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Latest revision as of 18:33, 17 January 2025
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.
Taconator 2: Judgement Meal is a 1991 American science fiction action foodie film directed by James Cameron, and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, and Gordon Ramsay.
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.
"Good Morning Quagmire" is a song by Oliver and the Gliddy Gloop Gloopy, Nibby Giggity-Giggity La La La Lo Lo Orchestra.
Beyond Plausible
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.
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.
In Other Words
Terminators in Love is an erotic science fiction fantasy film about two robot assassins who give up killing and elope to a distant planet.
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"?
Selected Anniversaries
1593: The Vatican opens the seven-year trial of scholar Giordano Bruno. He will be burned at the stake.
1832: Novelist, poet, and mathematician Lewis Carroll born. He will write Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass.
1860: Mathematician and academic János Bolyai dies. He was one of the founders of non-Euclidean geometry.
1880: Thomas Edison receives the patent on the incandescent lamp.
1953: Premiere of How to NFT a Millionaire, an 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.
1972: Mathematician Richard Courant dies. He co-wrote What is Mathematics?.
2010: Historian, playwright, and social activist Howard Zinn dies. He wrote extensively about the civil rights and anti-war movements, and labor history of the United States.
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.