The line is also admired by real science fiction author Joan Vinge. Vinge was married to SF author Verner Vinge when she started writing. She had divorced from him (quite amicably, I understand) and remarried, but Vinge was too well established for her to change it.
Diamond was played by David Jannsen, probably best remembered for The Fugitive which was inspired by the Victor Hugo novel Les Miserables.
*Les Miserables *contains a sentence that is 823 words long. However, Marcel Proust wrote a single sentence in À la Recherche du temps perdu that clocks in at 847. *The Rotters Club, *a novel by Johnathan Coe, includes a sentence of 13,995 words.
Marcel Marceau, the famous French mime, had the only spoken dialogue in Mel Brooks’s comedy *Silent Movie. *
Marcel was the name of Ross’s capuchin monkey on several episodes of Friends.
On Friends, Rachel’s sisters Amy and Jill were played, respectively, by Christina Applegate and Reese Witherspoon.
In Genesis Rachel’s sister was Leah and both were married to their first-cousin Jacob. Leah’s biological children included Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, a daughter named Dinah, and her sons by a slave surrogate mother Gad and Asher. Rachel’s biological children were Joseph and Benjamin and by a surrogate Dan and Naphtali.
Benjamin Disraeli, the great Tory prime minister of 19th century Britain, was notorious for flattering Queen Victoria and did all he could to maintain her favor. He once said, “Everyone loves flattery, and with royalty, you must lay it on with a trowel.”
Likenesses of Queen Victoria, Popes Leo XIII and Pius X, Sarah Bernhardt, and many other leaders and celebrities of the late 19th century appeared in advertisements for Vin Mariani, a medicinal Bordeaux that included between 6 and 7.2 mg of cocaine per ounce of wine.
Sara Bernhardt was raised at one point in a convent, and considered becoming a nun, but one of her mother’s lovers convinced her to be an actress.
Sarah Bernhardt once saved the widow Mary Todd Lincoln’s life by catching her as she was falling out of an ocean liner, or so they say.
The play Cyrano de Bergerac was written as a vehicle for Sarah Bernhardt (Rostand, the author was her lover – she was the first to portray Roxanne).
The Oasis of the Seas is the largest ocean liner on the seas today. Among its many amenitiesare 21 pools and a football-field sized indoor park.
An Olympic sized swimming pool is 50 meters long and, typically, 25 meters wide; an NFL football field is 360 feet long by 160 feet wide; a football pitch for an International Match sanctioned by FIFA must be at least 100-110 meters long and 64-75 meters wide.
Beatnik author Jack Kerouac was a superb high school athlete, and was offered a football scholarship by Notre Dame coach Frank Leahy. He turned it down to go to my alma mater,Columbia University.
After graduating from the University of Michigan Gerald Ford turn down offers to play football with the Green Bay Packers and Detroit Lions to coach at Yale and work on his law degree.
The Harvard-Yale football game is the oldest continuing rivalry in American football, although Yale has actually played Princeton more often.
Between them, Harvard and Yale have produced 11 U.S. presidents (George W. Bush received his bachelor’s degree from Yale, and his MBA from Harvard).
18th century novelists George Sand and George Eliot were both women.
Mad Magazine used to use the slang “It’s George” to indicate everything was all right.