Donald Sutherland Has Never Been Nominated for an Oscar?
Nope.Klute (with Jane Fonda, above), M*A*S*H, Don’t Look Now, Day of the Locust… sorry, not good enough.
Biographies
Ronald Reagan Had Early Alzheimer’s While President, Says His Son
Speaking of Nelson Mandela and memory loss: President Ronald Reagan showed signs of Alzheimer’s Disease as early as 1986, says his son
Reading the Tea Leaves on Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela is in the hospital, and South Africa is worried. Mandela was airlifted from Capetown to Milpark Hospital in Johannesberg on Wednesday and was seen by pulmonologist Michael Plit. The doctor told reporters that Nelson Mandela “has been admitted for investigation.”
Donald Sutherland Still Looks Supercool
Donald Sutherland poses on Hollywood Boulevard after receiving his star on the Walk of Fame. Not many can pull off the pinstriped-suit-with-Santa-Claus-beard look.
Nabokov Was Right About the Butterflies
Vladimir Nabokov, author of Lolita and butterfly visionary:In a speculative moment in 1945, he came up with a sweeping
hypothesis for the evolution of the butterflies he studied, a group
known as the Polyommatus blues. He envisioned them coming to the New
World from Asia over millions of years in a series of waves.
Coens vs. Clint: Multi-Oscar Showdown!
“Fill your hands with Oscar nominations, you #$@%!!”The Coen Brothers are thrice-nominated for True Grit in the Academy Awards this year: for best picture, director, and adapted screenplay.
Barack Obama’s 2011 State of the Union Address: the Transcript
Here’s the text.Or try this clever video-with-highlighted-text feature from The NY Times.
Jesse Eisenberg Biography, and His Sister the Pepsi Girl
Oscar-nominated actor Jesse Eisenberg now has a brief biography at Who2. Eisenberg starred in the David Fincher movie The Social Network.Jesse Eisenberg plays Facebook fella Mark Zuckerberg. Eisenberg and Zuckerberg are not related. Their last names aren’t even the same. It just seems that way. In German, Eisenberg means “Iron Mountain,” but Zuckerberg means “Sugar Mountain.” Go look it up (I won’t).
Steve Prefontaine Would Be Only 60 Today
Wow: Oregon running legend Steve Prefontaine would be turning only 60 years old today. He was born on this day in 1951 and died in a car crash after a race at age 24.
Nuclear Bomb Interrupts ‘Spider-Man’ Rehearsal
The Onion has the story.They have had their share of problems, all right.(Hat tip: Ed Harlow)