RELATED STORIES One week after detailing its plan for the 2020-21 TV season, NBC has shed light on the status of the assorted pilots that were hoping to be in contention for a spot on the schedule. Debris — in which Jonathan Tucker’s CIA analyst (Kingdom) and Riann Steele’s (NCIS: New Orleans) MI6 agent investigate the […]
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Da Vinci Code Prequel Series Gets NBC Pilot Order: Who Should Play Langdon?
RELATED STORIES Get to dreamcasting a younger Tom Hanks, because NBC has given a pilot order to Langdon, which is about the earlier adventures of the code-cracking hero from The Da Vinci Code and Dan Brown’s other bestselling Robert Langdon novels. Based on Brown’s The Lost Symbol — which technically was the third Robert Langdon […]
Artist Leonardo da Vinci likely had an ‘advantageous’ eye disorder
Based on Leonardo da Vinci’s work, there is evidence that the artist had strabismus — a condition that affects about three percent of the population and is usually detected at birth. One eye is straight, while the other eye can drift.
Leonardo DiCaprio to Play Leonardo Da Vinci in Leonardo Da Vinci Movie
Leonardo DiCaprio is notoriously picky about which projects he tackles as an actor. He hasn’t made a film since finally winning an Oscar for Best Actor in The Revenant, but he’s on board Quentin Tarantino’s developing movie about the Manson Family murders, which is supposed to be his next project. After that, it sounds like he’ll tackle […]
A lost Leonardo da Vinci painting just sold for a record $450 million — but critics have spotted an unusual flaw
Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Images for Christie’s Auction House The Leonardo da Vinci painting “Salvator Mundi,” which just sold for a record $ 450 million, has an unusual flaw. It doesn’t obey the laws of physics in a crucial way that’s uncharacteristic of da Vinci. The flaw has led some historians to question the painting’s authenticity. Defenders […]
Maria Sharapova beats Roberta Vinci on comeback from doping ban in Stuttgart Open
Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova has won her first match back after a 15-month doping ban, beating Italy’s Roberta Vinci 7-5, 6-3 in the 1st round of the Stuttgart Open in Germany. Sharapova showed no sign on court rust as she dispatched world No. 36 Vinci in straight sets in Germany, setting up an all-Russia clash […]