• Russell Johnson, who played the Professor on Gilligan's Island, had the hardest lines to learn because so much of what he said was explaining how he was able to use science to do such things as recharge batteries with nothing more than seawater and various metals. Bob Denver, who played Gilligan, once asked Mr. Johnson how he was able to learn his lines. The explanation was simple, although the work involved was not. Mr. Johnson spent hours reading the encyclopedia so he could understood what he was saying. The hours of reading paid off-he seldom blew his lines. (But on the rare occasions he did, his fellow castmembers were ready to tease him by saying such things as "Gee, Russ, can't you learn the stupid lines!")
• Early in his acting career, Sheldon Leonard competed for parts with Sam Levene because they played similar characters. In a road production of Three Men on a Horse, Mr. Leonard played a comedic part that Mr. Levene had originated on Broadway. During a dress rehearsal, Mr. Levene stopped by-not to watch Mr. Leonard, but to time his laughs to see if Mr. Leonard was getting bigger laughs than he had gotten. After an especially long laugh, Mr. Levene turned to Mr. Leonard's wife, who was also standing in the back of the theater, and snarled, "What did he do? Drop his pants?"
• Not everyone who studies acting in college goes on to become an actor. In 1973, Miranda Fowler graduated from Yale Drama School and quickly found work playing a maid in Private Lives. Her debut was inauspicious-she missed her entrance six nights in a row. During the second week, the actress playing Amanda became ill and Ms. Fowler, who was her understudy, was asked to go on in her place. It was then she realized that she had memorized not the lines of Amanda, but of Sibyl. At this point, Ms. Fowler decided not to be an actress.
• Eve Arden was getting ready to go to stage in Los Angeles in the title role of Auntie Mame, when she realized she couldn't remember the name of the Connecticut town where Mame's nephew's snooty fiance lived. She turned to a cast member who played one of the Connecticut group and asked, "Quick, Frank, where do you live?" Misunderstanding her, he told her the name of his Los Angeles hotel. Fortunately, Ms. Arden remembered the name of the Connecticut town once she was onstage.
• An actor once told playwright Sir James Barrie, author of Peter Pan, that without using words he could convey anything to an audience. Sir James replied, "Please express without a word that you have a younger brother, who was born in Devonshire but is now living in Kent, who is coming to London next week on Thursday to call on his sister who has sprained her ankle crossing Piccadilly as she was on her way to a Regent Street dressmaker to be fitted for a pink silk dress."
Set in Scandinavia in the 6th century, a hero of the Geats comes to the aid of Hrothgar, the king of the Danes. What is the title of this epic of Old English literature?
Beowulf is an Old English epic poem consisting of 3,182 alliterative lines. It is one of the most important works of Old English literature. The date of composition is a matter of contention among scholars; the only certain dating pertains to the manuscript, which was produced between 975 and 1025. The anonymous poet is referred to by scholars as the "Beowulf poet".
The story is set in Scandinavia in the 6th century. Beowulf, a hero of the Geats, comes to the aid of Hrothgar, the king of the Danes, whose mead hall in Heorot has been under attack by a monster known as Grendel. After Beowulf slays him, Grendel's mother attacks the hall and is then also defeated. Victorious, Beowulf goes home to Geatland (Götaland in modern Sweden) and becomes king of the Geats. Fifty years later, Beowulf defeats a dragon, but is mortally wounded in the battle. After his death, his attendants cremate his body and erect a tower on a headland in his memory.
The poem survives in a single copy in the manuscript known as the Nowell Codex. It has no title in the original manuscript, but has become known by the name of the story's protagonist. In 1731, the manuscript was damaged by a fire that swept through Ashburnham House in London that had a collection of medieval manuscripts assembled by Sir Robert Bruce Cotton; the margins were charred, and a number of readings were lost. The Nowell Codex is housed in the British Library.
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
Beowulf.
Randall wrote:
Beowulf
Billy in Cypress U$A said:
Beowulf
Alan J answered:
Beowulf.
Mac Mac replied:
Beowulf
Dave responded:
Beowulf. Named for a hero who killed the monster Grendel, and Grendel's mom who was an even fiercer monster, Beowulf later killed a dragon. In 2007 a film with (fairly) realistic computer generated animation was released. The film starred the voices of Ray Winstone as Beowulf, the monstrous looking Crispin Glover as Grendel, and Angelina Jolie as Grendel's mother. I think I watched the film once, although I have no recollection of it.
mj wrote:
Sounds like it would make a good CGI movie
Pretty sure this is Beowulf.
zorch responded:
Beowulf. From the line Grendel's mother shouted to Grendel, "Go ahead Be a Wolf! See if I care!"
Deborah, the Master Gardener, wrote:
Holy cow, that made me think, so early in the morning…good thing the caffeine kicked in. I'm pretty sure it's "Beowulf." Read it in Senior HS English, didn't understand it then, probably don't now.
That Vanity Fair piece about the Cult of tRump was eye-opening. Some of the folks interviewed seemed to have a tenuous grip on reality, relying on magical thinking and utter nonsense. There's no reasoning with them, and that's kind of frightening - there are more of them than we think.
Happy Father's Day to all you dads out there.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, said:
Beowulf
Cal in Vermont answered:
Beowulf.
Ed K responded:
PeeWee's Big Adventure.
Dave in Tucson replied:
Just another SWAG - Beowulf?
DJ Useo wrote:
This one I actually know. Beowulf. I read the comic, but I actually read the book, & it was great.
Daniel in The City said:
Beowulf
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Well, the real world now knows that tAnus's rally in Tulsa actually turned into the third giant failure of the week for him (and supporters) and another win for America and its citizenry.
It was a REALITY, not a rally.
His boasts of a million attendees proved that he still does not understand math, science, or anything else. The only way that there were a million attendees is if you counted all the rats, roaches, ants, flies, mosquitoes, etc multiple times or the COVID-19 germs at least once.
I suppose that he will try to deflect the truth by firing the mayor of Tulsa or have bArr do it for him.
I am sure that heads will roll in his gang of the "best" people. .
During the night, the stick-loving shittens "discovered" a box of q-tips and dropped them all over the house - have found them in every room - under furniture, behind books, on places they're not supposed to be...
Beginning to think I'll never find them all.
Tonight, Monday:
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 James Corden, Ibram X. Kendi, and Bright Eyes.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are Lena Waithe and Raleigh Ritchie.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'The Titan Games', followed by a FRESH'The Wall', then 'Dateline'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Will Ferrell and John Legend.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Jason Sudeikis and Mike O'Brien.
On a RERUNLilly Singh (from 10/22/19) are Rosario Dawson and Zoey Deutch.
ABC fills the night with a FRESH'The Bachelor.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 6/10/20) is Pete Davidson.
The CW offers a FRESH'Whose Line Is It Anyway?', followed by a RERUN'Whose Line Is It Anyway?', then a FRESH'Penn & Teller: Fool Us'.
Faux has a RERUN'9-1-1', followed by a RERUN'9-1-1: Lone Star'.
MY fills the night with Rupert's social disinformercials.
A&E has all old 'The Murder Of Laci Peterson' all night.
AMC offers the movie 'Knight & Day', followed by the movie 'White House Down'.
[6:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Trials and Tribble-ations
[7:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - The Assignment
[8:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Let He Who Is Without Sin ...
[9:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Things Past
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - The Ascent
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Rapture
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - The Darkness and the Light
[1:00PM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - The Begotten
[2:00PM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - For the Uniform
[3:00PM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - In Purgatory's Shadow
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - By Inferno's Light
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Dr. Bashir, I Presume
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - A Simple Investigation
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Business as Usual
[8:00PM] A FEW GOOD MEN
[11:00PM] A FEW GOOD MEN
[2:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Rapture
[3:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - The Darkness and the Light
[4:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - The Begotten
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - For the Uniform (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Below Deck Mediterranean', followed by a FRESH'Below Deck Mediterranean', then a FRESH'Below Deck Mediterranean', followed by a FRESH'Camp Getaway', then a FRESH'Watch What Happens: Live'.
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[12:30P] Sleepy Hollow
[3:00P] That '70s Show
[3:30P] That '70s Show
[4:00P] That '70s Show
[4:30P] That '70s Show
[5:00P] That '70s Show
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[6:00P] Two and a Half Men
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[7:30P] Two and a Half Men
[8:00P] Two and a Half Men
[8:30P] Two and a Half Men
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[9:30P] Two and a Half Men
[10:00P] Two and a Half Men
[10:30P] Two and a Half Men
[11:00P] Two and a Half Men
[11:30P] Two and a Half Men
[12:00A] Two and a Half Men
[12:30A] Two and a Half Men
[1:00A] That '70s Show
[1:30A] That '70s Show
[2:00A] That '70s Show
[2:30A] That '70s Show
[3:00A] That '70s Show
[3:30A] Sleepy Hollow (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00am] hogan's heroes
[6:30am] hogan's heroes
[7:00am] hogan's heroes
[7:30am] hogan's heroes
[8:00am] hogan's heroes
[8:30am] hogan's heroes
[9:00am] hogan's heroes
[9:30am] hogan's heroes
[10:00am] hogan's heroes
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[11:00am] hogan's heroes
[11:30am] hogan's heroes
[12:00pm] perry mason
[1:00pm] perry mason
[2:00pm] perry mason
[3:00pm] cold blooded: the clutter family murders - Farm Family Slain
[4:00pm] cold blooded: the clutter family murders - Killers On The Run
[5:00pm] cold blooded: the clutter family murders - The Intruders On Trial
[6:00pm] cold blooded: the clutter family murders - The Gallows And The Novel
[7:00pm] ministry of evil: the twisted cult of tony alamo - Episode 1
[8:00pm] ministry of evil: the twisted cult of tony alamo - Episode 2
[9:00pm] ministry of evil: the twisted cult of tony alamo - Episode 3
[10:00pm] ministry of evil: the twisted cult of tony alamo - Episode 4
[11:02pm] cold blooded: the clutter family murders - Farm Family Slain
[2:00am] the big red one
[4:30am] gomer pyle, u.s.m.c.
[5:00am] gomer pyle, u.s.m.c.
[5:30am] gomer pyle, u.s.m.c. (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'John Wick: Chapter 2', followed by the movie 'The Mummy'.
TBS:
On a RERUNConan (from 6/9/20) is Ron Funches.
Tom Petty's estate requested President Donald Trump (R-Churl) no longer play the late singer's music after "I Won't Back Down" was heard at the president's Tulsa, Oklahoma, rally Saturday night.
Trump's team was "in no way" authorized to use the song during his rally, Petty's estate said in a statement released on the singer's Twitter page. Petty, who died in 2017 at the age of 66, wrote the song for the common man and would not have approved of its use in Trump's campaign, the estate said.
"We want to make it clear that everyone is free to vote as they like, think as they like, but the Petty family doesn't stand for this," the statement said. "We believe in America and we believe in democracy. But Donald Trump is not representing the noble ideals of either."
The singer's family said they sent a cease and desist letter to the Trump campaign to prevent any further use of Petty's music.
"We would hate for fans that are marginalized by this administration to think we were complicit in this usage," the family statement said.
Do metal lives believe that Black Lives Matter? Some major acts associated with the metal, hard rock or hardcore scenes would like it to be known that the answer is yes, and are giving fans a chance to put their chests where their mouths are using the vital communications medium of merch.
The T-shirt with a Black Lives Matter message fashioned to duplicate the style of Black Sabbath's purple 1970s logo began life as an unsanctioned homage. But after Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello was spotted wearing one, demand for the shirt grew to the point that the webstore for the now-defunct Black Sabbath has added an official version of the item, with a promise to donate all net proceeds from the $25 shirt to Black Lives Matter. (It's not the first gesture by the remnants of Sabbath to the BLM movement. Two weeks ago, the website advertised that 10% of sales would go to the NAACP in honor of George Floyd.)
Insane Clown Posse, the hip-hop/horrorcore duo of some renown and proudly ill repute, is also out to prove that aggro does not equal racist. The act has used the moment to revive a T-shirt that portrays its clown avatar ripping apart and setting on fire the Confederate flag, with a message on the reverse side that reads: "F- Your Rebel Flag."
In ICP's case, there's a song to go with the shirt - the 1991 number "F- Your Rebel Flag" from the duo's "Carnival of Carnage" album. In that number, ICP resort to typically homicidal themes, with lyrics that - characteristically, for the duo - imagine the deaths of flag-bearing racists ("You don't care who it offends / You say it's your right / Well it's my right to sock you dead in your lip" is among the more printable lyrics).
After making a strong debut in Japan last weekend, Sony's Little Women this session crossed the $100M mark at the international box office. The Greta Gerwig-directed update on the classic tale now has an offshore cume of $101M and a global haul of $209M to date.
The current frame was worth $475K from 12 overseas markets and on 472 screens. The session was down just 27% from last.
In Japan, the sophomore frame dipped by 24% for $300K and a $1.3M total through Sunday. In Denmark, Gerwig's modern take on the 19th century novel held the No. 1 spot for the third straight weekend at $170K (-31%) for a new tally of $1M.
Meanwhile, Sony Pictures International Production's local-language pic Gyul-Baek (Innocence), continued at No. 1 in Korea. With a $1.2M sophomore frame, it was down 45% and has grossed $4.2M in the market so far. Disney/Pixar's Onward made its first appearance in Korea beginning June 17, and landed No. 2 for the weekend with $1.18M, per local reporting services.
Two families of women who portrayed Aunt Jemima say they oppose Quaker Oats' plans to rename the brand of syrup and pancake mixes and change the iconic figure.
The first Aunt Jemima image was based on Kentucky native Nancy Green, a Civil War-era slave from Mount Sterling, according to the Louisville Courier Journal, part of the USA TODAY Network.
Lillian Richard was the face of Aunt Jemima from 1925 to 1940, a Texas CBS station reported, noting signs into the town say "Home of Lillian Richard 'Aunt Jemima.'" In 1995, the Texas Legislature passed a resolution declaring Hawkins as the "Pancake Capital of Texas."
"I wish we would take a breath and not just get rid of everything, because good or bad, it is our history," Vera Harris, family historian for the Richard family, told KLTV. "Removing that wipes away a part of me. A part of each of us. We are proud of our cousin."
Ethel Ernestine Harper, the last real woman whose face appeared on the brand, later became a celebrated teacher of Black history through schools, the Girl Scouts and as a topical radio host in her adopted hometown of Morristown, New Jersey, reported the Morristown Daily Record, part of the USA TODAY Network.
The Tennessean, the largest newspaper in that US state, is under fire for publishing an anti-Muslim ad in its Sunday print edition, claiming that "Islam" would detonate a nuclear bomb in the city of Nashville on July 18.
The full-page ad was paid for a Christian organization that some called a doomsday cult in reports. The ad featured a banner at the top that melded images of President Donald Trump (R-Corrupt), Pope Francis, and burning American flags.
The ad-buyer, the Ministry of Future For America, claimed that Islam is going to blow up Nashville on July 18 based on "Bible prophecy." It referred to Trump as the "final president of the USA."
Executives at a newspaper in Nashville, Tennessee, apologized Sunday for publishing what a top editor called a "horrific" full-page advertisement that said "Islam" was going to detonate a nuclear device in the city next month.
The ad in The Tennessean, which also said President Donald Trump (R-Crooked) "typified many biblical leaders," was from a religious group that the newspaper described in a non-bylined story as "fringe."
Kevin Gentzel, the chief revenue officer at Gannett, which owns The Tennessean, said the company was launching an investigation to determine how the ad was published.
The story said the advertisement had been pulled from future editions.
A Black Lives Matter sign in Thousand Oaks was vandalized on at least three separate occasions, including by a sheriff's office employee and a district attorney's office employee, officials said Saturday.
The sign, which consists of a tarp with the letters "BLM" painted on it, has been displayed along a fence on Westlake Boulevard for the last three weeks. It has been damaged and removed several times, according to the Ventura County Sheriff's Office, prompting the owner of the sign to place a surveillance camera nearby.
Detectives recognized 60-year-old Darrin Stone - an employee of the Sheriff's Office since 2005 - in images the owner posted of the vandalism online. Stone was captured on camera slashing the sign with a knife on June 13, and he is also accused of slashing the sign a second time on June 19, officials said.
In another incident, on May 31, Craig Anderson, 59, allegedly cut down the sign and was going to remove it from the area when he noticed the camera and left, officials said. Anderson, an investigative assistant at the Ventura County District Attorney's Office, also received a citation for vandalism.
A Siberian town with the world's widest temperature range has recorded a new high amid a heat wave that is contributing to severe forest fires.
The temperature in Verkhoyansk hit 38 degrees Celsius (100.4 F) on Saturday, according to Pogoda i Klimat, a website that compiles Russian meteorological data.
The town is located above the Arctic Circle in the Sakha Republic, about 4,660 kilometers (2,900 miles) northeast of Moscow.
The town of about 1,300 residents is recognized by the Guinness World Records for the most extreme temperature range, with a low of minus-68 degrees C (minus-90 F) and a previous high of 37.2 C (98.96 F..)
They say he hires protesters and rents buses to transport them. Some say he has people stash piles of bricks to be hurled into glass storefronts or at police.
George Soros, the billionaire investor and philanthropist who has long been a target of conspiracy theories, is now being falsely accused of orchestrating and funding the protests over police killings of Black people that have roiled the United States. Amplified by a growing number of people on the far right, including some Republican leaders, online posts about Soros have skyrocketed in recent weeks.
They have been accompanied by online ads bought by conservative groups that call on authorities to "investigate George Soros for funding domestic terrorism and his decades-long corruption."
Soros, 89, has donated billions of dollars of his personal wealth to liberal and anti-authoritarian causes around the world, making him a favored target among many on the right. The Hungarian-American, who is Jewish, has also been the subject of anti-Semitic attacks and conspiracy theories for decades.
Over just four days in late May, negative Twitter posts about Soros spiked from about 20,000 a day to more than 500,000 a day, according to an analysis by the Anti-Defamation League. The Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a London think tank focused on extremism and polarization, found an even more pronounced jump on Facebook, where there were 68,746 mentions of Soros in May. The previous record of 38,326 Soros mentions was in October 2018, when angry posts alleged he was helping migrant caravans headed to the U.S.
Debris from a comet may have leveled an ancient village in Syria during a spate of several such explosions occurring around the world, according to new research.
The village of Abu Hureyra was a mound settlement in northern Syria around 13,000 years ago. The site was quickly excavated in 1972 and 1973, before the Euphrates River was dammed, flooding the site beneath Lake Assad. But the hurried excavations exposed charcoal-rich surfaces containing glass spheres formed from melting soil, melted iron- and sulfur-rich samples, and nanodiamonds. Such materials are all indicators of extremely high temperatures like those produced by a chunk of rock exploding in the air.
A team led by Andrew Moore, an archeologist at the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York who led the emergency excavations of the site in the '70s, recently reexamined some of the excavated material in greater detail. The scientists then developed experimental methods to replicate the materials they discovered at the village.
"These provided new insights into how the meltglass was formed and how plant and other materials became incorporated in it," Moore told Space.com by email.
Melting the minerals found in the soil requires temperatures over 3,630 degrees Fahrenheit (2,000 degrees Celsius), "hot enough to cause the quartz grains to boil," Moore said. That suggests something cataclysmic.
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