Today marks the birth in Bluefield, West Virginia of Nobel Prize-winning mathematician John Forbes Nash, who became better-known thanks to not only Sylvia Nasar’s biography A Beautiful Mind, but the 2001 blockbuster and Oscar-winning Best Picture from which it was adapted.
And a Happy Birthday to a man of many faces…
Our subject line is taken from one of the many taglines from the movie we are looking at today. As you can see from the poster below, another is This Is Not A True Story. It’s a Love Story.
On this date, the Academy Award winning movie A Beautiful Mind, based on Sylvia Nasar’s biography of John Nash, was officially released in the United States. (On December 21st, 2001 there was a limited release in order to qualify for the Oscar nominations). Directed by Ron Howard with an adapted screenplay by Akiva Goldsman, the film Read More …
On New Year’s Day 1933, Alicia Lardé was born in San Salvador, El Salvador to a prominent upper-class family. The daughter of physician Carlos Lardé, she was named for her mother, Alicia née Lopez-Harrison, and had two brothers. Her father had been familiar with the United States as the family travelled a great deal, and Read More …
And we’re getting caught up here! On August 17th, 1947: Journalist Sylvia Nasar was born in Rosenheim, Germany. She is an American writer best known for her award-winning book, A Beautiful Mind, the biography of Nobel Prize winner John Forbes, Nash, Junior.
While riding in a taxicab on the New Jersey Turnpike, Nobel Prize winner John Forbes Nash and his wife Alicia are killed in a car crash. Nash was portrayed in an Oscar-nominated performance by Russell Crowe, while Alicia Nash was played by Jennifer Connelly, who won the Oscar for best supporting actress.
