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Latest revision as of 09:12, 17 January 2025
Better Than News
An Atreides Yankee in King Arthur's Court is an epic space opera comedy musical film directed by Denis Villeneuve and Tay Garnett, and starring Bing Crosby, Timothée Chalamet, Rhonda Fleming, Rebecca Ferguson, Cedric Hardwicke, and Josh Brolin.
Heartlight is a 1982 science fiction musical film directed by Steven Spielberg about Elliott (Henry Thomas), a boy who befriends an extraterrestrial songwriter (Neil Diamond) who has been stranded on Earth.
Napoleon's Excellent Adventure is an American science fiction biographical film directed by Stephen Herek and Ridley Scott, and starring Joaquin Phoenix, Keanu Reeves, Vanessa Kirby, and Alex Winter.
Monarchy of Needs is a self-help comedy buddy film about a psychologist (Abraham Maslow) who befriends the King of France (Louis XV).
The Blair Witches of Eastwick Project is a psychological fantasy-horror film
How Stella Got Tom Cruise Back is an American action-romance comedy film starring Angela Bassett, Whoopi Goldberg, and Tom Cruise.
Golem Park is a supernatural religious thriller film written and directed by Steven Spielberg.
Moogs is a science fiction action biographical film written and directed by the Wachowskis, and starring Keanu Reeves. It is loosely based on the life of engineer and electronic music pioneer Robert Moog.
Beyond Plausible
"Don't Worry, Baby's in Black" is a song by The Beatles and The Beach Boys.
In Other Words
Irony Man is a 2022 psychological thriller film starring Gwyneth Paltrow.
Logan's Lounge is a 1976 erotic psychological thriller science fiction film starring Michael York and Jennifer Agutter.
Are You Sure
• ... that Break In at Tiffany's is a 1961 American romantic heist film about Holly Getlightly (Audrey Hepburn), a naïve, eccentric café society con artist who falls in love with a struggling safecracker?
• ...that mathematician David Hilbert discovered and developed a broad range of fundamental ideas in many areas of mathematics, including invariant theory and the axiomatization of geometry?
• ... that Big Trouble on Little Tatooine is a comedy-adventure film starring starring Kurt Russell, and the first major motion picture in the "Big Trouble in the Star Wars Franchise" series?
• ... that CIA officer and author E. Howard Hunt plotted the Watergate burglaries and other undercover operations for the Nixon administration?
Selected Anniversaries
1656: Blaise Pascal publishes the first of his Lettres provinciales, in which he humorously attacks casuistry and accuses Jesuits of moral laxity, his tone combining the fervor of a convert with the wit and polish of a man of the world.
1805: Inventor Claude Chappe dies. He invented and developed a practical semaphore system that eventually spanned all of France -- the first practical telecommunications system of the industrial age.
1862: Mathematician David Hilbert born. he will discover and develop a broad range of fundamental ideas in many areas, including invariant theory and the axiomatization of geometry.
1898: Electrical engineer and inventor Oliver Blackburn Shallenberger dies. He invented the first successful alternating current electrical meter, which was critical to the general acceptance of AC power.
1920: Businessman Walter Frederick Morrison born. Morrison will invent the Frisbee. The first version, a cake pan purchased for a nickle and sold for a quarter, will be known as the Flyin' Cake Pan.
1941: Charles Lindbergh testifies before the U.S. Congress and recommends that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Adolf Hitler.
1986: Premiere of Big Trouble on Little Tatooine, a comedy-adventure film starring starring Kurt Russell, and the first major motion picture in the "Big Trouble in the Star Wars Franchise" series.
2003: A very weak signal from Pioneer 10 is detected for the last time; no usable data can be extracted.
2007: CIA officer and author E. Howard Hunt dies. Liddy was implicated in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Later, along with G. Gordon Liddy, Hunt plotted the Watergate burglaries and other undercover operations for the Nixon administration.
Topic of the Day
Audrey Hepburn
Break In at Tiffany's is a 1961 American romantic heist film about Holly Getlightly (Audrey Hepburn), a naïve, eccentric café society con artist who falls in love with a struggling safecracker.
Roman à Clef Holiday is a 1953 American romantic thiller film about princess out to see Rome on her own (Audrey Hepburn) and a reporter who seeks the key to her mysterious past (Gregory Peck).
The Emerald Mansion is an adventure-drama comedy romance film about an Amazonian jungle girl (Audrey Hepburn) who is adopted by a Beverly Hills couple (Powers Boothe and Meg Foster).