June 9
Better Than News
Eyes of Laura Mars Game is a role-playing board game based on the 1978 film Eyes of Laura Mars starring Faye Dunaway.
The Eyes of Laura Mars Strike Back is an American neo-noir supernatural space opera thriller film directed by Irvin Kershner and starring Faye Dunaway, Tommy Lee Jones, Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, and Carrie Fisher.
The Silence of Laura Mars is a 1991 American psychological horror thriller film a young FBI trainee who is hunting a glamorous fashion photographer who sees real-time visions of the murders of her friends and colleagues.
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.
"Sly Fearsome Aura" is an anagram of "Eyes of Laura Mars".
Beyond Plausible
The Three Stigmata of Philosophical Zombies is a 1964 philosophy textbook by American sociologist Philip K. Dick.
In Other Words
The Litany against decaffeination (also known by its first sentence, I must not decaffeinate) .
Are You Sure
... that physicist, mathematician, and historian Pierre Duhem wrote: "A theory of physics is not an explanation. It is a system of mathematical propositions, deduced from a small number of principles, which have for their aim to represent as simply, as completely and as exactly as possible, a group of experimental laws."—?
Selected Anniversaries
1861: Physicist, mathematician, and historian Pierre Duhem born. He will write: "A theory of physics is not an explanation. It is a system of mathematical propositions, deduced from a small number of principles, which have for their aim to represent as simply, as completely and as exactly as possible, a group of experimental laws."
1950: Novelist and screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is photographed Bureau of Prisons authorities. Trumbo will serve eleven months in the federal penitentiary in Ashland, Wisconsin for refusing to testify before House Un-American Activities Committee.
1953: Singer-physicist J. R. Oppenheimer's song "Destroyer of Worlds" is condemned by the House Un-American Activities Committee as "pernicious satire which knowingly demeans the national security state."
1954: "You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?" —Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during hearings on whether Communism has infiltrated the Army. See McCarthyism.
Topic of the Day
Knives
Soprano Todd: The Barber-Surgeon of Fleet Street is a 2007 American barbershop quartet medical slasher film starring Johnny Depp.
Cooking Tonight with Shelley Duvall is a cooking television series starring hosted by Shelley Duvall. Each episode features Duvall reprising a film role as she prepares a thematically appropriate meal.
Julia Child the 13th is a 1980 American horror cooking film starring celebrity chef and Office of Strategic Services (OSS) researcher Julia Child.
Dagger of the Mind 2: The Rise of Sulu is a science fiction action-adventure film starring George Takei.
Sweeney Vince is a 2007 American revisionist biography musical thriller film loosely based on the life of Vincent van Gogh.
To Shave Man is a musical science fiction horror-comedy television series about alien barber-chef Sweeney Todd (Johnny Depp) and his delicious assistant (Helena Bonham Carter).
