News about Harold Lloyd

QUENTIN LETTES: On the advice of a US boffin, I put salt in my tea, but my gullet reacted like a donkey at Badminton

www.dailymail.co.uk, January 26, 2024
According to QUENTIN LETTES (right), an American academic has contributed to the massive corpus of nonsense that has been discussed about tea over the years. Professor Michelle Francl, a biology professor at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, suggested that the perfect cuppa be made with hot milk to' reduce the risk of curdling.' She also suggested salt to reduce the bitterness in your tea. Not sugar. Salt. After it has stewed in your juices for a few minutes, I will return to it in a minute. Professor Francl's photographs, as a quantum chemistry and 'topologically intriguing molecules' researcher, do not indicate a maniac. With a chunky necklace and Harold Lloyd glasses, she looks like a cheerful, sensible woman, but the camera will tell.

As the beloved children's film studio commemorates its 100th anniversary, Disney fans are only now realizing the dark truth behind Mickey Mouse

www.dailymail.co.uk, October 16, 2023
Particularly, after being rejected by Minnie, American cartoonist Floyd Gottfredson imagined a whole week's worth of daily comics in which Mickey Mouse attempted to commit suicide. Nevertheless, his attempts were foiled by a variety of strange events or silly quips, such as finding the sea too chilly to drown in or being unable to determine how to operate the shotgun to kill himself. In a Medium blogpost titled The Dark Side of Mickey, writer Jasmin James explained how Mickey was often depicted as joking and participating in animal cruelty.