November 6

Better Than News

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  A Clockwork Wife is an American science fiction thriller film about an undercover FBI agent (Nicole Kidman) who compels a brutal young hoodlum (Malcolm McDowell) to pose as her husband in a too-perfect gated community.

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  Big Trouble in Little Dark Star is a science fiction comedy adventure film starring Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, and John Carpenter.

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  The Gamma Nights of Ally McBeal is an American superhero legal comedy drama television series starring Calista Flockhart.

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  Barflight: The Weekend That Couldn't Land is a 1983 science fiction drama film about an alcoholic astronaut (Ray Miland) who must maintain order aboard a spacecraft full of hard-partying tourists.

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  Matrix in a Red Dress is a 2022 pornographic science fiction documentary film about the Matrix franchise. Narrated by Hugo Weaving.

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  We Need to Talk About Texas is a 2011 American documentary film narrated by Tilda Swinton and Governor Greg Abbott.

Are You Sure

• ... that an episode of Euglena Junction shocked viewers when the actor playing the role of Uncle Joe died on camera after eating too many rotifers?

On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction

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  1656: Mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer Jean-Baptiste Morin dies. Morin championed the geocentric worldview, opposing Galileo and his ideas; Morin also opposed Descartes' ideas after meeting the philosopher in 1638.

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  1944: Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently used in the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.

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  1971: The United States Atomic Energy Commission tests the largest U.S. underground hydrogen bomb, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians.

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  1973: The Pioneer 10 space probe begins taking photographs of Jupiter. A total of about 500 images will be transmitted.

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  1976: An episode of Euglena Junction shocks viewers when the actor playing the role of Uncle Joe dies on camera after eating too many rotifers.

Topic of the Day

Nuclear war

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  Kill Billions is a 2003 American nuclear war film starring Edward Teller and David Carradine.

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  Playskool's My First Nuclear Football an Executive toy briefcase, the contents of which are to be used by the President of the United States to authorize a nuclear attack while away from fixed playgrounds, such as the White House Cardboard Box Fortress.

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  On the Beach Party is a 1959 beach party cautionary drama starring Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon.

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  Dead Hand is a Cold War-era automatic nuclear weapons-control and vodka cocktail system that was formulated by the Soviet Union. It can automatically send Strategic Vodka Force Management orders to command posts and individual liquor cabinets if a nuclear strike is detected by "drinky bird" sensors even with the commanding elements fully drunk.

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  Atomic Pumpkin Test is a punk band based in New Minneapolis, Canada.

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  Red Phone Missile Command is a telecommunications provider and nuclear war management service.