[QUOTE=ewmayer;536799]I was gonna reply with "this was covered i multiple posts in this thread last week", but it seems someone has moved them, probably to a thread deidcated to RIPs for eminent mathematicians, which I am too lazy/pressed to dig up. There is still a sidelong mention of it in RDS's posts #1197 in this thread.[/QUOTE]

Ah- You're right; somehow I missed that. Sorry to have reported old news. Better to have reported old news than fake news, I guess.

Norm

[QUOTE=Spherical Cow;536810]Ah- You're right; somehow I missed that. Sorry to have reported old news. Better to have reported old news than fake news, I guess.

Norm[/QUOTE]

It was a lot easier to miss once all the relevant posts had been moved (not by me) - and you added a nice quote by the late Professor. No apology needed!

[b]Edit:[/b] My bad - DrS PMed to me to point out that the posts were not moved ... my memory was that RDS added his #1197 comment *after* one or more RIPs had mentioned Nirenberg, but in fact DrS followed said comment with the first Nirenberg-RIP link in post #1200. Holy causality reversal, Bat-Man!

"I am Spartacus"

Kirk Douglas, 103
[URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirk_Douglas"]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirk_Douglas[/URL]

My favorite movie he made was "Lust For Life" about the intense Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh. It didn't take much make-up to transform Mr. Douglas's rugged looks into Vincent.
The movie was also filmed on the actual locations in Holland, Belgium, and France where Vincent painted. The sites were restored to how they actually looked in the paintings so you could see a scene with Vincent capturing it on canvas.

I'm Brian, and so is my wife.

[QUOTE=tServo;536827]"I am Spartacus"

Kirk Douglas, 103
[URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirk_Douglas"]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirk_Douglas[/URL]

My favorite movie he made was "Lust For Life" about the intense Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh. It didn't take much make-up to transform Mr. Douglas's rugged looks into Vincent.
The movie was also filmed on the actual locations in Holland, Belgium, and France where Vincent painted. The sites were restored to how they actually looked in the paintings so you could see a scene with Vincent capturing it on canvas.[/QUOTE]
A good one, but not my favorite. I do like the line, spoken IIRC by Paul Gauguin (Anthony Quinn), commenting on Van Gogh's stew, "A little heavy on the turpentine, don't you think?"

I have not yet seen [i]Spartacus[/i]. It seems that in the real world, Spartacus died in battle. The captured survivors of his rebel army, about 6,000 men, were crucified along the Appian Way.

My favorite Kirk Douglas movie to date is [i]There Was a Crooked Man[/i].

[QUOTE=Dr Sardonicus;536922]I have not yet seen [i]Spartacus[/i]. It seems that in the real world, Spartacus died in battle. The captured survivors of his rebel army, about 6,000 men, were crucified along the Appian Way.[/QUOTE]

It's a must-see: Kubrick in his glory days, cast of thousands, epic scope - I had the privilege of watching a newly-restored version on the big screen at the Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor back in my grad student days circa 1990.

[QUOTE]In 1963, he starred in the Broadway play [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Flew_Over_the_Cuckoo%27s_Nest_(play)"]One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest[/URL], a story that he purchased and later gave to his son Michael Douglas, who turned it into an [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Flew_Over_the_Cuckoo%27s_Nest_(film)"]Oscar-winning film[/URL].[/QUOTE]
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[url=https://apnews.com/905489d29a3d4f8788f17a40003548a0]Dr. Li Wenliang[/url][quote]BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese doctor who got in trouble with authorities in the communist country for sounding an early warning about the coronavirus outbreak died Friday after coming down with the illness.
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Li was among a number of medical professionals in Wuhan who tried to warn colleagues and others when the government did not, The New York Times reported earlier this week. It said that after the mystery illness had stricken seven patients at a hospital, Li said of them in an online chat group Dec. 30: "Quarantined in the emergency department."

Another participant in the chat responded by wondering, "Is SARS coming again?" — a reference to the 2002-03 viral outbreak that killed hundreds, the newspaper said.

Wuhan health officials summoned Li in the middle of the night to explain why he shared the information, and police later forced him to sign a statement admitting to "illegal behavior," the Times said.

"If the officials had disclosed information about the epidemic earlier," Li said in an interview in the Times via text messages, "I think it would have been a lot better. There should be more openness and transparency."[/quote]

[QUOTE=tServo;536827]"I am Spartacus"

Kirk Douglas, 103
[URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirk_Douglas[/URL]

My favorite movie he made was "Lust For Life" about the intense Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh. It didn't take much make-up to transform Mr. Douglas's rugged looks into Vincent.
The movie was also filmed on the actual locations in Holland, Belgium, and France where Vincent painted. The sites were restored to how they actually looked in the paintings so you could see a scene with Vincent capturing it on canvas.[/QUOTE]

He was in "[I]In Harm's Way[/I]" with John Wayne. A pretty good WWII story.

[QUOTE=storm5510;536987]He was in "[I]In Harm's Way[/I]" with John Wayne. A pretty good WWII story.[/QUOTE]

Coincidentally, after watching [i]1917[/i] a few weeks ago, I looked around for other highly-regarded WW1 films, and found 1957's [url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050825/]Paths of Glory[/url], starring Kirk Douglas and Adolphe Menjou, and like [i]Spartacus[/i], also directed by Stanley Kubrick. That's in my near-term to-watch queue.

[QUOTE=ewmayer;537003]…I looked around for other highly-regarded WW1 films…[/QUOTE][URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Quiet_on_the_Western_Front_(1930_film)[/URL]

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