MENACHEM Z. ROSENSAFT: "My mother: A heroine of the Holocaust" (Jerusalem Post)
Among the approximately 58,000 prisoners British troops liberated at the Nazi concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen in Germany on April 15, 1945, were 149 Jewish children whom my mother and a small group of other women inmates had kept alive despite the gruesome conditions that prevailed there.
Vietnam hero to receive Medal of Honor posthumously (ARNEWS)
President Barack Obama has announced that Spc. 4 Leslie H. Sabo Jr., a rifleman with the 101st Airborne Division, will posthumously receive the Medal of Honor May 16 for his actions during the Vietnam War. Sabo is credited with saving the lives of several of his comrades in Company B, 3rd Battalion, 506th Infantry when his platoon was ambushed May 10, 1970 near the Se San River in eastern Cambodia. Sabo shielded a comrade from an enemy grenade and silenced a machine-gun bunker before he was killed.
Roger Ebert: Fake It So Real (Unrated; 3 ˝ stars)
"Fake It So Real" filled me with affection for its down-and-out heroes, a group of semi-pro wrestlers in Lincolnton, N.C. On Saturday nights, they rent a hall, construct their own ring, set out the folding chairs, stage a wrestling show, take the ring apart, truck it away and start talking about next week. For this labor, one of them jokes, they get "20 bucks, a hot dog and a pat on the ass."
Roger Ebert: La Ceremonie (1995; A Great Movie)
The French have a name for the events leading up to a death by guillotine. They call it "the ceremony." Although Claude Chabrol's "La Ceremonie" (1995) contains no guillotines, there is a relentless feeling to it, as if the characters are engaged in a performance that can have only one outcome. It comes as a surprise to all of them, and to us. But given these people in this situation, can we really say in hindsight that we're surprised?
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The inaugural Grammy Awards were held on May 4, 1959. Who won the 1st Grammy for Best Comedy Performance?
"The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)"
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The inaugural Grammy Awards were held on May 4, 1959. They recognized musical accomplishments by performers for the year 1958. Domenico Modugno, Henry Mancini, Ella Fitzgerald and Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. each won 2 awards.
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"The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)" is a song written by Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. (a.k.a. David Seville) in 1958. Although it was written and sung by Bagdasarian (in the form of a high-pitched chipmunk voice), the singing credits are given to The Chipmunks, a fictitious singing group consisting of three chipmunks by the names of Alvin, Simon, and Theodore. The song won three Grammy Awards in 1958: Best Comedy Performance, Best Children's Recording, and Best Engineered Record (non-classical).
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BttbBob was first, and correct, with:
Ross Bagdasarian Sr. for "The Chipmunk Song"... Which only proves that recorded comedy certainly was a work in progress in the 50's... Well, there was Lenny Bruce, but he wasn't exactly AM radio material, now, was he?
Alan J wrote:
Ross Bagdasarian
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. for "The Chipmunk Song", performed by Ross
Bagdasarian Sr. as "David Seville and the Chipmunks"
Charlie responded:
Ross Bagdasarian, Sr., a.k.a. David Seville, for "The Chipmunk Song"
Sally said:
Well, according to the Internets, at the inaugural Grammy Awards, held on May 4, 1959, "The Chipmunk Song", performed by Ross Bagdasarian Sr. as "David Seville and the Chipmunks" won the 1st Grammy for Best Comedy Performance.
Hey, I LOVE the chipmunks!!
PS: It has been SO dry here this winter and spring that I've had to start watering my lawn already! Okay, yesterday (before I set up my hose) I put out a bowl of water for the birds (because I'm nice to SOME creatures of nature). Damn, a few minutes later, there was a squirrel drinking the birds water, and tipping over the bowl to boot! So, I put up a small table and another bowl on top of it. Two minutes later, the squirrel AND ANOTHER ONE are up there guzzling the bird's water!! I finally gave up refilling the dumped the water, tossed out the bowl, and put the table away. These Jersey squirrels just have no manners!!
Adam answered:
Ross Bagdasarian Sr. for "The Chipmunk Song", performed by Ross Bagdasarian Sr. as "David Seville and the Chipmunks"
Ick.
Marian responded:
Ross Bagdasarian Sr.
Dale of Diamond Springs took the day off.
MAM wrote:
Ross Bagdasarian Sr. for "The Chipmunk Song", performed by Ross Bagdasarian Sr. as "David Seville and the Chipmunks".
And, Joe S answered:
Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. for "The Chipmunk Song", performed by Ross Bagdasarian Sr. as "David Seville and the Chipmunks"
Had a very bad day. Lots of pain and very tired. Slept for 4 hours during the day. The "Golden Years."
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH'Amazing Race', then a FRESH'The Good Wife', followed by a FRESH'NYC 22'.
NBC opens the night with 'Dateline', followed by a FRESH'Harry's Law', then a FRESH'T-Rump's Effrontery & Fluffery'.
ABC begins the night with a RERUN'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a FRESH'Once Upon A Time', then the FRESH made-for-TV-movie 'Firelight'.
The CW fills the night with what passes for local news and other fluffery.
Faux fills the night with the FRESH'Rupert's 25th Anniversary Special'.
MY has an old 'How I Met Your Mother', followed by another old 'How I Met Your Mother', then an old 'Big Bang Theory', followed by another old 'Big Bang Theory', then another old 'Big Bang Theory', followed by still another old Big Bang Theory', then yet another 'Big Bang Theory'.
A&E has 3 hours of old 'Storage Wars', followed by a FRESH'Breakout Kings'.
AMC offers the movie 'Sahara', followed by a FRESH'The Killing', then a FRESH'Mad Men'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] PLANET EARTH-Deserts
[6:55AM] PLANET EARTH-Ice Worlds
[8:00AM] PLANET EARTH-Great Plains
[9:05AM] PLANET EARTH-From Pole To Pole
[10:10AM] PLANET EARTH-Mountains
[11:15AM] PLANET EARTH-Fresh Water
[12:20PM] PLANET EARTH-Caves
[1:25PM] PLANET EARTH-Deserts
[2:30PM] PLANET EARTH-Ice Worlds
[3:35PM] PLANET EARTH-Great Plains
[4:40PM] PLANET EARTH-Jungles
[5:45PM] PLANET EARTH-Shallow Seas
[6:50PM] PLANET EARTH-Seasonal Forests
[7:55PM] PLANET EARTH-Ocean Deep
[9:00PM] THE MAKING OF PLANET EARTH
[11:00PM] NO KITCHEN REQUIRED-Ep 3 - Chiang Dao
[12:00AM] THE MAKING OF PLANET EARTH
[2:00AM] NO KITCHEN REQUIRED-Ep 2 - New Zealand
[3:00AM] THE MAKING OF PLANET EARTH
[5:00AM] NO KITCHEN REQUIRED-Ep 1- Dominica (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of NJ', 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', then a FRESH'Real Housewives Of NJ'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Year One', followed by the movie 'Without A Paddle', 'South Park', and 'Tosh.0'.
FX has the movie '2012', followed by the movie '2012', again.
History has 'Ax Men', another 'Ax Men', followed by a FRESH'Ax Men', then another FRESH'Ax Men'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Mrs. Dalloway
[8:00AM] A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
[10:15AM] Freaks and Geeks-Carded and Discarded
[11:15AM] Freaks and Geeks-Chokin and Tokin
[12:15PM] Freaks and Geeks-Discos and Dragons
[1:15PM] Mrs. Dalloway
[3:15PM] Affliction
[5:45PM] A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
[8:00PM] Lucky Number Slevin
[10:15PM] Lord of War
[12:45AM] Lord of War
[3:15AM] The Inglorious Bastards
[5:30AM] Action-Strong Sexual Content (ALL TIMES EDT)
Sundance -
[6:00A] Man in the Chair
[7:50A] The Trenches
[8:00A] Full Grown Men
[9:20A] Convention
[11:00A] Man in the Chair
[12:50P] Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty
[1:00P] Full Grown Men
[2:20P] Trolls
[2:30P] Convention
[4:15P] Land of the Heads
[4:25P] Man in the Chair
[6:15P] Amreeka
[8:00P] Coffee and Cigarettes
[9:40P] Beginnings: Paris
[12:00A] Nitro
[1:50A] Coffee and Cigarettes
[5:30A] THE MORTIFIED SESSIONS - Alanis Morissette & Blake Mycoskie (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has the movie 'Wrong Turn 3: Left For Dead', followed by the movie 'Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings'.
Actor Roberto Aguire (L) and actress Emma Watson arrive for the world premiere of "Struck by Lightning" as part of the Tribeca Film Festival in New York April 21, 2012.
Photo by Andrew Kelly
President Barack Obama will trade the jokers in Washington for another funnyman next Tuesday.
The commander-in-chief will make his maiden appearance on "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon" on April 24, NBC said Friday. The episode will be taped earlier in the day at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Fallon's house band The Roots will also be on hand for the taping. Dave Matthews will be the musical guest. No word on whether Obama plans to bust out his considerable vocal skills for the performance. There's also no word if The Roots will attempt an encoded message in their song choices, as they infamously did with fellow political guest Michele Bachmann.
Obama's appearance on "Fallon" follows his wife Michelle's guest spot on "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno" in January.
Musician Peter Frampton arrives at the 29th Annual ASCAP Pop Music Awards in Hollywood, California April 18, 2012. The awards are given out by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.
Photo by Jason Redmond
Country music legend Willie Nelson helped unveil a statue honoring him in downtown Austin by singing his new song "Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die" on Friday, a date long reserved to celebrate marijuana use.
The faint smell of marijuana smoke wafted through a crowd of about 2,000 people as Austin Mayor Lee Leffingwell accepted on the privately funded statue as a gift from a private arts group. Organizers said they didn't intentionally choose April 20 for the event, but once they found out, they scheduled the unveiling at 4:20 p.m. as a tongue-in-cheek reference to Nelson's openness about his marijuana use and advocacy for its legalization.
The statute stands in front of the Moody Theater, where the Austin City Limits Studio is now located. Nelson, a 10-time Grammy Award winner who has sold more than 40 million copies of his 150 albums, appeared on the first episode of the public television show in 1974.
Nelson was born in Abbott, a tiny town about 120 miles north of Austin, but he has lived in Texas' capital city since 1971.
Longtime friend and fellow singer-songwriter Kris Kristofferson congratulated Nelson, saying he couldn't have imagined the city honoring Nelson during the early days of what became known as the Cosmic Cowboy movement in music.
Actors Sean Penn and Stephen Fry, novelist Salman Rushdie and dozens of other friends paid tribute to Christopher Hitchens on Friday in a New York memorial service held four months after his death.
Vanity Fair magazine, for which the British-born journalist worked, said that popular songs of the 1960s and 1970s including "Both Sides Now" and "Like a Rolling Stone" were played at the service in the Great Hall of Cooper Union. A video of clips highlighting his brash style and wit was also played.
Others at the memorial included British authors Ian McEwan and Martin Amis, playwright Tom Stoppard, U.S. journalist Carl Bernstein, actress Olivia Wilde, physicist Lawrence Krauss and Hitchen's wife Carol Blue, Vanity Fair said.
Singer-songwriter Carly Simon (2nd L) arrives with her son, Ben Taylor (L), and Richard Kole at the 29th Annual ASCAP Pop Music Awards in Hollywood, California April 18, 2012. The awards are given out by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.
Photo by Jason Redmond
South Africa's polygamous President Jacob Zuma married for the sixth time on Friday, taking his long-time girlfriend Bongi Ngema as his newest bride and fourth current wife in a private ceremony at his rural home.
Ngema, an activist and former information technology worker, is well known in South Africa and has already accompanied the president on foreign visits.
The ceremony raised few eyebrows in a country where polygamy is legal and an integral part of Zuma's Zulu culture.
Zuma has 21 children, including a seven-year-old son with Ngema.
The president is also married to Sizakele Zuma, Nompumelelo Ntuli-Zuma and Tobeka Madiba-Zuma. They all attended the ceremony.
The U.S. Army cut aged rock musician and gun-rights advocate Ted Nugent (R-Draft Dodger) from a summer concert program at Fort Knox, Kentucky, on the same day he met with two U.S. Secret Service agents over recent comments he made about President Barack Obama.
Nugent was scheduled to perform on June 23, but officials at Fort Knox said on Thursday the singer and guitarist would not be in the lineup with co-headliners REO Speedwagon and Styx.
"After learning of opening act Ted Nugent's recent public comments about the president of the United States, Fort Knox leadership decided to cancel his performance on the installation," the Fort Knox family and morale, welfare and recreation group said on its Facebook page.
It was the latest twist for the Michigan-born conservative entertainer, who in court papers filed on Friday agreed to plead guilty to a federal wildlife violation for killing one black bear too many during an Alaska hunting trip.
Rodney King reacts to the audience as he says he was "One of the Lucky Ones" because his incident was caught on video while participating in a discussion for his memoir book titled "The Riot Within: My Journey from Rebellion to Redemption" at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on the campus of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles April 21, 2012.
Photo by Danny Moloshok
CBS Television Distribution is suing ComStar Media and FamilyNet for allegedly airing several series, including "Happy Days" and "Family Ties," without paying licensing fees for the programs.
CBS is seeking more than $1.5 million in the suit, which was filed Monday in U.S. District Court in California.
According to the suit, CBS and FamilyNet entered a licensing agreement in December 2008, to license the series "Happy Days," "Family Ties," "My Three Sons" and "Early Edition," with FamilyNet paying license fees in both a down payment and monthly installments.
However, the suit says, after ComStar Media - a company owned by GodTube founder Chris Wyatt and "Hour of Power" minister Robert Schuller - acquired FamilyNet, the payments soon stopped coming in.
CBS claims that ComStar made a payment of somewhere over $100,000 in June 2010, but haven't made any installments since then. According to the suit, ComStar says that it isn't obligated to pay the license fees, because they didn't acquire FamilyNet's liabilities when they purchased it.
A medium in a trance performs a traditional mask dance during the Khadgha Siddhi festival in Kathmandu April 21, 2012. The festival, held once in twelve years, is marked with traditional mask performances performed in various places of Kathmandu throughout the year.
Photo by Navesh Chitrakar
"Dog Whisperer" host Cesar Millan might need some consolation from man's best friend after his divorce was finalized.
TMZ is reporting that the self-taught expert dog trainer must pay his ex-wife, Ilusión, a one-time amount of $400,000, a monthly spousal payment of $23,000, and another $10,000 for monthly child support.
The recently filed divorce documents, which were obtained by TMZ, show that Millan makes $170,000 a month - which is over $2 million a year. Though he is best known for hosting the National Geographic Channel's "Dog Whisperer" for eight seasons - it has millions of viewers and is broadcast to over 80 countries - the 42-year-old has also authored several best-selling books and runs a Dog Psychology Center. The latter, according to theNew York Times , is a 43-acre mecca he calls "Disneyland for dogs."
And then there is Cesar Millan Inc., which accounts for all of Millan's ventures outside of his TV show. According to the New York Times, that includes "speaking engagements; executive leadership seminars; a line of organic dog food, fortified water, shampoos and toys ... and the charitable foundation financed by an undisclosed percentage of the company's revenue."
Ilusion, a Mexican-American who married Millan when she was 18 and he was 24, was very involved in her husband's career. She helped him run Cesar Millan Inc. and designed the Illusion Collar, which helps control difficult dogs.
A model presents a creation from the collection of Margarite Lukinets during the "Pygmalion" fashion competition for local young designers in Russia's far eastern port of Vladivostok April 21, 2012.
Photo by Yuri Maltsev
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. hushed up a vast bribery campaign that top executives of its Mexican subsidiary carried out to build stores across that country, according to a published report.
The New York Times reported Saturday that Wal-Mart failed to notify law enforcement officials even after its own investigators found evidence of millions of dollars in bribes. The newspaper said the company shut down its internal probe despite a report by its lead investigator that Mexican and U.S. laws likely were violated.
The bribery campaign was reported to have first come to the attention of senior executives at Wal-Mart in 2005, when a former executive of its largest foreign subsidiary, Wal-Mart de Mexico, provided extensive details of a bribery campaign it had orchestrated to win market dominance.
The Mexican executive, previously the lawyer in charge of obtaining construction permits, said in emails and follow-up conversations that Wal-Mart de Mexico paid bribes to obtain permits throughout the country in its rush to build stores nationwide, the Times reported.
Wal-Mart's growth in Mexico has been so rapid that one of every five Wal-Mart stores now is in that country. It is Mexico's largest private employer, with 209,000 employees there.
Youths protests during the March Against Corruption in the Esplanade of Ministries in Brasilia April 21, 2012. Protesters are demanding an end to the secret ballot of MPs in the National Congress, misuse of public money by ministries, and corruption in Brazil.
Photo by Ueslei Marcelino
A British historian said Saturday he had unearthed a trove of Egyptian Book of the Dead fragments by a top ancient official after chancing upon a scrap on show in an Australian museum.
John Taylor, a world-famous Egyptologist from the British Museum, said his discovery began with a shred of papyrus on display at Queensland Museum's new mummies exhibition bearing the distinctive hieroglyphs of Amenhotep.
The 15th century BC figure, son of Hapu, was Egypt's chief architect and is among those credited with designing and constructing the Great Temple of Amun at Karnak, near Luxor -- one of modern Egypt's most visited landmarks.
Excited and intrigued, Taylor said he asked if there were any more such fragments in the museum's archives and was shown into the conservation lab.
"After a very short period of time it became apparent that we did indeed have many fragments of the Book of the Dead of this extremely important man," he told The Weekend Australian newspaper.
This photo combination made with images provided by Heritage Auctions shows the front and back of a copper and silver 1792 experimental penny that sold at auction in Schaumburg, Ill. on Thursday, April 19, 2012. Officials with Heritage Auctions say Kevin Lipton of Beverly Hills, Calif., bought the penny on behalf of a group of unnamed investors for $1 million and must also pay the auction house's 15 percent commission. It was never actually put into circulation and only 14 examples of the coin are known to exist.
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