June 9
Better Than News
The Falcon and the Wampa is an epic space opera spy drama film directed by John Schlesinger and Irvin Kershner.
The Eyes of Laura Mars Strike Back is an American neo-noir supernatural space opera thriller film directed by Irvin Kershner and starring Faye Dunaway, Tommy Lee Jones, Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, and Carrie Fisher.
Sneakers in the Park is an American romantic comedy science fiction political thriller film starring Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, and Ben Kingsley.
The Joy of Enigma is a 1972 illustrated manual of erotic enigma machine encryption and decryption activities. "A Gourmet Guide to loving your polyalphabetic machine encryption."
Griftre is a neo-noir spy crime thriller film directed by Stephen Frears and Sam Mendes, starring Daniel Craig, John Cusack, Anjelica Huston, and Annette Bening.
Get Helena Bonham Carter is a 1971 British crime film starring Michael Caine and Helena Bonham Carter.
Beyond Plausible
The Three Stigmata of Philosophical Zombies is a 1964 philosophy textbook by American sociologist Philip K. Dick.
In Other Words
The Litany against decaffeination (also known by its first sentence, I must not decaffeinate) .
Are You Sure
... that physicist, mathematician, and historian Pierre Duhem wrote: "A theory of physics is not an explanation. It is a system of mathematical propositions, deduced from a small number of principles, which have for their aim to represent as simply, as completely and as exactly as possible, a group of experimental laws."—?
Selected Anniversaries
1861: Physicist, mathematician, and historian Pierre Duhem born. He will write: "A theory of physics is not an explanation. It is a system of mathematical propositions, deduced from a small number of principles, which have for their aim to represent as simply, as completely and as exactly as possible, a group of experimental laws."
1950: Novelist and screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is photographed Bureau of Prisons authorities. Trumbo will serve eleven months in the federal penitentiary in Ashland, Wisconsin for refusing to testify before House Un-American Activities Committee.
1953: Singer-physicist J. R. Oppenheimer's song "Destroyer of Worlds" is condemned by the House Un-American Activities Committee as "pernicious satire which knowingly demeans the national security state."
1954: "You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?" —Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during hearings on whether Communism has infiltrated the Army. See McCarthyism.
Topic of the Day
Knives
Soprano Todd: The Barber-Surgeon of Fleet Street is a 2007 American barbershop quartet medical slasher film starring Johnny Depp.
Cooking Tonight with Shelley Duvall is a cooking television series starring hosted by Shelley Duvall. Each episode features Duvall reprising a film role as she prepares a thematically appropriate meal.
Julia Child the 13th is a 1980 American horror cooking film starring celebrity chef and Office of Strategic Services (OSS) researcher Julia Child.
Dagger of the Mind 2: The Rise of Sulu is a science fiction action-adventure film starring George Takei.
Sweeney Vince is a 2007 American revisionist biography musical thriller film loosely based on the life of Vincent van Gogh.
To Shave Man is a musical science fiction horror-comedy television series about alien barber-chef Sweeney Todd (Johnny Depp) and his delicious assistant (Helena Bonham Carter).
