Born on this day – Charles Lederer:

Charles Lederer

Writer

Director

December 31, 1910 – March 5, 1976

Credits:

Ocean's Eleven (2001); Kiss of Death (1995); Kismet (1967); Destry (1964); A Global Affair (1964); Mutiny on the Bounty (1962); Follow That Dream (1962); Ocean's Eleven (1960); Can-Can (1960); It Started with a Kiss (1959); Never Steal Anything Small (1959); The Fiend Who Walked the West (1958); Tip on a Dead Jockey (1957); Matinee Theatre (1957); The Spirit of St. Louis (1957); Gaby (1956); Kismet (1955); TV de Vanguarda (1955); Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953); Monkey Business (1952); Fearless Fagan (1952); O. Henry's Full House (1952); The Thing from Another World (1951); On the Loose (1951); Wabash Avenue (1950); Red, Hot and Blue (1949); I Was a Male War Bride (1949); The Lady from Shanghai (1947); Her Husband's Affairs (1947); Ride the Pink Horse (1947); Kiss of Death (1947); Slightly Dangerous (1943); The Youngest Profession (1943); Fingers at the Window (1942); Love Crazy (1941); Comrade X (1940); I Love You Again (1940); His Girl Friday (1940); Eternally Yours (1939); Broadway Serenade (1939); Within the Law (1939); Double or Nothing (1937); Mountain Music (1937); Baby Face Harrington (1935); Cock of the Air (1932); The Front Page (1931).

Born on this day – Theresa Harris:

Theresa Harris

Actress

Singer

Dancer

December 31, 1906 – October 8, 1985

Credits:

These Amazing Shadows (2011); The Gift of Love (1958); How to Marry a Millionaire (1957); Spoilers of the Forest (1957); Chevron Hall of Stars (1956); Back from Eternity (1956); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1956); The Amos 'n Andy Show (1955); The Loretta Young Show (1954); Lux Video Theatre (1954); The French Line (1953); Here Come the Girls (1953); Your Jeweler's Showcase (1953); Small Town Girl (1953); Angel Face (1952); The Company She Keeps (1951); Al Jennings of Oklahoma (1951); Grounds for Marriage (1951); And Baby Makes Three (1949); Tension (1949); The File on Thelma Jordon (1949); The Doctor and the Girl (1949); Neptune's Daughter (1949); Alias Nick Beal (1949); The Velvet Touch (1948); The Big Clock (1948); The Lady from Shanghai (1947); Out of the Past (1947); Merton of the Movies (1947); Miracle on 34th Street (1947); Hit Parade of 1947 (1947); Swingtime Jamboree (1946); Three Little Girls in Blue (1946); Smooth as Silk (1946); Miss Susie Slagle's (1946); The Dolly Sisters (1945); Men in Her Diary (1945); Strange Illusion (1945); What's Buzzin', Cousin? (1943); I Walked with a Zombie (1943); Cat People (1942); Tough As They Come (1942); Sing Your Worries Away (1942); Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941); Our Wife (1941); Blossoms in the Dust (1941); The Flame of New Orleans (1941); Sis Hopkins (1941); Love Thy Neighbor (1940); Santa Fe Trail (1940); Buck Benny Rides Again (1940); City of Chance (1940); RCA Television Exhibit at New York Worlds Fair (1939); One Hour to Live (1939); The Women (1939); Tell No Tales (1939); Passport Husband (1938); The Toy Wife (1938); Jezebel (1938); Big Town Girl (1937); Gangsters on the Loose (1937); The Lady Escapes (1937); Charlie Chan at the Olympics (1937); Banjo on My Knee (1936); 15 Maiden Lane (1936); The Green Pastures (1936); Strike Me Pink (1936); In Person (1935); Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935); Go Into Your Dance (1935); Desirable (1934); Black Moon (1934); Operator 13 (1934); A Duke for a Day (1934); Drums o' Voodoo (1934); Finishing School (1934); Sleepers East (1934); A Modern Hero (1934); Success at Any Price (1934); Flying Down to Rio (1933); Roman Scandals (1933); The Worst Woman in Paris? (1933); Blood Money (1933); Broadway Thru a Keyhole (1933); Penthouse (1933); Morning Glory (1933); Mary Stevens, M.D. (1933); Baby Face (1933); Hold Your Man (1933); Private Detective 62 (1933); Professional Sweetheart (1933); Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933); 42nd Street (1933); Grand Slam (1933); The Half-Naked Truth (1932); The Sport Parade (1932); Night After Night (1932); Faithless (1932); Free Wheeling (1932); Horse Feathers (1932); Week Ends Only (1932); Merrily We Go to Hell (1932); Union Depot (1932); Arrowsmith (1931); The Road to Reno (1931); Morocco (1930); The Lady Fare (1929); Thunderbolt (1929).

Born on this day – Jason Robards:

Jason Robards

Actor

December 31, 1892 – April 4, 1963

Credits:

A Bird in the Hand (1929); A Game of Death (1945); A Likely Story (1947); A Night of Adventure (1944); A Strange Adventure (1932); Abraham Lincoln (1930); Acapulco (1961); Alaska Patrol (1949); All of Me (1934); Badman's Territory (1946); Banjo (1947); Bedlam (1946); Bermuda Mystery (1944); Betrayal from the East (1945); Born to Kill (1947); Break of Hearts (1935); Broadway Bill (1934); Broken Arrow (1958); Burn 'Em Up Barnes (1934); Burn 'Em Up Barnes (1934); Carnival Lady (1933); Casey Jones (1927); Caught Plastered (1931); Charlie Chan Carries On (1931); Cimarron City (1958); Cipher Bureau (1938); Clipped Wings (1937); Cockeyed Cavaliers (1934); Code of the West (1947); Colt .45 (1958); Corruption (1933); Crazy That Way (1930); Criminal Court (1946); Crimson Romance (1934); Damaged Lives (1933); Dance Hall Hostess (1933); Danger Flight (1939); Deadline at Dawn (1946); Desperate (1947); Dick Tracy (1945); Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947); Dick Tracy vs. Cueball (1946); Dick Tracy's Dilemma (1947); Ding Dong Williams (1946); Discarded Lovers (1932); Do or Diet (1947); Docks of San Francisco (1932); Double Decoy (1931); Dynamite (1949); Employees' Entrance (1933); Ex-Bad Boy (1931); Feudin' Rhythm (1949); Fighting Father Dunne (1948); Flight to Fame (1938); Footloose Widows (1926); Gangs of Chicago (1940); General Electric Theater (1958–1961); George White's Scandals (1945); Give Out, Sisters (1942); Guns of Hate (1948); Hills of Kentucky (1927); His Exciting Night (1938); Horsemen of the Sierras (1949); Hurry, Charlie, Hurry (1941); I Live My Life (1935); I Love You Again (1940); I Stole a Million (1939); If You Knew Susie (1948); I'll Build It Myself (1946); I'll Take Milk (1946); Impact (1949); Irish Hearts (1927); Isle of the Dead (1945); It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog (1945); Jaws of Steel (1927); Joan of Ozark (1942); Johnny Angel (1945); Juarez (1939); Klondike (1932); Ladies Courageous (1944); Ladies Crave Excitement (1935); Laramie (1960); Laughing at Trouble (1936); Leave It to Beaver (1961); Let 'em Have It (1935); Let's Go Stepping (1945); Lightnin' (1930); Little Tough Guy (1938); Long Shot (1939); Looking for Trouble (1934); Mademoiselle Fifi (1944); Mama Loves Papa (1945); Man Alive (1945); Man of Conquest (1939); Manhunt (1960); Masked Raiders (1949); Massacre River (1949); Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948); Music in Manhattan (1944); Mystery Plane (1939); Nurse from Brooklyn (1938); On Trial (1928); One Exciting Adventure (1934); Only Yesterday (1933); Paris (1929); Peacock Alley (1930); Polly of the Movies (1927); Post Office Investigator (1949); Prison Break (1938); Public Stenographer (1934); Race Street (1948); Radio Hams (1939); Radio Stars on Parade (1945); Range War (1939); Return of the Bad Men (1948); Riders of the Whistling Pines (1949); Riffraff (1947); Rimfire (1949); Risky Business (1939); Riverboat Rhythm (1946); Robin Hood of El Dorado (1936); Salvation Nell (1931); San Antonio Rose (1941); San Francisco (1936); Scouts to the Rescue (1939); Servant of the People: The Story of the Constitution of the United States (1937); Seven Keys to Baldpate (1947); Shed No Tears (1948); Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943); Ship of Wanted Men (1933); Silver Queen (1942); Sing a Jingle (1944); Sinners in Paradise (1938); Sisters (1930); Sky Patrol (1939); Slightly Married (1932); Smoky Mountain Melody (1948); Some Mother's Boy (1929); Son of God's Country (1948); South of Death Valley (1949); Stella Maris (1925); Step by Step (1946); Streets of Shanghai (1927); Studio One (1958); Stunt Pilot (1939); Subway Express (1931); Sugarfoot (1958–1960); Sweetheart of the Navy (1937); Swingtime Johnny (1943); Take the Stand (1934); Tales of Wells Fargo (19632); The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938); The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1963); The Bamboo Blonde (1946); The Barbara Stanwyck Show (1961); The Cohens and Kellys (1926); The Conquerors (1932); The Crusades (1935); The Death Ship (1928); The Deputy (1961); The Devil's Mate (1933); The Ed Sullivan Show (1959); The Falcon in San Francisco (1945); The Falcon's Adventure (1946); The Falcon's Alibi (1946); The Farmer's Daughter (1947); The Fatal Hour (1940); The Fighting Marines (1935); The Firefly (1937); The Flying Marine (1929); The Gamblers (1929); The Gilded Lily (1921); The Green Hornet Strikes Again! (1940); The Heart of Maryland (1927); The Howards of Virginia (1940); The Isle of Lost Ships (1929); The Jazz Cinderella (1930); The Judge Steps Out (1948); The Kansan (1943); The Land of Hope (1921); The Last Dance (1930); The Last Days of Pompeii (1935); The Law of the Tong (1931); The Luckiest Girl in the World (1936); The Mad Empress (1939); The Man Who Cried Wolf (1937); The Master Race (1944); The Merry Widow (1934); The Miracle Rider (1935); The Notorious Mr. Monks (1958); The President Vanishes (1934); The Pride of the Legion (1932); The Purple Vigilantes (1938); The Rage of Paris (1938); The Second Woman (1950); The Storm (1938); The Super Snooper (1934); The Third Degree (1926); The Threat (1949); The Way to Love (1933); The Woman Condemned (1934); Thunder Mountain (1947); Torture Money (1937); Tracked by the Police (1927); Traffic with the Devil (1946); Trail Street (1947); Trapped (1931); Trial Marriage (1929); Trifles (1930); Twin Husbands (1946); Under the Tonto Rim (1947); Unholy Love (1932); Union Depot (1932); Vacation in Reno (1946); Vagabond Lady (1935); Variety Time (1948); Vogues of 1938 (1937); Wagon Train (1961); Wagons Westward (1940); Wanderer of the Wasteland (1945); West of the Pecos (1945); Western Heritage (1948); Western Pacific Agent (1950); What a Blonde (1945); What, No Cigarettes? (1945); White Eagle (1932); White Flannels (1927); White Legion (1936); Wild Geese (1927); Wild Horse Mesa (1947); Wild in the Country (1961); Woman Against Woman (1938); Woman Unafraid (1934); Zombies on Broadway (1945); Zorro Rides Again (1937); Zorro's Fighting Legion (1939).

Born on this day – Henri Matisse:

Henri Matisse

Artist

December 31, 1869 – November 3, 1954

Roberto Bolano, on reading:

Reading is like thinking,

like praying,

like talking to a friend,

like expressing your ideas,

like listening to other people's ideas,

like listening to music,

like looking at the view,

like taking a walk on the beach.

- Roberto Bolano.

Go Pens!

December 30, 2025

Pittsburgh Penguins: 5

Carolina Hurricanes: 1

YEAH!

GO PENS!

On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek: Discovery (2021)

Star Trek: Discovery

Season 4. Episode 7.

Episode entitled: …But to Connect.

Released December 30, 2021.

Directed by Lee Rose.

Created by Bryan Fuller, Alex Kurtzman.

Written by Terri Hughes Burton, Carlos Cisco, Glenise Mullins, Brandon Schultz.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Jeff Russo.

Cast: Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones, Anthony Rapp, Wilson Cruz, Blu del Barrio, David Ajala, Ian Alexander, David Cronenberg, Shawn Doyle, Chelah Horsdal, Tara Rosling, Phumzile Sitole, Annabelle Wallis, Andreas Apergis, Nicole Dickinson, Alex McCooeye, Giovanni Spina, Robinne Fanfair.