• Spike Lee’s film Do the Right Thing is deliberately ambiguous. In it, a black man is unjustly killed, and in retaliation a mob of black people burns down a pizzeria owned by a white man. At its end, two quotations appear. The quotation by Martin Luther King preaches nonviolent resistance to injustice, while the quotation by Malcolm X says that violence in defense may be needed when blacks are attacked. When a reporter asked Mr. Lee what the right thing is, Mr. Lee replied, “I don’t know. I know what the wrong thing is: racism.”
• Many of the top executives in the early days of Hollywood were Republicans. When Irving Thalberg’s lawyer, Eddie Loeb, discovered that actor William Haines was a Democrat, he went straight to Mr. Thalberg and told him, “You know you have a Democratic snake here?” Fortunately, Mr. Thalberg, a Republican, was more enlightened than other Hollywood executives, so he replied, “The man’s entitled to his own opinion,” and he let Mr. Haines keep his job.
• Peter Sellers, famous as Inspector Clouseau in Blake Edwards’ Pink Panther movies, was Jewish, although not everyone realized that. Mary, the sister of comedian Terry-Thomas, met Peter in a hotel in Brighton, England, and told him that he would like it there, for among other attractions, no Jews were there. Mr. Sellers leaned across the table toward Mary, winked, and said, “Well, Mary, there is now!”
• While filming Hurry Sundown in Louisiana in 1967, Jane Fonda was horrified to see prejudice at first hand. Black actors had leading roles in the movie, and this upset many white Louisiana residents. These prejudiced people objected to black actors using a motel pool, and they wrote threatening letters and slashed tires.
• During the Civil Rights era, black comedian (and occasional movie actor) Dick Gregory put his career on the back burner so that he could participate in gaining rights for his people. When he was asked why he was practically giving up his career to do this, he replied, “They didn’t laugh Hitler out of existence, did they?”
• The famous Norwegian actress Liv Ullman was born in Tokyo. After she was born, the Japanese nurse told her mother, “I’m afraid it’s a girl. Would you prefer to inform your husband yourself?”
Preparation
• In 1977, Jane Fonda starred in the movie Julia, based on a friendship that playwright Lillian Hellman had when she was a young woman. To prepare for her role as the playwright, Ms. Fonda read half of a play that Ms. Hellman had written, then she set the play aside, pretended to be Ms. Hellman, and wrote the second half of the play.
• Oprah Winfrey took seriously her role as Mattie in the television movie The Women of Brewster Place. To prepare for the role, she pretended to be Mattie and wrote a 200-page journal using the character’s voice and point of view.
Problem-Solving
• Early in his career, Harold Lloyd looked for a way to break into movies. He used to sit on a bench outside a film studio in hopes that he would be hired as an extra. As he waited, he noticed that many of the actors and extras walked out of the studio in their makeup to eat lunch, then they returned to the studio after their lunch break. Therefore, Mr. Lloyd put on makeup, and the movie studio guards, thinking that he was an actor, allowed him to enter the studio grounds along with the real actors. Inside the studio, Mr. Lloyd made some friends and started acting in films. He quickly became a famous silent-movie comedian and the star of such classic comedies as Safety Last and The Freshman.
In Al Capp's long-running comic strip "Li'l Abner," Abner finally married the virtuous and voluptuous Dogpatch damsel Daisy Mae. What was Daisy Mae's maiden name?
Li'l Abner is a satirical American comic strip that appeared in many newspapers in the United States, Canada and Europe, featuring a fictional clan of hillbillies in the impoverished mountain village of Dogpatch, USA. Written and drawn by Al Capp (1909–1979), the strip ran for 43 years, from August 13, 1934 through November 13, 1977.
Comic strips typically dealt with northern urban experiences before Capp introduced Li'l Abner, the first strip based in the South. The comic strip had 60 million readers in over 900 American newspapers and 100 foreign papers in 28 countries. Capp "had a profound influence on the way the world viewed the American South."
Little Abner Yokum: Abner was 6' 3" and perpetually 19 "years" old. A naïve, simpleminded, gullible and sweet-natured hillbilly, he lived in a ramshackle log cabin with his pint-sized parents. Capp derived the family name "Yokum" as a combination of yokel and hokum. In Capp's satirical and often complex plots, Abner was a country bumpkin Candide — a paragon of innocence in a sardonically dark and cynical world. Abner typically had no visible means of support, but sometimes earned his livelihood as a "crescent cutter" for the Little Wonder Privy Company, later changed to "mattress tester" for the Stunned Ox Mattress Company. During World War II, Abner was "drafted" into becoming the mascot emblem of the Patrol Boat Squadron 29. In one post-World War II story line Abner became a US Air Force bodyguard of Steve Cantor (a parody of Steve Canyon) against the evil bald female spy Jewell Brynner (a parody of actor Yul Brynner). Early in the strip's history, Abner's primary goal in life was evading the marital designs of Daisy Mae Scragg, the virtuous, voluptuous, barefoot Dogpatch damsel and scion of the Yokums blood feud enemies — the Scraggs, her bloodthirsty, semi-evolved kinfolk. For 18 years, Abner slipped out of Daisy Mae's marital cross hairs time and time again. When Capp finally gave in to reader pressure and allowed the couple to tie the knot, it was a major media event. It even made the cover of Life magazine on March 31, 1952 — illustrating an article by Capp titled "It's Hideously True!! The Creator of Li'l Abner Tells Why His Hero Is (SOB!) Wed!!"
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
Daisy Mae Yokum (née Scragg).
Billy in Cypress U.S.A. said:
Scragg
Alan J answered:
Daisy Mae Scragg.
mj wrote:
I remember the Bar Habor branch of the family
They weren't from Maine, but had been barred from every harbor in the
country. This was the family of Daisy Mae Yokum nee Scraggs.
Cal in Vermont responded:
Scragg.
Randall replied:
Scragg
Roy, Still living the hermit lifestyle in Tyler, TX wrote:
When she was just the hottest, most desirable hottie in Dogpatch, before she married into the Yokum family, she was Daisy Mae Scragg.
Dave responded:
Yokum. I have no idea because our worthless local paper didn’t run the Li’l Abner strip. It did run trash like Mary Worth and Dr. Kildare. Dr. Kildare in the strip was a dead ringer for the handsome star of the Dr. Kildare TV series, Richard Chamberlain, as he looked in 1962. I always wondered if Chamberlain got a cut of the action? The comic strip ran until 1984, and Dr. Kildare never aged a day.
Photos: The great comic strip my worthless local paper refused to run | a typically dramatic moment in the Mary Worth strip- would Mary drop the f**king cake or not? | Dr. Kildare applies his limited diagnostic skills to a probably doomed patient
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
Daisy Mae Scragg
Deborah, the Master Gardener wrote:
My mother read Li’l Abner; I rarely did, because I didn’t know the history of the characters, and growing up in south Jersey, closer to Philly than Trenton, my racist relatives poked a lot of “fun” at people with funny accents. So, I have no idea about Daisy Mae, or even the pipe-smoking Granny. Some facts don’t need a place in my head.
Rosemary in Columbus said:
Daisy Mae Scragg
Daniel in The City answered:
Scragg
Joe S (We resisted, we voted, we won. Get over it) replied:
I think it was Skagg or Skaggs, something like that. Make. It. Rain. I still don't actually know what that means but there are hundred of online casinos advertised onTV and most of them end up with Make. It. Rain. So I think it has to do with winning.
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Info: The second track is also excellent: “Bahamas”
“Formed in Rio de Janeiro in 1998, Autoramas mixes rock from the 60s, New Wave and Jovem Guarda. One of the most successful bands in the independent scene, it has abundant material and numerous international tours. Currently it is composed by Gabriel Thomaz, Érika Martins, Jairo Fajer and Fábio Lima.”
First Autoramas 7'
Released December 1, 1999
Autoramas (Wikipedia):
“The Autoramas are a Brazilian surf/garage rock/garage punk/rockabilly band that started in the late 90s and continue playing to this day.” — Wikipedia
The defective rooster spent the afternoon practicing.
Tonight, Friday:
CBS begins the night with a FRESH'MacGyver', followed by a FRESH'Magnum PU', then a FRESH'Blue Bloods'.
On a RERUNStephen Colbert (from 2/24/21) are Arsenio Hall and Celeste.
On a RERUNJames Corden, OBE, (from 1/27/21) are Adam Devine and BLACKPINK.
NBC starts the night with a FRESH'The Blacklist', followed by 'Dateline'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Amanda Seyfried, Omar Sy, and Lil Durk featuring 6Lack.
On a RERUNSeth Meyers (from 2/23/21) are Colin Jost, Harvey Guillen, and Raghav Mehrotra.
FRESHAmber Ruffin after Seth for the best show on tonight.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH'Shark Tank', followed by '20/20'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 2/23/21) are Sen. Bernie Sanders, Soleil Moon Frye, and Lord Huron.
The CW offers a RERUN'Whose Line Is It Anyway?', followed by another 'Whose Line Is It Anyway?', then a FRESH'Penn & Teller: FU'.
Faux fills the night with a 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 'Police Academy', followed by the movie 'Ghostbusters', then the movie 'Ghostbusters II'.
BBC -
[6:00AM - 9:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE
[10:00AM] TALLADEGA NIGHTS: THE BALLAD OF RICKY BOBBY
[12:30PM] GROUNDHOG DAY
[3:00PM] THUNDERBALL
[6:00PM] FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE
[8:30PM] GOLDFINGER
[11:00PM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW
[12:00AM] FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE
[2:30AM] GOLDFINGER
[5:00AM] CHIMPS OF THE LOST GORGE (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has the movie 'Next Friday', followed by the movie 'Friday'.
Comedy Central has an hour of old 'The Office', followed by 3 hours of 'Schitt's Creek'.
FX has the movie 'Daddy's Home', followed by the movie 'Baywatch', then the movie 'Baywatch', again.
History has 'The UnXplained', another 'The UnXplained', followed by a FRESH'The UnXplained', then a FRESH'Ancient Aliens'.
IFC -
[6:15am] Three Amigos!
[8:45am] Stir Crazy
[10:45am] The Bad News Bears
[1:15pm] Men At Work
[3:30pm] Three Amigos!
[6:00pm] Fast Times At Ridgemont High
[8:00pm] Back To School
[10:00pm] Fast Times At Ridgemont High
[12:00am] Back To School
[2:00am] The Bad News Bears
[4:30am] The World's End (ALL TIMES ET)
Sundance -
[6:00am - 12:30pm] the andy griffith show
[1:00pm - 1:00am] law & order
[2:00am] columbo
[3:45am] columbo (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'John Wick', followed by the movie 'John Wick 2', then a FRESH'Wynonna Earp'.
Mattel Inc. has unveiled an Eleanor Roosevelt doll as the 11th entry in its Barbie Inspiring Women series.
What Happened: Mattel introduced the Barbie Inspiring Women series as a tribute to historic figures who broke down gender barriers and created social, political and cultural opportunities for women. The series previously honored Susan B. Anthony, Florence Nightingale, Amelia Earhart, Rosa Parks and Frida Kahlo.
Roosevelt redefined the role of the first lady with indefatigable advocacy for civil rights, women’s rights and the needs of the economically disenfranchised. Roosevelt broke with White House tradition by hosting her own press conferences and authoring a newspaper column. During World War II she visited American troops in Europe and the South Pacific and championed the efforts of the Tuskegee Airmen to become the first Black combat pilots.
In her post-White House years, she served as chairwoman of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights and coordinated the creation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
In creating the doll, Mattel used its Curvy Collector body type with Roosevelt wearing a dress, stockings, hat and a double-strand pearl necklace she favored in public appearances.
Huzzah! The Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson will revisit Middle-earth alongside cast members of the epic film trilogy Sean Astin, Cate Blanchett, Orlando Bloom, Billy Boyd, Peter Jackson, Ian McKellen, Dominic Monaghan, Viggo Mortensen, Andy Serkis, Liv Tyler, and Elijah Wood.
The Alamo Drafthouse Cinema has set up the event which will be hosted by “Ring Nut” Stephen Colbert. Over the course of three weeks starting March 26, The Late Show host will talk to Jackson and cast members to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the films based on the J.R.R. Tolkien novels. Fans can submit questions for the assembled panel through March 10 using #LOTR20 on Twitter.
The reunion will initially be exclusive to theatrical screenings of the new 4K remastering of The Lord of the Rings trilogy. The reunion is part of the “Support Local Cinemas” campaign which includes star-studded Q&As exclusively available to theaters around the world for free.
The news is a silver lining for the Austin-based genre-driven dine-in movie theater chain that caters to cinephiles. Alamo Drafthouse Cinema recently announced that it filed for voluntary Chapter 11 in Delaware Court and agreed to sell basically all its assets to an investor group including one of its founders Tim League. It will close three theaters, Alamo Drafthouse Ritz in Austin, and locations in Kansas City, Missouri and New Braunfels, Texas, and stop development at a cinema in Orlando. Other theaters will continue operating but company said it will continue to evaluate the health of all leases during the Chapter 11 process.
Long before she became a Tony Award-winning choreographer, Ann Reinking waited tables to save up enough money to move to New York City. She arrived with $500, no job lined up and no connections.
When she died at 71 last year, Reinking left behind many fans, friends and students as well as a legacy of a cool, muscular dance hybrid of jazz and burlesque.
In her honor, friends and admirers have established The Ann Reinking Scholarship, a $5,000 annual award and mentorship for a young dancer moving to New York City to help support them in their artistic endeavors.
“She was one of the most profoundly generous people that I’ve known,” says Bebe Neuwirth, a two-time Tony winner who co-starred with Reinking in “Chicago” on Broadway. “This honors that in a way that also references her story of coming to New York.”
The advisory board for the scholarship includes Cooper, Neuwirth and such Broadway luminaries as Chita Rivera, Joel Grey, Tommy Tune, Marilu Henner, Hinton Battle, Charlotte d’Amboise, Reinking’s husband, Peter Talbert, and son, Chris Reinking Stuart.
Kings of Leon will become the first-ever band to release an album as an NFT (“non-fungible token”), when their latest record When You See Yourself drops this Friday (5 March).
Fans of the US band will be able to buy the album on blockchain the same day it’s released on streaming services such as Spotify and Apple Music.
The tokens will unlock perks including limited-edition vinyl and front-row seats to future concerts.
NFTs are a form of cryptocurrency that can hold assets such as art, concert tickets and music instead of money. They are expected to increase in value over time but can prove instantly lucrative too. This week, artist Grimes sold $6m (£4.3m) worth of art as NFTs.
There are three tokens in the “NFT Yourself” series, which were designed by Kings of Leon’s longtime creative partner Night After Night; the tokens were developed by the company Yellowheart in an attempt to bring value back to music and improve artist-fan relationships.
The golden Donald Trump (R-Lock Him Up) statue that appeared at last week’s conference for the country’s conservatives was actually made in China — rather than Mexico — the creator reportedly admitted.
Artist Tommy Zegan told reporters last week that the six foot statue of the former US president was assembled in Mexico — a country routinely belittled by Mr Trump.
It immediately went viral after it was wheeled into the hall at the Hyatt Regency in Orlando, Florida, for last week’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), where Mr Trump delivered an address on Sunday.
Days afterwards, a business partner of Mr Zegan reached-out to Politico to say that while the golden statue was assembled in Mexico, where the creator lives as an American expat, the replica of the former president was in-fact made in China.
“Everything is made in China,” one of Mr Zegan’s business partners, Jose Mauricio Mendoza, told Político on Tuesday. “I want to be straight, because if I’m going to sell these statues, they have to be true.”
If you had to choose between having running water at home or risking your home being raided by the authorities, which would you choose? The correct answer is: this shouldn’t even be a question.
But it’s become one. The startling truth is that signing up for even basic utilities in this country has turned into a gamble for many people, particularly undocumented immigrants. Last week, the Washington Post revealed that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) has paid tens of millions of dollars since 2017 for access to a private database that contains more than “400m names, addresses and service records from more than 80 utility companies covering all the staples of modern life, including water, gas and electricity, and phone, internet and cable TV”. The information has been mined by Ice, the Post reported, for immigration surveillance and enforcement operations.
Neither Ice nor any other federal agency should have unfettered access to this data. In fact, there are strict protocols and regulations that determine how the federal government can gather your information and when it can infringe on your privacy, much of this is codified in the Privacy Act of 1974, as the Post notes. So how are federal agencies like Ice getting around these legal safeguards, which would otherwise prevent them from scooping up such data on their own and without a court order? Simple. They just buy it. With taxpayer money.
Ice paid almost $21m for access to a database called Clear, which is owned by the multinational media conglomerate Thomson Reuters. Clear is reported to contain billions of your records, including employment and housing information, credit reports, criminal histories, vehicle registrations and data from utility companies in all 50 states, Washington DC, Puerto Rico, Guam and the US Virgin Islands. It’s also updated daily.
This isn’t just surveillance capitalism. It’s worse. The main idea behind surveillance capitalism is that we, the world’s internet users and smartphone aficionados, have been persuaded to give up the wealth of our personal information in meager exchange for convenient access to big data’s apps and platforms. Think free email. Meanwhile, big data takes our information and gleefully monetizes every element of us. The result is micro-scale predictive algorithms that have grave consequences for our democracy, our freedoms and even our humanity.
Back in the 16th century, French astrologer Nostradamus predicted that there would be a zombie apocalypse in the year 2021. And now that it's actually 2021, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention want to make sure you’re prepared…just in case.
The CDC recently updated the Zombie Preparedness section on its website — yes, this is a thing. While the section isn’t new — it originally launched back in 2011 — it does make for interesting timing given that it's been updated in the middle of a global pandemic that just so happens to be happening in the year of a predicted zombie apocalypse.
The CDC makes it clear online that this is a joke, albeit one with a serious message about the importance of disaster preparedness. "Wonder why zombies, zombie apocalypse, and zombie preparedness continue to live or walk dead on a CDC web site?" the landing page reads. "As it turns out, what first began as a tongue-in-cheek campaign to engage new audiences with preparedness messages has proven to be a very effective platform. We continue to reach and engage a wide variety of audiences on all hazards preparedness via 'zombie preparedness.'"
The CDC offers up lesson plans for teachers on zombie apocalypse preparedness, a downloadable poster that reads, "Get a Kit. Make a Plan. Be Prepared," next to a zombie’s face, and general information about disaster preparedness.
In one related but non-zombie section on preparedness, the CDC talks about the importance of having certain tools at home, like food, water and medical supplies to last for at least 72 hours, backup power sources, medical records and an emergency supply of prescription medicine.
Technology and locusts are familiar pals, with the two having been smushed together as a means of sniffing out bombs just last year. Now, new research published in the journal Sensors has brought the two together to try and monopolize on an entirely different sense: hearing. Using biological material from a dead locust, the team was able to create a bio-hybrid robot that could hear using the locust’s ear. Yes, it’s entirely as bizarre as it sounds.
Insects have been around for hundreds of millions of years, and in that time they’ve picked up a few tricks along the way. One such super skill is their efficient and robust sensory organs which top even humans by comparison (another is their capacity to swarm). The not-so-humble locust was therefore deemed to be a biological treasure trove for a team of scientists in Tel Aviv, who wanted to see if they could utilize their sound-sensing skills for technology.
Locusts, like humans, have a tympanic ear – which means they detect vibrations across a flat surface and translate it into information about their environment. In humans, this tympanic ear is what’s known as the eardrum, which picks up on environmental outputs which we translate in the brain as sound.
For locusts, this tympanic ear sits further down the body, and as a “biological sensor” it can be applied to technology that will translate the feedback so long as the tissue remains viable (alive). By containing the membrane within an “ear-on-a-chip” device, the researchers were able to keep the biological material supplied with oxygen and nutrients so that it could continue to function despite no longer being attached to a living host.
Once up and running, this ear-on-a-chip was able to amplify the signal from the locust ear to a robot, which was programmed to give different responses to different inputs of sensory data. The deciding factor in the study was human claps, with one clap signaling the robot to move forward while two claps told it to take it back (now y’all).
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