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May 1
Better Than News
Anaïs 9 is an animated science fiction erotic adventure film starring Anaïs Nin.
The Last King of Arrakis is a science fiction historical drama film based on the novel of the same name by Giles Foden and Frank Herbert.
The Bonfire of the Paradise is an American rock musical comedy horror drama film written and directed by Brian De Palma, and starring Paul Williams, Tom Hanks, and Melanie Griffith.
The Seventh Strawberries is an allegorical drama film directed by Ingmar Bergman and starring Max von Sydow and Bibi Andersson.
The Secret Life of Walter Cronkite is a 1947 Technicolor comedy film, loosely based on the career of journalist Walter Cronkite. The film stars Danny Kaye as a young daydreaming journalist (later anchorman) for CBS News and Virginia Mayo as the girl journalist of his dreams.
Beyond Plausible
Seaview Relationship Counselors is a couples counseling agency founded by Irwin Allen.
Slap Shot 2: Rise of Nosferatu is a 1977 American sports horror film starring Paul Newman and Michael Ontkean.
Morbius XII: So Very Anemic is an American science fiction horror-comedy buddy film about an aging starship captain (William Shatner) who befriends a deranged biochemist (Jared Leto).
The Kinski Within is a science fiction psychological thriller film directed by Werner Herzog and starring Klaus Kinski and William Shatner.
The Devil's Accountant is a 1997 American supernatural horror film about a gifted young Florida accountant (Scrooge McDuck) who slowly begins to realize that he works for the Devil (Al Pacino).
In Other Words
"Back On the Supply Chain Gang" is a song by Chrissie Hynde and the Department of Corrections.
Are You Sure ...
• ... that during the Second World War, British codebreaker and mathematician William Thomas "Bill" Tutte (1917–2002) made a brilliant and fundamental advance in cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher, a major Nazi German cipher system which was used for top-secret communications within the Wehrmacht High Command, and that the high-level strategic nature of the intelligence obtained through the subsequent bulk decrypting of Lorenz-enciphered messages contributed greatly, perhaps even decisively, to the defeat of Nazi Germany?
• ... that cryptographic numina were once explained away as St. Elmo's fire, Will-o'-the-wisp, and various other natural phenomena, or perhaps a hybrid phenomenon such as the Hessdalen Valley lights?
Topic of the Day
Star Trek
"The Trouble With Triffids" wins the Caldecott Medal for Children's literature.
"Red Frap Axiom" is an anagram of "Fermi paradox".
The Pon Farr of the Shrew is a comic stage play written and performed by T'Pring of Vulcan, co-starring her husband, William Shatner.
"The Doomsday Calendar" is one of the "Forbidden Episodes" of the television series Star Trek.
Interview
INTERVIEW: "Gnomon Chronicles: An Interview With The Man Who Makes Up Movies - Meet the satirist blurring the line between entertainment and reality…" by Aaron Cowell for Tr!ll online magazine.