June 6
Better Than News
Soprano Todd: The Barber-Surgeon of Fleet Street is a 2007 American barbershop quartet medical slasher film starring Johnny Depp.
The World is Better Off Dead is an teen black comedy spy film directed by Michael Apted and Savage Steve Holland, starring John Cusack, Pierce Brosnan, David Ogden Stiers, Sophie Marceau, Diane Franklin, Denise Richards, Kim Darby, and Judi Dench.
The Bourne Late Fee is an action film about a CIA librarian who suffers from amnesia.
The Way We Once Were Warriors is a romantic drama film about a political activist (Barbra Streisand) and a feckless writer (Robert Redford) who move from America to New Zealand, where they meet an urban Māori family troubled by alcoholism and domestic violence.
Cetacea Grand Hotel is an underwater hotel owned and operated by whales for human guests.
Hammocks for Humanity is a documentary television series hosted by Jimmy Carter and Hank Scorpio.
Beyond Plausible
"Skull's Out" is a lost song by Alice Cooper.
Under the Natural Born Skinners is a science fiction crime horror film starring Scarlett Johansson, Woody Harrellson, and Juliette Lewis. Director: Jonathan Glazer and Oliver Stone.
In Other Words
Are You Sure
... that mathematician, astronomer, and bishop Johann Regiomontanus was instrumental in the development of Copernican heliocentrism in the decades following Copernicus' death?
Selected Anniversaries
1436: Mathematician, astronomer, and bishop Johann Regiomontanus born. His contributions will be instrumental in the development of Copernican heliocentrism in the decades following his death.
1844: The Glaciarium, the world's first mechanically frozen ice rink, opens in London.
1857: Mathematician and physicist Aleksandr Lyapunov born. Lyapunov will contribute to several fields, including differential equations, potential theory, dynamical systems and probability theory. His main preoccupations will be the stability of equilibria and the motion of mechanical systems, and the study of particles under the influence of gravity.
1943: Chemist and academic Richard Smalley born. Along with colleagues Robert Curl and Harold Kroto, he will win the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of a new form of carbon, buckminsterfullerene, also known as buckyballs.
2017: In a press statement, Pin Man says he was "constructed by Colonel Zersetzung from the flayed skin of a notorious data thief."
Topic of the Day
Sparta
Full Metal 300 is a historical war drama film written and directed by Stanley Kubrick and Zach Snyder.
The Phantom of Sparta is an epic musical historical action romance film directed by Zack Snyder and Joel Schumacher which tells the story of Erik of Sparta (Gerard Butler), a masked, reclusive warlord.
The Madness of Leonidas is a revisionist historical drama film starring Gerard Butler which conflates Leonidas I of Sparta with his predecessor, Cleomenes I.
