• Filmmaker John Waters once worked as a teacher in a prison. Once a year, a graduation ceremony was held in the prison for all student-convicts who were receiving a college degree. After the ceremony, convicts and their families were allowed to attend a barbeque, and Mr. Waters remembers one of the graduates telling his father that he was doing well and hoped to be paroled soon, and that when he was paroled he would renovate the family home. Just then, his father asked, referring to the plate his son the convict was holding, “Are you through with that?” His son wasn’t sure what he was referring to and replied, “With what? Killing people or eating?”
• Controversial filmmaker John Waters was once mugged in New York. Suffering from a serious concession and covered with blood, he staggered to a friend’s apartment, and when she opened the door, he told her, “I’ve just killed five people, and I’ve come to involve you.”
Critics
• Film critic Jim Emerson met famed director Robert Altman by accident in a hotel. Mr. Emerson had recently returned from Europe, and he was telling a publicist how he “found it exhilarating and liberating to be in a strange city, and to be out in public, and not understand the conversations that are taking place all around you.” Mr. Altman was nearby, talking on a telephone, and when his telephone conversation was over, he came up to Mr. Emerson and said, “I heard what you were saying about being in Europe, and that’s exactly the way I’ve felt! I lived in Paris for years and never learned French. You realize there’s just so much extraneous bullsh*t you don’t have to listen to if you don’t know the language!”
• John Simon was introduced to Laura Mulvey at the 1977 Berlin Film Festival. During the introduction, he learned that Ms. Mulvey had recently completed a film with Peter Wollen. Mr. Simon, a caustic critic, said to her, “How could you work with that man Peter Wollen, that no-talent, phony semiologist!” Later that day, one of Mr. Simon’s friends told him, “You do realize that Laura Mulvey is married to Peter Wollen, don’t you? She wanted to know whether you were always so disgustingly rude to everybody.”
• When Diana Rigg was compiling her book of the worst-ever theatrical reviews, No Turn Unstoned, she wrote to several actors and actresses, asking them for the worst-ever theatrical review they had ever received. Miss Piggy, who was Ms. Rigg’s co-star in The Great Muppet Caper, sent her this “worst-ever” review: “She may be the screen’s sexiest star since Marilyn Monroe.”
• Quentin Crisp once attended a screening of King Kong with a friend. During a scene in which Fay Wray’s character lay screaming in King Kong’s palm, the friend said to Mr. Crisp, “I can’t think what he sees in her.”
Dance
• Fred Astaire wore a hairpiece — which he hated — throughout his career. In 1946, he thought that he would retire after filming a movie titled Blue Skies. After filming the final scene of the movie, Mr. Astaire took off his hairpiece, threw it on the floor, and started jumping on it, shouting, “Never, never, never — never will I have to wear this blasted rug again!”
• W.C. Fields felt respect for and threatened by the comedy genius of rival comedian Charles Chaplin. He once sat silently during a Chaplin movie that had other members of the audience roaring with laughter. Asked after the movie was over for his opinion of Mr. Chaplin, Mr. Fields said, “He’s a ballet dancer, the best ballet dancer that ever lived, and if I get a good chance I’ll kill him with my bare hands.”
Perhaps best remembered for her starring role on a sitcom, she was also a longtime spokeswoman with "Wessonality". What is the name of this American actress and singer whose career spanned six decades?
Florence Agnes Henderson (February 14, 1934 – November 24, 2016) was an American actress and singer. While her career spanned six decades, she is best remembered for her starring role as Carol Brady on the ABC sitcom The Brady Bunch. Henderson also appeared in film, as well as on stage, and hosted several long-running cooking and variety shows over the years. She appeared as a guest on many scripted and unscripted (talk and reality show) television programs and as a panelist on numerous game shows. She was a contestant on Dancing with the Stars in 2010.
Henderson was the spokeswoman for Wesson cooking oil from 1974 to 1996. During that time, she hosted a cooking show on TNN, Country Kitchen, and did ads for Prange's, a Wisconsin department store chain. Henderson co-hosted the short-lived NBC morning talk show Later Today (1999–2000), with Jodi Applegate and Asha Blake.
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Wesson cooking oil is a brand of vegetable oil manufactured in Memphis, Tennessee, and sold by Richardson International. Historically, Wesson was cottonseed oil, but as of 2009 the products sold under the Wesson brand are oil mixtures that may include canola oil, corn oil, soybean oil or sunflower oil.
The longtime spokeswoman for Wesson cooking oil was actress Florence Henderson, Although she sang the jingle, the word "Wessonality" was actually coined by a copywriter named Mark Itkowitz at BBDO New York in 1976. His initial concept was to use the Sam Cooke version of the song "Personality". It was Jim Jordan, who was BBDO's Creative Director who suggested using the version by Johnny Mercer as the basis for the campaign. Florence Henderson would appear in television commercials for Wesson from 1976 until 1996.
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
Florence Henderson.
Randall wrote:
Florence Henderson
Cal in Vermont said:
Florence Henderson, which is also a city in Nevada. The Henderson part is, anyhow. Florence is in Alabama, near where I lived as a yout.
Alan J answered:
Florence Henderson.
zorch replied:
Florence Henderson.
Stephen F responded:
Florence Henderson
After 7 days, the power is finally restored in rural Polk County Oregon.
Dave said:
Florence Henderson. I didn’t remember the commercial but her name popped into my head. In the commercial she sings a jingle celebrating the supposed virtues and alleged superiority of Wesson brand vegetable oil. The Jingle’s music and lyrics were a reworking of the song “Personality.” At the time of the Henderson ads, Wesson was cottonseed oil, but today it is mostly canola oil with no cottonseed oil at all. Cottonseed oil must be refined to remove a toxin and unrefined cottonseed oil smells bad. Cottonseed oil is also high in saturated fats.
Deborah, the Master Gardener wrote:
Oh, that’s Florence Henderson, best known as Mrs. Brady in “The Brady Bunch.” Wessnality, indeed.
First vaccination went well; Sutter Health has a very efficient system. We’ll go back in 3 weeks for the 2nd shot. I sure hope this shot works.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
Florence Henderson
John I from Hawai`i says,
Florence Henderson
Jacqueline responded:
Florence Henderson is my guess.
Dave in Tucson wrote:
That would be Florence Henderson.
Billy in Cypress U.S.A. said:
Florence Henderson
Barbara, of Peppy Tech fame answered:
The answer is Florence Henderson.
Gateway Mike replied:
I think that is Florence Henderson?
She was a lovely lady ! :-)
Rush Limbaugh has died. I have mixed feelings. One really great thing happened because of him.
Long time ago, before Facebook, I wondered if there was any anti-Rush sites.
I just googled him and kept going. I saw these RL-LNW entries and got curious. Somebody called Bartcop was talking about Rush Linba - Lying Nazi Whore. I was immediately hooked. Watched for a long time (and tuned in) ;-) and later on saw a link to Bartcop-E and I became a real happy guy. If Bartcop didn’t have a new page that day, I tapped the link to your site. The rest, as they say, is history.
Sadly, every coin has two sides. I’m putting together a short essay as a personal catharsis on the reason that I hate Rush Limbaugh so very very much. . .
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Some seven years ago, returning home to Texas from a visit with kin in Colorado, I decided to get off the damn interstate and see some of the state for a change. So I got off I-70 at Lamar, and headed south towards the Oklahoma panhandle.
I was enjoying the change of scenery until around Springfield, when Highway 287 turned into stop and go, stop and go. Not being in any hurry (Shit, I'm retired), I didn't concern myself with it until at one point, it was just stop, with no go. People in the southbound lanes were getting out of their cars and actually talking to one another. We could see that northbound traffic was moving smoothly, so we began speculating about what the holdup was all about.
Speculation seemed to center on one topic... Oklahoma's gotta be checking cars for people bringing that devil weed home from Colorado. Some folks said that was exactly what they were doing, and good for them. We don't want any of that crap in our state! A few folks tossed theirs, some lit up, taking advantage of the delay to enjoy some of it before dumping it.
Being a senior citizen who has never been arrested, I knew better than to try to bring that evil weed home and risk spending time in a Panhandle lock-up. But now I kinda wish I had scored some of the dumped stuff. We could see the northbound traffic was coming to an end, and we southbound folks were starting to move.
Cutting to the chase, we would soon see that the cause of our delay and reason for an impromptu pot party was a convoy of windmill blades heading to North Texas for windmill farms being setup in the panhandle. In the small towns in that part of the country, there are some tight turns in some of the towns, and the trucks had to slow to a crawl to navigate them.
So we were all now cruising south in the northbound lane and got to see the problem first hand as we passed the convoy. Well that makes sense now... those things are fucking huge!!! Now that we were past the problem, speed picked up and we made it into the Oklahoma panhandle where there was no police checkpoint, then into Texas with no stopping there either!
Looking back on that day, two thoughts come to mind: 1.) Damn, I coulda/shoulda scored some of that stuff that people were ditching; and 2.) I wish I had stopped to tell those drivers to make sure their windmills were prepared for freezing weather.
See what happens when incompetent state governments pick the wrong places to cut costs!
Sincerely,
Roy, your socialist, libtard, snowflake, Antifa member in the freezing town of Tyler, TX
CBS begins the night with a FRESH'MacGyver', followed by a FRESH'Magnum PU', then a RERUN'Blue Bloods'.
On a RERUNStephen Colbert (from 2/9/21) are John Oliver and Ingrid Andress.
On a RERUNJames Corden, OBE, (from 10/21/20) are Bill Gates, and the Head and the Heart.
NBC starts the night with a FRESH'The Blacklist', followed by 'Dateline'.
On a RERUNJimmy Fallon (from 1/15/21) are Nicole Kidman, Cole Sprouse, and Henry Hall.
On a RERUNSeth Meyers (from 2/4/21) are Michelle Pfeiffer, the Tenderloins, Baio, and Matt Cameron.
On a RERUNLilly Singh (from 2/16/21) is Adam Mosseri.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH'Shark Tank', followed by '20/20'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Kate Hudson, Dominique Fishback, and Evanescence.
The CW offers a FRESH'Whose Line Is It Anyway?', followed by a RERUN'Whose Line Is It Anyway?', then a FRESH'Penn & Teller: FU'.
Faux fills the night with FRESH'WWE Friday Night SmackDown'.
MY recycles an old 'L&O: CI', followed by another old 'L&O: CI'.
A&E has 3 hours of old 'The First 48', followed by a FRESH'Rescue Cam', and another 'Rescue Cam'.
AMC offers the movie 'Forrest Gump', followed by the movie 'Gone In 60 Seconds'.
BBC -
[6:00AM - 11:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE
[12:00PM - 5:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
[6:00PM] GHOSTBUSTERS
[8:30PM] GHOSTBUSTERS II
[11:00PM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW
[12:00AM] GHOSTBUSTERS
[2:30AM] GHOSTBUSTERS II
[5:00AM] WONDERS OF THE MOON (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has 'Below Deck', followed by a FRESH'Below Deck', then the movie 'Baby Mama'.
Comedy Central has 'Schitt's Creek', another 'Shitt's Creek', 3 hours of old 'The Office', followed by the FRESH'Patrice O'Neal: Killing Is Easy'.
FX has the movie 'Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse', followed by a FRESH'Hip Hop Uncovered' (ep. 3), then another FRESH'Hip Hop Uncovered' (ep. 4).
History has 'The UnXplained', another 'The UnXplained', followed by a FRESH'The UnXplained', then a FRESH'Ancient Aliens'.
IFC -
[7:45am] Grindhouse Presents: Death Proof
[10:15am] Pompeii
[12:45pm] Escape From New York
[3:00pm] Battle: Los Angeles
[5:30pm] Star Trek
[8:30pm] Inglourious Basterds
[12:00am] Skyfall
[3:00am] Star Trek (ALL TIMES ET)
Sundance -
[6:00am - 12:30pm] the andy griffith show
[1:00pm - 1:00am] law & order
[2:00am] columbo
[3:45am] columbo
[5:30am] the andy griffith show (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'Constantine', followed by the movie 'Robin Hood'.
Dolly Parton is asking Tennessee lawmakers to withdraw a bill that would erect a statue of her on the Capitol grounds in Nashville.
“Given all that is going on in the world, I don’t think putting me on a pedestal is appropriate at this time,” Parton said in a statement issued Thursday.
Democratic Rep. John Mark Windle introduced the bill last month that aims to honor Parton “for all that she has contributed to this state.”
Aside from her status as a music icon, Parton is a lifelong philanthropist. She founded the Imagination Library, which mails books to children under the age of 5 across the world to improve child literacy, and her million-dollar donation to Vanderbilt University helped develop the highly effective Moderna coronavirus vaccine. Her advocacy for racial justice was recently celebrated in a mural in Nashville.
In advocating for the statue, Windle said, “At this point in history, is there a better example, not just in America but in the world, of a leader that is (a) kind, decent, passionate human being? (She’s) a passionate person who loves everyone, and everyone loves her.”
The Second City, the famed Chicago improv comedy outfit, has been acquired by private equity firm ZMC, whose founder and managing partner is longtime media figure Strauss Zelnick.
Financial terms for the deal were not disclosed. Houlihan-Lokey served as a financial advisor to Second City on the transaction. The M&A firm generally specializes in middle-market deals such as the sale of the XFL or Univision’s acquisition of Spanish-language streaming service Vix.
Second City, founded in 1959, gained fame from its theaters in Chicago, Toronto and Hollywood. Alumni of its stages, touring companies and theatrical productions include Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Steve Carell, Stephen Colbert, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Tina Fey, Keegan-Michael Key, Eugene Levy, Catherine O’Hara, Gilda Radner and many more. Sketch comedy series Second City Television, its name shortened to SCTV, ran for years in Canada and also attracted a loyal audience on NBC in the U.S. Many products of Second City were also original cast members on Saturday Night Live.
The company has expanded its scope well beyond show business, forming partnerships with hundreds of major corporations involving thousands of students.
"The whole world is watching," shouted protestors against the Vietnam War, including the men who would become known as "the Chicago 7," and 51 years after the announcement of the verdict in that case, the whole world will have the opportunity to watch The Trial of the Chicago 7.
Netflix announced on Thursday that at midnight on Friday, the film will be made available globally, for free, on the streamer's YouTube channel for a period of 48 hours.
"When we began shooting last winter, we knew the story we were telling was not only an important chapter of American history, but was plenty relevant to current events," Trial's writer/director Aaron Sorkin said in a statement. "We certainly didn’t need it to get more relevant, but it did."
Sorkin, referring to "the patriots who inspired a generation — actually, generations — to take to the streets and uphold the foundations of our US Constitution, along with the courageous voices that continue to do so today," added, "It's our honor to share their story with the world."
The Beach Boys are feeling some good vibrations Thursday after selling controlling stake of their music catalog to Iconic Artists Group, a new venture led by Irving Azoff.
Iconic Artists has acquired a controlling interest in The Beach Boys’ intellectual property, including their sound recordings, the brand, select musical compositions and memorabilia. The members of The Beach Boys and their heirs will retain an interest in their assets.
Other terms of the deal were not disclosed.
The Beach Boys follow a wave of other classic rockers who have sold stakes of their music catalogs, including Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Stevie Nicks and more contemporary stars such as Calvin Harris and Ryan Tedder of One Republic, to name a few. Artists are responding not just to the pandemic and a loss of touring income but also to a surge in multiples paid for the rights to songs catalogs, with buyers like Hipgnosis Song Fund and Primary Wave recognizing that in the streaming era, there’s not only money being left on the table for many of these songs, catalogs are even a safe investment.
Donald Trump (R-Lock Him Up)’s supporters are allegedly planning a second attack on the US Capitol on 4 March, a Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee has said.
Adam Smith, the chairman of the committee, told defence officials on Wednesday that QAnon conspiracy theorists and Trump supporters were considering another siege on the Capitol on that day, CNN reported.
QAnon conspiracists — borrowing claims made by the extremist sovereign citizens movement — believe that Mr Trump will come back as US president on 4 March — the day inaugurations took place before 1933.
According to theories circulating online, the United States has not been a country since the gold standard was unpegged in 1933 under Franklin D Roosevelt, while no president has been legitimate since the 16th amendment was passed in 1871 under Ulysses S. Grant.
Concerns about QAnon and Trump supporters planning another attack on 4 March have been circulating for weeks, as Julian Feeld, producer of the QAnon Anonymous podcast that debunks QAnon theories, told CNN last Wednesday.
Life expectancy in the United States dropped a staggering one year during the first half of 2020 as the coronavirus pandemic caused its first wave of deaths, health officials are reporting.
Minorities suffered the biggest impact, with Black Americans losing nearly three years and Hispanics, nearly two years, according to preliminary estimates Thursday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“This is a huge decline,” said Robert Anderson, who oversees the numbers for the CDC. “You have to go back to World War II, the 1940s, to find a decline like this.”
Other health experts say it shows the profound impact of COVID-19, not just on deaths directly due to infection but also from heart disease, cancer and other conditions.
This is the first time the CDC has reported on life expectancy from early, partial records; more death certificates from that period may yet come in. It’s already known that 2020 was the deadliest year in U.S. history, with deaths topping 3 million for the first time.
A Berlin court ruled in favour of the heirs of the Prussian monarchy on Thursday in a dispute with a historian, the latest twist in a legal battle for compensation for treasures taken from the Hohenzollern dynasty after World War Two.
The family, which ruled Germany until Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated in 1918, has demanded the return of thousands of paintings, sculptures and books from the German state as well as compensation for the expropriation of property by the Soviet Union whose forces occupied eastern Germany.
The question of the Hohenzollerns’ relationship with Hitler is central to the family’s claims. Under German law, compensation is only possible if the claimant did not significantly assist Nazis' rise to power.
Some historians argue the role of the Hohenzollern family was insignificant. Others say appearing with Hitler and his associates, including in a famous photo of Hitler with Crown Prince Wilhelm, eldest son of Wilhelm II, in Potsdam in 1933, was helpful and symbolic.
The Berlin regional court upheld a preliminary injunction in a dispute about a statement made by historian Winfried Suess in 2019 as part of a debate about possible plans for a Hohenzollern museum in which returned artefacts would be displayed and whether the family would have a say in their presentation.
Scientists have successfully "talked" to a sleeping person in real-time by invading their dreams, a new study shows. The researchers say it's like trying to communicate with an astronaut on another world.
Dreamers can follow instructions, solve simple math problems and answer yes-no questions without ever waking up, according to the results of four experiments described Thursday (Feb. 18) in the journal Current Biology.
The researchers communicated directly with sleeping participants by asking them questions and having them respond with eye or facial movements during lucid dreams — when people are at minimum aware that they are dreaming. (Some lucid dreamers can control what happens in their dreams.)
People dream every night, but scientists don't fully understand why we dream. Studying dreams is difficult because people often forget or distort details after waking up. That's in part because the brain doesn't form many new memories while sleeping and has a limited capacity to accurately store information after the dream has ended, according to the study.
To overcome this limitation, the researchers attempted to communicate with people while they were still dreaming. Because the study participants were having lucid dreams, that meant they could make a conscious effort to respond to cues coming in from the outside world, the researchers hypothesized.
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