December 15
Better Than News
"The Entertainer Within": A transporter malfunction splits Captain Kirk into David Bowie and Bing Crosby. (Star Trek: Forbidden Episodes.)
"Southern Cross Man" is a song by Young, Crosby, Stills and Nash.
Mozart in a Klein Bottle is a science fiction period biographical drama film loosely based on the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Moriarty on the Bounty is a 1962 American adventure detective film starring Marlon Brando as Sherlock Holmes and Richard Harris as Professor Moriarty.
My Three Indemnities is a crime thriller comedy-romance film starring Barbara Stanwick and Fred MacMurray.
There Will Be Hugs is a 2007 historical romantic comedy film about a ruthless oil prospector turned Hollywood producer (Daniel Day-Lewis) who falls in love with a strong-minded starlet (Reese Witherspoon).
"I Stockholm That Emotion" is a song by Smokey Robinson and the Miracles.
Where's Jar Jar? is a 1970 American black comedy film about the troubled relationship between a lawyer (Jar Jar Binks) and his senile mother (Ruth Gordon), who keeps interfering with his love life.
Crushed by an Angel is an American television series about an angel named Monica and her atheistic supervisor Tess. Throughout the series, Monica is tasked with bringing secular humanism to various people who are at a crossroads in their lives.
Beyond Plausible
"Sally Field Forever" is a lost song by The Beatles.
The Way We Once Were Warriors is a dramatic love story about an idealistic political activist (Barbra Streisand) and a feckless writer (Robert Redford) who move from America to New Zealand, where they meet an urban Māori family troubled by alcoholism and domestic violence.
Being Bruce Wayne is a surrealist fantasy comedy superhero film starring John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener, and Michael Keaton.
In Other Words
The Adventures of Professor Lagniappe is an adventure novel by OrbGazer about a New Orleans merchant who is secret Professor Lagniappe, who delights in arranging for children to receive small gifts after they make a purchase.
There is No Bad Coffee. Only coffee and not coffee.
Are You Sure
• ... that engineer George Cayley (27 December 1773 – 15 December 1857) conducted pioneering research in aeronautics, investigating and codifying the dynamics of flight?
• Hellcuppa is a 1987 British supernatural horror film about a mystical coffee cup which summons the Cenobites, a group of extra-dimensional, sadomasochistic beings who cannot differentiate between caffeinated and decaffeinated?
Selected Anniversaries
1791: The United States Bill of Rights becomes law when ratified by the Virginia General Assembly.
1802: Mathematician and academic János Bolyai born. He will be one of the founders of non-Euclidean geometry.
1832: Engineer Gustave Eiffel born. He will design the world-famous Eiffel Tower.
1836: A fire at the U.S. Patent Office destroys all 10,000 patents and several thousand related patent models.
1857: Engineer George Cayley dies. He did pioneering work in aeronautics, investigating and codifying the dynamics of flight.
1958: Theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli dies. Pauli received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his "decisive contribution through his discovery of a new law of Nature, the exclusion principle or Pauli principle".
1970: Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 successfully lands on Venus. It is the first successful soft landing on another planet.
2000: The third reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down.
Topic of the Day
Cubes
Hellcuber is a 1987 British geometry horror film about a haunted Rubik's cube which summons the Cenobites, a group of extra-dimensional, sadomasochistic mathematicians who cannot differentiate between proofs and conjectures.
"I Guess That's Why They Call It The Borg" is a song English singer-songwriter Elton John 1.1.
Moon Cube is Okay is a 2022 coming-of-age film about a Chinese lunar rover (Yutu-2) which discovers a mysterious cube-like object on the moon.