Boulle won an Oscar for his screenplay of The Bridge Over the River Kwai despite the fact he didn’t speak English or wrote the script. The actual script was written by Carl Forman and Michael Wilson, members of the Hollywood Ten Blacklist, who were not allowed to work. Years later, their contributions was acknowledged and they were given Oscars and are now officially listed (with Boulle).
André-Charles Boulle was a French cabinetmaker who is generally considered to have been the pre-eminent artist in the field of marquetry.
As well as tables, Boulle’s output included commodes, bureaux, armoires, pedestals, clockcases and lighting-fixtures, richly mounted with gilt-bronze that he modeled himself.
His fame in marquetry led to the term ‘boulle’ being used for the inlaying of brass and tortoiseshell.
In the Disney animated film Beauty and the Beast, The Wardrobe is a former opera singer, turned into a wardrobe (armoire). The character of Wardrobe was introduced by visual development person Sue C. Nichols to the then entirely male cast of servants, and was originally a more integral character named “Madame Armoire”. Her role was later expanded upon and ultimately taken over by Mrs. Potts. Wardrobe is known as “Madame de la Grande Bouche” in the stage adaptation of the film.
Today, just minutes ago in a victory for all Americans (although some unenlightened people don’t realize that yet), the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) ruled that the marriage of all-male couples is required to be recognized by all 50 states. All-female couples too.
http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/14pdf/14-556_3204.pdf:
OBERGEFELL ET AL. v. HODGES, DIRECTOR, OHIO DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, ET AL.
CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT
No. 14–556. Argued April 28, 2015—Decided June 26, 2015*
There are three non-religious, four-year, all-male college institutions in the United States:
Hampden–Sydney College, Hampden–Sydney, Virginia
Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia
Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana
Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana is roughly equidistant and centered among the following surrounding Indiana cities: Indianapolis, Lafayette (and West Lafayette, where Purdue is), Danville, and Terre Haute.
Oberlin College, my alma mater, was founded in 1833 and was the first American college to regularly admit women and blacks. Its current president, Marvin Krislov, is a former U.S. Justice Department lawyer and was vice president and counsel to the University of Michigan at the time it successfully defended its pro-diversity admissions policy before the Supreme Court of the United States.
The Five Colleges of Ohio is an academic and administrative consortium of five selective private liberal arts colleges in Ohio. They are Denison, Kenyon, Oberlin, Ohio Wesleyan, and Wooster.
Reginald Jeeves is a fictional character in a series of humorous short stories and novels by P. G. Wodehouse, being the highly-competent valet of a wealthy and idle young Londoner named Bertie Wooster. Created in 1915, Jeeves continued to appear in Wodehouse’s work until his last completed novel Aunts Aren’t Gentlemen in 1974, a span of 59 years.
In Charles Stross’s 2008 sf novel Saturn’s Children, a gynoid works for the mysterious Jeeves Corporation in a distant future in which humanity is extinct and a near-feudal android society has spread throughout the Solar System.
In 1610, Galileo Galilei was the first person to see Saturn’s rings.
The first named shuttlecraft of the USS Enterprise shown in the original Star Trek series was named the Galileo.
Vincenzo Galilei was a musician, composer and music theorist who advocated an equal-temperament scale. However he used 18/17 as the half-step ratio, 0.06% smaller than the correct value, 2[sup]1/12[/sup]. Simon Stevin followed up by noting the correct ratio, but made arithmetical errors in his table of string lengths. Most scholars now attribute the equal-temperament scale to Zhu Zaiyu, a Chinese prince who lived about the same time as Galilei and Stevin.
Vicenzo Galilei had several children including Michelagnolo, an influential composer, and his first-born, an influential astronomer and physicist named Galileo.
Johannes Kepler, a contemporary of Galileo, postulated that the moon caused the differences in the tides, two high tides and two low tides per day. Kepler also theorized that the planets moved in elliptical orbits. Galileo dismissed Kepler’s idea that the moon caused the tides. Galileo also refused to accept Kepler’s elliptical orbits of the planets. Galileo considered the circle the perfect shape for planetary orbits.
The Indigo Girls song “Galileo” (King of night vision, king of insight) is actually about reincarnation, comparing it to the clarity of physical vision made possible through his modernizations of the telescope and his support of Copernicanism. The Indigo Girls are lesbians Amy Ray and Emily Saliers, who have been performing since they were both students at Decatur, GA HS and Atlanta’s Emory University.
Chris McCandless, aka “Alexander Supertramp,” was an Emory alum. He was the subject of Jon Krakauer’s book, and the movie by the same name, Into the Wild. McCandless died at 24 in Alaska.
The cover of Supertramp’s album “Indelibly Stamped” featured a woman’s naked torso covered with tattoos.
The story of Chris McCandless, aka “Alexander Supertramp,” as written in Jon Krakauer’s book Into the Wild, did not reveal episodes of childhood physical abuse by McCandless’ father or verbal abuse by both his mother and father. But the book by McCandless’ younger sister, The Wild Truth by Carine McCandless and released November 2014 describes these episodes and the atmosphere of abuse by their parents, and serves to explain why her brother left his family as he did. Carine McCandless told Krakauer about the abuse but asked him to promise not to reveal the abuse. Later during the film by the same name, Carine McCandless asked director Sean Penn to make the same promise. Both kept their promises.
Another revelation in Chris McCandless’s sisters book is that their father was essentially a bigamist with two wives and two families in two residences in two cities. The “wives” knew about each other but the two sets of children did not learn about each other until much later.
In the comic “B.C.”, bigamist was defined as an Italian’s description of London.