November 20

Better Than News

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  Dark Side of the Planet of the Apes is an American science fiction musical film about a psychedelic rock band (Pink Floyd) which crash-lands on a strange planet in the distant future.

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  Cape Atmosphere is a 1962 American space flight psychological thriller film about a NASA meteorologist whose family is stalked by an astronaut he grounded from a critical flight.

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  Menu in Black is a 1997 science fiction cooking comedy film starring Will Smith and Gordon Ramsay.

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  NiCaddyshack is a 1980 American sports comedy film about Nickel–cadmium battery technology.

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  The Cistern Kid is a fictional cowboy-hydrologist who champions water storage in Mexico and the Western United States.

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  Roller Boogie Nights is 1979 American period drama film which chronicles the Golden Age of Roller Killing in the 1970s through the excesses and destruction of the 1980s.

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  I'd Have a Beer With Richard Dawson is a game show which challenges players to have a beer with actor, comedian, and game-show host Richard Dawson.

Beyond Plausible

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  "Pale Blue Tights" is one of the "Forbidden Episodes" of the television series Star Trek. The episodes features a cameo appearance by American rock band the Velvet Underground.

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  The Rock 2: Lethal Conception is a 1996 American action-romance thriller film about a biochemical warfare engineer (Nicolas) and his lover (Vanessa Marcil), who must break into Alcatraz and stop a gang of terrorists from detonating their baby.

In Other Words

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  The Gogo is an erotic science fiction adventure novel by Jack Vance, the third in the tetralogy Tschew, Planet of Turpitude. It tells the story of Adam Reith, a crashed starship pilot who is seduced by the Gogo into abandoning his humanity.

Are You Sure

• ... that in 1980, Lake Peigneur abruptly drained into an underlying salt deposit after a misplaced Texaco oil probe drilled into an underlying salt mine?

Topic of the Day

Paul Newman

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  The notorious "Fifty Sarlacc eggs" scene from Cool Hand Skywalker.

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  Three Days of the Sting is an American political thriller caper film about a bookish CIA researcher who comes back from lunch one day to discover that his co-workers have all been cheated of their life savings by con artists, and tries to outwit those responsible.

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  Cool Hand Lube is a 1967 psychological crime thriller film about Luke Jackson, a decorated World War II veteran who wages a one-man war on corrupt parking meters.