Друг по аське сообщил, что по вполне достоверным сведениям запущена в производство российская версия популярного американского сериала "Доктор Хаус". В заглавной роли будет сниматься Сергей Безруков!

Говорит, не шутка ни разу.

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If Jack had ever doubted that Robby Jackson really was a fighter pilot, this would have cured him. Jackson's personal toy was a two-year-old Chevrolet Corvette, painted candy-apple red, and he drove it with a sense of personal invincibility.

— Tom Clancy, "Patriot Games"

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"Fuck," John breathed, when the door closed. That was the problem with black operations. Sooner or later, some bastard flipped the light switch, and it was generally somebody you didn't even want in the room.

In the 1970s, Kingsley Amis, Arthur C Clarke and Brian Aldiss were judging a contest for the best science-fiction novel of the year. They were going to give the prize to Grimus, Salman Rushdie’s first novel. At the last minute, however, the publishers withdrew the book from the award. They didn’t want Grimus on the SF shelves. “Had it won,” Aldiss, the wry, 82-year-old godfather of British SF, observes, “he would have been labelled ascience-fiction writer, and nobody would have heard of him again.”