While Meryl Streep has been nominated a whopping 20 times at the Oscars, she’s only won three times with bids #2 (Best Supporting Actress: “Kramer vs. Kramer,” 1979), #4 (Best Actress: “Sophie’s Choice,” 1982) and #17 (Best Actress: “The Iron Lady,” 2011). She has had to endure a staggering 17…
A: Yes. Paleontologists have done some sort of biomechanical modeling based on teeth we’ve found, and they calculated the bite force would be about 40,000 pounds per square inch, which is by far the highest bite force ever calculated for any animal, living or extinct. Since Megalodon was, for all…
In the most Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly way possible, the couple made their love permanent with a set of ring finger tattoos of a voodoo doll with a heart at the center. Megan Fox is putting her relationship in ink. The 34-year-old actress debuted her latest tattoo at…
Young Frankenstein received mostly positive reviews from critics and currently holds a 93% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 56 reviews with the consensus: “Made with obvious affection for the original, Young Frankenstein is a riotously silly spoof featuring a fantastic performance by Gene Wilder.”. Who is the blind…
Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ has stirred up more than its share of controversy. All the culture wars and disputes about the role of religion in public life have come to the surface in the debate surrounding this film. Among Christians, evangelicals have embraced the movie even as…
The couple married on February 22, 1988, seven weeks after her split from Lowe. Their son, Dakota Paul Brinkman, was born on May 1, 1989. The couple divorced in 1992. Weeks after Gilbert’s divorce filing, actor Bruce Boxleitner’s former wife set him up with Gilbert. Little House on the Prarie…
On January 3 1841, writer Herman Melville ships out on the whaler Acushnet to the South Seas. Melville was born in New York City in 1819. Melville went on to marvel at the whalemen who made Nantucket great: “What wonder, then, that these Nantucketers, born on a beach, should take…
Country men wore them as part of their Western style. Teens (even girls) wore them as the uniform of their generation. 1940s denim jeans were high waisted with a long crotch and wide legs that folded up. They had large patch pockets on the back and deep side pockets. Country…
Felix Mendelssohn ’s Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64, is his last large orchestral work. It forms an important part of the violin repertoire and is one of the most popular and most frequently performed violin concertos in history. Although the first movement is mostly in the conventional sonata…
There are four versions of Menelaus’ and Helen’s reunion on the night of the sack of Troy: Menelaus sought out Helen in the conquered city. Menelaus resolved to kill Helen but her irresistible beauty prompted him to drop his sword and take her back to his ship “to punish her…