Explore More Director Paul Verhoeven has finally addressed Sharon Stone’s claim that she was tricked into removing her underwear for the infamous scene in 1992’s “Basic Instinct.”
The now-63-year-old actress wrote in her recent memoir that she was under the impression that no frontal nudity of her would appear in the film’s final cut. Verhoeven, however, finds this inconceivable.
“She knew exactly what we were doing,” the 82-year-old Dutch director told Variety in an interview Wednesday. Read More...
Explore More Holly Golightly’s favorite breakfast spot is no longer hawking pricey baubles.
Tiffany & Co.’s Fifth Avenue store — depicted in the 1961 film “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” starring Audrey Hepburn — was closed for renovations on Monday for the first time in its 70-year history.
For the next two years, fans of the jeweler will have to head half a block east to a Tiffany’s temporary flagship store on 57th Street between Fifth and Madison avenues. Read More...
Cardiac muscle within the walls of the heart form a functional syncytium. A syncytium is a mass of cells that have merged together. The muscle cells in the cardiac syncytium are derived from the mesoderm. Most syncytia are composed of a single mass of protoplasm with multiple cell nuclei.Click to see full answer. Simply so, where are the functional syncytium of the heart?Cardiac muscle as a “Functional Syncytium.” The angulated dark areas crossing the cardiac muscle fibers are called intercalated discs; however, they are actually cell membranes that separate individual cardiac muscle cells from each other. Read More...
