Dave Gordon: How Dan Aykroyd went from battling spirits to selling them (BBC)
This summer he stars in the latest Ghostbusters movie, the fourth in the series. He says he is pleased to be wrestling with the supernatural kind of spirits again. In fact, Aykroyd has had a lifelong interest in the supernatural, something he picked up from his father, and a great grandfather who was a mystic. "You know, my great grandfather Sam Aykroyd, the psychic researcher and dentist from Kingston, Ontario, would be very happy that Ghostbusters has stimulated such fun and laughter, as well as interest in the paranormal."
Ellie Costello: "Influencers 'being offered thousands for sex'" (BBC)
"It's high-end prostitution - it's just scary to think if they've messaged me, they've probably sent it to thousands of pretty girls on Instagram," says Tyne-Lexy Clarson. She says she was only 19 when she was first propositioned, with an offer of £20,000 for dinner and drinks.
The flag of Mozambique was adopted on 1 May 1983. It includes the image of an AK-47 with a bayonet attached to the barrel crossed by a farming mattock superimposed on an open book. It is one of four national flags among UN member states that features a firearm, along with those of Guatemala, Haiti and Bolivia.
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What does the flag of Mozambique look like? Mozambique's flag is a horizonal tricolor of green, black with white borders, and yellow, and there is a red isosceles triangle on the left side. On top of the triangle is a yellow five-pointed star with a book, AK-47 assault rifle, and bayonet attached to the barrel in the center.
Although there has been a call to remove the AK-47 from the flag, the design remains unchanged and proposals to change the flag have been rejected by the nation's parliament.
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
Mozambique.
Randall wrote:
Mozambique
Jon L said:
Why, that would be Mozambique.
Alan J answered:
Mozambique.
Dave responded:
Mozambique. Looking at Mozambique on a map of Africa, it looks small, but it is roughly the same size as Texas and is home to 29 million people. As is usual with former European colonies, Mozambique's population is made up of a number of ethnic groups with their own dialects, but the official language is Portuguese, which most of citizens speak as a second language. After a decade of armed revolt by the Mozambique resistance, Portugal finally ended its 400 years of colonization and exploitation, and Mozambique became an independent nation. Of course, the rifle on the flag represents the successful revolution.
Mac Mac replied:
Mozambique
zorch said:
Mozambique.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, wrote:
The flag of Mozambique was adopted on 1 May 1983. It includes the image of an AK-47 with a bayonet attached to the barrel crossed by a farming mattock superimposed on an open book.
Deborah responded:
Well, I blew yesterday's answer, so maybe I can redeem myself today: The flag of Mozambique has an AK-47 on it.
I'm paying special attention to this, the 2nd impeachment of my lifetime. I can't believe we're here, again.
Cal in Vermont said:
Mozambique.
DJ Useo wrote:
Hey! I actually know this one. The answer is "Mozambique". Who'd thunk it?
Daniel in The City answered:
Mozambique
Billy in Cypress U$A replied:
Mozambique
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• John Christie was a very rich man. While listening to a musical performance in a very hot theater (in the days before air conditioning), he grew very uncomfortable, so he used scissors to cut off the sleeves of his shirt and dress jacket.
• Pablo Picasso was once surrounded by fans at a time when he did not want to be surrounded by fans. No problem. He took out a gun he had with him and fired it into the air, and very quickly he was no longer surrounded by fans.
• American dance pioneer Ted Shawn came up with an original way to stop obesity in the United States. Simply require everyone to stand for one hour per year naked in public - vanity would soon make obesity vanish.
Respect
• Alexandra Danilova was asked about the difference between a very good ballet dancer (a soloist) and a ballerina (of course, not every woman ballet dancer is a ballerina - only the very best are). She replied, "Ballet is Giselle. Door of cottage open. Pretty young soloist comes out. You happy and say 'I hope she do well.' Another performance. Is also Giselle. Alicia Markova come out. She not danced yet. One step only, but you sigh and say, 'Ah! ballerina!' You do not ask, you know. She is star. She shine."
• Suzanne Farrell was a great admirer of ballerina Diana Adams. Once, Ms. Adams gave her a pin of a mouse with painted whiskers and a long tail. Thereafter, Ms. Farrell pinned the mouse - despite its scratchy tail - inside her bra for good luck at important ballets. In addition, Ms. Farrell named her diary, to which she confided her inmost thoughts, "Diana."
Stage Fright
• Greek-American soprano Maria Callas suffered terribly from stage fright before giving a performance. Before performances, Ms. Callas used to hold onto the arm of someone in the wings. Her dresser once displayed her arm to Sir John Tooley - it was bruised from the wrist to the elbow. Once, Ms. Callas' fingernails drew blood from another supporter's hand.
• Famous pianist Adolphe Henselt suffered so badly from stage fright that he used to stay offstage until the very last minute, then rush onstage to play his solo before running offstage again. Once, he had to rush so quickly to the piano that he wasn't able to put out his cigar first, so he had to smoke throughout his solo.
Travel
• Fashion designer Vicky Tiel tends to dress comfortably for flights, as do many people of wealth and fashion. For one flight, she wore ripped jeans and a ripped jean jacket. She had a boarding pass for first class, but the stewardess looked her over and made her sit in coach, although she protested. She says, "Didn't the hostess know that the antitravel look is for those who reallytravel? The well-dressed couple in first class is actually the pretty secretary sleeping with her older boss, hoping to move up to trophy wife." When she arrived in Atlanta, she wanted to file a complaint, but Leticia Moise from CNN Atlanta recognized her and suggested a story: "The Fashion Designer Who was Thrown Out of First Class." Ms. Tiel modeled the clothing she was wearing, and Ms. Moise asked a passerby, "Would you let her into first class?" He looked her over, and then he said into the microphone, "H*ll, no!"
I doubt that you waste time on twaddle like Judge Judy. A friend got me started watching. We used to call each other every day or two--"Did you see that idiot on Judge Judy?"--and we laughed at how crazy people are, how Judy verbally humiliates them on national TV, and they endure that for the price of a trip to LA and a little money. Then we would laugh about how crazy people are for "fame" and how cheaply they sell their dignity.
Anyway, I doubt you see the program, but it's popular. Judy has a large following. I had heard that she endorsed Bloomberg, but it's more than that--during each of the half-hour programs--two programs shown each day--she does a short commercial endorsing Bloomberg to her viewers. That's a LOT of "advertising money" she's throwing his way every day. AND that's in addition to all the commercials on regular TV that Bloomberg is running in VA.
It may be twaddle, but it's extremely good paying twaddle.
CBS begins the night with a FRESH'NCIS', followed by a FRESH'FBI', then a FRESH'FBI: Most Wanted'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Patrick Stewart and Dick Cavett.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin.
NBC starts the night with a FRESH'Ellen's Game Of Games', followed by a FRESH'This Is Us', then a FRESH'New Amsterdam'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Martin Short, David Dobrik, and Yola.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Aidy Bryant, Lewis Black, Rep. Eric Swalwell, and Adam Marcello.
Scheduled on a FRESHLilly Singh is RuPaul.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH'The Conners', followed by a FRESH'Bless This Mess', then a FRESH'mixed-ish', followed by a FRESH'black-ish', then a FRESH'Emergence'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Liv Tyler, Michael Irvin, Awkwafina, and Marcus King.
The CW offers a FRESH'Arrow', followed by a FRESH'DC's Legends Of Tomorrow'.
Faux has a FRESH'The Resident', followed by a FRESH'Gordon Ramsay's 24 Hours To Hell & Back'.
MY recycles an old 'Chicago PD', followed by another old 'Chicago PD'.
AMC offers the movie 'Rocky IV', followed by the movie 'The Godfather'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - In the Hands of the Prophets
[7:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - The Homecoming, Part 1
[8:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - The Circle, Part 2
[9:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - The Siege, Part 3
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Invasive Procedures
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Cardassians
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Melora
[1:00PM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - ules of Acquisition
[2:00PM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Necessary Evil
[3:00PM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Second Sight
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Sanctuary
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Rivals
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - The Alternate
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Armageddon Game
[8:00PM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Whispers
[9:00PM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Paradise
[10:00PM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Shadowplay
[11:00PM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Playing God
[12:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - The Homecoming, Part 1
[1:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - The Circle, Part 2
[2:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - The Siege, Part 3
[3:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Invasive Procedures
[4:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Cardassians
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Melora (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Vanderpump Rules', another 'Vanderpump Rules', followed by a FRESH'Vanderpump Rules', then a FRESH'Watch What Happens: Live', followed by a FRESH'Vanderpump Rules'.
Comedy Central has 2 hours of old 'The Office', followed by 2 hours of old 'Drunk History'.
Scheduled on a FRESHThe Daily Show is BD Wong.
Scheduled on a FRESHLights Out with David Spade are Doug Benson, Mary Lynn Rajskub, and Steve Ranazzizi.
FX has the movie 'Baywatch', followed by the movie 'Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle', then the movie 'Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle', again.
History has 'The Curse Of Oak Island', followed by a FRESH'The Curse Of Oak Island: Drilling Down', then a FRESH'The Curse Of Oak Island', followed by a FRESH'Project Blue Book'.
IFC -
[6:00A] The Three Stooges - Wee Wee Monsieur
[6:15A] The Three Stooges - Gents Without Cents
[6:45A] The Three Stooges - Grips, Grunts and Groans
[7:15A] The Cabin in the Woods
[9:15A] The Details
[11:30A] Here Comes the Boom
[2:00P] Life of Brian
[4:00P] Monty Python and the Holy Grail
[6:00P] Planes, Trains and Automobiles
[8:00P] National Lampoon's Vacation
[10:15P] National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
[12:30A] Planes, Trains and Automobiles
[2:30A] Here Comes the Boom
[5:00A] Pee-wee's Playhouse - Just Another Day
[5:30A] Pee-wee's Playhouse - Beauty Makeovers (ALL TIMES EST)
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[6:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[6:35am] The Andy Griffith Show
[7:10am] The Andy Griffith Show
[7:45am] The Andy Griffith Show
[8:15am] The Andy Griffith Show
[8:45am] The Andy Griffith Show
[9:15am] The Last Stand
[11:45am] Face/Off
[2:45pm] Sniper
[5:00pm] First Blood
[7:00pm] Rambo: First Blood Part II
[9:00pm] First Blood
[11:00pm] Rambo: First Blood Part II
[1:00am] Rambo III
[3:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[4:05am] The Andy Griffith Show
[4:40am] The Andy Griffith Show
[5:15am] The Andy Griffith Show
[5:50am] The Andy Griffith Show (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Hancock', followed by the movie 'The Magnificient Seven'.
On Monday, British rock band Radiohead rolled out arguably the most comprehensive one-stop website for a single band we've ever seen-and for an Internet-savvy band like Radiohead, that's saying something.
The Radiohead Library, which can be found at the sensible URL of radiohead.com/library, includes nearly every official studio release since the band's debut album Pablo Honey launched in 1993, along with much, much more. Full concerts, TV appearances, CD booklet art, long-lost promotional videos: they're all here.
Whether you visit the site on a smartphone or desktop browser, it's formatted to present each Radiohead era as a series of squares and rectangles. The top of the site includes generic, single-colored squares, which each represent a major studio album. Click any of them to reveal the album, its associated EPs and singles, and a scattershot assortment of official music videos, full concert recordings, and other audio and video samples from that album's era. While you're picking through each era, you may notice squares with T-shirt logos. Turns out, these link to reprints of classic tour shirts and merchandise from almost every Radiohead album, back on sale for the first time in years.
If you're a fan of YouTube as a music-consumption service, however, you're out of luck. Each Radiohead studio recording is linked to Spotify and Apple Music stream options, arguably for the sake of guaranteeing greater global access, as opposed to linking to YouTube videos that can suffer from region-restriction headaches. The collection's direct video links, meanwhile, rely on Vimeo; as of press time, that's resulting in some serious video-streaming hitches and stutters, perhaps owing to one of the world's biggest bands uploading dozens of never-before-seen concert and TV-appearance footage in one fell swoop.
David Lynch loves teasing us with monkeys. One of the more beguiling bits of Twin Peaks lore involved a monkey uttering the name "Judy," and now the filmmaker is back with another talking primate, this one named Jack. In a wonderful surprise, the filmmaker dropped an incredible short on Netflix today called "What Did Jack Do?" in celebration of his 74th birthday. Lynch stars in the 17-minute tale as a detective in conversation with the titular Jack, who may or may not have murdered someone named Max. According to The Playlist's Kevin Jagernauth, the short originally premiered in Paris in 2017, and also screened at one of Lynch's Festival Of Disruption live events.
"In a locked down train station, a homicide detective conducts an interview with a tormented monkey," reads Netflix's plot synopsis, though that description, indelible as it is, still can't capture how simultaneously hilarious and unnerving this whole thing is. Shot in black and white and suffused with Lynch's signature brand of punishing pauses and hard-boiled dialogue-"Do you play for keeps?" Jack asks at one point-the film also ropes in a chicken named Toototoban and a musical number that could only be described as "Lynchian." Lynch's wife, the actor Emily Stofle, also appears as an amiable waitress.
Does this mean Lynch is in cahoots with Netflix? Might we expect an original collaboration between the two sometime in the future? Maybe that rumored new season of Twin Peaks? Something to ponder while popping some garmonbozia.
The men bringing James Dean back to life for a forthcoming film are aiming not just to give his digital likeness a role, but a whole new career.
Dean's planned appearance in the Vietnam War movie "Finding Jack," and the possibility of future parts, comes as digital de-aging and duplication of real actors has tipped from cinematic trick into common practice. And it's giving new life to old arguments about the immortality and dignity of the dead.
"Our intentions are to create the virtual being of James Dean. That's not only for one movie, but going to be used for many movies and also gaming and virtual reality," said Travis Cloyd, CEO of Worldwide XR, who is leading the design on the Dean project. "Our focus is on building the ultimate James Dean so he can live across any medium."
Legally, they have every right to do it, via the full agreement of the Dean estate and his surviving relatives.
Roesler and Cloyd have not obtained the rights from Warner Bros. to use footage from those films, but they have a large trove of photos and Dean's dozens of TV roles.
A gloomy self-portrait by Vincent van Gogh was declared genuine on Monday after decades of uncertainty, experts identifying it as the only work painted by the Dutch master while he suffered from psychosis.
The "Self Portrait (1889)" -- which shows the artist giving a haunted sideways glance against a swirling blue and yellow background -- was confirmed as authentic by the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.
Questions were first raised about whether the painting -- owned by the National Gallery in Oslo, Norway -- was genuine as far back as 1970 but the Norwegian museum finally decided to end the doubts only in 2014, sending it to Dutch experts.
Using X-ray analysis of the canvas, studies of the brushwork and references to letters to his brother Theo, experts established it was painted while Van Gogh was in an asylum in Saint-Remy in France in the late summer of 1889.
The Oslo museum bought the painting in 1910 from a collector in Paris for 10,000 francs, making it the first Van Gogh self-portrait to enter a public collection, but doubts have swirled about it for some 50 years.
A landmark ruling by the United Nations Human Rights Committee has found it unlawful to return refugees to countries where their lives may be threatened by the impacts of the climate crisis - a move which could set a precedent for future protection claims.
The committee's judgement centred on the case of Ioane Teitiota, a man from the Pacific nation of Kiribati, who in 2013 claimed the effects of climate change and sea level rise forced him to migrate from the island of Tarawa in the Republic of Kiribati to New Zealand.
The island is at risk of becoming the world's first country to disappear due to rising sea levels caused by global heating. Fresh water has become scarce, and efforts to combat sea level rise have largely been ineffective.
In 2015 authorities in New Zealand denied Mr Teitiota's claim of asylum as a "climate refugee" and he was deported back to Kiribati on the basis that his life was not at risk.
The U.S. ambassador to South Korea has some unusual explanations for the harsh criticism he's faced in his host country. His mustache, maybe? Or a Japanese ancestry that raises unpleasant reminders of Japan's former colonial domination of Korea?
Many South Koreans, however, have a more straight-forward explanation for Harry Harris' struggle to win hearts and minds in Seoul, and it's got more to do with an outspoken manner that they see as undiplomatic and rude.
Since arriving in Seoul in July 2018, Harris, a retired navy admiral born to a Japanese mother and an American navy officer, has been the focus of keen attention because of his military and ethnic background. The 63-year-old former U.S. Pacific Command chief has sometimes drawn criticism from those who take issue with his manner when dealing with South Koreans.
His mustache has become the subject of ribbing online, with jokes made about how it resembles those of Japanese colonial masters, who brutally occupied the Korean Peninsula from 1910-45. But there is more serious concern that the discord could widen a growing rift in Seoul's relations with Washington at a time when diplomacy with rival North Korea seem in danger of imploding.
After meeting Harris in November, Lee Hye-hoon, then chairwoman of the South Korean parliament's intelligence committee, said that the ambassador repeated about 20 times Trump's calls for Seoul to drastically increase its financial contribution to U.S. troop deployment in the South.
Prolonged drought and other effects of climate change are pushing Australia's unique platypus population towards extinction, scientists warned in a study published Monday.
The river-dwelling animal has already disappeared from up to 40 percent of its historical range on Australia's east coast due to the drought, land clearing, pollution and building of dams, which fragment their habitat, the researchers said.
They predicted that if the current threats persist, platypus numbers will fall another 47-66 percent over the next 50 years.
If projections about worsening climate change are taken into account, the numbers of the duck-billed, egg-laying mammal could plummet up to 73 percent by 2070, they wrote.
The survey estimated the total platypus population had fallen by 50 percent since European settlement of the continent two centuries ago.
British writer George Orwell wrote to a female friend to say that they could have sex twice a year with his wife's approval, a set of letters bought by Orwell's son show, nearly 70 years after his death.
Orwell met Brenda Salkeld a few years before his first publishing success, "Down and Out in Paris and London" in 1933 and she became an influence on his writing, according to the letters which were reported in The Times newspaper on Monday.
He continued to write to her until 1949 - just before his second wedding and only weeks before his death. The letters showed he used Salkeld as a sounding board for his ideas.
Orwell's son, Richard Blair, said he bought the letters to give to the George Orwell Archive at University College London.
Another set of letters bought by Blair also showed Orwell's continued admiration for a former lover, Eleanor Jacques.
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