• Early in his career, filmmaker John Waters and the actors in his films lived in cheap lodgings. However, they had no trouble getting repairs made. For example, when the heater conked out, Mr. Waters would simply telephone the landlord and say, “We know where you live, and since we don’t have any heat, we’ll be there tonight to stay with your family.”
• Movie crews sometimes have interesting assignments. When Fred Astaire’s Top Hat was ready to film, Benito Mussolini controlled Italy, and the movie’s producers knew that they could not get permission to film in Venice; therefore, they ordered the movie crew, “Build us Venice.” They got what they wanted.
• Action star Jackie Chan was injured during the filming of his action movie Rumble in the Bronx, so he had to wear a cast over his foot. No problem. Over the cast, Mr. Chan wore a sock that had been painted to resemble a tennis shoe and continued filming.
• While filming the movie The Flame of the Desert in Egypt, opera singer Geraldine Farrar was so annoyed by the stink of a camel that each day she drenched it with perfume. This solved the problem, but at great expense.
Screenplays
• Filmmaker George Lucas finds writing difficult. Early in his career, he wrote the script for his first feature, THX 1138, which was about a future dystopia. At one point, he looked at the draft and decided it was terrible. He showed it to a friend, Francis Ford Coppola, who read it and agreed that it was terrible: “It is. You’re absolutely right.” Nevertheless, he learned to write, and he created the screenplays (with some help from friends) for American Graffiti and Star Wars.
• W.C. Fields used to take great delight in ripping off movie studios. He would write a script, then sell it to his movie studio for $25,000. The movie studio then would give the script back to him. However, because Mr. Fields had story approval, he would reject the script, then write another script and sell it to the studio for an additional $25,000.
• Fred Astaire was very complimentary to the writers of his movies. Betty Comden and Adolph Green once read one of their scripts to him, and he said, “You can’t ever top that. Nothing could ever be as good as that.”
Sex
• Marco Perella, a Texan actor, worked with Renée Zellweger before she made it big. One day, she wanted to play cards with Marco and three other men in a trailer during a break and because it was cold, she wanted to close the door of the trailer. Marco explained to sweet, innocent Renée that closing the door wasn’t a good idea because of the gossip that was sure to be aroused. When Renée understood what Marco was saying, she went to the door of the trailer and shouted, “ATTENTION, EVERYBODY! I JUST WANT EVERYONE TO KNOW THAT I’M CLOSING THIS DOOR SO WE CAN GET WARM, AND THAT DOESN’T MEAN WE’RE HAVING SEX! WE’RE PLAYING CARDS! WE’RE NOT SCREWING! NO HANKY-PANKY HERE! EVERYBODY, RELAX! NO SEX! NO SEX! NO SEX!” She then closed the door and said, “Deal.”
• Marilyn Monroe went to the Beverly Hills Hotel one morning to have breakfast with a friend, Nunnally Johnson. When the doorman rang Mr. Johnson’s room to announce Ms. Monroe’s presence, Mr. Johnson said, “Send her up.” However, the doorman explained that it was hotel policy not to allow young ladies to visit gentlemen in their rooms. Mr. Johnson replied, “She isn’t a young lady — she’s a call girl. Send her up.” The doorman sent her up.
Once an Italian-speaking Republic, the fourth-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea is now one of the eighteen regions of France. What is the name of this island whose most famous son was born in the capital, Ajaccio?
A nickel is a five-cent coin struck by the United States Mint. Composed of 75% copper and 25% nickel, the piece has been issued since 1866. Its diameter is .835 inches (21.21 mm) and its thickness is .077 inches (1.95 mm). Due to inflation, the purchasing power of the nickel continues to drop, and currently the coin represents less than 1% of the federal hourly minimum wage. In 2018, over 1.26 billion nickels were produced at the Philadelphia and Denver mints.
The initial design of the Shield nickel was struck from 1866 until 1883, then was replaced by the Liberty Head nickel. The Buffalo nickel was introduced in 1913 as part of a drive to increase the beauty of American coinage; in 1938, the Jefferson nickel followed. In 2004 and 2005, special designs in honor of the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark Expedition were issued. In 2006, the Mint reverted to using Jefferson nickel designer Felix Schlag's original reverse (or "tails" side), although a new obverse, by Jamie Franki, was substituted. As of the end of FY 2013, it cost more than nine cents to produce a nickel; the Mint is exploring the possibility of reducing cost by using less expensive metals.
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Copper.
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Copper.
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copper
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Copper.
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Copper.
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Copper.
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Copper
Jim from CA, retired to ID, wrote:
75% copper and 25% nickel
Deborah, the Master Gardener replied:
My WAG: Zinc. Because I don’t really know.
Quick rainstorm blew through overnight and wetted things down. I may not have to water again for a day. Whee.
zorch responded:
75 percent copper.
Rosemary in Columbus said:
Copper
DJ Useo wrote:
The answer is copper. The metal, not the policeman.
I wish I had a nickel. I do have plastic.
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“SMUGGLED TO THE BLUE LIGHT is this week’s collection. Don’t be deceived, there may be a banjo on the cover but the songs within are far more diverse. From country to rap to punk (and back again)! The title is a reference to our good friends and frequent collaborators, The Blue Light Smugglers, who contribute their track ‘A Day In May.’ We also welcome back the cosmic country surf of Grant Nesmith and the endless experimentalism of Shwarma. FDH Records contribute a frantic punk adventure from Canine-10. As always, please download, listen loud, dig deeper with your discoveries, and support Aldora Britain Records and independent music.”
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The only thing the GOP has to fear is the maga mob and its dear leader! But, since they have shit for brains and cannot recognize truth, or facts, or lies, OR SHIT, or the THREE gods they once worshipped, or the graven image they now worship, or the difference between shit and brains and themselves (Spoiler Alert: there is none.) !!!
Was kinda missing yelling at lumpy on the TV, so now I let loose on tom selleck & his reverse mortgages, and chuck woolery's 'precious' metals, too, if I'm in a really cranky mood.
Tonight, Sunday:
CBS starts the night, as usual, with '60 Minutes', followed by the FRESH'Oprah With Meghan & Harry: A CBS Primetime Special', then a RERUN'The Equalizer', followed by a RERUN'The Neighborhood'.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'The Voice', followed by a FRESH'Ellen's Mean Game Of Games', then a FRESH'Good Girls'.
ABC begins the night with a FRESH'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a FRESH'American Idol', then a FRESH'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?'.
The CW fills the night with FRESH'The 26th Annual Critics Choice Awards'.
Faux has a FRESH'Cherries Wild', followed by a FRESH'Bless The Harts', then a FRESH'The Simpsons', followed by a FRESH'The Great North', then a FRESH'Bob's Burgers', followed by a FRESH'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 'Law Abiding Citizen', 'The Walking Dead', followed by a FRESH'The Walking Dead', then a FRESH'Talking Dead'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] HIDDEN HABITATS
[6:15AM] CHIMPS OF THE LOST GORGE
[7:15AM - 9:15AM] BABY CHIMP RESCUE
[10:15AM] PLANET EARTH: DYNASTIES
[11:15AM] SEVEN WORLDS, ONE PLANET
[12:15PM] THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY
[4:15PM] THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG
[8:00PM] THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY
[12:00AM] THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG
[3:45AM] DOCTOR WHO - ORPHAN 55
[4:51AM] DOCTOR WHO - CAN YOU HEAR ME? (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has a FRESH'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', followed by another FRESH'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', then a FRESH'Married To Medicine', followed by a FRESH'Watch What Happens: Live'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Grown Ups 2', followed by the movie 'Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues', and 'South Park - The Pandemic Special'.
FX has the movie 'Descpicable Me 3', followed by the movie 'How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World'.
History has 'The Food That Built America', another 'The Food That Built America', followed by a FRESH'The Food That Built America', then a FRESH'Modern Marvels'.
IFC -
[6:00am - 12:30pm] Three's Company
[1:00pm] Battle: Los Angeles
[3:30pm] Transporter 2
[5:30pm] The Bourne Identity
[8:00pm] The Bourne Supremacy
[10:30pm] The Bourne Ultimatum
[1:00am] Cloverfield
[2:45am] The Devil's Rejects
[5:15am] The Three Stooges - Three Little Beers
[5:30am] The Three Stooges (ALL TIMES ET)
Sundance -
[6:00am] monk - Mr. Monk Gets Hypnotized
[7:00am] monk - Mr. Monk And The Miracle
[8:00am] monk - Mr. Monk And The Other Brother
[9:00am] monk - Mr. Monk On Wheels
[10:00am] inside man
[1:00pm] hoodlum
[4:00pm] 48 hrs.
[6:00pm] another 48 hrs.
[8:00pm] 2012
[11:30pm] 2012
[3:00am] cliffhanger
[5:00am] hogan's heroes
[5:30am] hogan's heroes (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'Colombiana', followed by the movie 'Salt'.
You might have missed it, but this week the House of Representatives canceled its meetings after the Capitol police warned of “a possible plot to breach the Capitol”. Most international media did not even cover it, and this extraordinary decision barely made the front pages of most US newspapers. In fact, the Washington Post covered it in its “Metro” section. Ironically, the New York Post, a rightwing tabloid, captured the significance best with its screaming headline “House Democrats surrender to QAnon, scrap March 4 session amid fortified Capitol”.
What was the alleged threat that made the Democrats decide to cancel House meetings, something that has not happened since the attacks of 9/11? Even on 6 January, when pro-Trump rioters literally attacked the US Capitol, Congress returned to its session. According to news coverage, intelligence sources told Congress there was online chatter within QAnon circles that Donald Trump was going to be inaugurated for a second term on 4 March, the original inauguration date set in the constitution. Some federal sources also believed that militia members were involved, although it is unclear whether they had actually announced or promoted violence.
Unfortunately, we will likely never know the real extent of the threat; intelligence agencies operate in almost complete secrecy in the US, with little congressional oversight, and almost no transparency to the broader public. But let’s assume, for argument’s sake, that there was indeed a far-right militia or militias that were planning to ensure that the former president was “inaugurated” this March. Are we really to believe that this threat was so serious that the state could not protect one of the most important institutions of its democratic system?
Of course, that is exactly what seemed to happen earlier this year, on 6 January. But as investigations into that event have shown, the main reason the far-right mob was able to successfully storm the Capitol was the stunning incompetence of the Capitol police as well as White House sabotage of plans to support the police with national guard forces. But Trump has left the White House and Joe Biden has said he takes the threat of far-right domestic violent extremism very seriously. Moreover, Washington DC has been transformed into a garrison city in the wake of January’s so-called insurrection.
Amanda Gorman, the 22-year-old poet who captured hearts at the inauguration of President Joe Biden, posted to social media that she was followed home by a security guard who demanded to know where she lived because she “looked suspicious.”
“I showed my keys & buzzed myself into my building,” she tweeted of the incident Friday night. “He left, no apology. This is the reality of black girls: One day you’re called an icon, the next day, a threat.”
Gorman, the nation’s youngest inaugural poet, lives in Los Angeles but did not specify where the encounter occurred. Her spokeswoman did not immediately return an email Saturday seeking additional comment.
The post was met with thousands of messages of support on Twitter and Instagram. She followed up her post with a second comment that said:
“In a sense, he was right. I AM A THREAT: a threat to injustice, to inequality, to ignorance. Anyone who speaks the truth and walks with hope is an obvious and fatal danger to the powers that be. A threat and proud.”
A Massachusetts judge has dismissed a lawsuit by a woman claiming that she, not Harvard University, is the rightful owner of haunting images of an enslaved father and daughter who she says were her ancestors.
The judge acknowledged that the daguerreotypes had been taken under “horrific circumstances” but said that if the enslaved subjects, Renty and Delia, did not own the images when they were taken in 1850, then the woman who brought the lawsuit, Tamara Lanier, did not own them either.
“Fully acknowledging the continuing impact slavery has had in the United States, the law, as it currently stands, does not confer a property interest to the subject of a photograph regardless of how objectionable the photograph’s origins may be,” Justice Camille F. Sarrouf of Middlesex County Superior Court wrote in a judgment filed Tuesday.
Renty and Delia were stripped to the waist in the daguerreotypes, taken in 1850, and treated as scientific evidence of a discredited theory that Black people were inferior. The images, part of a project commissioned by Louis Agassiz, a prominent Harvard professor and zoologist, were hidden away in a Harvard museum until 1976. Their discovery caused a sensation because they were thought to be the earliest known photographs of American slaves.
The judge also rejected Lanier’s claim that Harvard had exploited the photographs for financial gain — for example, by putting Renty’s image on the cover of a book — saying that the right to control commercial use of the photographs had expired with the deaths of the subjects.
America's oldest collegiate debate society has voted to strip Sen. Rafael "Ted" Cruz (R-Sedition) of its highest honor, according to The Daily Princetonian.
Princeton University's American Whig-Cliosphic Society passed a motion to rescind the James Madison Award for Distinguish Public Service awarded to Cruz in 2016, the newspaper reported.
Members of the society proposed the motion because unhappy at Cruz's support of baseless voter fraud claims in the 2020 election and the January 6 Capitol attack.
The award - introduced in 1960 - is bestowed upon individuals who have "taken up the arduous but righteous cause of dedicating their life to the betterment of society," according to the society's website.
This is the first time in the society's history that members have voted to rescind this award, The Daily Princetonian said.
Mail-in ballots did not help Democrats or lead to a voting increase during the election, according to a new Stanford University study.
Published on March 5, the paper examines how absentee voting affected the 2020 US election by studying turnout rates in Texas, a state which decided not to ease its mail-in voting system process despite many others choosing to do so because of the pandemic.
While Texan voters aged 65 or over could automatically vote by mail, younger people had to provide a legally justifiable reason to be able to do such as having a disability, the Associated Press reported.
Both age groups had identical voting rates with only 0.2% more Democrats in the older one, showing that mail-in ballots did not in fact increase the Democrats' share of the vote, AP added.
Republicans have baselessly maintained that the expansion of mail ballot votes was a major reason why Donald Trump (R-Liar) lost the election and have legally challenged various states on their decision to do so.
Former President Donald Trump (R-Lock Him Up) has clashed again with his Republican Party, demanding that three Republican groups stop using his name and likeness for fundraising, a Trump adviser said on Saturday.
The adviser, confirming a report in Politico, said lawyers for Trump on Friday had sent cease-and-desist letters to the Republican National Committee, National Republican Congressional Campaign and National Republican Senate Campaign, asking them to stop using his name and likeness on fundraising emails and merchandise.
The adviser said Trump is sensitive to the use of his name and likeness for branding purposes and was irked that the three groups have supported Republican lawmakers who joined Democrats in voting to impeach him over the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol by pro-Trump protesters.
Trump is using his Save America SuperPAC to raise money in part to help hand-picked Republican candidates in the 2022 congressional elections. Some of them are expected to challenge Republican incumbents.
Donald Trump (R-Lock Him Up)'s rapidly expanding Republican enemies list now includes The Wall Street Journal editorial page and veteran GOP political guru Karl Rove, after both said his attacks on GOP members are hurting the party.
In a written statement issued Thursday night, Trump called on Fox News to fire Rove as a political commentator, calling him a RINO – Republican In Name Only – "of the highest order."
"Karl Rove has been losing for years, except for himself," Trump said in the statement put out by a political action committee called the "Save America PAC."
The statement, on the heels of a similar blast by Trump at the Journal, reflected rising tensions between Trump and establishment Republicans, who fear the ex-president will undercut plans to regain control of Congress in 2022 and the White House in 2024.
Trump's attack on Rove came just hours after he issued a written statement slamming The Wall Street Journal editorial page for backing "globalist policies" — and blaming Trump for the loss of the White House and Republican control of the U.S. Senate.
Traveling across the rugged, unforgiving and roadless Alaska terrain is already hard enough, but whatever comforts mushers previously had in the world’s most famous sled dog race will be cast aside this year due to the pandemic.
In years past, mushers would stop in any number of 24 villages that serve as checkpoints, where they could get a hot meal, maybe a shower and sleep — albeit “cheek to jowl” — in a warm building before getting back to the nearly 1,000-mile (1,609-kilometer) Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. When the race starts Sunday north of Anchorage, they will spend the next week or so mostly camping in tents outside towns, and the only source of warmth — for comfort or to heat up frozen food and water — will come from their camp cookers.
“It’s a little bit old school,” said Iditarod CEO Rob Urbach.
This year’s Iditarod will be marked by pandemic precautions, a route change, no spectators, the smallest field of competitors in decades, the return of one former champion and the swan song of a fan favorite, all against the backdrop of pressure on the race and sponsors by an animal rights group.
The most noticeable change this year will be no spectators. The fan-friendly ceremonial start in downtown Anchorage, which draws thousands of people, has been canceled, and the actual start in Willow of the race is being moved to a boat dock 7 miles (11 kilometers) out to help cutdown on fans who would normally attend the race start just off a main highway. Urbach is encouraging fans to watch the race start and finish live on TV or on the Internet.
For the first time, astronomers have detected a powerful, 600-mile-wide (1,000 kilometers) hurricane of plasma in Earth's upper atmosphere — a phenomenon they're calling a "space hurricane."
The space hurricane raged for nearly 8 hours on Aug. 20, 2014, swirling hundreds of miles above Earth's magnetic North Pole, according to a study published Feb. 22 in the journal Nature Communications.
Made from a tangled mess of magnetic field lines and fast-flying solar wind, the hurricane was invisible to the naked eye — however, four weather satellites that passed over the North Pole detected a formation not unlike a typical terrestrial hurricane, the study authors wrote. The space hurricane was shaped like a funnel with a quiet "eye" at the center, surrounded by several counterclockwise-spinning spiral arms of plasma (ionized gas found all over the solar system, including in Earth's atmosphere).
Instead of raining water, the space hurricane rained electrons directly into Earth's upper atmosphere.
"Until now, it was uncertain that space plasma hurricanes even existed, so to prove this with such a striking observation is incredible," study co-author Mike Lockwood, space scientist at the University of Reading in the U.K., said in a statement. "Tropical storms are associated with huge amounts of energy, and these space hurricanes must be created by unusually large and rapid transfer of solar wind energy and charged particles into the Earth's upper atmosphere."
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