Tom Danehy: Tom shares the good news about British currency, space heroes and Burger King tacos (Tucson Weekly)
From the first time I read about Enigma in The Ultra Secret back in the 1970s, I've been an Alan Turing fan. Then, as the years went by and we learned how the piss-ants in the British government kept him a secret, then ruined his life and then basically killed him, I've been waiting for him to get some kind of posthumous recognition. The movie The Imitation Game did a lot for his name and reputation and this will help, as well.
Andrew Tobias: The Hideous Senior Senator From Kentucky
Think about it! In addition to hacking and disinformation to advantage Trump, the Russians will very likely cause the losing side next year to doubt the validity of the outcome. Trump will almost surely say it was rigged, if he loses. Democrats will be skeptical if there is no paper trail and he wins. Either way, Putin wins: we will be at each other's throats. He will have destroyed the foundation of our democracy: faith in free and fair elections.
Andrew Tobias: Fox News Finally Nails The President
Meanwhile, as you contemplate the health care debate, don't miss the big picture: Fighting against universal health care is in the Republican DNA. Reagan led the charge; Republican governors - refusing to accept federal Medicaid expansion funds - carry it on to this day. We are the only first-world country on earth without universal health care. Maybe it's not so radical to chart a path to get there. "Medicare for all who want it" - the public option - would be one such path, as more and more would likely come to choose it.
Frank Rich: Hal Prince Directed the Greatest Musical Production I Ever Saw (Vulture)
When people ask me to name the greatest production I've ever seen of a musical, I don't have to fish for an answer. It was Harold Prince's original production of Cabaret in the fall of 1966. I saw it during the first week of its life, when it was trying out at the Shubert Theater in Boston on its way to Broadway. […] I knew nothing about the production. There was only one nominal star in the cast - the legendary Weimar-era performer Lotte Lenya, the widow and collaborator of the composer Kurt Weill. There had not yet been any reviews to tell an audience what was in store.
Andrew Goldman: "In Conversation: Anjelica Huston" (Vulture)
[…] Dad was away working to keep us all in food and clothes. It's more than a mission - this is what your dad does first. It's a bit more important than his being your father. I remember being backstage at an interview that he was having in London - I hadn't been on a set before and I must have been 5 or 6 - and I remember the interviewer saying, "What is the most precious thing to you on earth?" And he said, "My children." And I thought, Really? The truth of the matter was that Dad could be a lot of fun but he was also irascible. He also, I'm sure, was susceptible to the common hangover, which colored his moods.
McHale's Navy is an American sitcom starring Ernest Borgnine that aired 138 half-hour episodes over four seasons, from October 11, 1962, to April 12, 1966, on the ABC television network. The series was filmed in black and white and originated from an hour drama entitled Seven Against the Sea, broadcast on April 3, 1962.
Captain Wallace "Wally" Burton Binghamton USNR (Joe Flynn) - McHale's perpetually frustrated commanding officer, he is referred to as "Old Leadbottom" (usually behind his back - a nickname he received from a bullet wound to the posterior). He is a married naval reservist, and his job before the war was as the commodore of a yacht club on Long Island and the editor of a yachting magazine.
His catchphrases are: "What in the name of the Blue Pacific" or "What in the name of Nimitz (or Halsey)?" (as when he sees gambling or native dancing girls on McHale's Island), and "What is it, wha', wha', wha', what?!" (usually in response to McHale's "Well a, Well a, Well a"). A running gag has a frustrated Binghamton looking up and saying, "Why me? Why is it always me?" (also used by Tinker in one episode) or "Somebody up there hates me!" His favorite catchphrase is "I could just scream!", which was once used by McHale and once by Carpenter.
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
McHale's Navy.
Randall wrote:
McHale's Navy
mj said:
On an island in the South Pacific
Trying to bring order to McHale's Navy.
Alan J answered:
McHale's Navy.
Dave responded:
McHale's Navy (1962-1966) was a ½ hour sitcom broadcast in black and white. Much in the vein of the earlier Phil Silvers Show, the show's comedy was primarily about enlisted men (in this case sailors) neglecting their duty in favor of finding female companionship, alcohol, and other forms of entertaining themselves. Ernest Borgnine was cast as Lt. Commander McHale (even though the WWII vet was 20 years older than was typical of that rank in the WWII Navy), who mostly played the straight man who tried to keep he and his men out of trouble with his incompetent commanding officer, Captain Binghamton, or "Old Leadbottom,"played by Joe Flynn. Physically, Flynn closely resembled Phil Silvers, and wore the same horn rimmed glasses, a resemblance that may not have been unintentional. Unlike the Phil Silvers Show, McHale's Navy was set in wartime, in the Pacific theater of WWII. A notable co-star was Tim Conway, who played a bumbling and perpetually confused Ensign. Oh, there was a PT Boat, although most of the show was about the sailors on land, and the war was mostly forgotten.
Micki replied:
McHale's Navy.
zorch said:
McHale's Navy.
Cal in Vermont wrote:
"Old Leadbottom", better known as Captain Binghamton, was a mainstay of the TV comedy "McHale's Navy" starring Oscar winner Ernest Borgnine which aired in the early and mid-sixties. It was funny enough to watch and my favorite episodes featured the occasional appearance of Jaques Aubuchon as Chief Urulu who made McHale's crew of con-men look like pikers. TV comedy has come a long way since then, huh...
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
McHale's Navy
Kevin K. in Washington, DC, wrote:
That's "McHale's Navy". I watched it as re-runs in the late 60's, early 70's. It always struck me as weird that they could have Ernest Borgnine in a sitcom, when in the movies he was usually the heavy.
Deborah said:
Oh, my, what a blast from the past - I'm thinking "McHale's Navy." There was another Navy-based sitcom that also ran about that time; I don't recall its name but that's my back up WAG.
The days are noticeably shorter, and my friends are talking about pumpkin spice lattes. It's only August, and still summer.
David of Moon Valley answered:
McHales's Navy...at the time one of my favorites as my dad was in the navy therefore so were the rest of the family...and then i Grew Up...
Dave in Tucson responded:
"Old Leadbottom" was the nickname given to Captain Binghamton by LCDR McHale & his PT-109 crew on the 60's war comedy McHale's Navy. The nickname came from a bullet wound to the butt. McHale's Navy originated from a one hour drama titled Seven Against the Sea.
John I from Hawai`i says,
"McHale's Navy."
Mac Mac replied:
McHale's Navy
DJ Useo wrote:
I'm glad you asked this question. The answer is "McHales' Navy". I was curious once if I would like that show, so I watched the pilot on Youtube.
I was surprised to find it was fun. A fine cast with lol situations. I picked up the dvd set, & have become quite fond of them since.
Captain Binghamton ( Joe Flynn ) was apparently shot in the 'sit-upon' before the series began, thus earning the name "Leadbottom".
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• Criticism can be funny, it can be devastating, and it can be educational. (So can insults.) Sometimes the accompanist is much better than the singer: Henry Bird once told a singer, "Young lady, I have tried playing for you on the white notes, I have tried playing for you on the black notes, but I simply cannot play in the cracks." At first, cellist Emanuel Feuermann received bad reviews of his concerts in London - he even thought of no longer playing in London. After reading one review of his playing, he told accompanist Gerald Moore, "If a pupil of mine received that notice, I would tell him to give up the cello." While Feodor Chaliapin was rehearsing Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's opera Mozart et Salieri, he wanted the orchestra to play at the tempo he wanted, so he gestured at the orchestra and stamped his feet in the tempo he wanted. The conductor said to him, "Kindly remember that I am the conductor," and Mr. Chaliapin replied, "In a garden where there are no birds, a croaking toad is a nightingale." The insulted conductor left the building, and the rehearsal ended. Gerald Moore accompanied Mr. Chaliapin during concerts, and they respected each other. Mr. Chaliapin was never impatient with Mr. Moore, but he did criticize him when he felt that criticism was needed. During one rehearsal, he said to Mr. Moore after he played the long pianoforte introduction to the classical French love song "Plasir d'amour" by Jean-Paul-Égide Martini, "Not just the notes. Not just the notes." In Am I Too Loud?, one of his autobiographies, Mr. Moore wrote, "It can be so beautiful if played thoughtfully and expressively but my uninformed strumming made it sound commonplace. I took it home to think about it and ever since that episode I have devoted more time, more practice, more concentration to the music that looks easy. The average accompanist, I am afraid, only practises with diligence that which looks difficult." Of course, some critics can be partial. After a concert by contralto Astra Desmond, her 10-year-old son told a bunch of taxi drivers outside the concert hall, "My mother is the greatest singer in all space."
• After a performance, Leontyne Price greatly enjoyed hearing praise from members of the audience and she greatly disliked hearing criticism from members of the audience. After one performance, she was speaking to a line of members of the audience and one man near the end of the line started waving at her. Ms. Price thought that here was one man who had greatly enjoyed the performance and was going to tell her how great she was, but when the man finally spoke to her, he asked, "Miss Price, did I detect a slight strain on your B-flat in the aria?" Ms. Price smiled at him and said, "Would you do me a small favor and get quietly out of the line so the other people can tell me beautiful things about my B-flat?" (Actually, she admits that she was "rougher than that" on the man. She told an interviewer, "I'll never tell what I said to him. It was bad - straight to the jugular vein.")
• Eileen Farrell was a favorite opera soprano of flutist Donald Peck, and he once performed with her. Afterward, he went backstage and complimented her on her singing. She was very nice and said that she was surprised by his big flute tone because his body was so slim. He replied, "But Miss Farrell, you have such a huge voice!" She joked, "Yes, but I am as wide as you are tall!" By the way, a young cellist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra did not realize that opera singers will often not sing in full voice during rehearsal, and so he was unimpressed with Ms. Farrell during rehearsal and remarked, "So, what's so great about Eileen Farrell?" But during the actual performance, she did sing with her full voice, and the cellist was properly impressed and remarked, "I can't hear myself. Am I playing?" This was a charming way of admitting that he had been mistaken earlier.
• Violinist Jascha Heifetz and tenor John McCormack once sailed together on a ship to Monte Carlo. They got together in a cabin and had a fun time singing and playing music. Suddenly, they realized that it was dawn! Unfortunately, not everyone had had the fun time that they had had. Their neighbor complained to the room steward, "What the devil was going on all night? One gent caterwauling and another gent scraping a fiddle. I never got a wink of sleep." The room steward told him, "That was Jascha Heifetz and John McCormack." The irate man replied, "When I get home, I'm going to smash every d*mn record I own of either of them!"
• Musician and impresario Maurice Strakosch once took opera singer Adelina Patti, before she was famous, to sing to Gioachino Rossini. She sang for him a song from Rossini's Barber of Seville: "Una vove poco fa." However, Mr. Strakosch had embellished the song greatly with fancy "improvements." Mr. Rossini kept praising the singing: "Brava! Bravissia!" After Ms. Patti had finished singing, Mr. Rossini said to her, "Beautiful voice! Excellent method!" Then Mr. Rossini, a master of sarcasm, added, "And what a brilliant and effective song! Pray tell me the name of the composer."
• Opera singers sometimes have jokes that they play on stage. While singing opposite Siegfried Jerusalem in a performance of Tristan at Bayreuth, soprano Waltraud Meier shocked conductor Daniel Barenboim by substituting a line from an operetta for a line from Tristan. She says, "I've always wanted to sing that - once! It rhymes better!" In addition, Ms. Meier says, Siegfried Jerusalem, who was singing the role of Tristan, sang about spaghetti in the second act. By the way, he says that no critic noticed.
• Richard Barthelemy, the voice coach and accompanist of Enrico Caruso, was aware that many opera patrons had little to no knowledge of opera. He was invited to lunch with one such high-society opera patron the day after a new Italian opera premiered. He asked her for her opinion of the opera, but she replied, "It's impossible to give you an opinion - I haven't yet read the reviews in the morning papers."
• Rudolf Bockelmann, a German dramatic baritone best known for his roles in Richard Wagner's operas, did not read English, but he closely examined his critical notices in London newspapers. Classical record producer Walter Legge wrote that Mr. Bockelmann would search for the word but: "If he found it, he grunted in German, 'It's all sh*t anyway.'"
• Early in her career, soprano Rita Hunter read a review that stated, "If Miss Hunter persists in singing her top notes with such abandon, she won't have a voice at all in two years." Thirty years later, she still had her voice. She also still had the review - which she displayed on a wall in her bathroom.
• When press releases announced that the petite Lily Pons would make her debut in the title role of Carmen, the critic of the Boston Transcript, H.T. Parker, said, "Thank God! At last we'll have a Carmen who weighs less than the bull!"
If I'm up late on Thursday night/Friday morning, always try to catch the 'World News Now Polka' around 3:24am on ABC.
Tonight, Friday:
CBS begins the night with a FRESH'Love Island', followed by a RERUN'Hawaii Five-0', then a RERUN'Blue Bloods'.
On a RERUNStephen Colbert (from 6/11/19) are Tim McGraw, Jon Meacham, Tessa Thompson, and Jessie Reyez featuring 6lack.
On a RERUNJames Corden, OBE, (from 5/6/19) are Charlize Theron and Seth Rogen.
NBC starts the night with a RERUN'American Ninja Warrior', followed by 'Dateline'.
On a RERUNJimmy Fallon (from 7/16/19) are Chance the Rapper, Jennifer Lopez, David Crosby, and Cameron Crowe.
On a RERUNSeth Meyers (from 7/18/19) are John Leguizamo, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, the Jonas Brothers, and Raghav Mehrotra.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 3/20/19) are Pablo Schreiber, Robert DeLong, and Madeline Brewer.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH'Marvel's Agents Of SHIELD', followed by '20/20'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 7/22/19) are Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio, Margot Robbie, Quentin Tarantino, Keith L. Williams, and Tal Wilkenfeld.
The CW offers a FRESH'Masters Of Illusion', followed by a FRESH'The Big Stage', then a (R) 'The Outpost'.
Faux has a RERUN'First Responders Live', followed by a RERUN'MasterChef'.
MY recycles an old 'CSI: Miami', followed by another old 'CSI: Miami'.
A&E has 'Live PD', followed by a FRESH'Live PD: Rewind', then a FRESH'Live PD'.
AMC offers the movie 'Gladiator', followed by the movie 'Pulp Fiction'.
BBC -
[3:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 8-Future Imperfect
[4:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 9-Final Mission
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 10-The Loss
[6:00AM] DIRK GENTLY'S HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 5-Shapes and Colors
[7:00AM] DIRK GENTLY'S HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 6-Girl Power
[8:00AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 8-Oubliette
[9:00AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 9-Nisei
[10:00AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 10-731
[11:00AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 11-Revelations
[12:00PM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 12-War of the Coprophages
[1:00PM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 13-Syzygy
[2:00PM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 14-Grotesque
[3:00PM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 15-Piper Maru
[4:00PM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 16-Aprocrypha
[5:00PM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 17-Pusher
[6:00PM] SUMMER RENTAL (1985)
[8:00PM] FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH (1982)
[10:00PM] SUMMER RENTAL (1985)
[12:00AM] FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH (1982)
[2:00AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 8-Oubliette
[3:00AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 9-Nisei
[4:00AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 10-731
[5:00AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 11-Revelations (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Below Deck', another 'Below Deck', followed by the movie 'Tyler Perry's A Madea Christmas'.
Comedy Central has 3 hours of old 'South Park', and 'Jim Gaffigan: Noble Ape'.
FX has the movie 'Spy', followed by the movie 'The Heat'.
History has 'Ancient Aliens', followed by a FRESH'Ancient Aliens: Declassified', then a FRESH'Ancient Aliens', followed by a FRESH'The UnXplained'.
IFC -
[6:00A] DeepStar Six
[8:30A] Universal Soldier
[11:00A] Coneheads
[1:00P] The Campaign
[3:00P] That '70s Show-Let's Spend the Night Together
[3:30P] That '70s Show-(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
[4:00P] That '70s Show-Beast of Burden
[4:30P] That '70s Show-It's Only Rock 'n' Roll
[5:00P] That '70s Show-Rip This Joint
[5:30P] That '70s Show-Mother's Little Helper
[6:00P] Two and a Half Men-The Sea Is a Harsh Mistress
[6:30P] Two and a Half Men-A Pot-Smoking Monkey
[7:00P] Two and a Half Men-A Live Woman of Proven Fertility
[7:30P] Two and a Half Men-Apologies for the Frivolity
[8:00P] Two and a Half Men-Repeated Blows to His Unformed Head
[8:30P] Two and a Half Men-Release the Dogs
[9:00P] Two and a Half Men-Corey's Been Dead for an Hour
[9:30P] Two and a Half Men-Kissing Abraham Lincoln
[10:00P] Two and a Half Men-Walnuts and Demerol
[10:30P] Two and a Half Men-Castrating Sheep in Montana
[11:00P] Two and a Half Men-Don't Worry, Speed Racer
[11:30P] Two and a Half Men-That's Summer Sausage, Not Salami
[12:00A] Two and a Half Men-Here I Come, Pants!
[12:30A] Two and a Half Men-For Whom the Booty Calls
[1:00A] Sherman's Showcase-Meet Sherman
[1:30A] Sherman's Showcase-The Showcase Dancers
[2:00A] That '70s Show-Let's Spend the Night Together
[2:30A] That '70s Show-(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
[3:00A] That '70s Show-Beast of Burden
[3:30A] That '70s Show-It's Only Rock 'n' Roll
[4:00A] That '70s Show-Rip This Joint
[4:30A] That '70s Show-Mother's Little Helper
[5:00A] Pee-wee's Playhouse-Rainy Day
[5:30A] Pee-wee's Playhouse-Now You See Me, Now You Don't (ALL TIMES EDT)
Sundance -
[6:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[6:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[7:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[7:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[8:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[8:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[9:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[9:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[10:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[10:30am] The Blue Lagoon
[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] Law & Order
[1:00am] Law & Order
[2:00am] Law & Order
[3:00am] Law & Order
[4:00am] Close Up With The Hollywood Reporter - Drama Showrunners
[5:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[5:30am] The Andy Griffith Show (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has the movie 'Fast Five', followed by the movie 'San Andreas', then a FRESH'Killjoys'.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus was as surprised as anyone else when Marianne Williamson used a classic Seinfeld line during the Democratic debate.
Williamson used the phrase "yada yada yada" while discussing gun control on the debate stage Tuesday.
While the expression predates Seinfeld, it has become associated with the TV show since an episode titled "The Yada Yada" aired in 1997. In that episode, George Costanza is mystified by his girlfriend's frequent use of the phrase, and wonders what information she might be hiding.
Louis-Dreyfus, who played Elaine Benes on the sitcom, reacted to the "bizarre" debate moment on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Wednesday.
When Kimmel asked her what it felt like to hear the famous catchphrase referenced during the debate, she added: "It's bizarre. It's kind of like, worlds colliding and then some."
A Los Angeles jury ordered Thursday that Katy Perry, her collaborators, and her record label pay $2.78 million in damages, according to the Associated Press, after earlier in the week finding that the star's 2013 track "Dark Horse" copied a Christian rap song.
Perry will have to hand over $550,000 herself, while Capitol Records will have to pay the majority of the money to Marcus Gray and his co-writers on the 2009 song "Joyful Noise."
Gray's attorneys have argued that "Dark Horse" has earned Perry tens of millions, while Perry's team emphasized the millions of dollars in costs used to make and market the song.
The decision from a nine-member federal jury on Monday comes five years after Gray and two co-authors first sued, claiming "Dark Horse" stole from the song, released under Gray's stage name, Flame.
Several dozen staffers have been let go at Disney's film and visual effects units, including the Fox studio being absorbed into the company.
About 250 workers have been let go to date, a studio source tells Deadline.
Also headed for the dustbin is a valuable Hollywood resource: the Fox Research Library. By the start of 2020, its collections will be folded into Disney's archives. The Fox library has served countless productions with information from the 19th and 20th centuries that informed all aspects of their look and feel.
The trims at the film studio represent a very small portion of the thousands of workers being displaced across the company due to job eliminations and layoffs. Since Disney's $71.3 billion acquisition of most of 21st Century Fox closed in March, the company has been working toward a projected target of $2 billion in merger-related synergies. It will give a status update on its progress to Wall Street next Wednesday when it reports third-quarter earnings.
Earlier rounds of layoffs on the film side generally have affected Fox staffers in areas like distribution and marketing where there are clear overlaps between the studios' operations.
The Doctor is heading to HBO Max after the WarnerMedia streaming service picked up the exclusive streaming rights to long-running BBC Studios drama Doctor Who.
The service will have all 11 seasons of the sci-fi fan favorite at launch in spring 2020 including the SVOD premiere of season 11, which stars Jodie Whittaker. As part of the deal with BBC Studios, the streamer will be the exclusive SVOD home for future seasons after they air on BBC America.
In addition to Doctor Who, HBO Max has licensed 700 episodes of landmark BBC series including Ricky Gervais' The Office, Top Gear, Luther and The Honorable Woman.
Other titles include new shows such as Pure, Trigonometry, Stath Lets Flats, Home and Ghosts, which will all be available exclusively to HBO Max upon launch of the service.
These British dramas will join the likes of The Sopranos, Sex and the City, Veep and Game of Thrones, as well as previously announced acquisitions The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Pretty Little Liars and all 236 episodes of Friends.
Supreme Court Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh (R-Cry Baby) cannot be disciplined for his behavior during last year's Senate confirmation battle, a federal judicial panel ruled Thursday.
The decision by the Committee on Judicial Conduct and Disability of the Judicial Conference of the United States agreed with a panel of federal judges that Kavanaugh's elevation to the Supreme Court put him out of their jurisdiction.
"Our committee, judicial councils, and chief circuit judges all lack statutory authority to review the merits of complaints against an individual no longer covered under the (Judicial Conduct and Disability) Act," the panel said. "As a Supreme Court justice, Justice Kavanaugh is not a judge subject to the Act."
The action followed last December's dismissal of 83 ethics complaints against Kavanaugh by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, which had been asked to conduct an investigation. The complaints alleged that he violated the code of conduct for federal judges in part by "making inappropriately partisan statements and behaving in a demonstrably hostile manner during the hearings" last year, as well as in 2004 and 2006 for a federal appeals court seat.
Kavanaugh, 54, was confirmed by a 50-48 Senate vote last October after surviving Christine Blasey Ford's allegation of sexual misconduct while he was a high school student in the 1980s. Kavanaugh disputed her account.
A Harry Potter book picked up for just £1 from a library sale has sold for more than £28,000 at auction.
The first edition version of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone went under the hammer today (Wednesday, July 31).
The book, which was previously on the shelves at Staffordshire Library in Stafford, was sold by Hansons Auctioneer - on what happened to be Harry Potter and J K Rowling's birthday.
Jim Spencer, books expert at Hansons, said: "I was called to a client's house near Stafford to value three boxes of books and there it was - the holy grail of Harry Potter books. I was so excited. Every book valuer dreams of finding one of these.
The owner, a 54-year-old office worker who did not wish to be named, said: "I bought the book along with three or four others to read on holiday about 20 years ago. I thought nothing of it at the time. I read the book, in fact I've read all the Harry Potter series, and then put it away in a cupboard for years.
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. Week of July 31, 2019:
1. BTS; $12,386,483; $121.57.
2. Spice Girls; $9,750,671; $112.13.
3. Ed Sheeran; $6,088,526; $84.21.
4. Paul McCartney; $4,330,870; $157.40.
5. Pink; $3,049,565; $145.22.
6. Dead & Company; $2,725,223; $88.69.
7. Ariana Grande; $1,967,915; $119.92.
8. Cher; $1,464,791; $114.58.
9. André Rieu; $1,462,385; $91.65.
10. Michael Bublé; $1,426,383; $124.52.
11. Rod Stewart; $1,406,386; $106.97.
12. Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band; $1,274,383; $103.46.
13. Elton John; $1,249,084; $116.75.
14. Hugh Jackman; $1,208,115; $91.64.
15. Backstreet Boys; $1,113,285; $82.70.
16. Shawn Mendes; $1,002,843; $70.68.
17. New Kids On The Block; $941,735; $80.39.
18. Kenny Chesney; $904,984; $90.60.
19. Twenty One Pilots; $820,699; $59.28.
20. Hootie & The Blowfish; $809,014; $62.32.
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