#joseph wambaugh

[oldshowbiz]

Los Angeles street scenes in a late 1980s Police Story television movie.

#dtla #joseph wambaugh #made for tv movie #vintage smut #motor inn #motor inns

[hellyeahgeorgekennedy]

George Kennedy in The Blue Knight (1975)

#george kennedy #the blue knight #bumper morgan #1975 #old hollywood #hollywood #classic television #joseph wambaugh #70s tv #70s #cop shows

[mariocki]

The New Centurions (1972)

"You're just having a wonderful time. You like it! You like being a cop."

"Well, of course I like it! It doesn't mean I'm not working my ass off."

"I don't give a damn how hard you work, you like it, and I don't wanna spend the rest of my life being a cop's wife!"

"Then you'd better get married to somebody else."

#the new centurions #american cinema #1972 #crime film #joseph wambaugh #richard fleischer #stirling silliphant #george c. scott #stacy keach #jane alexander #scott wilson #rosalind cash #erik estrada #clifton james #richard e. kalk #ed lauter #quincy jones #dolph sweet #peter de anda #bea thompkins #gloomy police procedural which develops in episodic form to show the lives and careers of a couple of lapd new recruits #the execution and the production are above average; this is a finely made‚ well performed film which benefits from the casting #of heavyweights Keach and Scott in lead roles‚ but the form is deceptively traditional: it's hard being a cop‚ and all the book smarts and #good intentions in the world mean nothing when you're bleeding in a gutter. more than other contemporary copaganda films (and the #early 70s were very much the golden age of the genre) this at least pokes a stick at societal failings‚ the spectres of race and gender and #sexuality‚ but the interrogation is toothless and the status quo remains the same: it's hard to be a cop but somebody's gotta do it #a difficult to reconcile with film for that reason‚ but the sense of fatalistic dread that permeates the latter half of the film isn't #unaffecting‚ and i appreciate a strong performance (and Keach was always strong). a solid and interesting film but a (necessarily) #politically iffy one. it's hard to be a cop and lose your family and abandon school bc you just love policing so much? #not the most sympathetic of character motivations for me tbh. the Qunicy Jones score slaps tho

[schlock-luster-video]

On September 19, 1979 The Onion Field debuted in New York City.

#the onion field #harold becker #joseph wambaugh #true crime film #true crime movies #neonoir #neo noir film #70s movies #crime drama film #70s crime drama #crime drama #movie art #art #drawing #movie history #pop art #modern art #pop surrealism #cult movies #portrait #cult film #james woods

[kwebtv]

TV Guide -  July 20 - 26, 1963

William Dennis Weaver (June 4, 1924 – February 24, 2006)  Actor best known for his work in television and films from the early 1950s until not long before his death in 2006. Weaver’s two most notable roles were as Marshal Matt Dillon’s trusty partner Chester Goode on the CBS western Gunsmoke and as Deputy Marshal Sam McCloud on the NBC police drama McCloud. He appeared in the 1971 television film Duel, the first film of director Steven Spielberg.

From 1964 to 1965, he portrayed a friendly veterinary physician in NBC’s comedy-drama Kentucky Jones.  His next substantial role was as Tom Wedloe on the CBS family series Gentle Ben, with co-star Clint Howard, from 1967 to 1969.  In 1970 Weaver landed the title role in the NBC series McCloud, for which he received two Emmy Award nominations.  Later series during the 1980s (both of which lasted only one season) were Stone in which Weaver played a Joseph Wambaugh-esque police sergeant turned crime novelist and Buck James in which he played a Texas-based surgeon and rancher. (Buck James was loosely based on real-life Texas doctor James “Red” Duke.) He portrayed a Navy rear admiral for 22 episodes of a 1983–1984 series, Emerald Point N.A.S.. Weaver’s last work was done on an ABC Family cable television show called Wildfire, where he played Henry Ritter, the father of Jean Ritter and the co-owner of Raintree Ranch. His role on the show was cut short due to his death.  (Wikipedia)

James Arness (May 26, 1923 – June 3, 2011) Actor best known for portraying Marshal Matt Dillon for 20 years in the television series Gunsmoke. Arness has the distinction of having played the role of Dillon in five separate decades: 1955 to 1975 in the weekly series, then in Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge (1987) and four more made-for-television Gunsmoke films in the 1990s. In Europe, Arness reached cult status for his role as Zeb Macahan in the western series How the West Was Won. He was the older brother of actor Peter Graves.  

After Gunsmoke ended, Arness performed in Western-themed movies and television series, including How the West Was Won, and in five made-for-television Gunsmoke movies between 1987 and 1994. An exception was as a big-city police officer in a short-lived 1981-1982 series, McClain’s Law, co-starring with Marshall Colt. His role as mountain man Zeb Macahan in How the West Was Won made him a cult figure in many European countries, where it became even more popular than in the United States, as the series has been rebroadcast many times across Europe. (Wikipedia)

#TV Guide #TV #1963 #James Arness #Dennis Weaver #Gunsmoke

[alrederedmixedmedia]

Alredered Remembers Pittsburgh-born crime writer Joseph Wambaugh, on his birthday.

“Nothing could be more fearful than losing one's freedom. To be confined. Never to see a golden cloudburst or rivers of sunlight on dark flowers. never to walk your own cultivated furrows. And the memory dangled over his heart like the sword of Damocles.”

― Joseph Wambaugh, The Onion Field

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 1.22

Beer Birthdays

Pat Hagerman (1964)

James Renfrew (1965)

Motor (1966)

Bud Bundy, character on Married… with Children, named after Al Bundy's favorite beer (1975)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Francis Bacon; writer, philosopher (1561)

Sergei Eisenstein; Russian director & screenwriter (1898)

Robert E. Howard; fantasy writer (1906)

J.J. Johnson; jazz trombonist, bandleader (1924)

Diane Lane; actress (1965)

Famous Birthdays

Andre Marie Ampere; physicist (1775)

George Balanchine; choreographer (1904)

Bill Bixby; actor (1934)

Richard Blackmore; English physician & poet (1654)

Linda Blair; actress (1959)

Ed Bradley; television journalist (1941)

Ernst Busch; German actor and singer (1900)

Lord Byron; poet (1788)

Seymour Cassel; actor (1935)

Sam Cooke; musician (1931)

Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan; pilot (1907)

Olivia d'Abo; actor (1967)

John Donne; English poet & cleric (1573)

Joe Esposito; author (1938)

Guy Fieri; chef, author, and tv host (1968)

Willa Ford; singer-songwriter & actress (1981)

Pierre Gassendi; French mathematician, astronomer & philosopher (1592)

D.W. Griffith; film director (1875)

Martti Haavio; Finnish poet and mythologist (1899)

Alan J. Heeger; physicist and chemist (1936)

Helen Hoyt; poet and author (1887)

John Hurt; actor (1940)

Michael Hutchence; rock singer (1960)

Jim Jarmusch; film director (1953)

DJ Jazzy Jeff; musician (1965)

Graham Kerr; chef, "Galloping Gourmet" (1934)

William Kidd; Scottish sailor and pirate hunter (1645)

Nicolas Lancret; French painter (1690)

Piper Laurie; actor (1932)

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German philosopher & author (1729)

Malcolm McLaren, English singer-songwriter & manager

Charles Morgan; writer (1894)

Steve Perry; rock musician (1949)

Francis Picabia; French painter and poet (1878)

Walter Raleigh; English poet, soldier, & explorer (1552)

Ray Rice; Baltimore Ravens RB (1987)

George "Chuck" Seifert; San Francisco 49ers coach (1940)

John Wesley Shipp; actor (1956)

Ann Sothern; actress (1909)

August Strindberg; Swedish novelist, poet, & playwright (1849)

Hikaru Walter Sulu; Star Trek character (2179)

Conrad Veidt; German-American actor, director (1893)

Frederick Vinson; supreme court chief justice (1890)

Joseph Wambaugh; writer (1937)

John Winthrop; politician (1588)

#Birthdays

[brookston]

Holidays 5.29

Holidays

Army Day (Argentina)

Asexuality Day

Cultural Workers and Folk Artists Day (День Києва Київ; Ukraine)

Democracy Day (Nigeria)

End of the Middle Ages Day

Fall of Constantinople Day

Ganatantra Diwas (Nepal)

Hope Day

International Addison’s Day

International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers (UN)

International Mount Everest Day

International Pashto Language Day

Kiev Day (Ukraine)

Learn About Composting Day

Luilak (Lazy Bones Day; Belgium)

Mount Everest Day (Nepal)

National Alligator Day

National Dog Friendly Day

National Edison Day

National Elderly Day (Indonesia)

National 529 College Savings Plan Day

National Heat Awareness Day

National Hydroxyapatite Day

National Paperclip Day

National Sail Day

National White Wreath Day (Australia)

Oak Apple Day (UK) [a.k.a. ... 

Bobby Ack Day

Castleton Garland Day (Castleton)

Garland King Day 

Nettle Day

Royal Oak Day

Shick-Shack Day

Shik-Shak Day

Shitsack Day

Yak Bob Day

Paper Clip Day

Pink Flamingo Day

Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day

Reconciliation Day (ACT, Australia)

Republic Day (Nepal)

Rite of Spring Day

Scythe Day (French Republic)

Tony Stark Day

Veterans Day (Sweden)

World Digestive Health Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Coq au Vin Day

Gnocchi Day (Argentina)

International Rooster with Wine Day

National Biscuit Day (UK)

Squoosh an Ice Cream Sandwich Day

4th & Last Monday in May

Memorial Day (US) [Last Monday] a.k.a. ... 

Decoration Day (f.k.a.)

Great Jubilee Day, A (f.k.a., commemorated Revolutionary War)

National Hamburger Day

National Moment of Remembrance [3:00 PM]

Poppy Day [also 11.11]

Prayer for Peace Day

Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna Day (Fiji) [Last Monday]

Spring Bank Holiday (UK) [Last Monday] a.k.a. ... 

Gloucestershire Cheese Rolling and Wake (Cooper’s Hill, UK)

Late May Bank Holiday (Isle of Man)

Spring Holiday (Jersey)

Tetbury Woolsack Races (UK)

Week of Solidarity with the People of Non-Self-Governing Territories begins [Last Monday]

Independence Days

Rhode Island Statehood Day (#13; 1790)

Schalamzaar Empire (Declared; 2004) [unrecognized]

Wisconsin Statehood Day (#30; 1848)

Feast Days

Alexander of Alexandria (Christian; Saint)

Ambarvailia (Old Roman No Work Day, Purification Festival to Ceres)

Ascension of Baha'u'llah (Baha’i)

Bona of Pisa (Christian; Saint)

Clark Voorhees (Artology)

Conon and his son (Christian; Martyrs, of Iconia, Asia)

Consensual Bum Biting Day (Pastafarian)

Cyril (Christian; Saint)

Erwin (Christian; Saint)

Feast of Mars (Ancient Rome)

Hypomone (Eastern Orthodox Church)

Johnny the Wolf (Muppetism)

Madeleine Sophie Barat (Christian; Saint)

Mary, Mother of the Church (Christian; Saint)

Maximin of Trier (a.k.a. Maximus, Bishop of Tiers; Christian; Saint)

Monday after 7th Sunday after Easter (a.k.a. …

Dicing For Bibles (St. Ives, UK)

Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Monday of the Holy Spirit

Pentecost Monday

Pfingsten (Germany)

Whit Monday

Pillow Fight Day (Pastafarian)

Pope Alexander of Alexandria (Eastern Orthodox Church)

Siinnius, Martyrius, and Alexander (Christian; Martyrs, in Trent)

Spike Jones Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Sprouting Corn Day (Pagan)

Theodosia of Constantinople (Eastern Orthodox Church)

Theodosius (Positivist; Saint)

Ursula Ledóchowska (Christian; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Prime Number Day: 149 [35 of 72]

Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]

Unfortunate Day (Pagan) [28 of 57]

Premieres

Dial M for Murder (Film; 1954)

Feel This Book, by Janeane Garofalo and Ben Stiller (Humor Book; 1999)

Hud (Film; 1963)

The Internship (Film; 2013)

Justice League: Starcrossed (WB Animated Film; 2004)

The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini (Novel; 2003)

The Last Days of Disco (Film; 1998)

Mary Had a Little Lamb, by Paul McCartney (Song; 1972)

The New Centurions, by Joseph Wambaugh (Novel; 1971)

No Time For Sergeants (Film; 1958)

Partly Cloudy (Pixar Cartoon 2009)

Private Dancer, by Tina Turner (Album; 1984)

A Raisin in the Sun (Film; 1961)

The Rite of Spring, by Igor Stravinsky (Ballet & Orchestral Work; 1913)

San Andreas (Film; 2015)

Sister Act (Film; 1992)

Space Force (TV Series; 2020)

Tears on My Pillow, recorded by Little Anthony & the Imperials (Song; 1958)

This Is A Book, by Demetri Martin (Humor Book; 2011)

Two Dots (Phone App Game; 2014)

Up (Animated Disney Film; 2009)

White Christmas, recorded by Bing Crosby (Song; 1942)

Yankee Doodle Dandy (Film; 1942)

Today’s Name Days

Erwin, Irmtraud, Maximin (Austria)

Doroteia (Bulgaria)

Euzebije, Polion, Većeslav (Croatia)

Maxmilián (Czech Republic)

Maciminus (Denmark)

Laido, Leido, Leidur, Luulik (Estonia)

Oiva, Oivi, Oliver, Olivia (Finland)

Aymar, Aymard, Géraldine, Maximin (France)

Erwin, Irmtraud, Maximin (Germany)

Ipomoni, Olivianos, Theodosia (Greece)

Magdolna (Hungary)

Ademaro, Massimo, Massimino (Italy)

Daris, Maksine, Maksis, Raivis, Raivo (Latvia)

Algedas, Erdvilė, Magdalena, Magdė (Lithuania)

Magnar, Magnhild (Norway)

Bogusława, Maksymilian, Maria Magdalena, Teodor, Teodozja (Poland)

Teodosia (România)

Vilma (Slovakia)

Maximino (Spain)

Jeanette, Yvonne (Sweden)

Theodora (Ukraine)

Duana, Duane, Duanna, Dwayne, Fitz, Fitzgerald (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 149 of 2024; 216 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 1 of week 22 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Huath (Hawthorn) [Day 15 of 28]

Chinese: Month 4 (Ding-Si), Day 11 (Ding-Hai)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 9 Sivan 5783

Islamic: 9 Dhu al-Qada 1444

J Cal: 27 Bīja; Sixday [27 of 30]

Julian: 16 May 2023

Moon: 70%: Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: 9 St. Paul (6th Month) [Theodosius]

Runic Half Month: Odal (Home, Possession) [Day 4 of 15]

Season: Spring (Day 70 of 90)

Zodiac: Gemini (Day 8 of 32)

#calendar #Holidays

[supertreecollectorfan]

NBC TV premiere of pilot episode of "Police Story", based on Los Angeles Police Dept. Joseph Wambaugh's writings

#today50yearsago

[dawnmarsgeorgiathompson]

Gene Roddenberry

When Roddenberry pitched Star Trek to MGM, it was warmly received, but no offer was made. He then went to Desilu Productions, but rather than being offered a one-script deal, he was hired as a producer and allowed to work on his own projects. His first was a half-hour pilot called Police Story (not to be confused with the anthology series created by Joseph Wambaugh), which was not picked up by the networks. Having not sold a pilot in five years, Desilu was having financial difficulties; its only success was The Lucy Show.[53] Roddenberry took the Star Trek idea to Oscar Katz, head of programming, and the duo immediately started work on a plan to sell the series to the networks. They took it to CBS, which ultimately passed on it. The duo later learned that CBS had been eager to find out about Star Trek because it had a science fiction series in development, Lost in Space. Roddenberry and Katz next took the idea to Mort Werner at NBC, this time downplaying the science fiction elements and highlighting the links to Gunsmoke and Wagon Train. The network funded three story ideas and selected "The Menagerie", which was later known as "The Cage", to be made into a pilot. (The other two later became episodes of the series.) While most of the money for the pilot came from NBC, the remaining costs were covered by Desilu. Roddenberry hired Dorothy Fontana, better known as D. C. Fontana, as his assistant. They had worked together previously on The Lieutenant, and she had eight script credits to her name.

Roddenberry developed several possible scripts, including "Mudd's Women", "The Omega Glory", and with the help of Samuel Peeples,

On May 24, the first episode of the Star Trek series went into production avoid losing potential income. Roddenberry corresponded with science fiction writer Isaac Asimov about how to address the issue of Spock's growing popularity and the possibility that his character would overshadow Kirk. Asimov suggested having Kirk and Spock work together as a team "to get people to think of Kirk when they think of Spock." The series was renewed by NBC, first for a full season's order, and then for a second season. An article in the Chicago Tribune quoted studio executives as stating that the letter-writing campaign had been wasted because they had already been planning to renew Star Trek.

[macrolit]

Literary history that happened on 22 January

#january 22 #literary history #literary #history #literature #on this date #lord byron #d.h. lawrence #august strindberg #joseph wambaugh

[oldshowbiz]

The many police dramas of Joseph Wambaugh.

#joseph wambaugh #lapd #cops

[hellyeahgeorgekennedy]

George Kennedy in The Blue Knight (1975)

#george kennedy #the blue knight #hollywood #old hollywood #classic television #70s tv #cop shows #1975 #bumper morgan #joseph wambaugh

[contac]

#joseph wambaugh #fugitive nights #jeep #vhs #1993 #aesthetic #gif #animated gif

[halloweenvalentine1997]

The gardener was a thief The trials didn’t bother him so much anymore He just went to court then went back to his gardening he wore the sun He hated dark places, hated the night he was always glad to see the daylight come pretty blue juniper November sun I used to remember But so many things were slipping away so hard to remember the street the red arrow an indefinable glimmer The pain was spreading like fingers of blood pulsing clear through his eyes cement drills and crimes he could remember what eluded him the gardener shower of grass in his face in the field the crimes he had committed overshadowed all else

a blackout poem using Joseph Wambaugh’s The Onion Field

Vivica Salem. 

#poetry #blackout poetry #joseph wambaugh

[schlock-luster-video]

Today in neo-noir crime film history: on January 22, 1981 The Onion Field debuted in Finland.

Here's a portrait of James Woods!

#the onion field #harold becker #joseph wambaugh #true crime movies #neonoir #neonoir film #70s movies #crime drama #70s crime drama #70s neonoir #crime film #crime movies #pen drawing #movie art #art #drawing #movie history #pop art #modern art #pop surrealism #portrait #cult movies #cult film