Tom Danehy: If Tucson Ever Gets Back in the Movie Biz, Tom Has Some Elevator Pitches (Tucson Weekly)
For those of you who are relatively new to our fair community, it may come as a surprise that they used to make movies in Tucson. There were successful movies (Richard Pryor in Stir Crazy-one of his few movies that didn't stink); really, really, REALLY bad movies (Don Johnson and Mickey Rourke in Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man); and artsy, tear-jerker movies (Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, which spawned the worst TV sitcom of all time). And yes, Alice was worse than Three's Company, if only by a little bit.
Craig Jenkins: It's a Whole New Era for the Grammys (Vulture)
The 2020 Grammy nominations have been revealed, and there's much to talk about. The freshmen have the run of the school now, as three artists have cornered the major categories with their breakout records. […] This is a noteworthy change of pace for a show that has caught hell in this decade (as well as others) for choosing the old guard over new talent, and for siding with artists who write songs and play instruments over gifted vocalists and performers who use outside producers, writers, and/or session players.
This American television game show hosted by Gene Rayburn featured contestants trying to answer fill-in-the-blank questions, duplicating the celebrity panelists responses. What is the name of this TV program that debuted December 31, 1962?
Match Game is an American television panel game show that premiered on NBC in 1962 and was revived several times over the course of the next few decades. The game featured contestants trying to come up with answers to fill-in-the-blank questions that are often formed as humorous double entendres (beginning in the CBS run), the object being to match answers given by celebrity panelists.
The Match Game premiered on December 31, 1962. Gene Rayburn was host and Johnny Olson served as announcer; for the series premiere, Arlene Francis and Skitch Henderson were the two celebrity panelists. The show was taped in Studio 8H at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, NBC's largest New York studio, which since 1975 has housed Saturday Night Live, among other shows.
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mj wrote:
As I recall
The clues lent themselves to double entendres and the guest stars were
more than happy to provide them. I suspect the often hilarious Match
Game begat the bastard Family Feud.
zorch said:
Gene Rayburn hosted The Match Game. Now I've got the theme song in my head.
Kevin K. in Washington, DC, replied:
The Match Game. The clues were lame, but Charles Nelson Riley and Brett Somers needed a job.
Adam answered:
The Match Game
This, and The Price Is Right, are the very height of American game shows.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
Match Game
Cal in Vermont said:
The Match game. He was a really good host.
Dave wrote:
Match Game. The durable series has runs on NBC, CBS, ABC and syndication. Over the years, "Match Game" has been on daytime, the hour after network evening news and on prime time. According to Wikipedia the show was revived a few years ago as a once per week series without a regular schedule, as ABC usually plugs it in to fill holes created by cancelled series and in the summer. I guess "Match Game" was on ABC in 2019, with Trump hating Alec Baldwin as host, although that's news to me.
I probably caught "Match Game" as a kid, once in a while when home sick from school, but I don't remember the game play or rules. There were a lot of game shows on in the 1960's.
Photos: First and latest hosts | Some of the usual 1970's participants: Charles Nelson Reilly (flamboyant comedian and frequent game show actor), Brett Somers (wife of actor Jack Klugman), Gene Rayburn, and Richard Dawson (cast of "Hogan's Heroes" and later host of "Family Feud") | A '70s "Match Game" set.
Daniel in The City answered:
Match Game. I used to watch when I was a kid.
Deborah responded:
I'm going with the "Match Game," because it's the only one I can remember at the moment.
The wind quit last evening; now begins cleanup. It's not that much, just another minor inconvenience.
Rosemary in Columbus replied:
The Match Game
Barbara, of Peppy Tech fame said:
The answer is "The Match Game."
Joe S wrote:
That was The Match Game. I liked that game, and I don't much care for game shows. Except for Jeopardy, I like Jeopardy. I didn't see the the debut of the match game because I was in Basic Training at the time.
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We recently published an article that explains what happened to Yahooka --
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• When he was a teenager, Soupy Sales used to double-date with a friend named Bill Cravens. The two would take their dates to a movie, go to the park to neck (smooch) for a while, and then get something to eat. On one double-date, Soupy's date didn't want to go to the park because she said she wasn't feeling well, so Soupy told Bill that they needed to take his date home. She asked, "Aren't we going to get something to eat?" Soupy replied, "If you're too sick to neck, you're too sick to eat." Back when Soupy was a teenager, not every teenager who was old enough to drive had a car. On his double-dates, a friend with a car would drop Soupy off at his date's friend's house, and then the friend with a car would pick up his date and then come back to get Soupy and his date. Once, Soupy was in a house waiting for his date to come down from upstairs. The young woman's father said, "Gee, I wonder what's keeping Elaine?" Soupy said, "Wait a minute! Isn't this Joanne Pinckard's house? The young woman's father said, "No, Joanne lives across the street."
• In 2008, comedian Margaret Cho debuted a new show: Beautiful. The genesis of the show came when a radio host asked Ms. Cho, "What would you do if you woke up tomorrow and you were beautiful?" She was shocked by the question because, as people who know and love her (or see her) realize, she is beautiful. She asked the radio host, "What?" and he explained, "What if you woke up and you were blond, blue-eyed, 5' 11" and weighed 100 lbs and you were beautiful, what would you do?" Uh - 5' 11" and 100 lbs! Ms. Cho says, "I told him I probably wouldn't get up because I would be too weak to stand!" She also thought, "It upset me because I thought if that was the only person he thinks is beautiful, he must not see much beauty ever. I wanted to do a show about how we are all beautiful. It is something I have to constantly tell myself."
• Apparently, the Ziegfeld Follies' Flo Ziegfeld was a good judge of feminine beauty but lacked a sense of humor. He once watched W.C. Fields make the audience roar with laughter with a comedy sketch, then asked how long the sketch had taken. The answer came back: 28 minutes. Mr. Ziegfeld next asked how long it took for the girls to get ready for the next scene. The answer came back: seven minutes. Mr. Ziegfeld then ordered Mr. Fields to cut his comedy sketch to seven minutes.
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• As a small boy, Wally Cox learned that some of the best things in life could be purchased with a box top from a box of cereal or the aluminum seal from a jar of Ovaltine. Just send in a box top or an aluminum seal and a small amount of money to cover shipping and handling, and all kinds of neat stuff - including a Cub reporter's certificate (from a radio program starring Dick Steel, the boy reporter) - would arrive in your mailbox. The aluminum seal from a jar of Ovaltine bought young Wally the knowledge of how to decode the secret messages that were broadcast at the end of the Little Orphan Annie radio program - secret messages that gave hints about Little Orphan Annie's next exciting adventure. Young Wally was proud to know the code: A is 2, B is 4, C is 6, etc. Unfortunately, soon after young Wally learned how to decode the secret messages, the dullest boy in school told him, "Hey, you wanna know the Little Orphan Annie secret code? A is 2, B is 4, C is 6 …." Disappointed at being unable to amaze even the dullest boy in school with his foreknowledge of Little Orphan Annie's next exciting adventure, young Wally soon stopped sending away for things that required payment of a box top or an aluminum seal.
Found some very-out-of-season gulf fritillary caterpillars in the backyard - might have some butterflies this year, after all.
Tonight, Friday:
CBS begins the night with a FRESH'Hawaii Five-0', followed by a FRESH'Magnum PU', then a FRESH'Blue Bloods'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Daniel Craig and Lena Waithe.
On a RERUNJames Corden, OBE, (from 10/2/19) are Allison Janney, Jonathan Van Ness, and Tom Walker.
NBC starts the night with a FRESH'The Blacklist', followed by 'Dateline'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are John Legend and M. Night Shyamalan.
On a RERUNSeth Meyers (from 11/7/19) are John Cena, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, and Brendan Buckley.
On a RERUNLilly Singh (from 10/9/19) are Kal Penn, Kiran Deol, and Moses Storm.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH'American Housewife', followed by a FRESH'Fresh Off The Boat', then '20/20'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 11/13/19) are Ray Romano, Don Johnson, Maren Morris, and Zac Brown Band.
The CW offers a FRESH'Charmed', followed by a FRESH'Dynasty'.
Faux fills the night with 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 'Star Trek', followed by the movie 'Hancock'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 2-The Spanish Inquisition
[6:15AM] MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 4-The Buzz Aldrin Show
[6:30AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 23-Roland
[7:30AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 24-The Erlenmeyer Flask
[8:30AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 1-Little Green Men
[9:30AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 2-The Host
[10:30AM] PET SEMATARY (1989)
[12:30PM] PET SEMATARY II (1992)
[2:30PM] BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA (1982)
[5:00PM] THE SHINING (1980)
[8:30PM] THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991)
[11:00PM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - SEASON 26 - EPISODE 7
[12:00AM] THE SHINING (1980)
[3:30AM] THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991) (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has the movie 'Catch Me If You Can', followed by the movie 'Catch Me If You Can', again.
Comedy Central has 3 hours of old 'South Park' and 'Kevin Hart: Seriously Funny'.
FX has the movie 'The Martian', followed by the movie 'Spider-Man: Homecoming'.
History has 'Ancient Aliens', followed by a FRESH'Ancient Aliens: Secret Files', then a FRESH'Ancient Aliens', followed by a FRESH'In Search Of'.
IFC -
[7:00A] The Karate Kid Part III
[9:30A] The Karate Kid Part II
[12:00P] The Karate Kid
[3:00P] That '70s Show - Substitute
[3:30P] That '70s Show - Squeeze Box
[4:00P] That '70s Show - 15:15
[4:30P] That '70s Show - Sparks
[5:00P] That '70s Show - My Wife
[5:30P] That '70s Show - Going Mobile
[6:00P] Two and a Half Men - Tight's Good
[6:30P] Two and a Half Men - Kinda Like Necrophilia
[7:00P] Two and a Half Men - Meander to Your Dander
[7:30P] Two and a Half Men - A Little Clammy and None Too Fresh
[8:00P] Two and a Half Men - The Soil Is Moist
[8:30P] Two and a Half Men - Winky-Dink Time
[9:00P] Two and a Half Men - Rough Night in Hump Junction
[9:30P] Two and a Half Men - Look at Me, Mommy, I'm Pretty
[10:00P] Two and a Half Men - Fish in a Drawer
[10:30P] Two and a Half Men - If My Hole Could Talk
[11:00P] Two and a Half Men - Waiting for the Right Snapper
[11:30P] Two and a Half Men - Taterhead Is Our Love Child
[12:00A] Two and a Half Men - Tazed in the Lady Nuts
[12:30A] Two and a Half Men - Baseball. Boobs. Boobs. Baseball.
[1:00A] That '70s Show - Substitute
[1:30A] That '70s Show - Squeeze Box
[2:00A] That '70s Show - 5:15
[2:30A] That '70s Show - Sparks
[3:00A] That '70s Show - My Wife
[3:30A] That '70s Show - Going Mobile
[4:00A] Baroness von Sketch Show - I Might Still Be Mad In A Week
[4:30A] Baroness von Sketch Show - 's A Special Place in Hell
[5:00A] Pee-wee's Playhouse - Puppy in the Playhouse
[5:30A] Pee-wee's Playhouse - Pee-Wee's Store (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:15am] The Andy Griffith Show
[6:50am] The Andy Griffith Show
[7:25am] 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 Devil's Own
[1:00pm] The Judge
[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] The Devil's Own
[4:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[5:05am] The Andy Griffith Show
[5:40am] The Andy Griffith Show (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Harry Potter & The Chamber Of Secrets', followed by a FRESH'Van Helsing'.
Apple has not publicly disclosed why it canceled the planned premiere of its film "The Banker," but it did so less than a week after producer Bernard Garrett, who is also the son of the film's subject (portrayed by Anthony Mackie), was publicly accused of sexual assault by one of his half-sisters.
And on Wednesday night, the Hollywood Reporter reported that Garrett had been accused of sexual assault by both of his half-sisters.
"The Banker" was originally scheduled to premiere as the closing film of the 2019 AFI Festival in Los Angeles, but the screening was abruptly canceled Wednesday afternoon. Apple did not disclose the reason for doing so, saying in a statement only that "Last week some concerns surrounding the film were brought to our attention. We, along with the filmmakers, need some time to look into these matters and determine the best next steps. In light of this, we are no longer premiering 'The Banker' at AFI Fest."
But the move came just five days after Garrett Jr.'s half-sister, Cynthia Garrett, tweeted that the film "LIES TO HIDE THE PRODUCER WHO SEXUALLY MOLESTED MY SISTER AND I FOR YEARS THEN STOLE MY MOMS LIFE STORY WITH OUR DAD." And according to THR, Cynthia and her sister, Sheila Garrett, told Apple approximately a week ago that Garrett Jr. molested them over a period of several years in the early 1970s, when they were little girls.
The Trump administration forked over more than $2 million to contractors who discussed a publicity plan to get Seema Verma, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services chief, on "Power Women" lists and magazines like Glamour, Politico reported on Wednesday, citing emails it obtained.
They also explored getting Verma invitations to distinguished events like the Kennedy Center Honors gala, the report said.
Verma has been criticized in recent weeks for her agency's use of federal dollars to employ pricey contractors as part of a $2.25 million "strategic communications" contract, Politico reported earlier this month. Some charged up to $380 an hour for work typically handled by career civil servants in the agency's communications department, that report said.
An outline of the publicity plan said a top-dollar media consultant, Pam Stevens, had set up profiles of Verma and pitched her to other media outlets, Politico reported.
Federal officials are barred from using taxpayer money to generate publicity and from using their public role for private gain.
Eric Trump reacted to damning testimony against his father at the impeachment hearings by promoting the family wine business.
The US president's second son tweeted on Wednesday that it was "a perfect day" for a bottle of 2016 vintage Trump Meritage Monticello red.
"These people are insane," he added, along with a picture of the branded product and a plug for the Trump Winery Twitter account.
Eric Trump's promotion of the Trump Winery was quickly ridiculed online, as Twitter users branded it a "Trump Whine" and claimed it "smells cheap".
"This has got to be a parody.... no, no, it's really the President's son trying to sell cheap, noxious, wine and make a buck off of his father's impeachment inquiry hearing," added another.
Some might say that individuals like Greta Thunberg, the teen climate activist from Sweden, are one of a kind. Well, then, tell me what to make of this archived image showing a Thunberg look-alike in the year 1898. If there is only one blessed Thunberg, what the hell is she doing in 19th-century Yukon mining gold?
That is, of course, what many are asking after a tweet calling Thunberg a time traveler from the future here to save us went viral. And I'm kinda into it. The similarities are uncanny: They both even rock the signature Thunberg braid! And look, Thunberg's done a hell of a lot for a 16- year old. She not only helped make "climate strike" and "climate emergency" words of the year, she also took this form of protest global to help elevate the urgency of the climate crisis. She won the International Children's Peace Prize Wednesday, and that comes after a Nobel Peace Prize nomination that she didn't win-which was for the best-and declining another award last month.
Thunberg is truly remarkable, so who's to say she's not a time traveler? She handles the climate crisis with more maturity than most adults I know. Maybe that's no coincidence, after all. She sits before the United Nations with the kind of poise I still lack at 26. And she's supposed to be 10 years younger than me?! No way. These conspiracy theorists may be onto something, man. Time-traveling is supposed to delay aging because it involves outer space, right?
I put together a list of questions for Thunberg if she is, in fact, a 19th-century gold miner and time traveler. Earther will update if this "teen" (yeah, right) comes back with some answers.
A Utah woman charged with a crime after her stepchildren saw her topless in her own home is fighting the case that could force her to register as a sex offender, pointing to a court ruling that overturned a topless ban in Colorado and helped fuel a movement.
Tilli Buchanan's attorneys argue that Utah's law on lewdness involving a child is unfair because it treats men and women differently for baring their chests. They are asking a judge to overturn her misdemeanor charges and declare that part of the law unconstitutional.
Prosecutors counter that nudity is commonly understood to include women's breasts in American society and that courts have upheld laws based on morality.
"It was in the privacy of my own home," Buchanan said after a court hearing Tuesday where a judge said she plans to rule in the coming months. "My husband was right next to me in the same exact manner that I was, and he's not being prosecuted."
Buchanan, 27, said she and her husband had taken off their shirts to keep their clothes from getting dusty while they hung drywall in their garage in a Salt Lake City suburb in late 2017 or early 2018.
A team of doctors at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have placed humans in "suspended animation" for the first time as part of a trial that could enable health professionals to fix traumatic injuries such as a gunshot or stab wound that would otherwise end in death, according to a New Scientist exclusive.
Suspended animation - or "emergency preservation resuscitation," in medical parlance - involves rapidly cooling a patient's body down to ten to 15 degrees Celsius (50 to 59 Fahrenheit) by replacing their blood with an ice-cold salt solution.
This slows down brain activity enough to buy the surgeons time - a couple of hours - to conduct life-saving surgeries.
That's because oxygen is no longer being carried to the brain, thereby stopping energy production. Without cooling, even five minutes without brain functions can cause irreversible damage.
The team got permission by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to carry out the trial even without the patient's consent, as there is no alternative treatment available.
Scientists at Yamagata University in Japan have discovered more than 100 new Nazca lines in the Peruvian desert.
The research team used a combination of on-the-ground fieldwork and data analysis to identify these newest carvings, or geoglyphs. Working in partnership with IBM Thomas J Watson Research Centre, the team was able to use artificial intelligence to scan aerial images and for what they called "biomorphic" shapes, or shapes that look similar to plants, animals, or humans.
The Watson programme identified one of the 143 geoglyphs found by the research team - the first ever instance of an AI programme doing so.
The Nazca lines have long been of interest to archaeologists since their discovery almost a century ago. Hundreds of feet long, they are best seen by air, and their exact purpose is still unknown.
The Nazca lines were designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1994 and some of the geoglyphs date back to 500 BC. Those found by the research team are estimated to date to 100 BC.
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 20, 2019:
1. Phil Collins; $2,167,750; $146.69.
2. Guns N' Roses; $2,003,111; $127.13.
3. Muse; $1,923,292; $84.32.
4. Ariana Grande; $1,896,140; $92.31.
5. Post Malone; $1,839,868; $119.19.
6. Queen + Adam Lambert; $1,744,103; $121.60.
7. Jonas Brothers; $1,730,734; $108.33.
8. John Mayer; $1,487,525; $98.92.
9. Cher; $1,485,624; $127.42.
10. Eric Church; $1,404,815; $86.26.
11. Zac Brown Band; $1,368,361; $61.76.
12. Shawn Mendes; $1,305,523; $80.22.
13. Iron Maiden; $1,296,664; $63.90.
14. Little Mix; $1,285,214; $62.79.
15. Florida Georgia Line; $1,250,438; $68.99.
16. Backstreet Boys; $1,236,727; $97.91.
17. Hootie & The Blowfish; $1,008,193; $64.13.
18. KISS; $1,004,742; $83.45.
19. Marc Anthony; $989,507; $101.58.
20. Thomas Rhett; $944,343; $75.53.
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