Birthdays
Daniel Radcliffe b. 1989 (Harry Potter)
Charisma Carpenter b. 1970 (Angel, Buffy)
Woody Harrelson b. 1961 (The Hunger Games, Zombieland, A Scanner Darkly)
A nice selection of birthdays today. Charisma Carpenter certainly qualifies for the Cute Girl = Picture Slot criterion, but I decided instead to have a picture of young Daniel instead, here dressed up for his role in the Broadway revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying instead of his more famous role on film. I'm always happy when an actor with a career defining role can get a chance to do something else.
Many happy returns of the day to all.
Prediction: 7/20/1996: First manned landing on Mars (Harry Bedrosian, Christopher Luden, Abe Cooper) finds the remains of a Martian.
Predictor: The Eye of the Octopus, Larry Niven, published 1966
Reality: As little regard as I have for Niven, the small benefit of the doubt I will give him is that this was written in the late 1960s, the most optimistic era for the general concept of space travel before or since. In 1966, we hadn't reached the moon yet but it was on a real life "to do"list and it got done. In the minds of sci-fi folk, a moon base and then further exploration were the obvious and inevitable next steps, but the reality of budgets and lack of profitability got in the way.
Looking one day ahead... INTO THE FUTURE!
Our time is finite, all things must pass and several other completely true cliches cannot change the sad fact we face tomorrow.
The last of the predictions of John Elfreth Watkins.
Join us then... IN THE FUTURE!
Radcliffe was also in a ghost story that I watched recently, and quite liked; The Woman in Black.
ReplyDeleteI trust that you saved one of the best from Watkins for last. No giant vegetables!
I won't say it's "best for last", but I can promise no giant vegetables.
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