Wednesday, October 21, 2026

Born on this day – Hy Averback:


Hy Averback


Actor

Producer

Director

October 21, 1920 – October 14, 1997

Credits:

A Guide for the Married Woman (1978); Adventurizing with the Chopper (1976); AfterMASH (1984); Alone at Last (1980); American Masters (1997); Andy Capp (1972); Anna and the King (1972); At Ease (1983); Barney (1965); Because of Eve (1948); Bedtime Story (1972); Bell, Book and Candle (1976); Big Eddie (1975); Bob Hope: Hollywood's Brightest Star (1996); Brothers and Sisters (1979); Burke's Law (1963 / 1964); Chamber of Horrors (1966); Chesterfield Sound Off Time (1951); City of Angels (1976); Columbo (1971–1973); Cry Danger (1951); December Bride (1955); Don Rickles: Alive and Kicking (1972); Dragnet (1953); Eddie (1971); Ensign O'Toole (1962–1963); F Troop (1965–1967); Four Girls in Town (1957); Four Star Revue (1953); Francis in the Navy (1955); Freebie and the Bean (1980); Happy (1960); Hennesey (1959); House Calls (1979–1982); How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967); I Love Lucy (1953–1955); I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! (1968); Karen (1975); Keep an Eye on Denise (1973); Les Chroniques du Mea (2022); Love, American Style (1972); M*A*S*H (1972–1982); 'M*A*S*H': 30th Anniversary Reunion (2002); Make Room for Granddaddy (1970–1971); Mastergate (1992); Matt Houston (1982); McCloud (1972); McMillan & Wife (1972); Meet Corliss Archer (1954); Memories of M*A*S*H (1991); Moe and Joe (1974); Movin' On (1974); Murder, She Wrote (1985); Needles and Pins (1973–1974); Newman's Drugstore (1976); Nine to Five (1982); Our Miss Brooks (1952–1956); Passport to Danger (1955); Pearl (1978); Popi (1976); Quark (1978); Richie Brockelman: The Missing 24 Hours (1976); Room 222 (1971); She's in the Army Now (1981); Sidney Shorr: A Girl's Best Friend (1981); Summer Playhouse (1964); Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came (1970); The Benny Goodman Story (1956); The Bob Cummings Show (1956); The Bob Hope Show (1951–1959); The Box Brothers (1956); The Bureau (1976); The Chevy Show (1955); The Chicago Teddy Bears (1971); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1954); The Danny Thomas Show (1954–1955); The Dick Powell Theatre (1962); The Don Rickles Show (1972); The Donna Reed Show (1960); The Dukes of Hazzard (1979); The Four Seasons (1984); The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (1952); The Gertrude Berg Show (1961–1962); The Girl, the Gold Watch & Dynamite (1981); The Great Bank Robbery (1969); The Jack Benny Program (1954); The Jerry Lewis Show: From This Moment On (1962); The Johnny Carson Show (1955); The Last Precinct (1986); The Love Boat II (1977); The Magnificent Magical Magnet of Santa Mesa (1977); The NBC Comedy Hour (1956); The New Maverick (1978); The Night Rider (1979); The RCA Victor Show (1954); The Real McCoys (1957–1960); The Red Skelton Hour (1953–1956); The Rockford Files (1978); The Rogues (1964–1965); The Rubber Gun Squad (1977); The Saturday Night Revue (1954); The Steve Allen Show (1957); The Tom Ewell Show (1960–1961); The Tonight Show (1955); This Is Your Life (1972); Topper Returns (1973); Vacation Playhouse (1965); Venice Medical (1983); Where the Boys Are (1984); Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? (1968); Young Maverick (1979–1980).

Born on this day – Edna Purviance:


Edna Purviance


Actress

October 21, 1895 – January 13, 1958

Credits:

Limelight (1952); Monsieur Verdoux (1947); Éducation de prince (1927); A Woman of the Sea (1926); A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate (1923); The Pilgrim (1923); Pay Day (1922); The Idle Class (1921); The Kid (1921); A Day's Pleasure (1919); Sunnyside (1919); How to Make Movies (1918); Shoulder Arms (1918); The Bond (1918); Triple Trouble (1918); A Dog's Life (1918); The Adventurer (1917); The Immigrant (1917); The Cure (1917); Easy Street (1917); The Rink (1916); Behind the Screen (1916); The Pawnshop (1916); The Count (1916); The Vagabond (1916); The Fireman (1916); The Floorwalker (1916); Police (1916); A Burlesque on Carmen (1915); A Night in the Show (1915); Shanghaied (1915); The Bank (1915); A Woman (1915); Work (1915); By the Sea (1915); The Tramp (1915); A Jitney Elopement (1915); In the Park (1915); The Champion (1915); A Night Out (1915).

Born on this day – Samuel Taylor Coleridge:


Samuel Taylor Coleridge


Writer

October 21, 1772 – July 25, 1834

Credits:

Poems:

Christabel; Dejection: An Ode; Dura Navis; Easter Holidays; Fears in Solitude; France: An Ode; Frost at Midnight; Hymn Before Sunrise; Kubla Khan, Or, A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment; Limbo; Lines on an Autumnal Evening; Lines Written at Shurton Bars; Monody on the Death of Chatterton; Ode on the Departing Year; On Quitting School; On Receiving an Account; Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement; Religious Musings; Sibylline Leaves; Songs of the Pixies; The Destiny of Nations; The Destruction of the Bastile; The Devil's Thoughts; The Eolian Harp; The Fall of Robespierre; The Nightingale: A Conversation Poem; The Rime of the Ancient Mariner; This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison; Time, Real and Imaginary; To a Young Ass; To Bowles; To Burke; To Erskine; To Fayette; To Fortune; To Godwin; To Kosciusko; To Lord Stanhope; To Mrs Siddons; To Pitt; To Priestley; To Sheridan; To Southey; To the River Otter; To William Wordsworth.

Books:

Aids to Reflection (1993); Biographia Literaria (1983); Essays on his Times in the Morning Post and the Courier (1978); Lay Sermons (1972); Lectures 1795 on Politics and Religion (1971); Lectures 1818–1819 on the History of Philosophy (2000); Lectures, 1808–1819, on Literature (1987); Logic (1981); Marginalia (1980); On the Constitution of the Church and State (1976); Opus Maximum (2002); Poetical Works (2001); Shorter Works and Fragments (1995); Table Talk (1990); The Collected Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1956–71); The Friend (1969); The Watchman (1970).

Movies and television:

A Delirious Eye (2020); Blomman ligger i din hand (1986); Camera Three (1956); Catalogue of Ships (2008); Creation in the 21st Century (2011); In Motion (2000); Kubla Khan (2010); Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1975 / 1977); The Albatross (1998); The Ancient Mariner (1925); The Ancient Mariner: A Rock Opera (1983); The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1967); Venus Blue (1998).

Recommended reading - The New Mammoth Book of Pulp Fiction (2014):


The New Mammoth Book of Pulp Fiction

Edited by Maxim Jakubowski.
Paperback.
Published 2014.
Short story anthology.
Published by Running Press Adult.
ISBN 13: 9780762452217
ISBN 10: 0762452218
ASIN: 0762452218

Description:

Join shady operators, voluptuous molls, ruthless big-shots, and crooked cops in this massive collection filled with seven decades worth of pure, unadulterated pulp fiction. From Mickey Spillane to Dashiell Hammett, all the greatest writers are here – so watch your back!

Henry Rollins, on writing:


If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light.
If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls.
I will always write.
I will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you.

- Henry Rollins.

Tuesday, October 20, 2026

On this day in movie history - Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America (2022):


Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America

aka Sergio Leone - L'italiano che inventò l'America,
documentary directed by Francesco Zippel,
was released in Italy on October 20, 2022.
Originally shown at the Venice Film Festival.
Awarded the 2023 Nastro d'Argento for Best Documentary.

Cast:

Sergio Leone, Dario Argento, Darren Aronofsky, Jacques Audiard, Damien Chazelle, Jennifer Connelly, Robert De Niro, Clint Eastwood, Christopher Frayling, Arnon Milchan, Frank Miller, Giuliano Montaldo, Ennio Morricone, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Quentin Tarantino, Giuseppe Tornatore, Hark Tsui, Carlo Verdone, Eli Wallach.

On this day in movie history - Kubrick by Kubrick (2020):


Kubrick by Kubrick

a documentary directed and written by Gregory Monro,
was released at the Chicago International Film Festival in the United States on October 20, 2020.
Music by Vincent Théard.


Cast:

Stanley Kubrick, Michel Ciment, Malcolm McDowell, Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Sterling Hayden, Arthur C. Clarke, Marisa Berenson, R. Lee Ermey, Vincent D'Onofrio, Peter Sellers, Garrett Brown, Ken Adam, Leonard Rosenman, Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Christiane Kubrick, Roger Ebert, Dann Gire, Maurice Beaupère, J.-H. Bigay, Kirk Douglas, Pierre Fruchon, Sue Lyon, James Mason, Agop Terzan.