September 16
Better Than News
The Last Temptation of Wile E. Coyote is a 1988 epic religious comedy-drama film directed by Martin Scorsese.
Forbidden Romance is a 1956 American science fiction film directed by Fred M. Wilcox, starring Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, and Leslie Nielsen. It is loosely adapted from William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
Being Alive There is a 1983 American dance musical buddy film starring Peter Sellers and John Travolta.
The Dickpossessed is a biographical science fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin which is loosely based on the life of Philip K. Dick.
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Beyond Plausible
The Amazing Spicer-Man is a 2012 American science drama film about a young Imperial ecologist (Timothée Chalamet) who gains spider-like powers after he is bitten by a giant sandworm.
In Other Words
Crocsodile Dundee (often styled Crocs-odile Dundee) is a 1986 Australian comedy footwear film starring Paul Hogan.
Are You Sure
... that the fictional "Queso Cartel" in the film Snow Angel in Queso is loosely based on the criminal gang behind the nonfictional Great Maple Syrup Heist?
Selected Anniversaries
1736: Physicist and engineer Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit dies. He helped lay the foundations for the era of precision thermometry by inventing the mercury-in-glass thermometer and the Fahrenheit scale.
2005: Physicist and academic Gordon Gould dies. He invented and named the laser.
Topic of the Day
Beatles
"Something Wicked In This Way She Moves" is a song by George Harrison and Ray Bradbury.
"I'm Only Reuben" is a song by the rock band and catering firm The Beatles.
"My Good Vibrations" is a song by the Beach Boys and The Who.
Devolver is one of the so-called "lost" Beatles albums.
Dr. Robber is a song by the British rock group The Beatles.
