Garrison Keillor: What I'm planning to do this winter maybe
It turned cold and gray in Minnesota last week and snow fell, which some people talk about as being depressing, but it's not, it's reassuring. The talk is ritual complaint, an attempt by people living comfy lives to acquire the dignity of suffering. Genuine suffering is on its way sooner than you think. One day we'll be hit by a winter heat wave like the one that melted half of Greenland and then our real troubles will begin. One day I'll step off a curb and my legs will buckle and strangers will call 911 and I'll be hauled unconscious to a crowded ER and when I awake, I won't be able to remember the words to "Abide with me, fast falls the eventide" or "Minnesota, hats off to thee." It's out there, waiting to happen. Snow is nothing.
Jason Bailey: 'Doctor Sleep,' Reviewed (FlavorWire)
The problem, of course, is that a great many people other than Stephen King like Stanley Kubrick's The Shining very much - including, apparently, Mr. Flanagan. And thus he attempts to make both a faithful adaptation of King's new book anda direct descendant of Kubrick's film, full of musical lifts, visual quotations, and even reenactments of key moments from the original. But the two works are fundamentally incompatible, and in trying to accomplish both feats, Doctor Sleep does neither one successfully.
Ricardo Montalbán, in commercials for Chyrsler's 1975 Cordoba, claimed the upholstery was available in fine (alternately, "soft" or "rich") leather. What is the term coined by the advertising agency to describe this fine/soft/rich leather?
The final single released by the Beatles was their 20th and last number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States. What is the title of this May 1970 release?
"The Long and Winding Road" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1970 album Let It Be. It was written by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon-McCartney. When issued as a single in May 1970, a month after the Beatles' break-up, it became the group's 20th and last number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States. It was the final single released by the quartet.
The main recording of the song took place in January 1969 and featured a sparse musical arrangement. When preparing the tapes from these sessions for release in April 1970, producer Phil Spector added orchestral and choral overdubs. Spector's modifications angered McCartney to the point that when the latter made his case in the British High Court for the Beatles' disbandment, he cited the treatment of "The Long and Winding Road" as one of six reasons for doing so. New versions of the song with simpler instrumentation were subsequently released by McCartney and by the Beatles.
In 2011, Rolling Stone ranked "The Long and Winding Road" at number 90 on their list of 100 greatest Beatles songs.
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Jim from CA, retired to ID, said:
The Long and Winding Road
Rosemary in Columbus wrote:
The Long and Winding Road
DJ Useo answered:
The Long & Winding Road. An interesting fact is much of the success of this track was due to the string arrangement & production of the 'fifth' Beatle, George Martin. A fave of mine, for sure.
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John Prine is one of the all-time great country-folk singer-songwriters.
Some Lyrics:
When I get to Heaven
I'm gonna shake God's hand
Thank Him for more blessings
Than one man can stand
Then I'm gonna get a guitar
And start a Rock and Roll band
Check into a swell hotel
Ain't the 'Afterlife' grand!
Price: $1 (USD) for song; $10 (USD) for ten-song album
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• Banksy, the British graffiti artist, makes fun of real people and of art. In 2003, at a London anti-war demonstration, he passed out signs that stated, "I Don't Believe In Anything. I'm Just Here for the Violence." He has smuggled his works of art into major museums and left them there. For example, he put a version of the Mona Lisa (with a smiley face) in the Louvre, and he put a beautiful country landscape (sectioned off by police crime-scene tape) in the Tate. Banksy's art sells quite well. Ralph Taylor, who works in contemporary art for Sotheby's, said about him, "He is the quickest-growing artist anyone has ever seen of all time." After Sotheby's held a sale of his art, Banksy posted a painting on his Web site. The painting showed an auctioneer and a crowd of bidders, and it has this caption: "I can't believe you morons actually buy this sh[*]t."
• Famous British graffiti (and fine) artist Banksy is witty. He once smuggled a piece of rock art (showing a Stone Age hunter - and a shopping cart) into the British Museum - his credit on the art was "Banksyus Maximus." He also once put a parody of Any Warhol's Pop Art Campbell's soup cans into New York's Museum of Modern Art - Banksy's parody showed a can of Tesco Value cream of tomato soup. In addition, Banksy once created an open-air sculpture by putting shark fins in a pond in east London's Victoria Park.
• Al Capp, the cartoonist of Li'l Abner, frequently lectured. He especially enjoyed question-and-answer sessions, and before his lectures audience members would be given index cards on which were printed this message: "Al Capp Is An Expert On Nothing But Has An Opinion On Everything. What Is Your Question?" He would compose witty and/or thought-provoking answers to the questions, then deliver them at the public-speaking event. For example: "Are you for or against euthanasia? A: For whom? Clarify."
• Henry Fuseli was a teacher of art, and he was a wit. He once examined a student's work of "art" and said, "It is bad. Take it to the woods and shoot it. That's a good boy." Once, his own painting titled The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes was criticized. Someone said that the boat was too small. Mr. Fuseli replied, "That's part of the miracle."
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• Henri Matisse worked long and hard at his art. He said to fellow artist André Verdet in 1952, "If people knew what Matisse, supposedly the painter of happiness, had gone through, the anguish and tragedy he had to overcome to manage to capture that light which has never left him, if people knew all that, they would also realize that this happiness, this light, this dispassionate wisdom which seems to be mine, are sometimes well deserved, given the severity of my trials." Please don't think that Matisse chose to talk about art rather than make art. Painter George L.K. Morris met Matisse by chance on a train and tried to start a conversation about art, but Matisse told him that "all artists should have their tongues cut out - then they'd have more time for work." Matisse even stuck his tongue out at Mr. Morris and made a cutting motion with his fingers. One artist Matisse did talk to was Pablo Picasso, to whom he said, "We must talk to each other as much as we can. When one of us dies, there will be some things the other will never be able to talk of with anyone else." (When Matisse died, Picasso said, "Now I have to work for the both of us.") Matisse need not have been a painter; other careers that he thought he would enjoy included actor, jockey, and violinist. However, when he was a child, he did not want to be a violinist. His father wanted him to take violin lessons, and to share the cost of the teacher he convinced the father of a boy next door to have his son take lessons at the same time as young Matisse. But when the violin teacher arrived at Matisse's house to give the boys a lesson, young Matisse would climb over the fence into the other boy's yard. And when the violin teacher went next door to search for the boys, the boys would climb the fence to get into young Matisse's yard. By the way, at age 44 Matisse decided to study the violin. To avoid annoying his neighbors, he practiced in the bathroom.
Thanks to CBS, we now know that Congressman Mike Quigley considers eye contact to be third base and Congressman Jim Jordan can only shit when he's angry.
Today, the new evidence against President Trump was called "damning", some said this could end his presidency. Oh wait, I'm sorry, this joke is from two years ago.
CBS opens the night with a FRESH'Young Sheldon', followed by a FRESH'The Unicorn', then a FRESH'Mom', followed by a FRESH'Carol's Second Act', then a FRESH'Evil'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Mark Ruffalo and Andy Cohen.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are Sen. Kamala Harris, Don Johnson, and Sleater-Kinney.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'Superstore', followed by a FRESH'Perfect Harmony', then a FRESH'The Good Place', followed by a FRESH'Will & Grace', then a FRESH'L&O: SVU'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Alex Rodriguez, Lili Reinhart, and Ian Lara.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Sean Hayes, Jean Smart, Anna Baryshnikov, and Chris Johnson.
Scheduled on a FRESHLilly Singh are Jenny Slate and Kathryn Hahn.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'Grey's Anatomy', followed by a FRESH'A Million Little Things', then a FRESH'How To Get Away With Murder'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Jeff Goldblum, Camila Morrone, Jeff Goldblum and the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra featuring Sharon Van Etten.
The CW offers a FRESH'Supernatural', followed by a FRESH'Legacies'.
Faux fills the night with LIVE'Thursday Night Football'.
MY here fills the night with LIVE'NHL Hockey'.
A&E has 2 hours of old 'Live PD Presents: PD Cam', followed by a FRESH'Live PD Presents: PD Cam', then another FRESH'Live PD Presents: PD Cam', followed by a FRESH'Live PD: Wanted'.
AMC offers the movie 'Cast Away', followed by 'The Preppy Murder: Death In Central Park - Parts 3 & 4'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 5 - EPISODE 3-Extreme Risk
[7:00AM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 5 - EPISODE 4-In the Flesh
[8:00AM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 5 - EPISODE 5-Once Upon a Time
[9:00AM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 5 - EPISODE 6-Timeless
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 5 - EPISODE 10-Counterpoint
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 5 - EPISODE 11-Latent Image
[12:01PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 5 - EPISODE 12-Bride of Chaotica
[1:02PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 5 - EPISODE 13-Gravity
[2:03PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 5 - EPISODE 14-Bliss
[3:04PM] WALKING TALL (2004)
[5:00PM] THE FUGITIVE (1993)
[8:00PM] THE LAST SAMURAI (2003)
[11:30PM] THE FUGITIVE (1993)
[2:30AM] xXx (2002)
[5:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - SEASON 10 - EPISODE 1-The Pilot (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 3 hours of old 'Below Deck', followed by a FRESH'Below Deck', then a FRESH'Watch What Happens Live'.
FX has the movie 'The Fate Of The Furious', followed by a FRESH'Mr Inbetween', and another 'Mr Inbetween'.
History has 'American Pickers', another 'American Pickers', followed by a FRESH'American Pickers', and another 'American Pickers'.
IFC -
[6:15A] Baroness von Sketch Show - Shangela Was Robbed
[6:50A] The Three Stooges - Ants in the Pantry
[7:15A] Blazing Saddles
[9:15A] Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
[11:45A] Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
[2:00P] X-Men
[4:15P] X-Men 2
[7:00P] X-Men Origins: Wolverine
[9:30P] X-Men: The Last Stand
[12:00A] Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
[2:30A] Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
[4:45A] Planet of the Apes (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:15am] The Andy Griffith Show
[6:50am] The Andy Griffith Show
[7:25am] 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 Karate Kid Part II
[12:00pm] The Karate Kid
[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] The Preppy Murder: Death in Central Park - Parts 3 & 4: Who Is Robert Chambers?; Blame the Victim
[11:01pm] Law & Order
[12:01am] Law & Order
[1:01am] Law & Order
[2:00am] Law & Order
[2:59am] The Preppy Murder: Death in Central Park - Parts 3 & 4: Who Is Robert Chambers?; Blame the Victim
[5:00am] The Cry (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Resident Evil: Afterlife', followed by the movie 'Seven'.
After years of begging for reunions, "Friends" fans may finally be getting their way. HBO Max and Warner Bros. Television are in talks to bring the original cast back together for an unscripted reunion special, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The original six cast members - Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer - are all willing to do the special, THR said. It would also bring back the show's creators, David Crane and Marta Kauffman.
The streaming wars have allowed the iconic show to live on far past its finale in 2004. The beloved sitcom has been a fixture on Netflix since January 2015, but will soon move to HBO Max.
Negotiations for a reunion are in the early stages at the new streaming service, THR reports, so it's not yet a done deal. However, all 236 episodes of the NBC sitcom will be available when the service launches in 2020.
Byron Allen's racial discrimination case against Comcast came before the Supreme Court on Wednesday, as some of the justices questioned what a plaintiff has to show in a pleading to survive beyond its initial stages.
At issue is whether Allen's $20 billion lawsuit should have survived beyond the pleading stage by merely proving that his race was a "motivating factor" in Comcast's decision to deny carriage of his company's channels, or whether it was the sole cause, something called "but for" in legalese.
The Ninth Circuit ruled in favor of Allen last year, and some of the justices found fault with the lower court's reasoning. There also was skepticism of issuing a definitive ruling that established a lower threshold when a case is first filed, and a higher one if it reaches a trial.
Erwin Chemerinsky, who was arguing for Allen, acknowledged that Allen eventually would have to show that race was the sole cause for Comcast's rejection. But he argued that it would be an "insurmountable burden" to meet if plaintiffs have to prove that at the outset of the case, as they would not have the benefit of conducting depositions and discovery.
In their ruling, the Ninth Circuit focused on Allen's other claims. He said that Comcast told him they didn't have the bandwith to carry his channels, but they accepted carriage of other channels with white owners.
A British scientist who is terminally ill with a muscle wasting disease says he has transformed into "the world's first full cyborg".
Dr Peter Scott-Morgan refused to accept his fate after being diagnosed with motor neurone disease (MND) in 2017 and decided to extend his existence using technology.
The process has included a series of operations to insert a feeding tube directly into his stomach, a catheter directly into his bladder and a colostomy bag directly on to his colon, to allow him to deal with feeding and toilet problems.
He also underwent a laryngectomy to avoid the added danger of saliva potentially entering his lungs - which he described as trading his natural voice for "potentially decades of life".
His transition to "cyborg" is charted on his website, which argues that MND should be seen as an opportunity to "upgrade" rather than as a death sentence.
The new Disney+ is also Disney-, as the studio's streaming service apparently is being cautious about what it will showcase, keeping some materials in the vault while warning of sensitive content in other cases.
The new subscription service debuted Tuesday and already has caused fans and media to notice what isn't available. From feature-length films to cartoons, the studio apparently is being very sensitive to problematic materials that could cause upset because of heightened racial and social awareness in the years since initial release.
While it was expected that Disney's 1946 film Song of the South in any format never would be a part of the new service - the film has not been seen for 33 years because of its insensitive racial imagery - there are other film and tv projects that are on the service that are being treated carefully.
The 1941 film Dumbo has been issued without cuts, but a warning precedes it advising viewers of some problematic racial imagery and dialect from some crows, including one called "Jim Crow," a nod to the segregation laws of the era.
Also getting the "outdated" warning: The Jungle Book (1967), Fantasia (1940), Swiss Family Robinson (1940, 1960), The Aristocats (1970). Peter Pan (1953), Lady and the Tramp (1955) and The Sign of Zorro (1958). Mickey Mouse shorts from the 1920s through the 1940s are also flagged.
After climate change melts the Arctic Ocean's year-round ice cover, only the region's oldest, thickest ice will remain ... or will it? A new study offers a dire warning that even this ice is at risk.
Known as the "Last Ice Area," this icy zone extends more than 1,200 miles (2,000 kilometers) from Greenland's northern coast to the western part of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. The enduring ice here is at least 5 years old - older than in neighboring regions - and measures about 13 feet (4 meters) thick.
However, this older, more robust sea ice is not as stable as once thought, and it's vanishing much faster than expected. In fact, the Last Ice Area is disappearing about twice as rapidly as the Arctic's younger, thinner sea ice, researchers reported in a new study.
Much of the ice in the western Arctic is "first-year ice" - ice that is no more than 1 year old, said lead study author Kent Moore, a physics professor with the University of Toronto Mississauga.
Sea ice cover in the Arctic grows and shrinks with the seasons, but recent years have seen less and less widespread ice, during both winter and summer months. In 2019, Arctic sea ice reached its maximum on March 13, spanning around 6 million square miles (15 million square kilometers). That extent is actually lower than most of the 40 previous years, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC).
Stan Lee's daughter is suing his former personal assistant for $25 million.
Joan Celia Lee claimed Bradley Herman appeared on a podcast shortly after her father passed away in November 2018 and accused her of grabbing her dad by the neck and slamming his head into a chair, but she insisted the comments were totally false.
The slander lawsuit, obtained by TMZ, suggested Bradley - who she claimed was fired in early 2018 - made the claims because he was seeking revenge against her and J.C. maintained she never struck or tried to choke the comic book writer.
And that's not all as J.C. claimed her father denied she ever hit, struck or strangled him in multiple interviews and his former employee knew it was untrue when he told the tale on the podcast.
Alan Duke, the host of the podcast, is also being sued over the claims.
Among the big reveals in Washington D.C. on Wednesday morning was actually more of a wig reveal - that of Pissi Myles, a towering drag queen, who arrived on Capitol Hill in a short red cold-shoulder dress, matching pumps and enormous blond wig as a correspondent for Happs News, a live news source that streams through Twitter.
Her presence in the hallways outside of the hearings caused a brief morning stir on Twitter, where NBC News correspondent Heidi Przybyla's photo of Myles, along with the caption "Someone did ask me last night if there's anything in DC that surprises me anymore," drew close to two million likes and 615 retweets, plus a cavalcade of comments, many using the opportunity to reminisce about the time, in 2000, when Rudy Giuliani dressed in drag in a skit with Donald Trump for a benefit event.
But Myles, an N.J.-based performer who makes frequent appearances in and around New York City, had serious politics on her mind. During the live Happs broadcast from outside of the hearings, she told commentator Amber Genuske, "My goal today is to bring focus to a lot of the people who can't be here today - people of color and people who are LGBTQIA - and … to start a conversation, and get people thinking outside of the box they are used to."
By appearing in drag, she added, "I want to teach them that drag is a queer legendary career… that it is a part of our lives we want to share with people. We want people to be as open to us as we want to be with them, and this is the best way to start the conversation."
And as of early afternoon Wednesday, at least, Myles reported during the Happs broadcast that the reactions she's received in-person have been "so refreshing and lovely," with passersby telling her "it's nice to see me here dressed this way." She added, "I think it's important to address this is a performative dress to me," and that she was using it in an aim "to make people aware of the issues we face every day… and that these aren't people who just live in the shadows - they live among us."
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