Dahlia Lithwick: America's Heroism Trap (Slate)
Yes, we are grateful for every person working on every front line. But the language of martyrdom distracts from what we could do about it all.
Introduced in Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much, this song won the 1956 Academy Award for Best Original Song. What is the title of this ode to cheerful fatalism?
"Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)"[a] is a song written by the team of Jay Livingston and Ray Evans that was first published in 1956. Doris Day introduced it in the Alfred Hitchcock film The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), singing it as a cue to their onscreen kidnapped son.The four verses of the song progress through the life of the narrator-from childhood, through young adulthood and falling in love, to parenthood-and each asks "What will I be?" or "What lies ahead?" The chorus repeats the answer: "What will be, will be."
Day's recording of the song for Columbia Records made it to number two on the Billboard Hot 100 and number one in the UK Singles Chart. It came to be known as Day's signature song. The song in The Man Who Knew Too Much received the 1956 Academy Award for Best Original Song. It was the third Oscar in this category for Livingston and Evans, who previously won in 1948 and 1950.
The song popularized the title expression "que sera, sera" as an English-language phrase indicating "cheerful fatalism", though its use in English dates back to at least the 16th century. Contrary to popular perception, the phrase is not Spanish in origin, and is ungrammatical in that language.
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
Que Sera, Sera.
Cal in Vermont said:
Que Sera, Sera. Nice catchy tune sung by the eternally sunny Doris Day, who had a knack for things like that. It got a lot of airplay, enough that I still remember most of the words.
Randall wrote:
Que Sera Sera
Alan J answered:
Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be).
mj responded:
Probably the second song
Whose words I could sing. It sorta became Doris Day's theme: "Que Sera,
Sera", what will be, will be.
Kevin K. in Washington, DC, replied:
Que Sera, Sera, sung by that bad bitch of fatalism, Doris Day.
zorch said:
Que sera sera,
Dave wrote:
Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be). Unaccountably that annoying song went to #2 on the Billboard singles chart, earned an Oscar, and became poor Doris Day's signature song (that fine singer deserved far better). Curiously "que sera, sera" does not actually mean "whatever will be, will be" and isn't a phrase in any known language. The composer saw the fictional motto carved in stone in the film, The Barefoot Contessa and decided to use it as the song's title.
Photos: The 1956 film shared the title with a 1934 Hitchcock film but had a somewhat different plot. Hitchcock cast his favorite actor of that era in the lead, even though Jimmy Stewart was, and looked old enough, to be his young son's grandpa. Anyway the film did well at the box office and gave Doris Day credibility as a Hollywood actress.
Adam answered:
'Que Sera Sera'- Doris Day never liked the song very much, but she will still gladly sing it if it makes you happy.
Jacqueline responded:
This one I knew. Que Sera Sera was sung by Doris Day in that movie. Alfred Hitchcock's movies were great. I've seen most of them!
Mac Mac replied:
Storm Clouds Cantata
David of Moon Valley said:
Cue Sara Sara…or Que Sera, Sera…depending on which part of the country you're from….
Deborah wrote:
The song, sung by Doris Day, is "Que Sera, Sera." I wouldn't have attributed that song to that movie. The things I learn from you.
Heat wave coming up and people are clamoring for beach access. Hell, let 'em go! It's their (possible) death. One of my neighbors is an anti-vaxxer and wrote "Freedom is Essential!!!" on the rear window of her SUV. I'm so sorely tempted to add "So is Health!!!" but since that's vandalism, I'll pass. I wanted to engage her as to why she, a reasonably intelligent woman and mother, refuses to believe the science. A quick read of her Facebook page and I'm rethinking of talking to her at all - holy cow, there's a lot of stupid among the anti-vax/anti-science group. Sheesh.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, answered:
Que Sera, Sera...by Doris Day
Dave in Tucson responded:
Hasn't this question previously been asked? The answer is Que Sera Sera.
Michelle in AZ replied:
Que Sera, Sera
Billy in Cypress U$A said:
"Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing" won 1956 Oscar for best song, but "tRump is a many-sphinctered thing" since he has an anal cavity full of shit where his mouth, ears, brain and heart should be.
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• Bill Wyman, bass player for the Rolling Stones, grew up poor. His family owned only one toothbrush, which they shared, and food was often lacking. Later, when the Rolling Stones were just getting started, he was able to join the band despite a lack of enthusiasm from the other members because he enjoyed a little material prosperity. He explains, "They didn't like me, but I had a good amplifier, and they were badly in need of amplifiers at that time. So they kept me on."
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• Bobbie Lee Nelson is Willie Nelson's sister - he calls her "Sister Bobbie." For decades, she has toured with her famous younger brother. At age 77, she recorded her first solo album, although she didn't know that she was doing that. Willie asked her one day, "Well, Sister Bobbie, why don't you just go over there and warm up that piano?" And when she wasn't looking, he turned on the tape machine. Their entire family was musical. She remembers their grandparents studying music theory from books they had gotten by mail order. At age six, she got her first piano. Before age six, she made a play piano out of cardboard and pretended to play it. Bobbie Lee says, "We played like we were having a piano there and I would play and we'd sing. We had a great childhood." One of the things that made their childhood great was their sibling love for each other - they even ate dirt together. "We had this little toy stove and we made mud pies in the sun," Bobbie Lee says. "When they would get baked, he would say, 'Sister Bobbie, it's so good. Just take a bite.' And he had me eating dirt with him. That's how much I love Willie. I do anything he tells me to do."
• Singer Avril Lavigne was born and raised in Canada, and like most or all Canadians, she likes hockey. As a 10- and 11-year-old, she was the only girl on her hockey team, and she could take care of herself in a hockey fight. In fact, on occasion, she started fights. In one case, she started a fight with an opposing player who had insulted one of her teammates. In another fight, the goalie was someone who had picked on her at school, so she took the opportunity of the hockey game to fight him. Her father recorded this fight - in the background fans can be heard cheering her on in the fight: "Avril! Avril!" When Avril turned 18, her record company, Arista, gave her an ice hockey birthday party at an indoor skating rink. She played with enough passion that she knocked down an Arista executive.
• When Beverly Sells was a little girl, her mother recognized that she had talent because of the way young Beverly sang the arias that she heard on records. Therefore, she took Beverly to audition for the great singing teacher Estelle Liebling. At first, Ms. Liebling did not want to hear Beverly sing, saying, "I don't teach little girls. I don't even know any little girls." However, she did listen to Beverly sing an aria, and she laughed because she recognized that Beverly was imitating an Amelita Galli-Curci record that she had heard played at home. Ms. Liebling had been the voice teacher who had taught Ms. Galli-Curci to sing the aria. Of course, Ms. Liebling recognized young Beverly's talent and became her voice teacher.
• Country music singer Faith Hill got her start the way many singers do. When Faith was a child, her mother paid her a quarter to sing in front of guests. Sometimes, Faith would get fifty cents for singing a song such as "Jesus Loves Me" at a family reunion. Later, after Faith had decided to become a professional singer, her musical experiences were not so typical. For example, as a teenager she once sang on a stage in Raleigh, Mississippi, following a tobacco-spitting contest. The contestants took turns spitting tobacco juice the greatest distance they could. Before Faith could sing, the stage had to be wiped with towels.
CBS opens the night with a RERUN'Young Sheldon', followed by a FRESH'Man With A Plan', then a RERUN'Mom', followed by a FRESH'Broke', then a FRESH'Tommy'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Bill Gates, Claire Danes, and Mandy Patinkin.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, is Hugh Jackman.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'Superstore', followed by a FRESH'Brooklyn Nine-Nine', then a FRESH'Will & Grace', followed by another SERIES FINALE'Will & Grace', then a FRESH'L&O: SVU'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Alex Rodriguez, Rhett & Link, and Tones and I.
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ABC starts the night with the FRESH'NFL Draft', followed by 'Nightline In Prime'.
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MY recycles an old 'L&O: CI', followed by another old 'L&O: CI'.
A&E has 'The First 48', followed by a FRESH'The First 48', another 'The First 48', then a FRESH'60 Days In'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers', followed by the movie 'Top Gun', then the movie 'The Perfect Storm'.
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It's day who-even-knows-anymore of lockdown, and the itch to be anywhere else but inside our homes is particularly prickly. So for this weekend, at least, put on your most psychedelic sailor's suit and dive into an animated ocean aboard the Yellow Submarine for a worldwide The Beatles sing-a-long.
This Saturday, April 25th, at 12:00 p.m. ET/9:00 a.m. PT, The Beatles will stream the restored Sing-A-Long version of their iconic 1968 animated movie Yellow Submarine on YouTube. The Sing-A-Long version has not been available since it was originally released in theaters to celebrate the beloved film's 50th anniversary in 2018. Now, when we could all use a little levity and wonder, it will stream for an event that will allow "the whole world to sing together with The Beatles at once."
The Sing-A-Long edit of Yellow Submarine features the song lyrics scrolling across the bottom of the screen. The movie includes some of the band's most memorable hits, including "Eleanor Rigby", "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", and "All You Need Is Love".
Look, we're all going a little wonky while responsibly self-isolating at home during this . . . unpleasantness. Some are taking up weird hobbies, writing bad novels, moving everything in our houses one foot to the left. It's even said that doing nothing all day but watch Fox News has driven some Americans so dangerously insane that they're out in the streets toting guns and infecting each other with coronavirus because, um, freedom? Well, sometimes cabin fever can be a good thing (like, maybe your novel isn't so bad-keep plugging away, tiger), as when Conan O'Brien discovers Hamilton and In The Heights creator Lin-Manuel Miranda noodling around on his home keyboard.
And perhaps things do get a little weird when O'Brien asks Miranda to put his legendary freestyle skills to the test with an impromptu song about Conan's morning ritual, but, you know, in a fun way. With Miranda listening intently to Conan's answers to a series of questions about what he did that very morning, you could see those Hamilton wheels turning as his fingers itched to get to work on the keys. After ascertaining that stay-at-home routines at the O'Brien house are just as mundane as the rest of ours, Miranda took a deep breath, scanned his Tony-winning memory banks, and brought out an on-the-spot Broadway ballad that will no doubt be the first act centerpiece for Conan: The Musical.
Spurred by an anecdote about Conan's tech-savvy son mocking his old dad for daring to ask for some Zoom advice, "OK, Boomer" is Miranda's ode to just getting through another morning penned up with your family (and your confused and put-upon dog). Pulling ingeniously from Conan's answers to his pre-song Q&A, Miranda went on to incorporate Conan's healthy breakfast and probably choice of mindless TV ("spinach smoothie" is a close enough rhyme for "another fucking Netflix movie"), his later-than-usual lockdown wakeup time (where Miranda posits Conan's been dreaming about a different Broadway legend), and ultimately soars into the ironically empathetic "OK, Boomer" chorus. It's so impressive that visions of a Middleditch And Schwartz And Miranda all-improv superstars musical theater Netflix special leaps right to mind. Of course, that might be the cabin fever talking, but it's still a great idea. (Miranda does cop to letting a little Dana Carvey slip in to the song, just at the end there.)
Kevin Hart, Chris Rock, Adam Sandler, Eddie Murphy, and Billy Crystal are among the big names joining Byron Allen's Allen Media Group television production division Entertainment Studios and Funny or Die for a live-streaming comedy event next month.
The fundraiser will support hunger-relief organization Feeding America. The event will livestream on the Allen Media Group TV networks Comedy.TV and The Weather Channel, as well as on the free streaming service app Local Now from 8-11 pm ET on Saturday May 9.
Pre-recorded comedy segments will be featured during the three-hour event. Committed to appearing are Hart, Sandler, Murphy, Rock, Billy Crystal, Marlon Wayans, Howie Mandel, Tiffany Haddish, Brad Garrett, Taraji P. Henson, Louie Anderson, Margaret Cho, Kenan Thompson, Marc Maron, Jon Lovitz, Caroline Rhea, Byron Allen, Billy Gardell, Tim Meadows, Jamie Kennedy, Bill Engvall and Sheryl Underwood. Producers say more will be added.
After they discovered a new species of green pit vipers, researchers from India have decided to name the snake after the Harry Potter character Salazar Slytherin.
In JK Rowling's book series and the subsequent film adaptations, Slytherin was one of the founders of the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Other founders included Godric Gryffindor, Rowena Ravenclaw and Helga Hufflepuff.
The researchers chose the name "Trimeresurus salazar" as Slytherin was partly known for his ability to talk to snakes.
In their research published in this month's journal of Zoosystematics and Evolution, the team suggests the snake commonly be known as Salazar's pit viper.
On January 21, the day the first U.S. case of coronavirus was reported, the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services appeared on Fox News to report the latest on the disease as it ravaged China. Alex Azar, a 52-year-old lawyer and former drug industry executive, assured Americans the U.S. government was prepared.
While coronavirus in Wuhan, China, was "potentially serious," Azar assured viewers in America, it "was one for which we have a playbook."
Azar's initial comments misfired on two fronts. Like many U.S. officials, from President Donald Trump on down, he underestimated the pandemic's severity. He also overestimated his agency's preparedness.
As is now widely known, two agencies Azar oversaw as HHS secretary, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration, wouldn't come up with viable tests for five and half weeks, even as other countries and the World Health Organization had already prepared their own.
Shortly after his televised comments, Azar tapped a trusted aide with minimal public health experience to lead the agency's day-to-day response to COVID-19. The aide, Brian Harrison, had joined the department after running a dog-breeding business for six years. Five sources say some officials in the White House derisively called him "the dog breeder."
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (R-Armageddon-Tired-of-Waiting) said on Wednesday it was up to Israel whether to annex parts of the West Bank and said that Washington would offer its views privately to Israel's new government, drawing a warning from Palestinians who vowed not to "stand handcuffed" if Israel formally took their land.
"As for the annexation of the West Bank, the Israelis will ultimately make those decisions," Pompeo told reporters. "That's an Israeli decision. And we will work closely with them to share with them our views of this in (a) private setting."
Pompeo also said he was "happy" Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and centrist rival Benny Gantz signed a deal on Monday to form a national emergency government, saying he did not think a fourth Israeli election was in Israel's interest.
The coalition agreement says that while the new government will strive for peace and regional stability, plans to extend Israeli sovereignty to Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank - land the Palestinians seek for a state - could advance.
All it took was a few sturdy swings with a sledgehammer and a prized painting by Vincent van Gogh was gone.
A Dutch crime-busting television show has aired security camera footage showing how an art thief smashed his way through reinforced glass doors at a museum in the early hours of March 30. He later hurried out through the museum gift shop with a Vincent van Gogh painting tucked under his right arm and the sledgehammer in his left hand.
Police hope that publicizing the images will help them track down the thief who stole Van Gogh's "The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring 1884" from the Singer Laren Museum while it was shut down due to coronavirus containment measures.
The 25-by-57-centimeter (10-by-22-inch) oil-on-paper painting shows a person standing in a garden surrounded by trees with a church tower in the background.
The California Highway Patrol is issuing a lot more tickets to motorists feeling the need for speed on roadways where lanes are wide open during the coronavirus pandemic, officials said Wednesday.
From March 19, when the stay-at-home order began, through April 19, officers issued 2,493 citations to drivers suspected of speeding in excess of 100 mph, the CHP said. That's compared to 1,335 during the same period last year-marking an 87% increase.
The jump in speeding tickets coincides with a 35% decline in traffic volume on state roads compared with 2019, according to information from the CHP, the Department of Transportation and the Office of Traffic Safety.
"There's some people out there that are taking advantage of it and it's dangerous to say the least," said Long Beach Fire Chief Xavier Espino who's seen the evidence firsthand on his 45-mile commute to work.
"I can tell you the speeds at which people are passing me are unbelievable," Espino said.
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