Actors' advice to actors: 'Costumes catching fire can be fun' (Guardian)
How do you get over stage fright? Learn your lines? Make the most of auditions? Handle rejection? Stars of stage and screen tell their secrets to Laura Barnett, in this extract from her new book, Advice from the Players.
AFI's 100 Years, 100 Movie Quotes (Musical Montage)
This is a musical montage I put together based on AFI's 100 Years, 100 Movies Quotes. The list was made in 2005 and was first aired on CBS as a special to commemorate the 100 greatest quotes as voted by 1500 critics, artists, and historians.
Cezary Jan Strusiewicz: 5 Movie Jokes You Missed If You Only Speak English (Cracked)
Everyone who learns a foreign language eventually has this moment when they realize, "Oh my God! I can now curse in public whenever I want!" People who work in movies and television are no exception and doubtless constantly struggle with, say, wanting to name a fictional character some non-English equivalent of Shitdick von Yogurtcannon. But seeing as that might technically count as juvenile cultural insensitivity, most bilingual filmmakers compromise and season their work with fewer overseas curse words and more actually funny foreign-language jokes, like how ...
Sky King was an American radio and TV series. Its lead character was Arizona rancher and aircraft pilot Schuyler "Sky" King.
Although the series had strong western elements, King usually captured criminals and spies, and found lost hikers with the use of his airplane, the Songbird. The airplanes flown by King changed during the course of the TV series, but were still known as the Songbird, although the number was not given for the last model assigned to this role.
King and his niece, Penny (and sometimes Clipper, his nephew), lived on the Flying Crown Ranch, near the fictitious town of Grover, Arizona. Penny and Clipper were also pilots, although they were inexperienced and looked to their uncle for guidance. Penny was an accomplished air racer, rated as a multi-engine pilot, whom Sky trusted to fly the Songbird.
Later episodes of the television show were notable for the dramatic opening with an air-to-air shot of the sleek, second Songbird banking sharply away from the camera and its engines roaring, while the announcer proclaimed, "Out of the blue of the Western sky comes Sky King!" The short credit roll which followed was equally dramatic, with the Songbird swooping at the camera across El Mirage Lake, California, then pulling up into a steep climb as it departed.
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
Sky King
Doug ("What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do." - John Ruskin)wrote:
I remember bein' buck-toothed and skinny
Writin' fan letters to Sky King and Penny
If I only had a pencil thin mustache...
mj said:
In his plane, the Song Bird with his "niece" Penny"
That was Sky King.
Charlie responded:
The only thing that comes out of the western sky around here are violent thunderstorms, but the answer to the question is Sky King.
I vaguely remember the show.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, wrote:
Sky King
Deborah said:
Sky King.
I was a wee child and I remember watching that, and "My Friend Flicka" and "Fury" - all in black and white. Sounds like the olden days.
The Wiki gave me just half an answer yesterday. Guess I need to delve deeper.
And thanks for the pro peloton picture from the Vuelta! Now I'm inspired to go ride my bike.
STEPHEN F replied:
"Songbird to Penny"
Sky King
Marian responded:
Sky King
George M answered:
I had a feeling about this latest question, so I confirmed the answer to be Sky King!
Barbara, my roomie from the Peppy Tech days, wrote:
The answer is "Sky King". One of the many Saturday morning live-action TV shows from the 1950's and early 1960's. Brought to you by Nabisco!
Billy in Cypress, TX said:
Sky King!
Dale of Diamondy Sprungs, Norhotcali, replied:
Sky King. I think that long, long ago, a little tyke named Dale used to scratch his crotch to Penny (Gloria Winters). Look at them bullets! She even had a charm school book for the girls!
Randall responded:
Boy, Marty...
Seems like I should know this one.
Is it Putin "rearin' his head"?
no wait... that can't be right...
Sky King?
Is it Sky King?
HOW do I remember that?
That's my guess: Sky King.
MAM wrote:
Sky King, a WWII naval aviator-turned rancher. "Flying Cowboy" and the proprietor of the Flying Crown Ranch on the western adventure SKY KING, 1952-59. Sky King's Cessna 310-B Airplane, 'Songbird.'
Kirby Grant played "Sky" King.
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CBS begins the night with a RERUN'CSI: The Original One', followed by a RERUN'Hawaii Five-0', then a RERUN'Blue Bloods'.
On a RERUNDave (from 8/21/14) are Serena Williams, Chadwick Boseman, and Echo & the Bunnymen.
On a RERUNCraig (from 7/31/14) are Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Jon Gnarr.
NBC starts the night with a RERUN'Running Wild With Bear Grylls', followed by 'Dateline'.
On a RERUNJimmy Fallon (from 7/25/14) are Jon Hamm, Brit Marling, and Martha Stewart.
On a RERUNSeth Meyers (from 8/12/14) are Meredith Vieira, Dane DeHaan, and Magic Man.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 4/7/14) are Rhys Darby and Band of Skulls.
ABC opens the night with a RERUN'Last Man Standing', followed by another RERUN'Last Man Standing', then a RERUN'Shark Tank', followed by '20/20'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Kathy Griffin and Sharon Van Etten.
The CW fills the night with a RERUN of last night's blacked-out-in-LA 'NFL Preason Football'.
On a RERUNArsenio Hall (from 4/30/14) are Shemar Moore, Daniela Ruah, Malina Moye, and Bootsy Collins.
Faux has a RERUN'MasterChef', followed by a RERUN'Bones'.
MY has an old 'Monk', followed by another old 'Monk'.
AMC offers the movie 'Jurassic Park', followed by the movie 'The Lost World: Jurassic Park'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 1 - Ep 10 - The Doctor Dances
[9:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 1 - Ep 11 - Boom Town
[10:00AM] TORCHWOOD - Season 2 - Ep 2 - Sleeper
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 15 - Lower Decks
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 16 - Thine Own Self
[1:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 2 - Ep 3 - Momma Cherri's
[2:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES REVISITED US - Season 4 - Ep 2 - Revisited: Spanish Pavilion, Kingston Cafe, Capri, La Frite
[3:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 6 - Ep 7 - Levanti's Italian Restaurant
[4:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 10 - Episode 10
[5:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 11 - Episode 2
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 12 - Violations
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 13 - The Masterpiece Society
[8:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 14 - Conundrum
[9:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 15 - Power Play
[10:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 16 - Ethics
[11:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 17 - The Outcast
[12:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 12 - Violations
[1:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 13 - The Masterpiece Society
[2:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 14 - Conundrum
[3:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 15 - Power Play
[4:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 16 - Ethics
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 17 - The Outcast (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Million Dollar Listing LA', 'Don't Be Tardy', another 'Don't Be Tardy', still another 'Don't Be Tardy', and yet another 'Don't Be Tardy'.
Comedy Central has last night's 'Colbert Report', last night's 'Jon Stewart', 'South Park', another 'South Park', followed by the movie 'Yes Man'.
FX has the movie '21 Jump Street', followed by the movie 'Avatar'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] THE THREE STOOGES-FOR CRIMIN' OUT LOUD
[6:25AM] THE THREE STOOGES-GENTS IN A JAM
[6:50AM] THE THREE STOOGES-GYPPED IN THE PENTHOUSE
[7:15AM] BATMAN-GREEN ICE
[7:45AM] BATMAN-DEEP FREEZE
[8:15AM] MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE-MALCOLM'S MONEY
[8:45AM] MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE-BRIDE OF IDA
[9:15AM] THE PROTECTOR
[11:00AM] SHAFT
[1:15PM] EASTERN PROMISES
[3:30PM] BATMAN-THE PENGUIN'S A JINX
[4:00PM] BATMAN-THE JOKER IS WILD
[4:30PM] BATMAN-BATMAN GETS RILED
[5:00PM] BATMAN-INSTANT FREEZE
[5:30PM] DOMINION: PREQUEL TO THE EXORCIST
[8:00PM] THE EXORCIST
[10:45PM] EXORCIST II: THE HERETIC
[1:15AM] THE EXORCIST III: THE LEGION
[3:45AM] SAW III (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] The Writers' Room-American Horror Story
[6:30AM] Waitress
[8:45AM] Light Sleeper
[11:00AM] Drugstore Cowboy
[1:15PM] Rising Sun
[4:00PM] Law & Order-Brother's Keeper
[5:00PM] Law & Order-School Daze
[6:00PM] Law & Order-Judge Dread
[7:00PM] Law & Order-The Collar
[8:00PM] Law & Order-Undercovered
[9:00PM] Law & Order-Second Opinion
[10:00PM] Law & Order-Coma
[11:00PM] The Honorable Woman-Two Hearts
[12:15AM] Traffic
[3:30AM] Hard Eight
[5:45AM] Love Lust-Love Lust & the Little Black Dress (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Mega Python Vs. Gateroid', followed by a FRESH'WWE Steroid SmackDown', and 'Wizard Wars'.
Marco Perego, Oscar Jaenada and Zoe Saldana attend the after party for the premiere of Pantelion Film's 'Cantinflas' at the Roosevelt Hotel on Wednesday, August 27, 2014 in Los Angeles.
Photo by Todd Williamson
As it upgrades its production facilities and expands its theme park, Universal Studios is planning to demolish Stage 28, one of the oldest on the lot, while preserving a 90-year-old set housed in the space and used in the original 1925 silent film "Phantom of the Opera."
Universal's plans were unveiled in a newsletter sent to employees last week, but rumors of the soundstage's removal has spurred a petition drive, with nearly 2,000 signatures urging the studio to save it.
The studio, however, said that the "difficult decision" to remove the stage, built in 1924, came down to logistical challenges. For one, noise is an issue, as it is located just next to its Transformers theme park attraction.
Universal said that they were in the midst of a multi-million dollar preservation effort to save the set from "Phantom of the Opera," and move it to another location. The studio is in discussions with museums and institutions, hoping that it will be accessible for public view wherever it ends up. The studio says that 50% or less of the set is from its original construction, with sections altered from the 30s to the 60s.
Stage 28 is not the oldest on the lot. Three buildings - stages 3&4, 5&6 and 16&17 - were constructed in 1916.
Actress Jennifer Aniston attends the premiere of the feature film "Life of Crime" at the ArcLight Hollywood on Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2014 in Los Angeles.
Photo by Dan Steinberg
The wait is finally over: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, Hollywood's reigning royal couple, have tied the knot.
Despite two years of feverish scrutiny, the pair managed to keep one of the world's most anticipated weddings shrouded from the media's glare.
On Thursday, a spokeswoman for the couple confirmed to The Associated Press that they wed Saturday in a private ceremony in Southern France. The representative, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because she was not authorized to be quoted by name, said Jolie and Pitt exchanged vows in a small chapel at the Chateau Miraval in the Provence hamlet of Correns.
At Saturday's ceremony, Jolie walked the aisle with her eldest sons, 13-year-old Maddox and 10-year-old Pax. Daughters Zahara, 9, and Vivienne, 6, threw flower petals. Eight-year-old Shiloh and Knox, 6, served as ring bearers, the couple's spokesman said.
Closing in on his 104th birthday, a twinkle-toed Japanese sprinter has thrown down the challenge to the world's fastest man Usain Bolt, telling him: "let's rumble!"
Hidekichi Miyazaki -- who holds the 100 metres world record for centenarians at 29.83 seconds and is dubbed 'Golden Bolt' after the Jamaican flyer -- plans to wait another five years for his dream race and was happy to reveal his secret weapon: his daughter's tangerine jam.
"I'd love to race Bolt," the wispy-haired Miyazaki told AFP in an interview after tottering over the line with a joyful whoop at a recent Japan Masters Athletics competition in Kyoto.
Born in 1910 -- the year Japan annexed Korea and when the Titanic was still under construction -- the pint-sized Miyazaki offered some dietary tips to Bolt, whose world record is 9.58 seconds.
From left, conductor Michel Legrand, director Xavier Beauvois, actors Seli Gmach and Nadine Labaki pose for photographers as they arrive for the screening of The Price of Fame during the 71st edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2014.
Photo by David Azia
Joan Rivers is in a New York City hospital Thursday after she was rushed from a doctor's office when she went into cardiac arrest, police and hospital officials said.
The 81-year-old comedian's condition wasn't immediately known.
"This morning, Joan Rivers was taken to The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, where she is being attended to. Her family wants to thank everybody for their outpouring of love and support," said Sid Dinsay, a spokesman for Mount Sinai Hospital. "We will provide an update on her condition as it becomes available."
New York City police officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to publicly name Rivers, said she was taken to the hospital just after 9:30 a.m. Thursday. It was unclear why she was visiting the doctor's office.
The Beverly Hills Police Department has more to say regarding the six-hour detainment of a TV producer who they mistook for a robbery suspect.
Today, Police Chief David Showden admitted in a statement that there were "breakdowns" in the way the department handled things, L.A. Times reports, and that they're taking the allegations of Charles Belk "very seriously." While Showden defended the arrest, he concedes they "should have done a better job once Mr. Belk was taken into custody."
Last week, Charles Belk was in Beverly Hills for pre-Emmys events and was on his way to check his parking meter on Wilshire Boulevard and La Cienega Boulevard when he was approached by a police officer. Less than a block away, a bank robbery had just occurred at a Citibank. Police were looking for the Purse Packer Bandit and her accomplice, who was described as a tall, bald, black male in a green shirt. And coincidentally, there Belk was-a tall, bald, black man in a green shirt.
The officer handcuffed Belk and made him sit on the curb. Belk was then taken to the station and detained for six hours until police reviewed footage from the bank and concluded he was not the person they were looking for.
Belk posted about the event on his Facebook page and his story went viral. Belk said he was denied a phone call, never read his Miranda rights, and was not easily able to speak to a lawyer. He also didn't understand why it took investigators so long to just look at the video footage and realize their error. After Belk's post went viral, BHPD released a statement sort of apologizing.
Danny Trejo attends the premiere of Pantelion Film's 'Cantinflas' at TCL Chinese Theatre on Wednesday, August 27, 2014 in Los Angeles.
Photo by Todd Williamson
A&E has canceled the crime drama, which starred Robert Taylor as Wyoming sheriff Walt Longmire.
The series had been a solid ratings performer but dipped in its latest season. The Season 3 premiere in June drew 3.86 million total viewers, compared to 4.31 million for the Season 2 premiere. The season finale in August also saw a season-to-season decline, drawing 3.68 million total viewers compared to the 4.42 million that tuned in for the previous season's ender.
While the show ended its run on A&E, "Longmire" - A&E's top scripted show in total viewers in the network's history - might live on. Warner Horizon Television, the studio behind the series, is seeking a new home for the show, an individual with knowledge of the situation told TheWrap on Thursday.
Actor Ernie Hudson throws out a ceremonial first pitch before a baseball game between the Cleveland Indians and the Chicago White Sox in Chicago, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2014.
Photo by Nam Y. Huh
Officials in overwhelmingly white and astoundingly affluent Villa Park are considering pulling the tiny California city from Calpers, saying the monthly costs of the state's giant public pension system are crippling the municipal budget.
But Villa Park (R-Behind The Orange Curtain) fears that pulling out of its contract with the California Public Employees' Retirement System could be prohibitively expensive because of a termination fee that could exceed the city's annual budget.
Calpers, America's biggest public pension fund with assets of $300 billion, last provided the city with a hypothetical termination fee of nearly $3.6 million as of June 2012. The city's annual budget is $3.5 million.
Calpers recently voted to raise rates roughly 50 percent over the next seven years, citing its responsibility to maintain the fiscal soundness of the fund.
Pam Bailey pours sand on the head of Michael Beer during the "Rubble Bucket Challenge" as they support Palestinians while in the street in front of the White House in Washington, August 28, 2014.
Photo by Larry Downing
For more than 30 years, chef and restaurant owner Oh Keum-il built her expertise in cooking one traditional South Korean delicacy: dog meat.
In her twenties, Oh traveled around South Korea to learn dog meat recipes from each region. During a period of South Korean reconciliation with North Korea early last decade, she went to Pyongyang as part of a business delegation and tasted a dozen different dog dishes, from dog stew to dog taffy, all served lavishly at the Koryo, one of the North's best hotels.
She adapted famous dishes to include dog meat, replacing beef with dog in South Korea's signature meat and rice dish bibimbap. But the 58-year-old's lifelong experience with a food eaten for centuries in Korea is about to become history.
Daegyo, the famous dog meat restaurant she opened in a Seoul alley in 1981, will serve its last bowl of boshintang, or dog stew, on Friday, a reflection of the challenges facing a trade that is neither legal nor explicitly banned under South Korean laws governing livestock and food processing.
Young South Koreans grow up watching TV shows about raising puppies and other pets, which sapped appetite for dog meat, said Oh.
India's Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel perform a stunt during the passing out parade in Humhama, on the outskirts of Srinagar August 28, 2014. According to authorities from CRPF, 368 new policemen were formally inducted into the force after completing a 44-week rigorous training course and will be deployed in different parts of India.
Photo by Danish Ismail
A gigantic nest made by 5000 wasps was the last thing a man expected to find on a bed in a rarely-used spare bedroom in his mother's home.
In order to make their nearly one-metre wide by about 45-centimetre nest over up to three months, the insects chewed through the single bed's mattress and pillows.
The woman, who lives in the Winchester home alone, had not been in the spare bedroom during this time.
John Birkett, a pest controller of Longwood Services, said the two-hour removal was one of the biggest jobs of his career.
In order to destroy the nest, Mr Birkett said he got dressed up "like a spaceman" and that there were up to 700 queen wasps in the nest.
The tall ship Peacemaker is seen Thursday, Aug. 28, 2014, in Presque Isle Bay in Erie, Pa., it's first visit since the Tall Ships festival in 2013.
Photo by Christopher Millette
We all know the saying "Everything is BIG in Texas." But for beer lovers everywhere, this is even cooler than big hats, belt buckles, and barbecue. Actually, this would be ideal with a lot of freshly charred barbecue.
Austin Beerworks has just unveiled a new over-the-top way to get its beer into your gut with a limited-edition 99-pack of brewski. The big box of brew will set you back $99 (or a buck a can), which is pretty good for a can of this Texas good stuff. But don't expect it to fit in your compact car with ease. The packaging is insanely exaggerated at seven feet long. The brewery released the gigantic box as part of a social media campaign for its Peacemaker Anytime Ale.
The 99-pack is only available in Austin, and only for a limited time and in limited quantities. By state law, the brewery is not allowed to ship out of state, so you might have to make the drive. Just drink responsibly, and it will probably last for a while. Maybe this will inspire people to have house parties called "99-ers."
Strong demand for the seven-foot uber-pack in the wake of the wild campaign has inspired the brewery to roll out more 99-packs sooner rather than later. And now you can have 99 cans of beer on a wall.
In this Aug. 27, 2014 photo, participants walk around at the Burning Man festival on the Black Rock Desert of Gerlach, Nev. Organizers call Burning Man the largest outdoor arts festival in North America, with its drum circles, decorated art cars, guerrilla theatrics and colorful theme camps.
Photo by Andy Barron
The Top 20 Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows in North America. The previous week's ranking is in parentheses. The list is based on data provided to the trade publication Pollstar by concert promoters and venue managers.
One-month-old triplet panda cubs receive a body check at the Chimelong Safari Park in Guangzhou in south China's Guangdong province Thursday, Aug. 28, 2014. China announced the birth of extremely rare panda triplets in a further success for the country's artificial breeding program. The three cubs were born July 29 in the southern city of Guangzhou.
Photo by Kin Cheung
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