• After Lord Avebury published a list of what he regarded as the 100 Best Books, Oscar Wilde was asked to name the books that would appear on his own list of the 100 best books ever written. Mr. Wilde replied, “I fear that would be impossible.” When he was asked why, he replied, “Because I have written only five.”
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• Civil rights leader W.E.B. Du Bois was harassed by the United States government. During the Communist scare of the 1950s, the federal government refused to renew his passport unless he signed a statement stating that he did not hold membership in the Communist Party. Mr. Du Bois declined to sign the statement, and he protested to the passport officials, “My beliefs are none of your business. I repeat my demand for a passport in accordance with the Constitution of the United States, the laws of the land, and the decision of the courts.” Eventually, the Supreme Court ruled that requiring people to sign such an oath as Mr. Du Bois had been asked to sign before he could get a passport was against the Constitution, and Mr. Du Bois was able to travel abroad again. Even inside the United States, Mr. Du Bois had been censored. He had wanted to speak at a rally sponsored by the American Labor Party on Long Island, New York, but local officials would not let him because they felt that he was a Communist. Interestingly, Mr. Du Bois joined the Communist Party in 1961 — partly in response to the way he had been treated when people thought he was a member of the Communist Party.
• James Joyce’s Ulysses was almost never published. Portions of Ulysses had been published in America in the Little Review, but the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice filed charges of obscenity against its publishers, Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap, who were subsequently convicted and forbidden to publish any more excerpts of Ulysses in their magazine. Meanwhile, in England Harriet Weaver wanted to publish Ulysses but was unable to find a printer who was willing to set the book in type. Fortunately, Mr. Joyce met Sylvia Beach of Shakespeare and Company in Paris, who plunged into publishing the book although she had no experience. How scandalous was Ulysses thought to be? On the floor of the Senate, Senator Reed Smoot of Utah said that he had spent 10 minutes skimming the book and that 10 minutes was “enough to indicate that it was written by a man with a diseased mind and soul so black that he would even obscure the darkness of Hell.”
• Many citizens of the USSR hated the government and consequently hated the works of propaganda that praised the government. That meant that many people read underground literature instead of the literature officially approved by the government. In one underground joke, a husband discovered that his wife was typing the novel Anna Karenina and asked her why, since the novel was in print. “Yes,” his wife replied, “but you know our son will not read anything that has been published.”
• As a young woman, ballerina Margot Fonteyn wished to educate herself and so she read many books, including James Joyce’s Ulysses, which was banned in Britain when she read it. While she was reading the novel on a bus, Ninette De Valois asked what she was reading, then almost had a heart attack after seeing the title. She told young Margot, “For God’s sake, child, don’t read that in public — you could be arrested!”
First flown in 1969, and entering service in 1976, what is the name of this turbojet-powered supersonic passenger airliner that was operated until 2003?
In this song by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, Dionne Warwick, not wanting to lose her way, requested directions to a California city and won her first Grammy. What is the title of this song?
"Do You Know the Way to San Jose" is a 1968 popular song written and composed for singer Dionne Warwick by Burt Bacharach. Hal David wrote the lyrics. The song was Warwick's biggest international hit to that point, selling several million copies worldwide and winning Warwick her first Grammy Award. David's lyrics tell the story of a native of San Jose, California who, having failed to break into the entertainment field in Los Angeles, is set to return to her hometown.
The song was released on the 1968 RIAA Certified Gold album Dionne Warwick in Valley of the Dolls. "Do You Know the Way to San Jose" was issued as the follow-up single to the double-sided hit "(Theme from) Valley of the Dolls"/ "I Say a Little Prayer" in April 1968. It became Warwick's third consecutive Top Ten song in the closing months of 1967 and into 1968, punctuating the most successful period of Warwick's recording career.
Bacharach had composed the music for the song before David wrote its lyrics. David had a special interest in San Jose, having been stationed there while in the Navy.
Warwick did not like "Do You Know the Way to San Jose," and she had to be convinced to record it. In a May 1983 interview with Ebony, she said: "It's a dumb song and I didn't want to sing it. But it was a hit, just like [her recent Top Ten hit] 'Heartbreaker' is. I'm happy these songs were successful, but that still doesn't change my opinion about them." Though she still does not like it, the song remains one of Warwick's most popular chart selections, and she still includes it in almost every concert she performs.
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FWIW, it's not that difficult to get to San Jose from LA - just get on I-5 and head north. That's it.
Billy in Cypress U. $. A. was first, and correct, with:
"Do You Know The Way to San Jose"
Mark. said:
Do You Know the Way to San Jose?
mj wrote:
LA may be a great big freeway
But Ms. Warwick was looking to find the way to San Jose.
Alan J answered:
Do You Know the Way to San Jose.
Roy, still a Libtard Snowflake, still isolated in Tyler, TX responded:
Dionne's big hit back then was "Do You Know the Way to San Jose." Today, the answer to that question would be a snide, "What the heck, girl! Don't you have Google Maps on that phone of yours? Or maybe a decent GPS in your car?"
Jacqueline responded:
Do You Know The Way To San Jose
zorch replied:
Do You Know The Way To San Jose?
Dave wrote:
Do You Know the Way to San Jose. Lyrics by Hal David and music by Burt Bacharach.
Mac Mac said:
Do you know the way to San Jose
Cal in Vermont answered:
"Do You Know The Way To San Jose?" the answer to which these days would be to Google it or ask Alexa..
David of Moon Valley replied:
oooooh oooh I know I know
…and i don’t even have to awaken the all-seeing, all-knowing WIkitania…Do You Know The Way to San Jose?…Yikees but that was so long ago (in human terms anyway…)
Kenn B responded:
Do You Know The Way To San Jose?
Jim from CA, retired to ID, said:
I used to live there.....the song is "Do you know the way to San Jose"
Deborah, the Master Gardener wrote:
This is an easy one: “Do You Know the Way to San Jose?” And the first time I drove through San Jose, I wondered why Dionne wanted to go there. It’s just another big city that sprawled all over the hills to the east. But I still like the pop song.
Air is clearing gradually as the weather cooperates & the firefighters gain some traction. Still scary AF.
John I from Hawai`i says,
Do You Know the Way to San Jose?
Daniel in The City answered:
Do You Know the Way to San Jose?
Dave in Tucson responded:
"Do You Know the Way to San Jose" is the song. Long gone are the days
when you could "put a hundred down and buy a car". At least a decent one.
Kevin in Washington DC, replied:
“Do You Know The Way To San Jose?”
Michelle in AZ said:
Do You Know the way to San Jose?
Joe ( -- Vote Blue, No Matter Who -- ) answered:
"Do you know the way to San Jose?" I don't know the way, but I'm tired and I'm going to bed. I'm old.
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“When the first Black & White label record by the new Earle Spencer orchestra came out the band was already a real sensation in Los Angeles. But it was to be the classic definition of “an overnight sensation” as, like so many of the big bands that had prospered in the big band era that preceded the war, it would founder and fold in its wake. However, thanks to Jordi Pujol and the team at Fresh Sound, the complete rare Black & White recordings 1946-1949 are available for the first time on CD in combination with recordings of an in-performance date by the band that took place on July 20, 1946 at the Casino Ballroom in Ft. Worth, Texas, and released as Earle Spencer and His New Band Sensation of the Year 1946 [2 CDs FSR 2501].” — Jazz Profiles
“Spencer was a trombonist who, after playing in the band that he led from 1946 to 1949, gave up playing entirely, due partly to a heart murmur, due partly to the hard economics of big bands in that began in the late 1940s, and due partly to the band’s record label, Black & White Records, which went out of business in October 1949.” — Wikipedia
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Tonight, Thursday:
CBS opens the night on the East Coast with a FRESH'Big Brother', followed by a FRESH'Love Island', then LIVE'Fluffing Lumpy'.
CBS opens the night extra early on the left coast with LIVE'Fluffing Lumpy', followed by a FRESH'Big Brother', then a FRESH'Love Island, followed by the local crap that usually airs at 7pm.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert Chris Christie and Gregory Porter.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are Kieran Culkin and Maren Morris.
NBC begins the night on the East Coast with a RERUN'The Wall', followed by a RERUN'L&O: SVU', then LIVE'Fluffing Lumpy'.
NBC begins the night extra early on the left coast with LIVE'Fluffing Lumpy', followed by a RERUN'The Wall', then a RERUN'L&O: SVU', followed by the local crap that usually airs at 7pm.
On a RERUNJimmy Fallon (from 8/17/20) are Tiffany Haddish, Jurnee Smollett, Orville Peck, and Shania Twain.
On a RERUNSeth Meyers (from 8/6/20) are J.B. Smoove, Dana Bash, Kaitlan Collins, Kyung Lah, and Thaddeus Dixon.
b>Lilly Singh (from 12/12/19) is Deepak Chopra.
ABC starts the night on the East Coast with a RERUN'Holey Moley', followed by a RERUN'To Tell The Truth', then LIVE'Fluffing Lumpy'.
ABC starts the night extra early on the left coast with LIVE'Fluffing Lumpy', followed by a RERUN'Holey Moley', then a RERUN'To Tell The Truth', followed by the local crap that usually airs at 7pm.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel, with guest host Lil Rel Howery, are Yvonne Orji and Amber Riley.
The CW offers a FRESH'Mysteries Decoded', followed by a RERUN'Penn & Teller: Fool Us'.
Faux fills the night with some self-generated horseshit special.
MY recycles an old recycles an old 'L&O: CI', followed by another old 'L&O: CI'.
A&E has 'The First 48', another 'The First 48', followed by a FRESH'The First 48', then a FRESH'Court Cam', and another 'Court Cam'.
AMC offers the movie 'GoodFellas', followed by the movie 'The Expendables 2', then the movie 'Total Recall'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - The Assignment
[7:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Let He Who Is Without Sin ...
[8:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Things Past
[9:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - The Ascent
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Rapture
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - The Darkness and the Light
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Lower Decks
[1:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Thine Own Self
[2:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Masks
[3:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Eye of the Beholder
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Genesis
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Journey's End
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Firstborn
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Bloodlines
[8:00PM] THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS: TOKYO DRIFT
[10:30PM] THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS: TOKYO DRIFT
[1:00AM] TOP GEAR - New Season Preview
[1:05AM] POINT BREAK
[3:33AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Masks
[4:32AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Eye of the Beholder
[5:31AM] MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS - Mr. and Mrs. Brian Norris' Ford Popular (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of NYC', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of NYC', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of NYC', and another 'Real Housewives Of NYC'.
Comedy Central has all old 'The Office' all night.
Scheduled on a FRESHThe Daily Show it's The Daily Social Distancing Show.
FX has the movie 'The Greatest Showman', followed by the movie 'Hidden Figures'.
IFC -
[6:00A] The Three Stooges - Grips, Grunts and Groans
[6:30A] The Three Stooges - A Pain in the Pullman
[7:00A] Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Return - The Land That Time Forgot
[9:00A] Life of Brian
[11:00A] Piranha 3D
[1:00P] Airplane II: The Sequel
[3:00P] Airplane!
[5:00P] Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
[7:30P] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
[10:00P] Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
[12:30A] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
[3:00A] Airplane II: The Sequel
[5:00A] Saved by the Bell
[5:30A] Saved by the Bell (ALL TIMES ET)
Sundance -
[6:00am] perry mason
[7:00am] perry mason
[8:00am] perry mason
[9:00am] the andy griffith show
[9:30am] the andy griffith show
[10:00am] the andy griffith show
[10:30am] the andy griffith show
[11:00am] the andy griffith show
[11:30am] the andy griffith show
[12:00pm] the andy griffith show
[12:30pm] the andy griffith show
[1:00pm] law & order
[2:00pm] law & order
[3:00pm] law & order
[4:00pm] law & order
[5:00pm] law & order
[6:00pm] law & order
[7:00pm] law & order
[8:00pm] law & order
[9:00pm] law & order
[10:00pm] law & order
[11:00pm] law & order
[12:00am] law & order
[1:00am] law & order
[2:00am] juno
[4:00am] perry mason
[5:00am] perry mason (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'Rush Hour 2', followed by the movie 'Men In Black III'.
TBS:
On a RERUNConan (from 7/23/20) is Andy Samberg.
CBS has reshuffled its early fall schedule with a mix of acquisitions, scripted series from other areas of the company and non-scripted programming as it deals with the ongoing impact of COVID-19.
The broadcast network is adding Star Trek: Discovery, One Day at a Time and Spectrum’s Manhunt: Deadly Games as well as a documentary spinoff of FBI to the schedule in September and October.
This comes as CBS hopes to roll out its previously announced schedule of scripted dramas and comedies in November. (Its drama S.W.A.T. is already in the production, NCIS and NCIS: LA have early September start dates, with a number of other scripted shows to follow.)
The move will mean that there will be at least two to three hours of original programming, or new to CBS, per night across the week on the network in September and October. Despite the global pandemic, this is comparable to last year.
The man who cut short the life and music of rock superstar John Lennon with a burst of bullets nearly 40 years ago lost his 11th bid to be freed from a sentence that could keep him behind bars for the rest of his life, a New York prison system spokesperson said on Wednesday.
A parole board denied a request for release from Lennon's killer, who must wait two more years before he becomes eligible again, the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision spokesperson said.
The rationale behind the decision of the Board of Parole panel members who interviewed Lennon's killer on Aug. 19 at the Wende Correctional Facility near Buffalo, was not immediately disclosed.
Since 2000, the first year Lennon's killer was eligible for parole, Ono, 87, has steadfastly opposed his release. Her attorney, Jonas Herbsman, said she submitted comments to the parole board, which he would only say are “consistent with the prior letters.”
Rivals in life, the rappers Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur are being united for an auction at Sotheby’s, the first-ever dedicated hip-hop auction at a major international auction house.
Bidders will be able to vie for the crown worn and signed by the Notorious B.I.G. during a 1997 photo shoot held three days before he was killed in Los Angeles. They’ll also get to bid on an archive of 22 autographed love letters written by Shakur at the age of 15-17 to a high school sweetheart.
The auction will be held Sept. 15 and features over 120 hip-hop-related lots. The items can be viewed in person — reservations are required during the pandemic — at Sotheby’s in New York City and the exhibition will also be available to the public online via its digital gallery.
Shakur’s letters — many on lined stationary pages with neat hand-lettered script — were written in 1987 and 1988 to Kathy Loy, a fellow student at the Baltimore School for the Arts. The 42 pages chronicle their approximately two-month long romance, including a letter of regret for breaking up sent a year later. Loy provided the letters for auction.
The 29-year-old Dutch author Marieke Lucas Rijneveld has become the youngest author ever to win the International Booker prize, taking the award for their “visceral and virtuosic” debut novel, The Discomfort of Evening.
Rijneveld, whose preferred pronouns are they/them, beat titles including Yoko Ogawa’s The Memory Police and Shokoofeh Azar’s The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree to win the £50,000 award for the best fiction translated into English, which will be split equally with their translator, Michele Hutchison. At 29, Rijneveld is the youngest winner of the International Booker, and narrowly older than the youngest Booker winner, Eleanor Catton, who was 28 when she won the 2013 prize for The Luminaries.
A bestseller in the Netherlands, The Discomfort of Evening follows Jas, a girl in a devout Christian farming family, whose brother dies in an accident after she wishes he would die instead of her rabbit. Lost in grief, her family falls apart as she becomes involved in increasingly dangerous fantasies.
Like Jas, Rijneveld grew up in a strict religious community in a rural area of the Netherlands; like Jas, their 10-year-old brother died when they were three. Already an award-winning author in the Netherlands, Rijneveld continues to work on a dairy farm, although not that of their parents. “Farming keeps me grounded. The cows are my best friends; I like cleaning out the stables and shovelling the shit,” they said in an interview earlier this year.
Health experts were left reeling this week by abrupt new guidance from the CDC that said not everyone exposed to COVID-19 necessarily needs to take a precautionary test if they aren't showing symptoms. There might be a reason, though, why the new recommendation "makes no sense" — White House Coronavirus Task Force member Dr. Anthony Fauci was literally unconscious when the decision was made.
"I was under general anesthesia in the operating room and was not part of any discussion or deliberation regarding the new testing recommendations," Fauci told CNN's chief medical correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta. He added: "I am concerned about the interpretation of these recommendations and worried it will give people the incorrect assumption that asymptomatic spread is not of great concern. In fact it is."
The CDC's new guidance allegedly resulted from pressure from the Trump administration, CNN adds — but the deliberations happened Thursday of last week, while Fauci was having surgery to remove a polyp on his vocal cord.
Previously, testing was recommended "for all close contacts of persons with COVID-19," in order to curb asymptomatic transmission.
On Aug.13, NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell and NBCUniversal vice chairman Ron Meyer sat at a quiet table at CityWalk Hollywood for a regularly scheduled lunch. In a moment that came out of the blue for Shell, Meyer confessed that he had an affair with actress Charlotte Kirk in 2013 and had reached a $2 ?million settlement with her last year. Five days later, Meyer was out of a job, with a 56-year career and legacy in tatters in a move reminiscent of last year’s ouster of Warner Bros. chief Kevin Tsujihara, whose own affair with the once-obscure Kirk had led to his downfall.
Now, NBCUniversal has hired outside counsel to investigate “Ron’s behavior,” says an insider, in an effort to determine if any company money or resources were used in conjunction with the affair or its cover-up. The goal is to determine if the media giant was unwittingly a party to any impropriety. (An NBCUniversal spokesperson confirmed that an investigation is underway.)
All this comes at a time when the Kirk scandal keeps expanding, with more powerful Hollywood men named as having been involved with the now-27-year-old actress, who is said to have Asperger’s syndrome and was possibly promised roles and auditions in exchange for sex. “This is the tip of the iceberg,” says one lawyer who is knowledgeable about matters involving Kirk.
Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that Steve Tisch — a heavyweight producer behind Forrest Gump and The Equalizer and chairman, co-owner and executive vp of the New York Giants — had a relationship with Kirk in 2012, predating the beginning of the Meyer affair by a few months. Unlike Meyer and Tsujihara, Tisch was not married at the time he was involved with a then-19-year-old Kirk, who had just moved from her native England to New York. Tisch marks the latest name in the expanding network of film and television brokers with whom Kirk has had relationships. A source characterized Tisch’s affair with Kirk as encompassing “only two or three dates.” A rep for Tisch declined comment.
Separate from the Meyer case, Kirk is locked in a private arbitration battle with Tsujihara, Ratner and billionaire film financier James Packer, according to sources. In that case, settlement payments to Kirk, said to total $2 ?million, stopped when her affair with Tsujihara became public. Attorney Martin Singer, who is repping Ratner and Packer in that matter, declined to comment. After the Tsujihara scandal became public, Kirk settled with Meyer last year for $2 ?million, though only a portion of that has been paid to date. It is unclear why things recently devolved with Meyer, but sources familiar with the matter say that former Kirk boyfriend Joshua Newton and her current fiance, director Neil Marshall — both of whom had knowledge of her relationship with Meyer — separately approached the Universal chair when he stopped paying and are the unnamed parties that Meyer referenced in his statement who threatened to file a lawsuit and name NBCUniversal.
Thirteen environmental groups sued the corrupt Trump administration on Wednesday seeking to overturn a rule allowing hunters in Alaska national preserves to bait bears, kill wolf pups in dens and engage in other controversial practices.
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Anchorage, targets a National Park Service rule change made final in June, claiming it violates the agency's primary purpose.
"The century-old governing mission of the National Park Service includes protecting America’s ecosystems and wildlife, not turning lands into massive game farms,” Jim Adams, Alaska regional director for the National Parks Conservation Association, a plaintiff in the case, said in a statement announcing the lawsuit.
"Unfortunately under the Trump administration, the Park Service is ignoring that mission in rolling back previous prohibitions and moving to allow baiting grizzly bears and trapping wolves in their dens on Alaska’s national parklands,” Adams said.
The Trump administration separately in June proposed another rule change that would allow baiting of brown bears in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge south of Anchorage, a practice not previously allowed there.
Archaeologists have dug up the remains of more than 1,500 people, many of them believed to have died in an epidemic, who were buried in a 19th century mass grave that is being excavated for a city development project in Osaka in western Japan.
Officials at the Osaka City Cultural Properties Association studying the remains said Wednesday that they believe they are of young people who died in the late 1800s.
The Umeda Grave, one of seven historical burial sites in Japan's bustling merchant city of Osaka, was unearthed as part of a redevelopment project near a main train station. The more than 1,500 remains were found during excavations that began in September 2019, following an earlier 2016-2017 study that dug up hundreds of similar remains at adjacent locations, according to Yoji Hirata, an official at the association.
In the earlier excavation, many remains showed signs of lesions on the limbs. The discovery of additional similar remains suggests the burial site was for those who fell victim to an epidemic in the region, Hirata said.
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