The cast of the 1950 Billy Wilder film 'Sunset Boulevard' featured:  Buster Keaton as himself (bridge player), Anna Q. Nilsson as herself (bridge player), and H. B. Warner as himself (bridge player).  Movie star bridge players include Buster Keaton, John Wayne, Omar Sharif, the Marx Brothers, and Humphrey Bogart.  See others at https://bridgewinners.com/article/view/bridge-players-and-the-movie-world/



Buster Keaton was a master filmmaker and comic genius.  He produced, directed, acted, wrote and edited.  He performed with his mother and father in Vaudeville at a very young age and had no formal education.  His father even acts in many of his films.  Keaton has been called The Great Stone face for his stoic facial expressions.  His slap shoes and pork pie hats became his trademark.  He loved to film on location and was a master of traveling shots.  He was even a world class bridge player.  Keaton’s film debut was in the 1917 Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle film The Butcher Boy. Keaton and Arbuckle became best friends and began collaborating on films together.  After a few films Keaton was co-directing.  They were in 14 films together with The Garage (1920) being their last.  Arbuckle left to make pictures for Paramount and Keaton got his own studio, Buster Keaton Comedies.  Keaton was known for his dangerous, physical stunts and in Steamboat Bill Jr. (1928) he performed his most legendary stunt.  During one scene Keaton is standing in front of a two story house.  The half ton house facade falls down and he is saved by a very small open window.  When television became popular Buster re-staged all his old routines for television shows.  He appeared on The Donna Reed Show, This is Your Life, The Twilight Zone and many others.  Read more and see many pictures at https://timelesshollywood.wordpress.com/2014/10/18/the-great-stone-face-buster-keaton/



Yellowstone has three seasons:  July, August and winter  *  Coffee went from hot to tepid in a couple of toe taps  *  The Beast (Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus Series Book 21) by Faye Kellerman


A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg  Turning a person into a verb (to boycott, coined after a real person named Boycott) happens from time to time, but singer-songwriter Paul Simon got carried away and turned about a dozen people into verbs in a single song:  I been Norman Mailered, Maxwell Taylored   I been John O’Hara’d, McNamara’d   I been Rolling Stoned and Beatled till I’m blind   I been Ayn Randed . . . 

pythagorize  (puh-THOG-uh-ryz)  verb intr:  To philosophize or speculate in the manner of Pythagoras or the Pythagoreans.  verb tr:  To convert (a person or thing) into another.   After Pythagoras, Greek philosopher (c. 570-495 BCE).  Earliest documented use:  1603.

malaprop  (MAL-uh-prop)  verb intr:  To misuse a word by confusing it with a similar-sounding word, producing a humorous effect.  For example, “pineapple of perfection” for “pinnacle of perfection” (from the play The Rivals).  After Mrs. Malaprop, a character in Richard Sheridan’s play, The Rivals (1775), who confused words in this manner.  The name Malaprop is coined from French “mal à propos” (inappropriate).  Earliest documented use:  1959.

aladdinize  (uh-LAD-uh-nyz)  verb. tr. To magically transport or transform someone or something.  After the title character of the story Aladdin and the Magic Lamp.  Earliest documented use:  1848.



Ubiquitous describes something that is global, universal, may be encountered everywhere, is pervasive or ever-present.  Something that is ubiquitous may actually be present everywhere or simply seem to be present everywhere.  Ubiquitous is an adjective, the adverb form is ubiquitously and the noun form is ubiquitousness or ubiquity.  The word ubiquitous is often used today in the term ubiquitous computing or ubicomp, which is a concept that describes computing occuring everywhere and in any device, not simply in a desktop computer.  The word ubiquitous dates from the early 1800s, though its earlier form, ubiquitary, dates back to the early 1600s.  The word ubiquitous is derived from the Latin word ubiquitas, from the Latin word ubique which means everywhere.  https://grammarist.com/usage/ubiquitous/


Joseph-Louis Lagrange by Nahla Seikali   Joseph Louis Lagrange was born in Turin, Italy in 1736.  Although his father wanted him to be a lawyer, Lagrange was attracted to mathematics and astronomy after reading a memoir by the astronomer Halley.  At age 16, he began to study mathematics on his own and by age 19 was appointed to a professorship at the Royal Artillery School in Turin.  The following year, Lagrange sent Euler a better solution he had discovered for deriving the central equation in the calculus of variations.  These solutions and Lagrange's applications of them to celestial mechanics were so monumental that by age 25, he was regarded by many of his contemporaries as the greatest living mathematician.  In 1776, on the recommendation of Euler, he was chosen to succeed Euler as the director of the Berlin Academy.  During his stay in Berlin, Lagrange distinguished himself not only in celestial mechanics, but also in algebraic equations and the theory of numbers.  After twenty years in Berlin, he moved to Paris at the invitation of Louis XVI. Napoleon was a great admirer of Lagrange and showered him with honors--count, senator, and Legion of Honor.  The years Lagrange spent in Paris were devoted primarily to didactic treatises summarizing his mathematical conceptions.  One of Lagrange's most famous works is a memoir, Mecanique Analytique, in which he reduced the theory of mechanics to a few general formulas from which all other necessary equations could be derived.  In spite of his fame, Lagrange was always a shy and modest man.  On his death in 1813, he was buried with honor in the Pantheon.  https://math.berkeley.edu/~robin/Lagrange/



A Sheepadoodle is a cross-breed/hybrid dog obtained by breeding an Old English sheepdog with a poodle.  The name (which alters "poodle" to "doodle" in reference to the Labradoodle) was coined in 1992.  A first generation (F1) Sheepadoodle is a doodle which is bred from an old English sheepdog and a poodle.  First generation doodles tend to have added health benefits since they are the first in their line.  They shed very lightly.  F1b sheepadoodles are first generation backcross sheepadoodles which mean they are bred from a sheepadoodle and poodle.  This helps with allergies as this generation sheds even less than F1.  Not to be confused with a shepadoodle, which is a standard poodle and a German Shepherd.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheepadoodle



WORD OF THE DAY  bread and circuses noun (idiomatic)  Food and entertainment provided by the state, particularly if intended to placate the people.  (by extension) Grand spectacles staged or statements made to distract and pacify people.  The Western Roman Empire is conventionally regarded as having fallen on September 4 in 476 C.E., when Odoacer deposed the 16-year-old Emperor Romulus Augustulus.  Wiktionary



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