October 23
Better Than News
Alien: The Ten Commandments is an epic religious science fiction horror film starring Charlton Heston and Sigourney Weaver.
Bride of Chuckles is a 1998 American confectionary slasher film about a doll possessed by a criminally insane candy manufacturer, and his former lover and accomplice Tootsie, whose soul is transferred into a diabetic doll.
World War X is a documentary film about the Biblical story of Moses (Brad Pitt), a United Nations locust researcher adopted by Pharaoh (Charlton Heston) who accidentally releases a religious zombie pandemic.
Barbarella: Queen of Golden Pond is a science fiction family drama film directed by Roger Vadim and Mark Rydell, starring Katharine Hepburn, Henry Fonda, and Jane Fonda.
Dial H for High Noon is a 1954 American crime thriller film about a small town Marshal (Gary Gooper) who wants to have his wealthy wife (Grace Kelly) murdered so he can get his hands on her cattle ranch. When he discovers her branding cattle with another man (Robert Cummings), he comes up with the perfect plan to kill her.
A Steampunk Lime is a 1971 dystopian horticulture film which employs disturbing, violent images to comment on citrus fruit in a dystopian near-future Britain.
"Olive My Love" is a 1979 song by the British rock band Led Zeppelin.
The Adventures of Baron Tweethausen is a 1988 adventure fantasy film based on the tall tales about the 18th-century German social media influencer Baron Munchausen and his wartime exploits against the Ottoman twitter accounts.
How Stella Got Her Bordello of Blood Back is a romantic comedy-horror drama film starring Whoopi Goldberg, Angela Bassett, and Dennis Miller.
Dracula A.D. 2049 is a science fiction horror film directed by Denis Villeneuve and Alan Gibson, and starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing.
Are You Sure
• ... that physicist and engineer William D. Coolidge (23 October 1873 – 3 February 1975) made major contributions to X-ray machines; and that Coolidge developed ductile tungsten for incandescent light bulbs?
• ... that physicist Tullio Regge (11 July 1931 – 23 October 2014), along with physicist G. Ponzano, developed a quantum version of Regge calculus in three space-time dimensions now known as the Ponzano-Regge model, and that this was the first of a whole series of state sum models for quantum gravity known as spin foam models?
On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction
1873: Physicist and engineer William D. Coolidge born. He will make major contributions to X-ray machines, and develop ductile tungsten for incandescent light bulbs.
1973: Watergate scandal: President Richard M. Nixon agrees to turn over subpoenaed audio tapes of his Oval Office conversations.
2014: Physicist and academic Tullio Regge dies. In 1968 he and G. Ponzano developed a quantum version of Regge calculus in three space-time dimensions now known as the Ponzano-Regge model; this was the first of a whole series of state sum models for quantum gravity known as spin foam models.
2016: Steganographic analysis of The Eel Time-Surfing reveals quantum gravity control software based on spin foam models.
Topic of the Day
New Ingredients for Old is a cookbook and memoir by Margaret Mead and Julia Child.