300.07 - Marvin Hamlisch 1944-2012

Mr. Hamlisch was a 12-time Academy Award nominee for his score and song contributions to films as varied as “The Spy Who Loved Me” and “Sophie’s Choice” and a three-time Oscar winner for the score of “The Sting” as well as the score from “The Way We Were” and its title song (with lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman). He won four Emmy Awards, four Grammy Awards and a Tony Award for his score to the musical “A Chorus Line.” That musical, which blended bouncy, brassy songs like “One” and “Dance: Ten; Looks: Three” with melancholy numbers like “At the Ballet,” also won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1976.

A Tribute to Marvin Hamlisch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NrNmUNwFp8

The Music of Marvin Hamlisch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DDrIWD2yKc

The Entertainer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaB9HfMN5h8&feature=related

A Chorus Line
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo0iIoWePYI&feature=related

The Way We Were
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcEOug9lb2Q&feature=related

300.06 - Mars Rover Curiosity

NASA's $2.5-billion mission involved the work of more than 5,000 people from 37 states, some of whom had labored for 10 years to hear the two words that Al Chen, a Jet Propulsion Laboratory engineer, said inside mission control at 10:32 p.m.: “Touchdown confirmed.”

Chen reported that Curiosity was in a “nice flat place,” and as icing on the cake, the spacecraft sent home thumbnail photographs of itself. Officials had said earlier in the day that photographs were possible but unlikely. Curiosity responded by immediately delivering a series of images, one showing one of its wheels resting comfortably on the floor of an ancient crater.

Historic Landing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNviFQpRvwQ

Curiosity Final Preparations

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Xm8WfZ3Ed4

Curiosity Landing - ABC News Report
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oLaC1VYoTM