• Georges Skibine was dancing for Colonel de Basil’s company when its financing was cut off due to World War II. While the company was on tour in Cuba, Colonel de Basil announced that he was cutting each dancer’s salary in half. Rather than take the pay cut, Mr. Skibine left the company and took a job as a cook in Cuba. Eventually, he made his way to New York and later even danced for Colonel de Basil again.
• Krissie Illing actually made a living in street theater — something she obviously was very proud of. She was trained in both dance and mime, and she worked with Mark Britton in the duo Nickelodeon. Ms. Illing once said, “It’s taken me 29 years to prove to my father that I can work and earn a living like this. He used to say, ‘Why don’t you take an office job and keep your dancing as a hobby?’”
• Dancers work extremely hard, making their day of rest extremely important. Karen Kain and Frank Augustyn were once offered a lot of money to dance on a Canadian television program on their day of rest, but they turned the money down. Ms. Kain explained, “We didn’t want to dance on our rest day — it might have led to a poor performance later that week.”
• The Shah of Persia was extremely wealthy and had lots of dancing girls. Once, he observed a lot of people dancing at a society ball in Paris, and he asked, “Can’t these people hire someone to do this for them?”
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• Oprah Winfrey was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance in her first feature film, The Color Purple, directed by Stephen Spielberg. Her father made sure that he saw the movie — it was the first time he had gone to a movie theater in 25 years. At the Academy Awards ceremony, Ms. Winfrey did not win, but she joked that she was relieved because her recently altered dress turned out to be too tight: “Perhaps God was saying to me, ‘Oprah, you are not winning because your dress is too tight for you to make it up all those steps to receive the statuette.’”
• In 1988, Jodie Foster won a Best Actress Oscar for her performance in The Accused. Following her acceptance speech, she joked backstage that she would immediately put the Oscar to good use: “I rented three videos last night … and they said if I brought this in I would get them free.”
• When a man streaked across the stage during the Academy Awards, Oscar presenter David Niven said, “Let’s not pay any attention to him. All he is doing is showing his shortcomings.”
Actors
• Javier Bardem, the Spanish actor who played the very evil murderer in the Coen Brothers’ No Country for Old Men, had a number of other jobs before becoming an actor. In fact, for one day when he was a teenager, he was a stripper. He says, “Unfortunately, I made the mistake of talking about it years later and my mother and sister read the article. You talk about showing your *ss and then your mother reads all about it.” As a citizen of Spain, he has a perspective different from that of Americans. For example, one day he had a nude scene, and the American crew made sure that he was covered up when he was not actually working — he definitely got the idea that people did not want to see his rear end. However, when he was murdering people in a scene, the Americans on set were happy. Mr. Bardem says that “the day I was killing people they were like, ‘Yaah! That was good!’ I know I don’t have a nice *ss, but I would go for an *ss over killing people every time.” A final difference between Spain and other countries — which in the opinion of the author of the book you are reading now definitely includes the USA — is this, according to Mr. Bardem, “I like the way people behave in my country. It’s about being open to life instead of being obsessed about getting somewhere. There’s a moment when they put the worries about paying the bills to one side and just live. In some countries, it’s all about being number one and if you are second you are a failure.”
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Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. The capital and most populous city is Algiers, located in the far north of the country on the Mediterranean coast. With an area of 2,381,741 square kilometres (919,595 sq mi), Algeria is the tenth-largest country in the world, and the largest by area in the African Union and the Arab world. With an estimated population of over 44 million, it is the ninth-most populous country in Africa.
Algeria is bordered to the northeast by Tunisia, to the east by Libya, to the southeast by Niger, to the southwest by Mali, Mauritania, and the Western Saharan territory, to the west by Morocco, and to the north by the Mediterranean Sea. The country has a semi-arid geography, with most of the population living in the fertile north and the Sahara dominating the geography of the south. This arid geography makes the country very vulnerable to climate change.
Pre-1962 Algeria has known many empires and dynasties, including ancient Numidians, Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Romans, Vandals, Byzantines, Umayyads, Abbasids, Rustamid, Idrisid, Aghlabids, Fatimids, Zirid, Hammadids, Almoravids, Almohads, Zayyanids, Spaniards, Ottomans and finally, the French colonial empire. Most of the population is Arab-Berber, practicing Islam and using the official languages of Arabic and Berber. However, French serves as an administrative and education language in some contexts, and Algerian Arabic is the main spoken language.
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Algeria. Algeria is 4 times the size of Texas, and 1/3 larger than Alaska. Algeria has a population of 44 million people, mostly clustered near the Mediterranean coast.
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Algeria has over 919,000 square miles.
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CBS starts the night extra early with LIVE'What's Passing As Super Bowl LV', followed by a FRESH'Equalizer', then a FRESH'Colbert', followed by a RERUN'Magnum PU'.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'Weakest Link', followed by a RERUN'The Wall', then a RERUN'Chicago Med', followed by a 'Dateline'.
ABC begins the night with a RERUN'America's Funniest Home Videos', followed by another RERUN'America's Funniest Home Videos', then a RERUN'Shark Tank', followed by another RERUN'Shark Tank'.
The CW offers a RERUN'Batwoman', followed by a RERUN'Charmed'.
Faux has a RERUN'Call Me Kat', followed by a RERUN'Bless The Harts', then a RERUN'The Simpsons', followed by a RERUN'The Simpsons', then a 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'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Hobbitt: The Desolution Of Smaug', followed by the movie 'The Hobbitt: The Battle Of The Five Armies'.
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[6:00AM - 11:00AM] PLANET EARTH: THE BLUE PLANET
[3:30PM] MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL
[5:30PM] JUMANJI
[8:00PM] THE WATCH
[9:00PM] JUMANJI
[11:30PM] MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL
[1:30AM] THE WATCH
[2:30AM] JUMANJI
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', another 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', and another 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta'.
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[6:00am - 7:30am] Saved By The Bell
[8:00am - 10:00am] Three's Company
[10:30am] A Very Brady Sequel
[12:30pm] The Brady Bunch Movie
[2:30pm] Cheech & Chong Still Smokin'
[4:30pm] Up In Smoke
[6:30pm] Starsky & Hutch
[8:45pm] Vacation
[11:00pm] Road Trip
[1:00am] Vacation
[3:15am] Road Trip
[5:15am] The Three Stooges (ALL TIMES ET)
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[6:30am] monk - Mr. Monk Goes To The Hospital
[7:30am] monk - Mr. Monk And His Biggest Fan
[8:30am] monk - Mr. Monk And The Rapper
[9:30am] monk - Mr. Monk And The Naked Man
[10:30am] monk - Mr. Monk And The Bad Girlfriend
[11:30am] saturday night fever
[2:00pm] the naked gun: from the files of police squad!
[4:00pm] the naked gun 2 1/2: the smell of fear
[6:00pm] naked gun 33 1/3: the final insult
[8:00pm] ghostbusters
[10:30pm] ghostbusters ii
[1:00am] ghostbusters
[3:30am] ghostbusters ii (ALL TIMES ET)
Two freelance journalists are the recipients of the 2021 American Mosaic Journalism Prize for work about underrepresented or misrepresented groups, which comes with a $100,000 award for each of them.
The awards from the Heising-Simons Foundation are for excellence in long-form or narrative work.
David Dennis, Jr., who is based in Atlanta, wrote an Atlanta magazine piece, “Ahmaud Arbery Will Not be Erased,” about the murder of a young Black man in Georgia. Dennis, who teaches journalism at Morehouse College, frequently writes about race, politics, civil rights, sports and entertainment.
The other prize winner is Michelle Garcia, who splits time between New York City and Texas. The foundation said her work “has both unveiled human rights abuses and celebrated the humanity of those living in limbo at the U.S.-Mexico border.” Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Columbia Journalism Review and elsewhere.
Frequent CNN contributor and Democrat Van Jones might have thought he was entering friendly territory by visiting ABC’s The View today, given his across-the-aisle collaboration with conservative cohost Meghan McCain on the new documentary The Reunited States. But cohosts Sunny Hostin and Ana Navarro had other views.
“People in the Black community don’t trust you anymore,” Hostin flatly told Jones, who is Black. Hostin said Jones was perceived as being a “political opportunist” and “chameleon” who “provided racial coverage” for former President Donald Trump. (Jones has spoken frequently about Trump’s contributions to the Black community, including what he says is Trump’s support of opportunity zones, historically Black colleges and universities and prison reform.)
Jones seemed surprised by the charge, and said “I don’t think that’s true,” adding that his acknowledgment of Trump’s contributions was accompanied by acknowledgment of the “horrific stuff” done by the twice-impeached Trump. Jones blamed social media for not showing his statements in context.
“My entire life has been about bringing people together to solve tough problems for the people at the bottom who don’t have anything,” Jones continued, adding that his support for prison reform and the release of prisoners of color necessitated working with Republicans. “I’m going to keep doing it, whoever’s in the White House.
Navarro, an anti-Trump Republican, wasn’t convinced. “In 2016 you and I were probably the two most vocal critics of Trump, during the campaign, on CNN, to the point where it was reported that Jared Kushner went in and met with executives at our parent company and asked that you and I be fired. And all of a sudden you show up working with Nepotism Barbie and Nepotism Ken, and showing up in pictures with Eric Trump and with Candace Owens and so I think there’s people wondering – and I’m one of them – how did that evolution happen? How did you go from being this very principled critic of the Trump Administration as I was to all of a sudden being in the White House celebrating with them and posing for pictures with Candace Owens? Can you explain that evolution to people who are puzzled by it?”
Prince Harry seems to be working on a new project. The royal was spotted hanging out with The Late Late Show host, James Corden, in Los Angeles on Friday. Specifically, they were spotted hanging out and laughing together on the upper level of a double-decker tour bus.
Harry and Corden are famously friendly—Corden and his wife, Julia Carey, were among the lucky invitees on the guest list for Harry's royal wedding to Meghan Markle in May 2018, after all—but this didn't seem to be purely a "catching up with an old friend" kind of meet up. Nope, according to People, the pair were actually filming an installment of Corden's famous Carpool Karaoke series.
"They taped a COVID appropriate segment of Carpool Karaoke on the double decker," a source told the publication. "They have been friends for years and had a great time. A lot of joking around and laughter. They toured Hollywood and James showed Harry some special landmarks. They also chatted about Harry's life in the US and his focus now."
According to TMZ, the bus ride edition of Carpool Karaoke was no simple shoot. TMZ reports that Harry and Corden's bus, which left from the CBS lot around noon on Friday, was "surrounded by a full crew, including 3 cameras and also got a police escort!"
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell has apparently spent a feverish five days making a three hour documentary that he claims will prove definitively that the 2020 election was stolen.
Mr Lindell, a perennial advertiser on Fox News and close ally of Donald Trump, released a three hour documentary on Friday in which he weaves a conspiratorial tale of foreign interference, communist takeover and voting machine tampering as a means of explaining how the former president lost the 2020 election. The pillow manufacturer went on the Revival Channel, a Christian television network, to hawk his movie, "Absolute Proof."
Mr Lindell claimed that if his movie failed to catch on with the masses, the conservative battle to challenge the 2020 election would be over.
"We pray and we go to heaven. It's over," Mr Lindell said.
Will Sommer, a reporter at The Daily Beast, watched the film and described parts of it as "Mike Lindell narrating a PDF about how we should probably have a civil war."
Steve Bannon (R-For Rent), the former President Donald Trump (R-Lock Him Up)'s chief strategist, believes that the upcoming Senate trial could be bad news for his old boss.
"The Democrats have a very emotional and compelling case," Bannon, a preeminent ideologue of the US far-right, told Politico.
It is unlikely that Senate will convict Trump. It would require a two-thirds majority, which has not ever happened before.
But, in Bannon's eyes, the court of public opinion might not acquit him for the deadly insurrection on January 6.
Bannon could be facing legal woes of his own. He is under investigation in New York for a fund-raising scheme that allegedly defrauded people who had donated towards the building of Trump's border wall between the US and Mexico, according to reports.
Former President Donald Trump (R-Lock Him Up)'s unsuccessful reelection campaign reported it paid over $6,000 to a business belonging to an Arizona legislator who sought to have the Legislature overturn Joe Biden's win in the state.
The campaign's latest financial disclosure include a Dec. 18 payment of $6,037 to a professional limited liability corporation belonging to Republican Rep. Mark Finchem for an expense labeled as “recount: legal consulting," the Arizona Republic reported Saturday.
Finchem, a Tucson-area Republican who is not a lawyer, told the newspaper the payment was reimbursement for “crowd control and security costs" for a Nov. 30 post-election meeting he convened at a Phoenix hotel for presentations by Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani and others.
The corporation listed in the campaign's disclosure was not disclosed in Finchem's most recent financial disclosure, which covered all of 2020, the Republic reported.
Republican leaders of the Arizona Legislature rejected Finchem's idea to have the Legislature convene and appoint presidential electors of its choosing.
Getting in and out of the Gaza Strip is never easy, but the coronavirus pandemic coupled with the ongoing blockade around the Palestinian enclave has led to one American family saying they are stranded there, unable to return to the United States.
In November, Hani Almadhoun and his family traveled from their Virginia home to Gaza, where he grew up, to say goodbye to his dying grandfather. Along with his wife, Roa, and their daughters, ages 6 and 4, he became stuck after Gaza's crossing points into Israel and Egypt were further restricted because of Covid-19.
Almadhoun, 39, told NBC News Thursday, he felt "abandoned" by the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem, which he said had repeatedly dismissed his pleas for assistance. Ultimately, he said, he believed more would have been done to help repatriate him if he were white, rather than an Arab.
Born in the United Arab Emirates, Almadhoun moved to Gaza in the early 1990s and then to Utah on a scholarship to study in 2000. He became an American citizen in 2013.
"It's not like we came here and we don't know that Gaza's a mess — we do," Almadhoun said. "But, you know, Grandpa is somebody who's very significant here and you want to see him. We're glad we did that, but now we're like: ‘Hey, how about going back?’"
For those looking for an accessory a little out of this world, an auction house has an extraordinary offering: meteorites.
In an online sale, Christie’s auction house is presenting a portfolio of celestial objects, including specimens hailing from the moon and Mars, as well as aesthetic iron meteorites and rocks containing gemstones.
Meteorites are small natural objects from space that survive their passage through Earth’s atmosphere and land on the surface — and while some of the specimens are housed in museums, 75 of them are being sold this month as part of “Deep Impact: Martian, Lunar and Other Rare Meteorites” auction.
Also on sale is a cross-section of Martian rock, with bubbles of the planet’s atmosphere trapped inside the slice, estimated at $30,000-50,000. Auctioneers are also offering a specimen of meteorite hailing from the US’ largest meteorite shower, in Odessa, Texas, which auctioneers expect could fetch $60,000, along with a sphere fashioned from the meteoritic core of a shattered Swedish asteroid, which could sell for $18,000.
But not all of the objects command astronomical prices — some of the otherworldly items have a reserve tag starting at $250 for the auction, which will start on February 9.
Like humans, marmosets – tiny monkeys with Einstein-like ear tufts native to Brazil – eavesdrop on conversations between others, and prefer to approach individuals they view positively, a study in the journal Science Advances showed Wednesday.
While behavioral research has built up knowledge around the social lives of primates, it has tended to lack reliable ways to determine an individual's "inside perspective," or the inner workings of her or his mind.
Marmosets are an ideal species to study because of their close-knit social structure: They live in highly cooperative groups of around 15 family members, with the entire extended clan responsible for rearing children.
A team led by Rahel Brugger at the University of Zurich (UZH) presented 21 captive-born adult marmosets with recordings from a hidden speaker of an opposite sex adult making either food-offering calls or aggressive chatter calls in response to begging infants.
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