Hedy Lamarr: 'Invention' and inventor on Turner Classic Movies (photo: Hedy Lamarr publicity shot ca. early '40s) Two Hedy Lamarr movies released during her heyday in the early '40s — Victor Fleming's Tortilla Flat (1942), co-starring Spencer Tracy and John Garfield, and King Vidor's H.M. Pulham, Esq. (1941), co-starring Robert Young and Ruth Hussey — will be broadcast on Turner Classic Movies on Wednesday, November 12, 2014, at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. Pt, respectively. Best known as a glamorous Hollywood star (Ziegfeld Girl, White Cargo, Samson and Delilah), the Viennese-born Lamarr (née Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler), who would have turned 100 on November 9, was also an inventor: she co-developed and patented with composer George Antheil the concept of frequency hopping, currently known as spread-spectrum communications (or "spread-spectrum broadcasting"), which ultimately led to the evolution of wireless technology. (More on the George Antheil and Hedy Lamarr invention further below.) Somewhat ironically,...
- 11/2/2014
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
'I can come home and do it again,' the onetime Bad Boy Mc tells Mixtape Daily.
By Shaheem Reid
Black Rob
Photo: MTV News
The O.D.: A Mixtape Daily Exclusive
Black Rob makes no excuses. He knows his career as an Mc could have been more successful than it has been, but when asked where the blame should fall, he points the finger at the man in the mirror. Rob was forced to take a four-year hiatus from the rap game when he went to prison in 2006 on grand larceny charges.
Back in 2004, Black Rob stole some jewelry from a fellow guest at the On the Avenue Hotel in Manhattan, and he was caught on tape. Rob says it was a move he regretted almost as soon as he made it.
As far as his decade-plus stint on Diddy's Bad Boy records, Rob (real name Robert Ross...
By Shaheem Reid
Black Rob
Photo: MTV News
The O.D.: A Mixtape Daily Exclusive
Black Rob makes no excuses. He knows his career as an Mc could have been more successful than it has been, but when asked where the blame should fall, he points the finger at the man in the mirror. Rob was forced to take a four-year hiatus from the rap game when he went to prison in 2006 on grand larceny charges.
Back in 2004, Black Rob stole some jewelry from a fellow guest at the On the Avenue Hotel in Manhattan, and he was caught on tape. Rob says it was a move he regretted almost as soon as he made it.
As far as his decade-plus stint on Diddy's Bad Boy records, Rob (real name Robert Ross...
- 6/11/2010
- MTV Music News
'I can come home and do it again,' the onetime Bad Boy Mc tells Mixtape Daily.
By Shaheem Reid
Black Rob
Photo: MTV News
The O.D.: A Mixtape Daily Exclusive
Black Rob makes no excuses. He knows his career as an Mc could have been more successful than it has been, but when asked where the blame should fall, he points the finger at the man in the mirror. Rob was forced to take a four-year hiatus from the rap game when he went to prison in 2006 on grand larceny charges.
Back in 2004, Black Rob stole some jewelry from a fellow guest at the On the Avenue Hotel in Manhattan, and he was caught on tape. Rob says it was a move he regretted almost as soon as he made it.
As far as his decade-plus stint on Diddy's Bad Boy records, Rob (real name Robert Ross...
By Shaheem Reid
Black Rob
Photo: MTV News
The O.D.: A Mixtape Daily Exclusive
Black Rob makes no excuses. He knows his career as an Mc could have been more successful than it has been, but when asked where the blame should fall, he points the finger at the man in the mirror. Rob was forced to take a four-year hiatus from the rap game when he went to prison in 2006 on grand larceny charges.
Back in 2004, Black Rob stole some jewelry from a fellow guest at the On the Avenue Hotel in Manhattan, and he was caught on tape. Rob says it was a move he regretted almost as soon as he made it.
As far as his decade-plus stint on Diddy's Bad Boy records, Rob (real name Robert Ross...
- 6/11/2010
- MTV Music News
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