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Alan Smithee
Catagory:Facts
Author:BILL O’NEILL
Posted Date:06/18/2025
Posted By:utopia online

Alan Smithee is a name that no person wants to see listed as the director of a movie they’re seeing. He was known for making horrible movies that were poorly-received, ranging from Death of a Gunfighter in 1969 to an extended cut of Dune in 1984. Why is he still making movies then? It’s simple… Alan Smithee is not one single person. Alan Smithee, sometimes also referred to as “Allen Smithee” is a pseudonym that has been adapted by directors who no longer want to be connected to a film they directed. The pseudonym came into play for Death of a Gunfighter, when the director of the film switched halfway through and was replaced with another director. Neither director wanted their name to be listed, so this fictional director was born. There have been articles and books about the mystery surrounding Smithee’s legacy, mostly focusing on how directors’ reputations are so important to them that it is worth it to them to give up credit for a piece of their work. The Directors Guild must make a decision regarding each request for use of Alan Smithee as the director’s name on a film. The use of the pseudonym was discontinued in 2000, after being used for dozens of films, television movies, and music videos.


Type:other
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diane warren
Catagory:Biography
Author:LARRY ANDERSON
Posted Date:06/17/2025
Posted By:utopia online

A prolific songwriter with six Oscar nominations, a Golden Globe, and Songwriter of the Year awards, Diane Warren has created a foundation that supports music programs in financially challenged schools. Many young people feel the same way that Diane Warren did as a girl - misunderstood and somehow different from everyone around her. Growing up in California, she wanted to rebel against her parents and everything else in her world. She ran away from home as a teenager, and only came back because she missed her cat! The truth was that Diane was different. She had a strong creative spark, and a great way with words. And she found comfort in writing songs that expressed her feelings. While her mother thought Diane was a dreamer who should focus on getting a job as a secretary, her father encouraged her hopes of becoming a songwriter. With that encouragement and a strong will to follow her own direction in life, Diane began the tough task of trying to sell her songs. Her determination and talent paid off with her first hit song in the 1980s - “Solitaire,” performed by Laura Branigan. Other hits quickly followed - pop hits, rock hits, country hits - performed by some of the biggest names in music, including Celine Dion, Trisha Yearwood, Toni Braxton, and LeAnn Rimes. Warren’s career soared to new heights when her songs began to appear in hit films, resulting in six Oscar nominations and a Golden Globe award for “You Haven’t Seen the Last of Me,” performed by Cher in the movie Burlesque. She now has a star on the celebrated Hollywood Walk of Fame and has been named Songwriter of the Year six times, among a host of other honors and awards. But Diane Warren did not forget what it felt like to be that lonely girl with a love for music. She has used her fame and fortune to start a foundation that supports music programs in financially challenged schools, and she helps sponsor contests for emerging songwriters. Recalling how her father was the one person to encourage her love of music, she wrote the hit song “Because You Loved Me” as a tribute to his support. In 1993, the struggling Montreal Canadiens adopted one of Diane Warren’s songs, “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now,” as their unofficial anthem, and went on to win the Stanley Cup that year. Just like Warren herself, they demonstrated the power of determination and self-belief.


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Two students shortlisted for BAFTA gaming awards
Catagory:News
Author:BBC
Posted Date:06/16/2025
Posted By:utopia online

Two students from the East of England have been shortlisted for a prestigious BAFTA gaming award. Daniel Tachauer, from Essex, and Ruby, from Suffolk, were among 52 young people - aged between 10 to 18 - chosen by industry experts to take part. The Young Game Designers (YGD) competition celebrates and encourages budding gamers to create, develop and present their ideas for games. The winner's ceremony will be live-streamed on BAFTA's YouTube channel on Wednesday 18 June. Daniel, 14, was selected as a finalist in the Game Making category for 10 to 14 year olds for his astronomy game Planet Drop. The puzzle video game asks players to merge planets as they fall, much like retro game Tetris. He started playing video games two years ago and has managed to teach himself how to make games using tutorials on YouTube. He said Planet Drop took him about a month, adding: "It's easier to make games now than it ever has been before, with all the tools and everything. "Say you were trying to make a game in 1990, you haven't got any tutorials, whereas now there's just so much out there and so many people making content." Daniel would like a career in coding and said it would be amazing to be surrounded by games every day. Meanwhile, 18-year-old Ruby has been shortlisted in the Game Making by 15 to 18 year olds category for her game Through The Darkness. She explained players must follow the sound of music in darkness in order to complete a maze. Ruby hoped her game would raise awareness of how people with no sight experienced gaming. "If I was to win it would really mean a lot to me, because game making is one of my passions and it's one of the things I want to have a career in," she added.


Type:Technology
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MI6 appoints first female chief in 116-year history
Catagory:News
Author:BBC
Posted Date:06/16/2025
Posted By:utopia online

MI6 will be led by a woman for the first time in the foreign intelligence service's 116-year history. Blaise Metreweli, who joined the Secret Intelligence Service in 1999, will become the 18th chief of the organisation and take over from Sir Richard Moore later this year. She is currently responsible for technology and innovation at the service and said she was "proud and honoured" to have been asked to lead. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer called the appointment "historic" at a time "when the work of our intelligence services has never been more vital". MI6 is tasked with gathering intelligence overseas to improve the UK's security, with its core aims being to stop terrorism, disrupt the activities of hostile states and bolster cyber-security. Its chief, commonly referred to as "C", is the only publicly named member of the service. Ms Metreweli, 47, is currently Director General "Q" - head of the crucial technology and innovation division that aims to keep the identities of secret agents secret, and come up with new ways to evade adversaries like China's biometric surveillance. "MI6 plays a vital role - with MI5 and GCHQ - in keeping the British people safe and promoting UK interests overseas," she said. "I look forward to continuing that work alongside the brave officers and agents of MI6 and our many international partners." Ms Metreweli, who studied anthropology at the University of Cambridge, has previously held director level roles in MI5 - MI6's sister, domestic security agency - and spent most of her career working in the Middle East and Europe. On the King's overseas and international birthday honours list in 2024, she received the Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) for her services to British foreign policy.


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Goldfish
Catagory:Facts
Author:BILL O’NEILL
Posted Date:06/16/2025
Posted By:utopia online

After reading this perhaps you will look at your goldfish with new eyes, particularly when you realize he or she really looks at you with new eyes. The human eye can only see three colors and variations of these, a goldfish can see four! The fourth color is an ultraviolet color and this helps him find food as well as detect motion in the water. It’s a pity about his eye placement though, because his eyes are placed either side of his head he suffers a massive blind spot in the middle. The good news is your goldfish knows who you are and recognizes you. So, if at times you feel like a hand that simply feeds him, take heart, he actually knows who cares for him.One sad myth is that goldfish have a 3-second memory and this has led many people into believing they need smaller bowls or tanks simply because by the time they swim around it, they have forgotten what they last saw so each moment is brand new. In fact, goldfish have outstanding memories as proved by an experiment in Israel. The scientists trained the goldfish to respond to a dinner bell and found that the fish had remembered the bell five months later! Now that is some memory, even better than some people you know, you might say. Goldfish will eat anything so long as it fits into their mouths, so be mindful of that when placing smaller fish near to them. Their taste-buds are situated on their lips and their teeth are further down their throat, which enables them to gulp what looks like large objects and not choke to death from lack of breath. This could also be a warning as to what to feed your goldfish, becausea goldfish will happily eat anything. If you think a goldfish is a second-rate pet, think again, you can teach your goldfish to do tricks. All sorts of tricks including playing soccer. All you have to do is give him treats!


Type:other
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Alice Waters
Catagory:Biography
Author:LARRY ANDERSON
Posted Date:06/13/2025
Posted By:utopia online

Besides being a world-renowned chef and creator of the famous California restaurant Chez Panisse, Alice Waters runs a national campaign promoting organic food and healthy eating for children. When famous people from Hollywood travel through Berkeley, California, there is only one place to eat: Chez Panisse. It’s been named the best restaurant in the United States, and one of the best in the entire world. The creator of this remarkable eating-place is Alice Waters, who has been voted one of the top chefs on the planet, and is given credit for popularizing organic food in North America. Waters actually set out to be a teacher, and was studying education in France when she discovered fine food and the fact that organic food, locally grown without chemicals, makes a huge difference in cooking. Back home, while working as a teacher, she continued studying, cooking, and making delicious meals for friends . . . and their friends . . . and their friends’ friends. It wasn’t long before she thought of opening a restaurant to serve her organic food to everyone. Within a few years, Chez Panisse was a sensation, and Waters’ ideas for fresh, healthy food spread to other restaurants, and then to supermarkets and kitchens across North America. She changed the way that many people think about and prepare their food. Some people might be satisfied with having legions of happy clients, a worldwide reputation, and a series of bestselling books. Other people might have expanded intomore restaurants, TV shows, and other ways of building on their wealth and fame - but not Alice Waters. For her, the money and recognition are only tools; it’s how you use them that counts. So, now that she has played a big role in making organic food popular and available, Waters has decided to make another difference in the world. She is using her fame, experience, and knowledge for something else she strongly believes in - helping children. That’s why you’ll see one of the world’s best chefs going into schools to teach kids (and their parents) about healthy eating and organic food. It’s part of her national campaign to fight obesity and other health problems caused by bad eating habits that people develop when they are young. Her dream is to help everyone enjoy a better quality of life through better eating. So, in the end, Alice Waters is still following her dream of teaching and helping young people.


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psycho and casaba melon
Catagory:Facts
Author:BILL O’NEILL
Posted Date:06/12/2025
Posted By:utopia online

When it comes to movies that sum up the thriller genre, it would be difficult to find anything that could beat Psycho for the way in which it can play on your mind. Of course, there are so many different scenes that stand out, but perhaps the key one has to be the infamous shower scene. Anybody that has watched the movie will be able to remember it along with the terrifying sound effects, but if you knew how the sound effects were made, it could make things slightly less scary for you. Keep in mind that the movie was made in 1960, so it was hardly a case of special effects being out of this world or sounds being added in digitally after it was shot. Nope, they had to go for something that was far more basic in its approach, and yet it was still something that worked. In the shower scene, the sound effects were able to be created by repeatedly stabbing a casaba melon. Yep, it was achieved via a melon, and that is hardly something that you would expect to have been used. Bonus  About 200,000,000 M&Ms are sold each day in the United States.  Coconuts kill about 150 people each year. That is more than sharks.  The original name for butterfly was flutterby.  When the Titanic sank, 2228 people were on it. Only 706 survived.  Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.


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Joseph Pulitzer
Catagory:Biography
Author:LARRY ANDERSON
Posted Date:06/11/2025
Posted By:utopia online

A journalist, investigative reporter, publisher, and advocate for freedom of the press, Joseph Pulitzer also started the first school of Journalism - at Columbia University - and created the famous Pulitzer Prizes for journalism and literature.If Joseph Pulitzer had been born with better eyesight, or hadn’t known how to play chess, our newspapers would not be the same today. When he was a teenager in Hungary in the 1860s, Joseph decided to become a soldier, but his eyesight was so bad that no army would take him. Finally, a recruiter from the United States signed him up to fight in the American Civil War. After a year as a soldier, and having managed to survive the Civil War, Pulitzer stayed in America, working odd jobs and learning English. Then, a chance meeting changed his life and changed the world of journalism forever. As he was studying at the library in St. Louis, he saw two men playing chess. He suggested a good move to one of them, and the three started up a conversation. The two men were publishers of a newspaper, and they offered Pulitzer a job. Joseph Pulitzer turned out to be a brilliant and hard-working reporter. After a few years, he became publisher of the newspaper. Then, after making one smart deal after another, he wound up owning the largest newspaper in the city - the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. That’s when Pulitzer’s real genius came out. He made his newspaper the voice of the common people, investigating gambling rackets, political corruption, and rich tax dodgers. People loved this new, crusading style of journalism, and circulation soared. Joseph Pulitzer kept working hard even after he had become very ill and his eyesight was nearly gone. He believed that it was important for newspapers to serve a social purpose and help protect people from dishonesty and corruption. After a few years, he was able to buy another newspaper, this time in New York, and bring his populist approach to an even larger audience. In 1909, his New York paper broke the story of one of the biggest political scandals in American history - $40 million in illegal payments in the Panama Canal deal. The U.S. government tried to sue him, but Pulitzer stood firm and won an important victory for freedom of the press. Joseph Pulitzer willed part of his fortune to establish the world’s first school of journalism at New York’s Columbia University. He also set aside money for annual prizes for journalists and writers; today, winning one of the famous Pulitzer Prizes makes you a superstar among writers. Although he fell into journalism by accident, Joseph Pulitzer set standards that newspapers still strive to attain today.


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