August 17
Better Than News
Six Degreasers of Kevin Bacon is a 1982 American documentary film about dishwashing and kitchen cleanup narrated by Kevin "Six Degrees" Bacon.
The Floating Nun is an American religion-aviation sitcom about Sister Bertrille (Sally Field), a balloon vendor who seeks God in the sky.
A Field Guide to Edible Theropods is a book about preparing, cooking, serving, and eating various theropods.
The Wizard of Aliens is a 1986 American science fiction horror adventure film. Plot: When a solar tornado rips through the space ship Nostromo, Dorothy (Sigourney Weaver) and her cat, Jones, are whisked away in their survival pod to the magical land of Oz.
Love in the Age of Muttonchops is a short documentary film about writer, scientist, and alleged time-traveler Isaac Asimov.
Beyond Plausible
Hovering Hearts Conjugal Hotel provides intimate aerial meeting places for elevated erotic encounters. Shown here: Two BASE jumpers fly-falling to a daring aerial tryst on a gravity-free heart bed.
In Other Words
Eel-de-France is an annual eel race across France.
Are You Sure
... that the Coriolis Force Modern Dance Company is a modern dance collective based in New Minneapolis, Canada which choreographs and performs original works relating to the coriolis effect?
Selected Anniversaries
1807: Robert Fulton's North River Steamboat leaves New York City for Albany, New York, on the Hudson River, inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world.
1927: Mathematician Erik Ivar Fredholm dies. He introduced and analyzed a class of integral equations now called Fredholm equations. Fredholm's work on integral equations and operator theory anticipated the theory of Hilbert spaces.
1929: Captain and pilot Francis Gary Powers born.
1970: Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 launched from Earth. It will become the first successful soft landing on another planet (Venus).
2017: The GW170817 gravitational wave signal is observed by the LIGO/Virgo collaboration. It is the first gravitational wave event observed to have a simultaneous electromagnetic signal, a significant breakthrough for multi-messenger astronomy.
Topic of the Day
Robert De Niro
Raging Casino is an American biographical sports gambling film written and directed by Martin Scorsese.
The Wolf of Comedy is an American biographical film written and directed by Martin Scorsese about Rupert Pupkin (Robert De Niro), a Wall Street stock broker engaged in rampant corruption and fraud who escapes into a drug-fueled fantasy world where he kidnaps his childhood comedy idol Jerry Lewis.
Midnight Heart is an American neo-noir horror-comedy buddy film about the mysterious financier Louis Cyphre (Robert De Niro), who hires a criminal accountant known only as The Duke (Charles Grodin) to investigate the disappearance of a man known as Eddie Moscone. In a cross-country chase, Cyphre must deceive the authorities, exterminate the mob, and provoke The Duke into committing a series of horrific murders.
We're No Goodfellas is a 1989 American biographical crime drama film about a disillusioned crime boss (Robert De Niro) and an idealistic young Catholic priest (Sean Penn) who trade places.
The Irisman is a 2019 American epic crime drama ophthalmology training film by Martin Scorsese about an ophthalmologist (Robert De Niro) who becomes a hitman.
Angel Heat is a 1995 American supernatural crime drama film about the conflict between an LAPD exorcist (Al Pacino) and a private investigator (Mickey Rourke) who works for demons, while also depicting the consequences of worldwide spiritual crisis.
The Irisman is a 2019 American epic crime drama film which follows Frank Sheeran (Robert De Niro), a floral truck driver who becomes a hitman involved with mobster florist Russell Bufalino (Joe Pesci) and his crime family, including his time working for Jimmy Hoffa (Al Pacino), head of the powerful Florist's Union.
Alien Heart is a 1987 American neo-noir science fiction horror film about Harry Angel (Sigourney Weaver), a New York City private investigator, who is hired by a mysterious UFO researcher (Robert De Niro) to investigate the disappearance of an alien organism known Johnny Nostromo. Her investigation takes her to low Earth orbit, where she becomes embroiled in a series of brutal face huggings.
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