Aaron Short: "5 Amazing Performances by Actors Who Weren't Acting (Part 3)" (Cracked)
Sometimes the acting in a movie feels so genuine that you can't help but think the performer should take home every Oscar that year -- even the ones they're not nominated for. Best Movie? Whatever Daniel Day-Lewis is in. Best Actor? Daniel Day-Lewis. Best Special Effects? Fuck it: Daniel Day-Lewis. But sometimes it turns out that these moments only feel so real because they absolutely are ...
David Bruce: Wise Up! Music (Athens News)
Gianandrea Gavazzeni once conducted "Un Ballo in Maschera," in which Plácido Domingo sang. Domingo sang the lines "Amelia! Tu m'ami?" - and the orchestra came in full blast. People complained that with the full orchestra, they could not hear Mr. Domingo and his Amelia, but Gavazzeni said, "It doesn't matter! That's the way Verdi wanted it!" Thereafter, whenever the full orchestra came in, Domingo didn't sing, but merely mouthed the words, knowing that no one could hear him anyway.
Born Isaak Yudovich Ozimov, this prolific writer's books have been published in nine out of ten major categories of the Dewey Decimal Classification. By what name is he better known?
Allen Ellsworth Ludden (October 5, 1917 - June 9, 1981) was an American television personality, emcee and game show host, perhaps most well known for hosting various incarnations of the game show Password between 1961 and 1980.
Allen Ludden, born Allen Packard Ellsworth, was the first child of Elmer Ellsworth, 25, a Nebraska native living in Mineral Point, Wisconsin and working as an ice dealer; and his wife Leila M. Allen, age 22, a Wisconsin native and housewife. Elmer Ellsworth died the next winter at age 26, a victim of the worldwide Spanish flu epidemic, on January 6, 1919. When Allen was about five years old, Leila Ellsworth married Homer Ludden, Jr., an electrical engineer and the son of H.D. Ludden, the town physician, a Chicago native who had practiced in Mineral Point since 1906. Allen was given his adoptive father's name and became Allen Ellsworth Ludden.
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Sally was first, and correct, with:
Allen Ludden was born Allen Packard Ellsworth.
The late Allen Ludden with his lovely wife, Betty White.
PS: So I'm up before dawn, shoveling snow - and then school is canceled because of the snow! Bet the kids up in B2BBLand don't get out of school because of a couple inches of wet, heavy snow, huh?? (Great picture of your snow, B2!)
Charlie said:
Allen Ludden
Marian wrote:
Allen Ludden...waiting to see the latest weather report to see if the plane is going to get there...3-5 inches of snow predicted in Philly. Last time this was predicted they got a foot of snow.
Adam answered:
Allen Ludden
Alan J responded:
Allen Ludden
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
Allen Ludden
DJ Useo said:
Ooh, that's a toughie. I can only guess, so I am offering the answer of Topo Gigio. ;)
Questions like this ya just got'ta know already, or do a search online. I like to guess!
btw- Hey BTTB Bob- Your request of a Pussy Riot / Lady Gaga mashup is really hard, but I'm about 3/4 done. I thought the hardest part would be creating my own Pussy Riot instrumental ( by cutting and looping ), but I managed that alright.
Finding some Lady Gaga acapella that is complimentary in any way is proving the much harder task. I'm thinking outside the box now though, and I'm sure I can finish it by next week.
I'll tell you this- I enjoy punk rock a LOT, but Pussy Riot's record I found unlistenable. Really terrible production, too. I am not enamored with Lady Gaga's tunes, either. She delivers solidly derivative music that seems alright, but upon repeat listens, it loses my interest fast.
I'm much more interested in a new mix I'm working on with Harry Nilsson vs Pink Floyd. It's very emotionally piercing.
Thanks for the challenge, m8. I like having to overcome mix adversities. It helps me grow as a masher.
Dale of Diamond Springs, Norcali, answered:
This one is weird. I just guessed Allen Ludden. He was one of the best game show hosts. I loved the "GE College Bowl" and "Password". He died to young. He was married to the very hot Bettie White of " I Married Joan" fame. And no, I'm not going to post any of her naked pictures again. Just some retro girls
Lois Lost In Oregon replied:
The late great Allen Ludden, who once hosted a radio show
called "Mind Your Manners", designed to groom teenagers into
gracious and worthy adults, and "The College Bowl", which
encouraged young people to embrace education and set lofty
goals! Ah, yet another bleak and bitter reminder of the
depths to which our Empire has sunken, and the glorious
roll-models for today's youth...Big Brother, Honey Boo Boo,
and, god help us all, Duck Dynasty. Oh well. Here is a
picture of the exact moment Allen fell in love with Betty,
edited from the origional broadcast, just as she lost
patience with her password partner who NEVER got her clues,
and commenced to beat the shit out of him. BONUS picture:
Betty and Allen liberate Bonzo from the Reagan Secret Lair
where he had been held captive after protesting Ronnie's run
for governor of California.
MAM wrote:
Allen Ludden ~ most well known for hosting various types of the game show 'Password' between 1961 and 1980. And being married to Betty White.
1968
BttbBob responded:
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Born this day:
(1913-2005) One of the bravest women that this country has ever produced...
I stood right next to 'her bus', which is inside the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, MI, and just marveled... and I felt humbled.
CBS begins the night with a FRESH'NCIS', followed by a FRESH'NCIS: The 2nd One', then a FRESH'Person Of Interest'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are George Clooney and Sting.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Megan Mullally and J. Maarten Troost.
NBC starts the night with a FRESH'Olympic Preview Special', followed by a FRESH'Biggest Loser'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Matthew McConaughey, Charles Barkley, and Lyle Lovett.
Jimmy Fallon has "The Best of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon: Digital Originals".
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson 'The Scab' Daly are Phil Lord & Chris Miller, the Crystal Method, and "Cutie and the Boxer".
ABC opens the night with a FRESH'Marvel's Agents Of SHIELD', followed by a RERUN'The Goldbergs', then a FRESH'Trophy Wife', followed by a FRESH'Killer Women'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Barkhad Abdi, Dr. Mehmet Oz, and the Lone Bellow.
The CW offers a FRESH'The Originals', followed by a FRESH'Supernatural'.
Scheduled on a FRESHArsenio Hall are Joe Mantegna, A.J. Cook, Kenny Smith, and Tatyana Ali.
Faux has a FRESH'Dads', followed by a RERUN'Brooklyn Nine-Nine', then a FRESH'New Girl', followed by a FRESH'Brooklyn Nine-Nine'.
MY recycles an old 'Bones', followed by another old 'Bones'.
AMC offers the movie 'Poseidon', followed by the movie 'The Departed'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 6 - Ep 10 - The Girl Who Waited
[9:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 6 - Ep 11 - The God Complex
[10:00AM] TORCHWOOD - Season 1 - Ep 12 - Captain Jack Harkness
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 23 - I, Borg
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 24 - The Next Phase
[1:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 4 - Ep 2 - Piccolo Teatro
[2:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 1 - Ep 2 - Glass House
[3:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 3 - Ep 7 - Sushi Ko
[4:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 8 - Episode 1
[5:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 8 - Episode 2
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 14 - Face of the Enemy
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 15 - Tapestry
[8:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 16 - Birthright (Part 1)
[9:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 17 - Birthright (Part 2)
[10:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 18 - Starship Mine
[11:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 16 - Birthright (Part 1)
[12:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 5 - Ep 3 - Victory of the Daleks
[1:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 5 - Ep 4 - The Time of Angels
[2:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 5 - Ep 5 - Flesh and Stone
[3:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 5 - Ep 6 - Vampires in Venice
[4:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 5 - Ep 7 - Amy's Choice
[5:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 5 - Ep 8 - The Hungry Earth (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Vanderpump Rules', 'Shahs Of Sunset', followed by a FRESH'Shahs Of Sunset', then a FRESH'100 Days Of Summer'.
Comedy Central has last night's 'Colbert Report', last night's 'Jon Stewart', 'Kroll Show', 'Tosh.0', another 'Tosh.0', still another 'Tosh.0', yet another 'Tosh.0', followed by a FRESH'Kroll Show'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Elizabeth Banks.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Pussy Riot.
FX has '2½ Men', followed by the movie 'Iron Man 2', then a FRESH'Justified'.
History has 'Pawn Stars', another 'Pawn Stars', 'Counting Cars', another 'Counting Cars', followed by a FRESH'Counting Cars', then another FRESH'Counting Cars', followed by a FRESH'American Restoration', then another FRESH'American Restoration'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] I Sell the Dead
[7:45AM] Meatballs
[9:45AM] The Matador
[11:45AM] Johnson Family Vacation
[1:45PM] The Matador
[3:45PM] Meatballs
[5:45PM] Analyze This
[8:00PM] The Big Lebowski
[10:00PM] The Informant!
[12:45AM] The Big Lebowski
[3:15AM] The Informant!
[5:30AM] The Spoils of Babylon-The Age of the Bastard (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] Pride
[8:15AM] The Namesake
[10:45AM] Diner
[1:15PM] Inventing the Abbotts
[3:30PM] The Wackness
[5:45PM] Catch a Fire
[8:00PM] Law & Order-Big Bang
[9:00PM] The Ides of March
[11:15PM] Serpico
[2:15AM] The Ides of March
[4:30AM] Uncle Kent (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has 'Face Off', another 'Face Off', followed by a FRESH'Face Off', then a FRESH'Opposite Worlds'.
TBS:
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Ted Danson, Olga Kurylenko, and J. Roddy Walston & the Business.
Entrepreneur and musician Jay Z sits with his wife, singer Beyonce, as they watch the Brooklyn Nets play the Philadelphia 76ers in an NBA basketball game at the Barclays Center, Monday, Feb. 3, 2014 in New York.
Photo by Kathy Willens
Broadway theatres will dim their marquee lights Wednesday night in memory of Philip Seymour Hoffman, the movie and theatre star who earned three Tony Award nominations.
The Broadway League said Monday the lights will be dimmed for one minute starting at 7:45 p.m. Eastern time.
Hoffman made his Broadway debut in Sam Shepard's "True West" with John C. Reilly in 2000 and followed it up three years later with Eugene O'Neill's "Long Day's Journey Into Night" with Brian Dennehy and Vanessa Redgrave. In 2012, he played a powerful Willy Loman in "Death of a Salesman" by Arthur Miller under the direction of Mike Nichols. Each time he earned a Tony nod.
He also was a longtime supporter of the off-Broadway Labyrinth Theatre Company, where he served as co-artistic director.
Actor Neil Patrick Harris and actress Judith Light pose together at The Drama League's 'A Musical Celebration of Broadway' gala, sponsored by Financier Patisserie, Monday, Feb. 3, 2014, in New York.
Photo by Jason DeCrow
John Glenn's first impression upon seeing the U.S. Navy ship that will sail bearing his name was that it looked "like somebody forgot to finish it."
"I thought it looked like kids playing with a LEGO set and they forgot to finish the whole thing up," the retired Marine, NASA astronaut and U.S. senator said Saturday (Feb. 1) at the christening ceremony for the USNS John Glenn. "It looks strange, but that's the very strength of this ship, that is the main reason why this ship is so different, and the reason it can be used so differently."
The second of the Navy's Mobile Landing Platform (MLP) Montford Point-class ships, the newly-named USNS John Glenn was designed based on a commercial Alaska-class crude oil carrier. The ship features an open, reconfigurable mission deck the length of a football field and a half that can support a wide variety of operations.
Glenn, his wife Annie and their family were joined at the ceremony by NASA Administrator Charles Bolden. Glenn's daughter Lyn served as the ship's sponsor.
Once again, Mississippi reigns as the most religious U.S. state, with 61 percent of its residents classified as "very religious," according to the results of a Gallup survey released Monday (Feb. 3).
In contrast, only 22 percent of people in Vermont ranked just as devout, and the Green Mountain state held onto its title as "least religious."
Overall, about 41 percent of Americans indicated that they are "very religious," meaning that religion is an important part of their daily lives and that they attend religious services every week or almost every week. Some 29 percent were classified as nonreligious, because they did not attend services and didn't cite religion as an important part of their daily life. Another 29 percent fell somewhere in the middle of the two extremes, and were labeled as "moderately religious."
For the most part, the rankings have remained largely unchanged since Gallup first started tracking religiosity in 2008. The most religious states still tend to be clustered in the South, though Utah - with its large population of Mormons, typically the most religious of any denomination - stands out as an exception and ranks No. 2 in religiosity, according to Gallup. Meanwhile, the least religious states are mostly found in New England, the Pacific Northwest and other states in the West.
British artist and Turner Prize winner Richard Deacon poses with his sculpture 'Struck Dumb 1988' at Tate Britain art gallery in London during the launch of the exhibition of his artworks at the gallery, Monday Feb. 3, 2014.
Photo by Sang Tan
Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo and Google on Monday began publishing details about the number of secret government requests for data they receive, hoping to show limited involvement in controversial surveillance efforts.
The tech industry has pushed for greater transparency on government data requests, seeking to shake off concerns about their involvement in vast, surreptitious surveillance programs revealed last summer by former spy contractor Edward Snowden.
The government said last month it would relax rules restricting what details companies can disclose about Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court orders they receive for user information. Several companies, including Google and Microsoft, sued the government last year, seeking the ability to disclose more of that data.
Between 15,000 to 15,999 Microsoft-user accounts were the subject of FISA court orders requesting content during the first six months of 2013, the company said.
Britain said on Monday it had banned a French comedian accused of anti-Semitism, saying he would not be allowed to enter the country for public policy and security reasons.
Dieudonne M'Bala M'Bala, 46, has been repeatedly fined for "hate speech" in his native France where local authorities in several towns have banned his shows as a threat to public order.
He is closely associated with the "quenelle", a gesture that critics have likened to an inverted Nazi salute and said carries anti-Semitic overtones.
"We can confirm that Mr. Dieudonne is subject to an exclusion order," a spokeswoman for Britain's Home Office (interior ministry) said.
"The Home Secretary will seek to exclude an individual from the UK if she considers that there are public policy or public security reasons to do so."
Members of Mocidade Independente de Padre Miguel Samba School perform during a rehearsal in preparation for the 2014 carnival parade at the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro February 2, 2014. Picture taken on February 2, 2014.
Photo by Lucas Landau
A Japanese whaling ship and an anti-whaling protest boat collided in the remote, icy seas off Antarctica, with both sides on Monday blaming each other for the crash.
No one was injured, though both ships received minor damage in Sunday's collision - the latest drama in an annual battle between the conservationists and the whalers.
Sea Shepherd, which each year tries to harass the whaling fleet into ending its hunt, said they were the victims of a lengthy attack by the whalers. The protest group said the whaling vessels spent hours dragging steel cables across the bows of the Sea Shepherd's ships in a bid to damage the rudders and propellers. Japan's Yushin Maru No. 3 then struck Sea Shepherd's Bob Barker when it crossed too closely in front of the protest ship, damaging its bow and anchor, said Peter Hammarstedt, captain of the Bob Barker.
Japan, which plans to kill about 1,000 whales this year, is allowed to hunt the animals for scientific purposes under an exception to a 1986 ban on whaling. Critics say the program is a cover for commercial whaling, because whale meat not used for study is sold as food.
If you donate to a candidate online, pay attention to the fine print to make sure your donation goes to the candidate you want and not his or her opponent.
The National Republican Congressional Committee has launched a series of websites that look like they support a Democratic candidate for Congress, but instead direct contributions to the Republican Party instead.
The Tampa Bay Times interviews one donor who thought he was giving to Alex Sink's (D) congressional campaign. It even used the same blue and green color scheme as the candidate's official website.
The NRCC defended the sites to NBC News, and said Democrats were upset because their candidates are struggling.
A Wall Street Journal review of the latest campaign filings finds that the top Democratic candidates in the 52 most competitive House races reported raising $42.3 million last year, easily beating the $34.8 million for the top Republican candidates in those races.
Greenpeace activists protest against a planned expansion of Hungary's Paks nuclear power plant at the Statue of Liberty in Budapest, February 3, 2014. Prime Minister Viktor Orban has signed an agreement with Russian President Vladimir Putin to expand Hungary's only nuclear power plant with two new blocks in a multi-billion-euro project, Hungary's biggest investment since the collapse of communism.
Photo by Bernadett Szabo
A judge turned down a prosecutor's motion Monday to send Chris Brown to jail, citing the R&B singer's continued good behavior and progress in a rehabilitation program.
Superior Court Judge James R. Brandlin said probation officials reported that Brown is making good progress in treatment and must remain in the program unless he is given permission by the court or his probation officer. Brown was sentenced to three months of in-patient rehab in November after the singer was arrested and charged with misdemeanor assault over an altercation several weeks earlier in Washington, D.C.
A prosecutor sought to have Brown thrown in jail during Monday's hearing and called for a full probation violation hearing, which would have resulted in evidence about the D.C. case being presented to Brandlin. Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney Mary Murray cited the new case as the basis for removing Brown from rehab and placing him in custody.
Brown's attorney Mark Geragos argued that the only changes in Brown's behavior since the December hearing were positive, and the court should wait to see how the D.C. case is resolved before having an evidentiary hearing. Brown's lawyers have said the singer is not guilty and rejected a plea deal; the case is due back in court on Feb. 20.
Walt Disney Co is preparing to lay off several hundred people in its interactive unit, the division that includes gaming products and the Disney.com website, The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
The layoffs are expected to begin after Disney releases its quarterly earnings on Wednesday, the Journal said. Playdom, a social gaming business Disney acquired in 2010, is one division expected to see cutbacks, the newspaper said.
Disney is trying to turn around the interactive unit, which has about 3,000 employees. Its new Infinity video game enjoyed strong initial sales after its release last August, helping the division report a $16 million profit for the quarter that ended in September, an improvement from the $76 million loss a year earlier.
Aniceto Rodrigo (C), 77, "greater devil", leads believers as they walk around Almonacid del Marquesado, in central Spain, during the "Endiablada" traditional festival, February 3, 2014. In the "Endiablada", an undated traditional festival in honour of San Blas, believers are dressed in colourful costumes, wear a mitre with lead cowbells tied to their waists that ring as they wander around the village and in front of the saint's statue during its procession.
Photo by Sergio Perez
An art-loving British businessman said Monday he faced the "bizarre" prospect of seeing a treasured painting that he thought was by Marc Chagall destroyed because it has been judged to be a fake.
Martin Lang spent £100,000 (121,000 euros, $163,000) on what he believed was an original work by Russian-born artist Chagall in 1992.
For a BBC TV programme on art forgeries, the painting was tested by experts and sent to the Chagall Committee in Paris for verification.
But Lang, a 63-year-old property developer, was shocked when the committee deemed it to be a fake and told the BBC that under French law it must be destroyed.
The committee has kept the painting -- a nude said to date from 1909-1910 -- in Paris and will meet on Tuesday to discuss its fate.
Archaeologists working near the ancient settlement of Edfu, in southern Egypt, have uncovered a step pyramid that dates back about 4,600 years, predating the Great Pyramid of Giza by at least a few decades.
The step pyramid, which once stood as high as 43 feet (13 meters), is one of seven so-called "provincial" pyramids built by either the pharaoh Huni (reign ca. 2635-2610 B.C.) or Snefru (reign ca. 2610-2590 B.C.). Over time, the step pyramid's stone blocks were pillaged, and the monument was exposed to weathering, so today, it's only about 16 feet (5 m) tall.
Scattered throughout central and southern Egypt, the provincial pyramids are located near major settlements, have no internal chambers and were not intended for burial. Six of the seven pyramids have almost identical dimensions, including the newly uncovered one at Edfu, which is about 60 x 61 feet (18.4 x 18.6 m).
The team also found hieroglyphic graffiti incised on the outer faces of the pyramid. The inscriptions are located beside the remains of babies and children who were buried at the foot of the pyramid. The researchers think the inscriptions and burials date to long after the pyramid was built and that the structure was not originally intended as a burial place.
Joan Mondale, the wife of former U.S. Vice President Walter Mondale and a champion of the arts, died on Monday, her family said in a statement. She was 83.
Mondale died with the former vice president, her sons Ted and William, and other family members at her side, said the statement released through their church. She entered hospice care on Friday. The family did not provide details on her illness.
Mondale's support for the arts ran more than six decades from her study and work in college through her promotion of arts programs and artists during and after Walter Mondale's terms as a U.S. senator, vice president and ambassador.
Named by former President Jimmy Carter as honorary chairperson of the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities, Mondale advocated for government support of the arts across the United States, according to a biography from the Minnesota Historical Society.
Mondale had given tours and lectures at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and gave tours of the National Gallery of Art after moving with her family to Washington, the biography said. Her 1972 book, "Politics in Art," was based on her lectures.
She filled the vice president's residence with contemporary American art during Walter Mondale's term and immersed herself in Japanese art when he served as ambassador to Japan in the 1990s, according to the historical society biography.
Joan Mondale was preceded in death by her daughter Eleanor Mondale, who died in 2011 from brain cancer.
An activist dressed as a polar bear participates in a protest vigil in Lafayette Park across from the White House, Monday, Feb. 3, 2014, in Washington, urging President Obama to reject the Keystone XL Pipeline following the release of the State Department's new environmental assessment.
Photo by Carolyn Kaster
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