• Hispanic movie star Antonio Banderas occasionally played practical jokes when he was a member of a traveling troupe of theatrical actors in his native Spain. For example, an actor on stage was required to eat a piece of bread, so Mr. Banderas put lots of salt and vinegar on the bread before it was taken on stage. However, being a member of this particular traveling troupe was not all fun and games. The actors put on plays that defied dictator Francesco Franco, so the actors, including Mr. Banderas, were sometimes arrested.
• Margaret Lockwood is an English actress who appeared in The Lady Vanishes, which was directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Mr. Hitchcock enjoyed playing practical jokes; he once asked Ms. Lockwood to sit in a chair that had been wired so that it gave her an electric shock.
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• As a very out and very effeminate homosexual in London before the rise of the gay rights movement, Quentin Crisp was frequently beaten up, and he became as much of an expert in avoiding violent confrontations as one could become through experience. Once, some homophobes started following him, so he began to walk faster until a taxi appeared. He hailed the taxi and got into it. Frequently, confrontations would end at that point, but the young homophobes surrounded the taxi and the taxi driver ordered Mr. Crisp to get out — at other times, taxi drivers had driven slowly but persistently through the crowd of homophobes. When Mr. Crisp was pulled out of the taxi, the homophobes started to beat him and he fell to the ground. He was afraid that they would start kicking him, but he managed to say, “I seem to have annoyed you gentlemen in some way.” This dignified sentence was so unexpected that the homophobes let him get up and walk away, although they continued to shout insults after him. Actor John Hurt played Mr. Crisp in a celebrated 1975 made-for-TV movie titled The Naked Civil Servant.
• Hollywood screenwriter Charles Lederer was stationed in India during World War II. While there, he accompanied a friend on a visit to a British woman who vigorously denounced the Jews. This was a mistake, because Mr. Lederer’s father was a Jew, and Mr. Lederer was known for his remarkable ability to get revenge on people who made him angry. The British woman had a cabinet in her home, on top of which a very expensive vase was displayed. Mr. Lederer stood by the cabinet and asked, “What do you have against the Jews?” The British woman insincerely replied, “Why, I have nothing against the Jews.” Mr. Lederer then smashed the very expensive vase and said, “You have now.”
• Sometimes people who believe in racial stereotypes make themselves look like the fools they are. Once, James “Jimmy” Wong Howe, a famous Hollywood cinematographer, was preparing for the opening of a Chinese restaurant he had invested in. He noticed a news photographer trying to take a shot of the new restaurant despite being in danger of being run over because he was standing in the street. Mr. Howe told the photographer, “If you snap on a wide-angle lens, you can move the camera up on the sidewalk.” The photographer looked up at Mr. Wong and said, “Look, Chinaman, let me take the pictures and you go cook your noodles.”
• Groucho Marx and his wife looked for a beach club where their children could enjoy the ocean. However, Groucho was Jewish at a time when many clubs would not allow Jews to be members. When Groucho applied to become a member of a beach club, the manager said, “I don’t know if you are aware of this, but we have a very restricted clientele here.” Groucho knew that “restricted clientele” meant “no Jews allowed,” so he mocked prejudice by telling the manager, “Look, Mister, I am Jewish. My wife is not Jewish. That means my kids are only half Jewish. Can’t they go into the water up to their knees?”
In Al Capp's long-running comic strip "Li'l Abner," Abner finally married the virtuous and voluptuous Dogpatch damsel Daisy Mae. What was Daisy Mae's maiden name?
Released in early 1972, it was the first and most successful single for the band America, topping the charts in both Canada and the US. Featuring some grammatically questionable lyrics, what is the name of this song?
"A Horse with No Name" is a song by the folk rock band America, written by Dewey Bunnell. It was the band's first and most successful single, released in late 1971 in Europe and early 1972 in the United States, and topped the charts in Canada, Finland, and the United States. It was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America.
Despite the song being banned by some U.S. radio stations (such as WHB in Kansas City) because of supposed drug references to heroin use ("horse" is a common slang term for heroin), the song ascended to number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, and the album quickly reached platinum status. The song charted earlier in Ireland (reaching number 4), the Netherlands (reaching number 11) and the UK (reaching number 3, the band's only Top 40 hit in the country) than it did in the United States.
The song has received criticism for its lyrics, including "The heat was hot"; "There were plants, and birds, and rocks, and things"; and "'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain." Singer-songwriter Randy Newman dismissed "A Horse With No Name", saying that it sounds like it's "about a kid who thinks he’s taken acid."
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Randall was first, and correct, with:
A Horse With No Name
Mark. said:
A Horse with No Name.
Alan J answered:
A Horse With No Name.
Cal in Vermont wrote:
That would be "A Horse With No Name". I loved that song.
zorch replied:
Horse with no name.
Stephen F responded:
Horse With No Name
mj wrote:
An ode to seeing it from ground level
A Horse With No Name conveyed the impressions of a traveler on an
anonymous equine who had some unusual takes on ecology.
Billy in Cypress U.S.A. said:
"A Horse with No Name" but I will just say that it is NAMELESS.
Dave responded:
A Horse With No Name. Single from the album ‘Horse With No Name’. At the time the band took some heat because the song sounded much like what Neil Young was doing at the time. America is made up of 2 of the 3 original members, one member was fired in the ‘70s for being a drug fiend, and died 10 years ago. America’s last top 40 hit was back in 1983. The band is scheduled to tour again during 2021, although that may depend on the state of the pandemic.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
A Horse with No Name
Rosemary in Columbus responded:
A Horse with No Name
Deborah, the Master Gardener wrote:
I’m pretty sure that’s “A Horse with No Name.” “It felt good to be out of the rain.” —> I wouldn’t know; haven’t seen rain in 2+ weeks.
John I from Hawai`i says,
Horse with no name
Mac Mac responded:
"A Horse with No Name"
Dave in Tucson replied:
The first America tune I heard on the radio was Sandman but believe the answer you're looking for is A Horse With No Name. When first hearing that one I thought it was Neil Young.
DJ Useo wrote:
Nice 1. I haven't heard the fine song "Horse With No Name" for about a week.
Leo in Boise said:
A Horse With No Name
Barbara, of Peppy Tech fame answered:
The answer is "A Horse With No Name."
Joe S (We resisted, we voted, we won. Get over it) replied:
A Horse With No Name. Make. It. Rain. (I don't know what that means)
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Got my first Pfizer vaccination today. It took 3 of us to accomplish it--neighbor drove and stayed with the vehicle. His wife got a wheelchair for me and managed the purses and paperwork. Zero side effects. I thanked everyone in sight dozens of times & threatened to do a happy dance. 2 1/2 week wait for shot #2.
Happy, happy joy joy!
Linda >^..^<
We are all only temporarily able bodied.
Got nearly a half-inch of rain this morning along with some extra loud thunder that rattled the windows and sent the shittens under the bed with a case of the vapors.
Tonight, Thursday:
CBS opens the night with a FRESH'Young Sheldon', followed by a FRESH'B Positive', then a FRESH'Mom', followed by a FRESH'The Unicorn', then a FRESH'Clarice'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Jane Fonda, the hosts of “Virtue Signal”, and Kings Of Leon.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are Daisy Ridley and Caroline Polachek.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'Superstore', followed by a RERUN'Young Rock', then a RERUN'L&O: SVU', followed by 'Dateline'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Tracy Morgan, Sam Heughan, and Pete Lee.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Ike Barinholtz and Lilly Singh.
Scheduled on a FRESHLilly Singh is Andy Puddicombe.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'Celebrity Wheel Of Fortune', followed by a FRESH'The Chase', then another FRESH'The Chase'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Sacha Baron Cohen, Wesley Snipes, and Charlotte Lawrence.
The CW offers a RERUN'Walker', followed by a RERUN'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 'The Justice Report'.
AMC offers the movie 'Forrest Gump', followed by the movie 'Police Academy', then the movie 'Caddyshack'.
BBC -
[6:00AM - 11:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE
[12:00PM - 7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
[8:00PM] TALLADEGA NIGHTS: THE BALLAD OF RICKY BOBBY
[10:30PM] GROUNDHOG DAY
[1:00AM] TALLADEGA NIGHTS: THE BALLAD OF RICKY BOBBY
[3:30AM] GROUNDHOG DAY (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has 'Chrisley Knows Best', another 'Chrisley Knows Best', 'Summer House', followed by a FRESH'Summer House', then a FRESH'Watch What Happens: Live'.
FX has the movie 'Iron Man 3', followed by the movie 'The House With A Clock In The Walls'.
History has 'Swamp People', another 'Swamp People', followed by a FRESH'Swamp People', and 'Swamp People: Serpent Invasion'.
IFC -
[6:00am - 10:30am] Parks And Recreation
[11:00am - 2:30pm] Saved By The Bell
[3:00pm - 6:30pm] Three's Company
[7:00pm - 12:30am] Two And A Half Men
[1:00am - 2:00am] Three's Company
[2:30am] Baroness Von Sketch Show - I Wrote A Play About My Ex
[3:00am] The Three Stooges - Squareheads Of The Round Table
[3:30am] The Three Stooges - Three Missing Links
[4:00am] Men At Work (ALL TIMES ET)
Sundance -
[6:15am - 10:30am] the andy griffith show
[11:00am] exiled: a law & order movie
[1:00pm - 1:00am] law & order
[2:00am - 5:00am] perry mason (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'Limitless', followed by the movie 'John Wick'.
Following its acquisition of select Beach Boys assets last month, Irving Azoff’s new Iconic Artist Group has made another move into the lucrative catalog acquisition marketplace by partnering with Rock and Roll Hall of Famer David Crosby. Iconic has acquired Crosby’s catalog, which according to the announcement includes his publishing and recorded music rights, including his solo work, as well as his work with the Byrds; Crosby & Nash; Crosby, Stills & Nash; and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
The start of the Iconic relationship coincides with the 50th anniversary of Crosby’s debut solo album, “If I Could Only Remember My Name,” which was released in February 1971, and “Déjà Vu,” the second studio album by Crosby, Stills & Nash, and their first as a quartet with Neil Young, which was released in March 1970.
The deal with Crosby comes on the heels of last week’s announcement of the launch of Iconic and its partnership with the legendary Beach Boys to purchase a controlling stake in their catalog, including sound recordings, the brand, select musical compositions, and memorabilia. As part of that deal, the Beach Boys and their heirs retain an interest in their assets to participate in the upside Iconic expects to create by actively marketing and promoting their music.
Crosby commented, “Given our current inability to work live, this deal is a blessing for me and my family and I do believe these are the best people to do it with.”
The broadcast network has handed out a two-season renewal for the Disney-owned animated veteran from creator Matt Groening. While a pickup for The Simpsons had often been a no-brainer, those discussions have become more challenging after Disney took control of the series a couple of years ago as part of its $72 billion Fox asset deal.
The show's prior renewal, in 2019, included a reduced licensing fee that helped pave the way for the Fox pickup as The Simpsons has been a loss leader for the network but generates sizable profits for the studio. It's unclear if Disney further reduced its licensing fee for The Simpsons as part of the new deal.
The two-year renewal also gives Disney time to decide what it wants to do with The Simpsons. Should Disney opt to move Homer, Marge and company to a different network or platform, it would allow the company to negotiate what could be a new billion-dollar broadcast, cable and streaming pact(s) for The Simpsons for the first time since the show launched back in 1989 — when Fox was an upstart fourth broadcast network and streaming was not in the vernacular. The Simpsons library is on Disney+; current season episodes are on Disney-owned Hulu.
The Simpsons pickup comes six months after Fox and Disney came to terms on two-season renewals for fellow Sunday animated favorites Family Guy and Bob's Burgers. All three shows remain on the same renewal track and are picked up through the 2022-23 broadcast season.
Sofia Vergara’s ex-fiancé Nick Loeb has been permanently blocked from using their frozen embryos without the actress’s consent, according to reports, marking the Modern Family star’s latest victory in the years-long legal battle.
On Wednesday, TMZ reported that a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge issued a permanent injunction banning Loeb from bringing the embryos to term via a surrogate without Vergara’s written consent, on the basis that the contract the former couple signed with the fertility clinic in 2013 “remains valid”.
According to the outlet, the latest ruling barrs Loeb from using the embryos for his own purposes, with the order requiring Loeb receive Vergara’s consent “for anything having to do with the embryos”.
The couple, who dated from 2012 to 2014, created the embryos via IVF at the ART Reproductive Center in Beverly Hills in 2013 when they were trying to have a child via surrogate.
The latest ruling comes after Loeb attempted to sue the 48-year-old actress in Louisiana for control of the embryos, which was first dismissed in October 2019.
In an era of socially distanced awards shows, the SAG Awards will take it a step further and present its awards as a pretaped broadcast, with the nominees discovering who’s won days before the April 4 airdate on TNT and TBS.
The broadcast will be a heavily scaled-down version of the awards ceremony that traditionally takes place at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, with no host or red carpet. Instead of a gala event, the nominees will gather via Zoom chat and will give their acceptance speeches in between comedy skits and the traditional “I Am An Actor” monologues from the year’s nominees. The show will then be edited down to a tight one-hour broadcast that will end within its time slot.
The announcement comes days after the Golden Globes held its socially distanced ceremony live, with hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler hosting in New York and Los Angeles before a small live audience consisting of vaccinated first-responders. The show had some technical difficulties with the videoconferencing winners, as Daniel Kaluuya had problems with his sound while giving his acceptance speech for “Judas and the Black Messiah.”
Kaluuya is among the nominees in this year SAG Awards, with the nominations for Outstanding Cast going to “Da 5 Bloods,” “Minari,” “The Trial of the Chicago 7,” “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” and “One Night in Miami.” Presenters at this year’s awards include Sterling K. Brown, Lily Collins and Daveed Diggs.
America's infrastructure has scored near-failing grades for its deteriorating roads, public transit and storm water systems due to years of inaction from the federal government, the American Society of Civil Engineers reports. Its overall grade: a mediocre C-.
In its “Infrastructure Report Card” released Wednesday, the group called for “big and bold” relief, estimating it would cost $5.9 trillion over the next decade to bring roads, bridges and airports to a safe and sustainable level. That's about $2.6 trillion more than what government and the private sector already spend.
“America’s infrastructure is not functioning as it should, and families are losing thousands of dollars a year in disposable income as a result of cities having to fix potholes, people getting stuck in traffic or due to repairs when a water line breaks or the energy grid goes down,” said Greg DiLoreto, one of the group’s past presidents.
The overall C- grade on America’s infrastructure — reflecting a “mediocre” condition with “significant deficiencies” — is a slight improvement from its D+ grade in 2017. The group cited in part state and local government and private-sector efforts, which have turned to new technology to pinpoint water main leaks and prioritize fixes.
But of the 17 categories making up the overall grade, 11 were in the D range that indicated a “significant deterioration” with a “strong risk of failure.” They included public transit, storm water infrastructure, airports and roads and highways, which make up the biggest chunk of U.S. infrastructure spending at $1.6 trillion, according to the group.
A decade ago, Sakae Kato stayed behind to rescue cats abandoned by neighbours who fled the radiation clouds belching from the nearby Fukushima nuclear plant. He won't leave.
"I want to make sure I am here to take care of the last one," he said from his home in the contaminated quarantine zone. "After that I want to die, whether that be a day or hour later."
So far he has buried 23 cats in his garden, the most recent graves disturbed by wild boars that roam the depopulated community. He is looking after 41 others in his home and another empty building on his property.
Kato leaves food for feral cats in a storage shed he heats with a paraffin stove. He has also rescued a dog, Pochi. With no running water, he has to fill bottles from a nearby mountain spring, and drive to public toilets.
The 57-year-old, a small construction business owner in his former life, says his decision to stay as 160,000 other people evacuated the area was spurred in part by the shock of finding dead pets in abandoned houses he helped demolish.
Following her death about 5,600 years ago, a Stone Age woman's skull took an unexpected journey when mud and water washed it away from her burial site and into the craggy rocks of a steep cave in what is now Italy, a new study finds.
When archaeologists found the skull, its resting spot in the cave shaft was so hard to reach that only one archaeologist, using rock climbing equipment, could squeeze into the space to recover it. During a later analysis, the researchers found that the skull was very scratched up; at first, they couldn't make heads or tails of what had happened to the ancient woman.
But, after determining which of the skull's lesions were likely caused by humans and which were likely incurred as the skull tumbled against various rocks, the researchers came up with a possible scenario. Once this woman died, people in her community likely dismembered her corpse — a funeral practice performed at other burials from this time period and region. After people separated the woman's skull from the rest of her body, environmental forces swept it away into the cave, the researchers suggested.
Archaeologists discovered the lone skull in 2015 in northern Italy's Marcel Loubens cave. Caves are common sites for ancient burials, but archaeologists couldn't find any other human remains there, even when they returned in 2017 with climbing equipment to retrieve the skull.
A CT (computed tomography) scan and analysis of the skull itself revealed that the woman was between the ages of 24 and 35 when she died, while radiocarbon dating indicated that she lived between 3630 and 3380 B.C., during the New Stone Age, or Neolithic period. To put that into perspective, this woman lived just before Ötzi the Iceman, whose mummified remains date to 3300 B.C. and were also found in northern Italy.
Talk about your yard sale finds. A small porcelain bowl bought for $35 at a Connecticut yard sale turned out to be a rare, 15th century Chinese artifact worth between $300,000 and $500,000 that is about to go up for auction at Sotheby’s.
The white bowl adorned with cobalt blue paintings of flowers and other designs is about 6 inches (16 centimeters) in diameter. An antiques enthusiast came across the piece and thought it could be something special when browsing a yard sale in the New Haven area last year, according to Sotheby’s.
The piece, one of only seven such bowls known to exist in the world, will be up for auction in New York on March 17 as part of Sotheby’s Auction of Important Chinese Art.
The buyer, whom is not being named, paid the $35 asking price and later emailed information and photos to Sotheby’s asking for an evaluation. The auction house’s experts on Chinese ceramics and art, Angela McAteer and Hang Yin, get many such emails every week, but this was one of the kind they dream about.
McAteer and Yin determined the bowl dates back to the early 1400s during the reign of the Yongle emperor, the third ruler of the Ming Dynasty, and was made for the Yongle court. The Yongle court was known to have ushered in a new style to the porcelain kilns in the city of Jingdezhen, and the bowl is a quintessential Yongle product, according to Sotheby’s.
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