• Anita Berber, known mainly as a controversial dancer in Weimar Berlin, performed in many countries. In Fiume, a city now in Croatia, she performed in a very small club where she could hear the comments members of the audience made about her. She overheard one insulting comment and memorized where it had come from. After her dance was over, she walked over to that spot and slapped the man sitting there. Unfortunately, Ms. Berber was nearsighted and did not know that the man who had insulted her had gone and that a man who appreciated her talent had taken his place.
• Being a nonconformist sometimes leads to opportunities. In London early in her career, modern dance pioneer Isadora Duncan and Raymond, her brother, danced in the park. Enjoying their impromptu performance was a woman who invited them to her home, where Isadora again danced. The woman was the famous actress Mrs. Patrick Campbell, who introduced Isadora and her brother to other famous and wealthy people, and soon Isadora was performing in their homes.
• In 1976, Twyla Tharp created a piece for herself and Mikhail Baryshnikov. The piece contained no virtuoso acrobatic dance moves, and Mr. Baryshnikov did not leave the ground at all during the dance. The two danced the piece at a gala at the Metropolitan Opera House, and the audience — which wanted virtuoso acrobatic dance moves — booed them. Mr. Baryshnikov had never been booed before — and all the boos delighted him.
• Vaslav Nijinsky’s Le Sacre du Printemps caused a furor when it was first performed. At first, audiences hated it, and made much noise during its presentation, once causing impresario Sergei Diaghilev to shout at the audience, “Silence! The dancers cannot hear the music!” Later, audiences appreciated the ballet.
• What a ballerina remembers about a performance may not be what the audience remembers. Early in her career, Violette Verdy danced the role of Cinderella at La Scala. What she remembers most about the production is something about the audience: the gleaming of men’s bald heads in the dim light.
• In 1907, Isadora Duncan danced in Moscow. At the end of the first act, some audience members hissed because of a lack of appreciation for her art, but Constantine Stanislavsky, the co-director of the Moscow Art Theater, stood up and applauded vigorously. Recognizing him, the hissers stopped.
• Whenever the Merce Cunningham Dance Company performed, many dancers sat in the audience. A non-dancer at a performance looked at the audience members as they walked around during the intermission and said, “I’ve never seen an audience so erect, with such beautiful posture.”
Auditions
• Mary Anthony danced so impressively at an audition that Hanya Holm gave her a three-year tuition waiver. Actually, Ms. Anthony believed that she was successful at the audition because she owned only one record. She was required to dance two solos, and after she had danced to the music of the one record she owned, she danced her second solo without music. This “decision” of hers so impressed Ms. Holm that she gave her the tuition waiver.
• When ballet impresario Sergei Diaghilev asked Russian ballerina Alexandra Danilova to audition for him, she was indignant and told him, “Do you know that I am from the Mariinsky Theater? If I am good enough for the Mariinsky Theater, I am good enough for you!” She auditioned anyway, but was further insulted when Mr. Diaghilev asked her about her weight. She stormed, “Are you buying a horse? Maybe you want to see my teeth!”
Autographs
• In June of 1952, Le Grand Ballet du Marquis de Cuevas danced in Rio de Janeiro. Some ballet fans went backstage, where they quickly stole as many small souvenirs as possible, including many, many photographs that George Zoritch kept of himself in his dressing room. These fans brought the photographs around to Mr. Zoritch, who of course recognized where they had come from, but who signed them anyway. Soon, Mr. Zoritch noticed that the same people kept asking him to sign his photograph. He pointed out that he had already given them an autograph, but they said, “Yes, we already have two or three, but would you autograph one more?”
Os Lusíadas, usually translated as The Lusiads, an epic poem first published in 1572, is widely regarded as the most important work of literature of what country?
Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. The city has a population of 547,627 (as of 2018) and lies within the United Kingdom's second-most populous urban area, with a population of 2.7 million and second-most populous metropolitan area, with a population of 3.3 million. It is fringed by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and an arc of towns with which it forms a continuous conurbation. The local authority for the city is Manchester City Council.
The name Manchester originates from the Latin name Mamucium or its variant Mancunio and the citizens are still referred to as Mancunians. These names are generally thought to represent a Latinisation of an original Brittonic name. The generally accepted etymology of this name is that it comes from Brittonic *mamm- ("breast", in reference to a "breast-like hill"). However, more recent work suggests that it could come from *mamma ("mother", in reference to a local river goddess). Both usages are preserved in Insular Celtic languages, such as mam meaning "breast" in Irish and "mother" in Welsh. The suffix -chester is from Old English ceaster ("Roman fortification", itself a loanword from Latin castra, "fort; fortified town").
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CBS opens the night with a RERUN'The Neighborhood', followed by a RERUN'Bob Hearts Abishola', then a RERUN'All Rise', followed by a RERUN'Bull'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Chris Rock and Joss Stone.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are Rob Lowe and Zoe Wees.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'Ellens Mean Game Of Games', followed by a FRESH'The Wall', then a FRESH'Weakest Link'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Rashida Jones, Bill Burr, and Old Dominion.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Amber Ruffin, Lacey Lamar, and Future Islands.
Scheduled on a FRESHLilly Singh is Saweetie.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'The Bachelor', followed by a FRESH'The Good Doctor'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Milo Ventimiglia, Jake Tapper, and Queen Naija.
The CW offers the FRESH'All American Stories', followed by a RERUN'Penn & Teller: FU'.
Faux has a RERUN'9-1-1', followed by a RERUN'9-1-1: Lone Star'.
MY recycles an old 'L&O: SVU', followed by another old 'L&O: SVU'.
AMC offers the movie 'Lethal Weapon', followed by the movie 'Lethal Weapon 2'.
BBC -
[6:00AM - 11:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE
[12:00PM - 4:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
[5:00PM - 11:00PM] LAW & ORDER
[12:00AM] ERASER
[2:30AM] SNITCH
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has 'Below Deck', another 'Below Deck', followed by a (F) 'Below Deck', then a FRESH'Watch What Happens: Live'.
FX has the movie 'The Fate Of The Furious', followed by the movie 'The Fate Of The Furious', again.
History has 'Pawn Stars', another 'Pawn Stars', followed by a FRESH'Pawn Stars', and another 'Pawn Stars'.
IFC -
[6:00am - 9:30am] Parks And Recreation
[10:00am - 1:30pm] Community
[2:00pm - 5:30pm] Three's Company
[6:00pm - 12:30am] Two And A Half Men
[1:00am - 3:30am] Community
[4:00am - 5:30am] Parks And Recreation (ALL TIMES ET)
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[6:00am - 2:00pm] hogan's heroes
[2:30pm] the karate kid part iii
[5:00pm] the karate kid
[8:00pm] a bronx tale
[10:30pm] a bronx tale
[1:00am] basic instinct
[4:00am - 5:30am] gomer pyle, u.s.m.c. (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'Speed', followed by the movie 'Hancock', then the movie 'The Green Mile'.
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On a RERUNConan (from 12/7/20) is Heather Graham.
Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger released a moving video on Sunday recounting his childhood in Austria while denouncing the riot last week in Washington that left five people dead.
In the nearly eight-minute clip, the actor turned politician directly invoked Kristallnacht, the 1938 Nazi attack against Jewish homes, businesses and synagogues that was a prelude to the Holocaust — and addressed his own father’s Nazi past.
President Trump “sought a coup by misleading people with lies. My father and our neighbors were misled also with lies,” the Austrian-born Schwarzenegger said, adding that Kristallnacht was conducted “by the Nazi equivalent of the Proud Boys,” one of the right-wing groups that assembled in support of Trump's false claims about the election. Egged on by Trump, the rioters stormed the Capitol Building and temporarily halted Congress’s certification of President-elect Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory. Congress reconvened and certified Biden’s win later that night.
“Wednesday was the Day of Broken Glass right here in the United States; the broken glass was in the windows of the United States Capitol,” Schwarzenegger said in the video. “But the mob did not just shatter the windows of the Capitol; they shattered the ideals we took for granted. They did not just break down the doors of the building that housed the American democracy; they trampled the very principles upon which our country was founded.”
“I was surrounded by broken men drinking away the guilt over their participation in the most evil regime in history,” he said. “My father would come home drunk once or twice a week, and he would scream and hit us,” he continued. “I did not hold him totally responsible because our neighbor was doing the same thing to his family, and so was the next neighbor over.”
Even if there wasn’t a pandemic, odds are this would still be a hard weekend at the domestic box office, what with all the distraction that came out of our nation’s Capitol this past week. Television news seems to be filled with enough suspense and cliffhangers with the Capitol Insurrection, versus the big screen, as we all cling to our TV screens at home to witness how President Donald J. Trump will leave office, expectedly with chaos in tow.
Warner Bros.’ Wonder Woman 1984 in its third weekend continued to emulate the legs of a horror movie, down -45% with $3M at 2,218 theaters and a running B.O. of $32.6M. It’s quite clear this movie isn’t going to make the money that Tenet did stateside at $58M and we knew that all along as 60% of all movie theaters are shutdown, including No. 2 chain Regal (Pennsylvania and Colorado reopened this past weekend I heard). Adding further insult to injury: I hear that after a dismal holiday period some movie theaters have decided to close down, and are skipping paying Warners on WW1984; that’s how bad things are. The studio, which normally doesn’t need to fight for its rental dollars, will need to do so now.
Meanwhile, those movies which had a longer theatrical window than WW1984, held in as best they could during a pandemic with Universal/DreamWorks Animation’s Croods: A New Age in 2nd with $1.8M (-19%) in weekend 7 and a cume of $36.8M, Uni’s News of the World with $1.24M in weekend 3, -27% and a total of $7.1M, Sony/Screen Gems’ Monster Hunter in weekend 4 with $1.1M, -13%, with $7.8M and Lionsgate’s Fatale in weekend 4 in 5th place with around $670K and a total of $4M.
In regards to WW1984, the pic’s top ten locations this past weekend were: 1. Sacramento Drive In, 2. Solano Twin Drive In Greater San Francisco, 3. Paramount Drive-In Los Angeles, 4. Cinemark Carefree Circle Colorado Springs, 5. Capitol Drive In Greater San Francisco, 6. Glendale Drive In Phoenix, 7. AMC Disney Springs Orlando, 8. Cinemark North Canton Cleveland, 9. Cinemark Majestic Cinemas Boise, and 10. Cinemark Tinseltown Colorado Springs. And the top ten DMA were 1. Salt Lake City, 2. Dallas, 3. Phoenix, 4. Houston, 5. Greater New York Metro area (NJ, CT, and Upstate NY theaters), 6. Denver, 7. Atlanta, 8. Orlando, 9. Tampa, and 10. Miami.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit is looking for Broadway actors to cast in their show.
Last week, the popular New York-based NBC show announced their cast for an upcoming episode, revealing that Tony-nominated Hadestown actress Eva Noblezada and Beetlejuice star Alex Brightman would be joining.
When a fan commented on their Broadway resumés, showrunner Warren Leight replied, "We are trying to hire every Broadway actor we can while we and they wait for the curtains to rise again."
And in an interview with Deadline, Leight said, "We know how hard the community has been hit here. The goal is to get as many jobs to as many theater actors as we possibly can."
He also explained that while the Broadway-filled roles range from one-day parts to "more substantial" appearances — they all provide a workday minimum required for union health insurance.
Following the permanent suspension of Donald Trump (R-Lock Him Up) from Twitter, many are now referring to the outgoing president as “a Home Alone extra”.
People are also calling for his cameo appearance in 1992 sequel Home Alone: Lost in New York to be digitally removed ahead of its televised showings later this year.
There have been plenty of suggestions that Christopher Plummer be added in his place.
Plummer famously appeared as J Paul Getty in Ridley Scott’s All the Money in the World (2017) after Kevin Spacey’s scenes as the character were scrapped due to the sexual assault allegations he faced.
Alabama's attorney general is demanding to know why the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA) advertised the rally in Washington DC that preceded the Capitol riot this week.
Steve Marshall, a Republican and top law enforcement officer in the state, called for an internal review after it was revealed by watchdog Documented that RAGA's policy branch, the Rule of Law Defense Fund (RLDF), had authorised and paid for Robocall messages that called on "patriots" to march on Congress.
"We are hoping patriots like you will join us to continue to fight to protect the integrity of our elections," said an automated message, NBC News reported. The robocalls went out to RLDF members the day before the rally.
Mr Marshall, who is head of the Rule of Law Defense Fund, said on Friday that he wanted an internal review as to why the fund had advertised the Trump rally.
"I was unaware of unauthorised decisions made by RLDF staff with regard to this week's rally. Despite currently transitioning into my role as the newly elected chairman of RLDF, it is unacceptable that I was neither consulted about nor informed of those decisions," said Mr Marshall.
Former Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly has slammed Twitter for the company’s decision to permanently ban Donald Trump (R-Lock Him Up) from the platform.
Ms Kelly tweeted an NPR headline on the news and wrote: “If you’re on the right or not woke or want to raise Q’s about the integrity of our electoral system, you’re next.”
Ms Kelly’s remark was met with stinging rebukes. Jesse Wegman, a member of the New York Times editorial board and an expert on the Supreme Court, responded to Ms Kelly: “I never realized ‘raising questions’ meant ‘burning down the Capitol’.”
Kyle Griffin, a senior producer for MSNBC’s The Last Word, wrote: “Please stop lying. You have a large platform. Please think of the possible consequences before you tweet obvious lies. Words matter, Megyn.”
Political scientist and president of the Eurasia Group, Ian Bremmer, replied: “This is a bad and dishonest take.”
‘God bless each of you,’ Ginni Thomas (R-Lock Her Up) wrote in a Facebook post to support the attempted takeover of the Capitol.
Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence "Slappy" Thomas (R-Long Dong Silver), shared support for the rioters who stormed the Capitol on Wednesday.
In one post, she shared “LOVE” to the MAGA crowd, offering support and suggesting others to tune in to the riot. In another Facebook status, she stated, in mostly all caps, “God bless each of you standing up or praying!”
According to Independent, Mrs. Thomas is allegedly a member of a network of conservative activists called Groundswell. The group has close ties to Trump and his senior officials, according to the report.
Thomas reportedly helped craft lists of “disloyal” government officials, and detailed memos are said to have been written by Groundswell over the past year-and-a-half.
Marriott International Inc, the world's largest hotel company, and the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) said Sunday they will suspend donations to U.S. lawmakers who voted last week against certifying President-elect Joe Biden's victory.
"We have taken the destructive events at the Capitol to undermine a legitimate and fair election into consideration and will be pausing political giving from our Political Action Committee to those who voted against certification of the election," Marriott spokeswoman Connie Kim said, confirming a report in Popular Information, a political newsletter.
BCBSA, the federation of 36 independent companies that provide health care coverage for one in three Americans, said "in light of this week’s violent, shocking assault on the United States Capitol, and the votes of some members of Congress to subvert the results of November’s election by challenging Electoral College results, BCSBA will suspend contributions to those lawmakers who voted to undermine our democracy."
Five people lost their lives, including a police officer, when supporters of President Donald Trump (R-Lock Him Up) stormed the Capitol in an attempt to disrupt the formal recognition of his election defeat. On Sunday a second Republican U.S. senator urged Trump to resign, saying he could face criminal liability.
Stonehenge is perhaps the most famous of all the henges, vast circular monuments constructed from wood or stone that litter the British countryside. The prehistoric monument was most likely erected in what is now England sometime between 3000 B.C. and 2000 B.C. and some of the stones were transported all the way from neighboring Wales — no small feat for a Stone Age civilization.
It must have surely been a gargantuan effort and it begs the question: Why on Earth did they bother? Why did Stone Age people build so many henges?
Before we go any further, it's important to note that, technically speaking, Stonehenge isn't even a henge. The word "henge" is in fact a relatively recent term, first defined by British archaeologist Thomas Kendrick in 1932 to mean a circular bank with a ditch inside it and one or more entrances protruding through the bank. "But Stonehenge is the other way around, it's a bank inside a ditch," Hill told Live Science.
Another fun fact: Even ignoring the reverse order of ditch and bank, most henges still wouldn't have looked like Stonehenge because they were usually made from wood, which makes sense. Wood is everywhere, and is much easier to carve and transport, even if it isn't as durable. It wasn't until the 20th century that archaeologists realized that Britain once boasted a bounty of wood henges that have long since rotted away and vanished from sight.
"After the First World War, when people started flying over the country, they started to see where these constructions had been because they left traces on the ground with their mounds. People hadn't really noticed until they got a bird's-eye view," Hill said. "They're also pretty much unique to Britain."
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