Monday, February 28, 2011
I THOUGHT SHE CHEATED EVERY TEST, AND SNORTED ALL THE YAY: The NYT Science page on Natalie Portman, Hedy (not Hedley) Lamarr, and other Hollywood stars with serious science cred. Unfortunately, they missed a certain star with a master's in chemical engineering; who speaks English, Swedish, Spanish, some German, some French, some Japanese, and some Italian; and who was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to MIT back in the day. Yes, gang: Dolph Lundgren.
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See also the concept of the Erdos-Bacon number.
ReplyDeleteLet's not forget his historic television appearance where he walked on stage with a lit torch, clad in a tuxedo, sang "A Little Less Conversation", played a sick drum solo, broke three boards with his limbs, and karate-chopped 5 bricks of ice at once. That is literally my favorite I've ever written.
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Let's not forget those M.D.s Ken Jeong and Clean House's Matt Iseman.
ReplyDeleteThe article for got to mention that Hedy Lamarr's invention was also integral to the development of cell phones, wifi and sattelite radio:
http://www.csfreshink.com/profiles/blogs/guess-who-invented-wifi-1
--bd
That SNL sketch you reference in the tagline was probably my second-favorite of the past decade, next to Motherlover.
ReplyDeleteI so love Dolph Lundgren. Still marriedto his first wife, too: http://m.vanityfair.com/online/oscars/2010/08/the-real-expendables.html
ReplyDeleteHe's in one of my all-time favorite B movies, "I Come in Peace." I wrote a GLOWING review of it for the high school newspaper.
Responsible for the single greatest piece of B-movie dialogue from the 1980s:
ReplyDeleteALIEN BAD GUY [who most certainly is not being truthful, or perhaps has a less than perfect understanding of the words he is saying]: "I commmmmme in peacccceee!"
DOLPH: "Then you'll go in pieces. Asshole." [blows him up good]
Maybe the best part of the whole thing is that when Dolph says "Asshole," it kinda sounds like "Icehole."
Here's the ending - thank me later:
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It had been my goal for some time to obtain the lowest recorded E-B number. However, this article has been updated since I last saw it, because someone has a 3, which I can't beat unless I manage to take over some as-yet-unpublished Erdos research or become Kevin Bacon.
ReplyDeleteWas he really struggling with a fountain pen nib on a bungee? Because: amazing.
ReplyDeleteYes. Yes he was.
ReplyDeleteFun facts from IMDb: the good alien yang to that bad alien's yin (not in clip) was played by Jay Bilas! Also, lots of Hey! It's That Guy!s in the cast, including Sam Anderson (Bernard on Lost), Michael J. Pollard, and Sherman Howard/Howard Sherman (Bub from Dawn of the Dead and Roy from the "Junior Mint" episode of Seinfeld).