Mulholland Drive is a 2001 American neo-noir mystery film written and directed by David Lynch (pictured) and starring Justin Theroux, Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Ann Miller, and Robert Forster. It tells the story of an aspiring actress named Betty, newly arrived in Los Angeles, who befriends an amnesiac woman hiding in an apartment that belongs to Betty's aunt. The film includes seemingly unrelated vignettes that eventually interlock, along with darkly comic scenes and images, presented in Lynch's signature surreal style. Much of the filming took place in 1999 as a television pilot. After it was rejected by television executives, Lynch gave the pilot an ending and completed the project as a feature film. The cryptic ending, which he declined to explain, has left the general meaning of the film's events open to interpretation. Mulholland Drive was acclaimed by critics and earned award nominations for Lynch at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival and 74th Academy Awards. The film is now widely regarded as one of his finest works.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1828:

Nullification Crisis: Vice President of the United States John C. Calhoun wrote the South Carolina Exposition and Protest to protest the Tariff of 1828. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Carolina_Exposition_and_Protest

1843:

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, a novella about the miser Ebenezer Scrooge and his transformation after being visited by three Christmas ghosts, was first published. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Christmas_Carol

1941:

Second World War: Three Italian Royal Navy divers on manned torpedoes detonated limpet mines on British Royal Navy ships, sinking two battleships. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raid_on_Alexandria_(1941)

1956:

Irish-born British physician John Bodkin Adams was arrested in connection with the suspicious deaths of more than 160 of his patients, although he was only convicted on minor charges. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bodkin_Adams

1986:

Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev released dissident Andrei Sakharov after six years of internal exile in Gorky. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Sakharov

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

humbug: (slang) Balderdash!, nonsense!, rubbish! https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/humbug

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall die? It may be, that in the sight of Heaven, you are more worthless and less fit to live than millions like this poor man's child. Oh God! to hear the Insect on the leaf pronouncing on the too much life among his hungry brothers in the dust.   --A Christmas Carol https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Christmas_Carol