Tobe Hooper
Director
Writer
Producer
January 25, 1943 – August 26, 2017
Saturday, January 25, 2025
Born on this day – Bill Hickman:
Bill Hickman
Actor
Stunt driver
Stunt coordinator
January 25, 1921 – February 24, 1986
Credits:
Bullitt: Steve McQueen's
Commitment to Reality (1998); Capricorn One (1977); The Hindenburg (1975); Electra
Glide in Blue (1973); Charley and the Angel (1973); The Thief Who Came to
Dinner (1973); The Anatomy of a Chase: Behind the Scenes of the Filming of 'the
Seven-Ups' (1973); The Seven-Ups (1973); Shaft (1973); Madigan (1973); Rage
(1972); What's Up, Doc? (1972); Hickey & Boggs (1972); The War Between Men
and Women (1972); Diamonds Are Forever (1971); Vanishing Point (1971); They
Call It Murder (1971); The French Connection (1971); Columbo (1971); The Bold
Ones: The Senator (1971); Zabriskie Point (1970); The F.B.I. (1966–1970); Patton
(1970); Daughter of the Mind (1969); The Love Bug (1969); The Wrecking Crew
(1968); Bullitt (1968); The Flim-Flam Man (1967); Gunsmoke (1967); Batman (1967);
Judd for the Defense (1967); Point Blank (1967); The Felony Squad (1967); Bonanza
(1963–1967); The Invaders (1967); The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964–1967); A Fine
Madness (1966); Get Smart (1966); Jericho (1966); The Rounders (1966); The
Fugitive (1966); Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1966); Branded (1965–1966); How
to Stuff a Wild Bikini (1965); The Great Race (1965); Honey West (1965); The
Outer Limits (1964); The Fugitive (1963); The Twilight Zone (1963); Temple
Houston (1963); Take Her, She's Mine (1963); Johnny Cool (1963); Toys in the
Attic (1963); The Eleventh Hour (1963); It Happened at the World's Fair (1963);
California (1963); Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation (1962); Outlaws (1962); The Andy
Griffith Show (1962); Cain's Hundred (1962); The Lawless Years (1959–1961); The
Deputy (1961); Klondike (1960–1961); Lock Up (1960); Bat Masterson (1960); Not
for Hire (1959–1960); Tombstone Territory (1960); Home from the Hill (1960); Peter
Gunn (1959); Mr. Lucky (1959); The Big Operator (1959); Don't Give Up the Ship
(1959); The Beat Generation (1959); The Thin Man (1957–1959); Have Gun - Will
Travel (1959); Ask Any Girl (1959); The Mating Game (1959); Perry Mason (1959);
Andy Hardy Comes Home (1958); The Perfect Furlough (1958); Houseboat (1958); High
School Confidential! (1958); Attack of the Puppet People (1958); Adventures of
Superman (1958); Maverick (1958); Kiss Them for Me (1957); Jailhouse Rock (1957);
Raintree County (1957); The Helen Morgan Story (1957); Appointment with a
Shadow (1957); The Joker Is Wild (1957); An Affair to Remember (1957); Ten
Thousand Bedrooms (1957); Highway Patrol (1957); The Best Things in Life Are
Free (1956); He Laughed Last (1956); Four Star Playhouse (1956); Outside the
Law (1956); The Benny Goodman Story (1956); Rebel Without a Cause (1955); The
Square Jungle (1955); Love Me or Leave Me (1955); The Far Horizons (1955); High
Society (1955); A Bullet for Joey (1955); Phffft (1954); Woman's World (1954); Tobor
the Great (1954); Living It Up (1954); Public Defender (1954); Lucky Me (1954);
Loophole (1954); Kiss Me Kate (1953); Jennifer (1953); Half a Hero (1953); Latin
Lovers (1953); Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953); Code Two (1953); My Pal Gus
(1952); Because You're Mine (1952); Love Is Better Than Ever (1952); Phone Call
from a Stranger (1952); The Red Badge of Courage (1951); Fixed Bayonets! (1951);
The Unknown Man (1951); Angels in the Outfield (1951); Iron Man (1951); Meet Me
After the Show (1951); To Please a Lady (1950); Tulsa (1949); It Happened in
Brooklyn (1947); The Beginning or the End (1947); See Here, Private Hargrove
(1944); Salute to the Marines (1943).
Born on this day – Carlotta Monti:
Carlotta Monti
Actress
Writer
January 25, 1907 – December 8, 1993
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Carlotta Monti (right)
with W.C. Fields (left)
W.C. Fields and Me (1976);
To Please a Lady (1950); Crisis (1950); The Doctor and the Girl (1949); He
Walked by Night (1948); Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941); The Villain
Still Pursued Her (1940); Boom Town (1940); Robin Hood of El Dorado (1936); Hell-Ship
Morgan (1936); Night Cargo (1936); Bonnie Scotland (1935); Man on the Flying
Trapeze (1935); Marie Galante (1934); Tarzan the Fearless (1933); Deadwood Pass
(1933); Kiss of Araby (1933); King Kong (1933); In Old California (1929); Ben-Hur:
A Tale of the Christ (1925).
Book:
W. C. Fields & Me
(1971).
Born on this day – Sleepy John Estes:
Sleepy John Estes
Blues singer
Guitarist
Songwriter
January 25, 1899 – June
5, 1977
Credits:
Albums:
A Summer Sky Shines (2015);
Beyond Patina Jazz Masters: Sleepy John Estes (2012); Blues At Home 11 (2013); BLUES
IS A‐LIVE (1977); Blues Live (1999); Blues Masters Vol. 24 -
Sleepy John Estes (2009); Blues Music (2016); Broke and Hungry - Ragged and
Dirty, Too (1964); Broke and Hungry (1964); Brownsville Blues (1992); Colours
of Music History (2014); Crying Out Loud - Sleepy John Estes Blues Chronicles (2023);
Crying the Blues (2015); Drop Down (2018); Drop Down Mama (2013); Drop down
mama (2021 Remastered Version) (2022); Electric Sleep (1991); Goin' To
Brownsville (1998); I Ain't Gonna Be Worried No More (2011); I Ain't Gonna Be
Worried No More 1929-1941 (1992); It's All About Blues Music (2014); Jailhouse
Blues (1998); Legendary Country Blues Artists - CD A (2007); Legendary Country
Blues Artists - CD B (2007); Liquor Store Blues (2011); Live in Japan with
Hammie Nixon (2014); Newport Blues (2002); Numero Uno Blues (2020); On Highway
80 (2008); On the Chicago Blues Scene (1991); Presenting Sleepy John Estes (1930);
Rats in My Kitchen (2012); Roots Of The Blues - Sleepy John Estes (2004); Sleepy
John Estes 1935-1938 (Blues for Ever) (2003); Sleepy John Estes in Europe (1999);
Sleepy John Estes Vol. 2 (1937 - 1941) (2005); Sleepy John Estes, King of Blues
(2014); Sleepy John Estes: First Recordings With Lewis & Rachel (2006); Someday
Baby Blues (2004); Street Car Blues (2008); Sweet Mama (2000); Tennessee
Bluesman (2021); That's What I Need (2014); The Legend of Sleepy John Estes (1962);
The Magic Masters (2016); The Ultimate Jazz Archive 13 - Blues (3 Of 4) (2007);
Working Man Blues - The Best Of (2009); Working Man's Blues (2007).
Movies and television:
Blues
America (2013); Dallas 362 (2003); Jazzorama (1964); Memphis '69 (2019); Nothing
But the Blues / TV Movie (1966); Nothing But the Blues: Blues Scene (1967); Playboy
After Dark (1969); Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked The World (2017); Shine a
Light (2008); Tales from the Loop (2020); The Blues (1962); The Howlin' Wolf
Story (2003).
Born on this day – Virginia Woolf:
Virginia Woolf
Writer
January 25, 1882 – March 28, 1941
Credits:
Books:
40 Model Essays (2005);
50 Great Short Stories (1952); A Haunted House and Other Short Stories (1944);
A Letter to a Young Poet (2021); A Moment's Liberty (1990); A Room of One's Own
(1928); A Society (1921); A World of Fiction (1983); A Writer's Diary (1953);
Alaska Stories (1995); Between the Acts (1941); Books & Portraits (1978);
Cape Cod Stories (2002); Chicago Stories (1993); Classic Women's Short Stories
(2020); Collected Short Stories (2019); Contemporary Writers (1965); Famous and
Curious Animal Stories (1989); Fathers: A Literary Anthology (2011); Florida
Stories (1993); Flush (1933); Granite and Rainbow (1958); Identity And Self
Respect (1952); Into the London Fog (2020); Jacob's Room (1922); Kew Gardens
(1919); Letters to Change the World: From Pankhurst to Orwell (2018); Los
Angeles Stories (1991); Lust: Lascivious Love Stories and Passionate Poems
(1994); Magical Realist Fiction (1984); Melymbrosia (1981); Moment And Other
Essays (1948); Moments of Being (1976); Monday or Tuesday (1921); Mr. Bennett
and Mrs. Brown (1929); Mrs. Dalloway (1925); Mrs. Dalloway's Party (1973); New
Orleans Stories (1992); Night and Day (1919); Nurse Lugton's Curtain (1991);
Freshwater (1935); On Being Ill (1930); On Not Knowing Greek (1925); Orlando
(1928); Paper Darts (1991); Passionate Apprentice (1990); Reviewing (1939);
Roger Fry: A Biography (1940); San Francisco Stories (1990); San Francisco
Thrillers (1995); Selected Letters (1990); Southwest Stories (1993); Stories to
Get You Through the Night (2010); Street Haunting (2022); Texas Stories (1995);
That Kind of Woman: Stories from the Left Bank and Beyond (1991); The Common
Reader (1925); The Common Reader: Second Series (1932); The Complete Shorter
Fiction (1993); The Death of the Moth and Other Essays (1942); The Diary of
Virginia Woolf, Volume Five (1984); The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Four
(1982); The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume One (1977); The Diary of Virginia
Woolf, Volume Three (1980); 30 Occult & Supernatural Masterpieces You Have
to Read Before You Die (2019); The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Two (1978);
The Essays, Vol. 1 (1967); The Essays, Vol. 2 (1967); The Essays, Vol. 3
(1967); The Essays, Vol. 4 (1967); The Essays, Vol. 5 (1986); The Essays, Vol.
6 (2011); The Lady in the Looking Glass (1960); The Letters of Virginia Woolf,
Vol. 1 (1975); The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 2 (1976); The Letters of
Virginia Woolf, Vol. 3 (1977); The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 4 (1978);
The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 5 (1979); The Letters of Virginia Woolf,
Vol. 6 (1980); The London Scene (1931); The Mark On The Wall & Other Short
Fiction (1917); The Mark on the Wall (1917); The Platform of Time (2007); The
Voyage Out (1915); The Waves (1931); The Widow and the Parrot (1985); The Years
(1937); Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid (1941); Three Guineas (1938); To the
Lighthouse (1927); Travels With Virginia Woolf (1993); Two Stories (1917);
Walter Sickert (1978); Witches' Brew (1984); Women and Fiction (1975); Women
and Writing (1979); Writers: Their Lives and Works (2018).
Movies and television:
100
Years of Ulysses (2022); A Curious World (2016); A Room of One's Own (1991); Beating
(1995); Beyond the Unknown (2019); Explained (2018); Golven (1982); I
riassuntini (2018); Icons (2019); Kew (2025); Kew Gardens (2018); London
Unplugged / Segment: Kew Gardens (2018); Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1978);
Monday or Tuesday by Virginia Woolf (2022); Mrs Dalloway (1997); O Contador de
Histórias (1955); Orlando (1992 / 2019 / 2021); Portrait of a Dancer: Sarah
Lamb (2015); Scary Stories Around the Fire (2023); Simple Gifts / Segment: The
Great Frost (1978); Six Lives: A Cinepoem (2016); The Edge (1998); The Mind and
Times of Virginia Woolf (2002); To the Lighthouse (1983); Virginia Woolf's
Night & Day (2025); Vita & Virginia (2018); What Was Virginia Woolf
Really Afraid Of? (2020).
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe:
The Raven
Poem by Edgar Allan Poe.Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
“‘Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door –
Only this, and nothing more.”
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
Eagerly I wished the morrow; vainly I had sought to borrow
From my books surcease of sorrow – sorrow for the lost Lenore –
For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore –
Nameless here for evermore.
Thrilled me – filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before;
So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating,
“‘Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door –
Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door;
This it is, and nothing more.”
“Sir,” said I, “or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore;
But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping,
And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door,
That I scarce was sure I heard you” – here I opened wide the door;
Darkness there, and nothing more.
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before;
But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token,
And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, “Lenore!”
This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, “Lenore!” –
Merely this, and nothing more.
Soon again I heard a tapping somewhat louder than before.
“Surely,” said I, “surely that is something at my window lattice:
Let me see, then, what thereat is, and this mystery explore –
Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore;
‘Tis the wind and nothing more.”
In there stepped a stately raven of the saintly days of yore;
Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed he;
But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door –
Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door –
Perched, and sat, and nothing more.
By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore.
“Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou,” I said, “art sure no craven,
Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the Nightly shore –
Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night’s Plutonian shore!”
Quoth the Raven, “Nevermore.”
Though its answer little meaning – little relevancy bore;
For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being
Ever yet was blest with seeing bird above his chamber door –
Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door,
With such name as “Nevermore.”
That one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour.
Nothing further then he uttered – not a feather then he fluttered –
Till I scarcely more than muttered, “other friends have flown before –
On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before.”
Then the bird said, “Nevermore.”
“Doubtless,” said I, “what it utters is its only stock and store,
Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful Disaster
Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore –
Till the dirges of his Hope that melancholy burden bore
Of ‘Never – nevermore’.”
Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird, and bust and door;
Then upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking
Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore –
What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt and ominous bird of yore
Meant in croaking “Nevermore.”
To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom’s core;
This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining
On the cushion’s velvet lining that the lamplight gloated o’er,
But whose velvet violet lining with the lamplight gloating o’er,
She shall press, ah, nevermore!
Swung by Seraphim whose footfalls tinkled on the tufted floor.
“Wretch,” I cried, “thy God hath lent thee – by these angels he hath sent thee
Respite – respite and nepenthe, from thy memories of Lenore!
Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe and forget this lost Lenore!”
Quoth the Raven, “Nevermore.”
Whether Tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore,
Desolate yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted –
On this home by horror haunted – tell me truly, I implore –
Is there – is there balm in Gilead? – tell me – tell me, I implore!”
Quoth the Raven, “Nevermore.”
By that Heaven that bends above us – by that God we both adore –
Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn,
It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore –
Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore.”
Quoth the Raven, “Nevermore.”
“Get thee back into the tempest and the Night’s Plutonian shore!
Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken!
Leave my loneliness unbroken! – quit the bust above my door!
Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!”
Quoth the Raven, “Nevermore.”
On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;
And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon’s that is dreaming,
And the lamplight o’er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor;
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
Shall be lifted – nevermore!
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Recommended reading - Little Caesar by W.R. Burnett (1929 & 1981):
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Little Caesar
By W.R. Burnett.
ASIN: B0012363AA
Published by Dial.
Published 1929.
Hardcover.
First edition.
Description:
Rico is a small, pale man, but he has guts, endurance and a
steely single-mindedness. When Vettori sends the gang out to rob a local
nightclub, Rico shoots a cop who pulls a gun on him. They get away, but Vettori
is shocked. He had told Rico, no gunplay. That’s when Rico realizes that
Vettori has gone soft. He’s too old to control the gang anymore. So Rico takes
over. With the faithful Otero at his side, the rest of them quickly shift their
allegiances. Now the world is Rico’s. It’s his gang, and he’s calling all the
shots. But there is always a weak link, someone who’s ready to spill when the
bulls get tough. And sooner or later the nightclub killing is bound to catch up
with him.
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Little Caesar
By Gerald Peary.
Edited by Tino Balio.
Published by University of Wisconsin Press.
Wisconsin / Warner Bros. Screenplays.
Published 1981.
First edition.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 029908454X
ISBN-13: 978-0299084547
Description:
Little Caesar, a 1931 Hollywood
gangster classic, is viewed in revivals today with nearly as much audience
enthusiasm as it enjoyed a half-century ago, in the depths of the Great
Depression.
In general, the Hollywood film industry
responded to the dark economic conditions of the 1930s with escapist and
non-topical films. The fascinating exception was the gangster film, through
which the studios joined in the debate over the spiritual and economic health
of the nation. Little Caesar, considered by many to be an architype of
the genre, is one of the most memorable dramatizations of the discontent and
alienation, the deep anxiety and hostility shared by millions of Americans
during those dark years.
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