• The production costs were mounting for the movie The Captain Hates the Sea, starring the noted actors — and drinkers — John Gilbert and Victor McLaglen, so Columbia Studios head Harry Cohn sent the director, Lewis Milestone, this telegram: “HURRY UP! THE COST IS STAGGERING!” Mr. Milestone sent back this telegram: “SO IS THE CAST.”
Telephones
• W.C. Fields didn’t care for Hollywood studio bigshots. Once, Louis B. Mayer called him. Mr. Fields’ friend, Corey Ford, answered the telephone and told him that Mr. Mayer was wondering why Mr. Fields hadn’t shown up for filming that day. Mr. Fields said, “Give him an evasive answer. Something on the order of ‘Drop dead.’” (When Mr. Fields died, humorist Frank Sullivan sent this telegram to one of Mr. Fields’ friends: “I HOPE HE GIVES ST. PETER AN EVASIVE ANSWER.”)
• While making the 1948 movie Foreign Affair, actress Jean Arthur worried that director Billy Wilder was giving the best close-ups not to herself, but to her co-star, Marlene Dietrich. Forty-five years later, Ms. Arthur gave Mr. Wilder a telephone call. She had just seen the movie on television and wanted to apologize.
• While making a motion picture, comedian Jack Oakie did not show up to work one day. The cast, crew, and director all were waiting for him in the hot sun. Mr. Oakie telephoned them. He said, “Guess where I am?” — then hung up.
• Comedian Bob Hope had clout. He once telephoned a movie theater in Palm Springs to ask when the movie started. The person who answered the telephone replied, “Mr. Hope, what time would you like it to start?”
Tobacco
• Hugh Herbert played comic support in movies of the 1930s and 1940s. He was also funny in real life. One day, insult comedian Jack E. Leonard saw Mr. Herbert smoking a cigar — from which clouds of smoke were billowing — at the Friars Club and asked him, “Don’t you ever inhale?” Mr. Herbert replied, “Not with you in the room.”
• Movie director John Waters once decided to use aversion therapy to get himself to quit smoking, so he ate all the butts in an ashtray. Unfortunately, he decided that they really didn’t taste that bad, and he kept on smoking.
Work
• While working at RKO, Lucille Ball had a notable encounter with movie star Katherine Hepburn. Lucy was having some studio portraits taken, and since she wanted to look her best, she went to Ms. Hepburn’s makeup man and talked him into making her up. All went well until Ms. Hepburn was announced and Lucy was thrown out of the makeup room. Suddenly she realized that she had left her tooth caps in the makeup room — an unfortunate event because you can’t take a glamour portrait with bad teeth. She tried to catch the make-up man’s attention through a small window, but he didn’t see her, so finally an angry Lucy threw a cup of coffee at him, missing him, but hitting Ms. Hepburn. Ms. Hepburn didn’t say anything to Lucy, but she got up and left the studio, saying she couldn’t work that day.
• While making the movie Shampoo, Warren Beatty had to ride a motorcycle around a corner, where he met Jack Warden coming the other way in a Mercedes. The two vehicles nearly collided, and Mr. Beatty put the motorcycle on the ground. A stagehand named Ron Webber came over to help him, and Mr. Beatty accidentally kicked the motorcycle into him, burning Mr. Webber’s arm without meaning to and without knowing he had burned it. The next day, Mr. Beatty saw the burn and asked Mr. Webber how he had gotten it. Mr. Webber replied, “Hey, man, you kicked that d*mn bike into me and burnt my arm.” Mr. Beatty then said, “Ron, from now on, you’re in all my films.” He kept his word — every time he made a film, he hired Mr. Webber.
This fictional rhythm and blues animated musical group, as well as advertising and merchandising characters, was composed of anthropomorphized fruit through claymation TV commercials and animated specials. As depicted by A.C. (vocals), Beebop (drums), Stretch (bass), and Red (guitar/piano), what was the name of this group?
Remade in Germany as Ein Herz und eine Seele, and in the Netherlands as In voor- en Tegenspoed, the British TV sitcom Till Death Us Do Part also inspired what US TV sitcom?
Till Death Us Do Part is a British television sitcom that aired on BBC1 from 1965 to 1975. The show was first broadcast as a Comedy Playhouse pilot, then in seven series until 1975. In 1981, ITV continued the sitcom for six episodes, calling it Till Death.... The BBC produced a sequel from 1985 until 1992, In Sickness and in Health.
Created by Johnny Speight, Till Death Us Do Part centred on the East End Garnett family, led by patriarch Alf Garnett (Warren Mitchell), a reactionary white working-class man who holds anti-socialist views. His long-suffering wife Else was played by Dandy Nichols, and his daughter Rita by Una Stubbs. Rita's husband Mike Rawlins (Anthony Booth) is a socialist layabout from Liverpool who frequently locks horns with Garnett. Alf Garnett became a well-known character in British culture, and Mitchell played him on stage and television until Speight's death in 1998.
In addition to the spin-off In Sickness and in Health, Till Death Us Do Part was remade in several countries including Germany (Ein Herz und eine Seele), and the Netherlands (In voor- en tegenspoed), and it is the show that inspired All in the Family in the United States, which, in turn, inspired the Brazilian (A Grande Família). Many episodes from the first three series are thought to no longer exist, having been wiped in the late 1960s and early 1970s as was the policy at the time.
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
All in the Family.
Randall wrote:
All in the Family
Billy in Cypress U.S.A. said:
All in the Family
Alan J answered:
All In the Family.
Cal in Vermont replied:
"'Til Death" which first aired in 2006 starring Brad Garrett. Huh. Never heard of it 'til now.
zorch responded:
All in the Family..
mj wrote:
It spawned many offspring
Not to mention promoting the use of catchwords like dingbat, meathead,
and stifle. And thanks to All in the Family, we know the proper
pronunciation of terlet.
Dave said:
All in the Family. I thought that might be the answer but I had to check.
Adam answered:
Damnit, i almost had it but i had to look it up, it's 'All In The Family'.
Deborah, the Master Gardener responded:
The answer is “All in the Family.” That’s a show I heartily enjoyed. My dad was the Archie Bunker of Mt. Holly, NJ, and my mother was as liberal as, and nott as ditzy as Edith, and racism was the norm in our household (like many in that time, I imagine).
Big wind ahead of alleged storms. I’m not holding my breath.
Daniel in The City replied:
All in the Family
David of Moon Valley wrote:
ah'm a goin'...
…to guess this one since it’s early and the covfefe has kicked in yet, it all sounds vaguely familiar but i’m not in the mood to wikify this time of day…i’ll say All In The Family….and if it’s wrong, blame the caffeine (or lack thereof…)…..
Jim from CA, retired to ID, said:
All in the Family
DJ Useo answered:
All In The Family. I've been enjoying the reruns. Up to season two, currently.
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NHK has a preview show Thursday night.
NHK is available over-the-air in LA on channel 28.3
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 Riz Ahmed and Janelle Monáe.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are Tracy Morgan and Kings of Leon.
NBC starts the night with a RERUN'The Voice', followed by a FRESH'The Voice', then a FRESH'New Amsterdam'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Chrissy Teigen, Rory McIlroy, and Pink Sweat$ featuring Kehlani.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Don Johnson, Christina Hendricks, Chloé Zhao, and Josh Herndon.
Scheduled on a FRESHLilly Singh is Kathryn Hahn.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH'To Tell The Truth', followed by a RERUN'black-ish', then a RERUN'mixed-ish', followed by a FRESH'Soul Of A Nation'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Vanessa Kirby and Niko Moon.
The CW offers a FRESH'The Flash', followed by a FRESH'Superman & Lois'.
Faux has a FRESH'The Resident', followed by a RERUN'Name That Tune'.
MY recycles an old 'Chicago PD', followed by another old 'Chicago PD'.
AMC offers the movie 'Insurgent', followed by the movie 'Now You See Me', then the movie 'Jack Reacher: Shadow Recruit'.
BBC -
[6:00AM - 11:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE
[12:00PM - 4:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
[5:00PM] JERRY MAGUIRE
[8:00PM] A FEW GOOD MEN
[11:00PM] JERRY MAGUIRE
[2:00AM] A FEW GOOD MEN
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has 'Below Deck Sailing Yacht', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of Dallas', then another FRESH'Real Housewives of Dallas'.
FX has the movie 'War For the Planet Of The Apes', followed by the movie 'The Martian'.
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] The Three Stooges - Pop Goes The Easel
[6:30am] Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Gorgo
[8:45am] Warm Bodies
[11:00am] Eight Legged Freaks
[1:15pm] The Heartbreak Kid
[3:45pm] The LEGO Movie
[6:00pm] Road Trip
[8:00pm] Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby
[10:30pm] Vacation
[12:45am] Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby
[3:15am] Road Trip
[5:15am] The Three Stooges - Up In Daisy's Penthouse
[5:30am] The Heartbreak Kid (ALL TIMES ET)
Sundance -
[6:00am - 8:00am] gomer pyle, u.s.m.c.
[8:30am] columbo
[10:15am] columbo
[12:30pm] conan the destroyer
[3:00pm] conan the barbarian
[5:30pm] kingpin
[8:00pm] twins
[10:30pm] men at work
[12:45am] kingpin
[3:15am] columbo
[5:00am] the andy griffith show
[5:30am] the andy griffith show (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'Doom', followed by the movie 'Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen'.
Former first lady Michelle Obama and soccer star Mia Hamm have been chosen for the National Women’s Hall of Fame as part of a Class of 2021 announced Monday that also includes former PepsiCo Chief Executive Indra Nooyi and retired Brig. Gen. Rebecca Halstead.
Halstead commanded in combat as the first female commanding general at the strategic level in Iraq.
NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, who died last year, also will be inducted during an Oct. 2 ceremony, along with the late author Octavia Butler, Native American artist Joy Harjo, abolitionist Emily Howland and artist Judy Chicago.
The National Women’s Hall of Fame inducts a new class every other year in Seneca Falls, the site of the first women’s rights convention. As in other years, this year’s ceremony will be in person, hall officials said, but tickets will not be available until April or May, when there is a better understanding of COVID-19 protocols for live events.
A journalist went on trial Monday on charges stemming from her coverage of a protest against racial injustice in Des Moines last year, after Iowa prosecutors defied international pressure to drop a rare effort to punish a working reporter.
Des Moines Register news reporter Andrea Sahouri, who was pepper-sprayed and jailed while reporting on a clash between protesters and police in May, is charged with failure to disperse and interference with official acts.
If convicted on the simple misdemeanor charges, the 25-year-old Sahouri would be fined hundreds of dollars and have a criminal record. A judge could also sentence her up to 30 days in jail on each count, although that would be unusual.
Advocates for journalism and human rights in the U.S. and abroad have pressed Iowa authorities to drop the charges, arguing that Sahouri was simply doing her job by documenting the event. But prosecutors in the office of Polk County Attorney John Sarcone have pressed forward with the case against Sahouri and her former boyfriend, Spenser Robnett, who faces the same charges.
The pair are standing trial in a courtroom at Drake University in Des Moines as part of a program for law students. The university is broadcasting the proceedings, which are expected to last two days. Lawyers selected a six-member jury Monday morning, and prosecutors were expected to begin their case in the afternoon.
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures is assembling a star-studded cast for its opening gala in September. Italian screen legend Sophia Loren and independent filmmaker Haile Gerima will be honored with special awards, and Tom Hanks, Annette Bening and Bob Iger are being saluted for their efforts to raise $388 million for the long gestating museum, the organization said Monday.
The gala will be held on Sept. 25 as the kick-off to a week of celebrations leading up to the museum’s opening to the public on Sept. 30.
Gerima is acclaimed for his portraits of Black urban life in films like “Bush Mama” and “Ashes & Embers.” The Ethiopian-born filmmaker will be receiving the inaugural Vantage Award, recognizing artists who have contextualized or challenged dominant narratives in film. Loren will be getting the Visionary Award for artists whose work has advanced the art of cinema.
Gala co-chairs include Ava DuVernay, Ryan Murphy and Jason Blum.
Designed by architect Renzo Piano, The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures is located at the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue in the historic Saban Building. Inaugural attractions include an exhibit celebrating legendary Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki, and Bruce, the 1,208 pound, 25-foot-long, 45-year-old fiberglass shark made from the “Jaws” mold.
FBI agents were looking for an extremely valuable cache of fabled Civil War-era gold — possibly tons of it — when they excavated a remote woodland site in Pennsylvania three years ago this month, according to government emails and other recently released documents in the case.
On March 13, 2018, treasure hunters led the FBI to Dent’s Run, about 135 miles (220 kilometers) northeast of Pittsburgh, where legend has it an 1863 shipment of Union gold was either lost or stolen on its way to the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia.
The FBI has long refused to confirm why exactly it went digging, saying only in written statements over the years that agents were there for a court-authorized excavation of “what evidence suggested may have been a cultural heritage site.”
“We believe the cache itself is in the neighborhood of 3x5x8 (feet) to 5x5x8,” wrote K.T. Newton, an assistant U.S attorney in Philadelphia, in a 2018 email marked “Confidential.”
Since the Elk County site was on state-owned land, the FBI had to secure a federal court order to gain access. The legal maneuvering generated emails between Newton and Audrey Miner, chief lawyer for the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.
The Biden administration on Monday moved to rescind a Trump administration rule that rolled back protections against the inadvertent killing of migratory birds.
The move is President Joe Biden's latest effort to swiftly roll back his predecessor's four-year legacy of energy and environmental deregulation.
In a statement, the Interior Department said it rescinded the 2017 legal opinion issued under then-President Donald Trump that reinterpreted a century-old statute, allowing companies that accidentally kill migratory birds to escape prosecution. The memo was part of Trump's broad effort to loosen regulatory restrictions on business, particularly energy development.
The opinion was formalized in a corresponding rule finalized during the last month of Trump's presidency. The department on Monday said it will issue a new rule "in the coming days" that will revoke that policy.
A federal judge last year sided with environmental groups in striking down the Trump administration's legal interpretation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act that industries had opposed as too broad.
A Harvard University professor has ignited an international uproar and faces mounting scrutiny for alleging that Korean women who were kept as sex slaves in wartime Japan had actually chosen to work as prostitutes.
In a recent academic paper, J. Mark Ramseyer rejected a wide body of research finding that Japan’s so-called “comfort women” were forced to work at military brothels during World War II. Ramseyer instead argued that the women willingly entered into contracts as sex workers.
Decades of research has explored the abuses inflicted on comfort women from Korea and other nations previously occupied by Japan. In the 1990s, women began sharing accounts detailing how they were taken to comfort stations and forced to provide sexual services for the Japanese military.
Ramseyer’s article, titled “Contracting for sex in the Pacific War,” was published online in December and was scheduled to appear in the March issue of the International Review of Law and Economics. The issue has been suspended, however, and the journal issued an “expression of concern” saying the piece is under investigation.
Most alarming to historians is what they say is a lack of evidence in the paper: Scholars at Harvard and other institutions have combed though Ramseyer's sources and say there is no historical evidence of the contracts he describes.
A former neo-Nazi told CNN that Fox News radicalizes people by saying the same things he used to say.
Frank Meeink was interviewed by CNN's Pamela Brown during a segment Saturday about domestic extremism in the US. Mediaite posted a video of the segment, during which Brown played a clip of Christopher Wray, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
"January 6 was not an isolated event. The problem of domestic terrorism has been metastasizing across the country for a long time now and is not going away anytime soon," Wray said. "At the FBI, we've been sounding the alarm on it for a number of years now."
Brown also noted that law enforcement has warned that some of the same people present on January 6 have also expressed wanting to "blow up the Capitol" when President Joe Biden first addresses Congress. She asked Meeink what is driving this extremism.
"It's fear and narcissism and that fake patriotism that's just nationalism wrapped up again with worshipping an idol," Meeink said, adding that "Fox News has completely radicalized so many Americans."
"Where I would say 'Jews,' they say 'big media,'" Meeink said. "They swapped out a couple of words here and there, but it's still just radicalization. So that's where we have to look. It's Fox News."
A meteor streaked through the night sky over Vermont on Sunday (March 7), creating a spectacular light show and causing Earth-shaking booms as it burned through the atmosphere.
The meteor's explosive passage through the atmosphere released the equivalent of 440 pounds (200 kilograms) of TNT, suggesting that the meteor was likely 10 pounds (4.5 kg) and 6 inches (15 centimeters) in diameter, according to NASA Meteor Watch.
The space rock smacked into the atmosphere at about 42,000 mph (68,000 kph), according to NASA. It appeared over the northern part of the state as a bright fireball at 5:38 p.m. EST, just before sunset.
Local news station WCAX3 reported calls from all over the state after the event, with Vermonters describing a "loud boom and body-rattling vibration" as the meteor passed overhead.
Based on eyewitness accounts, NASA estimates that the fireball first appeared 52 miles (84 km) over Mount Mansfield State Forest just east of Burlington, the state's largest city. It then progressed 33 miles (53 km) northeast toward the Canadian border, disappearing 33 miles (53 km) above the ground south of the town of Newport.
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