1921); Sally Bishop (1932); Secrets of an Actress (1938); Seven Deadly Sins (1966); Suspicion (1941); The Crouching Beast (1935); The Magic Christian (1969); The Profligate (1917); The Rat (1925); The Return of the Rat (1929); The Third Man (1959); The Triumph of the Rat (1926); Tilly of Bloomsbury (1921); True Fear: The Making of Psycho (2015); Victoria Regina (1961); Windsor Castle (1926); Words and Music (1959); Youth Takes a Fling (1938).

Born on this day – Hildegard of Bingen:

Hildegard of Bingen

Writer

Composer

Painter

Abbess

September 16, 1098 – September 17, 1179

Books:

Dendermonde Codex; Hildegard of Bingen: Scivias; Hildegard's Healing Plants: From Her Medieval Classic Physica; Holistic healing; Holy Human: Mystics for Our Time: Conversations with Hildegard of Bingen; Meditations with Hildegard of Bingen; Physica; Prayers of Hildegard of Bingen; Scivias; Symphonia: A Critical Edition of the Symphonia Armonie Celestium Revelationum [Symphony of the Harmony of Celestial Revelations]; The Book of Divine Works; The Book of the Rewards of Life; The Letters of Hildegard of Bingen: Volumes I & II; Wiesbaden Codex.

Movies and television:

Hildegard of Bingen (1994); The Divine Visions of Hildegard von Bingen (2018); The Unruly Mystic: Saint Hildegard of Bingen (2014); Vision (2009).

The value of reading and the power of imagination:

That moment when you're reading a book

and the whole world around you doesn't exist anymore.

Recommended reading - Pulp (1994):

Pulp

By Charles Bukowski.

Published by Ecco.

Published in 1994.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 9780876859261

ISBN-13: 978-0876859261

Description:

“Poet laureate of the down-and-out.” – LA Times.

Opening with the exotic Lady Death entering the gumshoe-writer's seedy office in pursuit of a writer named Cèline, this novel demonstrates Charles Bukowski's own brand of humor and realism, opening up a landscape of seamy Los Angeles.

Pulp is essential fiction from Buk himself.

Nicky Belane, private detective and career alcoholic, is a troubled man. He is plagued not just by broads, booze, lack of cash and a raging ego, but also by the surreal jobs he’s hired to do. Not only does he have to track down French classical author Cèline – who’s meant to be dead – but he also supposed to find the elusive Red Sparrow – which may or may not be real.

Pulp is Charles Bukowski’s brilliant, fantastical pastiche of a detective story.

Packed with wit, invention and Bukowski’s trademark lowlife adventures, it is the final novel by one of the most enjoyable and influential cult writers of the last century.

Jean Craighead George, on writing:

To be a writer you should read, write and talk to people, hear their knowledge, hear their problems.

Be a good listener.

The rest will come.

- Jean Craighead George.