• Comedian George Burns recognized Jack Haley’s talent -- Mr. Haley played the Tin Woodsman in The Wizard of Oz -— and kept introducing him to a producer who ignored him. After Mr. Haley made it big in show business, the producer came up to Mr. Burns and said, “Why didn’t you tell me you knew such a talented guy? I could have put him on contract years ago!”
Costumes
• Benny Hill’s relationship with the beautiful women who appeared on his show was professional, although he did form friendships with some of the women—and their husbands. He also listened to their complaints when they had any. For example, one day the actresses on his TV show complained about a costume design that had only a couple of inches of material across the crotch. Colleague Bob Todd told Mr. Hill of the complaints about the costumes, and Mr. Hill—without even looking at the costumes—ordered the wardrobe mistress to change them. According to Mr. Todd, “He was like a Dutch uncle to those girls.”
• Famous vaudeville comedian Bobby Clark was seldom recognized unless he was wearing his trademark spectacles—which weren’t real spectacles, but were merely drawn onto his face. Even his barber, who had been cutting his hair for years, didn’t recognize him. One day, his barber told him that he had seen a comedian with the same name as Mr. Clark on a vaudeville stage and he wondered where the comedian had thought up the crazy things he did. Mr. Clark replied that he had often wondered the same thing.
• In Hollywood, a costumer brought Terry-Thomas his articles of clothing for a scene, dumped them on the floor and said, “These should fit you. I’ve seen you on TV.” Terry-Thomas, known for dressing immaculately, was shocked. “Oh,” he said, “so this the way you measure, by looking at people on the TV.” He pointed to the shoes. “I told you I needed a size 11. Without trying those on, I can tell you they’re a size 8.” The costumer replied, “Don’t worry. I’ll give them a shine.”
Death
• Harpo Marx had a very poor education, but the geniuses of the Algonquin Round Table liked him because he was good at games such as croquet. However, he was not so good at the murder game that was sometimes played at critic Alexander Woollcott’s house. In the game, a “murderer” would approach the “victim” and give him or her a written message saying that he or she was dead. The victim was supposed to lie down until discovered, and then Woollcott’s guests would use their detective skills to discover the murderer. Once, Harpo was the murderer, but the guests realized that immediately because Harpo’s written message to his victim was, “You are ded.”
• Buster Keaton’s movie masterpiece Steamboat Bill Jr., contains a memorable gag. A hurricane blows the front of a house over on top of Buster, and he escapes unharmed only because he is standing in the exact spot where he will be safe—the spot where the house has an open window. The gag was carefully planned: Buster had exactly three inches of clearance over his head and beside each shoulder. The front of the house weighed two tons (it had to be built that heavy so that it wouldn’t twist in the wind created for the movie), and if it had actually hit Buster, it would have killed him instantly.
• While serving as a soldier in World War II, Spike Mulligan knew an eccentric soldier who occasionally went AWOL for a few weeks, then turned himself in. The eccentric soldier was sent to see a military psychiatrist, to whom he complained about being made to wear a uniform. The psychiatrist asked why he didn’t like the uniform, and the eccentric soldier explained, “It’s dangerous. Germans shoot at it on sight.” The psychiatrist’s report stated, “There is nothing wrong with this man. He has a wholesome fear of being shot by Germans.”
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Considered by some food historians as the first junk food, Cracker Jack introduced two mascots in 1916, Sailor Jack and his dog. What is the name of Sailor Jack's dog?
Cracker Jack is an American brand of snack food consisting of molasses-flavored, caramel-coated popcorn, and peanuts, well known for being packaged with a prize of trivial value inside. The Cracker Jack name and slogan, "The More You Eat The More You Want", were registered in 1896. Some food historians consider it the first junk food.
Cracker Jack's mascots Sailor Jack and his dog Bingo were introduced as early as 1916 and registered as a trademark in 1919. Sailor Jack was modeled after Robert Rueckheim, grandson of Frederick. Robert, the son of the eldest of the Rueckheim brothers, Edward, died of pneumonia shortly after his image appeared at the age of 8. The sailor boy image acquired such meaning for the founder of Cracker Jack that he had it carved on his tombstone, which can still be seen in St. Henry's Cemetery in Chicago. Sailor Jack's dog Bingo was based on a real-life dog named Russell, a stray adopted in 1917 by Henry Eckstein, who demanded that the dog be used on the packaging. Russell died of old age in 1930.
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Bingo. My guess was the boy is named Cracker and the dog is Jack. Bingo was news to me, but I haven’t paid enough attention to Cracker Jack packaging to even know there was a dog. Or a boy for that matter. That name makes as little sense as naming a ready to eat cereal Grape Nuts. Cracker Jack should be named A Handful of Sugar Coated Popcorn and 10 Peanuts. I read that 4 years ago corporate decided to end the worthless prize included in the box for reasons that are very clear to this guy who had to work on the equipment that inserted ‘premiums’ into Post cereal packages.
Roy, your Libtard, Snowflake friend isolating in Tyler, TX wrote:
I've probably eaten a whole Corn Maze yield worth of Cracker Jack in my lifetime. My Mom even had a pretty darn good recipe for the stuff, and I'm sure we've made a bunch of it ourselves. As a kid with not a very good imagination, I named my first dog after Jack's dog, so I had a great time playing with my little buddy, Bingo!!!
Jon L answered:
I would have guessed Jack, but G claims it's Bingo.
David of Moon Valley replied:
Survey says......
…Bingo!
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
Bingo was his name-o
Mac Mac said:
Bingo
Deborah, the Master Gardener wrote:
Bingo!
Daniel in The City answered:
Bingo
Cal in Vermont replied:
B-I-NGO
Jacqueline responded:
Bingo
Barbara, of Peppy Tech fame said:
Sailor Jack's dog's name is Bingo.
Rosemary in Columbus wrote:
Bingo
DJ Useo answered:
His pup name was "Bingo". Later, he grew up & was cast as "Toto". nt rly.
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Just came across this item: You can now bid on the opportunity to push the button that will implode the vacant and deteriorating Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, which closed in 2014. The demolition process has already begun and the implosion is scheduled for January 29, 2021. The auction is a fundraiser for the Boys and Girls Club of Atlantic City. I'm hoping they exceed their $1 million goal.
CBS begins the night with a FRESH"MacGyver', followed by a FRESH'Magnum PU', then a FRESH'Blue Bloods'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are George Clooney and Black Pumas.
On a RERUNJames Corden, OBE, (from 12/19/19) are Billie Eilish, Mariah Carey, Taylor Swift, Jennifer Hudson, Rebel Wilson, Jason Derulo, Francesca Hayward, Andrew Lloyd Webber, and Tom Hooper.
NBC starts the night with a RERUN'Weakest Link', followed by 'Dateline'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Olivia Colman, Lucas Hedges, Barry Gibb, Jhené Aiko, and Nas.
On a RERUNSeth Meyers (from 12/8/20) are Jimmy Fallon, Joe Manganiello, and Kaz Rodriguez.
On a RERUNLilly Singh (from 12/10/19) are Thomas Lennon and Aisling Bea.
ABC opens the night with the infomercial 'Olaf's Frozen Adventure', followed by 'Shrek The Halls', then '20/20'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel it's TBA.
The CW offers the FRESH'The Christmas Caroler Challenge'.
Faux fills the night with LIVE'College Football', then pads the left coast with local crap.
MY recycles an old 'L&O: CI', followed by another old 'L&O: CI'.
A&E has 'The First 48', another 'The First 48', followed by a FRESH'Live Rescue'.
AMC offers the movie 'the Polar Express', followed by the movie 'Four Christmases', then the movie 'Love Actually'.
BBC -
[6:00AM - 11:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE
[12:00PM - 4:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
[5:00PM] NATIONAL LAMPOON'S EUROPEAN VACATION
[6:59PM] NATIONAL LAMPOON'S VACATION
[9:01PM] VEGAS VACATION
[11:00PM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW
[12:00AM] NATIONAL LAMPOON'S VACATION
[2:02AM] VEGAS VACATION
[4:01AM] NATIONAL LAMPOON'S EUROPEAN VACATION (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has the movie 'It's Complicated', followed by the movie 'Fifty Shades Of Grey'.
Comedy Central has 2 hours of old 'The Office', followed by 3 hours of 'Schitt's Creek'.
FX has the movie 'The Boss Baby', followed by the movie 'Despicable Me 3', then the movie 'Minions'.
History has 'Ancient Aliens', another 'Ancient Aliens', followed by a FRESH'Ancient Aliens', and another 'Ancient Aliens'.
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[6:00am] Community
[6:30am] Community
[7:00am] Road To Perdition
[9:30am] The Birdcage
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[5:00pm] Ghostbusters
[7:15pm] Tommy Boy
[9:30pm] My Cousin Vinny
[12:00am] Two And A Half Men
[12:30am] Two And A Half Men
[1:00am] My Cousin Vinny
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[10:30am] sleepless in seattle
[1:00pm - 1:00am] law & order
[2:00am] columbo
[4:15am] columbo (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'Shrek', followed by the movie 'Shrek', again, then the movie 'Noah'.
British actor Ian McKellen, who played the wizard Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings movies, said he was euphoric after receiving his first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine and urged everyone who was offered the jab to accept it.
The state-run National Health Service (NHS), which is running Britain’s mass COVID vaccination programme, posted several pictures of McKellen, in a blue T-shirt and a rainbow striped scarf, giving a thumbs up as he received the shot.
“It’s a very special day. I feel euphoric,” McKellen, 81, was quoted as saying in one NHS post which he retweeted.
“I would have no hesitation in recommending it to anyone. I feel very lucky to have had the vaccination.”
He was the latest British celebrity to go public about receiving the COVID-19 vaccine, part of a collective effort to reassure members of the public who may be harbouring doubts about the jab’s safety.
A study from the London School of Economics says 50 years of tax cuts for rich people, intended to “trickle-down” and create jobs and boost all people’s incomes, have not done that and has actually only positively impacted the rich.
CBS News reported that the new paper examined 18 developed countries, including the United States, over a period of 50 years from 1965 to 2015. It compared countries that passed tax cuts in a specific year, such as in the U.S. in 1982 when former President Ronald Reagan cut taxes on the wealthy, with those that didn’t and looked at their economic outcomes.
The study says that, per capita, gross domestic and unemployment rates were nearly identical after five years in countries that cut taxes on rich people versus those that did not. However, researchers said they found something that did change--the incomes of the rich. The incomes of the rich grew much faster in countries where tax rates were lower. Rather than trickle down, the study said, tax cuts might not have accomplished much more than exacerbating income inequality.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, the combined wealth of America’s 651 billionaires jumped by more than $1 trillion, according to Americans for Tax Fairness. Meanwhile, 8 million Americans have fallen into poverty since the start of the pandemic, according to data from the University of Chicago and the University of Notre Dame.
Peacock has renewed its comedy A.P. Bio for Season 4, the NBCUniversal streaming service confirmed Thursday. The eight-episode season is due in 2021. A video helped announce the news today (see it below).
Peacock picked up the comedy for a third season after it was canceled by NBC after two seasons. Season 3 debuted in September.
A.P. Bio stars It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia’s Glenn Howerton as disgraced Harvard philosophy scholar Jack Griffin who, after losing out on his dream job, is forced to return to Toledo, Ohio, and work as a high school Advanced Placement biology teacher. As he comes crashing in to Whitlock High School, Jack makes it absolutely clear he will not be teaching any biology. Realizing he has a room full of honor roll students at his disposal, Jack decides instead to use the kids for his own benefit.
The renewal is the second for Howerton this month, after FX announced four more seasons of Sunny.
The series also stars Patton Oswalt, Mary Sohn, Lyric Lewis, Jean Villepique and Paula Pell.
A new version of the Little House on the Prairie is in the works for television.
Anonymous Content, Paramount Television Studios, and Friendly Family Productions are developing a one-hour dramatic series adaptation of Little House on the Prairie based on the bestselling novels by Laura Ingalls Wilder. Anonymous Content and Paramount Television Studios will serve as co-studios on the project.
Little House on the Prairie, based on Wilder’s novels, aired for nine seasons on NBC From September 1974 to May 1982. Starring Michael Landon, Melissa Gilbert, Karen Grassle, and Melissa Sue Anderson, the historical Western drama revolved around a family living on a farm in Plum Creek near Walnut Grove, Minnesota, in the late 1800s. The series aired with new title Little House: A New Beginning during the 1982-83 television season, following the exit of Landon and Grassle.
Former NBC executive Ed Friendly acquired the film and television rights to Wilder’s novels from Roger Lea MacBride and recruited Blanche Hanalis to write the teleplay for a two-hour pilot. Friendly asked Landon to direct the pilot; he agreed on the condition that he could also play lead character Charles Ingalls.
Work crews ignite dynamite blasts in the remote and rugged southeast corner of Arizona, forever reshaping the landscape as they pulverize mountaintops in a rush to build more of President Donald Trump’s border wall before his term ends next month.
Each blast in Guadalupe Canyon releases puffs of dust as workers level land to make way for 30-foot-tall (9-meter-tall) steel columns near the New Mexico line. Heavy machines crawl over roads gouged into rocky slopes while one tap-tap-taps open holes for posts on U.S. Bureau of Land Management property.
Trump has expedited border wall construction in his last year, mostly in wildlife refuges and Indigenous territory the government owns in Arizona and New Mexico, avoiding the legal fights over private land in busier crossing areas of Texas. The work has caused environmental damage, preventing animals from moving freely and scarring unique mountain and desert landscapes that conservationists fear could be irreversible. The administration says it's protecting national security, citing it to waive environmental laws in its drive to fulfill a signature immigration policy.
Environmentalists hope President-elect Joe Biden will stop the work, but that could be difficult and expensive to do quickly and may still leave pillars towering over sensitive borderlands.
The worst damage is along Arizona’s border, from century-old saguaro cactuses toppled in the western desert to shrinking ponds of endangered fish in eastern canyons. Recent construction has sealed off what was the Southwest’s last major undammed river. It's more difficult for desert tortoises, the occasional ocelot and the world’s tiniest owls to cross the boundary.
A Republican committee in Virginia unanimously passed a resolution censuring Rep. Denver Riggleman, R-Va., saying he betrayed the party's values when he officiated a same-sex wedding.
The Appomattox County Republican Committee cited a list of issues Saturday for the outgoing Republican's censure in a lengthy resolution. Among the reasons were that Riggleman officiated a wedding last summer for two male campaign aides he described as "friends," a decision that angered many Republicans in his district.
A group of Virginia Republicans, the 5th Congressional District Republican Committee, had also tried to censure him shortly after the event but to no avail.
Other criticisms of the GOP lawmaker included his condemnation of President Donald Trump (R-Compromised) — along with the president's voter fraud claims — and his congratulations to President-elect Joe Biden.
Riggleman, who was elected in 2018 but lost his re-election bid during a Republican state convention over the summer, took to Twitter to respond to the statement. "Glad the @VA_GOP finally admits they rig a convention because of the wedding. We already knew this, but here's your sign," he wrote.
More than 3,000 years ago, a couple at the biblical site of Bethsaida, in Israel, was buried side by side in a spooning position, with the male's arm over the female's body, and the archaeologists who discovered the remains are now calling the couple "Romeo and Juliet."
Archaeologists think the individuals died at the same time, though they aren't sure what killed the couple, said Rami Arav, director of the Bethsaida project and a professor of religious studies at the University of Nebraska Omaha.
"It is very, very rare to find a couple like this" Arav said at a virtual archaeology conference held by New York University and the Israel Antiquities Authority from Oct. 25 to28.
After studying the skeletons, Arav said the male died in his late teens and the female in her early teen or preteen years. "Apparently, they died at the same time, or at least [were] buried at the same time before their bodies decomposed," Arav told Live Science. "No trauma remains [were] evidenced on the skeletons. We have no clue what killed them."
Despite the intimate burial position of the pair, archaeologists cannot be certain that they were a romantic couple, Arav told Live Science, noting that whoever buried the couple put the bodies into the cuddling position. "The 'spooning position' was made by the people [who] buried them. Perhaps [the] people who buried them knew the story" of the couple, Arav said.
The blood of San Gennaro, the patron of Naples, failed to liquefy despite two rounds of praying by the faithful, which some in the southern Italian city see as an omen of bad things to come.
A vial containing the dried blood of the fourth-century martyr is put on public display three times a year in the city's cathedral and the faithful pray for its liquefaction, known as the "Miracle of San Gennaro".
It did not happen on Wednesday despite hours of praying in the morning and a special Mass in the afternoon. Fewer people than normal were allowed into the cathedral because of coronavirus restrictions.
Scientists say the substance inside the sealed vial appears to be dried blood but cannot explain why it sometimes turns into liquid and sometimes does not.
Neapolitans get particularly nervous if the blood does not liquefy on the saint's feast day, September 19 but less so on the other two days the vial is brought out for public veneration - the Saturday before the first Sunday in May, and on Dec. 16.
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