Tom Danehy: If Blazing Saddles Didn't Scare Off Tom's True Love, (Hopefully) Nothing Will (Tucson Weekly)
I'm writing this to tell you how much you mean to me. I saw that you turned 93 this year, so you've probably only got 15 years or so before you get to see your beloved Anna Maria Italiano (Anne Bancroft) again. Over the years, I had fallen into a lazy and predictable pattern of writing nice things about people after they had died. I want you to know how important you are to me while you're still here.
"Ted Gioia on Music as Cultural Cloud Storage (Ep. 79)" (Medium)
To Ted Gioia, music is a form of cloud storage for preserving human culture. … He joined Tyler [Cowan] to discuss the history and industry of music, including the reasons AI will never create the perfect songs, the strange relationship between outbreaks of disease and innovation, how the shift from record companies to Silicon Valley transformed incentive structures within the industry- and why that's cause for concern, the vocal polyphony of Pygmy music, Bob Dylan's Nobel prize, why input is underrated, his advice to aspiring music writers, the unsung female innovators of music history, how the Blues anticipated the sexual revolution, what Rene Girard's mimetic theory can tell us about noisy restaurants, the reason he calls Sinatra the "Derrida of pop singing," how to cultivate an excellent music taste, and why he loves Side B of Abbey Road.
The Thighmaster is an exercise product designed to shape one's thighs. The device is essentially two pieces of metal tube bent in a loop and connected with a hinge. The intended use is to put the Thighmaster between the knees and squeeze them together. This exercises the hip adductors. The simple mechanism allows exercising any suitable muscle where a small angle can be created to press it, for example the biceps (elbow flexion) or the hamstrings (knee flexion).
As with most fitness products marketed to homes, advertisements often emphasized that the Thighmaster could be used while doing something else. The infomercials featured people watching television and exercising with the Thighmaster at the same time. It was mainly advertised in the 1990s by the actress Suzanne Somers.
The Thighmaster was invented in Sweden by then-physical medicine intern (later "Dr.") Anne Marie Bennstrom (Prescott) as the "V-Bar" physical therapy device. It later received US design patent number 343882S as "physical exerciser." It achieved commercial success when marketed under the "Thighmaster" name by Joshua Reynolds (often erroneously credited as the inventor), who also made a great deal of money with his version of the Mood ring. Reynolds is an heir to the fortune of R. J. Reynolds, founder of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company.
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
Suzanne Somers.
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Suzanne Somers
Cal in Vermont said:
Suzanne Somers, she of adolescent fever dreams.
Alan J answered:
Suzanne Somers.
Dave responded:
Suzanne Somers. After years of bit parts (like 'the blonde in the Thunderbird' in "American Graffiti"), Somers became a breakout star and sex symbol with the 1977 debut of the mediocre sitcom "Three's Company," where she played Crissy Snow, a stereotypically ditzy blonde bombshell. After 1980, Somers was fired by ABC over her behavior during a contract dispute and her career trajectory was on the downward spiral, which is how she ended up on Thighmaster ads. For years Somers has been promoting controversial quack medical and fitness views despite not really knowing anything about those subjects. And because its on the TeeVee people listen to her, just as they believed Trump was a business genius after watching his fake 'reality show.'
Photos: The girl in the Thunderbird | A typical 'joke' on Three's Company (seated is John Ritter as Jack Tripper) | 10 year old nude photos resurfaced in men's magazines after Somers became famous (as is the custom)- so she sued | Presumably ladies could have legs like Suzanne Somers if they bought a Thighmaster
mj replied:
She had to do something
When Three's Company wouldn't meet her salary demands, Suzanne
Somers hawked the thigh equivalent of the breast boosting clam shell.
zorch responded:
Suzanne Somers, 'Chrissy' did them.
Your Libtard friend, Roy, in Tyler, TX replied:
Who could forget those Thighmaster commercials with Suzanne Somers? I never wanted, or even needed one, but I did enjoy her ads. In my search for an image on this subject, I came across the Thighmaster Vibrato, and I am now wondering if there was something else about this upgrade that made it even more popular?
Deborah wrote:
You must mean Suzanne Sommers. Gimmicks like the Thighmaster were job security for me (I was a personal trainer & Jazzercise instructor), because they didn't work and people got bored with them. Everyone wants the short-cut to fitness, and there is none.
Meanwhile, typical autumn weather here is lovely.
Kevin K. in Washington, DC, said:
Well, she needed more than John Ritter between her thighs. Suzanne Summers.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, answered:
Suzanne Somers
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Suzanne Somers
Daniel in The City replied:
Suzanne Somers
Barbara, of Peppy Tech fame said:
The answer is Suzanne Somers.
DJ Useo wrote:
Suzanne Somers. That thing seems to really work! Go figure...
Saskplanner answered:
Guessing Suzanne Somers?
Pretty sure. She's my neighbour in Palm Springs........
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• When photographer Rose Eichenbaum wished to take a portrait of choreographer Lar Lubovitch, he was uneasy, so she asked him, "Why are you avoiding me?" He explained, "If you really want to know who I am, you have to see my work." He had explained his work to her by saying, "My work is curvaceous because there are no straight lines in the universe. All of space is curved, and so are all of my dances." Therefore, Ms. Eichenbaum decided to take a portrait of the choreographer that would reference his work. She put Mr. Lubovitch in a stairwell, and then she photographed him in such a way that his face was framed with the curliques of a fancy banister. She then showed him the portrait. Mr. Lubovitch looked at the portrait, seemingly without emotion, then looked at Ms. Eichenbaum and said, "Yes!"
• Canadian photographer Yousuf Karsh is famous for his portraits, and he has inflexible ideas involving portraits. For example, he believes that anyone who has recently had a haircut is an unsuitable subject for a portrait. Mr. Karsh was once scheduled to take a portrait of Sir Charles Portal, but he was disappointed when he saw that Sir Charles had recently had a haircut. Fortunately, Sir Charles understood and said, "I always believe that if a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing properly. Let's wait until it grows again." They did wait, and the portrait appears in Mr. Karsh's book titled Faces of Destiny.
• Photographer Jim Marshall once took a photograph of bluesmen B.B. King, Albert King, and Bobby "Blue" Bland laughing together backstage. The photograph is black and white, and Mr. Marshall says, "Thank God I had black-and-white film loaded in my camera that night, because the color of the walls, the carpet, and the couch were the most atrocious sh*t color I've seen." He also says, "Why they're all laughing should be left to the imagination."
• Fred W. McDarrah, long-time photographer for New York's Village Voice, enjoyed taking photographs of the double-chinned movers and shakers of the predator class at fundraising dinners. He would take a photograph, and if the subject of the photograph angrily waved him away, he would take another photograph. Mr. McDarrah had a satiric streak; in 1960, he even started a small business known as "Rent-a-Beatnik."
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• Before World War II, Lucy Carrington Wertheimer ran an art gallery that championed the work of modern artists; however, earlier in her life, she knew little about the work of modern artists. In her home, she owned and hung paintings by such artists as Zoffaney, Géricault, and Sickert. Her younger sister, Fanny Wadsworth, who was married to a cousin of modern artist Edward Wadsworth, looked at her collection, then asked, "Lucy, have you never heard of Picasso?"
• When Amy Schwartz illustrates children's books, she will often include favorite belongings. For example, in her book titled Oma and Bobo, a painting is hanging on the kitchen wall. The painting is titled "Rainstorm," and she created it when she was in the 5thgrade. In real life, the painting hangs in her mother's kitchen.
CBS begins the night with a FRESH'Hawaii Five-0', followed by a FRESH'Magnum PU', then a FRESH'Blue Bloods'.
On a RERUNStephen Colbert (from 10/1/19) are Rachel Maddow and Thom Yorke.
On a RERUNJames Corden, OBE, (from 9/24/19) are Terrence Howard and Allen Leech.
NBC starts the night with a FRESH'The Blacklist', followed by 'Dateline'.
On a RERUNJimmy Fallon (from 9/27/19) are Billie Eilish and Sebastian Maniscalco.
On a RERUNSeth Meyers (from 10/30/19) are John Krasinski, Joel Kim Booster, and Amy McGrath.
On a RERUNLilly Singh (from 10/24/19) are Jenna Dewan and Nick Offerman.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH'High School Musical: The Musical: The Series', followed by '20/20'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 10/28/19) are Arnold Schwarzenegger, Luenell, Nick Offerman, and Kesha.
The CW offers a FRESH'Charmed', followed by a FRESH'Dynasty'.
Faux fills the night with a FRESH'WWE Friday Night SmackDown'.
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 'Safe House', followed by the movie 'The Bourne Ultimatum'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] WEIRD WONDERS - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 3
[7:00AM] WEIRD WONDERS - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 4
[8:00AM] WEIRD WONDERS - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 5
[9:00AM] WEIRD WONDERS - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 6
[10:00AM] WEIRD WONDERS - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 7
[11:00AM] WEIRD WONDERS - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 8
[12:00PM] PLANET EARTH: ENCHANTED KINGDOM - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 1-Planet Earth: Enchanted Kingdom
[2:00PM] PLANET EARTH: THE BEST OF THE HUNT
[4:00PM] PLANET EARTH: ONE AMAZING DAY
[6:00PM] PLANET EARTH: AFRICA - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 6-The Future
[7:00PM] PLANET EARTH: AFRICA - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 1-Kalahari
[8:00PM] PLANET EARTH: AFRICA - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 2-Savannah
[9:00PM] PLANET EARTH: AFRICA - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 3-Congo
[10:00PM] PLANET EARTH: AFRICA - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 4-Cape
[11:00PM] PLANET EARTH: AFRICA - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 5-Sahara
[12:00AM] PLANET EARTH: AFRICA - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 1-Kalahari
[1:00AM] PLANET EARTH: AFRICA - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 2-Savannah
[2:00AM] PLANET EARTH: AFRICA - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 3-Congo
[3:00AM] PLANET EARTH: AFRICA - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 4-Cape
[4:00AM] PLANET EARTH: AFRICA - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 5-Sahara
[5:00AM] PLANET EARTH: AFRICA - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 6-The Future (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has the movie 'Boo! A Madea Halloween', followed by the movie 'Boo! A Madea Halloween', again.
Comedy Central has 1½ hours of old 'South Park', followed by the movie 'CHiPs'.
FX has the movie 'The Amazing Spider-Man', followed by the movie 'The Mummy'.
History has the movie 'Ancient Aliens', followed by a FRESH'Ancient Aliens: Secret Files', then a FRESH'Ancient Aliens', followed by a FRESH'In Search Of'.
IFC -
[6:00A] Carrie
[8:15A] The Mist
[11:00A] The Cabin in the Woods
[1:00P] Hancock
[3:00P] That '70s Show - No Quarter
[3:30P] That '70s Show - Trampled Under Foot
[4:00P] That '70s Show - You Shook Me
[4:30P] That '70s Show - Nobody's Fault but Mine
[5:00P] That '70s Show - Immigrant Song
[5:30P] That '70s Show - Celebration Day
[6:00P] Two and a Half Men - Madame and Her Special Friend
[6:30P] Two and a Half Men - Something Salted and Twisted
[7:00P] Two and a Half Men - Santa's Village of the Damned
[7:30P] Two and a Half Men - That Special Tug
[8:00P] Two and a Half Men - Humiliation Is a Visual Medium
[8:30P] Two and a Half Men - Love Isn't Blind, It's Retarded
[9:00P] Two and a Half Men - My Tongue Is Meat
[9:30P] Two and a Half Men - Ergo, the Booty Call
[10:00P] Two and a Half Men - The Unfortunate Little Schnauser
[10:30P] Two and a Half Men - The Spit-Covered Cobbler
[11:00P] Two and a Half Men - Golly Moses, She's a Muffin
[11:30P ] Two and a Half Men - Always a Bridesmaid, Never a Burro
[12:00A] Two and a Half Men - This Unblessed Biscuit
[12:30A] Two and a Half Men - Clank, Clank, Drunken Skank
[1:00A] That '70s Show - No Quarter
[1:30A] That '70s Show - Trampled Under Foot
[2:00A] That '70s Show - You Shook Me
[2:30A] Baroness von Sketch Show - It's a Peachy Abomination
[3:00A] Baroness von Sketch Show - No One Wants To Be That Lady
[3:30A] X-Men Origins: Wolverine (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:26am] 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] Lake Placid
[11:30am] Contact
[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] Lake Placid
[4:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[4:35am] The Andy Griffith Show
[5:10am] The Andy Griffith Show
[5:45am] The Andy Griffith Show (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'The Magnificient Seven', followed by a FRESH'Van Helsing'.
For the fourth consecutive year, broadcast television has featured a record percentage of LGBTQ characters, according to a report released Thursday by the media advocacy group GLAAD.
Last year, GLAAD called on the broadcast networks to have 10 percent of its regular characters on prime-time scripted series identify as LGBTQ by 2020. According to its 2019-20 "Where We Are on TV" report, the networks more than exceeded that goal.
Of the 879 regular characters scheduled to appear this season, 90, or 10.2 percent, are LGBTQ. This is the highest percentage GLAAD has found in the 15 years it has kept such a count.
Among the other significant findings are a marked increase in the racial diversity of LGBTQ characters on broadcast. For the second year in a row, LGBTQ people of color outnumber white LGBTQ characters, with 52 percent of queer regular characters being of color on broadcast series. There are also nine characters with HIV/AIDS on broadcast television, an increase from the seven characters counted last year.
GLAAD also found that only 26 percent of LGBTQ characters on television identify as bisexual+ - a number that is not reflective of their presence, given bisexual+ people compose the majority of the LGBTQ community.
Matchbox cars, the coloring book and the collectible card game Magic: The Gathering have been inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame.
The newest honorees debuted decades ago but occupy store shelves even today.
The Class of 2019 was installed Thursday from a group of finalists that also included Care Bears, the Fisher-Price Corn Popper, Jenga, Masters of the Universe, My Little Pony, Nerf Blaster, Risk, the smartphone and the top.
The National Toy Hall of Fame is inside The Strong museum in Rochester.
We can reveal that Mayim Bialik, known for her role as Amy in The Big Bang Theory, is set to make her directing debut on comedy-drama As Sick As They Made Us and has gathered a starry cast for the pic.
Starring are Dustin Hoffman, Candice Bergen, Olivia Thirlby (Juno), and fellow Big Bang Theory cast member Simon Helberg.
Bialik also wrote the screenplay, which is about a successful divorced mother of two who rekindles love in her life amidst the crazy antics of her dysfunctional family. Now she attempts to convince the stubborn, and comically unfortunate family members to hold it together while they embrace one final farewell.
Bialik is a two-time winner of the Critic's Choice Television Award for best supporting actress for The Big Bang Theory, she also played the title role in 90s sitcom Blossom. Her production company, Sad Clown Productions, recently inked a multi-year deal with WBTV including a talent-holding provision for her acting services; she also holds a PhD in Neuroscience from UCLA and has published four books.
With the sacrifice of Luke Skywalker, Rey seemingly stands alone as the last of the Jedi as we enter Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. But, according to Todd Fisher, if not for his sister's tragic passing, there were plans for there to be another.
Speaking to Yahoo recently, Fisher discussed how The Rise of Skywalker is ultimately using the unreleased material shot for The Force Awakens to give General Leia one final outing, in tribute to the dearly missed actress, who sadly passed away in late 2016. "They had eight minutes of footage," Fisher said of his sister's role in the movie. "They grabbed every frame and analyzed it... and then reverse-engineered it and [got] it into the story the right way. It's kind of magical."
But it's what Fisher had to say of his sister's potential role in The Rise of Skywalker that is interesting-with Yahoo alleging Leia "was going to emerge as a full-fledged Jedi warrior, complete with her very own lightsaber. That's according to no less an authority than Fisher's real-life brother, Todd Fisher"
"She was going to be the big payoff in this final film and that was what the intent was prior to her exiting. She was going to be the last Jedi, so to speak..." Fisher told Yahoo. "People used to say to me, 'Why is it that Carrie never gets a lightsaber and chop up some bad guys,'...Obi-Wan, when he was in his prime, was Carrie's age."
Massive and meaty, the Taku Glacier in Alaska's Juneau Icefield was a poster child for the frozen places holding their own against climate change. As the largest of 20 major glaciers in the region and one of the single thickest glaciers in the world (it measures 4,860 feet, or 1,480 meters, from surface to floor), Taku had been demonstrably gaining mass and spreading farther into the nearby Taku river for nearly half a century, while all of its neighboring glaciers shrank. Now, it appears those glory days are over.
In a new pair of satellite photos shared by NASA's Earth Observatory, the slow decline of Taku Glacier has finally become apparent. Taken in August 2014 and August 2018, the photos show the icy platforms where the glacier meets the river retreating for the first time since scientists began studying Taku, in 1946.
While the shrinkage is subtle for now, the results are nonetheless shocking. According to glaciologist Mauri Pelto, who has studied the Juneau Icefield for three decades, Taku was predicted to continue advancing for the rest of the century. Not only have these signs of retreat arrived about 80 years ahead of schedule, Pelto said, but they also snuff a symbolic flicker of hope in the race to understand climate change. Of 250 mountain (or "alpine") glaciers that Pelto has studied around the world, Taku was the only one that hadn't clearly started to retreat.
"This is a big deal for me because I had this one glacier I could hold on to," Pelto, a professor at Nichols College in Massachusetts, told NASA. "But not anymore. This makes the score climate change: 250 and alpine glaciers: 0."
More than a year after undergoing a 14-hour operation to transplant a penis, scrotum, and lower abdominal wall, a severely injured veteran reports that he has regained normal sensation and function of his new body parts.
The young man now has "near-normal" erections, the ability to achieve orgasms, and normal sensation in the shaft and tip of his transplanted penis, according to his medical team at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He urinates while standing up with a "strong stream" and no issues with urgency or straining. (The transplant did not include donor testicles, to avoid the possibility of fathering non-genetically related children.)
The doctors reported the update on their patient November 7 in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The man-who wished to remain anonymous-was the first to undergo such a complex genital transplant and only the third in the world to have a successful penis transplant (a fourth has since been carried out). The transplant repaired a traumatic injury from an improvised explosive device (IED), which destroyed the man's penis and scrotum and caused substantial tissue loss in his lower abdominal wall. It also led to above-knee amputations of both his legs.
The transplant of organs and tissues from a closely age-matched donor was an immensely difficult one, requiring surgeons to develop a whole new revascularization technique to ensure a proper blood supply. But it appears to have been a success by all measures.
There may be a way of sneaking a peak at Schrödinger's cat - the famous feline-based thought experiment that describes the mysterious behavior of subatomic particles - without permanently killing the (hypothetical) animal.
The unlucky, imaginary cat is simultaneously alive and dead inside a box, or exists in a superposition of "dead" and "alive" states, just as subatomic particles exist in a superposition of many states at once. But looking inside the box changes the state of the cat, which then becomes either alive or dead.
Now, however, a study published Oct. 1 in the New Journal of Physics describes a way to potentially peek at the cat without forcing it to live or die. In doing so, it advances scientists' understanding of one of the most fundamental paradoxes in physics.
In our ordinary, large-scale world, looking at an object doesn't seem to change it. But zoom in enough, and that's not the case.
"We normally think the price we pay for looking is nothing," said study lead author Holger F. Hofmann, associate professor of physics at Hiroshima University in Japan. "That's not correct. In order to look, you have to have light, and light changes the object." That's because even a single photon of light transfers energy away from or to the object you're viewing.
An escape tunnel underneath the Berlin Wall opened to the public on Thursday for the first time amid celebrations of the 30-year anniversary of the opening of communist East Germany's border.
The tunnel at Bernauer Strasse, near the city's main Wall memorial, was opened by Mayor Michael Mueller. He thanked those who started digging the 100-meter (yard) tunnel in late 1970, nine years after East Germany sealed its border.
The tunnel was built by a group of people who had escaped earlier to West Berlin. They wanted to help friends and family to flee to the West but, days before it was finished, somebody informed East German officials about it.
East German authorities then found the tunnel by using ultrasound tracking and partially destroyed it.
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 November 6, 2019:
1. The Rolling Stones; $13,253,601; $229.91.
2. Pink; $4,551,772; $108.72.
3. Queen + Adam Lambert; $1,912,882; $120.76.
4. Post Malone; $1,862,568; $118.83.
5. Jonas Brothers; $1,731,702; $108.65.
6. John Mayer; $1,530,981; $99.57.
7. Zac Brown Band; $1,376,836; $62.92.
8. Florida Georgia Line; $1,313,400; $67.69.
9. Shawn Mendes; $1,311,860; $73.56.
10. Iron Maiden; $1,278,830; $67.24.
11. Backstreet Boys; $1,167,800; $90.45.
12. Hootie & The Blowfish; $1,095,170; $62.04.
13. Thomas Rhett; $1,006,751; $73.94.
14. Marc Anthony; $986,071; $104.02.
15. Mumford & Sons; $949,708; $66.74.
16. Khalid; $912,025; $65.83.
17. Maluma; $874,608; $102.35.
18. Chris Stapleton; $861,790; $57.15.
19. Chayanne; $853,496; $87.11.
20. Luke Bryan; $841,259; $66.60.
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