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RIP Nichelle Nichols

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The Book Thief

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 "I've seen so many young men over the years who think they're running at other young men. They are not. They're running at me."

The Premature Ossification of a Railway Station, by Salvador Dali (1931)

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Chinatown

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 The apartment building in Polanski's Chinatown, the El Macondo Apartments,  was named after the village in Garcia Marquez' 100 Years of Solitude.

Shark Week

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 1987: I was in NYC auditioning for grad school. I was in some anonymous building in midtown, early for the audition. Some guys were holding auditions for the Discovery Channel down the hall and asked me to read for them to check sound levels. They took my contact info and told me they'd submit my reading for the auditions. I didn't get the gig but, technically, I was the first voice of Shark Week.

Songwriter Chip Taylor

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Is Jon Voight's brother??? Angel of the Morning and Wild Thing. Midnight Cowboy and Deliverance.

Free Bird

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During the ovation for a Bob Dylan concert in Berkley in 2016, someone in the crowd shouted "Free Bird!" As you do. Dylan played it.

Buffalo

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 You're a rust-belt city famous for chicken wings, sponge candy, Niagara Falls, and one of the greatest museums of modern art in the world, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. But by all means, change the name, after more than 60 years, to the Buffalo-AKG Art Museum. That'll pull folks in.

Jimi at 15

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Champion

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 Marge Champion, dance partner of Gower and model for Disney's Snow White, was later stepmother to Married with Children's Katey Sagal.

World Trade Center

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 There were 43,600 windows in the twin towers.

Destiny

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 Buzz Aldrin's mother's maiden name was Marion Moon!

The 1951 Othello

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 "Men should be what they seem," Iago says to Orson Welles in blackface.

Magic Realism

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 Plaque celebrating Gabriel Garcia Marquez in Paris.

Rest in Peace

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The great Peter Brook Directed the greatest King Lear of the 20th Century Directed Marat/Sade Wrote The Empty Space Directed the most important A Midsummer Night's Dream of the century Directed The Mahabharata Directed The Lord of the Flies Directed Meetings with Remarkable Men Theatre, opera, ballet, film.. Just a small fraction of the work of this truly amazing man.

No Country for Old Men

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  "All the time you spend trying to get back what's been took from you, more's going out the door."