• Changes are frequently made in the scripts of plays before they open on Broadway. Zero Mostel was in the play Beggar’s Holiday when the director said, “Okay, let’s go back to the original script, before the changes.” Unfortunately, nobody any longer had the original script — not the composer, not the director, not even the author.
• When they were teenagers, Noël Coward and Collie Knox attended at a party at which a playwright walked around with his nose stuck up in the air. Mr. Coward said, “One day, I shall write a play. It will be a success, but I shall try not to look like that. Come, let’s have an ice cream.”
• Lesbian writer Hollie Hughes’ first play was The Well of Horniness , with Garnet McClit as the main character. One of the stage directions in the play is this: “Feel free to go too far; it’s the only way to go in this play.”
Poetry and Poets
• Langston Hughes wrote poetry in what time he could and worked in a restaurant to make money. One day, while working at the restaurant, he discovered that the famous poet Vachel Lindsay was dining there. Therefore, he put some of his poems next to Mr. Lindsay’s dinner plate, where the famous poet would be sure to see them. Mr. Lindsay saw the poems, read them, and liked what he read. That night, he gave a poetry reading at which he read his own poems — and some poems by Mr. Hughes. Newspapers covered the poetry reading, and Mr. Hughes became known as an up-and-coming African-American poet.
• The literary career of poet Dave Smith took a giant leap forward in 1975, when The New Yorker began to print his poetry. Suddenly, his work was in demand. Regarding the new eagerness of literary journals to print his poems, he said, “A year ago [they] were sending my things back with straight rejection slips. I’m a little baffled by it all. I can’t believe I’ve gotten so much better in the last year and attribute it to the power of publishing in high visibility places.” His work did get better — a couple of his volumes of poetry have been finalists for the Pulitzer Prize.
• Oscar Wilde greatly respected American poet Walt Whitman and made sure to meet him during his lecture tour through America. At the meeting, the two poets got along well, and Mr. Whitman served his guest elderberry wine. Later, a friend of Mr. Wilde’s, knowing his epicurean tastes, said that it must have been difficult for him to drink the elderberry wine. Mr. Wilde replied, “If it had been vinegar, I should have drunk it all the same.”
• Scottish poet Robert Burns attended church in Dumfries, where the minister was fiercely denouncing sinners. Mr. Burns noticed a young woman, Miss Ainslie, looking through her Bible, trying to find the passage the preacher was referring to. Mr. Burns scribbled a few verses, then handed them to her:
“Fair Maid, you need not take the hint,
“Nor idle texts pursue;
“’Twas guilty sinners that he meant,
“Not angels — such as you!”
• Emily Dickinson became a renowned American poet even though her father and her church were against reading. Her father believed that books “joggle the mind,” and the Congregational Church thought that reading was bad for young people. Nevertheless, Ms. Dickinson — always a nonconformist — started a Shakespeare Club in which members read a book and then gathered together and discussed it.
• When she was seven years old, P.L. Travers, the author of Mary Poppins , wrote poetry, which she showed to her father, who was not impressed and who told her, “Hardly W.B. Yeats.” Ms. Travers points out, “It would have been hard even for Yeats to be W.B. Yeats at the age of seven!”
"My Ding-a-Ling" is a novelty song written and recorded by Dave Bartholomew. It was covered by Chuck Berry in 1972 and became his only number-one Billboard Hot 100 single in the United States. Later that year, in a longer unedited form, it was included on the album The London Chuck Berry Sessions. Guitarist Onnie McIntyre and drummer Robbie McIntosh who later that year went on to form the Average White Band, played on the single along with Nic Potter of Van der Graaf Generator on bass.
"My Ding-a-Ling" was originally recorded by Dave Bartholomew in 1952 for King Records. When Bartholomew moved to Imperial Records, he re-recorded the song under the new title, "Little Girl Sing Ting-a-Ling". In 1954, the Bees on Imperial released a version entitled "Toy Bell." Doug Clark and the Hot Nuts recorded it in 1961, and it was part of their live act for many years. Berry recorded a version called "My Tambourine" in 1968, but the version which topped the charts was recorded live during the Lanchester Arts Festival at the Locarno ballroom in Coventry, England, on 3 February 1972, where Berry – backed by the Roy Young Band – topped a bill that also included Slade, George Carlin, Billy Preston and Pink Floyd. Boston radio station WMEX disc jockey Jim Connors was credited with a gold record for discovering the song and pushing it to #1 over the airwaves and amongst his peers in the United States. Billboard ranked it as the No. 15 song for 1972.
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Dave was first, and correct, with:
My Ding-a-ling. I suppose the reluctance to market “colored” music in the 1950’s is why Berry’s influential classics Maybelline, Roll Over Beethoven, Rock and Roll Music and Johnny B Goode didn’t top the charts? Chuck Berry was a professional musician from about 1955 to his death at age 90 in 2017.
Angelo D said:
A: My Ding-A-Ling
Roy, the socially distant Libtard in Tyler, TX wrote:
Thank you, ma'am! For some ungodly reason, I woke up this morning with that miserable Kars 4-Kidz jingle as an earworm. Now I'm gonna be stuck with My Ding-a-Ling for the rest of the morning. At least it had a good beat and was easy to dance to (American Bandstand Rate-a-Record response).
Alan J answered:
My Ding a Ling.
Jacqueline responded:
My Ding a Ling.
Billy in Cypress U. $. A. replied:
"My Ding-a-Ling"
mj wrote:
Some people thought it was just too vulgar
My Ding-a-ling.
Mark. said:
"My Ding-a-Ling," which was not the best song Chuck Berry ever wrote or
performed.
Jon L replied:
My Ding-A-Ling (finally got one right)
zorch said:
My Ding-a-ling.
Cal in Vermont answered:
That would be His Ding-a-Ling.
Randall replied:
My Ding-a-ling
Mac Mac responded:
My Ding a ling
David of Moon Valley wrote:
could it have been....
…My Ding-A-Ling?…i seem to recall that...although that was my senior year of high school and i took the ‘high’ part quite literally…and now alla my years are senior…and yes, i still get high….
Kenn B said:
My Ding A Ling
Jim from CA, retired to ID, answered:
My Ding-a-Ling
John I from Hawai`i says,
Maybellene
Deborah, the Master Gardener responded:
I’ve gotta go with “My Ding-a-Ling,” because that’s a pretty novelty-esque song.
Breeze came up overnight and blew away a lot of smoke, so much so that the AQI went from 165 to well under 100. Finally!
Dave in Tucson replied:
That Chuck Berry song is "My Ding-A-Ling".
Daniel in The City replied:
My Ding-a-Ling
DJ Useo wrote:
"My Ding-A-Ling". What a crazy song. The music is not what I prefer with Chuck, but the song does make me lol.
Rosemary in Columbus answered:
My Ding-A-Ling
Joe ( -- Vote Blue, No Matter Who -- ) said:
I know, I know, it's "My ding-a-ling." That's all I'm gonna say about that. I'm tired, I'm going to bed.
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Tonight, Thursday:
CBS opens the night with a FRESH'Big Brother', followed by a FRESH'Love Island'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Sarah Paulson and PJ Morton.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are Neil Patrick Harris, and Ziggy Marley featuring Ben Harper.
NBC begins the night with a RERUN'The Wall', followed by a RERUN'L&O: SVU', then a RERUN'L&O: SVU'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Seth MacFarlane, Evan Rachel Wood, and Penn & Teller.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Stacey Abrams, David Byrne, and Sonny Emory.
On a RERUNLilly Singh (from 4/2/20) are Aisha Tyler and Rob Huebel.
ABC starts the night with a RERUN'Celebrity Family Feud', followed by a FRESH'Holey Moley', then a RERUN'Match Game'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 9/9/20), with guest host Brad Paisley, is Rainn Wilson.
The CW offers a FRESH'Mysteries Decoded', followed by a RERUN'Penn & Teller: FU'.
Faux has a RERUN'Gordon Ramsey's 24 Hours To Hell & Back', followed by a RERUN'The Masked Singer'.
MY recycles an old 'L&O: CI', followed by another old 'L&O: CI'.
AMC offers the movie 'Night At The Museum: Secret Of The Tomb', followed by the movie 'I, Robot', then the movie 'Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - PENUMBRA
[7:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - 'TIL DEATH DO US PART
[8:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - STRANGE BEDFELLOWS
[9:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - THE CHANGING FACE OF EVIL
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - WHEN IT RAINS ...
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - TACKING INTO THE WIND
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - THE VENGEANCE FACTOR
[1:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - THE DEFECTOR
[2:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION -THE HUNTED
[3:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - THE HIGH GROUND
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - DEJA Q
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - A MATTER OF PERSPECTIVE
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - YESTERDAY'S ENTERPRISE
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - THE OFFSPRING
[8:00PM] THE GOONIES
[10:30PM] GALAXY QUEST
[12:45AM] THE GOONIES
[3:15AM] GALAXY QUEST
[5:30AM] MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS - MR. AND MRS. BRIAN NORRIS' FORD POPULAR (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of NYC', another 'Real Housewives Of NYC', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of NYC', then a FRESH'Watch What Happens Live'.
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 Fate Of The Furious', followed by the movie 'Deadpool 2', then the movie 'Deadpool 2', again.
IFC -
[6:15am] The Three Stooges - Boobs In Arms
[6:45am] Blow
[9:45am] The Final Destination
[11:45am] Final Destination 2
[1:45pm] Final Destination 3
[3:45pm] Final Destination
[6:00pm] Two And A Half Men
[6:30pm] Two And A Half Men
[7:00pm] Two And A Half Men
[7:30pm] Two And A Half Men
[8:00pm] Two And A Half Men
[8:30pm] Two And A Half Men
[9:00pm] Two And A Half Men
[9:30pm] Two And A Half Men
[10:00pm] Two And A Half Men
[10:30pm] Two And A Half Men
[11:00pm] Two And A Half Men
[11:30pm] Two And A Half Men
[12:00am] Two And A Half Men
[12:30am] Two And A Half Men
[1:00am] Bride Wars
[3:00am] Bad Words
[5:00am] The Three Stooges - Oily To Bed, Oily To Rise
[5:30am] The Three Stooges - Horses' Collars (ALL TIMES ET)
Sundance -
[6:00am] the andy griffith show
[6:30am] the andy griffith show
[7:00am] the andy griffith show
[7:30am] the andy griffith show
[8:00am] the andy griffith show
[8:30am] the andy griffith show
[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] hap and leonard: the two-bear mambo - The Two-Bear Mambo
[3:00am] hap and leonard: the two-bear mambo -Ho-Ho Mambo
[4:00am] hap and leonard: the two-bear mambo - T-Bone Mambo
[5:00am] perry mason (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'The Da Vinci Code', followed by the movie 'Angels & Demons'.
Looks like Jason Sudeikis has been voted out of Saturday Night Live’s Oval Office. SNL producers have announced that Jim Carrey will now be playing vice president-turned-presidential candidate, Joe Biden, when NBC’s late-night comedy institution returns for Season 46 on October 3.
The former In Living Color star has hosted SNL four times, most recently in 2014 — the year after Sudeikis departed the Not Ready for Primetime Players, although he reprised his Biden impression on multiple occasions, including back in February before the coronavirus pandemic forced the cast to finish the season remotely. Rest assured that the new season will be bringing it all back home to Studio 8H, albeit with new safety protocols in place.
SNL guru Lorne Michaels revealed the backstory behind the Sudeikis/Carrey switcheroo in a new interview with Vulture, suggesting it was, in part, the actor’s idea. Carrey certainly hasn’t been shy about expressing his political opinions — in fact, he’s turned them into literal art. “There was some interest on his part,” Michaels said. “And then we responded, obviously, positively. But it came down to discussions about what the take was. He and Colin Jost had a bunch of talks. He and I as well. He will give the part energy and strength, and … hopefully it’s funny.”
While Sudeikis may be out, Maya Rudolph and Alec Baldwin are continuing their terms as Senator — and Biden’s running mate — Kamala Harris and President Donald Trump respectively. Michaels confirmed their returns to Vulture, ending speculation that Baldwin may have announced his retirement on the Season 45 finale. One of those pieces of news was received more positively than the other.
A plastic crown worn by rapper Biggie during a photoshoot just days before his murder has sold at auction for $594,750 in New York.
The crown headlined Sotheby's first ever sale devoted to hip hop that featured more than 120 lots including jewelry, art and other ephemera of the genre born in the Bronx.
The crown was worn by The Notorious B.I.G. -- famous for hits including "Juicy," "Big Poppa" and "Hypnotize" -- during his last recorded photoshoot in 1997, just three days before his shock murder in Los Angeles.
It sold for almost double its pre-sale high estimate of $300,000.
Elsewhere, 22 signed love letters penned by fellow rapper Tupac Shakur to his girlfriend Kathy Loy when he was a teenager in Baltimore sold for $75,600.
Metallica, Dave Matthews and Friends, The White Stripes, James Brown and My Morning Jacket are among the 13 headline acts topping the bill with live archival performances as part of the Bonaroo’s Virtual Roo-Ality event on YouTube Sept. 24-26
The full-length streaming premiere of the Beastie Boys’ historic final concert performance, held at Bonnaroo on June 12, 2009, is another highlight of the free, three-night live broadcast that begins each day at 4:30pm CT on the official Bonnaroo YouTube channel.
More than 35 new performances and once-in-a-lifetime collaborations will be on offer from the likes of Nathaniel Rateliff, Chromeo, Big Gigantic, Bruce Hornsby Feat. James Mercer, Rob Moose & Polo G, Old Crow Medicine Show’s Bonnarootenanny, Denzel Curry, Lennon Stella, Billy Strings, Action Bronson and many more.
Blue Velvet filmmaker David Lynch will be in “Conversation on Meditation, Creativity, and Consciousness” with meditation leader Bob Roth.
ABC will not be proceeding with a second season of United We Fall, its family comedy starring Will Sasso and Christina Vidal-Mitchell. The news is not surprising — the sitcom, a leftover from the 2019-20 season, got a summer burn-off run. Still, United We Fall performed respectably for a summer comedy over its eight-episode run.
The series, which debuted July 15 and aired its finale on Aug. 26, was produced by Sony Pictures Television and ABC Studios. The swift cancellation is an illustration why Sony TV is getting out of the network comedy business over the outdated broadcast model.
United We Fall follows the trials and tribulations of Jo and Bill (Vidal-Mitchell and Sasso), parents of two young kids, as they try to make it day to day as a functioning family. Bill’s very judgmental live-in mother (Jane Curtin) and Jo’s large Latinx Catholic family never hesitate to let the couple know they’re seemingly screwing up, but Bill and Jo always have each other’s backs and stand united against everyone: other parents, teachers, doctors, specialists, coaches, co-workers and especially their kids.
Through the Clooney Foundation for Justice and the American Bar Association Center for Human Rights, George and Amal Clooney have made a pledge to closely monitor the upcoming trial of Paul Rusesabagina in Rwanda, as part of CFJ’s TrialWatch initiative.
Rusesabagina’s actions to save lives during the Rwandan genocide were dramatized in the 2004 film Hotel Rwanda. He was played by Don Cheadle, Clooney’s co-star in the Ocean’s Eleven series and Out of Sight. Rusesabagina has continued to be a vocal critic of Rwanda’s current ruling party, which he has accused of committing human rights violations. He has been charged with forming an armed group, financing terrorism, complicity in kidnapping, and armed robbery, among other offenses.
Rusesabagina disappeared on August 27, 2020 in Dubai. Four days later, the Rwanda Investigation Bureau announced that he was in their custody and, in a series of tweets, alleged that he “[wa]s suspected to be the founder, leader, sponsor and member of violent, armed, extremist terror outfits including MRCD and PDR-Ihumure.”
Rusesabagina’s family allege he was initially denied access to counsel of his choosing and to medication. Further, Rwandan President Paul Kagame has publicly asserted Mr. Rusesabagina’s guilt in the weeks since his arrest, stating: “Rusesabagina heads a group of terrorists that have killed Rwandans. He will have to pay for these crimes.”
Nearly two-thirds of young American adults are not aware that six million Jewish people were killed during the Holocaust, according to a new survey.
The survey, carried out on adults between the ages of 18 and 39 across all 50 states in the US, showed “a worrying lack of basic Holocaust knowledge” in its respondents.
The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference), who commissioned the survey, revealed that 11 per cent of US Millennial and Gen Z respondents believe Jewish people caused the Holocaust.
Examining Holocaust denial, results showed that 10 per cent of people said that the tragedy did not happen or were not sure. In total, 23 per cent either said the Holocaust was a myth, was "greatly exaggerated" or were not sure.
Almost half (48 per cent) of national survey respondents could not name one of the more than 40,000 camps and ghettos that were established in Europe during the Holocaust, with 56 per cent unable to identify Auschwitz-Birkenau.
One of the largest, most unstable glaciers in Antarctica is sliding into the ocean. That's due, in large part, to hidden rivers of warm water that lubricate its underbelly, more so now than ever in the era of climate change. Now, researchers know what those unseen channels look like.
By using equipment that can measure fluctuations in gravity, radar and seismic waves, scientists were able to map precisely where these glacier-melting channels cut through the deep seabed.
"It was fantastic to be able to map the channels and cavity system hidden beneath the ice shelf; they are deeper than expected — some are more than 800 meters [2,600 feet] deep," study lead researcher Tom Jordan, an aero-geophysicist at the British Antarctic Survey, said in a statement. "They form the critical link between the ocean and the glacier."
Thwaites Glacier is a vast brick of ice flowing into Pine Island Bay in western Antarctica. If you took off in an airplane from El Paso, Texas and flew due south — across about 590 miles (950 kilometers) of western Mexico and 5,700 miles (9,200 km) of Pacific Ocean — you'd see it out your window as a white expanse with sheer cliffs where it meets open water.
Thwaites has moved toward the ocean its entire existence, but that rate of motion has increased fivefold over the last 30 years, to the point where snowfall at the rear of the glacier can no longer replenish ice lost in the front. That lost ice has contributed to about 4% of global sea level rise over those three decades. If the entire glacier were to collapse into the ocean, sea levels would increase by about a whopping 25 inches (65 centimeters). This dramatic increase would devastate current coastlines, so scientists are trying to understand the dynamics driving Thwaites' seaward motion and how fast these processes are accelerating the melt.
From bird feathers to fruit skins, the natural world has two main ways of displaying colour: through pigment substances that provide selective colour absorption, or through structural colour – the use of microscopic structures to control light reflection.
Now scientists have devised a computer model that explains why the brightest matte structural colours in nature are almost always blue and green: because those are the limits of structural colour within the visible spectrum of light.
Besides giving us a better understanding of how the brightest blues and greens are created in the natural world, the research could also be important for developing vibrant, eco-friendly paints and coatings that won't fade over time or release toxic chemicals.
With structural colour, the nanoscale framework on the surface is what dictates the actual colour itself.
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