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…
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.
