Roy Kelton Orbison (April 23, 1936 – December 6, 1988)

Roy Orbison was a singer, songwriter, and guitarist known for
his distinctive and powerful voice, complex song structures,
and dark, emotional ballads.

Orbison’s music is mostly in the rock music genre and his
most successful periods were in the early 1960s and the late
1980s.

William Theodore Kotcheff ( April 7, 1931 – April 10, 2025)

A movie and TV legend whose six-decade career included leading
the first installments of two hit movie franchises in the 1980s has
died.

Ted Kotcheff, an accomplished movie and television producer and director died of heart failure on Wednesday, April 10, in Mexico  
just three days after his birthday.

1982

On April 21, 1895, Woodville Latham and his sons, Otway
and Gray, demonstrated their “Panopticon,” the first movie
projector developed in the United States.

Although motion pictures had been shown in the United States
for several years using Thomas Edison’s Kinetoscope, the films
could only be viewed one at a time in a peep-show box, not
projected to a large audience.

Dickson, an assistant in the Edison Laboratory, to help them
develop a device that would project life-sized images onto a
screen in order to attract larger audiences.

Adrien Brody has won the Academy Award for Best Actor
twice for his portrayal of Holocaust survivors: Polish pianist
Władysław Szpilman in Roman Polanski‘s war drama The
Pianist (2002) and Hungarian brutalist architect László Tóth
in Brady Corbet‘s period epic The Brutalist (2024).

The former made him the category’s youngest winner, at age
29. He has received several other accolades, including a
Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA Award with nominations
for three Primetime Emmy Awards.

2004

   
A new version of the 1939 film ‘The Wizard of Oz’ is set to premiere at Las Vegas Sphere in August.
    
    
 

(FOX NEW S) – The use of artificial intelligence to reimagine
the classic film "The Wizard of Oz" will likely see mixed
reactions from fans, experts told Fox News Digital.

While "film purists" may resist the idea of using generative
AI to give classic films an entire makeover, the technology
could "breathe new life" into hit movies — including "The
Wizard of Oz."

Warner Bros. Discovery, Google Cloud and Magnopus have
set out to do just that by creating an immersive experience
for fans of the 1939 classic.

The new "Wizard of Oz" experience is set to premiere at the
Las Vegas Sphere on Aug. 28.