Wayne Rooney’s Unbelievable Goal
[ Update: original clean video now replaced with muddier video from YouTube. Registration is required to see video on the Man U. site, otherwise we’d send you there. ] Wayne …..
Biographies
Richard Dreyfuss Does the Right Thing
Here’s something you don’t see every day: someone in the political arena admitting that what they said was wrong:
Hosni Mubarak Has Resigned
Protestors in Egypt have erupted in celebration: President Hosni Mubarak has stepped down.Here’s a live feed from Tahrir Square in Cairo:
Who Does Elena Kagan Look Like?
Earlier we proposed Burt Reynolds to star as Antonin Scalia in a TV movie about the tea party.That got us thinking about who would play the other justices. Now we see that the people at AboveTheLaw have already held a lookalike contest for Justice Elena Kagan.
Burt Reynolds Is 75 and Just the Right Age to Play Antonin Scalia
Seventies superstud Burt Reynolds turns 75 years old today. He was born in Lansing, Michigan on this day in 1936. (Exactly one month before the birth of Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia. Reynolds could play Scalia in a film about the rise of the Tea Party, couldn’t he? Maybe in Jack Horner mode?)
What’s Crispin Glover Up To Lately?
He’s makin’ movies and lookin’ strange, according to The Guardian:
Watson vs. Humans: A Jeopardy Champ’s View
As an olde-time Jeopardy champ, I have a few choice thoughts on next week’s big contest pitting IBM’s computer Watson against two humans, former champs Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter.I am also ready to predict the winner.Let’s get to the thoughts.
Happy 30th Deathday, Bill Haley!
Wow: It’s been 30 years since the death of Bill Haley, Mr. Rock-Around-the-Clock himself. Haley was only 55 when he died of a brain tumor (or a heart attack, depending on who’s talking) in 1981.
Happy Birthday, John Williams!
Today is the birthday of composer John Williams of movie soundtrack fame. He turns 79.
Millions of people — maybe billions of people — have heard the music of John Williams, whose first movie score was for 1960s Because They’re Young.
During the 1970s, we learned to love Williams for the music in big disaster movies such as The Towering Inferno, Earthquake and The Poseidon Adventure.
Killjoy Mayor to Detroit: ‘No Robocop Statue’
“If I were mayor of Detroit, my top priority would be a RoboCop statue.”So says one angry commenter, reacting to Mayor Dave Bing’s announcement that there will be no Robocop statue in Detroit. It’s probably a good thing that said commenter is not mayor of Detroit