• W.C. Fields enjoyed playing havoc with the directors of his movies. On the set of The Big Broadcast of 1938, he performed a drinking scene that he had done the day before. When the director protested, Mr. Fields replied that the two scenes were different: “Yesterday, I did the scene with a bottle of gin. Today, I am doing it with a bottle of scotch.”
• In 1958, comedian Ernie Kovacs bought and remodeled a house in Hollywood. As a finishing touch for his wine cellar, he had the Columbia Pictures prop department come in and put cobwebs on all the wine bottles.
• Film actor Humphrey Bogart stayed true to his tough-guy image. Just before he died, he said, “I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.”
Animals
• Billy Wilder once wanted to do a movie about the life of Vaslav Nijinsky, the gifted Russian dancer who ended up in an asylum, thinking he was a horse. Mr. Wilder explained his idea to studio head Samuel Goldwyn, who said, “Have you gone crazy? You want to make a picture about a man who thinks he’s a horse?” Mr. Wilder knew then that the movie would not be made, so he replied, “We could always have a happy ending — we could show him winning the Derby.”
• Although actor Vincent Price liked most animals, he disliked horses, but unfortunately he occasionally had to ride them during the filming of his movies. John Stahl directed Mr. Price in Forever Amber, in which Mr. Price rode often. During the filming, Mr. Stahl used to shout at Mr. Price over the loudspeaker, “For God’s sake, don’t look so stupid on that horse, Vincent. Look as though you liked it.” Mr. Price always replied, “But I don’t like it, Mr. Stahl!”
• Years after Jimmy Stewart made the movie Harvey, co-starring a six-foot-plus white rabbit that is invisible to most people, adults would ask him on the street — quite seriously — “Is Harvey with you?” Mr. Stewart’s usual answer was, “No, Harvey has a cold, and he decided to stay home.” To which grown men would reply, “Next time you see him, give him my regards, please.”
• French comedian Jacques Tati used some dogs that he picked up at the dog pound in Mon Oncle, an M. Hulot movie. After filming was over, he needed to find good homes for the dogs, so he advertised that they were movie stars. Every dog found a good home.
• Charles Addams is known for his macabre cartoons that formed the premise of the TV series The Addams Family. After watching the premiere of Cleopatra, he was asked what he thought about the movie. He replied, “I only came to see the asp.”
• Many movies that are set in Spain or Italy are actually filmed in California. Bird-watchers sometimes get a kick out of watching one of these films and hearing the distinctive cries of California quail in the background.
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• During World War II, British soldiers watched bad movies when that was the best entertainment available and often the only entertainment featuring female flesh. During one movie, the bad guy shot the good guy in the arm, and the well-endowed heroine tore off a strip of cloth from her blouse to use as a bandage. One British soldier yelled at the movie’s bad guy, “Go on, shoot ’im in the other arm!”
The sole British Overseas Territory in the Pacific Ocean is the Pitcairn Islands, a group of 4 volcanic islands with a combined land area of about 18 square miles. Officially, the 4 islands are Pitcairn, Ducie, Oeno, and the largest, ______?_____
The Pitcairn Islands, officially the Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands, is a group of four volcanic islands in the southern Pacific Ocean that form the sole British Overseas Territory in the Pacific Ocean. The four islands — Pitcairn proper, Henderson, Ducie, and Oeno — are scattered across several hundred kilometres of ocean and have a combined land area of about 18 square miles (47 km2). Henderson Island accounts for 86% of the land area, but only Pitcairn Island is inhabited. The nearest places are Mangareva (of French Polynesia) to the west and Easter Island to the east.
Pitcairn is the least populous national jurisdiction in the world. The Pitcairn Islanders are a biracial ethnic group descended mostly from nine Bounty mutineers and a handful of Tahitian captives, an event that has been retold in many books and films. This history is still apparent in the surnames of many of the islanders. As of January 2020, there were 43 permanent inhabitants.
The only permanently inhabited island, Pitcairn, is accessible only by boat through Bounty Bay. Henderson Island, covering about 86% of the territory's total land area and supporting a rich variety of animals in its nearly inaccessible interior, is also capable of supporting a small human population despite its scarce fresh water, but access is difficult, owing to its outer shores being steep limestone cliffs covered by sharp coral. In 1988, this island was designated as a UNESCO World Heritage site. The other islands are at a distance of more than 100 km (62 mi) and are not habitable.
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Cal in Vermont was first, and correct, with:
Henderson.
Mark. said:
Henderson
Alan J answered:
Henderson.
Randall wrote:
Henderson
zorch responded:
Henderson Island.
Dave replied:
Henderson. The only inhabited island is the previously uninhabited Pitcarin, which was colonized in 1790 by 9 of the Bounty mutineers who hoped to evade capture by the British Navy. HMS Bounty was scuttled near the island, where the wreck still remains. The mutineers brought 18 Tahitian captives with them and their descendants make up most of the 43 current inhabitants of Pitcarin. The Navy discovered Pitcarin by chance in 1814, but only one mutineer remained alive. The rest perished either by illness, or being murdered by each other or the Tahitians. Most of the islanders were children and they were dependent on the mutineer for their own survival, so he was granted amnesty instead of being taken back to England for trial.
Deborah, the Master Gardener wrote:
The largest of the Pitcairn Islands is Henderson. I had to look that up.
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David of Moon Valley said:
well....
had to go to the map for this one….Henderson it says….we’ll see………..
Joe S (We resisted, we voted, we won. Get over it) wrote:
It's Henderson. I had to look it up several times because it's such an unusual name for a pacific island. Actually it's a stupid name, why not Willie or Waylan.
Leo in Boise answered:
Henderson
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Cool-sounding post-Soviet surf-rock.
“One day three hipsters, one of whom had a Woody chase, decided to drive their old Trabant to Nice by the sea. But something went wrong. They have gone astray. And instead of Nice, they ended up first in Morocco, and then unexpectedly in Siberia. The road was rich in adventure. They met a lot of interesting people — gangsters in a big black car, pickpockets, and traveling circus performers. Fortunately, everything went well and by Christmas everyone was back home.”
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As Senators of the United States of America, you swore an oath as follows: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God."
Then, as jurors, you swore another oath specifically for this trial, as follows: "Do you solemnly swear that in all things appertaining to the trial of the impeachment of Donald John Trump, president of the United States, now pending, you will do impartial justice according to the Constitution and laws, so help you god?"
You have now seen and heard the overwhelming evidence of the “high crimes and misdemeanors” committed by Donald J. Trump that directly resulted in the deaths of seven people and the beatings and maiming of over 100 Capitol police officers as well an untold number of property crimes at the Capitol. The blood of those victims is on the hands of the rioters ordered to the Capitol on Januaray 6, 2021 by Donald J. Trump. The blood of those victims is on the hands of Donald J. Trump. And their blood will be on the hands of every juror who fails their sworn duties to “do impartial justice according to the Constitution and laws, so help you god?". There are no excuses, no lies, no facts, no evidence that will hide the crimes committed by Donald J. Trump. The blood of those victims can not be washed off, covered up, or forgotten. That blood and your failure will be with you every day, everywhere, through all time. It will stain this nation forever, unless you, the jurors, vote now to convict Donald J. Trump and save our nation.
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'FBI: Most Wanted', followed by a RERUN'Clarice', then '48 Hours'.
NBC opens the night on the East Coast with a RERUN'Ellen's Mean Game Of Games', followed by 'Dateline', then an old 'SNL' (from 04/13/2002) with Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson hosting, music by Andrew WK.
NBC opens the night early on the left coast with a RERUN'Ellen's Mean Game Of Games', followed by a LIVE'SNL', then an old 'SNL' (from 04/13/2002) with Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson hosting, music by Andrew WK.
'SNL' is FRESH with Regina King hosting, music by Nathaniel Rateliff.
ABC fills the night with LIVE'NBA Basketball', then pads the left coast with local crap.
The CW offers a couple of old 'Friends', followed by a couple of old '2½ Men'.
Faux has a RERUN'9-1-1', followed by a RERUN'Name That Tune'.
MY recycles an old 'Weather Gone Viral', followed by an old 'Storm Of Suspicion'.
A&E has the movie 'Taken 2', followed by the movie 'Jack Reacher: Never Go Back', then the movie 'Jack Reacher'.
AMC offers the movie 'Divergent', followed by the movie 'Insurgent'.
BBC -
[6:00AM - 8:00AM] BABY CHIMP RESCUE
[9:00AM - 1:00PM] PLANET EARTH: DYNASTIES
[2:00PM - 7:00PM] PLANET EARTH II
[8:00PM] A WILD YEAR ON EARTH
[9:10PM - 1:30AM] PLANET EARTH II
[2:40AM] A WILD YEAR ON EARTH
[3:50AM - 5:00AM] PLANET EARTH II (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has the movie 'The Green Mile', followed by the movie 'Next Friday', then the movie 'Friday After Next'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Couples Retreat', followed by the movie 'The Wedding Singer', then the movie 'Wedding Crashers'.
FX has the movie 'Bad Moms', followed by the movie 'Girls Trip', then the movie 'Girls Trip'.
History has 'The Pacific', another 'The Pacific', followed by a FRESH'The Pacific', then another FRESH'The Pacific'.
IFC -
[6:00am - 10:30am] Saved By The Bell
[11:00am] Three Amigos!
[1:30pm] The Karate Kid Part III
[4:00pm] The Karate Kid
[7:00pm] Fast Times At Ridgemont High
[9:00pm] Sixteen Candles
[11:00pm] Fast Times At Ridgemont High
[1:00am] Three Amigos!
[3:30am] The World's End (ALL TIMES ET)
Sundance -
[6:00am - 11:30am] the andy griffith show
[12:00pm] roots
[2:15pm] roots
[4:28pm] roots
[5:43pm] roots
[6:58pm] roots
[8:13pm] roots
[10:26pm] roots
[11:41pm] roots
[1:54am - 4:45am] the andy griffith show
[5:15am] monk - Mr. Monk And The Birds And The Bees (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'GI Joe: Retaliation', followed by the movie 'Twister'.
An activist is accusing Beverly Hills police officers of playing copyrighted music like The Beatles’s “Yesterday” and Sublime’s “Santeria” to trigger Instagram’s copyright algorithm and prevent videotaped interactions from being posted on social media.
In videos from January and February, Los Angeles-based activist Sennett Devermont says officers began playing the songs when he confronted them on camera.
In one clip, he approaches Sergeant Billy Fair, and a nearby officer begins wordlessly playing “Yesterday” on his phone.
As officer Fair continues talking to a nearby woman, Mr Devermont keeps filming, until Fair chides him for recording.
In another interaction, Mr Devermont says Sgt. Fair played the Sublime song when he came in to request police body camera footage from a traffic ticket he believed was unfair.
Actress and animal rights advocate Ashley Judd is recuperating at a South African trauma unit after almost losing a leg in a “catastrophic” fall in a Congo rainforest.
In an Instagram Live chat with New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof –– Judd, speaking from her ICU bed, says she was walking in a Congo rainforest when she tripped over a fallen tree, shattering her leg. Judd, a frequent visitor to Congo, was doing work to track the Bonobos, an endangered great apes species.
Describing “an incredibly harrowing 55 hours” during which she was transported, in part by being hand-carried out, in part on a six-hour motorbike trip, from the remote rainforest location to a medical center in South Africa, Judd holds up the stick that she was biting to distract from the pain, “howling like a wild animal.” The actress, sister of Wynona Judd and daughter of Naomi Judd, recalls fading in and out of consciousness as she went into shock, repeatedly reciting “the Lord is my shepherd I shall not want” from Psalm 23.
Judd tells Kristof that despite the pain – “at the very edge of my edge” – and fear, she was fully aware of her “privilege” in having the opportunity to transfer to a fully equipped medical facility. Most Congolese people, she says, would have remained in the village, lost the leg and maybe a their life.
“The difference between a Congolese person and me is disaster insurance that allowed me 55 hours after my accident to get to an operating table in South Africa,” she says, adding that Congo villages lack not only electricity but “a simple pill to kill the pain when you’ve shattered a leg in four places and have nerve damage.”
Chappelle’s Show is coming back on Netflix with the blessing of its creator on Feb. 12.
Dave Chappelle made the announcement at the end of a clip from a performance he did at Stubb’s Bar-B-Q in Austin, Texas and thanked Netflix head Ted Sarandos for removing the show at his request back in November. HBO Max soon followed suit and pulled the popular comedy series.
In the new ten minute clip, which is titled “Redemption Song,” Chappelle recapped his issues with Comedy Central said that he was able to renegotiate his deal with the channel’s owner, ViacomCBS, after calling for a boycott of the series. The comedian also thanked ViacomCBS’ Chris McCarthy for “making the past right.”
“I never asked Comedy central for anything. If you remember I said ‘I’m going to my real boss’ and I came to you because I know where my power lies,” Chappelle said. “I asked you to stop watching the show and thank God almighty for you, you did. You made that show worthless because without your eyes it’s nothing. And when you stopped watching it, they called me. And I got my name back and I got my license back and I got my show back and they paid me millions of dollars. Thank you very much.”
Chappelle previously pointed out that he received no compensation when the series was streamed due to an agreement he signed with ViacomCBS in an 18-minute-long clip he posted to Instagram in late November of 2020. That will no longer be the case.
Fox News personalities Maria Bartiromo, Lou Dobbs and Jeanine Pirro contend that they were well within the bounds of First Amendment protection as they covered ultimately false claims that Smartmatic rigged the election results against Donald Trump.
“Smartmatic’s 285-page, $2.7 billion complaint is not just meritless; it is a legal shakedown designed to chill speech and punish reporting on issues that cut to the heart of our democracy,” Bartiromo’s attorneys wrote in her response to the election systems company’s lawsuit.
Bartiromo, Dobbs and Pirro, who were named as defendants in Smartmatic’s lawsuit filed last week, join their employers Fox Corp. and Fox News in filing motions to dismiss. Two other defendants are named in the Smartmatic lawsuit, Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, who have been guests on Fox News shows.
Smartmatic claims in a 285-page lawsuit that its reputation was “irreparably harmed” when some of the news personalities and guests targeted the company as responsible for rigging election results.
Medical teams working to immunize Brazil’s remote indigenous villages against the coronavirus have encountered fierce resistance in some communities where evangelical missionaries are stoking fears of the vaccine, say tribal leaders and advocates.
On the São Francisco reservation in the state of Amazonas, Jamamadi villagers sent health workers packing with bows and arrows when they visited by helicopter this month, said Claudemir da Silva, an Apurinã leader representing indigenous communities on the Purus river, a tributary of the Amazon.
“It’s not happening in all villages, just in those that have missionaries or evangelical chapels where pastors are convincing the people not to receive the vaccine, that they will turn into an alligator and other crazy ideas,” he said by phone.
Tribal leaders blame Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro and some of his avid supporters in the evangelical community for stoking skepticism about coronavirus vaccines, despite a national death toll that lags only the United States.
COVID-19 has killed at least 957 indigenous people, according to APIB, out of some 48,071 confirmed infections among half of Brazil’s 300 native ethnic groups. The numbers could be much higher, because health agency Sesai only monitors indigenous people living on reservations.
A fast-moving fire destroyed multiple buildings at the beloved Hole in the Wall Gang Camp in Ashford, Connecticut Friday.
Ashford fire officials said they responded to an alarm and several calls for smoke around 4:54 p.m. When they arrived they found a large fire in the main camp building, which is one large wood structure with smaller interconnected areas within.
It took about 90 minutes to contain the fire, officials said. That main building was destroyed, as well as a smaller adjacent one, but crews were able to save the camp's dining hall and infirmary areas.
The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp was founded by actor Paul Newman. It is a camp that provides a true summer camp experience for seriously ill children and provides programs for their famiilies.
The camp has full medical facilities on-site to give the children all of the care they would normally receive in a hospital setting.
Former US President Donald Trump (R-Lock Him Up)’s handshake with French President Emmanuel Macron was likened to a “primitive jungle scene”, while his lack of focus in meetings was described as a “squirrel caught in traffic” in a new BBC documentary.
According to the three-part series, Trump Takes on the World, which aired its first episode on BBC Two on Wednesday, Mr Trump’s handshake raised eyebrows when he visited Mr Macron on 14 July 2017.
French ambassador to the US, Gérard Araud, described Mr Trump’s handshake style at the Bastille Day Parade in Paris in the programme, likening it to a “primitive jungle scene”.
“At the beginning of his presidency Trump would assert his ‘alpha male’ authority by tearing off the shoulder of the person he was meeting,” said Mr Araud over footage of the meeting.
“And so Macron responded as another alpha male – it was like a primitive jungle scene. Two alpha males meeting and sizing each other up. Trump is from the real estate world of New York, which is a world of killers,” he added.
At least six pirate skeletons were found in a shipwreck off the coast of Cape Cod, the investigative team from the Whydah Pirate Museum announced Wednesday.
Investigators say the remains were discovered at the wreck site of The Whydah, which went down off Wellfleet in 1717. The captain of the ship, Samuel “Black Sam” Bellamy, is listed as the most successful pirate in history by Forbes Magazine.
The skeletons were found in several large concretions and are now being examined by Barry Clifford, who first discovered the wreckage in 1984 along with his team of archeologists.
“We hope that modern, cutting-edge technology will help us identify these pirates and reunite them with any descendants who could be out there,” Clifford said.
“This shipwreck is very sacred ground,” he continued. “We know a third of the crew was of African origin and the fact they had robbed the Whydah, which was a slave ship, presents them in a whole new light. Their benevolent captain, the legendary Samuel ‘Black Sam’ Bellamy, and crew were experimenting in democracy long before the so-called civilized societies had considered such a thing.”
Archaeologists believe they may have discovered the “true origins” of the ancient Stonehenge monument after unearthing evidence some of the materials may have served a previous purpose elsewhere.
Experts have long worked at the site to find out more about why and how the ancient wonder was built – with some of the volcanic bluestones used in the structure being brought 160 miles to the site from their point of origin in Wales.
Now researchers have uncovered signs the smaller bluestones originally formed an even older, long-lost monument in the Preseli Hills in Pembrokeshire, Wales.
During filming for the BBC documentary Stonehenge: The Lost Circle Revealed, a team led by Professor Mike Parker Pearson uncovered signs the stones had been left in the western Welsh moorlands.
But while the site had previously been described as “doubtful and insignificant” it may now provide proof of the path the bluestones took as they made their way to the site on Salisbury plain.
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