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Interior of the Sci-Fi Dine-In

The Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater Restaurant is a theme restaurant at Disney's Hollywood Studios, a theme park at Walt Disney World in Bay Lake, Florida. The restaurant is modeled after a 1950s drive-in theater. Walt Disney Imagineering designed the booths to resemble convertibles of the period. While eating, guests watch a large projection screen displaying clips from films such as Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster, Plan 9 from Outer Space, and Attack of the 50 Foot Woman. In 1991, the Sci-Fi Dine-In opened along with nineteen other new Walt Disney World attractions marking the complex's twentieth anniversary. By the following year, it had become the park's most popular restaurant. Thai movie theater operator EGV Entertainment opened the EGV Drive-in Cafe in Bangkok in 2003, explicitly emulating the Sci-Fi Dine-In. USA Today's list of the best restaurants in American amusement parks ranks the Sci-Fi Dine-In fifteenth, but many reviewers rate it more highly for its atmosphere than its cuisine. (Full article...)

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... that Emily Manning used a poetic dialogue between a husband and his clairvoyant wife to examine Victorian gender roles?
... that most high-ranking police officials in ancient Egypt during the Ptolemaic period were Greek?
... that Paul Gorton was booked as a guest on Do You Know Your Place?, but ended up co-hosting the show instead?
... that an Indonesian museum that receives some hundred thousand visitors a year was built in a graveyard parking lot?
... that Thomas Henry Tracy, the city engineer of London and Vancouver, was also a lieutenant colonel who fought in the North-West Rebellion?
... that 15,000 Ukrainians joined a Telegram channel for an orgy on a Kyiv hill in the event of a Russian nuclear strike?
... that the Kurtöp language has a word for an assortment of sounds like "hard, non-spherical object[s] rolling down a paved road"?
... that Toronto firefighters once fought with clowns and lit their circus on fire?

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Giorgio Moroder

Italian singer, songwriter, DJ and record producer Giorgio Moroder has won 21 awards from 39 nominations in the course of his career. He has won three Academy Awards: Best Original Score for Midnight Express (1978), and two Best Original Song awards for "Flashdance... What a Feeling", from the film Flashdance (1983), and for "Take My Breath Away", from Top Gun (1986). Moroder is one of the originators of Italo disco and electronic dance music, and his work with synthesizers heavily influenced several music genres such as house, techno and trance music. He has also been dubbed the "Father of Disco". Moroder won two of his four Grammy Awards for Flashdance: Best Album or Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special and Best Instrumental Composition. His other two awards were for Donna Summer's single "Carry On" and for Daft Punk's album Random Access Memories, which won Album of the Year. He has been nominated for nine Golden Globe Awards that resulted in four wins. (Full list...)

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Doris is a "comedy opera" by Alfred Cellier, with a libretto by B. C. Stephenson. It premiered in London in 1889 and ran for a modestly successful 202 performances, despite a starry cast including Arthur Williams, Ben Davies, Alice Barnett and Hayden Coffin. Marie Tempest, the star of the same team's 1886 hit Dorothy, later played Doris. Critics praised the score but disliked the libretto, in which a person accused of a plot against Queen Elizabeth I repeatedly switches clothes with others to escape arrest. This image shows the front cover of the score of a waltz composed by Procida Bucalossi based on Cellier's tunes from Doris. The lithographic illustration, by Nicholas Hanhart, depicts the scene in which Doris stumbles upon Sir Philip Carey's hiding spot and decides to help him.

Lithograph credit: Nicholas Hanhart; restored by Adam Cuerden

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