Unfortunately there is nothing “new” that can be written, there can only be small twists or combinations of the following core plots…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thirty-Six_Dramatic_Situations
Every plot line has been written before
Olympic Games’ Host Cities by Year
I was curious about the upcoming Olympic games, then challenged myself to fill in as many of the recent two decades of games’ locations. Failed at that miserably and referenced the rest of the locations for a complete list.
| Summer | YEAR | Winter |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Beijing | |
| Tokyo | 2020 | |
| 2018 | South Korea | |
| Rio | 2016 | |
| 2014 | Sochi | |
| London | 2012 | |
| 2010 | Vancouver | |
| Beijing | 2008 | |
| 2006 | Turin | |
| Athens | 2004 | |
| 2002 | Salt Lake City | |
| Sydney | 2000 | |
| 1998 | Nagano | |
| Atlanta | 1996 | |
| 1994 | Lillehammer | |
| Barcelona | 1992 | Albertsville FR |
| Seoul | 1988 | Calgary |
| Los Angeles | 1984 | Sarajevo |
| Moscow | 1980 | Lake Placid |
| Montreal | 1976 | Innsbruck |
| Munich | 1972 | Sapporo |
| Mexico City | 1968 | Grenoble FR |
| Tokyo | 1964 | Innsbruck |
| Rome | 1960 | Squaw Valley |
| Melbourne+ Stockholm | 1956 | Italy |
| Helsinki | 1952 | Oslo |
| London | 1948 | St. Moritz |
| war | 1944 | war |
| war | 1940 | war |
| Berlin | 1936 | Germany |
| Los Angeles | 1932 | Lake Placid |
| Amsterdam | 1928 | St. Moritz |
| Paris | 1924 | Chamonix |
| Antwerp | 1920 | --- |
| war | 1916 | --- |
| Stockholm | 1912 | --- |
| London | 1908 | --- |
| St. Louis | 1904 | --- |
| Paris | 1900 | --- |
| Athens | 1896 | --- |
Top 25 Films
I am constantly asked to list off my top movie, or a top 5 list. It’s very tough to rank some films above others accounting for different segmentation. Here is a list of top 25 that I relatively quickly pieced together. Side note: when guessing the year of the film I guesses 10 exactly correct and on average for the 25 was off by 1.1 years.
Table is sortable.
| FILM | YEAR | DIRECTOR |
|---|---|---|
| North By Northwest | 1959 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| Vertigo | 1958 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| The Godfather | 1972 | Francis Ford Coppola |
| Heat | 1995 | Michael Mann |
| The Lives of Others | 2006 | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck |
| Casablanca | 1942 | Michael Curtiz |
| High and Low | 1963 | Akira Kurosawa |
| Burnt by the Sun | 1994 | Nikita Mikhalkov |
| Scent of a Woman | 1992 | Martin Brest |
| The Usual Suspects | 1995 | Bryan Singer |
| The Aviator | 2004 | Martin Scorsese |
| Volver | 2006 | Pedro Almodovar |
| Catch me if You Can | 2002 | Steven Spielberg |
| Last of the Mohicans | 1992 | Michael Mann |
| Belle Epoque | 1992 | Fernando Trueba |
| From Here to Eternity | 1953 | Fred Zinnemann |
| LA Confidential | 1997 | Curtis Hanson |
| Todo Sobre Mi Madre | 1999 | Pedro Almodovar |
| Hable Con Ella | 2002 | Pedro Almodovar |
| Sabrina | 1995 | Sydney Pollack |
| Walking the Streets of Moscow | 1964 | Georgiy Daneliya |
| The English Patient | 1996 | Anthony Minghella |
| The Philadelphia Story | 1940 | George Cukor |
| East/West | 1999 | Regis Wargnier |
| Stealing Beauty | 1996 | Bernardo Bertolucci |
Russian Political Leaders
| Name | Years | # of Years | Title | Country Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nicholas II | 1894-1917 | 23 | Emperor | Russian Empire |
| Georgy Lvov | 1917 | <1 | Prime Minister | Russia |
| Alexander Kerensky | 1917 | <1 | Prime Minister | Russia |
| Vladimir Lenin | 1917-1924 | 8 | Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars | Soviet Union |
| Joseph Stalin | 1922-1952 | 30 | General Secretary of the Communist Party | Soviet Union |
| Nikita Khrushchev | 1953-1964 | 11 | First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union | Soviet Union |
| Leonid Brezhnev | 1964-1982 | 18 | General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party | Soviet Union |
| Yuri Andropov | 1982-1984 | 2 | General Secretary of the Communist Party | Soviet Union |
| Konstantin Chernenko | 1984-1985 | 1 | General Secretary of the Communist Party | Soviet Union |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | 1985-1991 | 6 | General Secretary of the Communist Party | Soviet Union |
| Boris Yeltsin | 1991-1999 | 8 | President of Russia | Russian Federation |
| Vladimir Putin | 2000-2008 | 8 | President of Russia | Russian Federation |
| Dmitry Medvedev | 2008-2012 | 4 | President of Russia | Russian Federation |
| Vladimir Putin | 2012-present | 12 (projected) | President of Russia | Russian Federation |