This scene is often mentioned as the defining moment that helped F. Murray Abraham win the Oscar for Best Actor for his role as Antonio Salieri in Amadeus. Truly impressive.
Tom Hulce's performance as Mozart is also amazing, both of them delivered really unforgettable performances, it's just a pity there's only one Oscar.
On June 13, 1777, a 19-year-old French teenager landed on a beach in South Carolina, uninvited, to fight in someone else's war. He would become one of the most important men in American history.
The Marquis de Lafayette was one of the richest young aristocrats in France. He had a beautiful wife, a fortune, and zero reason to risk any of it. But he believed in the American cause so fiercely that when the French king forbade him from going, Lafayette bought his own ship and sailed anyway. He literally went AWOL from a life of luxury to bleed for a country that didn't exist yet.
Congress was annoyed at first. Another foreign officer looking for a paycheck? Then Lafayette offered to serve for free and pay his own way. That got their attention.
He met Washington and the two formed one of the great father-son bonds in American history. Washington had no biological children. Lafayette named his only son George Washington Lafayette.
He took a bullet in the leg at Brandywine and kept rallying the retreat. He was instrumental at Yorktown, the battle that won the war. He went home a hero on two continents.
A foreign teenager believed in America before America did. 249 years ago today.
Today is 28 years since one of the most mythical moments in NBA – and sports – history: "THE LAST SHOT", the shot that Michael Jordan gave the Chicago Bulls their sixth ring. Here you have it narrated by the great Andres Montes
This is hands down one of the most intense and terrifying fight scenes ever put on screen,a man versus a tiger in a battle for survival. Every second will have you on the edge of your seat. Absolute masterpiece! 🎬🐯🔥
“If you think the world is selfish and rotten, go to the cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer overlooking Omaha Beach. See what one group of men did for another on D-Day, June 6th, 1944.” — Andy Rooney
A 17-year-old valedictorian, Leen Hijaz, used her graduation speech to speak for the voiceless: "Millions suffering in Palestine, Sudan, Congo, Afghanistan. Families torn apart by ICE."
The school administrator cut her mic. Told her: "If you don't stop, you're not graduating." They withheld her diploma for four days.
DeLauro: You just gave the President’s family a tax immunity. The Save America PAC paid you $10 million. Do you not see the conflict of interest?
Blanche: I do not understand what you are saying.
You just won a 2-week, all-expenses-paid vacation. But there’s a catch: you have to stay within one region the whole time. What region are you picking?
Obviously be a James Island I’m thrilled for the guys - but how about that umpire calling the last out? Graceful, athletic, sharp - with a leg raise + a quality run off
Trump: "You take a look. The Lincoln Memorial -- it was built, I guess, a little after the Lincoln Memorial. It's embarrassing. It was so horrible. It was filthy dirty. It was Biden."
25 years ago today: Alan Webb breaks Jim Ryun's legendary US high school mile record by running 3:53.43 at the Prefontaine Classic.
Even with super shoes, super spikes, and bicarb, no US high schooler has come within a second of Webb's record.
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