My Fair Lady is a 1964 American musical comedy drama adapted from the Lerner and Loewe stage musical that had premiered on Broadway in 1956, which was itself drawn from George Bernard Shaw’s 1913 play Pygmalion. Alan Jay Lerner wrote the screenplay, and George Cukor directed the film. The story centers on Eliza Doolittle, a…
Things I Like: The Simpsons Movie (2007 Film)
I became a huge fan of The Simpsons around the turn of the millennium as I got a little older, somewhere around 12 or 13. I stayed pretty obsessed with it for years, but by 2007, I’d mostly drifted away from keeping up with the regular TV series as it started feeling stale. The Simpsons…
Fun Facts and Trivia About The Atari 2600 Video Game System
The Atari 2600 was developed by Atari, Inc., with the core engineering work carried out at its subsidiary Cyan Engineering. The central problem the team was trying to solve was how to build a home console capable of playing a wide variety of games rather than being locked into a single title. In the mid-1970s,…
Things I Like: 3rd Rock from the Sun (TV Series)
3rd Rock from the Sun is a classic but underrated sitcom from the 1990s. I was a bit too young to catch it during its original premiere, but I know I was watching well before it finally got canceled in the early 2000s. John Lithgow and Kristen Johnston did a fantastic job, and it was…
Fun Facts and Trivia About Planets
The word planet comes from the Greek planḗtai, meaning wanderers. In ancient usage, the term applied to the Sun, the Moon, and the five points of light visible to the naked eye that moved independently against the fixed background of stars: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. A planet is a large, rounded astronomical body…