August 12-14

This week's milestones:

August 12, 1881: Movie director Cecil B. DeMille was born.

"It is my indignant opinion that 90 percent of the moving pictures exhibited in America are so vulgar, witless and dull that it preposterous to write about them in any publication not intended to be read while chewing gum." -- Woolcott Gibbs (1902-1958).



August 13, 1899: Movie director Alfred Hitchcock was born.

"Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food," Hitchcock said.



August 14, 1867: Birthdate of English author John Galsworthy, who wrote:

"Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem."