• After Richard Diamond, Private Eye, Mary Tyler Moore went on to The Dick Van Dyke Show. In real life Ms. Moore never made a secret of her dislike for housework, although she was playing Laura Petrie, a near-perfect homemaker. At a party Ms. Moore and her husband gave for her co-workers, Mr. Van Dyke wrote in the dust on top of her refrigerator, “Needs Soap.”
Prejudice
• Sheldon Leonard was the producer of I Spy in the days when few African-Americans were on TV. He wanted to hire the young black comic Bill Cosby to co-star with Robert Culp, but he worried about whether the NBC network brass would approve the deal. So Mr. Leonard armed himself with arguments why signing Mr. Cosby would not alienate the TV audience, then he went to see NBC President Robert Kintner. He told Mr. Kintner that he had in mind a young comic to co-star with Mr. Culp, but that he hadn’t signed him yet. When Mr. Kintner asked why not, Mr. Leonard replied, “Because he’s black.” Mr. Kintner then asked, “What difference does that make?” Relieved, Mr. Leonard said, “As of this moment, Mr. Kintner, it makes no difference whatsoever.”
• Gay deejay John McMullen of Sirius OutQ Radio occasionally visited the late famous homophobe Fred Phelps in Mr. Phelps’ native Topeka, Kansas. One day, while traveling from San Francisco to New York, Mr. McMullen even turned a half-hour, live-radio visit with Mr. Phelps into a fundraiser, telling his audience that he was taking a Sodom to Gomorrah via Topeka Tour and raising several thousand dollars for a charity that Mr. Phelps did NOT support: the Matthew Shepard Foundation.
• George Takei, who played Mr. Hikaru Sulu on the original Star Trek TV series, grew up in American internment camps for Japanese-Americans during World War II. He had a teacher who referred to him as “that little Jap boy,” and each morning, he was able to look out the school window and see barbed-wire fences and guard towers as he ended the Pledge of Allegiance by reciting “with justice and liberty for all.”
Problem-Solving
• The opening credits and the exterior shots of early episodes of The Mary Tyler Moore Show feature a beautiful Victorian house where the characters Mary Richards, Rhoda Morgenstern, and Phyllis Lindstrom are supposed to live. The house really belonged to a humanities professor at the University of Minnesota. Unfortunately, after the series became popular, tourists began to ring her doorbell, then ask to meet Mary. When the MTM production crew arrived to take more exterior shots of the house, the professor declined to give them permission, but they started to take the shots anyway. The professor stopped them by hanging a banner outside Mary Richards’ window. The banner made a demand about a then-current political situation: “IMPEACH NIXON.” In later episodes, Mary Richards moved to a high-rise apartment house.
• This is a story that the late central Ohio sportscaster Jimmy Crum liked to tell: Paul Robinson played for the Cleveland Browns under coach Paul Brown. Once he scored a 55-yard touchdown, but instead of heading straight for the goal line, he ran to the other side of the field, then headed for the goal line. When Mr. Brown asked him later why he had run to the other side of the field, Mr. Robinson explained, “Coach, this game is being televised nationally and my folks are watching. The cameras are over on that side of the field, and I knew they’d see me better if I ran over there.” By the way, according to weatherman Jym Ganahl of Channel 4 News in Columbus, Ohio, Mr. Crum used to eat a dozen White Castle hamburgers for breakfast each morning.
• As a young actress newly arrived in New York City, Carol Burnett ran into a problem. She couldn’t get an acting job because she had no experience, and she couldn’t get experience because no one would give her an acting job. She solved the problem by putting on a show with the other young entertainers in her rooming house, which was known as the Rehearsal Club. It worked. Carol and some of the other entertainers got jobs as a result of the Rehearsal Club Revue.
What song, written by Carole King, won her the Grammy for Song of the Year, and also won James Taylor the Grammy for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance, in the same year?
"You've Got a Friend" is a 1971 song written by Carole King. It was first recorded by King and included in her album Tapestry. Another well-known version is by James Taylor from his album Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon. His was released as a single in 1971, reaching number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 4 on the UK Singles Chart. The two versions were recorded simultaneously in 1971 with shared musicians. Billboard ranked it as the No. 16 song for 1971.
"You've Got a Friend" won Grammy Awards both for Taylor (Best Male Pop Vocal Performance) and King (Song of the Year). Dozens of other artists have recorded the song over the years, including Dusty Springfield, Michael Jackson, Anne Murray and Donny Hathaway.
"You've Got a Friend" was written by Carole King during the January 1971 recording sessions for her own album Tapestry and James Taylor's album Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon. King has stated that "the song was as close to pure inspiration as I've ever experienced. The song wrote itself. It was written by something outside myself, through me." According to Taylor, King told him that the song was a response to a line in Taylor's earlier song "Fire and Rain" that "I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend." King's album was recorded in an overlap with Taylor's, and King, Danny Kortchmar, and Joni Mitchell perform on both. The song is included on both albums; King said in a 1972 interview that she "didn't write it with James or anybody really specifically in mind. But when James heard it he really liked it and wanted to record it".
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Randall was first, and correct, with:
You've Got a Friend
Roy, your Libtard, Snowflake, Antifa doorman in Tyler, Texas wrote:
"You've Got a Friend" scored a double in 1971 for Carole King, who wrote it, and for James Taylor, who sung it.
Dave said:
You’ve Got a Friend.
Alan J answered:
You've Got a Friend.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
You've Got a Friend
Stephen F responded:
You Got a Friend
Cal in Vermont wrote:
"You've Got A Friend" maybe?
Deborah, the Master Gardener responded:
I know this one: “You’ve Got A Friend.” Carole King is so gifted.
Dave in Tucson wrote:
Another question another guess. You've Got A Friend.
Rosemary in Columbus said:
You’ve Got a Friend
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Tonight, Thursday:
CBS opens the night with a FRESH'Yound Sheldon', followed by a FRESH'The US Of Al', then a FRESH'Ghosts', followed by a FRESH'B Positive', then a FRESH'Bull'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Billy Porter and Annaleigh Ashford.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are Jack McBrayer, Alexandra Shipp, and Angels & Airwaves.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'The Blacklist', followed by a FRESH'L&O: SVU', then a FRESH'L&O: Overkill'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Ariana Grande, Adrien Brody, and Blxst featuring Ty Dolla $ign.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Kumail Nanjiani, Jonathan Majors, and Roy Mayorga.
ABC starts the night with the FRESH'The Queen Family Singalong', followed by a RERUN'Queens', then another RERUN'Queens'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Serena Williams and J. Balvin.
The CW offers a FRESH'Walker', followed by a FRESH'Legacies'.
Faux fills the night with LIVE'Thursday Night Football', then pads the left coast with local crap.
MY recycles an old 'Big Bang Theory', followed by another old 'Big Bang Theory', then an old 'King Of Queens', followed by another old 'King Of Queens'.
A&E has 'The First 48', another 'The First 48', followed by a FRESH'The First 48', then a FRESH'City Confidential'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Karate Kid', followed by the movie 'The Karate Kid, Part II'.
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[10:00AM] PET SEMATARY
[12:00PM] SCARY MOVIE
[2:00PM] SCREAM
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Bravo has 'Million Dollar Listing LA', followed by a FRESH'Million Dollar Listing LA', then a FRESH'Project Runway', followed by a FRESH'Watch What Happens: Live'.
IFC -
[6:00am - 8:30am] 3rd Rock From The Sun
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[7:30pm] true crime story
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SyFy has the movie 'The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug', followed by the movie 'The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies'.
Jennifer Monet Cowley was working at the African-American Museum of Dallas on Monday, hanging an exhibit, when she heard a knock on the front door. It was an older man with a British accent, curious to get a look inside.
"Is the museum closed today?" he asked. It was, the employees told him, as it is every Monday. But this time, they made an exception.
Jagger introduced himself to Cowley as "Mick," and Cowley even thought he looked like Jagger. But no way, right? It couldn't be the Mick, could it?
"My immediate thought was, 'He looks just like Mick Jagger,'" Cowley said. "But was like, 'No, that cannot be.'"
Cowley took Jagger on a tour, and Jagger kept smiling. So Cowley asked him, "What did you say your name was again?
Tom Hanks was the featured guest on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" Tuesday, during which he said Jeff Bezos originally approached him about flying to space but he turned it down because of the price.
Opening the show, Kimmel asked the 65-year-old actor whether it was true that the Amazon billionaire approached him about a spaceflight before the actor William Shatner, who was launched into space last month by Bezos' rocket company, Blue Origin. Hanks responded: "Well, yeah, provided I pay."
"And, you know, it cost 28 million bucks or something like that. And I'm doing good, Jimmy. I'm doing good. But I ain't paying" $28 million, Hanks added.
Hanks continued to dismiss the idea of flying to space and said anyone could replicate the flying experience themselves.
While Hanks declined Bezos' invitation, he is thought to be among the list of celebrities who have reserved tickets worth up to $250,000 to be in the first waves of space tourists on Richard Branson's commercial space liner Virgin Galactic.
South African writer Damon Galgut won the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction on Wednesday with “The Promise,” a novel about one white family’s reckoning with South Africa’s racist history.
Galgut had been British bookmakers’ runaway favorite to win the 50,000-pound ($69,000) prize with his story of a troubled Afrikaner family and its broken promise to a Black employee — a tale that reflects bigger themes in South Africa’s transition from apartheid.
Galgut took the prize on his third time as a finalist, for a book the judges called a “tour de force.” He was previously shortlisted for “The Good Doctor” in 2003 and “In a Strange Room” in 2010, but lost both times.
He is the third South African novelist to win the Booker Prize, after Nadine Gordimer in 1974 and J.M. Coetzee, who won twice, in 1983 and 1999.
For a second year, the coronavirus pandemic has scuttled the prize’s usual black-tie dinner ceremony at London’s medieval Guildhall. The winner was announced in a ceremony broadcast live on BBC radio and television.
A memoir Paul Newman left unpublished in his lifetime will come out next fall.
Publisher Alfred A. Knopf announced Wednesday that the book, currently untitled, will include Newman’s thoughts on “acting, directing, boyhood, family, fame, Hollywood, Broadway, love, his first marriage, his 50-year marriage to Joanne Woodward, drinking, politics, racing, his ultimate ride to stardom, and aging gracefully.”
Newman, who died in 2008, began the book in the 1980s with the help of screenwriter Stewart Stern, who in turn spoke to dozens of Newman’s friends and associates. It was recently found in the Connecticut home where Woodward still lives.
“Through Newman’s voice, and the voices of others, the book captures the paradoxical and unstoppable rise of a star who wrestled with doubts, believing he was inferior to Marlon Brando and James Dean, and yet transcended his “hunk” status to become an Oscar-winning actor, champion race car driver, social activist, and entrepreneur whose philanthropy has generated nearly a billion dollars for charitable causes,” according to Knopf.
An Israeli court suspended on Wednesday the auction of a partial tattoo kit billed as having been used on inmates at the Auschwitz death camp, following outcry from Holocaust survivors.
Obtained from a private collector, the eight fingernail-sized steel dies, each lined with pins to form numerals, would have been pressed into prisoners' flesh with ink to brand their serial numbers, according to auctioneer Meir Tzolman.
His website had deemed it "the most shocking of Holocaust items", with a projected sale value of $30,000 to $40,000.
Israel has no law against private sales of Holocaust relics. A court spokesman's statement did not specify the legal basis for Wednesday's injunction.
Interviewed before the court injunction, Tzolman said he was the grandson of Holocaust survivors who had been tattooed. He defended the auction - from which he would take a 25% commission - as a means of ensuring the dies reached "the right hands".
Scientists have found that large whales eat at least three times as much as previously thought, a discovery which highlights their importance in keeping the oceans healthy.
The study, published Wednesday in the peer-reviewed journal Nature, provides clues as to why wiping out millions of the largest whales on the planet was so devastating to marine environments.
Reestablishing the whale population could do wonders for marine environments and might even help replenish dwindling fish populations, two scientists told Insider.
From 1900 to 1970, industrial whaling wiped out about 1.5 million larges whales around Antarctica.
"The largest whale species on the planet were systematically hunted, which reduced abundances probably greater than 70 percent in many cases," Nicholas Pyenson, an author on the study and curator of fossil marine mammals at the Smithsonian Institution, told Insider.
Archaeologists uncovered a “significant” artifact Nov. 2 from a Wisconsin lake that predates the arrival of European colonizers into North America.
First discovered in June, a wooden canoe was recovered still intact this week by archaeologists from the bottom of Lake Mendota in southern Wisconsin, according to the state’s historical society. Through carbon dating, officials have determined the canoe is 1,200 years old — used around 800 AD.
“By taking action today to preserve this canoe we are protecting a piece of history for future generations,” said Christian Overland, CEO for the Wisconsin Historical Society in a statement. “The canoe is a remarkable artifact, made from a single tree, that connects us to the people living in this region 1,200 years ago.”
Divers from the Dane County Sheriff’s Office assisted the historical society in raising the canoe to shore as it was 30 feet deep in the water, officials said.
The canoe was taken to Wisconsin’s State Archive Preservation Facility, where it will be protected from physical deterioration, the historical society said. It will take three years to preserve the condition of the canoe.
They first came to scientists' attention about a decade ago: A mysterious field of glass fragments, scattered across Chile's Atacama Desert, and aligned in a vast corridor stretching 75 kilometers long (almost 50 miles).
These strange pieces of glass, too many to be counted, are clustered in a number of sites along the desert corridor, and they take a number of shapes, some occurring in large slabs up to 50 centimeters (20 inches) across.
They have both rough and smooth features, and look as if they've been somehow folded and twisted into their current forms, scientists say.
Whatever it was that triggered these violent, messy transformations roughly 12,000 years ago has never been fully understood.
In the new study, the researchers collected and studied over 300 samples of the desert glass, examining them under an electron microscope, and analyzing their chemical composition through spectroscopy.
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