Robert Redford portrayed a gentle Angel of Death in Twilight Zone’s 1962 episode “Nothing in the Dark.”
President John F. Kennedy pretended to have a bad cold in order to prematurely return to Washington from a Chicago trip during the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962.
Though Washington’s best known home was Mount Vernon, he grew up on Ferry Farm, across the river from Fredericksburg, VA.
The “Washington” was the RAF’s official name for the Boeing B-29 Superfortress, which it did not put into service until the 1950’s and only until the Canberra entered service as a strategic bomber. Although all B-29 production was devoted to the Pacific theater, due to its long range, a pair were sent to Britain where German intelligence would be sure to find out about it. The move panicked the German high command into a frenzy of high-altitude interceptor and missile development to defend against the B-29 / Washington, resulting in a number of now-legendary designs from the German aviation industry.
Canberra was chosen to be Australia’s capital as a compromise between rivals Sydney and Melbourne. The layout for the city was designed by Chicago architects Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin.
Melanie Griffin took over the Broadway role of Roxie in Chicago in 2003 because her husband Antonio Banderas had signed for the lead in the revival of Nine. They both won raves for their performances.
Antonio Banderas, cast against type, played Tom Hanks’s devoted lover in the AIDS courtroom drama Philadelphia.
While there are many cities in the US named after cities in Europe (e.g., Rome, NY; Vienna, NJ); Philadelphia is the only American city to have a city in Europe named after it: Filadelphia, Italy (on the toe of the boot).
Citation is needed for the fact the Italian city was named for the
US city. The word “Philadelphia” is derived from Greek and most
of the foot of Italy was ruled by Greek colonies for several 100
years. At least one modern mainland city, Crotona, has retained
its ancient Greek name.
Per Wiki it was also the name for what are now Amman, Jordan
and Alasehir, Turkey during the Greco-Roman era.
Also per Wiki there was until 2003 a village in Germany named
Philadelphia, and another nerarby named Neu Boston. They were
so named by Frederick II The Great; why I would really like to know.
Sicily, the “football” Italy’s kicking, is the largest island in the Mediteranean.
The World Cup final, NOT the Super Bowl, is the “football” game that is the most-watched sports event in the world.
The city was founded and named in 1783, long after Philadelphia, PA, and was named in response to the American Revolution.
Oh and, BTW, I suggest you read the first post in this game. You don’t seem to get the concept.
In Isaac Asimov’s short story The Bicentennial Man (later made into a schmaltzy movie starring Robin Williams), the World President acknowledges the essential humanity of the story’s protagonist, a robot of the NDR series named Andrew by “his” family.
OK- that sounds good enough.
Not OK- I did follow concept, and I did so by playing off on “Italy”.
Maybe you should brush up on your own reading comprehesion.
To help you out I will try to remember to format playoff linkage
in bold.
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In Isaac Asimov’s short story The Bicentennial Man (later made into a schmaltzy movie starring Robin Williams), the World President acknowledges the essential humanity of the story’s protagonist, a robot of the NDR series named Andrew by “his” family.
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The word robot was coined in the play R.U.R by Czech playwright
Karel Capec. It is derived from the Czech word for “serf”.
Karel Čapek had originally thought of using the Latin-derived laboři to describe the automatons in his play, but then decided the word was too artificial. On advice from brother Josef (who later died in Bergen-Belsen), Karel opted for roboti (subsequently translated into English as “robots”).
Oh, and to nitpick off an earlier post:
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Melanie Griffin took over the Broadway role of Roxie in Chicago
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Melanie’s last name is Griffith.
Never mind. Once again, I mistook the last post on the previous page as the last post period. D’oh! :smack:
The robot on “Lost in Space”, although officially designated “B-9, Class M-3 General Utility Non-Theorizing Environmental Control Robot”, was usually addressed only as “Robot”. It was designed by Robert Kinoshita, who also designed the very similar Robby in the film Forbidden Planet. Robby appears in Lost in Space episode #20 “War of the Robots”.
The technical term for a feminine robot is “gynoid.” One of the most famous appears, impersonating the heroine Maria, in the Fritz Lang 1927 silent sf classic Metropolis.
Andrew Lang was a prolific writer on subjects as diverse as golf, religion, and British royalty. However, he is best known for a series of twelve fairy-tale collections he compiled. Beginning with Blue Fairy Book (1889) and ending with Lilac Fairy Book (1910), each features a similar “colorful” title.
Fritz Lang directed the film Rancho Notorious starring Marlene Dietrich. It was adapted from a short story “Chuck-A-Luck,” which was to be the original title. That was overruled by Howard Hughes, who said that American audiences wouldn’t understand what “Chuck-a-luck” meant. Lang supposedly replied, “Well, it’s a good thing that they all know what ‘Rancho Notorious’ means!”