Helaine Olen: Enough with the excuses. It's time for Sanders to release his tax returns. (Washington Post)
Sanders is a front-runner, having raised $18.2 million in fundraising in the first quarter of this year. He should act like it, setting an example for the rest of the field. In a nation that is, to be blunt, as corrupt as the United States, there's a reason that candidates need to make their tax returns available for inspection: No matter how upright a presidential contender is in his or her personal life, no matter how much we might agree or disagree with a candidate's policy positions, we simply should not assume all is okay without proof. We can't accept any excuses for a candidate who won't show us his or her taxes. There ought to be no exceptions.
Jenni Gritters: What We Can Learn From the World's Centenarians (Medium)
"As for advice, I often say: Don't try to change your behaviors. Instead, change your surroundings. People in blue zones don't have better genes or better discipline or any of that other crap we think brings better well-being. Instead, they have an environment that makes health an easier choice. Consider changing your environment to a place where eating healthier is easier, where you know your sense of purpose, and where that purpose guides your daily activities. You should also be surrounded by healthy people. For me, this sums up the essence of longevity and happiness." - Dan Buettner
Terry Teachout: The Lost World of Weegee (Commentary)
The invention in 1925 of the flashbulb, which made it possible to take unposed photographs at night and indoors, sealed Weegee's future. By 1934 he had become a full-time freelance news photographer. He set up shop in a squalid studio apartment that doubled as his darkroom, installing a police radio and a fire-department alarm bell and prowling the streets of New York each night in search of scenes of carnage.
THEODORE DALRYMPLE: The lasting worth of 'worthless' books (Standpoint)
Miss Taylor is, by all accounts, quite unashamedly a producer of entertainment without literary pretension. Her aim is to make the reader care what happens to her characters and turn over the page, and in this aim, which is far from easy to fulfil, she undoubtedly succeeds. Her plot is clever and there are many more ambitious writers who could learn a thing or two about style from her, give or take a few lapses - for even Homer nods. Humour is lacking, the characterisation is simple, the story ends in emotional slush (genres imposing their rules as they do), and there is an undertow of modern psychological clichι to it all - wanting closure, ownership of problems, emotional healing, survival, self-esteem, emotional support and so forth. But the novel as a whole is not without potential as far as reflection is concerned, at least for those who do not read purely for distraction.
Maxell Holdings, Ltd. (Makuseru Kabushiki-gaisha), commonly known as Maxell, is a Japanese company that manufactures consumer electronics.
In the 1980s, Maxell became an icon of pop culture when it produced advertisements popularly known as "Blown Away Guy" for its line of audio cassettes. The original campaign conceived by Art Director Lars Anderson began as a two page spread in Rolling Stone Magazine ad in 1980, and was made into television spots in 1981 which ran throughout the 1980s.
Steve Steigman was the photographer and Richard Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries" was used for music. In the United Kingdom, the music used was "Night on Bald Mountain" by Modest Mussorgsky.
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Cal in Vermont wrote:
Maxell Audio Cassettes. I would get pretty high back in the day and had experiences much like this as often as I could manage. Oh yeah...
Mac Mac said:
Maxell
Alan J answered:
Maxell.
Kevin K., in Washington, DC, replied:
That was an ad for Maxell. Specifically, Maxell audio cassette tapes. I used to tape my vinyl albums on to Maxell and TDK cassettes to keep the vinyl from getting worn out. One of the albums I taped like that was a George Harrison's 1979 album "George Harrison", containing his hit single, "Blow Away", which reached #16 on the Billboard Top 100.
Stephen F responded:
Maxell tapes.
Dave wrote:
Maxell. That was my guess and I was right for once. Maxell is a Japanese company that sells batteries and recording media, they used to make high quality cassette audiotapes that people like me bought for recording our albums & CD's onto tape so we could play them in our cars. Of course I could have merely bought a pre-recorded cassette in the first place but I liked to only listen to the songs I liked so I'd fill a 90 minute cassette tape up with my greatest hits collection. I had dozens of them in boxes but today cars don't even have cassette decks and besides I've decided to protect what's left of my hearing so no more loud music for me. When we moved 2 years ago I threw all my tapes away because you can't keep everything unless you are a hoarder.
Jim from CA, retired to ID replied:
Maxell cassette tape ads
John I from Hawai`i says,
"Memorex."
Deborah responded:
Oh, isn't that from the Bose speakers commercial? Or was it JBL? Shoot, I don't remember. #menopausebrain
Predictions are for another atmospheric river to hit NorCal tonight and into tomorrow. Just in time for the weekend.
Rosemary in Columbus wrote:
Magnavox ???
Dave in Tucson said:
Just a guess, Bose Speakers?
Billy in Cypress U$A answered:
I had to look up the answer on Google and found that it was Maxell recording tapes. I seldom remember any commercials since I detest commercials on radio and TV (public and commercial) and movies and the internet, etc. I record all the shows that I am interested in watching and FFWD through the commercials.
Barbara, of Peppy Tech fame replied:
The answer is Maxell. The ad with "Blown Away Guy" was for cassette tapes. I also remember using Maxell's 8-inch and 3.5 inch floppy disks during that era. Seems like ancient history now!
Edgar White, a reporter, was once asked to interview Mark Twain on a certain subject. He went to Mr. Twain's hotel close to midnight, and was shown to Mr. Twain's room. Mr. Twain was in bed, reading and smoking. Unfortunately, Mr. Twain announced that he couldn't talk about the reporter's proposed topic, as a contract he had signed forbade it. Mr. White was understandably disappointed and said in that case he had nothing to write about. "I've been in that fix many and many a time," Mr. Twain said. "Now if I were the reporter and you were the man in bed I'd tell how, over the vigorous remonstrances of the clerk I'd come up here in the dead hour of the night and aroused you from a sound sleep to ." Mr. White interrupted to point out that that was not the truth - the clerk had politely shown him to the room and Mr. Twain had not been asleep. Mr. Twain sighed, then said, "If you're going to let a little thing like that stand in the way, I'm afraid I can't help you. Good night." Mr. White decided to write an article stating the absolute truth, just as it is related here. The newspaper ran his article under a big headline.
During his American tour of 1883-1884, Colonel James H. Mapleson took his opera company out West where in Sacramento, a San Francisco reporter wished to interview prima donna Adelina Patti. Colonel Mapleson tried to put off the reporter, but the reporter insisted on an interview, threatening, "I have come hundreds of miles to interview Patti, and see her I must. Refuse me, and I shall simply telegraph two lines to San Francisco that Patti has caught a severe cold in the mountains, and that [rival prima donna Etelka] Gerster's old throat complaint is coming on again. Do you understand me?" Understanding the damage to his profits that would occur if the San Francisco newspapers were to report that his leading prima donnas were not able to sing, Colonel Mapleson allowed the reporter to interview Ms. Patti.
During an actors' strike early in the 20th century, four famous theatrical producers decided to descend upon various newspaper editors in an attempt to get more favorable publicity for their side. At The New York Times, one of the producers told a newsboy that he wished to speak with the editor: "Will you be good enough to tell him that Mr. David Belasco, Mr. George Broadhurst, Mr. E. H. Sothern, and Mr. Harrison Grey Fiske wish to see him?" The newsboy asked, "All four of you? What do you want to do? Sing to him?"
Corey Ford was a stringer for The New York Timeswhile he was attending Columbia University; in fact, he kept himself very busy, even composing and sending in a football song to a contest at Columbia. One day, a Times editor called him up, wondering why he had not written an article on the winner of the football song contest. The editor ordered Mr. Ford to go interview the winner. Looking at his notes, the editor said, "Damn it, it's you." And that's how Mr. Ford found out that he had won the contest.
John Chapman was drama critic and drama editor for the New York Daily News, and he supported his staff. A PR person once tried to withhold press seats from Daily News caricaturist Sam Norkin because Mr. Norkin had not sketched his play, but Mr. Chapman informed the PR person that if he withheld Mr. Norkin's press seats, he would return his own opening night tickets. Since no play wants no notices, the PR person relented.
Mary Chase won a Pulitzer Prize for her comic play Harvey. Before marrying Bob Chase and becoming a playwright, Mary Coyle was a newspaper reporter for the Denver Post. Once, she arrived at a Denver home in which three of six family members had been killed in a drunken brawl, then introduced herself as a reporter to a bloodstained survivor. The man told her, "Go away. We've decided not to put anything about this in the papers."
Gene Fowler hardly ever fired anybody, but when he was working for the New York Journal, he did fire reporter Walter Davenport. Mr. Davenport had written that the grand marshal of a suffragette parade was riding a "dappled-gray" horse, but Mr. Fowler knew that the horse was pure white. However, Mr. Davenport got his job back when he explained that he was covering the parade from a bar that had a dirty, fly-specked window.
Early in his career, H. Allen Smith was a member of the Denver Press Club. In 1949, after his membership had been lapsed for 19 years, he returned to Denver and spent a pleasant afternoon at the Press Club. A friend of his, Lee Casey, even gave him a new membership card - it was dated 19 years ahead. "We love you and want to see you again," Mr. Casey explained, but only about once in 19 years."
Ray Humphreys was a star reporter for the Denver Post; in addition, he wrote Western stories in which he used the names of other reporters on the newspaper. In one Western story, the name of reporter H. Allen Smith was given to a comic character - an Englishman with a monocle who was totally out of place in the American West.
The writers of Jackie Gleason's series featuring him as blowhard Ralph Kramden wanted to call the series "The Beast," because they felt that Ralph was like an animal. However, Mr. Gleason felt that love was a major element of the show and underlay the arguments between Ralph and his wife Alice, so he insisted that it be called The Honeymooners.
At the United Press early in the 20th century, a sacred cow story - so-called because the big wheels had decreed it was to be given special treatment - was called a "moo." As the article was handed from person to person - from writer to editor to wire-filer - each person said "moo" to alert the next person to what kind of story it was.
A city editor once sent a reporter to interview a man, but the man refused to be interviewed and threatened to shoot any reporter who rang his doorbell again. The alarmed reporter called his editor with this news, but the editor gave him this order, "You go back and tell that fellow he can't intimidate me."
"Yours was not, in the beginning, a criminal nature, but circumstances changed it. At the age of nine you stole sugar. At the age of fifteen you stole money. At twenty you stole horses. At twenty-five you committed arson. At thirty, hardened in crime, you became an editor." - Mark Twain, "Lionising Murderers."
Harold Ross believed in separating the editorial staff and the advertising staff of The New Yorker - he put the departments in two separate buildings two blocks apart.
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 Hank Azaria and Henry Louis Gates Jr.
On a RERUNJames Corden, OBE, Corden: (from 2/14/19) are Ray Romano, D'Arcy Carden, and Lukas Graham.
NBC starts the night with a FRESH'Blindspot', followed by a FRESH'The Blacklist', then a 'Dateline'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Taraji P. Henson, Jason Clarke, and Nate Bargatze.
On a RERUNSeth Meyers (from 3/21/19) Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Andrew Rannells, and Carla Lalli Music.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 2/28/19) are Ben Barnes, Badflower, and Rory Culkin.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH'Fresh Off The Boat', follwoed by a FRESH'Speechless', then '20/20'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Celine Dion and Chris Tucker.
The CW offers a FRESH'My Crazy Ex-Girlfriend', followed by another FRESH'My Crazy Ex-Girlfriend'.
Faux has a RERUN'Last Man Standing', follwoed by a FRESH'The Cool Kids', then a FRESH'Proven Innocent'.
MY here fills the night with LIVE'MLB Baseball' (Rangers visit the Los Angeles California Angels Of Santa Ana)
A&E has 'Live PD', followed by a FRESH'Live PD: Rewind', then a FRESH'Live PD'.
AMC offers the movie 'Men In Black II', followed by the movie 'Pet Sematary', then the movie 'Pet Sematary Two'.
BBC -
[5:30AM] HIDDEN HABITATS - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 4-Monterey Bay
[6:00AM] PLANET EARTH - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 1-From Pole To Pole
[6:50AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 5 - EPISODE 7-Unification (Part 1)
[7:50AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 5 - EPISODE 8-Unification (Part 2)
[8:50AM] STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 11-The Menagerie, Part 1
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 12-The Menagerie, Part 2
[11:10AM] STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 16-The Galileo Seven
[12:20PM] STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 25-The Devil in the Dark
[1:30PM] STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 1-Amok Time
[2:40PM] STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 4-Mirror, Mirror
[3:50PM] STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 6-The Doomsday Machine
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 10-Journey to Babel
[6:10PM] STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 2-The Enterprise Incident
[7:20PM] STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 23-All Our Yesterdays
[8:30PM] STAR TREK III: THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK (1984)
[12:00AM] STAR TREK III: THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK (1984)
[2:30AM] STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 11-The Menagerie, Part 1
[3:40AM] STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 12-The Menagerie, Part 2
[4:50AM] STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 25-The Devil in the Dark (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 2 hours of old 'Don't Be Tardy ...', followed by a FRESH'Don't Be Tardy ...', then the movie 'The Ugly Truth'.
Comedy Central 2½ hours of old 'South Park', followed by 'The Comedy Central Roast of James Franco'. .
FX has the movie 'Jurassic World', followed by the movie 'Taken 3'.
IFC -
[6:00A] The Three Stooges-Men in Black
[6:15A] Godzilla
[8:30A] Kick-Ass 2
[11:00A] Coneheads
[1:00P] South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
[3:00P] That '70s Show-My Wife
[3:30P] That '70s Show-Going Mobile
[4:00P] That '70s Show-The Seeker
[4:30P] That '70s Show-Who's Been Sleeping Here
[5:00P] That '70s Show-Let's Spend the Night Together
[5:30P] That '70s Show-(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
[6:00P] Two and a Half Men-No Sniffing, No Wowing
[6:30P] Two and a Half Men-My Doctor Has a Cow Puppet
[7:00P] Two and a Half Men-Just Like Buffalo
[7:30P] Two and a Half Men-Can You Feel My Finger?
[8:00P] Two and a Half Men-Back Off Mary Poppins
[8:30P] Two and a Half Men-Enjoy Those Garlic Balls
[9:00P] Two and a Half Men-A Bag Full of Jawea
[9:30P] Two and a Half Men-Go Get Mommy's Bra
[10:00P] Two and a Half Men-Bad News From the Clinic
[10:30P] Two and a Half Men-The Price of Healthy Gums Is Eternal Vigilance
[11:00P] Two and a Half Men-A Kosher Slaughterhouse Out in Fontana
[11:30P] Two and a Half Men-Frankenstein and the Horny Villagers
[12:00A] Two and a Half Men-What a Lovely Landing Strip
[12:30A] Two and a Half Men-One False Move, Zimbabwe!
[1:00A] That '70s Show-My Wife
[1:30A] That '70s Show-Going Mobile
[2:00A] That '70s Show-The Seeker
[2:30A] That '70s Show-Who's Been Sleeping Here
[3:00A] Brockmire-Clubhouse Cancer
[3:31A] Kick-Ass 2 (ALL TIMES EDT)
Sundance -
[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] Flashdance
[1:00pm] Law & Order
[2:00pm] Law & Order
[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
[12:00am] Unspeakable
[1:00am] Law & Order
[2:00am] Law & Order
[3:00am] Law & Order
[4:00am] Law & Order
[5:00am] The Rifleman
[5:30am] The Rifleman (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has the movie 'Underworld: Awakening', followed by the movie 'Underworld: Blood Wars'.
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