January 27
Better Than News
Touch of Yentl is an American romantic noir musical drama crime film starring Barbra Streisand, Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, and Mandy Patinkin.
Toes of Bridget Fonda is a 1978 American sex education thriller film starring Faye Dunaway and Tommy Lee Jones, and directed by Quentin Tarantino and Irvin Kershner.
Terminators in Love is an erotic science fiction fantasy film about two robot assassins who give up killing and elope to a distant planet.
Fear and Loathing in Barbieland is an American fantasy black comedy adventure film starring Margot Robbie, Johnny Depp, and Benicio del Toro, based on the novel of the same name by Hunter S. Thompson.
The Bourne-Eiger Sanction is a spy thriller film based on the novel The Elements of Sanction by Trevanian and Strunk & White.
Bread Zeppelin is a British-American rock band comprising Led Zeppelin and Bread.
Soylent Tweet is a 1973 American ecological dystopian social media film about the investigation into the murder of a wealthy Twitter influencer, set in a dystopian future of overpopulation, pollution, depleted resources, dying oceans, and year-round humidity, due to the Tweethouse effect.
Beyond Plausible
Forbidden Cosplay of the Bene Gesserit is a 1984 American epic science fiction role playing film about the forbidden love between a dispossessed young aristocrat and his witch-priestess mother.
She Loaves You is a song by the British rock group The Breadles.
"Good Morning Quagmire" is a song by Oliver and the Gliddy Gloop Gloopy, Nibby Giggity-Giggity La La La Lo Lo Orchestra.
In Other Words
"Amanita" is a song by Elton Shaman about the fly agaric mushroom.
Are You Sure
• ... that mathematician and academic János Bolyai was one of the founders of non-Euclidean geometry?
• ... that How to NFT a Millionaire is a 1953 American romantic comedy-NFT film about a trio of money hungry gold diggers who rent a luxurious Sutton Place penthouse in New York City, plan to use the apartment to attract rich non-fungible token investors and draw up contracts with them?
• ... that Howard Zinn (24 August 1922 – 27 January 2010) described himself as "something of an anarchist, something of a socialist. Maybe a democratic socialist."?
• ... that Have You Never Been Kafka is an autobiographical book by Franz Kafka "as told to Olivia Newton-John"?
Topic of the Day
Orson Welles
The Magnificent Amber Bugs is a 1942 American period drama about the declining fortunes of a wealthy Midwestern family and the social changes brought by insects trapped in amber.
Citizen Cane is a 1941 American drama film about a media baron obsessed with candy.