This episode of the StarTalk radio show has astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and Phil Plait, “The Bad Astronomer,” discuss the Good, the Bad and the Ugly of science in the movies.
Most nerdy part: midway through the podcast they have a contest to see who can point out the most nitpicky science errors in 2001: A Space Odyssey. Near the end of the show, Neil tells the story of how he called out James Cameron for showing the wrong sky at the end of Titanic.
According to CNN:
Actor Nicolas Cage was arrested in New Orleans early Saturday and faces charges of disturbing the peace and domestic abuse, authorities said.
I was really hoping for something more along the lines of him doing a general freak out on top of his graveyard obelisk.
Oddly enough, my inner monologue voice does have an Australian accent.
The car smelled of fast food and dog pee and Randy’s cigars. (Vanity Fair via scoop from ace reporter Stephen Falk…he gets up earlier than me.)
Leslie Nielsen, who traded in his dramatic persona for inspired bumbling as a hapless doctor in “Airplane!” and the accident-prone detective Frank Drebin in “The Naked Gun” comedies, died on Sunday in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He was 84. (via Yahoo!)
“What’s Police Squad?”
“It’s TV show full of brilliant, dumb jokes, but that’s not important right now.”