• Kathy Bates won the Oscar for Best Actress in Misery, co-starring James Caan and made into a movie from a book by Stephen King. Director Rob Reiner told her that she had the lead part of Annie Wilkes, and Ms. Bates, who had never had the lead in a movie before, said, “The part. I’ve got it?” Mr. Reiner nodded and said, “You’ve got it.” Unbelieving, Ms. Bates said, “The Annie part. Annie Wilkes. That part?” Mr. Reiner nodded again. Still unbelieving, Ms. Bates said, “Annie Wilkes. The lead. And I’ve got it and it’s all set and everything?” Mr. Reiner replied, “All set.” Ms. Bates said, “Let me just get this straight — I am playing Annie Wilkes, the lead, in Misery?” Again, Mr. Reiner replied affirmatively. Ms. Bates said, “It’s done and everything, I mean, I am definitely playing Annie, and that’s set and done and everything, no mistakes or anything?” Mr. Reiner said, “It is so set you wouldn’t believe it.” Ms. Bates sat silently for a moment, then asked, “Can I tell my mother?”
• Jack Pierce was a master of makeup, and he created the makeup for such movie monsters as Frankenstein’s Monster and the Wolf Man. When making up actor Boris Karloff as Frankenstein’s Monster, Mr. Pierce made sure that the mask he had created came down only as far as Mr. Karloff’s eyebrows. That way, the actor could use his eyes and mouth to express emotion. In the three movies starring Mr. Karloff as the monster, he moves very awkwardly — the result of having a heavy rod placed along his spine, and of wearing boots that together weighed 26 pounds. Mr. Karloff’s performance as Frankenstein’s Monster was very sympathetic and thousands of children wrote to him and showed compassion for the monster. Mr. Karloff remarked, “These children saw beyond the makeup and really understood.”
• Some people know what they like very early in their life. When Honor Blackman was 15 years old, her father let her choose which of two presents she wanted to receive: a bicycle or lessons in elocution. Young Honor, later to become the female lead in the movie Goldfinger and one of the female leads in the British TV cult classic The Avengers, chose the elocution lessons. (Another thing she likes is anecdotes. She tells about a young, overly enthusiastic director explaining the fine points of direction to actress Irene Handl, who listened patiently for a while, grew bored, and eventually told him, “Excuse me, I think you’ve mistaken me for someone who gives a f**k.”)
• In Quentin Tarantino’s first film, the hit Reservoir Dogs, Kirk Baltz played a rookie police officer who is tortured by the sadistic Mr. Blonde, played by Michael Madsen. To get into character, Mr. Baltz asked Mr. Madsen to put him in the trunk of his car, then drive him around for five minutes. (In the movie, the police officer is put in the trunk of Mr. Blonde’s car, then driven around.) Unfortunately for Mr. Baltz, Mr. Madsen also wanted to get into character. Acting like the sadistic Mr. Blonde, Mr. Madsen drove Mr. Baltz around for not five minutes, but for 45 minutes.
• In Spike Lee’s movie Jungle Fever, the beautiful Halle Berry plays a crack addict, a role she wanted because too many people assume that beautiful people don’t get addicted to crack — or so the people casting this kind of role seem to think. She worked hard to prepare for the role. She asked co-star Samuel L. Jackson to drive her around some of New York City’s poorest neighborhoods. She also visited a crack house in the presence of some police officers — who made her wear a bulletproof vest. Finally, for the 10 days before filming started, she did not take a bath.
Born David Daniel Kaminsky, he has 3 stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (music, radio, and films), was the first ambassador-at-large of UNICEF, and, most importantly, knew better than to take the flagon with the dragon. By what name is he more commonly known?
Vernors ginger ale, dating to 1866, is the longest continuously made soft drink in the United States. Introduced in 1876, what is the second longest continuously made soft drink in the United States?
Hires Root Beer is a root beer marketed by Keurig Dr Pepper. Introduced in 1876, it is considered the second longest continuously made soft drink in the United States. Only Vernors ginger ale, dating to 1866, is older.
Hires Root Beer was created by Philadelphia pharmacist Charles Elmer Hires. The official story is that Hires first tasted root beer, a traditional American beverage dating back to the colonial era, while on his honeymoon in 1875. However, historical accounts vary and the actual time and place of the discovery may never be known. By 1876, Hires had developed his own recipe and was marketing 25-cent packets of powder which each yielded five gallons of root beer. At Philadelphia's Centennial Exposition in 1876, he cultivated new customers by giving away free glasses of root beer. Hires marketed it as a solid concentrate of sixteen wild roots and berries. It claimed to purify the blood and make rosy cheeks. In 1884, he began producing a liquid extract and a syrup for use in soda fountains, and was soon shipping root beer in kegs and producing a special fountain dispenser called the "Hires Automatic Munimaker." In 1890, the Charles E. Hires Company incorporated and began supplying Hires root beer in small bottles claiming over a million bottles sold by 1891.
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
Hires Root Beer.
Randall wrote:
Hires Root Beer
Jacqueline said:
Hires root beer
Alan J answered:
Moxie.
Mac Mac responded:
Hires root beer
Dave replied:
Hires Root Beer. I saw a list that credits the Swiss company Schweppes as having the world’s oldest soda, but I don’t think tonic water counts as a soft drink, and Schweppes didn’t introduce their ginger ale until 1870. So Vernors is also the world’s #1.
mj wrote:
There are two carbonated drinks in the South
The elder of the two is Dr. Pepper.
Jon L said:
I suspect it's one or another toot beer. Haven't a clue which one, but I'll guess Barks.
DJ Useo responded:
Well. I was pretty sure it had to be a root beer, & then me wife, Patricia tells me it's "Hires Root Beer". Yum, especially back then.
Joe S (We resisted, we voted, we won. Get over it) replied:
Hires Root Beer, very good but doesn't hold a candle to Vernors. When I lived in South Dakota I'd skp over to Wyoming and load the trunk with Coors and on the way back from Michigan I'd load up with Vernors. I'd sell the Coors and keep most of the Vernors for myself.
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Tonight, Monday:
CBS opens the night with a FRESH'The Neighborhood', followed by a FRESH'Bob Hearts Abishola', then a FRESH'All Rise', followed by a FRESH'Bull'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Queen Latifah and Steven Yeun.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are Salma Hayek, Owen Wilson, and the Weeknd.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'Ellen's Mean Game Of Games', followed by a FRESH'The Wall', then a RERUN'Weakest Link'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Dave Grohl, Joel Kinnaman, and Foo Fighters.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Bill Burr and Justin Hartley.
Scheduled on a FRESHLilly Singh is Jay Pharoah.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'The Bachelor', followed by a RERUN'The Good Doctor'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Katy Perry and Michael McDonald.
The CW offers a FRESH'All American', followed by a FRESH'Black Lightning'.
Faux has a FRESH'9-1-1', followed by a FRESH'9-1-1: Lone Star'.
MY recycles an old 'L&O: SVU', followed by another old 'L&O: SVU'.
AMC offers the movie 'Forrest Gump', followed by a FRESH'The Salisbury Poisonings'.
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[4:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE
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Bravo has 'Below Deck', followed by a FRESH'Below Deck', then another FRESH'Below Deck', followed by a FRESH'Watch What Happens: Live'.
FX has the movie 'Skyscraper', followed by the movie 'Venom'.
History has 'American Pickers', another 'American Pickers', followed by a FRESH'American Pickers'.
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A group of budding young writers is about to publish a book with some help from Maine’s most famous writer.
Stephen King’s foundation covered the $6,500 cost of publishing a 290-page manuscript by students participating in Farwell Elementary School’s Author Studies Program.
The students started with “Fletcher McKenzie and the Passage to Whole,” a story about a Maine boy by Gary Savage, and then reworked it to reflect their experiences during the pandemic.
Farwell Principal Amanda Winslow said she is proud of the students for their accomplishment and thankful for the dedication of Savage, who advised the students, and librarian Kathy Martin.
A number of local groups also sent donations that will be used for the Author Studies program.
Donald Trump (R-Lock Him Up), who resigned from SAG-AFTRA on Thursday while facing almost certain expulsion from the union, has now been banned from ever rejoining. The SAG-AFTRA National Board, meeting via Zoom videoconference Saturday, passed a resolution preemptively denying any potential re-admission applications by him.
The resolution cites the same concerns that prompted the initial disciplinary charges — which were resolved by Trump’s resignation Thursday — notably his antagonism of the union’s journalist members and disregard for the values and integrity of the union.
“Preventing Donald Trump from ever rejoining SAG-AFTRA is more than a symbolic step,” said SAG-AFTRA President Gabrielle Carteris. “It is a resounding statement that threatening or inciting harm against fellow members will not be tolerated. An attack against one is an attack against all.”
Five board members including broadcast journalists abstained.
Saturday Night Live‘s Feb. 6 telecast, featuring Schitt’s Creek‘s Dan Levy in his hosting debut and musical guest Phoebe Bridgers, drew a 4.2 rating household Live+Same Day rating in the 44 metered local markets and a 2.2 adults 18-49 rating in the 25 markets with local people meters.
That was off by a tenth from last week in households but up two tenths in 18-49, the highest demo delivery in the 25 markets since the Nov. 7 post-election episode hosted by Dave Chappelle. In households, SNL has stayed in the 4.3-4.4 rating range for the last four telecasts.
Buoyed by the election coverage, the current season of SNL — the show’s best since the conclusion of last election cycle four years ago — for the first time in its 46-year history is #1 among all comedies on broadcast and cable in Live+7 18-49 and total viewers.
In social interactions, this season’s SNL is up 48% vs. last season. Of the videos from last night’s episodes, garnering most YouTube views as of Sunday morning behind the Super Bowl-themed Cold Open is the Zillow parody, revealing real estate listings as a new way for thirtysomethings to “satisfy their every fantasy.”
Denzel Washington's crime thriller "The Little Things" led domestic box office charts again, pulling in $2.1 million in its second weekend of release.
Overseas, "The Little Things" collected $1.4 million in ticket sales from 20 countries. The R-rated film has made $7.8 million in the U.S. and Canada and $5.2 million internationally to date.
In second place, Universal and DreamWorks Animation's "The Croods: A New Age" has generated $1.7 million. After 11 weeks in theaters, the "Croods" sequel has brought in $46 million domestically. Though there aren't many big-screen offerings for audiences to choose from these days, its box office hold has been notable because "The Croods: A New Age" has been available to rent on premium video-on-demand platforms for two months. Overseas, the film brought in $808,000, which brings its international total to $101.6 million and global haul to $147.6 million.
Liam Neeson thriller "The Marksman" landed in the No. 3 spot, grossing $1 million from 2,018 screens. That brings its total haul to $9.1 million. "Wonder Woman 1984" came in fourth place with $905,000 from 1,818 U.S. locations. The Warner Bros. superhero adventure, which also premiered concurrently on HBO Max, has amassed $40 million at the domestic box office and $154 million worldwide.
Overseas, Disney and Pixar's "Soul" -- which isn't playing in domestic theaters and is only available to U.S. audiences on Disney Plus -- continues to sell tickets. The film is performing particularly well in China, where it has made $55.8 and has officially passed "Incredibles 2" ($53.7 million) to become the country's second-highest Pixar release ever. In total, "Soul" earned $6.9 million from 11 international countries, boosting its foreign bounty to $96.2 million.
A California judge ordered Herring Networks, the parent company of the far-right cable news outlet One America News, to pay $250,000 in legal fees to Rachel Maddow and MSNBC's following its failed defamation suit against them in 2019, according to a report from Law&Crime.
In July 2019, Herring Networks filed a defamation suit in a San Diego court against Maddow, Comcast, MSNBC, and NBCUniversal Media, arguing the network's primetime anchor made defamatory claims about OAN during a broadcast in which Maddow said that OAN "literally is paid Russian propaganda."
Herring sued MSNBC and Maddow for $10 million after she made the comments during a July 22, 2019, broadcast of "The Rachel Maddow Show." Her claims followed a report from The Daily Beast that reported an employee of the pro-Trump network also worked for the Russian-owned Sputnik News, as The Associated Press previously reported.
Lawyers for MSNBC and Maddow countersued under California's Anti-Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation statute, which allows for defendants to file to strike a motion on the basis that "any act . . . in furtherance of the person's right of petition or free speech under the United States Constitution or the California Constitution in connection with a public issue."
US District Judge Cynthia Bashant last year dismissed Herring Networks lawsuits with prejudice, deciding there were "no set of facts that could support a claim for defamation based on Maddow's statement," according to the report.
Former President Donald Trump (R-Lock Him Up)'s attempt to overturn the 2020 election by propagating baseless claims of mass voter fraud have cost taxpayers more than $519 million, an analysis by The Washington Post found.
The Post tallied the cost from reviews of local, state, and federal spending records, and interviews with government officials. The costs included legal fees, damage costs from the Capitol siege in January, military and security expenses, and more.
Not long after the election was declared a victory for President Joe Biden, Trump falsely claimed there was mass election fraud, saying, with no evidence, that the election was stolen.
Trump and his Republican allies spent the weeks leading up to Biden's inauguration filing dozens of lawsuits in swing states attempting to overturn the results, delay certification, or throw out votes. They failed to win any of them.
Altogether, states spent $2.2 million on legal challenges and security for election officials, the Post found.
QAnon's most dedicated followers still believe that former President Donald Trump (R-Lock Him Up), who lost the 2020 presidential election, is yet to be sworn in.
March 4, 2021 is a day they have marked in their diaries, insisting that is the date when Trump will be inaugurated in Washington, DC, and, ultimately, return to power.
Coincidentally, Trump International Hotel in Washington, DC is hiking up the prices of suites around that period. The hotel, just blocks away from the White House, has almost tripled the rates for some rooms on the nights of March 3 and 4, according to Forbes.
The reason why QAnon supporters place so much importance on March 4 is rooted in the bizarre beliefs of the 'sovereign citizen movement.'
It believes that Americans are not subject to a variety of federal laws. The basis for this is that a law, enacted in 1871, secretly turned the US into a corporation rather than a nation.
The most widely watched golf shot in history did not occur in a major tournament. It wasn’t even in a PGA event. In fact, it did not take place on Earth. And, as it turns out, its distance has been embellished by legend.
It was a one-handed chip with a converted Wilson Staff 6-iron club head adapted to an aluminum moon rock sample scooper. And the golfer was Alan Shepard, first American in space, 5th man on the Moon.
Shepard hit two golf balls on live television exactly half a century ago yesterday at the end of the Apollo 14 moonwalk. Because of the portable TV camera’s perpendicular angle to the flight of the ball, exactly how far the shots went was left up to the commentary of the jocular original “Mercury seven” astronaut. The first one, he clearly duffed.
But the second one appeared to be nutted and Shepard suggested it might’ve gone “miles and miles!”
A 46-year-old British imaging specialist named Andy Saunders used his skills to enhance the clarity of long-sequestered video and photography from Apollo 14 and other moon missions. And the results are nothing short of astounding.
On chilly morning in eastern Oregon, correspondent Conor Knighton headed deep into Malheur National Forest, driving a series of unpaved roads, and hiking far from any trail, all in hopes of finding a fungus – a humongous fungus.
"I saw somebody up here in a Prius looking for the humongous fungus," recalled Michael McWilliams, a pathologist with the U.S. Forest Service. "And I said, 'You're there.' They were like, 'Where?' And I'm like, 'All around you!'"
What's especially exciting about the fungus known as armillaria ostoyae is how big it can get, even if it's largely invisible to the untrained eye.
Armillaria stretches underground in several massive sections found throughout the forest. It's one of the largest living organisms on Earth.
So, how humongous is the fungus? "The Clone D covers just under 2,400 acres, which is about 3.7 square miles," McWilliams said.
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