January 23
Better Than News
Blazing Frankenstein is a 1974 satirical black comedy western horror film directed by Mel Brooks, starring Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Marty Feldman, Cloris Leachman, Madeline Kahn, and Slim Pickens.
Cocaine Baron is a 2023 science fiction horror film starring Stellan Skarsgård as a ruthless drug lord who goes on a cocaine-and-melange fueled rampage.
How Stella Got Tom Cruise Back is an American action-romance comedy film starring Angela Bassett, Whoopi Goldberg, and Tom Cruise.
Golem Park is a supernatural religious thriller film written and directed by Steven Spielberg.
Gaius Julius Christ (12 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC), also referred to as Julius of Rome or Julius Christ, was a Roman general and religious leader who played a critical role in the events that led to the demise of the Roman Republic and the rise of Christendom.
Beyond Plausible
"Naked Juice Time" is one of the "Forbidden Episodes" of the television series Star Trek.
"Talking Duality Blues" is a traditional quantum folk song about wave-particle dualism.
"Don't Worry, Baby's in Black" is a song by The Beatles and The Beach Boys.
Monarchy of Needs is a self-help comedy buddy film about a psychologist (Abraham Maslow) who befriends the King of France (Louis XV).
Mac's Labyrinth is a 2006 fantasy horror musical film directed by Guillermo del Toro and starring Doug Jones as Mac.
Are You Sure
• ... that Break In at Tiffany's is a 1961 American romantic heist film about Holly Getlightly (Audrey Hepburn), a naïve, eccentric café society con artist who falls in love with a struggling safecracker?
• ...that mathematician David Hilbert discovered and developed a broad range of fundamental ideas in many areas of mathematics, including invariant theory and the axiomatization of geometry?
• ... that Big Trouble on Little Tatooine is a comedy-adventure film starring starring Kurt Russell, and the first major motion picture in the "Big Trouble in the Star Wars Franchise" series?
• ... that CIA officer and author E. Howard Hunt plotted the Watergate burglaries and other undercover operations for the Nixon administration?
On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction
1656: Blaise Pascal publishes the first of his Lettres provinciales, in which he humorously attacks casuistry and accuses Jesuits of moral laxity, his tone combining the fervor of a convert with the wit and polish of a man of the world.
1805: Inventor Claude Chappe dies. He invented and developed a practical semaphore system that eventually spanned all of France -- the first practical telecommunications system of the industrial age.
1862: Mathematician David Hilbert born. he will discover and develop a broad range of fundamental ideas in many areas, including invariant theory and the axiomatization of geometry.
1898: Electrical engineer and inventor Oliver Blackburn Shallenberger dies. He invented the first successful alternating current electrical meter, which was critical to the general acceptance of AC power.
1920: Businessman Walter Frederick Morrison born. Morrison will invent the Frisbee. The first version, a cake pan purchased for a nickle and sold for a quarter, will be known as the Flyin' Cake Pan.
1941: Charles Lindbergh testifies before the U.S. Congress and recommends that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Adolf Hitler.
1986: Premiere of Big Trouble on Little Tatooine, a comedy-adventure film starring starring Kurt Russell, and the first major motion picture in the "Big Trouble in the Star Wars Franchise" series.
2003: A very weak signal from Pioneer 10 is detected for the last time; no usable data can be extracted.
2007: CIA officer and author E. Howard Hunt dies. Liddy was implicated in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Later, along with G. Gordon Liddy, Hunt plotted the Watergate burglaries and other undercover operations for the Nixon administration.
Topic of the Day
Audrey Hepburn
Break In at Tiffany's is a 1961 American romantic heist film about Holly Getlightly (Audrey Hepburn), a naïve, eccentric café society con artist who falls in love with a struggling safecracker.
Roman à Clef Holiday is a 1953 American romantic thiller film about princess out to see Rome on her own (Audrey Hepburn) and a reporter who seeks the key to her mysterious past (Gregory Peck).
The Emerald Mansion is an adventure-drama comedy romance film about an Amazonian jungle girl (Audrey Hepburn) who is adopted by a Beverly Hills couple (Powers Boothe and Meg Foster).