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Shadow of the Vampire opens wide in U.S. theaters (2001). Directed by E. Elias Merhige and written by Steven Katz, the film is a fictional retelling of the making of the classic horror feature Nosferatu by director F. W. Murnau. In the film, the crew begins to suspect that their lead actor, Max Schreck, is less lively than he appears.

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Scott Glenn is born (1942). Scott played astronaut Alan Shepard in Philip Kaufman's acclaimed The Right Stuff (1983) and FBI Agent Jack Crawford in the Academy Award-winning mystery-thriller The Silence of the Lambs (1991). His other credits include The Hunt for Red October (1990), the supernatural Nazi thriller The Keep (1983), and the made-for-television Gargoyles (1972). Scott was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Philip Jose Farmer is born (1918). Philip Jose Farmer's inventive imagination has given birth to a number of fascinating concepts throughout his long writing career. His most famous work is perhaps the Riverworld series. The first short stories in the series were blended into the novel To Your Scattered Bodies Go (1971), which won the Hugo. A made-for-television movie of Riverworld was produced for the SCI FI Channel.

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