OGN Tuesday

Editor OGN Daily
Oct 8, 2024
3 min read

Some tasty bite sized chunks of positive news to brighten the day.

Daniel Day-Lewis in 2008 — Daniel Day-Lewis.

Out of Retirement

Three-time Oscar-winner Daniel Day-Lewis is set to appear in another feature film, seven years after he abruptly announced the end of his acting career. The film, Anemone, will be directed by the actor’s son, Ronan Day-Lewis, from a script that the pair co-wrote together. Few details about the movie are available, other than it focusing on intergenerational family bonds, especially the dynamics between fathers, sons and brothers. Daniel Day-Lewis, 67, will star in the film alongside veteran English actors Sean Bean and Samantha Morton. Daniel Day-Lewis won his most recent best-actor Oscar for Lincoln, in 2013. His earlier wins were for 1989's My Left Foot and 2007's There Will Be Blood.

Fingers Crossed

U.K. researchers are in the development phase of what could be the world’s first ovarian cancer vaccine. Scientists at the University of Oxford are creating OvarianVax, a vaccine which they hope will teach the immune system to recognise and attack the earliest stages of ovarian cancer. Director of the university's ovarian cancer cell laboratory Prof Ahmed Ahmed said they still had "a long way to go" but he was "optimistic".

Ryan Chetiyawardana at Layaness — Ryan Chetiyawardana, proprietor

World's Best Cocktails

London's South Bank’s Lyaness just became the highest-rated address in the Pinnacle guide – the Michelin-style rating for cocktails. Congratulations to Ryan Chetiyawardana, 40, the owner of Layaness. He trained first as a chef, then as a biologist, then in fine art, then in philosophy, all experiences that would influence his next career move into the drinks industry. Now, Lyaness became the first bar in the world to be awarded three Pins in the Pinnacle guide (the equivalent of a restaurant being awarded three Michelin stars).

Junkyard Gem

In 1962, Luigi Lo Rosso, a junkyard dealer, was scrounging through the basement of an Italian villa and stumbled upon an asymmetrical painting of a woman on a rolled-up canvas. Instead of selling it at his family’s pawn shop, he kept the artwork and eventually gave it to his wife to decorate their home. The couple’s son Andrea Lo Rosso told CNN she named it “the scribble.” Over six decades later, experts believe this “scribble” is actually an original by Pablo Picasso - and the woman featured is poet and photographer Dora Maar, the Spanish painter’s lover. Although you can see Picasso’s name on the upper left corner of the painting, Andrea said his dad didn’t think anything of it when he found it as a young man. Cinzia Altieri, a graphologist for a patrimony court in Milan, said in a statement to local media: “There is no doubt that the signature is his.” The final kicker? It’s estimated to be worth around $6 million, but could sell for much more if certified by the Picasso Foundation.

Guitar once owned by George Harrison — George Harrison's guitar

How Much?

An electric guitar played by the late guitarist George Harrison in the early days of the Beatles will go up for sale at an auction next month where it could be sold for more than $800,000. Bought from a music store in the band's birth city of Liverpool, Harrison played the Futurama guitar in the early 1960s when the band performed at the Cavern Club, toured Germany and made their first official records for Polydor. The auctioneers say the Futurama guitar, with its sunburst finish, was one of his most played. They call it "one of the holy grails of historic Beatles guitars" and said it is expected to exceed its estimate price tag of $600,000-$800,000.

Solar panels on Swiss railway track — Credit: Sun-Ways

On Track

Switzerland’s Federal Office of Transport (FOT) has given a permit to the country’s first removable solar power plant to be deployed on a railway line. This marks the first time such a project has been approved in Switzerland, paving the way for innovative solar energy solutions in the country. According to Sun-Ways, as debates intensify around the installation of solar power plants in the Alps, their technology presents a viable solution by making use of unused space without disrupting train traffic or interfering with maintenance and inspection work on the tracks, while also supporting the essential growth of solar energy production.

"Kindness is like snow. It beautifies everything it covers." Kahlil Gibran

On This Day

8 October 1982: The Polish legislature dissolved the trade union Solidarity, which subsequently became an underground organization and played a key role in ending communist rule in Poland, with its various leaders, notably Lech Wałęsa, later holding important government posts.