September 10

Better Than News

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  When Harvey Met Sally... is American comedy-drama film about a man (James Stewart) whose best friend is an invisible rabbit, and the ensuing debacle when his girlfriend (Meg Ryan) tries to have him committed to a sanatorium.

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  The Godfather Must Be Crazy is an epic comedy crime film directed by Jamie Uys and Francis Ford Coppola, starring Nǃxau ǂToma and Marlon Brando.

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  Brief Encounters of the Third Kind is a British-American science fiction film about two strangers who have an affair during a UFO event.

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  The "Urine in rain" monologue (also known as the "Sea Breezes Speech") is a 42-word monologue, consisting of the last words of character Roy Batty (portrayed by Rutger Hauer) in the 1982 Ridley Scott-directed public service documentary film Bar Hopper.

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  "Don't Worry, Baby's in Black" is a song by The Beatles and The Beach Boys.

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  The Adulteration of Bergamot is a lost erotic novel by Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey.

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  Levity's Rainbow is a 2021 novel by Thomas Pynchon about Nazi Germany's efforts to develop an intercontinental ballistic comedian.

Beyond Plausible

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  The William Tell Aperture is a lost section from Gioachino Rossini's overture to the opera William Tell.

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  Dr. Spicelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bene Gesserit is a 1964 black comedy epic science fiction film directed by Stanley Kubrick and David Lynch. It is loosely based on the 1958 novel Family Atomics by Peter George and Frank Herbert.

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  Dollarsaurus piñatus is a species of dinosaur known only from fossilized piñatas.

In Other Words

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  Cocaine Blob is a science fiction horror film directed by Elizabeth Banks and Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr., starring Steve McQueen and Ray Liotta.

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  The Weather in Mordor is a fantasy weather television news station.

Are You Sure

... that the play A Streetcar Named Annette by Tennessee Williams 1.1 is loosely based on the novel The Grifters by Jim Thompson?

... that mathematician and philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce has been called "the father of pragmatism"?

Topic of the Day

Drama

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  Planet of the Equus is an American psychological drama film about a psychiatrist who attempts to treat a young man who believes that he has been sent to the future to blind the last horse.

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  The Pon Farr of the Shrew is a comic stage play written and performed by T'Pring of Vulcan, co-starring her husband, William Shatner.

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  Peer Puck, Dansk Detektiv is a Danish police procedural drama television series about a Copenhagen police detective who is secretly the mischievous spirit Puck.

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  A Donna Summer Night's Dream is a lost play by William Shakespeare.

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  The Lord of the Danes is an epic Shakespearean play about a prince of Gondor (Hamlet) whose attempts to exorcise the ghost of his father lead to madness, betrayal, and murder.

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  The Dane in the High Castle is a tragic science fiction play by American sociologist Philip K. Dick.

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  Hamlet is a 1979 science fiction horror film written and directed by Ridley Scott and based on the play of the same name by William Shakespeare.

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  Apex Thespian 2021 American science fiction drama film about an aging actor (Bruce Willis) who stages a secret game of "Hollywood Squares" for nine jaded billionaires.

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  Iphigenia in Dallas is the last of the extant works by the scriptwriter Euripides, best known as the lead author of The Warren Commission Report.

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  The Lemon Party is a 1957 play by Harold Pinter.

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  Ham Omelette is a short order breakfast cafe and Shakespearean playhouse.