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What's it like to find yourself used as a character in someone else's novel? It has now happened to David Jenkins twice. He finds out how other people feel.
Humphrey Bogart was involved in a serious automobile accident late in the production of Beat the Devil (1953).
Several of his teeth were knocked out in the accident, hindering his ability to speak clearly. Director
John Huston hired a young British actor
noted for his mimicry skills to re-record some of Bogart's dialog during post-production looping. Who was that British actor?
A: Peter Cooke
B: Dudley Moore
C: Spike Milligan
D: Peter Sellers
E: Terry Thomas
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mj, up bright and early, was first, and correct, with:
Let's go with D. He was incredibly versitile.
McDonald answered:
Terry Thomas
Purple Gene responded:
After Bogarts accident John Huston hired a young actor who had not only been a Corporal in the R.A.F. (He later played a Corporal in the R.A.F. named Lionel Mandrake in Dr. Strangelove") but played the "Goon" on the british radio "The Goon Show"...his voice over skill gave him the ability to over-dub Bogie's voice.
This same actor went on star as Inspector Clouseau in "The Pink Panther" and Chance in "Being There"
The answer is D.....Peter Sellers
Charlie replied:
And it is said to be indistinguishable from Bogart. No one will ever
mistake Inspector Clouseau for Sam Spade, however.
Alan J succinctly summed it up with:
Peter Sellers
Joe S ("The only point in making money is so you can tell some big shot where to go."
-- Humphrey Bogart) answered:
I have no idea what the answer is so I'm going to guess E: Terry Thomas because I like his teeth. I think they're funny.
Sally said:
Peter Sellers (D) was the young British actor, noted for his mimicry skills, who re-recorded some of Bogart's dialog for the production of "Beat the Devil" (1953) during post-production looping.
PS: As promised, I am sending you another small (but sincere) donation for your computer fund. Now that the IRS is out of the way, I can sit back and await my puny refund from them :)
PPS: PLS get that new computer up and running (SNAFU's out of the way) before the conventions start! I don't want to miss a day here...
Day Late -
Joe S ("1939 is remembered among cinephiles for the large number of quality productions Hollywood released that year, The Wizard of Oz, Drums Along the Mohawk, Ninotchka, Mr Smith Goes to Washington, Stagecoach, Dark Victory, Love Affair and Gone with the Wind among them. Such escapist pictures entertained audiences and often made money, but the Warner Brothers, Harry Warner in particular, kept an eye on tense conditions in Europe' were strongly opposed to nazism and felt that the studio should also make pictures that promoted the American way of life and decried the rise of fascism...") replied to the question about the first US studio to be open to its opposition to the Nazi regime:
Warner Brothers_ was the first Hollywood studio to be open about its opposition to the Nazi regime, and the first to prohibit its films from being distributed in Nazi-occupied territories.
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH'Big Brother 9', then a RERUN'Cold Case', followed by a recycled 'Dexter'.
NBC opens the night with a 2-hour 'Dateline', followed by a RERUN'Law & Order', then a RERUN'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
ABC begins the night with a RERUN'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a FRESH'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition', then a FRESH'Oprah's Big Fake Reality Show', followed by a FRESH'Here Come The Newlyweds'.
The CW offers a RERUN'America's Next Top Model', followed by a FRESH'Everybody Hates Chris', then a FRESH'Aliens In America', followed by a FRESH'The Game', then a RERUN'Girlfriends'.
Faux has a RERUN'King Of The Hill', followed by a RERUN'American Dad', then a RERUN'Simpsons', followed by a FRESH'Unhitched', then a RERUN'Family Guy', followed by another FRESH'Unhitched'.
MY has an old 'King Of Queens', followed by an old 'Raymond', then the movie 'Mo' Money'.
A&E has 'Crime 360', 'The First 48', another 'The First 48', and 'The Sopranos'.
AMC offers the movie 'Forrest Gump', followed by the movie 'Geronimo: An American Legend', then 'Breaking Bad'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 3;
[1:00 PM] Doctor Who - Eps 8 & 9;
[3:00 PM] Prince William and Prince Harry: Princess Diana's Legacy;
[4:00 PM] H.M. The Queen: A Remarkable Life;
[5:00 PM] Diana: In the Name of Love;
[6:00 PM] Charles & William: Royal Rivals?;
[7:00 PM] MI-5 - Ep 2 The Sleeper;
[8:00 PM] Mona Lisa - Mona Lisa;
[10:00 PM] Dumped - Episode 3;
[11:00 PM] Mona Lisa - Mona Lisa;
[1:00 AM] Dumped - Episode 3;
[2:00 AM] Mona Lisa - Mona Lisa;
[4:00 AM] Dumped - Episode 3;
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Episode 5;
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Episode 6;
[6:00 AM] BBC World News. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has all 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent' all night.
Comedy Central has 'Futurama', another 'Futurama', followed by a (F) 'Futurama', then another FRESH'Futurama', still another FRESH'Fururama', still another 'Futurama', 'SouthPark', and 'Lewis Black's Root Of All Evil'.
FX has the movie 'In Her Shoes', followed by 'Dirt'.
History has 'Ax Men', 'Crucifixion', and another 'Ax Men'.
IFC -
[06:15 AM] My Brilliant Career;
[08:00 AM] The Virgin Spring;
[09:35 AM] Picnic at Hanging Rock;
[11:30 AM] IFC News Special: 2008 Elections;
[12:00 PM] Proof;
[01:35 PM] My Brilliant Career;
[03:25 PM] The Hard Word;
[05:20 PM] IFC In Theaters;
[05:30 PM] Picnic at Hanging Rock;
[07:30 PM] Proof;
[09:05 PM] The Human Stain;
[11:00 PM] The Whitest Kids U'Know #207;
[11:30 PM] The Whitest Kids U'Know #206;
[12:00 AM] Never Die Alone;
[01:30 AM] IFC News Special: 2008 Elections;
[02:00 AM] The Whitest Kids U'Know #207;
[02:30 AM] The Whitest Kids U'Know #206;
[03:00 AM] The Human Stain;
[04:50 AM] The Hard Word. (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has the movie 'Scorcher', followed by the movie 'Earthstorm'.
Sundance -
[04:55 AM] Southern Belles;
[06:30 AM] L'Avventura;
[09:00 AM] Gipsy Kings, Natasha Bedingfield & Iron Maiden;
[10:00 AM] Episode 3;
[11:00 AM] Episode 2: Mikhail Baryshnikov + Alice Waters;
[12:00 PM] Wassup Rockers;
[02:00 PM] Episode 2: Fallow Time;
[03:00 PM] Episode 7;
[03:35 PM] Dead in the Water;
[04:30 PM] Fridays at the Farm;
[04:55 PM] Furnish;
[05:30 PM] Father and Son;
[07:00 PM] The Secret Life of Words;
[09:00 PM] Episode 4;
[10:00 PM] Jude;
[12:00 AM] The Bow;
[01:30 AM] Waterborne;
[03:00 AM] Episode 2;
[03:30 AM] Episode 8;
[04:00 AM] Episode 4;
[05:00 AM] Transylvania. (ALL TIMES EST)
Ute Henschel, of the slavic sorbs minority displays completed eggs decorated with a special colour wax technique at the open air museum of Lehde, about 110 kilometres (68 miles) south-east of Berlin March 13, 2008. The sorbs, a German minority of about 60,000 people, are mainly resident in the east German states of Brandenburg and Saxony. Germans are preparing for Easter on March 23 in which according to tradition people eat painted eggs.
Photo by Fabrizio Bensch
It would be easy to say Hope Foye was ahead of her time. But it may be better to say Foye was one of those who set the stage - and paid the price - for many African-American pioneers to follow.
The story of Hope Foye is one of a performing artist who neither abided by nor fit prescribed rules and roles, who fought the system and challenged prevailing ideologies.
Had she been a different person, maybe she could have shared the stage with Ella Fitzgerald or Lena Horne.
Maybe she wouldn't have been stigmatized like contemporaries such as Pete Seeger and her role model, Paul Robeson.
Maybe she wouldn't have been punished by the McCarran Committee, which along with the House on Un-American Activities Committee carried many of the unseemly inquiries of McCarthy Era politics.
New York Yankees pitcher Jonathan Albaladejo watches from the mound as actor and director Ron Howard shows the ball to catcher Jorge Posada before throwing out the first pitch in the Yankees' spring training baseball game against the Toronto Blue Jays at Legends Field in Tampa, Fla., Saturday, March 22, 2008. The game was called because of rain in the bottom of the second inning.
Photo by Kathy Willens
"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" was resurrected for one night only.
The cast of the popular supernatural series, which ran from 1997 to 2003, were in good spirits Thursday while reuniting for a panel discussion at the William S. Paley Television Festival. That doesn't mean fans should expect the gang to get back together on screen.
"So many stars would have to align," creator Joss Whedon said about the possibility of a new "Buffy" project.
Before the panel, audience members watched the fifth-season musical episode "Once More, With Feeling." Other cast members at the reunion were Amber Benson, Nicholas Brendon, Emma Caulfield, Seth Green, James Marsters and Michelle Trachtenberg, who played Buffy's surprise sister Dawn and will join the cast of "Gossip Girl" this fall.
When Marion Cotillard won the best-actress Academy Award in February for her portrayal of singer Edith Piaf in "La Vie En Rose," Jil Aigrot, at home in the South of France, became "very emotional."
"I was so very, very, very happy for all the team," Aigrot says, speaking as her daughter, Caroline, acts as a translator. "A lot of people worked hard for that movie."
Among them was Aigrot, who performed many of the vocals that Cotillard lip-synched to in the film, under guidance from the actress and director Olivier Dahan.
And while Cotillard may have received the bulk of the fanfare to date, the career of Aigrot -- a veteran stage vocalist with appearances on French TV shows "Qui Est Qui" and "C'est L'ete" -- is being bolstered in the United States thanks to the film.
Riders compete on horse-drawn buggies during the 39th Ice Derby on the frozen Yenisei River near the settlement of Novoselovo, some 240 km (149 miles) south of the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, March 22, 2008. The race draws participants from among local farmers and is one of the most popular sport events in the year in this remote Siberian region.
Photo by Ilya Naymushin
It seems almost everybody wants a piece of Britney Spears, and at least six pieces are officially for sale.
Spears' wardrobe from her guest-starring stint on CBS' "How I Met Your Mother" will be sold at an online auction to benefit the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental organization.
The weeklong auction begins Monday night, just after the episode featuring the pop star is set to air. Spears plays a flirty receptionist who falls for show's main character.
Another cable network might be on the move. Sundance Channel, the joint venture among CBS, NBC Universal and Sundance founder Robert Redford, is on the block, Wall Street analyst Rich Greenfield said.
Greenfield, the Pali Research analyst who tends to make more audacious pronouncements than some of his peers, issued a report Tuesday declaring a potential sale: "According to multiple Pali sources, (Sundance Channel) has been put up for sale over the past several weeks." Reps for the network said they would not comment on the report. CBS and NBC Universal also declined comment.
The report did not specify who might buy the network, though Greenfield offered suggestions of his own, including Time Warner, Viacom and Cablevision. It was unclear whether one of the current partners might be interested in buying out the other partners' stakes.
If Redford gave up his 10 percent stake in the channel (NBC Universal owns 55 percent and CBS 35 percent), it could change what is now an informal relationship between the network and the Sundance Film Festival and Sundance Institute.
Baby ostriches are seen at the Ba Vi Ostrich Research Center in Ha Tay Province,Vietnam, Wednesday, March 12, 2008. The center located 70 kilometers northwest of Hanoi, has now some 300 breeding ostriches and some 700 baby ostriches and the center sells yearly some 2000 to 3000 baby ostriches to farmers in 40 provinces throughout the country, though they started as some 150 ostriches imparted from Australia and some 100 ostrich eggs from Zimbabwe. Ostrich are raised for meat, skins which are used to make handbags, shoes and its eggs, which are used to make handicrafts.
Photo by Chitose Suzuki
Pamela Anderson's newest husband - apparently a specialist in short relationships with celebrities - agrees that their two-month marriage should be voided, according to court papers filed Friday.
Rick Salomon agrees in papers responding to a filing by the "Baywatch" actress that the marriage should be annulled because of fraud, though neither set of documents elaborated.
Salomon did not ask for spousal support and asked that it not be awarded to Anderson.
Salomon is known for making a sex videotape with then-girlfriend Paris Hilton and was previously married to actress Shannen Doherty for nine months.
Police in three western Pennsylvania towns are looking for a man who pretends to be a basketball coach and scams McDonald's restaurants out of food and money using bad checks.
Police say the man drives up in a school-type bus and enters the restaurants ordering about $50 of food for his "team." The man then pays with a $150 check that appears to be from a school district and takes his food and his change, in cash.
The stores learned they were scammed when the checks bounced.
Police say it happened March 14 at McDonald's in Warren and Grove City and the next day in Titusville.
In this photo released by the U.S. Army, U.S. Vice President Dick "Go Fuck Yourself" Cheney (R-Draft Dodger), right, reenlists six service members during a ceremony at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, Thursday, March 20, 2008. U.S. Vice President Dick "5 Deferrments" Cheney (R-Had Better Things To Do) on Thursday called his country's commitment to Afghanistan 'firm and unshakable' and said members of NATO need to step up their commitment to help it continue to rebound from years of tyranny and war.
Photo by Sgt. Jim Wilt
Scientists who conducted the most comprehensive survey to date of New Zealand's Antarctic waters were surprised by the size of some specimens found, including jellyfish with 12-foot tentacles and 2-foot-wide starfish.
A 2,000-mile journey through the Ross Sea that ended Thursday has also potentially turned up several new species, including as many as eight new mollusks.
The survey was part of the International Polar Year program involving 23 countries in 11 voyages to survey marine life and habitats around Antarctica. The program hopes to set benchmarks for determining the effects of global warming on Antarctica, researchers said.
Science-fiction visionary Arthur C. Clarke has been buried in Sri Lanka to the music of his most famous work, the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey."
His brief funeral today was held according to his written instructions: "Absolutely no religious rites of any kind, relating to any religious faith, should be associated with my funeral."
The Ekanayake family, with whom the British author lived in the final decades of his life, cried as his coffin was lowered into the grave at the general cemetery in Colombo, capital of the island-nation in the Indian Ocean.
Tamara Ekanayake, the daughter of Clarke's business partner and longtime friend Hector Ekanayake, made a brief speech at their home before the funeral procession began. She said Clarke's gravestone would be engraved according to his wishes: "Here lies Arthur C. Clarke. He never grew up and did not stop growing."
In this photo released by the Wildlife Conservation Society, a Red-handed tamarin examines an Easter Basket, Wednesday, March 19, 2008, at the Bronx Zoo in New York. The exercise is part of the zoo's animal enrichment program as the creative keeper staff work to keep the animals in their care stimulated mentally and physically. This species gets its name because of its reddish-orange hair on its hands and feet.
Photo by Julie Larsen Maher
"Easy Rider" associate producer Bill Hayward, part of a regal Hollywood family whose talent and beauty was often overshadowed by its demons, has died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, authorities said Thursday. He was 66.
"He was a wonderful man and this is a great tragedy for our family," "Easy Rider" director and star Dennis Hopper said in a statement. Hopper was married to and had a daughter with Hayward's sister Brooke in the 1960s.
Hayward was born March 27, 1941, the son of theatrical agent Leland Hayward and actress Margaret Sullavan, whose family is as famous for its tragedy and torment as its moviemaking.
Sullavan, who starred in the film "The Shop Around the Corner" and also had been married to Henry Fonda and director William Wyler, died of a drug overdose. Her daughter Bridget died of an overdose eight months later.
The family's troubles were chronicled in Brooke Hayward's best-selling 1977 memoir "Haywire," which became a 1980 TV movie that Bill Hayward produced.
Hayward collaborated with Peter Fonda and Hopper on "Easy Rider," the groundbreaking countercultural 1969 biker pic, and worked largely as an entertainment lawyer after that, with only occasional producing credits.
In addition to sister Brooke, Bill Hayward is survived by a son, Leland Hayward of Los Angeles, and a daughter, Bridget Hayward of Washington, D.C.
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