• Judy Holliday, star of The Solid Gold Cadillac, was a wonderful comedian, but she occasionally had to deal with sexual advances from studio executives. During one such episode, she reached into her dress, pulled out her falsies, handed them to the studio executive, and said, “Here. I think these are what you’re after.”
Sound
• While making his very first movie, in the days in which sound equipment was unsophisticated, ventriloquist Edgar Bergen ran into a problem trying to get the sound of the voice of Charlie McCarthy, his dummy, onto the movie soundtrack. Eventually, the source of the problem was discovered to be a soundman who moved the microphone over to Charlie McCarthy whenever the dummy had a line.
• The voice of the character Darth Vader in the Star Wars movies is menacing and easily recognizable — filmmaker George Lucas wanted the character, who has been badly burned and must stay in his costume to survive, to sound like a “walking iron lung.” The voice was created by using a microphone inside a breathing regulator used by scuba divers.
Special Effects
• For the movie The Time Machine, Wah Ming Chang and Gene Warren needed to show a volcano erupting and its lava flowing through a town. Therefore, they created a miniature town and cooked 250 gallons of red-colored oatmeal to represent the lava. Unfortunately, they cooked the oatmeal on Friday and did the filming on Monday. Only after pouring the containers on the set during filming did they discover that the oatmeal had spoiled. The special effects room was so small that Mr. Chang and Mr. Warren found themselves pinned to a wall by 250 gallons of stinking, spoiled oatmeal. Nevertheless, they eventually filmed the scene correctly and ended up winning two Oscars for their special effects in The Time Machine.
• In Steven Spielberg’s movie Jaws, he used a huge mechanical shark. During one scene in which Richard Dreyfuss’ character goes underwater in a protective cage, Mr. Spielberg used a real great white shark. The real shark was much smaller than the mechanical shark, so to make the shark appear as big as the mechanical shark, Mr. Spielberg used a little person (aka midget or dwarf) to stand in for Mr. Dreyfuss in the scene.
Stars
• When Psycho was first released, director Alfred Hitchcock ordered that no audience member be admitted after the film began. The audience assumed that something shocking would happen right away, although the film begins slowly. Actually, Mr. Hitchcock was doing something radically different — killing off the big star, Janet Leigh, early in the film. Mr. Hitchcock didn’t want members of the audience to arrive late, then keep wondering when Ms. Leigh was going to appear on screen.
• Once a star, always a star. When she was in her 70s, child star Shirley Temple showed up for a People magazine photo shoot featuring breast cancer survivors. She announced, “I want to be in the middle of the shot because that’s the star position. They can’t cut you out if you’re in the middle.” All of the other people in the photo shoot were happy to give her the star position.
• Peter Lorre was an excellent actor who became renowned for his performance as a child murderer in Fritz Lang’s film M. Because he was Jewish, he left Germany at the beginning of the Nazis’ rise to power and moved to Vienna. Nazi propagandist Paul Joseph Goebbels did not know that Mr. Lorre was Jewish and asked him to come back to Germany. Mr. Lorre replied with this telegram: “THERE ISN’T ROOM IN GERMANY FOR TWO MURDERERS LIKE HITLER AND ME.”
Remade in Germany as Ein Herz und eine Seele, and in the Netherlands as In voor- en Tegenspoed, the British TV sitcom Till Death Us Do Part also inspired what US TV sitcom?
Once an Italian-speaking Republic, the fourth-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea is now one of the eighteen regions of France. What is the name of this island whose most famous son was born in the capital, Ajaccio?
Corsica is an island in the Mediterranean Sea and politically one of the eighteen regions of France. It is the fourth-largest island in the Mediterranean and lies southeast of the French mainland, west of the Italian Peninsula and immediately north of the Italian island of Sardinia, the land mass nearest to it. A single chain of mountains makes up two-thirds of the island. In 2016, it had a population of 330,455.
The island is a territorial collectivity of France. The regional capital is Ajaccio. Although the region is divided into two administrative departments, Haute-Corse and Corse-du-Sud, their respective regional and departmental territorial collectivities were merged on 1 January 2018 to form the single territorial collectivity of Corsica. As such, Corsica enjoys a greater degree of autonomy than other French regional collectivities, for example the Corsican Assembly is permitted to exercise limited executive powers. Corsica's second-largest town is Bastia, the prefecture of Haute-Corse.
Corsica was ruled by the Republic of Genoa from 1284 to 1755, when it became a self-proclaimed, Italian-speaking Republic. In 1768, Genoa officially ceded it to Louis XV of France as part of a pledge for the debts it had incurred by enlisting France's military help in suppressing the Corsican revolt; in 1769 France went on to subsequently annex it. Napoleon Bonaparte was a native Corsican, born that same year in Ajaccio. His ancestral home, Maison Bonaparte, is today a significant visitor attraction and museum. Because of Corsica's historical ties to the Italian Peninsula, the island has retained many Italian cultural elements, and many surnames have Italian origins. Corsican, the native tongue, is recognised as a regional language by the Government of France.
Source
Billy in Cypress U.S.A. was first, and correct, with:
Corsica
Mark. said:
Corsica
Cal in Vermont wrote:
Napoléon Bonaparte was born in Corsica. Also born there were the Corsican Brothers. You can find out about them from Cheech and Chong. Herewith a joke: How did Napoléon die? He pulled his bone apart!
Alan J answered:
Corsica.
Mac Mac responded:
Corsica
Randall replied:
Corsica
mj wrote:
It's most famous son
Was also a bit of a pain in the butt to a lot of people and ended his
life on another island. Napoleon Bonaparte was born on Corsica.
Dave said:
Must be Corsica. And the famous son is of course Napoleon. It is interesting that the most brutal dictators of the 19th and 20th centuries weren’t born in the countries they ruled. Napoleon in Corsica and Hitler in Austria.
Photos: No matter what you heard, Napoleon Dynamite is not related to Napoleon Bonaparte | Napoleon famously crowned himself Emperor of France instead of having Pope Pius VII do it as originally planned | Corsica is a mountainous island | 1815: The Hundred Days - Napoleon returned to France from exile to a rapturous reception by the French army. But quickly losing the Battle of Waterloo to an international alliance soon finished Napoleon’s comeback.
Leo in Boise replied:
Corsica, birthplace of Napoleon Bonaparte
zorch responded:
Corsica. The most famous son was Napoleon.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, said:
Corsica
Deborah, the Master Gardener wrote:
Ajaccio is the capital of Corsica. It’s the birthplace of Napoleon Bonaparte. I know this because we lived for about 9 months in Corsicana, TX, and I spent time in the local library reading up on how that town got its name. My late maternal grandmother traced our heritage back to Napoleon, before the Internets, and I’ve been after my aunt (last surviving relative on my mother’s side) to send me copies of her findings. And there’s some trivia that nobody knew they needed.
John I from Hawai`i says,
Corsica
Rosemary in Columbus answered:
Corsica
Dave in Tucson replied:
Sounds like Corsica.
DJ Useo took the day off.
Jon L took the day off.
Ed K took the day off.
Daniel in The City took the day off.
Barbara, of Peppy Tech fame took the day off.
Roy, Still living the hermit lifestyle in Tyler, TX took the day off.
Joe S (We resisted, we voted, we won. Get over it) took the day off.
Stephen F took the day off.
David of Moon Valley took the day off.
Michelle in AZ took the day off.
Jacqueline took the day off.
Gary K took the day off.
Doug in Albuquerque, New Mexico, took the day off.
Tony DeN took the day off.
Gateway Mike took the day off.
Bob from Mechanicsburg, Pa took the day off.
George M. took the day off.
Stephen aus Oz (& peppy tech, too) took the day off.
Kevin K. in Washington DC, Where Republicans cannot see sedition clearly, even now, took the day off.
-pgw took the day off.
Kenn B took the day off.
Micki took the day off.
Angelo D took the day off.
Harry M. took the day off.
Roy the (now retired) hoghead (aka 'hoghed') ( Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid. ~Frank Zappa ) took the day off.
Saskplanner took the day off.
Steve in Wonderful Sacramento, CA, took the day off.
MarilynofTC took the day off.
Paul of Seattle took the day off.
Brian S. took the day off.
Gene took the day off.
Tony K. took the day off.
Noel S. took the day off.
James of Alhambra took the day off.
BttbBob has returned to semi-retired status.
~~~~~
Album: MALOS MÚSICOS, PEORES PERSONAS [BAD MUSICIANS, WORST PEOPLE]
Artist: The Courettes
Artist Location: Aalborg, Denmark
Record Company: Bilardo Records
Record Company Location: Montevideo, Uruguay
Info:
“BAD MUSICIANS, WORST PEOPLE is the first compilation of the Uruguayan independent label Bilardo Records. A two-sided seal that seeks to unify scenes. We are close and nothing better than being united so that everything grows.”
“MALOS MÚSICOS, PEORES PERSONAS is definitely a punk rock title, but this is garage music (and some punk). I can’t call the Courettes either bad musicians or bad people.” — Bruce
CBS opens the night with a FRESH'The Neighborhood', followed by a FRESH'Bob Hearts Abishola', then a RERUN'The Equalizer', followed by a FRESH'Bull'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Nicolle Wallace, Michaela Coel, and Kings of Leon.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are Andra Day and SG Lewis featuring Nile Rodgers.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'The Voice', followed by a FRESH'Debris'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Amy Poehler, Courtney B. Vance, and Willie Jones.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Eddie Murphy, Guy Fieri, and Josh Herndon.
Scheduled on a FRESHLilly Singh is Elsa Majimbo.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'The Bachelor', followed by a FRESH'The Good Doctor'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Seth Rogen, Patrick Schwarzenegger, and Daddy Yankee.
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 'Divergent', followed by movie 'Insurgent'.
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] HANCOCK
[2:00AM] HANCOCK
[4:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has 'Below Deck', 'Below Deck Sailing Yacht', followed by a FRESH'Below Deck Sailing Yacht', then a FRESH'Watch What Happens: Live'.
FX has the movie 'Minions', followed by the movie 'Sing', then the movie 'Sing', again.
History has 'American Pickers', another 'American Picker', followed by a FRESH'American Pickers', then another 'American Pickers'.
IFC -
[6:00am - 10:30am] Parks And Recreation
[11:00am - 2:30pm] Saved By The Bell
[3:00pm - 6:30pm] Three's Company
[7:00pm - 12:30am] Two And A Half Men
[1:00am - 2:30am] Three's Company
[3:00am] Baroness Von Sketch Show - I Wrote A Play About My Ex
[3:30am - 5:30am] Community (ALL TIMES ET)
Sundance -
[6:00am - 1:00pm] hogan's heroes
[1:30pm] the bank job
[4:00pm] cliffhanger
[6:00pm] hancock
[8:00pm] conan the barbarian
[10:30pm] conan the destroyer
[1:00am] dragged across concrete
[4:30am] ministry of evil: the twisted cult of tony alamo - Episode 2
[5:30am] gomer pyle, u.s.m.c. (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'Salt', followed by the movie 'Maleficient'.
TBS:
Scheduled on a FRESHConan is Fortune Feimster.
It's approaching 9 p.m. and Art Laboe adjusts the microphone as Sister Sledge's "We Are Family" ends.
"And now it's time for you to call up for those goodnight dedications," Laboe announces.
The 93-year-old DJ based in Palm Springs, California, credits one group of listeners for keeping him on the air after 75 years: family members who want to send messages to loved ones in prison.
Every Sunday on his syndicated show "The Art Laboe Connection Show," his baritone voice calls on family members to speak directly to inmates in California, Arizona or Nevada. Sometimes, Laboe reads parts of letters written by inmates.
But it was when Laboe worked as a DJ for KXLA in Los Angeles where he gained fame. Laboe was one of the first DJs to play R&B and rock 'n' roll in California and is credited by scholars for helping integrate dance halls among Latinos, blacks, Asian Americans and whites who were drawn to his multicultural musical line up.
Over the March 6-8 weekend in 2020, movie ticket sales in North America totaled a combined $101.2 million before beginning their precipitous — and unprecedented decline — due the novel coronavirus pandemic.
Revenue fell to $54.8 million the following weekend, according to Comescore. By March 20, almost every cinema had closed up shop except for drive-ins. That weekend, ticket sales plummeted to $195,952, prompting a collective sigh of grief across Hollywood and the exhibition industry. In the time since, it has been a roller-coaster ride; some theaters reopened, while some of those had to close again.
Nearly a year later, there's at last hope of a recovery. On March 5, cinemas in New York City — the No. 2 moviegoing market in the country behind Los Angeles, where theaters are expected to flip on the lights in the next few weeks — were finally allowed to reopen, albeit at 25 percent capacity or 50 people.
But it succeeded in pushing needle. Box office revenue for the March 5-7 weekend is an estimated $25 million — the best showing since the pandemic forced theater closures, and narrowly besting the $23.8 million earned over Christmas weekend when Wonder Woman 1984 launched in those cinemas that had been allowed to reopen, according to Comscore estimates.
The previous weekend, only 42 percent of cinemas were open. In addition to New York City, theaters in San Francisco and other parts of the Bay Area were able to reopen on March 5.
In rural Elk County, a mile from the $12 million Elk Country Visitor Center, a small herd of elk munched grass beside a new coffee shop called Elk Life.
They were mostly females, known as cows, with a lone young bull nearby that sported two thin antlers called spikes. Some elk sat. Some stood. All were massive, some three times the size of whitetail deer, and none cared about the car idling a few feet away. Inside the store, a former Catholic church that features a large painting of a bespectacled elk on its exterior, owner Eric Blythe, 43, said he opened in August, and quickly filled the space with elk shirts, stuffed animals, even elk masks.
In 2020, people were hungry to see those elk in Benezette. Once hunted to extinction in the state, the elk’s carefully managed resurgence has been nothing short of a blessing for the 180 people who live here, and the wider, multicounty area in the northwest part of the state known as the “Pennsylvania Wilds.” The peak of elk tourism season is August through November, during the “rut” when they mate. That’s when old bulls square off to fight over cows, and their haunting bugle can be heard across valleys. There’s no other place to hear that sound, aside from a zoo perhaps, east of Kentucky.
Elk tourism, like many outdoor activities across the country, appeared to be pandemic-proof. The ability to have a personal safari without leaving your car caused traffic jams last year in Benezette.
Snow was still deep at the visitors center in early March, built high atop a hill on an old Christmas-tree farm. The building opened in 2010 and resembles the sort of woodsy lodge you’d see at the Grand Canyon or a ski resort in Colorado. It was constructed with local wood and stone and crammed with all-things-elk, including large, taxidermied replicas, piles of antlers, a 4D theater, even a separate building for gatherings. Several weddings are already booked there for this year.
Kanye West may face further legal scrutiny following his failed presidential run, with the Federal Election Commission citing several violations in its report of the rapper’s campaign.
According to the Daily Beast, Kanye’s campaign accepted multiple donations from minors and possible contributions from foreign nationals, with his operation including some false names and addresses linked to drop-shipping facilities on the east and west coasts. Additionally, an investigation could be launched into his unlawful fundraising practices that accumulated almost $100,000 in small donations in 2021.
It’s unlawful to intentionally seek and take donations from people who are younger than 18. But as part of his campaign, Ye seemingly targeted teens and sold campaign merchandise on his site, which included $40 hats and $200 Kanye 2020 Vision hat/hoodie bundle. The price of those items has since risen on other online marketplaces.
Ian Bloom, a 16-year-old who donated to West’s presidential bid, told the outlet he spent $3,280 on Kanye merch, which he still hasn’t received in the mail. He ordered the gear from the campaign store in late January and was hoping to resell it online. “I don’t know what’s happening there,” Ian Bloom said. “I ordered like 20 hoodies off his campaign website, along with a lot of other people that I know. They said it would be three weeks, and after that I emailed the support team, and the email just wasn’t a thing.”
He shared a screenshot of an email he had sent to the campaign, which bounced and revealed his email address had been blocked. Bloom said that his next move was to dispute the charge with his credit card company, which is still under review.
It appears that someone included a hat tip to Rush Limbaugh (R-Sex Tourist)’s contributions to radio on his death certificate.
Upon obtaining the document, TMZ reports that the conservative radio host’s occupation is listed as “Greatest radio host of all time.” Limbaugh’s wife, Kathryn (R-#3 or #4?), is recorded as the person who gave the information for the certificate.
Limbaugh passed away back in February, with his death announced on his right-wing radio show by Kathryn, who explained that he died due to complications from lung cancer. He was a longtime supporter and pal of single-term President Donald Trump, who awarded Limbaugh the Presidential Medal of Freedom last year for his accomplishments in radio.
“For over 32 years, Rush has cherished you, his loyal audience, and always looked forward to every single show,” Kathryn said during her on-air announcement. “It is with profound sadness that I must share with you directly that our beloved Rush, my wonderful husband, passed away this morning due to complications from lung cancer. As so many of you know, losing a loved one is terribly difficult, even more so when that loved one is larger than life.”
In an interview with "Axios on HBO" that aired on Sunday, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-Narnia) said former President Donald Trump (R-Lock Him Up) has both a "dark side" and a "magic" that other Republicans don't.
The South Carolina senator became a close ally of the president during his four years in office but doesn't always follow Trump the way some of his loyalists do. While he opposed impeachment after the Capitol riot, Graham said Trump "needs to understand that his actions were the problem."
When Axios's Jonathan Swan asked Graham why he still supports Trump, the senator said he still believes Trump's movement is good for the country.
"Mitt Romney didn't do it, John McCain didn't do it - there's something about Trump. There's a dark side and there's some magic there," Graham said. "What I'm trying to do is just harness the magic."
"He could make the Republican party something that nobody else I know could make it," Graham said. "He could make it bigger, he could make it stronger, he could make it more diverse. And he also could destroy it."
Benjamin Cruz, a former instructional designer in Google’s Cloud division, was caught off guard when a colleague told them that their skin was much darker than she expected.
Cruz, who is Mexican American and prefers to be identified by the pronouns they/them, reported the incident to human resources in 2019 where personnel told them they should “assume good intent,” Cruz recalled in an interview. Unsatisfied, Cruz asked human resources to look deeper into the incident, and an HR official said an investigation into the matter had been closed, Cruz said.
So, Cruz sought help from human resources again. The solution? Urge Cruz to take medical leave and tend to their mental health before moving to a new role in the company. Cruz went on medical leave, and hoped to take the company up on its offer for a new position, they said. But Cruz was turned down from every role they applied for, so they were forced to quit.
“After I made that complaint, my work started getting pushed out from under me, but my team acted like everything was fine. I wanted to find help,” Cruz said. “When the medical leave was recommended to me, it was like an automatic process.”
Cruz’s experience with Google’s internal human resources personnel echoes that of several former and current Google employees, including two prominent Black women, Timnit Gebru and April Curley, who were pushed out of Google at the end of last year. Both women were known for their advocacy for increased diversity in the tech industry, and when their complaints about how the company handled racial and gender discrimination reached human resources, they were both given the same advice: undergo mental health counseling or take medical leave.
Dutch cress grower Rob Baan has enlisted high-tech helpers to tackle a pest in his greenhouses: palm-sized drones seek and destroy moths that produce caterpillars that can chew up his crops.
“I have unique products where you don’t get certification to spray chemicals and I don’t want it,” Baan said in an interview in a greenhouse bathed in the pink glow of LED lights that help his seedlings grow. His company, Koppert Cress, exports aromatic seedlings, plants and flowers to top-end restaurants around the world.
A keen adopter of innovative technology in his greenhouses, Baan turned to PATS Indoor Drone Solutions, a startup that is developing autonomous drone systems as greenhouse sentinels, to add another layer of protection for his plants.
The drones themselves are basic, but they are steered by smart technology aided by special cameras that scan the airspace in greenhouses.
“You don’t want to kill a ladybug, because a ladybug is very helpful against aphids,” he said. “So they should kill the bad ones, not the good ones. And the good ones are sometimes very expensive — I pay at least 50 cents for one bumblebee, so I don’t want them to kill my bumblebees.”
Two pieces of ornate 16th-century armor have returned to the Louvre after a nearly four-decade absence. The elaborate breastplate and helmet were stolen from the renowned Paris museum on May 31, 1983, and then vanished for the next 38 years.
Forged in Milan during the Italian Renaissance between 1560 and 1580, the metal armor was inlaid with gold and silver and is estimated to be worth about $603,000 (500,000 euros), the Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported on March 3.
In January, a military antiquities expert spotted the armor after he was hired by an auctioneer for an estate auction appraisal in Bordeaux, France. He was suspicious about the armor's origins, so he notified officials with the French Central Office for the Fight against Trafficking in Cultural Goods (OCBC), a special police unit for tracking stolen property of historical and cultural importance. Authorities then identified the missing armor from a list maintained by Treima — an electronic database of stolen objects, Today24 News reported.
France's Treima database contains approximately 110,000 photos linked to 32,000 open cases of stolen artworks and artifacts.
Intricate designs on the helmet and breastplate identify them as "prestige weapons made with virtuosity, sort of the equivalent of a luxury car today," Philippe Malgouyres, the Louvre's head of heritage artworks, told the AFP. The two pieces, which Malgouyres hailed as "exceptional," were donated to the Louvre in 1922 by the Rothschild family, one of the world's wealthiest banking dynasties during the 19th and early 20th centuries, according to Today24 News.
You have reached the Home page of BartCop Entertainment.
Do you have something to say?
Anything that increased your blood pressure, or, even better, amused or entertained?
Do you have a great album no one's heard?
How about a favorite TV show, movie, book, play, cartoon, or legal amusement?
A popular artist that just plain pisses you off?
A box set the whole world should own?
Vile, filthy rumors about Republican hypocrites?
U.S.A. was first, and correct, with:
has returned to semi-retired status.
In memory.
