• Screenwriter/critic Frank Cottrell Boyce met Nico at Eric's, a punk nightclub in 1970s Liverpool, but maybe that wasn't a good thing. He told her that he loved her, and she replied, "Really? Do you have any money? I seem to be a little short." He had two 50-pence pieces, and he gave her one of them, but he could tell that she wanted the other one, too, so he gave her that one as well. That night, he walked 11 miles home, due to lack of train fare.
• Music critic and scholar Chadwick Jenkins remembers being required to take his choice of music classes when he was in high school. He signed up for chorus, but quickly the teacher wanted him to drop the class - and offered him $50 to do just that. According to Mr. Jenkins, the teacher "said that the sum was a substantial portion of his yearly income but that it was worth it just so he could sleep at night."
• The Raconteurs have a reputation for producing rock 'n' roll alchemy. Although they were selling records in 2008, they also made money in other ways than playing music. During their tours, they both played live music and sold their own homemade elixirs. What kind of elixirs? One elixir is intended to put hair on your chest; another elixir is intended to remove the hair on your chest.
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• Vince Clarke, a former member of the bands Depeche Mode and Erasure, occasionally gets together with Alison Moyet to tour as the duo Yas, aka Yazoo. He is very popular with gays although he is straight with a wife and a son. In fact, he is so popular with gays that the gay magazine The Advocate asked him whether he had to "frequently come out of the closet as straight." Mr. Clarke replied, "My Mum was surprised, actually. When I phoned her to tell her I'd just gotten married, she didn't believe me. It was a good half-hour conversation of 'No, Mum, I really did just get married.'"
• The New Kids on the Block have their fans. Writer David Wild once stayed in a hotel on the same floor that the boy band was staying on. Each time he turned on his light, teenaged female fans outside the hotel screamed. But what really impressed him about the fame of the New Kids on the Block was that lots of hot mothers offered him sexual favors for his All-Access Backstage Pass. He blogged, "For the record - and for my wife who might be reading this - I adamantly refused these propositions for reasons that are not entirely clear to me today."
• Sam Endicott, the frontman/bass player of the Bravery, an indie-rock band, learned about ethics from his mother when he was very young. He took a grape out of a grocery store without paying for it and ate it. His mother found out, and, Mr. Endicott remembers, "My mom made me go back and tell the cashier lady what I'd done. It was the most humiliating experience of my life. I've never stolen since."
Names
• When the Replacements performed at their first concert, they were supposed to be known as the Impediments. However, their first concert was in the basement of a Presbyterian church, and the promoter thought that the name the Impediments was not very Presbyterian and that it sounded anti-people with handicaps. Forced to pick a replacement name very quickly, they very quickly named themselves the Replacements. Of course, they had nicknames as well. At times, members of the band were so drunk that they could barely perform. At those times, they called themselves the Placemats, or more simply, the 'Mats. Once, in Portland, the 'Mats wore their own clothing on stage - and over their own clothing, they wore the clothing of the opening act.
Born Milton Supman, this American comedian, actor, and radio/television personality, worked with the puppets White Fang ("The Biggest and Meanest Dog in the USA"), Black Tooth ("The Biggest and Sweetest Dog in the USA"), and Pookie the Lion. By what name is this man who created quite a stir on January 1, 1965, known professionally?
Milton Supman (January 8, 1926 - October 22, 2009), known professionally as Soupy Sales, was an American comedian, actor, radio/television personality, and jazz aficionado. He was best known for his local and network children's television show Lunch with Soupy Sales (1953-1966), a series of comedy sketches frequently ending with Sales receiving a pie in the face, which became his trademark. From 1968 to 1975 he was a regular panelist on the syndicated revival of What's My Line? and appeared on several other TV game shows. During the 1980s, Sales hosted his own show on WNBC-AM in New York City.
The puppets were:
White Fang, "The Biggest and Meanest Dog in the USA", who appeared only as a giant white shaggy paw with black triangular felt "claws", jutting out from the corner of the screen. Fang spoke with unintelligible short grunts and growls, which Soupy repeated back in English, for comic effect. White Fang was often the pie thrower when Soupy's jokes bombed.
Black Tooth, "The Biggest and Sweetest Dog in the USA", also seen only as a giant black paw with white triangular felt claws, and with more feminine, but similarly unintelligible, dialogue. Black Tooth's trademark was pulling Soupy off-camera to give loud and noisy kisses.
Pookie the Lion, a lion puppet appearing in a large window behind Soupy (1950s), was a hipster with a rapier wit. For example: Soupy: "Do you know why my life is so miserable?" Pookie: "You got me!" Soupy: "That's why!" One of Pookie's favorite lines when greeting Soupy was, "Hey bubby... want a kiss?". In the Detroit shows, Pookie never spoke but communicated in whistles. That puppet also was used to mouth the words while pantomiming novelty records on the show.
On January 1, 1965, miffed at having to work on the holiday, Sales ended his live broadcast by encouraging his young viewers to tiptoe into their still-sleeping parents' bedrooms and remove those "funny green pieces of paper with pictures of U.S. Presidents" from their pants and pocketbooks. "Put them in an envelope and mail them to me", Soupy instructed the children. Several days later, substantial amounts of money had begun arriving in the mail; Sales stated that the total amount received was in the thousands of dollars but qualified that by stating that much of that was in play money. Sales said he had been joking and that whatever real money had been sent would be donated to charity, but as parents' complaints increased, WNEW's management suspended Sales for two weeks.
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Billy in Cypress U$A was first, and correct, with:
Soupy Sales
Mark. said:
Soupy Sales.
Alan J answered:
Soupy Sales.
mj wrote:
He managed
To get himself kicked off TV a couple of times for some clever punking
of the censors and pissing off parents. "White Fang, why, when I say
EFF, do you see KAY?" was, allegedly, one of the thing that got Soupy
Sales, a time out. My parents wouldn't let me watch his show.
Jacqueline responded:
Soupy Sales had a T.V. show for kids.
Dave replied:
Soupy Sales. I used to see him on game shows and TV commercials. He made a living as an comedian, whose trademark gag was pies hitting faces. Supposedly Sales had 25,000 pies thrown in his face on his long running ABC children's TV program, which I never watched because our TV didn't receive a strong enough ABC signal until years later. So it is news to me that in 1965, on one of his TV programs, Sales encouraged children to steal their parents' money and mail the bills to him. Of course the show started receiving envelopes with money in them, to nearly everyone's annoyance. Later in life Sales had a radio program at the same station as a young Howard Stern and the two pretended to feud on air.
Photos: With puppets | pie to the face | radio hosts: Soupy Sales, Don Imus, Howard Stern, and Wolfman Jack.
Cal in Vermont wrote:
Soupy Sales! He apparently instructed all the kids who were watching TV that New Years Day to rifle their sleeping parent's pockets for "funny pieces of green paper" and send them to him c/o WNEW New York, New York. Big scandal. Now TV preachers get it and buy ever-fancier jet planes and mistresses with it. Not a peep, aside from "send me more to do the Lord's work right now!" Then there was allegedly something about banana cream, too. How innocent we were back when America was great, huh?
Jim from CA, retired to ID, said:
Soupy Sales
Mac Mac answered:
Soupy Sales
Kenn B replied:
Soupy Sales
Daniel in The City responded:
Soupy Sales
DJ Useo wrote:
That would be "Soupy Sales", one of my favorite comedians, right up there with "Salad Jones", & "Dessert Smith".
Deborah, the Master Gardener, said:
I know this one - Milton Supman was better known as Soupy Sales. I used to watch his show when I was a kid. Watching a few clips from The Three Stooges reminded me how comedy has changed.
Our county is one of the 19 that our Governor marked yesterday. Evidently people who work in the hospitality business in Napa, and live here, are bringing the virus home with them. Napa has become our Tyson Meatpacking plant. Craptastic.
BttbBob answered:
Oh, that's the irrepressible Soupy Sales... He was a fun part of of my pre-teen black and white TV years, sure...
Did you know that Frank Sinatra was a big fan of Soupy's? Cream pies and all?
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Music: "Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition was In)"
Artist: The Black Flamingos
Artist Location: Asbury Park, New Jersey
Info: "Black Flamingos pay tribute to the late Kenny Rogers with a timely instrumental take on The First Edition's 1968 counterculture hit 'Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In).'"
"Instrumental trio from Asbury Park, NJ, USA."
Robbie Butkowski / Guitar
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CBS begins the night with 'The Dick Van Dyke Show - Now In Living Color! A Special Tribute To Carl Reiner', followed by a RERUN'Magnum PU', then a RERUN'Blue Bloods'.
On a RERUNStephen Colbert (from 4/28/20) are Jake Gyllenhaal and M. Ward.
On a RERUNJames Corden, OBE,, with guest host Melissa McCarthy (from 12/18/19) are Laura Dern, Mark Duplass, and Mariah Carey.
NBC starts the night with a RERUN'World Of Dance', followed by a RERUN'The Wall', then 'Dateline'.
On a RERUNJimmy Fallon (from 3/27/20) are Tina Fey and José Andrés.
On a RERUNSeth Meyers (from 5/7/20) are Kelly Clarkson and Rep. Ayanna Pressley.
On a RERUNLilly Singh (from 1/9/20) are Brett Gelman and Rosanna Pansino.
ABC opens the night with a RERUN'Shark Tank', followed by '20/20'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 6/18/20 and 5/21/20) are Pharrell Williams and Kevin Hart.
The CW offers the FRESH'iHeartCountry 4th Of July BBQ', followed by the RERUN'Iconic: TLC'.
Faux fills the night with FRESH'WWE Friday Night SmackDown'.
MY fills the night with Rupert's social disinformercials.
AMC offers the movie 'First Blood', followed by the movie 'Rambo', then a FRESH'Friday Night In With The Morgans', and the movie 'Rambo: First Blood Part II'.
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[6:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Liaisons
[7:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Interface
[8:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Gambit
[9:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Gambit
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Phantasms
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Dark Page
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[1:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Force of Nature
[2:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Inheritance
[3:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Parallels
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - The Pegasus
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Homeward
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Sub Rosa
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Lower Decks
[8:00PM] STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN
[10:30PM] STAR TREK III: THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK
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[3:30AM] STAR TREK III: THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK (ALL TIMES EST)
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[6:25A] The Three Stooges - A-Ducking They Did Go
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[9:15A] The Heartbreak Kid
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[5:45P] Police Academy
[8:00P] Smokey and the Bandit
[10:15P] Smokey and the Bandit II
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SyFy has the movie 'the Bourne Identity', followed by the movie 'The Bourne Supremacy'.
The Conan host will begin filming his TBS show at L.A.'s Largo at the Coronet on July 6, becoming the first late-night host to move away from at-home filming since studio production shut down in March. Episodes will film without an audience and with a limited number of crew and staff members on site, per government and industry protocols. O'Brien will continue to interview guests via Zoom.
O'Brien chose Largo to resume filming rather than his studio at the Warner Bros. lot as a way to keep the theater, a favorite among the L.A. comedy scene, going during the coronavirus pandemic.
"I got started doing improv at the Coronet in 1986, and I'm glad we've figured out a way to safely keep that theater going during this lockdown," he said.
A small handful of productions have resumed since the state lifted restrictions on filming in June. CBS' daytime drama The Bold and the Beautiful returned to studio production on June 17, and fellow soap The Young and the Restless is also gearing up to return to filming on July 6.
Tom Morello has teamed up with Imagine Dragons' Dan Reynolds, producer duo the Bloody Beetroots, and artist/activist Shea Diamond for a new protest song, "Stand Up," inspired by ongoing protests for racial justice across the nation.
The explosive, Nineties-esque rap-rock track features Reynolds and Diamond outlining the racial injustices in the U.S. through their own experiences.
One hundred percent of all artist proceeds from "Stand Up" will be donated to the NAACP, Know Your Rights Camp, Southern Poverty Law Center and the Marsha P. Johnson Institute. KIDinaKORNER/Interscope, who released the song, will additionally donate an amount equal to the artists' record royalties derived from streams of the track for a three-year period.
Morello has vocally supported the George Floyd protests since they began in late May. In the week following Floyd's killing by Minneapolis police, Morello called for fans to write and record songs about avenging Floyd, offering to play the best ones on his SiriusXM radio show.
A British judge has decided that Johnny Depp's litigation against The Sun owner News Group Newspapers over a 2018 article in the tabloid that cast him as a "wife beater" can go ahead, setting the stage for a trial starting next week.
The publisher of the article looked to defend itself from a defamation claim by proving that Depp did, in fact, beat his ex-wife Amber Heard, causing her to suffer significant injury.
Earlier this year, the case was rocked by some 70,000 messages that were inadvertently disclosed by Depp's law firm in a filing. Examining whether Depp had sufficiently turned over demanded records to News Group's attorneys, the judge gave Depp a few days to disclose additional audio recordings, as well as court papers from the divorce proceedings between Depp and Heard, while stopping short of making Depp produce other items or sanctioning him for not complying with discovery demands sooner.
Rapper Vanilla Ice has postponed a concert in Austin, Texas, Friday night following backlash over the event's safety during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The show was to have taken place at the Emerald Point Bar and Grill, but the venue's owner, William Brannam, told ABC News that after all the media attention surrounding the show, Vanilla Ice made the decision to reschedule.
Vanilla Ice, whose given name is Robert Van Winkle, says the venue, which can hold 5,000, was going to limit capacity to 450. According to Brannam, 84 tickets had been sold on EventBrite, while he'd sold all 96 available VIP tickets, plus 104 tickets for seating in the venue's upper deck. Last year, the "Ice Ice Baby" artist, 52, performed at the same place and drew 1,800 people.
Another '90s act, Color Me Badd, was also supposed to perform at the Emerald Point on Saturday, but that show was also rescheduled. Other postponed upcoming shows include "Wild Thing" rapper Tone Loc and "Gangsta's Paradise" rapper Coolio.
California regulators sued Cisco Systems Inc on Tuesday, accusing it of discriminating against an Indian-American employee and allowing him to be harassed by two managers because he was from a lower Indian caste than them.
U.S. employment law does not specifically bar caste-based discrimination, but California's Department of Fair Employment and Housing contends in the lawsuit that the Hindu faith's lingering caste system is based on protected classes such as religion.
The lawsuit, filed in federal court in San Jose, does not name the alleged victim. It states he has been a principal engineer at Cisco's San Jose headquarters since October 2015 and that he was born at the bottom of caste hierarchy as a Dalit, once called "untouchables."
At Cisco, the unnamed employee reported Iyer to human resources in November 2016 for outing him as a Dalit to colleagues. Iyer allegedly retaliated, but Cisco determined caste discrimination was not illegal and issues continued through 2018, the lawsuit states.
Cisco reassigned and isolated the employee, rejected a raise and opportunities that would have led to one and denied two promotions, according to the lawsuit.
The message was dropped into a WhatsApp group used by suburban moms in South Africa. Amid the grumblings over homeschooling during lockdown, one mom went off topic: "Does anyone know where to get illegal cigarettes? I just need a few. I'm desperate."
She emphasized her anguish with an emoji, a face with eyes bulging and tongue hanging out.
The "desperate mama," as she described herself, is one of 9 million smokers in South Africa affected by the government's decision in late March to ban the sale of all tobacco products, ostensibly to help protect citizens' health during the coronavirus pandemic. The ban remains even after South Africa eased most of its strict lockdown restrictions, including another contentious outlawing of alcohol sales.
Confirmed COVID-19 cases are rising rapidly in Africa's most developed economy. But that economy is suffering, and now restaurants, cinemas and even casinos are set to reopen. And allowing people to purchase alcohol again has led to an increase in drunken brawls and traffic accidents, putting added strain on hospitals as they deal with the virus. Yet it's still illegal to buy a pack of cigarettes.
South Africa is the only country in the world to have a ban on tobacco sales in place after India and Botswana lifted theirs.
Botswana is investigating a growing number of unexplained deaths of elephants, having confirmed 275 had died, up from 154 two weeks ago, the government said on Thursday.
The dead elephants were first spotted months ago in the Okavango Panhandle region, and the authorities say they have since been trying to discover the cause. Poaching has been ruled out as the cause of death, as the carcasses were found intact.
"Three laboratories in Zimbabwe, South Africa and Canada have been identified to process the samples taken from the dead elephants," the Ministry of Environment, Natural Resources, Conservation and Tourism said in a statement.
In a report prepared for the government and seen by Reuters, Elephants Without Borders (EWB), a conservation organisation, said that its aerial surveys showed that elephants of all ages appeared to be dying. The group counted 169 dead elephants on May 25, and another 187 on June 14, according to the report.
Africa's overall elephant population is declining due to poaching, but Botswana, home to almost a third of the continent's elephants, has seen numbers grow to 130,000 from 80,000 in the late 1990s.
What started as a minor change to a common song has now morphed into a continent-wide phenomenon before our very ears.
"As far as we know, it's unprecedented," says biologist Ken Otter from the University of Northern British Columbia, Canada.
When Otter first moved to western Canada in the late 1990s, he heard the white-throated sparrows (Zonotrichia albicollis) singing an unusual tune. Instead of sticking to the species' usual three-note finish, local sparrow populations were ending their tune on two notes.
Between 2000 and 2019, this small change has travelled over 3,000 kilometres (1,800 miles) from British Columbia (BC) to central Ontario, virtually wiping out a historic song ending that's been around since the 1950s at least.
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