• Dance impresario Paul Szilard once saw ballerina Nora Kaye wearing lots of jewels, and he asked her, “Nora, are these faux, or are they real?” She replied, “Darling, they’re real.” The fabulous jewelry had come from rich man Harry Winston, who unfortunately did not pay for it, and who later asked for it back. Ms. Kaye did not want to return the jewelry. This led to a lawsuit, and the judge ruled against Ms. Kaye, forcing her to return the jewelry. When Mr. Szilard asked what had happened, Ms. Kaye replied simply, “Well, my dear, I f**ked for nothing.”
• Martha Graham once lectured at a Texas university where Tommy Tune was studying. She told the dance students in a lecture, “All great dance stems from the lonely place.” One of the dance students said, “Miss Graham, you said that all great dancing stems from the lonely place. Where is the lonely place?” Ms. Graham replied, “Between your legs. Next question.” According to Mr. Tune, “We were never the same again.”
• American dance pioneer Ted Shawn once choreographed the bawdy ancient Greek comedy Lysistrata, in which the Spartan and Athenian women decide to stop the Peloponnesian War by declining to have sex until the war ends. According to Mr. Shawn, the young dancers of his company claimed to have “learned about life from the birds, the bees, the flowers, and the Lysistrata ballet.”
• While watching David Lichine dance in L’Apres-Midi d’un Faune, photographer/writer Gordon Anthony never wondered why the nymph ran after dropping her scarf!
• Ford Madox Ford once told a story about an old lady who, after watching a couple dance the tango, said, “I suppose it’s all right — if they really love each other.”
Swan Lake
• Cynthia Gregory was able to dance the role of Odette/Odile in Swan Lake in only her second year with American Ballet Theatre when David Blair of The Royal Ballet staged a new production. She was chosen to be one of the dancers who would understudy the role. Three of the dancers had to stop understudying the role, then a fourth understudy became pregnant. This left the ballerina and two understudies, including Ms. Gregory. However, tickets for Swan Lake sold briskly, and ABT decided to add two more performances and let all three dancers undertake the role.
• Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn were wonderful partners in ballet, but they differed artistically. Before they first performed Swan Lake together, Mr. Nureyev was worried. While dancing in Swan Lake, Ms. Fonteyn used much mime, telling the story in gestures, and Mr. Nureyev worried that he “would feel silly standing about” in the mime scenes, and so he told her, “I am afraid I will ruin your Swan Lake.” Looking him straight in the eyes, Ms. Fonteyn (amiably — but firmly) replied, “Just you try.”
Tap Dance
• Peg Leg Bates lost his leg when he was a child working in a cottonseed gin during World War I. However, he didn’t let it stop him. His uncle made a peg leg for him — possible because his leg was amputated below the knee — and he learned how to tap dance, using the peg leg to create a heavy, distinctive beat. He was so successful that he appeared on Ed Sullivan’s variety television show a total of 21 times — more than any other tap dancer.
• Back in the glory days of tap dancing, dancers would sometimes try to “steal steps” from other dancers. Tap great John Bubbles enjoyed playing a practical joke on other tappers. He would sit in the front row of a vaudeville theater, and when the tap dancer performed Mr. Bubbles took out a pencil and a notebook and pretended to diagram the dancer’s steps. Often, the dancer would speed up to stop the “thievery.”
• Comedian Lily Tomlin used to do some weird stunts when she was starting out in show business. For example, she used to tap dance while barefoot — after gluing taps to the soles of her feet.
TV ads featuring Ludwig Stössel (voiced by Jim Backus, with yodeling by Bob Oates) used the catchphrase "The little old winemaker – me!" What brand was the little old winemaker pitching?
Petula Clark became the first UK female artist to have a US #1 hit during the rock and roll era with this song in 1964, and swiftly cut non-English versions for the markets in France (Dans le temps), Italy (Ciao ciao), and Germany (Geh in die Stadt). What is the title of this song in English?
"Downtown" is a song composed by Tony Hatch which, as recorded by Petula Clark in 1964, became an international hit, reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and number two on the UK Singles Chart. Hatch received the 1981 Ivor Novello award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically.
Petula Clark thus became the first UK female artist to have a US #1 hit during the rock and roll era and the second in the annals of US charted music, Vera Lynn having hit #1 in the US with "Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart" in 1952. "Downtown" also made Clark the first UK female artist to have a single certified as a Gold record for US sales of one million units. On Billboard's annual Disk Jockey poll, "Downtown" was voted the second best single release of 1965 and Petula Clark was voted third most popular female vocalist. "Downtown" would be the first of fifteen consecutive hits Clark would place in the US Top 40 during a period when she'd have considerably less chart impact in her native UK, there reaching the Top 40 eight times.
Petula Clark, who had been playing to her French-speaking fans in small venues in Quebec when "Downtown" entered the US charts, swiftly cut non-English versions of the song for the markets in France, Italy and Germany; the absence in each region's language of a two-syllable equivalent of "downtown" necessitated a radical lyric recasting for the versions aimed at France ("Dans le temps"), Italy ("Ciao Ciao", winning the Festivalbar, a juke-box contest) and Spain ("Chao Chao") which respectively charted at #6, #2 and – for three weeks – #1: "Dans le temps" also reaching #18 on Belgium's French-language chart. The title and lyric "Downtown" was retained for an otherwise German version which was the most successful foreign-language version, reaching #1 in Germany, #3 in Austria, and #11 on the charts for the Flemish region of Belgium.
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Downtown.
Photos: a young Petula Clark sang during WWII, often entertaining British troops. She was often in the same shows as fellow child singer Julie Andrews | After hits like Downtown and Don’t Sleep in the Subway, Clark was often a featured singer on the many US variety programs, like the highly rated Dean Martin Show | Clark also did some acting, here with Fred Astaire in the Hollywood film version of Finian’s Rainbow (1968), directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
Billy in Cypress U.S.A. replied:
Downtown
Deborah, the Master Gardener wrote:
All I can think of is “Downtown.” I remember one winter’s night as a kid, watching heavy snow fall outside my bedroom window, and the warm glow of lights from the downtown area of my little burg. It was magical.
Bob from Mechanicsburg, Pa said:
“Downtown”
Barbara, of Peppy Tech fame answered:
The answer is "Downtown." Even in the German version, the word "downtown" still appears. My guess is that "Innenstadt" didn't fit the meter!
German version on YouTube
DJ Useo wrote:
You know, I really like that song, "Downtown". I always sing the words wrong, but it's a good tune.
I always sing "When you're alone with a big garden gnome, you can always go CENSORED yourself."
Joe S (We resisted, we voted, we won. Get over it) answered:
I don't know, I'm just guessing. "Downtown?" Could be.
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Tonight, Thursday:
CBS opens the night with a 'Young Sheldon', followed by a RERUN'B Positive', then a RERUN'Mom', followed by a FRESH'The Unicorn', then a FRESH'Star Trek: Discovery'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Tiffany Haddish and H.E.R.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are Dan Stevens and Michael Kiwanuka.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'Mr. Mayor', followed by a FRESH'Superstore', then a RERUN'L&O: SVU', followed by 'Dateline'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Camila Mendes, and Olivia Rodrigo.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Michelle Pfeiffer, the Impractical Jokers, and Matt Cameron.
Scheduled on a FRESHLilly Singh is Alok Vaid-Menon.
ABC fills the night with all RERUN'Celebrity Wheel Of Fortune'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Jamie Dornan, Robin Roberts, and Pentatonix.
The CW offers a FRESH'Walker', followed by a FRESH'Legacies'.
Faux has a FRESH'Hell's Kitchen', followed by a FRESH'Call Me Kat', then a FRESH'Last Man Standing'.
MY recycles an old 'Dateline', followed by an old 'L&O: CI'.
A&E has 'The First 48', another 'The First 48', followed by a FRESH'The First 48', then a FRESH'Killer Cases'.
AMC offers the movie 'Escape Plan', followed by the movie 'The Bourne Identity', then the movie 'The Bourne Supremacy'.
BBC -
[6:00AM - 11:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE
[12:00PM - 7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
[8:00PM] TROY
[11:30PM] TROY
[3:00AM - 5:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has 'Southern Charm', followed by a FRESH'Southern Charm', then a FRESH'Summer House', followed by a FRESH'Watch What Happens: Live'.
FX has the movie 'Terminator Genisys', followed by the movie 'The Equalizer 2', then the movie 'The Equalizer 2', again.
History has 'Swamp People', another 'Swamp People', followed by a FRESH'Swamp People'.
IFC -
[6:00am - 9:30am] Community
[10:00am - 1:30pm] Parks And Recreation
[2:00pm - 5:30pm] Three's Company
[6:00pm - 12:30am] Two And A Half Men
[1:00am - 3:30am] Parks And Recreation
[4:00am - 5:30am] Community (ALL TIMES ET)
Sundance -
[6:00am - 12:30pm] the andy griffith show
[1:00pm - 1:00am] law & order
[2:00am - 5:00am] perry mason (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'Olympus Has Fallen', followed by the movie 'Twister'.
It’s just about impossible to replace the man who hosted “Jeopardy” for nearly four decades and more than 8,000 episodes, but somebody will have to take over Alex Trebek’s legacy sooner or later. Whoever they pick among the guests hosts Sony is trying out won’t satisfy everyone, but there’s one person slated for one of those guests slots who a whole lot of fans — and even some past contestants! — are already rejecting: Mehmet Oz, aka Dr. Oz, whose guest spot was revealed Tuesday evening.
The backlash to Dr. Oz on social media is a bit more acute than just some grumbling. Dr. Oz’s guest slot was announced on the “Jeopardy” Twitter account, and the news was met with plenty of scorn as the tweet was quickly ratio’d. That’s when the replies to a tweet and quote tweets far outweigh the likes and regular retweets because people are sounding off about it.
The concern about Dr. Oz is not that he has long been a proponent of alternative medicine, but that he’s gone so far as to endorse outright false treatments. Perhaps the biggest example of this came less than a year ago when Dr. Oz repeatedly appeared on Fox News to push hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19 in March. A number of outlets reported that Donald Trump’s obsession with the drug as a cure for the coronavirus was sparked by Dr. Oz’s Fox News appearances.
Then, in April, Dr. Oz told Sean Hannity that any deaths caused by reopening schools during the pandemic might be worth the price.
That’s not all, though. Dr. Oz has made so many specious medical claims on his show over the years that there is an entire Wikipedia page dedicated to statements he’s made that lacked significant medical evidence to back them up.
Federal court documents filed in the Utah District Court show Ken Bretschneider, the chief executive officer of Evermore Park in Pleasant Grove, Utah, has filed a lawsuit against Taylor Swift over her latest album, ‘Evermore.’
Documents filed on Tuesday show 12 exhibits of evidence supporting Bretschneider’s case, including Google search results for Evermore, items of clothing with branding, and two different letters from Swift’s counsel.
In the declaration filing, Bretschneider says the Utah theme park “has invested approximately $37,000,000 into the creation and promotion of Evermore Park and the EVERMORE trademarks.” That includes expending funds in advertising and promoting, purchasing the EVERMORE.COM domain, and expending labor costs for advertising and promoting.
Evermore Park also has “commissioned the creation of two original music scores that Evermore sells under the EVERMORE trademark through a variety of outlets, such as Apple Music.”
Swift’s legal team says the claims of trademark infringement are baseless, adding that the addition of “Taylor Swift…Album” around Evermore make the trademark different, which is allowed under current U.S. law. They add that while the theme park frequently uses an all upper-case spelling of Evermore, the album uses all lower-case spelling.
The WGA on Wednesday unveiled nominations for its 2021 WGA Awards in the categories of TV, new media, news, radio/audio and promotional writing during 2020. Winners will be honored March 21 in a virtual ceremony.
AMC’s Better Call Saul topped all shows with five nominations including for Drama Series, joining a list that includes Amazon Studios’ The Boys, Netflix’s The Crown (which led the way on the TV side at the Golden Globe nominations today) and Ozark and Disney+’s The Mandalorian.
Also making noise today is Hulu, the only other company to have multiple noms in the top categories; it scored in Comedy with Tony McNamara’s The Great and Pen15 and FX on Hulu’s What We Do in the Shadows, which are joined in the race by HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm and Apple TV+’s Ted Lasso.
Other notables including noms for a couple of shows from the now-defunct Quibi (#FreeRayshawn and The Most Dangerous Game) in the shortform category. Last year’s Comedy/Variety Talk Show winner, HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, returns to defend its crown. And Fox’s The Simpsons scored four of the six noms in the Animation category.
The CW is bringing back the majority of its current slate next season after making a bumper renewal order including a second season of Walker.
The network has made the early decision to hand renewals to 12 current series, with president and CEO Mark Pedowitz sticking with stability as the Covid-19 pandemic continues to have an impact on network’s schedules, the development process and pilot season.
Along with Walker, All American, Batwoman, Charmed, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, Dynasty, The Flash, In the Dark, Legacies, Nancy Drew, Riverdale and Roswell, New Mexico will return for the 2021-22 season.
Additionally, the youth-skewing network has given Walker an additional five episodes this season and handed Superman & Lois — which will launch with a two-hour event on Tuesday, February 23 — two additional episodes, taking its order to 15 eps.
Shows that are not included in the renewal order — Superman & Lois, Kung Fu and Republic of Sarah and returning summer series Stargirl – have yet to premiere their current seasons, so too much shouldn’t be read into their exclusion. Superman & Lois has received a vote of confidence with its back order ahead of its debut, while Stargirl previously had been renewed for this coming summer as a CW original, having started as a DC Universe series.
Canada has designated the far-right group Proud Boys as a terrorist entity.
Public Safety Minister Bill Blair said the decision was influenced by the group's "pivotal role" in the 6 January riots at the Capitol in Washington, DC.
The designation allows the Proud Boys' assets to be frozen, and members of the groups could be charged with terrorist offences if they commit violent acts.
The group is all-male and anti-immigrant, and has a history of violent political confrontations.
It was founded in 2016 by Gavin McInnes, the Canadian co-founder of Vice Media. Vice has since worked to distance itself from Mr McInnes and the Proud Boys
A small city in Florida has declared the first week of February “Donald J Trump week” in honour of the former president.
Officials in Frostproof, Polk County, made the decision to confirm a proclamation on Tuesday that allotted the first six days of February to the former president.
Representative Anthony Sabatini spoke in favour of the proclamation at the meeting, celebrating that the city was “first in the nation to do this.”
The mayor’s proclamation praised Mr Trump’s apparent overwhelming support in the city during the election, pointing out that he received 76 per cent of the vote in Frostproof.
Scientists have successfully studied einsteinium — one of the most elusive and heaviest elements on the periodic table — for the first time in decades. The achievement brings chemists closer to discovering the so-called "island of stability," where some of the heftiest and shortest-lived elements are thought to reside.
The U.S. Department of Energy first discovered einsteinium in 1952 in the fall-out of the first hydrogen bomb test. The element does not occur naturally on Earth and can only be produced in microscopic quantities using specialized nuclear reactors. It is also hard to separate from other elements, is highly radioactive and rapidly decays, making it extremely difficult to study.
Researchers from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) at the University of California, recently created a 233-nanogram sample of pure einsteinium and carried out the first experiments on the element since the 1970s. In doing so they were able to uncover some of the element's fundamental chemical properties for the first time.
Like other elements in the actinide series — a group of 15 metallic elements found at the bottom of the periodic table — einsteinium is made by bombarding a target element, in this case curium, with neutrons and protons to create heavier elements. The team used a specialized nuclear reactor at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, one of the few places in the world where einsteinium can be made.
However, the reaction is designed to make californium — a commercially important element used in nuclear power plants — and so it makes only a very small amount of einsteinium as a byproduct. Extracting a pure sample of einsteinium from californium is challenging because of similarities between the two elements, which meant the researchers ended up with only a tiny sample of einsteinium-254, one of the most stable isotopes, or versions, of the elusive element.
Tangle-web spiders are eight-legged engineers, crafting silk pulleys to snag oversized prey like lizards or even small mammals walking on the ground below.
Until now, scientists didn't know exactly how the arachnids were able to capture such hefty victims. For the first time, researchers analyzed the spiders' building techniques and silk construction for trapping and lifting heavy animals.
Turns out, the spiders actively "tuned" their silk mechanisms once the prey was caught, attaching pre-stretched threads in pulleys to maximize their lifting power and elevate prey much heavier than the arachnids themselves, the researchers reported in a new study.
Spider silk is very good at dispersing energy; when an insect flies into a web, energy from its struggles gets absorbed and dissipated through the network of joined threads. The silk is also elastic, which enables it to store and amplify energy, much like the string on a bow that's pulled taut and then released to shoot an arrow.
There are more than 2,200 described species of tangle-web spiders (also called cobweb weavers) in the family Theridiidae. They live around the world and are known for their dense, irregularly-shaped webs, according to the biodiversity database Encyclopedia of Life (EOL). For the researchers' experiments, they worked with two tangle-web species — Steatoda paykulliana and Steatoda triangulosa — and tasked the spiders with lifting live orange-spotted roaches (Blaptica dubia). The spiders weighed 0.007 ounces (0.22 grams) at most, and the heaviest roaches weighed nearly three times that at 0.02 ounces (0.56 g).
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