Half a Bride the now important marriage problem ... gives to the screen one of the greatest epics of all times". "Photoplay" magazine called the film "good entertainment". "Motion Picture" magazine wrote, "Gary Cooper is at his best and Esther Ralston is particularly winning." Less impressed with the film, the "Montreal Gazette" described "Half a Bride" as "a rather familiar story told with none too great originality and lacking almost entirely the element of suspense." Half a Bride Half a Bride is a 1928 American silent romance film directed by Gregory La Cava and starring Esther Ralston, Gary Cooper, and William Worthington. Based
Thermal and a Quarter Thermal and a Quarter Thermal and a Quarter (TAAQ) is a rock band from Bangalore, India, that describes its music as "Bangalore rock", rooted in a classic rock idiom while Indian in "subtle, inescapable ways". Founded in 1996, TAAQ had released seven studio albums by its 20th anniversary in 2016. In 2001, when Deep Purple played in Bangalore, TAAQ opened the show. The band also opened for Guns N' Roses in 2012. The three members of TAAQ are Bruce Lee Mani (guitar and vocals), Rajeev Rajagopal (drums) and Leslie Charles (bass). By 2016, the albums released by the band included