August 11

Better Than News

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  Live and Let a Clockwork Orange Die is a dystopian spy thriller film based on the novel of the same name by Anthony Burgess and Ian Fleming.

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  Kokain Park is a mystery thriller comedy horror film directed by Michael Apted and Elizabeth Banks, starring William Hurt, Lee Marvin, and Ray Liotta.

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  "A Taste of Money" is a song by The Pinkles from their album The Dark Side of the Beat.

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  The Man Who Fell to Montessori is a 1976 British science fiction educational film directed by Nicolas Roeg about an extraterrestrial (David Bowie) who crash lands on Earth seeking a way to ship water to his planet, which is suffering from a severe drought, but finds himself at the mercy of human educational systems and standardized testing.

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  SkyNet Xenobot Snacks is a brand of self-replicating snack food manufactured and distributed by the Greater Sol System Co-Prosperity Sphere.

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  Stochastic Paladin is an American Western magical reality television series about an investigator-gunfighter calling himself "Paladin" (Richard Boone) who travels around the Internet causing unsuspecting strangers to experience serendipity.

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  N for NFT is a 1973 docudrama film by Orson Welles. about Elmyr de Hory, a professional NFT forger; de Hory's story serves as the backdrop for a meandering investigation of the natures of authorship and authenticity, as well as the basis of the value of art.

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  Dungeons & Collins is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game set to the music of Phil Collins.

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  Fawn With the Wind is a 1939 American film set in the American South against the backdrop of the American Civil War and the Reconstruction era which tells the story of fawn, a light yellowish tan color.

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  Den Overraskende Veludstyrede Lille Kanonbåd ("The Surprisingly Well-Equipped Small Gunboat") is a story by Danish author and military historiographer Hans Christian Andersen.

Beyond Plausible

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  Two and Half Rings is a comedy horror television series starring Amber Tamblyn and Charlie Sheen.

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  The Sixth Egg is a 1999 American black comedy foodie thriller film about a celebrity psychologist (Gordon Ramsay) who uses radical cooking therapy with an unstable young chef (Donnie Wahlberg).

In Other Words

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  J. Edgar Unchained is an American revisionist Western biographical drama film starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Jamie Foxx.

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  A Clockwork Orange is the New Black is a dystopian comedy-drama television series about life in a prison gang starring Kate Mulgrew and Malcolm McDowell.

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  Brokeback Maverick is an neo-Western action-adventure romantic drama film starring Tom Cruise, Miles Teller, Heath Ledger, and Jake Gyllenhaal.

Are You Sure

• ... that physician and astrologer Richard Mead was involved in the creation of a new charity, the Foundling Hospital, both as a founding governor and as an advisor on all things medical; and that, while the Foundling Hospital was a home for abandoned children rather than a medical hospital, the Foundling was equipped with both a sick room and a pharmacy through Dr. Mead's involvement?

• ... that Playskool's My First Nuclear Football (code named P-MFNF, commonly "Pee-Miff-Niff") is 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?

Topic of the Day

The Elephant Man

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  Willy Wonka and the Elephant Man is an American drama film starring Gene Wilder and John Hurt.

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  Water for Elephant Men is an American drama film starring Reese Witherspoon and John Hurt.

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  Elephant's Eleven is an American crime drama film about a mysterious masked man (John Hurt) who compels eleven strangers to rob casinos.

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  Elephant is a 1956 American epic Western drama film starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, and John Hurt.