You hear him on the radio: Dr. John Lienhard of KUHFยs Engines of Our Ingenuity. Heยs the guy who hosts those segments about science and discoveries and all that. Oh, yeah, heยs also the M.D. Anderson Professor Emeritus of mechanical engineering and history at the University of Houston (hey, weยre impressed). Today youยll be able to meet Dr. Lienhard when he hosts a screening of his favorite movie, No Highway in the Sky, a black-and-white 1951 jewel directed by Henry Koster. Itยs easy to see why No Highway is the good doctorยs favorite: Itยs about a scientist, one Mr. Theodore Honey (they had names like that back in the 1950s). Played by Jimmy Stewart, Honey is an aeronautic scientist on his way to a plane crash site when he figures out that the plane heยs on is faulty ย and itยs going to crash, too. So, does the brainy Dr. Lienhard think that weยll eventually have a highway in the sky? Weยre not sure. Ask him when you get to tonightยs 7 p.m. screening and let us know, will ya? Museum of Fine Arts, 1001 Bissonnet. For more information, call 713ย639ย7515 or visit www.mfah.org. $6 to $7.
Mon., Nov. 26, 7 p.m., 2007
This article appears in Nov 22-28, 2007.