You gotta ask yourself how often somebody digs up a song you wrote more
than ten years ago and turns it into a comic book. Or at least I do. I wrote
Botany for a TV show called "Steven Spielberg presents Animaniacs" and
it's posted to my Animaniacs
page, where it was discovered by a maniac. Miraculously, thanks to Jonathan
M. Sweet of The Belch
Dimension, now there's this...
Luaine Lee: Lauren Ambrose in 'The Return of Jezebel James' (McClatchy-Tribune News Service; Posted on popmatters.com)
Actress Lauren Ambrose admits she likes being scared. "I like to do things that frighten me in my work," she says, in the lobby of a banquet room of a hotel here. "Things that are challenging and that will require a lot of me, a different part of me than has been used before. But in my regular life, I'm not jumping out of airplanes. I'm a very conservative gal," she laughs.
________?__________ was the first-ever host of
"Saturday Night Live" (as well as the first-ever host of
ABCs "Fridays").
A: Candice Bergen
B: Jack Burns
C: George Carlin
D: Buck Henry
E: Paul Simon
Source
Jack Burns
(one of the producers of "Fridays"),
and Carlin were a comedy team from 1960-1962. When they parted ways in 1962, Burns joined the Second City comedy group in Chicago,
eventually teaming up with Avery Schreiber,
and George Carlin pursued a solo standup career. Source
McDonald was first, but wrong, with:
Candice Bergen
ducks was second, but also wrong, writing:
My guess is Buck Henry.
Charlie was third, but the first correct, with:
I don't remember if I saw the watched, but the host was
C: George Carlin
Tony in Philly responded:
C: George Carlin?
PURPLE GENE replied:
ON OCTOBER 11, 1975, GEORGE CARLIN HOSTED THE 1ST EVER "NBC'S SATURDAY NIGHT".....TRICK QUESTION.
THEN THE NAME OF THE SHOW WAS CHANGED TO "SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE" AND ON MARCH 26, 1977 THAT VERY FIRST SHOW WAS HOSTED BY......
B.....JACK BURNS
Alan J was his usual succinct self answering:
George Carlin
Jack responded:
Without checking I think it's Candice Bergen, first SNL and Fridays host.
Vic in Alaska wrote:
I remember it like it was only 34 years ago
I rode my ten-speed up to my crazy budy Pauls house and we drank a case of beer and ate peanut butter and mayonaise sammiches and watched the premiere episode of the best show ever...till joe piscipo got on it. Anyone remember the Muppets when they were on the show? With Skred and Paul looking so much alike, that was his nickname till he died
I'm sending this via the anchorage library branch in Eagle River Alaska as I am living in an unheated trailer with no water and worse NO INTERWEBS!!! out in Peter's Creek. Fortunately Los Anchorage has the best bus service I have ever used and can catch one from out in the boonies where I live to town no problemo
Marian the Teacher responded:
George Carlin
Sally said:
George Carlin (C) was the first-ever host of "Saturday Night Live" (as well as the first-ever host of ABCs "Fridays").
I would have guessed, Buck Henry, but then I remembered that gawd-awful show, "Friday's" circa 1980, and Carlin, who's humor usually escapes me. And I'm a pretty funny person BTW :)
Wahiawa John replied:
D. Buck Hennery . A great comic.
And, Cory!! Strode (The Best Dressed Man In Comics) answered:
That would be George Carlin.
And for a review of that first SNL...I'm writing a blog going througheach episode week by week
I made something that might be entertaining, is political but also might actually have a story in it. It is meant to be something to make you think, but also something that is educational.
CBS fills the night with LIVE'NCAA College Basketball', then pads the left coast with local crap.
On a RERUNDave (from 1/31/08) are Stupid Human Tricks, Eva Longoria, and Colbie Caillat.
On a RERUNCraig (from 2/12/08) are Susan Sarandon and Bonnie Somerville.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'Deal Or No Deal', followed by the SEASON FINALE'Celebrity Apprentice'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Conan O'Brien, Anderson Cooper, and Allison Moorer.
On a RERUNConan (from 10/16/07) are Jake Gyllenhaal and Ghostland Observatory.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 2/26/08) are Rex Lee and Fat Joe.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'Miss Guided', followed by another FRESH'Miss Guided', then a FRESH'Lost', followed by a FRESH'Eli Stone'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Don Rickles, Jim Sturgess, and Black Tide.
The CW offers a FRESH'Smallville', followed by a FRESH'Reaper'.
Faux has a FRESH'Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?', followed by a FRESH'Don't Forget The Lyrics!'.
MY fills the night with the movie 'Antitrust'.
A&E has 'CSI: The 2nd One', 'The First 48', followed by a FRESH'The First 48', then a FRESH'Crime 360'.
AMC offers the movie 'Death Wish V: The Face Of Death', followed by the movie 'Letters From Iwo Jima', then the movie 'The Longest Day'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 4 The Fish and Anchor;
[1:00 PM] Cash in the Attic - Episode 11;
[2:00 PM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 3 Kedleston 48;
[2:30 PM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 4 Ardingly 51;
[3:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 4;
[3:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 5;
[4:00 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 2;
[4:30 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 3;
[5:00 PM] My Family - Ep. 14 Ding Dong Merrily;
[5:30 PM] Coupling - Ep 1 9 1/2 Minutes;
[6:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 3 Momma Cherri's;
[7:00 PM] BBC World News America;
[8:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 2 Piccolo Teatro;
[9:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 1 Ruby Tates;
[10:00 PM] BBC World News America;
[11:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 2 Piccolo Teatro;
[12:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 1 Ruby Tates;
[1:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 2 Piccolo Teatro;
[2:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 1 Ruby Tates;
[3:00 AM] Changing Rooms - Ep. 1 Loughborough;
[3:30 AM] Changing Rooms - Ep. 2 Disney;
[4:00 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 3 Kedleston 48;
[4:30 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 4 Ardingly 51;
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Episode 13;
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Episode 1;
[6:00 AM] BBC World News. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Top Chef', another 'Top Chef', still another 'Top Chef', and 'Make Me A Supermodel'.
Comedy Central has 'Scrubs', another 'Scrubs', an old 'Jon Stewart', an old 'Colbert Report', 'Futurama', 'South Park', another 'South Park', and a FRESH'Lil' Bush'.
On a RERUNJon Stewart (from 3/19/08) is Sen. Arlen Specter.
On a RERUNColbert Report (from 3/17/08) is Samantha Power.
FX has the movie 'Elekta', followed by the movie 'X2: X-Men United', then the movie 'X2: X-Men United', again.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'Gangland', another 'Gangland', and 'Cities Of The Underworld'.
Actor Gene Wilder is shown at a book signing for his new book 'The Woman Who Wouldn't' at Barnes and Noble, Wednesday, March 26, 2008, in New York.
Photo by Peter Kramer
More than a half-century after it was twice censored by network television, Rod Serling's story on the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till and his message about prejudice will finally be told the way Serling wanted.
The original stage script of Serling's "Noon on Doomsday" will be read Saturday at Ithaca College during a conference on Serling's life and legacy. The award-winning writer-creator of "The Twilight Zone" taught at Ithaca from 1967 until 1975, when he died.
Serling tried twice to dramatize Till's murder and the acquittal of his killers. In both cases, the writer met with sponsor censorship and network interference that diluted his final work, said researchers Tony Albarella and Amy E. Boyle Johnston.
Dana Dillworth, 54, of Brisbane, Calif. holds a sign reading '4,000 Dead' as she waits for the lighting of 4,000 candles, during a demonstration to commemorate 4,000 U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq, at Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco, Monday, March 24, 2008.
Photo by Darryl Bush
Family and friends of servicemen and women who died or vanished in the Vietnam War no longer have to travel to Washington to pay their respects at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
An interactive version debuts online this week, a project of historical document archive site Footnote.com in conjunction with the National Archives and Records Administration.
The virtual version of the famous memorial - which is a pair of 246-foot black granite walls inscribed with the names of more than 58,000 American military casualties - is searchable.
Every name etched onto the real-world wall is viewable online and linked to the veteran's service record. Online visitors can add photos and describe their memories of the servicemen and women who died in the war.
A poll by Web site AOL Television asked readers which daytime TV host made their day and DeGeneres, who opens "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" by dancing with her audience, trounced Oprah with 46 percent of the vote, while Winfrey only won 19 percent.
When asked which daytime host made the ideal dinner guest, again it was DeGeneres, with 47 percent of respondents saying they would rather dine with her, compared to 14 percent for Winfrey, long considered the queen of daytime TV with "The Oprah Winfrey Show."
Among some of the other findings, Kelly Ripa of "Live with Regis and Kelly" was named the sexiest talk show host and the one with the best hair, while Larry King of "Larry King Live," who has been married seven times, was named least sexy.
Elisabeth Hasselbeck of "The View" was voted worst interviewer, and her co-star Whoopi Goldberg was picked to win in an "all-out 'View' smackdown" among the program's panel that includes Joy Behar, Sherri Shepherd and Barbara Walters.
This photo released by Christie's auction house in New York shows Ansel Adams' 1941 photograph titled 'Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite Valley.' It will be auctioned on April 11th at Christie's in New York.
Celebrated chef Paul Prudhomme was setting up his cooking tent on the practice range at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans on Tuesday morning when he felt a sting in his right arm, just above his elbow.
Prudhomme shook his shirt sleeve and a .22 caliber bullet fell to the ground, a spokesman for the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office said.
Deputies believe Prudhomme was hit by a falling bullet, probably shot about 9:30 a.m. from somewhere within a 1 1/2-mile radius of the golf course, said Col. John Fortunato. Prudhomme did not require medical attention.
The Los Angeles Times will conduct an internal investigation concerning the authenticity of documents used in a story that implicate associates of Sean "Diddy" Combs in a 1994 assault on Tupac Shakur, the editor of the newspaper said Wednesday.
In a story posted on the newspaper Web site, Editor Russ Stanton said he ordered the review after the editor of the Web site The Smoking Gun told the newspaper he had reason to doubt the validity of the FBI records that were supposed to back up the story.
The Smoking Gun said the documents seemed phony because they appeared to be written on a typewriter instead of a computer, included blacked-out sections not typically found in such documents, and other reasons. The Smoking Gun story claims the documents were created by a convicted con man and music fan with a history of exaggerating his place in the rap music world.
The March 17 story and related features on latimes.com attracted nearly 1 million hits - more viewers than any other story on latimes.com this year, the newspaper said.
An early quarto edition of Hamlet is seen in this undated handout photograph released by the Bodleian Library March 26, 2008. A U.S. and British library plan to reproduce online all 75 editions of William Shakespeare's plays printed in the quarto format before the year 1641.
Bon Jovi's Richie Sambora has been arrested for investigation of driving under the influence of alcohol. The 48-year-old guitarist was arrested just before 11 p.m. Tuesday after an officer noticed his black Hummer weaving in traffic lanes, said Laguna Beach police Sgt. Jason Kravetz.
Sambora was given field sobriety tests and arrested without incident. He was booked at the Laguna Beach jail and released at 4 a.m., Kravetz said Wednesday.
Sambora was given notice to appear in court May 7 on one misdemeanor count of driving under the influence, Kravetz said.
A California appeals court has ruled that a producer of the movie "Crash" can't sue to get an Academy Award retroactively.
Bob Yari was one of six credited producers for "Crash," an ensemble film released in 2005 that explored racism in Los Angeles through intersecting stories.
He sued after the Producers Guild of America and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences named only two people as producers for purposes of Oscar credit. He claimed the snub damaged his reputation.
On Tuesday, the 2nd District Court of Appeals agreed with a lower court's ruling in 2006 that the "right of fair procedure" that Yari's attorneys invoked did not apply in this case. Private organizations can make their own decisions when it comes to their awards, the justices said.
This undated photo released by Sotheby's shows Asher Brown Durand's 1849 painting 'Kindred Spirits.' Wal-Mart heiress Alice Walton jolted the art world in 2005 by outbidding two venerable East Coast museums for the iconic New York painting. The painting will be on public display at the Walton family's museum, Crystal Bridges, scheduled to open in Bentonville, Ark., in 2010.
A new study predicts water circulation in Lake Tahoe is being dramatically altered by global warming, threatening the lake's delicate ecosystem and famed clear waters.
The University of California, Davis study said one likely consequence is warmer lake temperatures that will mean fewer cold-water native fish and more invasive species - like carp, large-mouth bass and bluegill.
"What we expect is that deep mixing of Lake Tahoe's water layers will become less frequent, even nonexistent, depleting the bottom waters of oxygen," said Geoffrey Schladow, director of the Tahoe Environmental Research Center at U.S. Davis.
The changes, the study concluded, could turn Tahoe's famed cobalt-blue waters to a murky green in about a decade.
Petra the swan has a new home and so does her beloved swan-shaped paddleboat. In 2006, Petra, a black swan, became so attached to the boat - shaped like an outsized white swan - that she refused to leave its side at a lake near a zoo in the German city of Muenster.
Petra and her paddleboat were taken to the zoo.
Zoo officials finally parted bird and boat last week after Petra settled down with a real white swan and the boat was returned to the lake. But the romance was short-lived. The zoo says that, on Saturday, her new beau flew off and sought out the company of other black swans.
A zoo statement says that Petra "appears to feel lonely" and is swimming around in an agitated state. The solution? On Friday, she will be taken back to the nearby lake and her faithful paddleboat.
Richard Widmark, who made a sensational film debut as the giggling killer in "Kiss of Death" and became a leading man in "Broken Lance," "Two Rode Together" and 40 other films, died at his home in Roxbury after a long illness. He was 93.
A quiet, inordinately shy man, Widmark often portrayed killers, cops and Western gunslingers. But he said he hated guns.
"I know I've made kind of a half-assed career out of violence, but I abhor violence," he remarked in a 1976 Associated Press interview. "I am an ardent supporter of gun control. It seems incredible to me that we are the only civilized nation that does not put some effective control on guns."
Widmark was born Dec. 26, 1914, in Sunrise, Minn., where his father ran a general store, then became a traveling salesman. The family moved to Sioux Falls, S.D., Henry, Ill., and Chillicothe, Mo., before settling in Princeton, Ill.
Two years out of college, Widmark reached New York in 1938 during the heyday of radio drama. His mellow Midwest voice made him a favorite in soap operas, and he found himself racing from one studio to another.
Rejected by the Army because of a punctured eardrum, Widmark began appearing in Broadway plays in 1943. His first was a comedy hit "Kiss and Tell." He was appearing in the Chicago company of "Dream Girl" with June Havoc when 20th Century Fox signed him to a seven-year contract.
"Madigan," a 1968 film with Widmark as a loner detective, was converted to television and lasted one season in 1972-73. It was Widmark's only TV series.
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