• As a political writer in Newark, New Jersey, LeRoi Jones (who later changed his name to Amiri Baraka), often wrote pamphlets against the mayor, Hugh Addonizio. The FBI even claimed that one of Mr. Jones’ pamphlets contained instructions for making a Molotov cocktail. This amused Mr. Jones, who said, “One thing about the FBI — they’re always trying to make you famous.”
• Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, and her husband, Bill Sanger, fought a tough battle to bring birth control to the masses. Ms. Sanger wrote a pamphlet called “Family Limitation,” and when Mr. Sanger distributed it, he was accused of trying to “turn every home into a brothel.”
Critics
• J.R.R. Tolkien had an unfinished children’s story that the London publishers George Allen & Unwin heard about. The chair of George Allen & Unwin got hold of a copy and gave it to Raynor, his 11-year-old son, to read. He also said that he would give a shilling to young Raynor if he wrote a review; thus, Raynor became the first critic of the manuscript that would become The Hobbit — he liked it. As a result of Raynor’s one-paragraph, somewhat misspelled review, George Allen & Unwin decided to publish the novel, and Mr. Tolkien, of course, went on to write The Lord of the Rings. After he had grown up, Raynor said, “I earned that shilling. I wouldn’t say that my report was the best critique of The Hobbit that has been written, but it was good enough to ensure that it was published.”
• The art of Phelan Gibb was at first disliked by members of the public and by many art critics. When Mr. Gibb’s paintings were hanging in a gallery, writer H.G. Wells stopped in and liked what he saw. Mr. Gibb and Mr. Wells spoke, and Mr. Gibb complained about his critics, pointing out, “I would like a little appreciation from my own countrymen.” The next day, Mr. Wells returned to the art gallery, bringing with him Arnold Bennett and a number of art critics. He announced, “Mr. Gibb, may I present your enemies!” (“Enemies” may have been the right word. Mr. Gibb and Mr. Bennett got into such a heated argument that they almost had to be physically and forcibly separated from each other.)
• British writer J.G. Ballard, the author of Empire of the Sun, also wrote Crash, which became a movie directed by David Cronenberg. In the novel and movie, characters are sexually aroused by car and truck crashes. The person assigned to first read the novel at a British publishing house wrote on the manuscript, “This author is beyond psychiatric help. Do Not Publish!”
• People in the arts are regularly bothered by people who send them scripts, novels, and other works to read. For several years, dramatic critic Alexander Woollcott received in the mail plays by a man whose work varied wildly in theme, plot, characters, etc. The only thing the plays had in common was the return address: the Matteawan State Hospital for the Insane.
• Some sentences have more than one meaning, including contradictory meanings. (A pause in a sentence can be important.) Poet Robert Southey hinted around for a compliment about Madoc, his epic, so classical scholar Richard Porson said, “Madoc will be remembered — when Homer and Virgil are forgotten.”
George Carlin made his film debut in a romantic comedy that was also Doris Day's final film performance. Directed by Howard Morris and also starring Brian Keith, what is the title of this 1968 movie?
Fiddler's Green, an after-life where there is perpetual mirth, a fiddle that never stops playing, and dancers who never tire, is part of the folklore of what profession?
Fiddler's Green is an after-life where there is perpetual mirth, a fiddle that never stops playing, and dancers who never tire. In 19th-century Anglo maritime folklore, it was a kind of after-life for sailors who had served at least fifty years at sea.
Herman Melville describes a Fiddler's Green as a sailors' term for the place on land "providentially set apart for dance-houses, doxies, and tapsters" in his posthumous novella Billy Budd, Sailor, in 1924.
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
Sailors.
Billy in Cypress U. $. A. said:
It was a kind of after-life for SAILORS who had served at least fifty years at sea.
Randall wrote:
sailors
Alan J answered:
Sailors.
Dave responded:
Sailor.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
it was a kind of after-life for sailors who had served at least fifty years at sea.
Roy, your libtard snowflake in Tyler, TX wrote:
Fiddler's Green was a kind of after-life for sailors who had served at least fifty years at sea.
zorch said:
Sailors.
Adam answered:
Sailors-
This sounds like the most exhausting afterlife, ever. The sound of fiddle music and clogging that never ends? Even in Sto-vo-kor everyone sleeps now and again.
Ed K replied:
Crack dealer
Rosemary in Columbus responded:
Sailors
Deborah, the Master Gardener wrote:
Sailors who served at least 50 years were thought to spend their afterlife on Fiddlers Green. It doesn’t sound half-bad, given the daily dumpster fire that is 2020.
DJ Useo said:
That'd be sailors, m8y. Anyone else's attention wrapt over the potus hospitalization?
Personally, I'd rather he lived to go on trial, but others I talk to prefer he not survive.
Joe ( -- Vote Blue, No Matter Who -- ) answered:
Arrrr, they be sailors.
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The electric company showed up, again unannounced, to finish the job I didn't know they didn't finish.
Tonight, Sunday:
CBS starts the night, as usual, with '60 Minutes', followed by another '60 Minutes', then the movie 'Old School'.
NBC fills the night with LIVE'Sunday Night Football', then pads the left coast with local crap and maybe an old 'Dateline'.
ABC fills the night with LIVE'NBA Playoffs', then pads the left coast with local crap.
The CW offers a FRESH'Pandora', followed b a RERUN'Supernatural'.
Faux has a RERUN'I Can See Your Voice', followed by a FRESH'The Simpsons', followed by a FRESH'Bless The Harts', then a FRESH'Bob's Burgers', followed by a FRESH'Family Fuy'.
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 Lincoln Lawyer', followed by the movie 'Shawshank Redemption'.
AMC offers the movie 'Halloween', followed by a FRESH'The Walking Dead', then another FRESH'The Walking Dead', followed by the FRESH'The Walking Dead: World Beyond'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] THE POLAR BEAR FAMILY AND ME - SUMMER
[7:00AM] THE POLAR BEAR FAMILY AND ME - AUTUMN
[8:00AM] PLANET EARTH: FROZEN PLANET - SUMMER
[9:00AM] PLANET EARTH: FROZEN PLANET - AUTUMN
[10:00AM] PLANET EARTH: FROZEN PLANET - WINTER
[11:00AM] TOP GEAR - EPISODE 4 (EXTENDED)
[12:00PM] CASINO
[4:00PM] SCARFACE
[8:00PM] TOP GEAR - EPISODE 5 (EXTENDED)
[9:31PM] CASINO
[1:31AM] SCARFACE
[5:31AM] MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS - MR. AND MRS. BRIAN NORRIS' FORD POPULAR (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has the movie 'Shrek', 'Real Housewives Of Potomac', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of Potomac', then a FRESH'Watch What Happens: Live'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'The Longest Yard', followed by hours of old 'South Park'.
FX has the movie 'Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle', followed by the movie 'Skyscraper', then a FRESH'Fargo'.
IFC -
[6:00am] The Three Stooges - Woman Haters
[6:30am] The Three Stooges - All Gummed Up
[7:00am] The Three Stooges - Pardon My Scotch
[7:15am] Full Metal Jacket
[10:00am] Rocky
[1:00pm] Rocky II
[4:00pm] Rocky III
[6:30pm] Rocky IV
[8:30pm] Rocky V
[11:00pm] Rocky Balboa
[1:15am] Rocky III
[3:45am] Rocky IV
[5:45am] The Three Stooges - Pardon My Scotch (ALL TIMES ET)
Sundance -
[7:00am] columbo - Swan Song
[9:15am] columbo - A Friend In Deed
[11:30am] gladiator
[3:00pm] pacific rim
[6:00pm] the fifth element
[9:00pm] 2012
[12:30am] escape from alcatraz
[3:00am] escape from l.a.
[5:30am] hogan's heroes (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'Harry Potter & The Sorcerer's Stone', followed by the movie 'Harry Potter & The Chamber Of Secrets'.
A very unusual day in Washington required an extra dose of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, as a usually dark night for the program was turned into a bonus show.
Surprisingly, Colbert struck a sympathetic tone. “Now, say what you will about the President, and I do. But this is a serious moment for our nation and we all wish the President and the First Lady of the United States a speedy and a full recovery.”
Colbert urged that we “separate the man from the office – and I hope on Nov. 3 that we literally do. But for now, I find it troubling, moving even, that the President is being taken to the hospital.”
“He was acting like he was invincible,” said Colbert, who noted a lot of people were calling this an “October Surprise.”
The cast of Dazed and Confused — including Matthew McConaughey, Ben Affleck, Parker Posey and Jason London — will reunite for a virtual table read of director Richard Linklater’s cult 1993 film to raise money for Texas’ mail-in voting efforts.
Both the Voto Latino Foundation and March For Science will host the October 11th livestream, which will have pretty much Lee High School’s entire 1976 incoming senior class in attendance: Jason London, Anthony Rapp, Adam Goldberg, Nicky Katt, Joey Lauren Adams, Wiley Wiggins, Marissa Ribisi, Cole Hauser, Rory Cochrane and more.
Patton Oswalt will also moderate a post-read Q&A for the October 11th event, with special guests also promised. RSVP for the Dazed and Confused livestream with a donation of any amount at the event’s ActBlue page.
The Dazed and Confused cast is the latest ensemble to reunite in order to encourage increased voting on Election Day, with the casts of The Princess Bride, Parks and Recreation and Veep also hosting Zoom gatherings in an effort to swing the key battleground state; although Texas has long been a GOP bastion, Democrats believe the state could go blue on November 3rd.
“Hocus Pocus” put a spell on moviegoers, and now it’s leading U.S. box office charts 27 years after originally premiering in theaters.
Disney rereleased the 1993 Halloween classic — starring Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy and Sarah Jessica Parker as a trio of witches — this weekend on the big screen, where it collected $650,000 on Friday. “Hocus Pocus,” which is currently playing in 2,570 U.S. cinemas, is expected to generate $1 million in ticket sales over the weekend.
Those box office receipts put “Hocus Pocus” ahead of more recent titles like “New Mutants,” Russell Crowe’s “Unhinged” and mystery-thriller “Infidel.” There’s a chance that Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet” matched “Hocus Pocus” in terms of Friday earnings, but Warner Bros. has not reported daily numbers and declined to comment. When overall weekend numbers are tallied on Sunday, it’s likely that “Tenet” will beat “Hocus Pocus” for first place. But, “Hocus Pocus” led the way on Friday based on studios that reported figures.
“Hocus Pocus” wasn’t a critical or commercial darling when it first released in July of 1993, scoring just $39 million from a $28 million budget. (With this weekend’s earnings, its domestic tally hovers at $40.5 million.) But in recent years, it has become a must-watch TV event during the month of October and solidified its place as a cult classic. The Halloween-time favorite follows three witches as they are inadvertently resurrected by a young boy in Salem, Massachusetts.
A royal lovechild who endured a two decades long battle to be recognised by the former King of Belgium will finally be awarded the title of princess.
Delphine Boël’s lawyers said that the aristocrat and artist would take King Albert II’s name and be known as Delphine Saxe-Cobourg and Princess of Belgium after the Brussels appeal court endorsed the results of a DNA test on Thursday.
Ms Boël had been reported to be Albert's illegitimate daughter since 1997. She will now be addressed as “her Royal Highness”, and her two children Joséphine and Oscar will also have the title princess and prince.
The sculptor will be entitled to a share of the former monarch’s estate when he dies but will not get an endowment from the Belgian state as Albert’s other children do. Albert must pay court costs of £ 8,520.
Ms Boël, 52, first asked the then-monarch to recognise her 20 years ago. After Albert, 86, abdicated, Ms Boël began what would be a seven year court battle with her biological father.
Sean Patterson is not worried that Donald Trump (R-Shameless) has been hospitalized with coronavirus because he believes what the president tells him.
“It’s a hoax. There’s no pandemic. As Trump said, how many millions die of flu?” said the 56-year-old truck driver outside the early voting station in St Joseph, Missouri – a stronghold for the president.
But then Patterson pauses and contemplates the possibility that Trump really does have Covid-19.
“If he’s sick, then they planted it when they tested him. It’s what they did to me when I went to hospital for my heart beating too fast. Two weeks later I got a cold,” he said. “It’s political. I don’t trust the US government at all. Who are they to mandate personal safety? I listen to Trump.”
There's a single-celled parasite called Toxoplasma gondii, and it can turn a normally risk-averse mouse into a bold, cat-seeking rodent. Cats that devour such mice can then pass the parasite onto humans.
But once humans are infected, what happens to them? Do they become Toxoplasma gondii zombies, acting however the parasite deems fit?
The answer is complex; studies show that people who test positive for this condition are more likely to take certain kinds of risks than those who don't have toxoplasmosis, but it's not yet clear how this happens.
Toxoplasma gondii can live in most mammals, but its life cycle traditionally involves living first inside a mouse or rat. That's likely because cats prey on rodents, giving the parasite a way to reach the cat gut — the only known place where the parasite can reproduce, as cat guts are rich in linoleic acid, an ingredient necessary for Toxoplasma gondii sex, a 2019 study posted on the preprint database bioRxiv found.
About 1,100 years ago in early medieval England, a teenage girl met a horrific end; her nose and lips were cut off with a sharp weapon, and she may have been scalped, according to a new analysis of her skull.
No one knows why the young woman's face was mutilated, but her injuries are consistent with punishments historically given to female offenders. If this woman's wounds were a punishment, then she is the earliest person on record in Anglo-Saxon England to receive the brutal punishment of facial disfiguration, researchers wrote in a new study, published online yesterday (Oct. 1) in the journal Antiquity.
"We can only speculate as to what happened in this instance, but the highly formalized nature of the woman's injuries suggest penalties for specific actions, such as sexual deviancy, or at least a perception of such," study lead researcher Garrard Cole, an honorary research fellow at the Institute of Archaeology at University College London, told Live Science in an email.
The skull was originally discovered in the 1960s, during excavations prior to the construction of a housing development in the village of Oakridge, in the southern county of Hampshire, England. However, scientists didn't analyze the skull at the time, and it's unclear whether the skeletal remains of the body were also buried there.
Instead, the skull was put in a collection curated by what is now the Hampshire Cultural Trust. Recently, the skull was rediscovered during an audit of that collection, and "the cranium was still covered with soil, indicating it had not been examined," said Cole, who decided to study it with his colleagues.
Egypt’s tourism and antiquities minster said on Saturday archaeologists have unearthed dozens of ancient coffins in a vast necropolis south of Cairo.
Khalid el-Anany said at least 59 sealed sarcophagi, with mummies inside most of them, were found that had been buried in three wells more than 2,600 years ago.
“I consider this is the beginning of a big discovery,” el-Anany said, adding that there is an unknown number of coffins that have yet to be unearthed in the same area.
Mostafa Waziri, secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said initial studies show that the decorated coffins were made for priests, top officials and elites from the Pharaonic Late Period (664-525 B.C.).
A Missouri Department of Conservation employee recently spotted a spooky spiderweb along a trail in Springfield.
Media Specialist Francis Skalicky captured an astonishing photo of an orb weaver spiderweb, which MDC shared to its Facebook page Wednesday. The circular web comes from an orb weaver spider and appears large in perspective.
According to the Missouri Department of Conservation, several species of orb weavers can be found in Missouri. Their webs are most noticeable in late summer and fall, when adults can construct webs at their largest size.
“Many orbweavers are nocturnal and have the peculiar habit of eating and rebuilding their webs each day. Webs are built at dusk and used for snaring prey during the night. At dawn, the spider reingests the strands (along with moisture that has collected on it as dew) and recycles the nutrients in making the next web,” according to the Missouri Department of Conservation website.
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