Saturday, August 23, 2025

Born on this day – Albert Capellani:


Albert Capellani


Director

Writer

Producer

August 23, 1874 – September 26, 1931

Credits:

Has Damsel in Distress (1919) A Dutch Love Story (1913) A Pair of White Gloves (1908); A Princess in Disguise (1904); A Slave's Love (1907); Aladdin and His Wonder Lamp (1906); Albert Capellani: Un cinéma di grandeur 1905-1911 (2011); American Maid (1917); Anna Karenina (1912); Athallah (1911); Béatrice Cenci (1908); Beauty and the Beast (1908); Benvenuto Cellini (1908); Boireau émigré (1908); Beer wrestler (1907); Boireau roi des voleurs (1907); Camille (1915); Cinderella (1907); Cyrano and d'Assoucy (1911); Daybreak (1918); Two colleagues (1911); Gift Juan (1908); Donkey Skin (1906); Drama of Passion (1906) Drink (1908); Engulfed in Quicksands (1908); Eye for Eye (1918); Unfortunate mistake (1910); Fra Diavolo (1910); Germinal; or, The Toll of Labor (1913); Gribouille stole the Mona Lisa (1911); William Tell (1908); Harlequin's Story (1907) Her Dramatic Career (1909); Hernani (1910); His Sweetheart's Child (1914) In Walked Mary (1920); Jacintha the innkeeper (1911); Joan of Arc (1909); Josette (1912); La belle limonadière (1914); La Bohème (1912); The Milk Bottle (1910); The Accomplice (1910); The dancer of Siva (1911); The Last Cart (1908); La haine (1910); The house of the bather (1914); The Mummy (1911); The Death of Lincoln (1910); The Duke's death d'Enghien (1912); The Orphan's Doll (1911); The Power of Remembrance (1910); The King's Ransom (1909); The Vagabond (1911); The Vengeance of the Dead (1910); The victim of Sophie (1910); La vie de Bohème (1916); The Vision of Brother Benedict (1911); La zingara (1913); The Age of the Heart (1906); L'Arlésienne (1908); The Congress of sweepers (1912); The Tragic Corso (1908); The Model (1914); The Nabob (1913); The Nabot (1911); The Bread of the Little Birds (1911); The Forbidden Dream (1913); The Black Curtain (1911); Le roi s'amuse (1909); Le roman d'un jour (1911); The plunderer (1910); The Tragic Love of Mona Lisa (1912); The Visitor (1911); The envious (1911); Horror (1911); Les apprentissages de Boireau (1907); The Adventures Cyrano de Bergerac (1912); The Two Kids (1914 / 1916); The Two Sisters (1911); The Stages of Love (1912); Les Misérables, Part 1: Jean Valjean (1913); The Misérables, Part 2: Fantine (1913); Les Misérables, Part 3: Cosette (1913); The Misérables, Part 4: Cosette and Marius (1913); The Image (1910); The Intriguing (1911); The Bird Flies (1911); Lucrezia Borgia (1909); Madame Du Barry (1912); Madame Tallien (1912); Manon Lescaut (1912); Mary Tudor (1913 / 1917); Marion de Lorme (1912); Mary Stuart (1908); Mortelle idylle (1906); Mr. Fuzz (1908); Mysteries of Paris (1912); Oh Boy! (1919); Our Band's Going to the Competition (1907); Out of the Fog (1919); Paganini (1911); Out of Respect for the Child (1911); Paul and Francesca (1910); Poor Mother (1906); Pour l'honneur (1910); Prix de vertu (1911); Pro Patria (1914); Puss in Boots (1908) Ninety-Three (1921); Quentin Durward (1910); Rigadin as an actor (1911); Robert Bruce, episode of the wars of Scottish independence (1911); Salome (1908); Samson and Delilah (1908); Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 15 (1922); Sganarelle (1907); Sisters (1922); Sleeping Beauty (1908); Social Hypocrites (1918); Under the Terror (1910); Tarakanowa and Catherine II (1909); Tarquin the Superb (1908); The Accomplice (1910); The Bell Ringer's Daughter (1906) The Common Law (1916); The Courier of Lyons (1911); The Dark Silence (1916); The Death of the Duke D'Enghien (1909); The Easiest Way (1917); The End of Robespierre (1912); Tea Escape from the Tuileries (1910); The Face in the Moonlight (1915); The Feast of Life (1916); The Flash of an Emerald (1915); The Foolish Virgin (1916) The Fortune Teller (1920) The House of Mirth (1918); The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1911); The Impostor (1915) The Inside of the Cup (1921); The Law of Pardon (1906); The Love Cheat (1919) The Magic Handkerchief (1908); The Marked Man (1912); The Missing Bride (1911) The Parisian Tigress (1919); The Red Lantern (1919) The Reign of Terror (1914) The Richest Girl (1918); The Siren (1913) The Six Little Drummers (1912) The Talisman or Sheep's Foot (1907); The Tower of Nesle (1909) The Tramp (1906) The Troubadour (1908); The Two Orphans (1910); The Vestal (1908) The Violin Maker of Cremona (1909); The Virtuous Model (1919) The Voice of Conscience (1906) The Wild Ass's Skin (1909); The Wild Goose (1921) The Woodchopper's Daughter (1907) The Wrestler's Wife (1906) The Young Diana (1922) Betrayed (1910); Tristan and Yseult (1912); Two Daughters of Havana (1911); Two Sisters (1907); A clear of moon under Richelieu (1911); A Drama in a Wagon (1910); A gentleman with a tic (1911); Veil of Happiness (1910); Voyage de Boireau (1908).

Recommended reading - Pulp Masters (2001):


Pulp Masters

Edited by Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg.

Published by Carroll & Graf.
Published 2001.
First Edition.
Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0786708735
ISBN-13: 978-0786708734

Description:

A pulp-packed volume of hard-boiled crime fiction from the writers who made the mold and mastered the form.

John MacDonald, James M. Cain, Donald Westlake, Lawrence Block, Mickey Spillane, and Harrington Whittington – these six masters of pulp fiction at its suspenseful best distinguish this new anthology compiled by the award-winning editors of its two popular predecessors, American Pulp and Pure Pulp. Like its two popular predecessors, Pulp Masters culls its tales – in this case, five classic “novelettes” and one complete novel – from the golden age of magazine fiction in the first half of the twentieth century.

All six writers included in Pulp Masters in time emerged as giants in the field of crime fiction, and the stories in this volume demonstrate why. Their voices fresh, their talents raw and original, with titles like "Ordo," “College-Cut Kill,” "Stag Party Girl," "The Embezzler," and "Everybody's Watching Me," Westlake, Block, Cain, and Spillane heralded and shaped the crime story as we know it today. So did "the King of the Paperback Original" – Harrington Whittington – represented here by the novel based on his pulp short story "So Dead, My Love."

P. D. James, on words:


Increase your word power.
Words are the raw material of our craft.

- P. D. James.

Friday, August 22, 2025

On this day in television history - Justified: City Primeval (2023):


Justified: City Primeval

Season 1. Episode 7.
Episode entitled: The Smoking Gun.
Released August 22, 2023.
Directed by Katrelle Kindred.
Written by Dave Andron, Michael Dinner, Cole Quirk.
Based on City Primeval and Fire in the Hole by Elmore Leonard.
Music by Mark Isham.

Cast:

Timothy Olyphant, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Adelaide Clemens, Marin Ireland, Victor Williams, Norbert Leo Butz, Boyd Holbrook, Terry Kinney, Yosef Kasnetzkov, Alexander Pobutsky, Joseph Anthony Byrd, Andy Carey, Corey Hendrix, Leo Allen, Nick Druzbanski, Zahra Kadence Dowd, Andrew Muwonge, Holden Ochsenhirt, Dawn Hasbrouck, Jeffrey T. Rogers, Daryn Harrell, Eriick Starr, Percy Nesbary III, Russ Panzarella, Brent Whitlock.

On this day in music history - Massenet: Thaïs, by Renée Fleming... (2000):


Massenet: Thaïs

Album by Renée Fleming, Thomas Hampson, Giuseppe Sabbatini and Yves Abel,
released August 22, 2000.

Track list:

Acte Un, Premier Tableau: Voici Le Pain ... Et Le Sel; Acte Un, Premier Tableau: Le Voici ! Le Voici !; Acte Un, Premier Tableau: Helas! Enfant Encore; Acte Un, Premier Tableau: Ne Nous Melons Jamais, Mon Fils; Acte Un, Premier Tableau: Vision/Honte ! Horreur !; Acte Un, Premier Tableau: Toi Qui Mis La Pitie Dans Nos Ames; Acte Un, Premier Tableau: Mon Fils, Ne Nous Melons Jamais; Acte Un, Deuxieme Tableau: Prelude - Orchestre National bordeaux Aquitaine; Acte Un, Deuxieme Tableau: Va, Mendiant, Chercher Ailleurs Ta Vie !; Acte Un, Deuxieme Tableau: Voila Donc La Terrible Cite; Acte Un, Deuxieme Tableau: Ah ! Ah ! Ah ! ... Athanael, C’est Toi !; Acte Un, Deuxieme Tableau: Ah ! Ah ! Ah ! Je Vais Donc Te Revoir; Acte Un, Deuxieme Tableau: Garde-toi bien ! Voici Ta Terrible Ennemie !; Acte Un, Deuxieme Tableau: C’est Thais, L’idole Fragile; Acte Un, Deuxieme Tableau: Quel Est Cet Etranger; Acte Un, Deuxieme Tableau: Qui Te Fait Si Severe; Acte Un, Deuxieme Tableau: Non ! Non ! Je Hais Vos Fausses Ivresses !; Acte Deux, Premier Tableau: Ah ! Je Suis Seule, Seule Enfin !; Acte Deux, Premier Tableau: Dis-moi Que Le Suis Belle; Acte Deux, Premier Tableau: Etranger, Te Voila, Comme Tu L’avais Dit !; Acte Deux, Premier Tableau: Eh Bien ! Fais-moi Connaitre... Tout Cet Amour; Acte Deux, Premier Tableau: Je Suis Athanael, Moine D’Antinoe !; Acte Deux, Premier Tableau: Je N’ai Pas Plus Choisi Mon Sort Que Ma Nature !; Acte Deux, Premier Tableau: Meditation Religieuse – Symphonie; Acte Deux, Deuxieme Tableau: Pere, Dieu M’a Parle Par Toi Voix !; Acte Deux, Deuxieme Tableau: Non Loin D’ici, Vers L’occident; Acte Deux, Deuxieme Tableau: Considere, O Mon Pere; Acte Deux, Deuxieme Tableau: Suivez-moi Tous, Amis !; Acte Deux, Divertissement: No.1 Allegro Vivo; Acte Deux, Divertissement: No.2 Melopee Orientale; Acte Deux, Divertissement: No.3 Allegro Brillante; Acte Deux, Divertissement: No.4 Allegretto Con Spirito; Acte Deux, Divertissement: No.5 Mouvement De Valse; Acte Deux, Divertissement: Voila L’incomparable !/No.6 La Charmeuse; Acte Deux, Divertissement: No.7 Finale; Acte Deux, Divertissement: Eh ! C’est Lui ! Athanael !; Acte Deux, Divertissement: Il Dit Vrai !; Acte Trois, Premier Tableau: L’ardent Soleil M’ecrase; Acte Trois, Premier Tableau: Ah ! Des Gouttes De Sang Coulent De Ses Pieds Blancs; Acte Trois, Premier Tableau: O Messager De Dieu, Si Bon Dans Ta Rudesse; Acte Trois, Premier Tableau: Baigne D’eau Mes Mains Et Mes Levres; Acte Trois, Premier Tableau: La Paix Du Seigneur Soit Avec Toi; Acte Trois, Premier Tableau: Mon Oeuvre Est Accomplie !; Acte Trois, Deuxieme Tableau: Que Le Ciel Est Pesant !; Acte Trois, Deuxieme Tableau: C’est Lui Qui Vient !; Acte Trois, Deuxieme Tableau: Qui Te Fait Si Severe; Acte Trois, Deuxieme Tableau: Thais Va Mourir !; Acte Trois, Troisieme Tableau: Seigneur, Ayez Pitie De Moi; Acte Trois, Troisieme Tableau: Sois Le Bienvenu Dans Nos Tabernacles; Acte Trois, Troisieme Tableau: C’est Toi, Mon Pere !.

On this day in music history - Rossini arias, by Cecilia Bartoli (1989):


Rossini arias

Album by Cecilia Bartoli,
released August 22, 1989.

Track list:

L’Italiana In Algeri / Cruda Sorte! Amor Tiranno!; Pronti Abbiamo...Amici In Ogni Evento...Pensa Alla Patria; La Donna Del Lago / Mura Felici; Tancredi; Oh! Patria! ... Di Tanti Palpiti; Otello / Assisa A Piè D’un Salice; Stabat Mater / Fac Ut Portem; La Pietra Del Paragone; Se L’Itale Contrade ... Se Per Voi, Le Care, Io Torno; La Cenerentola / Nacqui All’affanno ... Non Più Mesta.

On this day in movie history - Stand by Me (1986):


Stand by Me

directed by Rob Reiner,
written by Bruce A. Evans and Raynold Gideon,
based on the novella The Body by Stephen King,
was released in the United States on August 22, 1986.
Narrated by Richard Dreyfuss.
Music by Jack Nitzsche.


Cast:

Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Jerry O'Connell, Kiefer Sutherland, Casey Siemaszko, Gary Riley, Bradley Gregg, Jason Oliver Lipsett, Marshall Bell, Frances Lee McCain, Bruce Kirby, William Bronder, Scott Beach, Richard Dreyfuss, John Cusack, Madeleine Swift, Popeye (the dog, as Chopper), Geanette Bobst, Art Burke, Matt Williams, Andy Lindberg, Dick Durock, O.B. Babbs, Charlie Owens, Kenneth Hodges, John Hodges, Susan Thorpe, Korey Scott Pollard, Rick Elliott, Kent W. Luttrell, Chance Quinn, Jason Naylor, Sky Siewerski.