March 8
Better Than News
Birdman 2: Escape from Alcatraz is an American black comedy-drama biographical film directed by John Frankenheimer and Alejandro Iñárritu, starring Burt Lancaster and Michael Keaton.
The One-Time Pad and How to Use It is a 1966 comedy-cryptography film about a shy bachelor (Brian Bedford) asks his best friend (James Tarentino) to keep him company during his first date in his apartment with the girl he met at a cryptography conference and fell in love with.
Forced Perspective is an optical illusion comedy-thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
Playskool's My First Nuclear Football 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.
"Many are small but few are bosons" is a popular catch-phrase in high energy physics.
Matrix of Theseus is a 1999 dystopian science fiction philosophy lecture narrated by Keanu Reeves.
Someone Left Robert Goulet Out In the Rain is a short documentary film about the song MacArthur Park.
Beyond Plausible
Frankenstein is a murder mystery novel by Agatha Christie, the first in her Mary Shelley Mystery Series.
Prince of Seltzer is an American science fiction horror-comedy film starring the Three Stooges and directed by John Carpenter.
X Marks the Sputnik is a 2021 documentary film about a treasure map allegedly hidden in the Sputnik 1 satellite.
How to Marry a Vermillionaire is a 1953 American romantic color theory film about a trio of money hungry chromatographers who rent a luxurious Sutton Place penthouse in New York City, planning to use the apartment to attract rich investors and corner the market on the color red.
The Old Couple is an American sitcom television series starring Tony Randall as Felix Unger and Jack Klugman as Oscar Madison.
In Other Words
Squash is a psychological horror film about a small-town mayor dressed as a squash who traps a Hollywood plastic surgeon in a maze of sadistic vegetable games.
"Jell-O Submarine" is a song by the British rock group and catering group The Beatles.
Are You Sure
• ... that chemist and academic Otto Hahn pioneered the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry, winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1944 for the discovery and the radiochemical proof of nuclear fission; and that after World War II, Hahn became a passionate campaigner against the use of nuclear energy as a weapon?
• ... that Bane Capital is a legal thriller film about a renegade aerospace engineer (Tom Hardy) who blackmails Gotham City into issuing municipal bonds for the upgrade of aging runways at Gotham City International Airport?
Topic of the Day
Personal hygiene
Clean-shaven two-headed men. You ever think about that?
Knights of the Old Spice Republic is an RPG video game series based Old Spice products and set in the fictional universe of Star Wars by George Lucas and Procter & Gamble.
The Mystery of Geraldo Rivera's Shaving Kit is a reality television series starring Geraldo Rivera.
Down to the Quick is an erotic lunchbox fetish novel for young adults in the Salty MacTavish After-Lunch Mystery series.
Forbidden Manicure is a beauty school and safe house for criminal nail technicians on the run.
Billy Madison 2: America is Best is a 2021 political comedy film starring Adam Sandler as Donald Trump.