Eddie Deezen: Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times (Neatorama)
Chaplin's follow-up film, Modern Times, was originally planned and scheduled to be Chaplin's first full-length talkie. Charlie had written an entire sound script and it looked like Chaplin's world famous persona, "the little tramp," would finally be speaking in a movie, in this, Chaplin's 77th motion picture. But after giving the idea second thoughts, Chaplin shifted gears and decided to go back to the idea of a silent film. The little tramp, he reasoned, was a universal figure, and with the first words he spoke, he would lose much of his worldwide audience.
Peaches: 'We smoked a joint, started screaming and suddenly had some songs' (The Guardian)
In 2000, recovering from cancer and heartbreak, Merrill Nisker bought a synth, renamed herself Peaches and made a scorching album that became a feminist classic. In this extract from our Start podcast, she relives the sex, pain and pillow talk that fuelled The Teaches of Peaches.
"It's got a good beat and you can dance to it" was heard often on this weekly TV series. What is the name of this show hosted by "America's Oldest Teenager"?
American Bandstand is an American music-performance show that aired in various versions from 1952 to 1989 and was hosted from 1956 until its final season by Dick Clark, who also served as producer. The show featured teenagers dancing to Top 40 music introduced by Clark; at least one popular musical act-over the decades, running the gamut from Jerry Lee Lewis to Run-D.M.C.-would usually appear in person to lip-sync one of their latest singles.
The show's popularity helped Dick Clark become an American media mogul and inspired similar long-running music programs, such as Soul Train and Top of the Pops. Clark eventually assumed ownership of the program through his Dick Clark Productions company.
Clark would often interview the teenagers about their opinions of the songs being played, most memorably through the "Rate-a-Record" segment. During the segment, two audience members each ranked two records on a scale of 35 to 98, after which the two opinions were averaged by Clark, who then asked the audience members to justify their scores. The segment gave rise, perhaps apocryphally, to the phrase "It's got a good beat and you can dance to it." In one humorous segment broadcast for years on retrospective shows, comedians Cheech and Chong appeared as the record raters.
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American Bandstand.
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American Bandstand
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American Bandstand.
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American Bandstand
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Every afternoon from Philadelphia
Dick Clark hosted Dick Clark's American Bandstand.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
America's oldest teenager was Dick Clark and the show was American Bandstand.
Deborah wrote:
Oh, how well I know this: that's Dick Clark's "American Bandstand." I remember watching that while feeding my baby sister, as my mother put my middle siblings down for naps, so IIRC the show aired on Saturday afternoons. I was too young to be on that show (and others of that ilk, "Hullabaloo," "Shindig," et al) and really, really wanted to be.
RIP, Dick Clark.
Kevin K. in Washington, DC replied:
American Bandstand, hosted by Dick Clark.
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I never watched this, probably due to my young age at the time. But do remember my sisters talking about it.
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American Bandstand hosted by Dick Clark.
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Today's trivia answer is American Bandstand. Hosted by payola scandal tainted Dick Clark.
Dick Clark during Payola House Hearing.
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American Bandstand hosted by Dick Clark.
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American Bandstand (1952-1989), hosted 1956-1988 by the oldest teenager, Dick Clark (1929-2012).
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American Bandstand, hosted by Dick Clark
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It was the show I watched after school, the show that taught me to dance to Rock'n'Roll, the show that caused me to fall in love with Justine Carrelli, (I hated Bob)
American Bandstand.
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So far so good on beating cancer for now. I'm doing fine. At the end of the month I'll be 16 months into an 8 month mean lifespan. And yesterday I went on a 7 mile hike and managed to keep up with the hiking group I was with. So, doing something right.
Still waiting for future test results and should see things headed in the right direction. I can say that it's not likely that anything dire happens in the short term so that means that I should have time to make several more attempts at this. So even if it doesn't work the first time there are a lot of variations to try. So if there's bad news it will help me pick the next radiation target.
I have written a "how to" guide for oncologists to perform the treatment that I got. I'm convinced that I'm definitely onto something and whether it works for me or not isn't the definitive test. I know if other people tried this that it would work for some of them, and if they improve it that it will work for a lot of them.
The guide is quite detailed and any doctor reading this can understand the procedure at every level. I also go into detail as to how it works, how I figured it out, and variations and improvements that could be tried to enhance it. I also introduce new ways to look at the problem. There is a lot of room for improvement and I think that doctors reading it will see what I'm talking about and want to build on it. And it's written so that if you're not a doctor you can still follow it. It also has a personal story revealing that I'm the class clown of cancer support group. I give great interviews and I look pretty hot in a lab coat.
So, feel free to read this and see what I'm talking about. But if any of you want to help then pass this around to both doctors and cancer patients. I need some media coverage. I'm looking for as many eyeballs as possible to read these ideas. Even if this isn't the solution, it's definitely on the right track. After all, I did hike 7 miles yesterday. And this hiking group wasn't moving slow. So if this isn't working then, why am I still here?
I also see curing cancer as more of an engineering problem that a medical problem. So if you are good at solving problems and most of what you know about medicine was watching the Dr. House MD TV show, then you're at the level I was at when I started. So anyone can jump in and be part of the solution.
Here is a link to my guide: Oncologists Guide to Curing Cancer using Abscopal Effect
CBS begins the night with a FRESH'MacGyver', followed by a FRESH'Hawaii Five-0', then a FRESH'Blue Bloods'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Helen Mirren and David Byrne.
On a RERUNJames Corden, OBE, (from 1/31/18) are Martin Short, Lisa Kudrow, and Fall Out Boy.
NBC starts the night with a FRESH'Blindspot', followed by a FRESH'Taken', then a 'Dateline'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Drew Barrymore, Josh Radnor, and Kelsey Cook.
On a RERUNSeth Meyers (from 2/28/18) are Sarah Jessica Parker, Mae Whitman, Tony Rock, and Jim Riley.
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson 'The Scab' Daly are Louie Anderson, Warbly Jets, and Mike O'Brien.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH'Once Upon A Time', followed by a FRESH'Marvel's Agents Of SHIELD', then a '20/20'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 3/5/18) are Guillermo del Toro and Katy Perry.
The CW offers a FRESH'Dynasty', followed by a FRESH'Jane The Virgin'.
Faux has a FRESH'MasterChef Junior', followed by a RERUN'9-1-1'.
MY has 'Page Six TV', followed by 'Top 30', then an old 'American Ninja Warrior'.
A&E has 'Live PD', followed by a FRESH'Live PD: Rewind', then a FRESH'Live PD'.
AMC offers the movie 'Primal Fear', followed by the movie 'Stealth', then the movie 'Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 17-When The Bough Breaks
[7:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 18-Home Soil
[8:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 19-Coming of Age
[9:00AM] STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 9-Metamorphosis
[10:10AM] STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 10-Journey to Babel
[11:20AM] STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 11-Friday's Child
[12:30PM] STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 12-The Deadly Years
[1:40PM] STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 13-Obsession
[2:50PM] STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 14-Wolf in the Fold
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 15-The Trouble with Tribbles
[5:10PM] STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 16-The Gamesters of Triskelion
[6:20PM] STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 17-A Piece of the Action
[7:30PM] GRUDGE MATCH (2013)
[10:00PM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - SEASON 22 - EPISODE 12
[11:00PM] GRUDGE MATCH (2013)
[1:30AM] STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 9-Metamorphosis
[2:40AM] STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 10-Journey to Babel
[3:50AM] STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 11-Friday's Child
[5:00AM] PLANET EARTH - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 4-Caves (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Married To Medicine', another 'Married To Medicine', followed by a FRESH'Married To Medicine', then a FRESH'Relative Success With Tabatha', followed by a FRESH'Watch What Happens Live'.
Comedy Central has 'The Office', another 'The Office', 2 hours of old 'Chappelle's Show', and 'Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain'.
FX has the movie 'Jurassic World', followed by the movie 'Terminator Genisys', then the movie 'Terminator Genisys', again.
History has 'Ancient Aliens', followed by a FRESH'Ancient Aliens: Declassified'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] PORTLANDIA -Peter Follows P!nk
[6:30AM] UNDERWORLD: EVOLUTION
[9:00AM] UNDERWORLD: AWAKENING
[11:00AM] THE GREY
[1:30PM] GANGS OF NEW YORK
[5:30PM] THE BANK JOB
[8:00PM] THE TOWN
[11:00PM] THE TOWN
[2:00AM] GANGS OF NEW YORK (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[12:00am] law & order
[1:00am] criminal minds
[2:00am] law & order
[3:00am] close up with the hollywood reporter
[4:00am] the mary tyler moore show
[4:35am] the mary tyler moore show
[5:10am] the mary tyler moore show
[5:45am] the mary tyler moore show
[6:20am] the andy griffith show
[6:55am] the andy griffith show
[7:30am] the andy griffith show
[8:05am] the andy griffith show
[8:40am] the andy griffith show
[9:15am] the andy griffith show
[9:50am] the andy griffith show
[10:25am] the andy griffith show
[11:00am] the andy griffith show
[11:30am] the andy griffith show
[12:00pm] the andy griffith show
[12:30pm] the break-up
[3:00pm] law & order
[4:00pm] law & order
[5:00pm] law & order
[6:00pm] law & order
[7:00pm] law & order
[8:00pm] law & order
[9:00pm] law & order
[10:00pm] law & order
[11:00pm] law & order (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie , followed by hours & hours of old 'Futurama'.
Actor Mark Hamill poses on his star after it was unveiled on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles, California, U.S., March 8, 2018.
Photo by Mario Anzuoni
Composer John Williams announced he will be leaving the "Star Wars" franchise after next year's "Episode IX."
"We know (director) J.J. Abrams is preparing one now that I will hopefully do next year for him," Williams told KUSC radio. "I look forward to it. It will round out a series of nine that will be quite enough for me."
"Episode IX" is expected to be the final installment in the current storyline as well as the last chapter in the long-running saga of the Skywalker family.
"Doing the first film in 1977, none of us had any idea that there would be a second film," Williams said. "It's developed in the most amazing way."
Disney plans to make more "Star Wars" films featuring new storylines and characters, but it looks like it will have to do so without Williams, who has scored eight "Episode" movies.
More than 500 doctors and 150 medial students have signed a public letter in protest over their own pay rises.
The group, known as Médecins Québécois pour le Régime Public (MQRP), from Canada, have raised concerns that they would receive an increase in their salaries while patients and nurses are struggling.
Like the UK, Canada has a public health system which provides coverage to all who need it.
The doctors and medical students who have signed the letter have called on raises to be given to the areas of the health service that need it most.
The creator of Pepe the Frog is suing conspiracy theorist website InfoWars for selling a poster featuring the character.
California-based cartoonist Matt Furie has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against conservative radio host Alex Jones' site over allegedly unauthorized depictions of Pepe alongside right-wing figures such as President Donald Trump, White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, far-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos and Jones himself.
"Furie did not authorize the use of the Pepe image or character in this poster, and does not approve of the association of Pepe with Alex Jones or any of the other figures shown in this poster, or with the 'Make America Great Again' (MAGA) slogan," the lawsuit states, according to The Verge.
Pepe was turned into a meme after Furie first drew the frog for a 2005 web comic. However, during the 2016 presidential campaign, members of the alt-right began championing Pepe as their mascot and using his likeness to spread racist, sexist and anti-Semitic messages. The character has since been declared a "hate symbol" by the Anti-Defamation League.
"My listeners understand this is all frivolous," Jones told the Associated Press. "We don't have any choice but to fight back, and the law is on our side."
The powerful message "Maintenant On Agit" ("Now We Act") is projected on the Eiffel Tower on the eve of International Women's Day to honor women's rights and promote the French equivalent of the #TimesUp movement in Paris, Wednesday, March 7, 2018. Launched by the Foundation of Women, the movement aims to raise funds for associations helping women pursue cases in court "so that no woman ever again has to say #MeToo."
Photo by Francois Mori
After more than a century of scientific exploration on the shores of Geneva Lake, the Yerkes Observatory is ceasing operations.
The University of Chicago, which owns Yerkes, announced Thursday that it is closing the facility effective Oct. 1 and shifting all programs and services to Chicago.
"Unfortunately, operating Yerkes no longer makes sense for the university from a programmatic or cost standpoint," David Fithian, the university's executive vice president, said in announcing the closure.
Opened in 1897, the Williams Bay observatory, with its giant telescopes, became the home of groundbreaking astronomical research. Famed scientists such as Edwin Hubble worked there, and Albert Einstein visited the observatory in 1921.
In recent years, the Chicago university has invested in telescopes and observatories elsewhere, and Yerkes has played a diminishing role in the school's scientific research mission.
False information on the internet travels faster than the truth, researchers said Thursday. But contrary to popular belief, it is largely people who spread the misinformation, not robots.
The report in the journal Science is the largest of its kind to date, and studied some 126,000 cascades on Twitter from 2006 to 2017.
To determine whether the news was true or false, researchers relied on six independent fact checking organizations.
"Falsehoods were 70 percent more likely to be retweeted than the truth," said the report, led by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology (MIT).
"It also takes true stories about six times as long to reach 1,500 people as it does for false stories to reach the same number of people."
A woman wears panties as a mask during a demonstration on International Women's Day in Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 8, 2018.
Photo by Marcos Brindicci
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson is changing the mission statement of his agency, removing promises of inclusive and discrimination-free communities.
In a March 5 memo addressed to HUD political staff, Amy Thompson, the department's assistant secretary for public affairs, explained that the statement is being updated "in an effort to align HUD's mission with the Secretary's priorities and that of the Administration."
The new mission statement reads:
HUD's mission is to ensure Americans have access to fair, affordable housing and opportunities to achieve self-sufficiency, thereby strengthening our communities and nation.
The Carson mission statement is quite different from the current one, which is still up on HUD's website. That one promises "strong, sustainable, inclusive communities and quality affordable homes for all." It also says these communities will be "free from discrimination":
A girl holds a placard as she takes part in a movement against rapes on the occasion of International Women's Day in New Delhi, India, March 8, 2018.
Photo by Adnan Abidi
The Top 20 Global Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows Worldwide. The list is based on data provided to the trade publication Pollstar by concert promoters and venue managers.
1. Bruno Mars; $3,743,612; $104.63.
2. Guns N' Roses; $1,804,477; $135.52.
3. Lady Gaga; $1,630,947; $105.96.
4. Dead & Company; $1,586,940; $107.75.
5. Jay-Z; $1,455,733; $102.14.
6. Queen + Adam Lambert; $1,402,438; $105.44.
7. Little Mix; $1,212,975; $55.63.
8. The Killers; $893,072; $70.70.
9. Timbiriche; $849,608; $68.42.
10. Scorpions; $821,175; $106.93.
11. Imagine Dragons; $794,306; $64.36.
12. Trans-Siberian Orchestra; $759,351; $56.74.
13. André Rieu; $715,813; $94.01.
14. Chris Stapleton; $667,719; $49.25.
15. Ozuna; $654,009; $73.33.
16. Janet Jackson; $623,048; $74.36.
17. Queens Of The Stone Age; $544,553; $54.03.
18. Fall Out Boy; $522,783; $59.77.
19. "Soy Luna Live"; $512,169; $67.86.
20. Jerry Seinfeld; $473,066; $97.98.
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