Diner scene from Five Easy Pieces
An evening pause: All Jack Nicholson wants is some toast. Five Easy Pieces (1970). This scene is probably more famous than the film itself.
Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
William Byrd Suite as transcribed by Gordon Jacob
Linda Ronstadt – You tell me that I’m falling down
Walk to the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa
Lindy Hop showdown
An evening pause: While our politicians fight it out in Congress, let’s watch a different kind of showdown.
The Ultimate Showdown
The climax to The Roaring Twenties
An evening pause: The Roaring Twenties (1939). Humphrey Bogart and James Cagney were often cast as gangsters. However, their film personas’ were very different. Bogart’s characters generally showed a trace of weakness in his soul, while Cagney’s characters were rock solid no matter how much things fell apart. The finale of this classic Hollywood film, in which each man dies, illustrates this difference quite starkly.
My Blackberry is not working
Peter Kogler computer animation in museum
The Corrs – No Frontiers
Angels Landing hike – Zion National Park, Utah
An evening pause: This video doesn’t quite get you to the top, but it definitely gives you a feel for the spectacular nature of the hike.
Popeye – The Man on the Flying Trapeze
Large Hadron Rap
Tumbleweeds
Ultimate luck compilation
Father Christmas banned at children’s center after Muslim family complained
Islamic tolerance: Father Christmas banned at children’s center after Muslim family complained.
Skyscrapers 2010 – The World’s Tallest Buildings
Dan Fogelberg – Leader of the Band
Andre Rieu playing Auld Lang Syne
OKLAHOMA! OK! – Hugh Jackman 1999
Pearl Harbor – Tennessee Piano and Orchestra
Jib Jab – So long to ya 2010
Mike Oldfield – Music of the Spheres
The joy of stats
An evening pause: As we approach the end of the this first decade of the 21st century, let’s take a look back at the progress of the past two hundred years, illustrated by the progress of a single graph and animated in a way you’ve never seen before.
A Christmas Carol (1951)
An evening pause: Scrooge awakes on Christmas Day. From probably the best movie version of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol (1951), starring Alastair Sim in an astonishing performance.
Apollo 8 on Christmas Eve
An evening pause: The Christmas eve telecast by the Apollo 8 astronauts from lunar orbit, December 24, 1968, probably the most listened to space telecast in history. The story behind how and why these men said what they did is the central theme of my first book, Genesis, the Story of Apollo 8.
Katie Melua – Have yourself a merry little Christmas
How to play in the desert
Winter Solstice in the Arctic
Tom Seaver tribute
An evening pause: For those who remember the 1969 Miracle Mets (Happy birthday Lloyd!), here is a tribute compilation of newsclips, celebrating Tom Seaver’s Hall of Fame career. Ya gotta believe! (Though Tug McGraw said it, it was Seaver more than anyone else who made it happen.)