• Dreamstime.com is a site where designers can go to buy stock photographs for use in advertisements, flyers, pamphlet and book covers, etc. Of course, the photographers enjoy seeing how their photographs are used — and sometimes the models in the photographs are excited. For example, a photographer who goes by the name Kelliem (her full name is confidential) was excited that a photograph of her 13-year-old daughter appeared on the cover of the young-adult novel Faking Sweet by J.C. Burke. However, another person was even more excited than she. On a message board at dreamstime.com, Kelliem wrote, “I was very excited to find a picture of my daughter on the cover of a teenage novel, although not quite as excited as my 13-year-old daughter — she wanted to buy all the books!”
• It took an eight-year-old girl to turn Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling into a published (and multi-millionaire) author. Several publishers rejected the first Harry Potter manuscript, and eventually Ms. Rowling’s agent gave a sample to Nigel Newton, chairman of Bloomsbury Publishing. He took the sample home but did not read it himself. Instead, he gave it to Alice, his eight-year-old daughter, who took it to her room and read it. Mr. Newton says, “She came down from her room an hour later glowing, saying, ‘Dad, this is so much better than anything else.’ She nagged and nagged me in the following months, wanting to see what came next.” Because she kept nagging him for more chapters about Harry Potter, he decided that the book was a winner. The rest of the story is publishing history.
• Gary Paulsen, author of Hatchet, once wrote a book about a cousin who had peed on an electric fence — an action that caused him to do a back flip. One day, he saw his son walking funny and asked what had happened. His son replied that he had been doing an experiment, and Mr. Paulsen immediately guessed, “Pee on the electric fence?” His son admitted that that was exactly what had happened, then asked, “Will I ever stop doing things like this?” Because Mr. Paulsen believes that such behavior is genetic, he replied negatively, saying, “It’s the way we are.” His son sighed, then said, “At least I know what that’s like and don’t have to pee on any more fences.”
• When children’s book illustrator Julie Downing was a young girl, she became upset because the Hardy Boys books had written on the back, “These books are perfect for boys from 8 to 14.” A rebellious girl, she read them, and she decided to become a detective like the Hardy Boys. One day, while pretending to be a detective, she decided that a neighbor’s swimming pool had been poisoned, so to decontaminate it she filled a bucket with ketchup, food coloring, salad dressing, and whatever other liquids or semi-liquids she could find. She then dumped it in the neighbor’s swimming pool — this incident ended her career as a detective.
• When Joan Lowery Nixon, who wrote many mysteries for young readers, won her second Edgar Award for outstanding mystery writing, a woman asked her, “You’ve done so well with your books for children — why don’t you try writing a real book?” However, Ms. Nixon felt that children’s books are real books, and that they are harder to write than books for adults. After all, when a child grows bored with a book, the child stops reading it, so Ms. Nixon constantly revised her books until she knew that they would keep a child’s interest.
• Stan and Jan Berenstain, creators of the Berenstain Bears, sometimes use things that happen in their lives as part of their books. For example, when Jan was pregnant with Michael, she often held Leo, her small son, on her lap. Of course, as her womb grew more and more, her lap got smaller and smaller. Leo asked why this was happening, and that provided a good opportunity for Jan to tell him that he would get a little brother or sister soon. The disappearing lap appeared in the book The Berenstain Bears’ New Baby.
Launched in 1955, this toy, in which metal filings are moved about with a magnetic wand to add features to a cartoon face, was an unexpected success, selling more than 75 million of them over the years. Originally manufactured in Smethport, Pennsylvania, what is the name of this toy?
Written by Scott Joplin in 1902, then adapted and orchestrated by Marvin Hamlisch, it won the Academy Award for Best Original Song Score and Adaptation on April 2, 1974. What is the title of this piece?
"The Entertainer" is a 1902 classic piano rag written by Scott Joplin. It was sold first as sheet music, and in the 1910s as piano rolls that would play on player pianos. The first recording was by blues and ragtime musicians the Blue Boys in 1928, played on mandolin and guitar.
As one of the classics of ragtime, it returned to international prominence as part of the ragtime revival in the 1970s, when it was used as the theme music for the 1973 Oscar-winning film The Sting. Composer and pianist Marvin Hamlisch's adaptation reached #3 on the Billboard pop chart and spent a week at #1 on the easy listening chart in 1974. The Sting was set in the 1930s, a full generation after the end of ragtime's mainstream popularity, thus giving the inaccurate impression that ragtime music was popular at that time.
The Recording Industry Association of America ranked it #10 on its "Songs of the Century" list.
Marvin Hamlisch lightly adapted and orchestrated Joplin's music for the 1973 film The Sting, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Original Song Score and Adaptation on April 2, 1974. His version of "The Entertainer" reached #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 on May 18, 1974, prompting The New York Times to write, "the whole nation has begun to take notice." Thanks to the film and its score, Joplin's work became appreciated in both the popular and classical music worlds, becoming (in the words of music magazine Record World), the "classical phenomenon of the decade."
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
The Entertainer.
Billy in Cypress U. $. A. said:
"The Way We Were" reminds me of life before #45.
Randall wrote:
The Entertainer
Alan J answered:
The Entertainer.
mj
The title music
To one of the movies I've ever seen twice at a theatre, The Entertainer
was the running theme of The Sting.
zorch responded:
The Entertainer.
Kevin in Washington DC wrote:
“The Entertainer”.
Helen Reddy, Mac Davis, and the last shred of American dignity died yesterday. Bummer.
Dave said:
The Entertainer. That song was featured in the terrific film The Sting (1973). Nominated for 10 Oscars the film won 6 including a well deserved Best Picture award. Critics noted that the film was set in the Depression era 1930’s, and gave the impression Ragtime music was popular then, instead of 25-30 years earlier. Also there were charges of plagiarism as regards the screenplay and a lawsuit was settled out of court for $300,000. Writer/producer Roy Huggins also, years later, complained the first con in The Sting was copied from an old Maverick TV show that he wrote, but didn’t sue perhaps because Huggins himself lifted the idea from another source?
Photos: from left, Robert Shaw, Robert Redford, Paul Newman | Musician-actor Sting who had nothing to do with the movie
Jacqueline responded:
The Sting. It was the theme song of the movie The Sting, starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford.
David of Moon Valley replied:
Nailed this one....
…maybe……..i ‘member it as being the Maple Leaf Rag….but i’m still sipping coffee and reading headlines about the ‘debate’…..yeesh….
Jim from CA, retired to ID, said:
The Entertainer as heard in the movie "the Sting"
Deborah, the Master Gardener wrote:
Ah, I know this: “The Entertainer.” I own a couple of Scott Joplin albums, as I love ragtime music. It goes well with Game Nights (not sports on tv, but the card and board type).
Sad state of the state when we check the AQI vs. what we see and smell and decide it’s not too smoky for a bike ride. Good grief.
John I from Hawai`i says,
Maple Leaf Rag
Daniel in The City responded:
The Sting
Dave in Tucson replied:
Same name as the movie? The Sting.
DJ Useo wrote:
"The Entertainer". I actually bought that 45. Lol. I sure got sick of it quickly, though.
I much preferred the other 2 I bought that week. "Bennie & The Jets", & "Band On The Run".
My habit was to listen to Casey Kasems' radio countdown show on Friday night,
& then I'd buy some of the best ones I heard. That always made for a good weekend's listening.
Michelle in AZ said:
Maple Leaf Rag
Rosemary in Columbus answered:
The Way We Were
Joe ( -- Vote Blue, No Matter Who -- ) replied:
I don't know, I don't watch Academy Awards Shows. Is it Esperanto?
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