RE: Post 10 Random Facts About Yourself
September 17, 2015 at 12:39 pm
(This post was last modified: September 17, 2015 at 12:40 pm by Whateverist.)
(September 17, 2015 at 6:51 am)MTL Wrote:(September 17, 2015 at 3:54 am)ignoramus Wrote: Yes, Absolutely! A very moving film!
Do you ever get moved by a "based on a true story" movie that you go on the net to look up and read about the actual person/story!
I've done that a few times now ... eg: A beautiful mind, Hachi, etc
Oh, of course.
There is a bronze statue of Hachi at that very train station, IRL.
A friend of mine from France traveled to Japan and touched that statue, himself.
You mentioned A Beautiful Mind.
Were you aware that John Nash, and his wife,
were recently both killed in a car crash in New Jersey?
http://www.nj.com/middlesex/index.ssf/20...e_say.html
Interesting stray fact: a friend of ours was a doctoral student in mathematics at the same time as John Nash at Princeton. His wife complains that all through the movie our friend kept grousing that it was nothing like that.
They used to be our favorite people to stay with in Manhattan. But now they've moved to our town. While not as renown as John Nash, our boy Martin is pretty famous for his work in computer logic and still gives talks all over the world. (He is our buddy because his wife, like mine, is a textile artist.)