• Noël Coward was gay. He once wrote a parody of a Cole Porter song that began, "Weren't we fools to lose each other, Though we know we loved each other. You chose another, so did I …." Mr. Coward then added this line of his own to Mr. Porter's song: "You chose your brother, so did I."
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• Some people turn out to be much nicer than you expect. Jarvis Cocker's car once broke down, and some very young teenagers driving a very nice car stopped to help. Mr. Cocker says, "These kids came up in a posh car. They were only about 15, so I didn't think it was theirs. I thought I was going to get mugged, but they were very nice, driving me to the nearest station and giving me chocolate limes, which I'm sure just happened to be in the car when they nicked it." The experience inspired him to write a song titled "Joyriders," which appeared on Pulp's 1994 album His'n'Hers. Mr. Cocker respects the miracle that is songwriting: "The beauty of songwriting is that any human being can do it. And they learned how to do it their way. One minute someone was sitting in the living room, having a cup of coffee. The next they picked up the guitar and wrote something from nothing. That's a miraculous event. That's what keeps me going."
• The Ramones starred in Rock 'n' Roll High School with P.J. Soles, who played the character Riff Randle. To get the footage for one scene in the movie, the Ramones played three concerts in one day. At the 8 a.m. show, fans got in free. In the afternoon, fans paid $1. For the evening show, fans paid $5. Unfortunately, the Ramones were required to play the same five songs over and over during the concerts. Johnny Ramone did not think that was fair to the fans who had paid $5 for the evening show, so he asked the other Ramones to stay and play a few more songs for those fans. They did. Also capable of kindness was P.J. Soles, who invited the Ramones to her home for a holiday turkey dinner - the Ramones started filming the movie in December of 1978. P.J. remembers, "They came all dressed up, like little gentlemen! They were very sweet, and my family enjoyed them very much."
• Garth Brooks and his wife were watching a United Cerebral Palsy telethon. It became clear that the organization was not going to meet its fundraising goal, so they drove a few miles to the station, where they appeared before the cameras. Mr. Brooks pledged a dime for every dollar that viewers contributed, and his wife immediately wrote out a check for $25,000.
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• Martha Wainwright comes from the musical Wainwright Family. Her father is Loudon Wainwright III, and her brother is Rufus Wainwright. All are recording artists. When Martha was six years old, Rufus came into her room and looked into her mirror, and then he remarked, "I'm more beautiful than you." She says, "I think I was upset by the fact that he might be right. Maybe that was an inspiration to me to sing. Maybe I felt like an ugly duckling. Maybe I felt lesser." Martha can and does speak vividly: "I don't see life always through the eyes of a songwriter, and maybe I should because I'd write more songs. I have a tendency to live life and then feel upset because I haven't played the guitar in a long time. It's like not masturbating for a long time." By the way, she did get married in 2008 to her bass player, Brad Albetta. Martha hired him in 2003 for a very good reason: "I fancied him, so I kept him around as much as I could."
"La Brabançonne" (Dutch: "De Brabançonne"; German: "Das Lied von Brabant") is the national anthem of Belgium. The originally-French title refers to Brabant; the name is usually maintained untranslated in Belgium's other two official languages, Dutch and German.
According to legend, the Belgian national anthem was written in September 1830, during the Belgian Revolution, by a young revolutionary called "Jenneval", who read the lyrics during a meeting at the Aigle d'Or café.
Jenneval, a Frenchman whose real name was Alexandre Dechet (sometimes known as Louis-Alexandre Dechet), did in fact write the Brabançonne. At the time, he was an actor at the theatre where, in August 1830, the revolution started which led to independence from the Netherlands. Jenneval died in the war of independence. François van Campenhout composed the accompanying score, based on the tune of a French song called "L'Air des lanciers polonais" ("the tune of the Polish Lancers"), written by the French poet Eugène de Pradel, whose tune was itself an adaptation of the tune of a song, "L'Air du magistrat irréprochable", found in a popular collection of drinking songs called La Clé du caveau (The Key to the cellar) and it was first performed in September 1830.
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David of Moon Valley wrote:
Belgium?! (i had to wikify it, sorry to say)...but jeez, how many people know that off the top of their head?! 'i'd like European anthems for $200, Alex'…ruh-roh….
Deborah, the Master Gardener, responded:
Nice clues…Dutch and German translations, so I'm guessing that's the National Anthem of Belgium. In Brussels there are street signs in 4 languages at times - Dutch, German, French and English, and even Belgian.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
"La Brabançonne" is the national anthem of Belgium.
Kevin in Washington DC, said:
Belgium.
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On top of holding a "love me & get sick & die" rally in Tulsa on Juneteenth, Predator has chosen a special date & location for his RNC nomination acceptance speech!
By the way, Trump's speech in Jacksonville will be happening August 27, and you will be shocked to learn that date is the 60th anniversary of Ax Handle Saturday in Jacksonville, a famous racial violence event wherein "a mob of about 200 whites" - Klan members and cops - "attacked black demonstrators who had been trying to desegregate lunch counters [...] with ax handles and baseball bats."
AMC offers the movie 'Snitch', followed by the movie 'The Day After Tomorrow'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] MOON LANDING
[8:00AM] WEIRD WONDERS
[9:00AM] WEIRD WONDERS
[10:00AM] WEIRD WONDERS
[11:00AM] WEIRD WONDERS
[12:00PM] WEIRD WONDERS
[1:00PM] WEIRD WONDERS
[2:00PM] PLANET EARTH: LIFE - Challenges of Life
[3:00PM] PLANET EARTH: LIFE - Reptiles and Amphibians
[4:00PM] PLANET EARTH: LIFE - Mammals
[5:00PM] PLANET EARTH: LIFE - Fish
[6:00PM] PLANET EARTH: LIFE - Birds
[7:00PM] PLANET EARTH: LIFE - Insects
[8:00PM] PLANET EARTH: LIFE - Hunters and Hunted
[9:00PM] PLANET EARTH: LIFE - Creatures of the Deep
[10:00PM] PLANET EARTH: LIFE - Plants
[11:00PM] PLANET EARTH: LIFE - Primates
[12:00AM] PLANET EARTH: LIFE - Challenges of Life
[1:00AM] PLANET EARTH: LIFE - Reptiles and Amphibians
[2:00AM] PLANET EARTH: LIFE - Mammals
[3:00AM] PLANET EARTH: LIFE - Fish
[4:00AM] PLANET EARTH: LIFE - Birds
[5:00AM] PLANET EARTH: LIFE - Insects (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has the movie 'Office Space', followed by the movie 'It's Complicated', then the movie 'It's Complicated', again.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Grown Ups 2', followed by the movie 'Grown Ups 2', again, and then a whole lotta 'South Park'.
FX has the movie 'X-Men: Apocalypse', followed by the movie 'Pacific Rim: Uprising'.
IFC -
[6:00A] Total Recall
[8:30A] Face/Off
[11:30A] Point Break
[2:00P] Point Break
[5:00P] The Wolf of Wall Street
[9:00P] White House Down
[12:00A] White House Down
[3:00A] Point Break (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00am] the andy griffith show
[6:30am] the andy griffith show
[7:00am] the andy griffith show
[7:30am] the andy griffith show
[8:00am] the andy griffith show
[8:30am] the andy griffith show
[9:00am] the andy griffith show
[9:30am] the andy griffith show
[10:00am] the andy griffith show
[10:30am] the andy griffith show
[11:00am] hogan's heroes
[11:30am] hogan's heroes
[12:00pm] hogan's heroes
[12:30pm] hogan's heroes
[1:00pm] hogan's heroes
[1:30pm] hogan's heroes
[2:00pm] hogan's heroes
[2:30pm] hogan's heroes
[3:00pm] hogan's heroes
[3:30pm] hogan's heroes
[4:00pm] hogan's heroes
[4:30pm] stripes
[7:00pm] airplane!
[9:00pm] airplane ii: the sequel
[11:00pm] back to school
[1:00am] stripes
[3:30am] the andy griffith show
[4:00am] the andy griffith show
[4:30am] law & order
[5:30am] law & order (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Jurassic Park', followed by the movie 'The Lost World: Jurassic Park'.
Dave Chappelle does not hold back in a new Netflix special titled "8:46," which the streaming platform surprise debuted for free on its YouTube comedy channel late Thursday evening.
In a set rife with his signature searing social commentary, the comedian touches on everything from George Floyd's death to being unable to accept a Grammy award on the day Kobe Bryant died, to the hypocrisy of conservative TV host Laura Ingraham - and even throws in a signature bit about Ja Rule for levity.
"It's hard to figure out what to say about George Floyd, so I'm not going to say it yet," Chappelle opens, flipping through a black notebook, later adding, "I got to tell you, this is like the first concert in North American since all this s- happened, so like it or not, it's history. It's going to be in the books."
The special was filmed on June 6 in Yellow Springs, Ohio, with coronavirus-era social distancing guidelines in place for attendees, including face masks and temperature checks. The comedy legend had not performed on stage in 87 days until the special, though he has since performed similarly intimate gigs around the Dayton area.
In contrast to his opening remarks, Chappelle dives deep into topics of police brutality and Floyd's death in the set. The Emmy winner also criticizes political commentator Candace Owens, saying, "I seen Candace Owens try to convince white America, 'Don't worry about it. He's a criminal anyway.' I don't give a f- what this n- did. I don't care what this n- did. I don't care if he personally kicked Candace Owens in her stanky p-. I don't know if it stanks, but I imagine it does. If I ever find out, I'll let you know for sure. I'll tell like Azealia Banks. I'll tell."
"As you can tell, I don't say his name," Spike Lee told the hosts of The View Friday after referring to President Donald Trump (R-Manbaby) only as "Agent Orange" while promoting his new Vietnam drama, Da 5 Bloods.
The Oscar-winning filmmaker's appearance on The View came only hours after another video interview he did on Thursday's The Daily Show (er, The Daily Social Distancing Show, as its been called the past few months).
"From the very beginning we've been fighting for this country, from the beginning!" Lee told host Trevor Noah while discussing Crispus Attucks, the first person killed during the Boston Massacre (and thus the American Revolution). "We've been fighting for this country, as you said, that doesn't fight for us. We've been loving this country that doesn't love us. So when this guy Agent Orange talks about our brother Colin Kaepernick [the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback seemingly blackballed from the NFL for kneeling during the national anthem to protest police brutality] not being patriotic, that's some b-s. … It's about the same thing that people are marching all across the streets in this world."
"As you can tell, I don't say his name," Spike Lee told the hosts of The View Friday after referring to President Donald Trump only as "Agent Orange" while promoting his new Vietnam drama, Da 5 Bloods.
Lee's presidential nickname goes beyond The View and The Daily Show. The filmmaker has used the moniker, referencing both the president's artificial tan and the long-controversial chemical weapon used by U.S. military forces in Vietnam, in virtually every interview he has done promoting Da 5 Bloods. He also used the term making the press rounds for his last film, BlackKklansman, which won the famed provocateur his first competitive Academy Award, for Best Adapted Screenplay. "Agent Orange had a chance to condemn the [Klu Klux] Klan, Alt-right, Neo-Nazi [movements], but he didn't do it," Lee told Yahoo Entertainment about Trump's highly scrutinized "very fine people" comments after the Unite the Right rally and killing of counterprotestor Heather Heyer in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017.
Fawlty Towers star John Cleese has hit out at the decision to remove an episode of the show from UKTV over "racial slurs".
The episode entitled The Germans was recently taken off the service, becoming the latest programme to be the subject of concerns about offensive content.
The instalment showed Cleese - who played hotel manager Basil Fawlty in the 70s comedy - goose-stepping while shouting "don't mention the war" in front of some Germans, and sees the character Major Gowen using offensive language.
However, Cleese told the Sydney Morning Herald that not everybody could see that "if you put nonsense words into the mouth of someone you want to make fun of you're not broadcasting their views, you're making fun of them".
"We were not supporting his views, we were making fun of them. If they can't see that, if people are too stupid to see that, what can one say?"
Clemson University is removing former U.S. vice president and outspoken white supremacist John C. Calhoun's name from the school's honors college following a petition embraced by NFL stars DeAndre Hopkins and Deshaun Watson. The university on Friday announced its board of trustees voted in favor of changing the name.
The honors college will now be renamed Clemson University Honors College after being called Calhoun Honors College since 1982. University chairman Smyth McKissick said in a statement that the decision "acknowledges that now is the time to move forward together."
Calhoun, who was vice president under the John Quincy Adams administration, was a slave owner, an advocate of slavery and even owned a plantation on land where the campus stands today, according to Clemson's bio page of Calhoun. The school itself characterized Calhoun as an "ardent believer in white supremacy."
It's not the first time Calhoun's name has been removed from a prominent university. In 2017, Yale University renamed one of its residential colleges that had his name after years of debate and protests.
Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner's interview with President Donald Trump (R-Adderall) aired on Friday, and one of the more puzzling moments came when he talked about what he had done for Black communities.
She asked him, "How does all of that fit into talking with the protesters? And people right now wanting for the black community-and not just blacks, but communities of color, people who are disadvantaged in general, I mean, the economy is the great unifier, right?"
Trump responded, "I think I've done more for the black community than any other president. And let's take a pass on Abraham Lincoln, because he did good, although it's always questionable, you know, in other words, the end result."
It was unclear what Trump was referring to when he meant "end result," but Harris responded, "Well, we are free, Mr. President. He did pretty well."
"We are free," Trump answered. "Well, you understand what I mean? You know, I got to take a pass on a Honest Abe, as we call it."
Throughout the week on Fox "News", viewers have been shown harrowing scenes of rioting, looting, and widespread violence with indignant commentary from opinion hosts.
The only problem: Much of the footage being shown isn't actually new.
"Fox & Friends," the three-hour morning show frequently live-tweeted by President Trump (R-Failure), showed fires raging across Minneapolis on Tuesday.
There were no widespread fires nor looting in the Twin Cities that day, and the B-roll footage had a little red May 28 time stamp on it.
The same day, opinion host Sean Hannity ran a chyron banner reading "GROWING LAWLESSNESS IN MAJOR CITIES" despite a lack of evidence to back it up.
A bill requiring public schools in Tennessee to allow students to miss up to an hour a day to go to church has cleared the General Assembly.
The Tennessee House of Representatives passed HB 2542 unanimously on Monday, after a similar victory in the state Senate last week. The measure now heads to Governor Bill Lee, who is expected to sign it into law.
Introduced by Rep. Dennis Powers (R-Jacksboro) and Sen. Ken Yager (R-Kingston), it mandates public schools excuse a student "to attend a released time course in religious moral instruction for no more than one class period per school day" if requested by a parent or guardian.
HB 2542 also authorizes public school buses to be used to transport those students, provided the religious institution reimburses the board of education.
On Facebook, the Satanic Children's Ministry of Tennessee seemed to take pleasure in the vote.
A conservation officer in Canada who was fired for refusing to kill two black bear cubs has won a protracted legal battle over his termination.
"I feel like the black clouds that have hung over my family for years are finally starting to part," Bryce Casavant told the Guardian. "But the moment is bittersweet - my firing should have never happened in the first place."
Casavant was dispatched in 2015 to a mobile home park near the British Columbia town of Port Hardy, where a female black bear was rummaging through a freezer of meat and salmon.
Under the province's policy, Casavant shot and killed the mother, but decided not to harm the cubs, who residents told him hadn't been spotted eating food or garbage.
"Instead of complying with the kill order, he took the cubs to a veterinarian who assessed them and transferred them to the North Island Recovery Centre," the court documents read. The two cubs were eventually released back into the wild. But because of his refusal to follow orders, Casavant was suspended and then fired.
Queen Victoria, Cecil Rhodes, King Leopold. Statues honoring these leaders of colonial rule have been pulled down over the years in Africa after countries won independence or newer generations said racist relics had to go.
New campaigns in the U.S. and Europe are now following Africa's lead. Monuments to slave traders and colonial rulers have become the focus of protests around the world, driven by a reexamination of historical injustice after the death of George Floyd at the hands of police in the U.S.
No protests have been spotted this week around the remaining statues in Africa, but several have faced furious demonstrations in the past.
A boisterous student-led campaign pressed the University of Cape Town to remove a statue of Cecil Rhodes from the school's entrance in April 2015. The statue had been defaced and covered in excrement by students protesting against the colonial leader who supported white minority rule in South Africa and the colonization of the southern African territories named for him, Northern and Southern Rhodesia, which later became independent Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Another statue of Rhodes was toppled in Zimbabwe in July 1980, a few months after the country became independent. When the statue was downed in the capital - then known by its colonial name, Salisbury, now Harare - demonstrators cheered and pounded it with a hammer.
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