• Hollywood director Jim Cruze bought his mother a fig farm, then hired men to buy her figs at outrageous prices. Once, someone offered to buy the fig farm from her. Mr. Cruze advised, “I wouldn’t sell it — not when you get so much for your figs.”
• The child of actress Margaret Rutherford was a transsexual who went from being a man to being a woman. A wonderful mother, Margaret said about her child, “We loved him as a man, and now we’ll love her as a woman.”
Music
• After Grace Moore became a movie star with One Night of Love, audiences at her music concerts began requesting song after song from the movie, including “Ciribiribin.” While she was preparing a concert with conductor Willem Mengelberg, they looked at requests for songs for the upcoming concert. Over and over again, “Ciribiribin” was requested. This surprised Mr. Mengelberg, and he asked her what “Ciribiribin” was. She explained that it was an Italian folk song that was much too inconsequential to be sung with an orchestra and it was being requested because she had sung it in One Night of Love. Therefore, the two agreed to have her sing the song with only a piano providing accompaniment. However, at the concert the applause she received for this little song was so great that Mr. Mengelberg motioned for her to sing it again, and as she sang it various instruments from the orchestra joined in. After the concert, Mr. Mengelberg told her, “Regardless of who wrote that little song, where it came from, or whatever qualities it may have as a musical composition, if you in singing it can make an audience so happy, sing it until you die.”
• The movie Star Wars is 110 minutes long, and music plays for 90 of those minutes. Filmmaker George Lucas decided to have a musical theme for each of the major characters — the music for Darth Vader is very easily recognizable — and the character’s theme plays when that character is on the screen. Mr. Lucas got the idea from the musical composition Peter and the Wolf, which has themes for each of its major characters.
Names
• Hungarian producer Alexander Korda was the man who produced the film The Third Man, but after producer David O. Selznick bought the film for distribution in America, he put his name on it. One year later, Mr. Korda met Mr. Selznick and told him, “You know, David, I just hope I don’t die before you.” Mr. Selznick asked why, and Mr. Korda replied, “Because I hate to think of you going to my gravestone, scratching off my name, and putting yours on instead.”
• Jane Withers was a child actress who became famous because in the movie Bright Eyes, the character she played was mean to America’s darling, Shirley Temple. Even before Jane was born, her mother wanted her to be a star. She decided to name her daughter “Jane” because she thought that “Withers” was a long name for a movie marquee, so a short first name was needed so the entire name would fit on the marquee.
• When Luciano Pavarotti decided to make a movie, he met with the movie’s producer to discuss the name his character should have. The meeting was held in Giorgio Fini’s restaurant, and the food that day was cooked especially well — so well, in fact, that Mr. Pavarotti decided to name his character — with Mr. Fini’s permission — Giorgio Fini. The movie was titled Yes, Giorgio.
• Opera singer Helen Traubel knew a movie star who was very fond of talking about his famous friends. Once, a less famous actor walked by, and he said, “There, but for the grace of God, go I.” Ms. Traubel’s husband, Bill, murmured to her, “He’s a name dropper.”
This fictional rock band on a live-action Saturday morning TV variety show from Hanna-Barbera was composed of four animal characters in red helmets: Fleegle, Bingo, Drooper, and Snorky. What is the name of this band?
On 12 November 1859, he performed the first flying trapeze routine, wearing a garment he invented, and later, inspired a popular song in 1867. What is the name of this daring young man?
Jules Léotard (1 August 1838 – 17 August 1870) was a French acrobatic performer and aerialist who developed the art of trapeze. He also popularized the one-piece gym wear that now bears his name and inspired the 1867 song "The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze" sung by George Leybourne. He was also one of the cycling pioneers in France right before his untimely death.
Léotard was born in Toulouse, France, the son of a gymnastics instructor who ran a swimming pool in Toulouse. Léotard would practice his routines over the pool. He went on to study law.
After he passed his law exams, he seemed destined to join the legal profession. But at 18 he began to experiment with trapeze bars, ropes and rings suspended over a swimming pool. Léotard later joined the Cirque Napoleon.
On 12 November 1859, the first flying trapeze routine was performed by Jules Léotard on three trapeze bars at the Cirque Napoleon.
The costume he invented was a one-piece knitted garment streamlined to suit the safety and agility concerns of trapeze performance. It also showed off his physique, impressed women and inspired the song sung by George Leybourne.
Billy in Cypress U.S.A. was first, and correct, with:
Jules Léotard
Mark. said:
Jules Léotard.
Randall wrote:
Jules Leotard
Alan J answered:
Jules Leotard.
Mac Mac responded:
Jules Léotard
Jon L replied:
I suspect that'd be Jules Leotard.
Cal in Vermont said:
Jules Léotard. He also invented tights.
mj wrote:
The original
Go commando guy, Jules Léotard.
zorch answered:
Jules Leotard.
Dave responded:
Leotard. French trapeze artist Jules Leotard (1838-1870).
Leo in Boise replied:
Leotard
Deborah, the Master Gardener wrote:
The mighty Wiki tells me his name is Jules Léotard. Interesting; I had no idea how the leotard got its name.
Still unseasonably warm; flowering trees are bursting forth in bloom. It’s so pretty, yet seems too early.
David of Moon Valley said:
hmmmm...
…well i dont have time to wikify this AM so i’m going with The Great Flying Hendersonia…..doubtful i’m correct but it was worth a shot…….
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
Jules Léotard
Rosemary in Columbus responded:
Jules Leotard
Michelle in AZ said:
WAG Leotard
Barbara, of Peppy Tech fame wrote:
That daring young man was Jules Leotard.
Joe S (We resisted, we voted, we won. Get over it) answered:
Leotard. Make. It. Rain.
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Was bitching to my brother about the 3 week wait for a new stove - turns out in his part of the country it's more like 3 months.
Yikes.
Tonight, Tuesday:
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 Neil deGrasse Tyson and Jon Batiste.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are Tom Brady, Stacey Abrams, and JP Saxe & Maren Morris.
NBC starts the night with a FRESH'Young Rock', followed by a FRESH'Kenan', then a FRESH'The Voice', followed by a FRESH'New Amsterdam'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Nick Jonas and Rita Ora.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Regina King, Kathryn Hahn, and Chang-rae Lee.
Scheduled on a FRESHLilly Singh is Fortune Feimster.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH'To Tell The Truth', followed by a FRESH'black-ish', then a FRESH'mixed-ish', followed by a FRESH'Soul Of A Nation'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Charles Barkley, Mads Mikkelsen, and Davido.
The CW offers a FRESH'The Flash', followed by a FRESH'Superman & Lois'.
Faux has a FRESH'The Resident', followed by a FRESH'Prodigal Son'.
MY recycles an old 'Chicago PD', followed by another old 'Chicago PD'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Green Mile', followed by the movie 'Unbroken'.
BBC -
[6:00AM - 11:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE
[12:00PM - 7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
[8:00PM] MR. & MRS. SMITH
[10:30PM] MR. & MRS. SMITH
[1:00AM] MORTAL KOMBAT
[3:15AM] DOCTOR WHO - DEEP BREATH
[4:55AM] DOCTOR WHO - INTO THE DALEK (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has 'Below Deck', another 'Below Deck', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of Dallas', then a FRESH'Watch What Happens: Live'.
Comedy Central has an hour of old 'The Office', 2 hours of old 'Drunk History', and another hour of old 'The Office'.
FRESHThe Daily Show.
FX has the movie 'Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising', followed by the movie 'Girls Trip', then the movie 'Girls Trip', again.
History has 'The Curse Of Oak Island', followed by a FRESH'The Curse Of Oak Island: Digging Deeper', then a FRESH'The Curse Of Oak Island', followed by a FRESH'Assembly Required'.
IFC -
[6:00am] Community
[6:30am] Monty Python And The Holy Grail
[8:30am] Men At Work
[10:45am] The Bad News Bears
[1:15pm] Back To School
[3:15pm]
[6:00pm] The Longest Yard
[8:30pm] The LEGO Movie
[10:45pm] The Longest Yard
[1:00am] The LEGO Movie
[3:15am] The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
[5:30am] Drillbit Taylor (ALL TIMES ET)
Sundance -
[6:00am - 7:30am] gomer pyle, u.s.m.c.
[8:00am] columbo
[10:15am] columbo
[12:30pm] hoosiers
[3:00pm] the outsiders
[5:00pm] a few good men
[8:00pm] snatch
[10:30pm] snatch
[1:00am] fargo
[3:00am] columbo
[4:45am] the andy griffith show
[5:20am] the andy griffith show
[5:55am] the andy griffith show (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'Olympus Has Fallen', followed by the movie 'Robin Hood'.
John Oliver presented another damning critique of American law enforcement on Sunday night with a focus on police raids. The practice attracted significant attention last year after police officers in Louisville, Kentucky, mistakenly broke into the apartment of Breonna Taylor, a black woman, in the middle of the night and fired 32 shots into her home, killing her.
None of the officers were indicted for her death, “and if it is somehow nobody’s fault that an innocent woman was killed in the middle of the night in her own home”, said the Last Week Tonight host, “there might be an issue with police raids”.
Data on police raids is scarce, Oliver explained, though it’s estimated police carry out tens of thousands per year, disproportionately targeting black and brown residents. Though the practice was designed to combat active shooters, one study found that over 60% of American police raids were for suspected drug offenses, with evidence as thin as an officer smelling marijuana from outside a home.
Given that police are usually armed with military-grade weapons, raids frequently end in unnecessary tragedy; a New York Times investigation found that between 2010 and 2016, 81 civilians were killed in police raids.
Oliver also tore into the flimsiness of evidence used as justification for raids, with many electronic warrants for drug searches signed in less than three minutes or an even more cursory 30 seconds. “That is absurd! Even the cases on Chrissy’s Court were longer than 30 seconds, and it was a show on Quibi, a platform we all collectively fever-dreamed,” Oliver joked.
The actor-writer-producer and proud weed proponent announced Monday the launch of his own marijuana company, Houseplant.
“Almost 10 years I go, I envisioned having my own weed company,” the Pineapple Express and Sausage Party star wrote on Twitter. “And today I can say that my company Houseplant's weed will be available in California next week!” Rogen says that his business will also offer accessories like ashtrays, lighters... “and YES, even ceramics.” (Anyone who follows Rogen on Twitter knows that his second favorite hobby during quarantine has become making ceramics.)
Rogen joins Snoop Dogg, Tommy Chong, Bella Thorne, Rick Ross, former NBA star Gary Payton, Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart and tireless rapper Jay-Z in the ranks of high-profile folks who’ve ventured into cannabis capital.
“If you know anything about me at all, I’m going to assume that it’s: I really love weed,” Rogen said in a video accompanying his announcement. “What we’re doing is bringing you the best strains of weed that have been hand-picked, and by that I mean hand-smoked by me. It’s just the weed that I love that I want to be smoking.”
San Diego Comic-Con will remain virtual for the July event, but organizers are planning for a smaller-scale gathering later this year.
Comic-Con announced Monday that the annual confab will return to virtual for a second-straight year between July 23-25. The in-person experience was canceled again due to coronavirus-related cautions around large gatherings.
Organizers said postponements and other challenges caused by the pandemic left them with “limited financial resources.” As a result, the virtual convention in July was reduced from four to three days.
However, organizers said they are planning a smaller in-person November event in San Diego. The details have not yet been released.
A Moroccan landscape painted by Winston Churchill and owned by Angelina Jolie sold at auction on Monday for more than $11.5 million, smashing the previous record for a work by Britain’s World War II leader.
“Tower of the Koutoubia Mosque” sold at Christie’s in London for 8,285,000 pounds ($11,590,715). The pre-sale estimate was 1.5 million pounds to 2.5 million pounds, and the previous record price for a Churchill painting was just under 1.8 million pounds.
The image of the 12th-century mosque in Marrakech at sunset, with the Atlas Mountains in the background, is a piece of both political and Hollywood history.
The only painting that Britain’s wartime prime minister completed during the 1939-45 conflict, it was completed after the January 1943 Casablanca Conference, where Churchill and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt planned the defeat of Nazi Germany.
The painting was sold by Roosevelt’s son after the president’s death in 1945, and had several owners before Jolie and partner Brad Pitt bought it in 2011.
The Biden administration is pulling back an environmental review that had cleared the way for a parcel of federal land held sacred by Apaches to be turned over for a massive copper mine in eastern Arizona.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Monday that it likely will take several months to further consult with Native American tribes and others about their concerns over Oak Flat and determine whether the environmental review fully complies with the law.
The USDA and the U.S. Forest Service acknowledged they can only do so much. Congress mandated that the land be transferred to Resolution Copper no later than 60 days after the final environmental review was published. The document was released in the last days of Donald Trump (R-Lock Him Up)'s administration.
The parcel of land in the Tonto National Forest east of Phoenix was set to be transferred to Resolution Copper by mid-March for one of the largest copper mines in the U.S. At least three pending lawsuits have raised concerns over religious freedom rights, land ownership and violations of federal law.
Apaches call Oak Flat “Chi’chil Bildagoteel.” The land near Superior has ancient oak groves, traditional plants and living beings that tribal members say are essential to their religion and culture. Those things exist elsewhere, but Apache Stronghold said they have unique power within Oak Flat.
MyPillow’s outspoken Trump-supporting chief executive was censored during an interview at CPAC – an event branded “America Uncanceled” – after he launched into conspiracy theories linking the coronavirus vaccine with the devil.
Mike Lindell (R-Lumpy Is His Crack) was speaking on Sunday to Liz Willis, the host of conservative YouTube channel Right Side Broadcasting Network (RSBN), when he delivered a somewhat meandering set of conspiracy theories relating to the pandemic, the presidential election and Israel.
“I’m telling you with the vaccine… if you get a vaccine, which is only 95 per cent effective, they say, then they want you to do another one in six months, six months,” he continued. “Well, I’m telling you when you get that, what do you care what someone else does, if that person wants to come to a mall and they don’t want to get a vaccine. This is our bodies, this is ‘mark of the beast’ stuff.”
The phrase “mark of the beast” appears to reference a quasi-religious conspiracy theory that holds Covid vaccines to be the work of the devil and that by getting it, a person is unwittingly pledging allegiance to Satan.
Our Neanderthal cousins had the capacity to both hear and produce the speech sounds of modern humans, a new study has found.
Based on a detailed analysis and digital reconstruction of the structure of the bones in their skulls, the study settles one aspect of a decades-long debate over the linguistic capabilities of Neanderthals.
The notion that Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalis) were much more primitive than modern humans (Homo sapiens) is outdated, and in recent years a growing body of evidence demonstrates that they were much more intelligent than we once assumed. They developed technology, crafted tools, created art and held funerals for their dead.
Whether they actually spoke with each other, however, has remained a mystery. Their complex behaviors seem to suggest that they would have had to be able to communicate, but some scientists have contended that only modern humans have ever had the mental capacity for complex linguistic processes.
As we watched NASA put a rover on Mars last month, it definitely seemed like the agency had to be using some sort of high-tech processor in its machine. Surely the rover is built on something much more powerful than the components in devices us civilians use, right? But while NASA is technically using a specialized processor to power the Perseverance rover, it’s not far removed from the world of consumer electronics—about 23 years ago.
NewScientist reports that the Perseverance rover is powered by a PowerPC 750 processor, which was used in Apple’s original 1998 iMac G3—you remember, the iconic, colorful, see-through desktop. If the PowerPC name sounds familiar, it’s probably because those are the RISC CPUs Apple used in its computers before switching to Intel. (Although now the company is back on the RISC train with its homegrown M1 processor.)
The PowerPC 750 was a single-core, 233MHz processor, and compared to the multi-core, 5.0GHz-plus frequencies modern consumer chips can achieve, 233MHz is incredibly slow. But the 750 was the first to incorporate dynamic branch prediction, which is still used in modern processors today. Basically, the CPU architecture is making an educated guess on what instructions the CPU is going to process as a way to improve efficiency. The more information that’s processed, the better the chip gets at predicting what it needs to do next.
However, there’s a major difference between the iMac’s CPU and the one inside the Perseverance rover. BAE Systems manufactures the radiation-hardened version of the PowerPC 750, dubbed RAD750, which can withstand 200,000 to 1,000,000 Rads and temperatures between -55 and 125 degrees Celsius (-67 and 257 degrees Fahrenheit). Mars doesn’t have the same type of atmosphere as Earth, which protects us from the the sun’s rays, so one flash of sunlight and it’s all over for the Mars rover before its adventure can begin. Each one costs more than $200,000, so some extra protection is necessary.
“Compared to the [Intel] Core i5 in your laptop, it’s much slower…it’s probably not any faster than your smartphone,” Matt Lemke, NASA’s deputy manager for Orion’s avionics, told The Space Review back in 2014. “But it’s not about the speed as much as the ruggedness and the reliability. I need to make sure it will always work.”
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