Facts about Barbenheimer (15 photos + 1 video)

Today is Barbenheimer's Day on the Internet. In honor of this holiday, people go to the cinema to see a comedy about a plastic doll and a drama about Manhattan Project leader Robert Oppenheimer. We have with you there is no such possibility, so let's find out interesting facts about the main characters in these films.





Robert Oppenheimer

There is a rumor that the Nobel laureate James Frank after taking the candidate exam at Oppenheimer (he was 23 at the time years) cried out: "What a relief! A little more, and he would have begun to test me."



Oppenheimer was a big fan of spicy food. Most of all he liked narsi-goreng (fried rice, vegetables, meat). The physicist's colleagues called it dish "disgusting goreng" and tried not to approach the scientist during meal time.



While still very young, the future physicist spent the summer on a ranch in mountains of New Mexico and fell in love with the area forever. In one of his In a letter to a friend, he mentioned:

My two big loves are physics and wilderness. Too bad they can't be combined.

But everything turned out as he wanted, because it was there, in New Mexico, On the grounds of the Los Alamos school, Oppenheimer worked on the atomic bomb. And in the same desert, the first test of a nuclear weapon took place.



Oppenheimer was not the most suitable candidate for the position Director of the secret laboratory for the creation of weapons. He didn't have Nobel Prize winner, he was a theorist and also a sympathetic leftist ideas: his brother was a communist and he was also married to a communist Katherine Puning. But the project manager from the army side, despite all this, he believed that there was no better candidate than Oppenheimer. He considered him genius.



The scientist became a member of the scientific group appointed Transitional Committee, which coordinated American policy in connection with atomic weapons until the end of the World War.



Physicists staged something like a sweepstakes before the test atomic bomb: they wanted to guess the power of the explosion. Oppenheimer himself made a bet on 300 tons. He lost because 6 kg of plutonium exploded with a power equal to the explosion of 18,000 tons of TNT.



After working failures under the guidance of J. J. Thomson, the scientist I had to turn to a psychiatrist with severe depression. And also he learned Sanskrit in order to read the Bhagavad Gita in the original.

Barbie



Barbara plays with Barbie

Barbie got her name in honor of the daughter of the co-owners of the company Mattel - Barbara Hendler. The doll's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.



The very first Barbie doll

The doll premiered in New York on March 9, 1959 at American International Toy Fair. Exhibitors, by the way, dismissively spoke about Barbie, believing that she could not see success. However, Barbie instantly became a bestseller.



Lilly

Barbie had a prototype: Lilly doll, quite famous in Germany. Lilly was a plump beauty and always sold in complete with a variety of outfits. Here is just a small nuance: it intended for a vulgar gift to adult men.



First TV commercial for Barbie



In a Dior suit

The manufacturing company in 1985 agreed with the Oscar da la Renta on creating Barbie's first haute couture outfits. After luxurious dresses for Barbie were sewn by such houses as Dior, Moschino, Christian Louboutin. What can I say, Andy Warhol also accepted participation in the popularization of the doll.



On the left is a 1965 space Barbie, and on the right is a Barbie model in a Roscosmos spacesuit, released in 2021

In 1965, the year when Alexei Leonov was the first in history went into outer space - they made an astronaut costume for Barbie.



barbie twiggy

year 2009. The number of dolls sold has exceeded one billion. By the way, the navel at Barbie appeared only in 2000.

Mattel has always tried to be on the wave and in 1967 did Barbie with hair and face of supermodel Twiggy. And in 1968 they released Christy is Barbie's black girlfriend.



Fun fact: Barbie has been running for president permanently since 1992.