• Apparent setbacks may not be true setbacks. In the United States, Mary Anthony once danced some difficult steps well at a rehearsal for the musical Touch and Go, which was choreographed by Helen Tamiris. Ms. Anthony kept dancing the difficult steps and suddenly she heard a crack like a board being broken, but it was her foot that was broken — in two places. She was not able to dance in Touch and Go, but the musical’s director, George Abbott, witnessed her injury and was so impressed by her dedication that he asked her to stage the musical in London.
• Accidents occur while dancing on stage. At a charity performance, Nicolas Legat was dancing with Olga Preobrazhenskaya when she raised an arm while doing a series of pirouettes and accidentally hit him in the mouth, knocking out several of his teeth. Mr. Legat remained calm, kept his mouth tightly closed, and finished the dance. Because of the applause, Ms. Preobrazhenskaya wanted to dance an encore, but she fainted when Mr. Legat spat four teeth out on the floor backstage.
• Nora Kaye was a New York ballerina who mixed classicism on stage with earthiness off stage. Sometimes the two characteristics would meet. A dancer in Pillar of Fire once suffered from muscle cramps and had to stumble off stage. Three dancers gathered around to help her — although they were supposed to be dancing with Ms. Kaye on stage. This forced Ms. Kaye to improvise a dance. As she leapt past the just-off-stage group, she asked in an aside, “Where the hell is everybody?”
• Young dancer Alicia Alonso had two operations on her eyes to repair detached retinas, forcing her to lie still for months until the physicians allowed her to get up from bed. As she lay in bed, she practiced dancing using only her fingers, moving them as she visualized the movements of the dancers in such ballets as Giselle. When she finally got out of bed, she was unable to stand by herself, but she got herself in shape again and became a world-famous ballerina.
• Agnes de Mille attended the ceremony in which President Gerald Ford presented her fellow choreographer Martha Graham with the Medal of Freedom. (Trivia: President Ford’s wife, Betty, had been a dancer for Ms. Graham.) Shortly after the ceremony, Ms. de Mille suffered a major heart attack and went to the hospital, where she complained, “That’s what comes from having dinner with a Republican!”
• Anna Pavlova frequently danced when she was injured. After she had injured her left ankle while rehearsing in St. Louis, Missouri, newspaper reporters asked her which ankle she had injured. Ms. Pavlova told them, “The right one.” After the reporters had left, she explained to her dancers why she had lied: “Now they will watch the right ankle during the performance, and nothing will seem amiss.”
• Watching is an important part of a dancer’s education. Ballerina Marion Tait once had a nerve removed from her foot. As soon after the operation as she was able, she hobbled into ballet rehearsal, leaning on a cane and wearing a blue plastic bag on her foot. She then began to watch the rehearsal and so learn the choreography.
• After Margot Fonteyn had retired and was ill, Rudolf Nureyev was speaking with her on the telephone. Worried that her illness might tire her too much, he said, “I should go, or I tire you out.” Ms. Fonteyn replied firmly, “Listen. You never tire me out. Never.”
Since 1951, the scissor-tailed flycatcher, also known as the Texas bird-of-paradise and swallow-tailed flycatcher, has been the official state bird of what state?
Floyd R. Turbo was a recurring comedic character who taped editorial messages for television in the days of the Fairness Doctrine. Who portrayed Floyd R. Turbo, American?
Floyd R. Turbo was a recurring comedic character on The Tonight Show, portrayed by host Johnny Carson from 1975 until his departure from the program in 1992.
Floyd R. Turbo was a middle-aged "everyman," a politically conservative type who taped editorial messages for television (à la Gilda Radner's befuddled Emily Litella character). In the days before public-access television cable TV, ordinary citizens were allotted time on local television to air their views, usually in opposition to another's previously stated views, and at late or odd hours. Billed as "Mr. Silent Majority" (from a phrase used by President Richard Nixon) and based on characters Carson encountered in his northeast Nebraska childhood, Turbo dressed in a plaid hunting jacket and hat, and stood nervously in front of a TV camera as he delivered his opinions on gun control, war, women's liberation, and hunting, introducing himself each time as "Floyd R. Turbo, American."
Carson once told Rolling Stone reporter Timothy White, "He's (Turbo) the epitome of the redneck ignoramus. I find the things (characteristics) each week when I go out to do...his gestures at the wrong time, his not knowing where he's supposed to be, his feeble attempts at humor, his talks about things he doesn't quite understand."
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Johnny Carson. He used the character to lampoon right wingers, and because he was Johnny Freakin’ Carson he got away with it.
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Floyd R. Turbo was portrayed by an occasional Get Smart extra known as Johnny Carson.
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The answer is Johnny Carson on "The Tonight Show." Floyd R. Turbo, precursor to a FoxNews-watching Trumpist. Back then who knew what was to come?
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Johnny Carson
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I had to look this one up: Johnny Carson portrayed Floyd R. Turbo. I was too young to stay up late enough to watch Johnny’s show. Now I’m too old to stay awake that late.
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Johnny Carson was Floyd R. Turbo? Damn skippy he was.
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Bruce says, “Taylor Swift has three songs in my Top 25 of all-time; 22 songs by 22 other musicians or groups are tied for second place. This is an excellent cover.”
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Tonight, Sunday:
CBS starts the night early with LIVE'NFL Playoffs', followed by a FRESH'FBI', then a FRESH'James Corden', and some local crap to pad the left coast.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'Weakest Link', followed by a RERUN'The Wall', then a RERUN'Chicago Med', RERUN'L&O: SVU'.
ABC begins the night with a RERUN'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a FRESH'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?', then a FRESH'Card Shark', followed by a FRESH'The Rookie'.
The CW offers a FRESH'Batwoman', followed by a FRESH'Charmed'.
Faux has a RERUN'The Simpsons', followed by a RERUN'Bob's Burgers', then a RERUN'The Simpsons', followed by a RERUN'Bob's Burgers', then another RERUN'Bob's Burgers', followed by a RERUN'Family Guy'.
MY recycles an old 'Big Bang Theory', followed by another old 'Big Bang Theory', then still another old 'Big Bang Theory', followed by yet another old 'Big Bang Theory'.
A&E has the movie 'The Wolverine', followed by the movie 'The 40-Year-Old Virgin', then the movie 'Bad Teacher'.
AMC offers 3 hours of old 'A Discovery Of Witches', followed by a FRESH'A Discovery Of Witches'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] LIFE STORY
[7:00AM] LIFE STORY
[8:00AM] CLIFFHANGER
[12:30PM] THE TRANSPORTER
[2:30PM] TRANSPORTER 2
[4:30PM] THE LAST SAMURAI
[8:00PM] THE WATCH
[9:01PM] THE TRANSPORTER
[11:00PM] TRANSPORTER 2
[1:00AM] THE LAST SAMURAI
[4:30AM] THE WATCH
[5:30AM] MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS - WHITHER CANADA?
[5:45AM] MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS - MAN'S CRISIS OF IDENTITY IN THE LATTER HALF OF THE 20TH CENTURY (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives of Atlanta', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', then a FRESH'The Rev', followed by a FRESH'Watch What Happens: Live'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Wedding Crashers', followed by the movie 'Couples Retreet', then the movie 'Old School'.
FX has the movie 'Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle', followed by themovie 'A Dog's Way Home'.
History has all old 'Swamp People: Serpent Invasion' all night.
IFC -
[6:00am - 7:30am] Saved By The Bell
[8:00am - 1:30pm] Three's Company
[2:00pm] The Brady Bunch Movie
[4:00pm] Zoolander
[6:00pm] Failure To Launch
[8:00pm] Vacation
[10:15pm] Failure To Launch
[12:15am] The Brady Bunch Movie
[2:15am] A Very Brady Sequel
[4:15am] Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Gauntlet - Experiment 1205: Killer Fish (ALL TIMES ET)
Sundance -
[6:30am] monk - Mr. Monk And The Garbage Strike
[7:30am] monk - Mr. Monk And The Big Game
[8:30am] monk - Mr. Monk Can't See A Thing
[9:30am] monk - Mr. Monk, Private Eye
[10:30am] monk - Mr. Monk And The Class Reunion
[11:30am] monk - Mr. Monk Gets A New Shrink
[12:30pm] basic instinct
[3:30pm] platoon
[6:00pm] fury
[9:00pm] space cowboys
[12:00am] the patriot
[3:30am - 5:30am] hogan's heroes (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'Transformers: The Last Knight', followed by the movie 'Avengers: Age Of Ultron'.
There was little doubt Pixar’s Soul would find a large audience by going straight to Disney+ in many countries, but it’s now clear just how successful that strategy was. Deadline reports that the existential movie topped Nielsen’s streaming rankings for December 21st through December 27th, racking up 1.669 billion minutes of viewing. It even beat The Office (1.435 billion minutes) — no mean feat when the classic TV series regularly dominated 2020 viewing and had just days to go before it left Netflix for Peacock.
Disney’s other flagship streaming show, The Mandalorian, was fifth place with ‘just’ 1 billion minutes as it wrapped up its second season. Netflix held on to the fourth- and third-place spots with the George Clooney sci-fi drama The Midnight Sky (1.1 billion minutes) and alt-history series Bridgerton (1.2 billion).
It’s not certain how well HBO Max’s Wonder Woman 1984 fared with its own Christmas Day release. WarnerMedia hasn’t released viewer data, and won’t reveal subscriber data until it provides earning info next week. However, the release was popular enough that it helped Warner fast-track the sequel.
At President Joe Biden's Inauguration Day ceremony, Agence France-Presse photographer Brendan Smialowski snapped two pictures of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders taking a seat distanced from other people.
Despite the hype of Sanders' inauguration moment, Smialowski told Rolling Stone's Reed Dunlea in an interview that at first, he didn't think his snap of the senator was anything special.
"The picture itself is not that nice. It's not a great composition. I'm not going to be putting this in a portfolio," Smialowski told Rolling Stone.
For days, people have cropped the photo of Sanders sitting into stills from iconic movies, works of art, and city scenes. It's safe to say that "grumpy Bernie Sanders" has become the biggest meme of the inauguration.
Smialowski said in the interview that he was hoping to photograph Republican Senators Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley when he happened to catch the moment of Sanders appearing to sit by himself. But despite the popularity of his photo, Smialowski said he usually tries to avoid taking similar kinds of images.
Rich Fitzgerald, the elected executive of Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, has achieved viral internet fame – for rebuking the Republican senator Rafael "Ted" Cruz (R-Sedition) but also for looking remarkably like the Emmy-winning actor Jeff Daniels.
When Joe Biden took the US back into the Paris climate accord this week, Cruz, from Texas, repeated a familiar rightwing complaint, saying the new Democratic president was “more interested in the views of the citizens of Paris than in the jobs of the citizens of Pittsburgh”.
Such barbs have been deflected before – not least by the mayor of Pittsburgh, Bill Peduto, who reacted to Trump’s Paris withdrawal in 2017 by committing the city to the accord’s ambitious climate-related goals.
“You know,” he said, “he doesn’t know what he’s talking about. He’s a climate denier. He was a Covid denier. We believe in science round here, and why Senator Cruz thinks he could tell Pittsburgh … we’re doing just fine.”
“This is a guy who was really part of the insurrection,” Fitzgerald said, “part of the denial of elections. So I don’t think this guy has any credibility. So, we’ll run what we need to do here, senator, and keep your nose out of our business.”
The heads of three federally funded international broadcasters were abruptly fired late Friday as the Biden administration completed a house-cleaning of Donald Trump-appointees at the U.S. Agency for Global Media.
Two officials familiar with the changes said the acting chief of the USAGM summarily dismissed the directors of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia and the Middle East Broadcasting Networks just a month after they had been named to the posts.
The changes came a day after the director of the Voice of America and his deputy were removed and the chief of the Office of Cuba Broadcasting stepped down. The firings follow the forced resignation of former President Donald Trump (R-Lock Him Up)’s handpicked choice to lead USAGM only two hours after Joe Biden took office on Wednesday.
Trump’s USAGM chief Michael Pack had been accused by Democrats and others of trying to turn VOA and its sister networks into pro-Trump propaganda machines. Pack had appointed all of those who were fired on Thursday and Friday to their posts only in December.
The two officials said the acting CEO of USAGM, Kelu Chao, had fired Middle East Broadcasting Network director Victoria Coates, Radio Free Asia chief Stephen Yates and Radio Free Europe head Ted Lipien in a swift series of moves late Friday. It was not immediately clear if any of those removed would try to contest their dismissals.
The Texas Supreme Court has rejected a request from conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to dismiss four defamation lawsuits filed by parents of children killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
The action by the Supreme Court on Friday, which was presented without comment from the state’s justices, upheld rulings by two lower courts that stated the lawsuits could proceed.
The parents filed the four lawsuits in Travis County, Texas, where Mr Jones and his far-right website Infowars are based.
Friday’s ruling also permitted a lawsuit to proceed against Infowars and reporter Kit Daniels by a man who was mistakenly identified as a suspect in the 2018 shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida.
The Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson has suggested that the political action committee will turn its attention to Texas senator Rafael "Ted" Cruz (R-Sedition) and other Republicans now that Donald Trump (R-Lock Him Up) has left office.
The Republican super PAC that was set up in 2019 to prevent the reelection of Mr Trump, released several videos on social media during the 2020 presidential campaign relentlessly criticising the then president and his administration.
Mr Wilson confirmed on the Texas political podcast Y’all-itics earlier this week that now Mr Trump has left office, the committee will focus on Mr Cruz and other GOP senators who supported a Republican effort to challenge the certification of President Biden’s victory on 6 January.
“We all know Ted Cruz is sort of a political force of nature. He is what he is. You either hate him or you hate him,” Mr Wilson said on Monday.
A former Transportation Security Administration agent who was accused of tricking a traveler into showing her breasts as she went through security at Los Angeles International Airport pleaded no contest Friday to false imprisonment, authorities said.
Johnathon Lomeli entered the plea to a felony count and was sentenced to 60 days in county jail, 52 classes addressing sexual compulsion and two years of probation, California's attorney general's office announced.
The woman told investigators that Lomeli told her he had to look inside her bra to ensure she wasn't hiding anything, had her hold her pants away from her waist for a check, and then said he would take her to a private room for further security screening, prosecutors said.
But when they were alone on an elevator, Lomeli told the woman he could perform the screening there and ordered her to lift her shirt and show her breasts, then looked down her pants, she said.
Lomeli then told the woman she was free to go and added that she had nice breasts, authorities said.
The formation of crystals is one of the most commonplace processes you can probably think of. Every time you freeze water into ice cubes, for instance, you're creating crystalline structures. There's even a fun experiment you can do to grow salt crystals – with nothing more than table salt and water.
But on the atomic level, we have a poor understanding of how crystals form, particularly nucleation – the very first step in the crystallisation process. That's partially because it's a dynamic process that happens on such small scales, and partially because it's somewhat random, both of which make it difficult to study.
That's what makes the work of a team of researchers led by chemist Takayuki Nakamuro of the University of Tokyo in Japan so exciting. Using a special technique in development since 2005, they have filmed the crystallisation of salt on the atomic scale for the first time.
Since crystallisation is used for a wide number of applications - from medicine to industrial manufacturing – this is a step towards better controlling how we create materials, the researchers said.
The technique is called single-molecule atomic-resolution real-time electron microscopy, or SMART-EM, used to study molecules and molecular aggregates. By combining it with a newly developed sample preparation method, the team captured the very formation of salt crystals.
In the 16th century, an attack from the Ottoman Empire may have prompted panicked Hungarians to bury a stash of valuable silver and gold coins. Now, archaeologists have uncovered this buried treasure on a modern-day farm in Hungary.
In 2019, archaeologists discovered 150 ancient coins in Újlengyel, a Hungarian village that's about 31 miles (50 kilometers) southeast of Budapest. Spurred by this discovery and equipped with metal detectors, the archaeologists returned to the site at the end of December 2020 to look for other treasures, according to a Facebook post from the Ferenczy Museum in Hungary.
Balázs Nagy, the museum's numismatist, or coin expert, led the two-day expedition, with help from volunteers with the Community Archaeological Association. On a nearby hill, the archaeologists dug through a small shaft and unearthed a vessel that was broken in half, likely due to plowing, according to a statement. The vessel had originally held thousands of ancient coins that were found strewn about the shaft.
The newly discovered coin collection consisted of nearly 7,000 silver coins and four gold coins, according to the post. At the time the coins were probably buried, around 1520, they would have been worth enough to buy seven horses; and by today's standards, they would be enough to buy a luxury car, according to the post. The oldest coin is a silver denarius, or a Roman silver coin of Roman emperor Lucius Verus, who ruled from A.D.161 to A.D. 169. The newest coins in the hoard date to the time of Louis II, who ruled Hungary and Bohemia from 1516 to 1526.
The four gold coins, which were issued during the reign of Matthias I, the king of Hungary from 1458 to 1490, were hidden under a fabric in the lining of the vessel, according to the statement. Other finds included a rare coin issued by Pope Pius who ruled from 1458 to 1464 and silver coins issued during the reigns of several other 15th and 16th century rulers.
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Rich Fitzgerald, the elected executive of Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, has achieved viral internet fame – for rebuking the Republican senator Rafael "Ted" Cruz (R-Sedition) but also for looking remarkably like the Emmy-winning actor Jeff Daniels.
