Tom Scocca: Little Richard's Music Was Dangerous, But So Is Freedom (Slate)
It was loud and it was blatant. The story of the original, raunchy lyrics of "Tutti Frutti" gets told over and over, as if adding or restoring the words "good booty" or "grease it" would prove something that wasn't already there on the vinyl, as if the slippin' and slidin' and Bald-Headed Sally and the insinuating lisp at the start of "Send Me Some Lovin'" didn't make it clear enough.
Jack Palance (born Volodymyr Palahniuk, February 18, 1919 - November 10, 2006) was an American actor of Ukrainian descent. He was nominated for three Academy Awards, all for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, receiving nominations for his roles in Sudden Fear (1952) and Shane (1953), and winning the Oscar almost 40 years later for his role in City Slickers (1991).
Jack Palance was born Volodymyr Palahniuk in Lattimer Mines, Pennsylvania, the son of Anna (née Gramiak) and Ivan Palahniuk, an anthracite coal miner. His parents were Ukrainian immigrants, his father a native of Ivane Zolote in southwestern Ukraine (modern Ternopil Oblast) and his mother from the Lviv Oblast. One of six children, he worked in coal mines during his youth before becoming a professional boxer in the late 1930s.
Boxing under the name Jack Brazzo, Palance reportedly compiled a record of 15 consecutive victories with 12 knockouts before losing a close decision to future heavyweight contender Joe Baksi in a Pier-6 brawl (a colloquial term meaning an unsanctioned and particularly rough fight). Years later he recounted: "Then, I thought, you must be nuts to get your head beat in for $200."
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
Jack Palance.
Doug in Albuquerquem New Mexico, wrote:
Volodymyr Palahmink and Jack Brazzo are none other than Hollywood tough guy Jack Palance.
Mac Mac said:
Jack Palance
Alan J answered:
Jack Palance.
Randall responded:
Jack Palance
Cal in Vermont responded:
Jack Palance. He won his Oscar for his role in "City Slickers".
mj wrote:
A truly versatile guy
Whose monologue as the personification of a disease during one of Jerry
Lewis' telethons was truly horrifying and riveting at the same time:
Jack Palance.
Kevin K. in Washington, DC, said:
Jack Napier was his number. One. Guy.
Jack Palance
Dave responded:
Jack Palance. The boxing and battle scarred (WWII) face of Jack Palance, combined with his towering height, powerful frame and deep authoritative voice made him the perfect movie villain of the 1950's. Palance was a fine actor too, he understudied Marlon Brando in the Broadway production of A Streetcar Named Desire, and took over the role when Brando missed a performance (after Palance accidentally broke Brando's nose horsing around backstage). Palance won an Emmy for a rare non-villainous role in the 1956 television version of Requiem For a Heavyweight.
Photos: Jack Palance in his iconic role as the sadistic gun fighter, Jack Wilson - Shane (1953) | Palance kept in great physical condition even during his later years | age 73 with his Best Supporting Actor Oscar
zorch replied:
Jack Palance.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, said:
Jack Palance
Deborah wrote:
That's the late Jack Palance. I really enjoyed his role in "City Slickers."
Semi-surprise visit from son and his GF yesterday, and I'm not embarrassed to admit that we did not social distance or refrain from hugging. Our weekly Zoom meeting with daughter and SIL in Brooklyn was even more special. I haven't been this happy in…I don't remember how long.
Daniel in The City answered:
Jack Palance
David of Moon Valley replied:
i'm not even gonna call Sir Wiki and ask for an answer…right or wrong, i'm going with Jack Palance…because it just 'sounds' like him….
looks like we're getting some Late Spring rain, eh Deborah?
John I from Hawai`i says,
Jack Palance
Micki responded:
Jack Palance. My favorite film of his is Bagdad Café, where he plays a cowboy artist who paints and falls in love with a fat German lady, who is stranded there by her worthless husband.
Dave in Tucson wrote:
Could today's answer be Jack Palance?
Michelle in AZ said:
Jack Palance
DJ Useo answered:
Again, you have stumped me. Nice 1!
BttbBob replied:
My favorite 'Bad Guy'... Jack Palance... Dude, oozed menace and potential mayhem... The way he seemed to hiss like a snake when he talked was delicious...
And he portrayed a pretty good barbarian, as well...
Billy in Cypress U$A responded:
Jack Palance, a great actor, who played roles so well that no other actor would have even tried.
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Music: "Dismissed with a Kiss" from the album WHERE ARE THE FREAKS?
Artist: Spanking Charlene
Artist Location: New York
Info: Released January 17, 2012 Charlene McPherson - vocals
Mo Goldner - guitar, vocals
Alison Jones - bass, vocals
Eric Seftel - drums
Phil Cimino - drums
Eric "Roscoe" Ambel - guitar, piano, vocals
Steven Van Zandt - keyboards
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• Spinal Tap's biggest year was probably 1984, when actor/filmmaker Rob Reiner made a documentary about them titled This is Spinal Tap. In 2007, Mr. Reiner was able to reunite the members of the band so they could perform for Live Earth, a series of concerts designed to alert people about the danger of global warming. He found Nigel Tufnel raising miniature horses, with dreams of finding a race of miniature jockeys to ride them. He found David St. Hubbins running a clinic for hip-hop music - and for colonics. And he found Derek Smalls treating his Internet addiction with rehab. Viewers of the documentary and close friends of the band probably realize that Spinal Tap are not Mensa candidates - Mr. Tufnel personally plans to address global warming by taking off his jacket. However, the kinds of things the band does have been done by other bands. Getting lost backstage and not being able to find the stage so they can perform? That happened to Tom Petty and Heartbreakers.
• At Sheffield, Thomas Beecham produced one of the operas in Wagner's Ring cycle. Unfortunately, as Brünnhilde was singing her farewell song, the curtain came down. Mr. Beecham pressed the bell-button repeatedly, and the curtain went up again, only to come down again almost immediately. Again, Mr. Beecham pressed the bell-button repeatedly, and this time the curtain stayed up until the end of the opera. Afterward, he learned that the individual in charge of the curtain had fallen asleep. When he woke up, it was long after 11 p.m. Since in his experience, no performance had ever lasted that long, he concluded he had slept through it and so he let the curtain down. Hearing Mr. Beecham's bell-button, he had raised the curtain again, but then he remembered that his wife was expecting him for dinner at 11 p.m., and that she would be angry. This made him think that a mistake had been made somewhere and so he had dropped the curtain again.
• Jessica Simpson endured a few mishaps early in her career. At her first recording session, she burped really loudly into a microphone, causing a producer to worry that some equipment had exploded. While opening for Ricky Martin at Madison Square Garden in New York City, she hit a high note and split her pants. Quickly, she disappeared backstage where her mother stripped off her jeans so that Jessica could wear them. Jessica was embarrassed, but she returned to the stage, saying, "I don't know who saw my booty, but I'm still gonna sing." This story does have a happy ending: Jessica's split pants were sold and raised $8,000 for Rosie O'Donnell's charity for children.
• Mishaps did occur when Bob Hope was entertaining the troops. While on a plane headed for Iceland, Les Brown, who provided music for Mr. Hope's USO tours, learned that his drummer wasn't on board, so the plane turned around to get the drummer. Once back in the air, Mr. Brown discovered that the sax player wasn't on board, so the plane turned around to get the sax player. This time, the pilot of the plane wanted a head count before taking off again, but Mr. Brown said, "That won't be necessary. Get out your instruments, fellas, and strike a chord. I'll know then if anyone is missing."
• Very early in her career, opera singer Ernestine Schumann-Heink sometimes sang at the Cathedral in Dresden. Unfortunately, she made a disastrous error when the King and Queen visited the Cathedral. Ms. Schumann-Heink was so busy looking at them that she missed her cue, then became so nervous that she not only sang the wrong notes but also sang them off pitch. (The 77-year-old conductor, Karl Krebs, even hit her with his baton and whispered to her, "You d*mn little goose - you are ruining my whole Mass!")
Finally found some freshly hatched Gulf Fritillary caterpillars on the passiflora.
Tonight, Tuesday:
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'NCIS', followed by a RERUN'FBI', then a RERUN'FBI: Most Wanted'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Christine Baranski and Ellie Kemper.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are Jeff Goldblum and James Blake.
NBC starts the night with a FRESH'The Voice', followed by a FRESH'Ellen's Game Of Games', then a FRESH'Hollywood Game Night'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Ethan Hawke, Elle Fanning, and Kane Brown.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Paul Giamatti and Nicole Richie.
On a RERUNLilly Singh (from 2/26/20) are Beth Behrs and Tichina Arnold.
ABC opens the night with the FRESH'The Happy Days Of Garry Marshall', followed by a FRESH'For Life'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel is Lionel Richie.
The CW offers a FRESH'The Flash', followed by a FRESH'DC's Legends Of Tomorrow'.
Faux has a FRESH'Gordon Ramsay's 24 Hours To Hell & Back'.
MY recycles an old 'Chicago PD', followed by another old 'Chicago PD'.
A&E has 3 hours of old 'The First 48', followed by a FRESH'Accused: Guilty Or Innocent?'.
AMC offers the movie 'Fantastic Four', followed by the movie 'Star Trek'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Afterimage
[7:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Take Me Out to the Holosuite
[8:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Chrysalis
[9:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Treachery, Faith and the Great River
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Once More Unto the Breach
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - The Siege of AR-558
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Covenant
[1:00PM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - It's Only a Paper Moon
[2:00PM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Prodigal Daughter
[3:00PM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - The Emperor's New Cloak
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Field of Fire
[5:00PM] ROBIN HOOD
[8:00PM] A FEW GOOD MEN
[11:00PM] ROBIN HOOD
[2:00AM] A FEW GOOD MEN
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Badda-Bing, Badda-Bing (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Vanderpump Rules', followed by a FRESH'Vanderpump Rules', then another FRESH'Vanderpump Rules', followed by a FRESH'Watch What Happens Live'.
Comedy Central has last night's 'Trevor', followed by 1½ hours of old 'The Office', then 1½ hours of old 'Drunk History'.
Scheduled on a FRESHThe Daily Show it's The Daily Social Distancing Show.
Lights Out with David Spade
FX has the movie 'Baywatch', followed by the movie 'Jurassic World', then the movie 'Jurassic World', again.
History has 'The Curse Of Oak Island: Drilling Down', followed by a FRESH'The Curse Of Oak Island: Drilling Down', then a FRESH'Lost Gold Of WWII', followed by a FRESH'The Secret Of Skinwalker Ranch'.
IFC -
[6:00A] That '70s Show
[6:30A] That '70s Show
[7:00A] 1408
[9:15A] The Mist
[12:00P] The 5th Wave
[2:30P] Ender's Game
[5:00P] Terminator 2: Judgment Day
[8:00P] Point Break
[11:00P] Point Break
[2:00A] Terminator 2: Judgment Day
[5:00A] That '70s Show
[5:30A] That '70s Show (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00am] Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
[6:30am] Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
[7:00am] Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
[7:30am] Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
[8:00am] Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
[8:30am] Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
[9:00am] Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
[9:30am] Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
[10:00am] Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
[10:30am] Stripes
[1:00pm] Monk - Mr. Monk, Private Eye
[2:00pm] Monk - Mr. Monk and the Class Reunion
[3:00pm] Monk - Mr. Monk Gets a New Shrink
[4:00pm] Monk - Mr. Monk Goes to a Rock Concert
[5:00pm] Monk - Mr. Monk Meets His Dad
[6:00pm] Monk - Mr. Monk and the Leper
[7:00pm] Monk - Mr. Monk Makes a Friend
[8:00pm] Monk - Mr. Monk Is at Your Service
[9:00pm] Monk - Mr. Monk Is on the Air
[10:00pm] Monk - Mr. Monk Visits a Farm
[11:00pm] Monk - Mr. Monk and the Really, Really Dead Guy
[12:00am] Monk - Mr. Monk Goes to the Hospital
[1:00am] Monk - Mr. Monk and His Biggest Fan
[2:00am] The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
[4:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[4:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[5:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[5:30am] The Andy Griffith Show (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Journey 2: The Mysterious Island', followed by the movie 'The Fast & The Furious: Tokyo Drift'.
John Oliver has criticised Donald Trump's handling of the coronavirus crisis, focusing on the US president's refusal to wear a protective face mask.
Speaking on his HBO comedy series Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, the British-American comic quipped: "For all of Trump's ideological wavering over the years, one thing has remained consistent: he's never used protection - and he's never not been an a***hole about it afterwards."
"We don't have to be warriors and to the extent that we are, we don't have to go into a battle unarmed," Oliver said. "You can't just call everyone warriors and make their deaths not count.
"This is where we are right now: our wartime president has decided the only way to win this war is to draft every one of us, hide our battle plans and hope that we are brave enough not to notice that we have already surrendered."
A rare "mud dock" where Charles Darwin's vessel HMS Beagle spent its final years has been given protected status after being identified by a drone.
In 1831 the scientist voyaged to the Galapagos aboard the Beagle, a trip which helped inspire his theory of natural selection.
The site of the famous ship's final berth will now be officially protected 200 years after the vessel was first launched.
While Darwin set about his scientific work on returning to England, the Beagle was used to prevent smuggling on the River Roach in Essex, where it was last stationed before being sold off and broken up.
The final berth of the vessel has been traced using antique Ordnance Surveys, and the help of modern drone technology to map the site of the "mud dock" from the air.
A company near Italy's northern city of Verona is producing protective masks with Benito Mussolini's image on them, sparking a heated political row as the country struggles to handle the second phase of the coronavirus pandemic.
According to reports by Italian media, the company - based in the small village of San Giorgio in Salici - is selling anti Covid-19 face masks, featuring images of the Fascist dictator. The masks also include one of his famous slogans: "Walk, build and, if necessary, fight and win!".
News of the masks' production spread on social media and caused immediate reactions among center-left politicians, who are part of the ruling coalition with the anti-establishment Five Star Movement.
The masks are also available online on the many sites that sell Mussolini memorabilia. Some far-right social media commentators have praised the initiative, saying it promoted freedom of expression. But critics stressed it amounted to apology of Fascism, a crime under the Italian Constitution.
The high-profile discrimination dispute between Google and one of its former software engineers has quietly come to an end.
Ex-Google employee James Damore has moved to dismiss his lawsuit against the internet giant two years after alleging discrimination against conservative white men.
Damore worked as an engineer at Google before being fired in 2017 after criticizing the company's efforts to improve diversity among its workforce. He made the controversial assertions in a memo that circulated throughout the company, triggering an internal culture war.
On Thursday, Damore and three other men involved in the suit made a written request to the Santa Clara Superior Court in California to drop the charges. Google also signed the motion, which was first spotted by Bloomberg.
No other nation has endured as much death from Covid-19 nor nearly as a high a death rate as has the United States.
With 4.25% of the world population, America has the tragic distinction of accounting for about 30% of pandemic deaths so far.
And it is the only advanced nation where the death rate is still climbing. Three thousand deaths per day are anticipated by 1 June.
No other nation has loosened lockdowns and other social-distancing measures while deaths are increasing, as the US is now doing. No other advanced nation was as unprepared for the pandemic as was the US.
We now know Donald Trump and his administration were told by public health experts in mid-January that immediate action was required to stop the spread of Covid-19. But according to Dr Anthony Fauci, "there was a lot of pushback". Trump didn't act until 16 March.
The Trump administration is diligently weakening US environment protections even amid a global pandemic, continuing its rollback as the November election approaches.
During the Covid-19 lockdown, US federal agencies have eased fuel-efficiency standards for new cars; frozen rules for soot air pollution; proposed to drop review requirements for liquefied natural gas terminals; continued to lease public property to oil and gas companies; sought to speed up permitting for offshore fish farms; and advanced a proposal on mercury pollution from power plants that could make it easier for the government to conclude regulations are too costly to justify their benefits.
Gina McCarthy, formerly Barack Obama's environment chief, now runs the Natural Resources Defense Council. She said the Trump administration was acting to cut public health protections while the American public is distracted by a public health crisis.
The Trump administration is playing both offense and defense, rescinding and rewriting some rules and crafting others that would be time-consuming for a Democratic president to reverse.
A 19.6-ton (17,800 kilograms) Chinese rocket slammed into our planet today (May 11).
The bulky Long March 5B became the heaviest orbiting thing to fall uncontrolled to Earth in nearly three decades, according to Jonathan McDowell, a Harvard astrophysicist and orbital object tracker. The last time a heavier object had an uncontrolled entry was 1991, when the 43-ton (39,000 kg) Salyut-7 Soviet space station reentered the atmosphere over Argentina, McDowell wrote on Twitter. (Another contender he mentioned: the 2003 shuttle Columbia disaster, though that reentry did not become uncontrolled until the space shuttle was already in the atmosphere over Texas.)
The 18th Space Control Squadron, an Air Force space-tracking group, reported that Long March 5B reentered the atmosphere at 11:33 a.m. EST. At that time, it was just off the west coast of Africa, approaching Nouakchott, Mauritania. In the rocket's last half-hour in orbit, it passed over Hollywood, Colorado Springs and New York City's Central Park, according to McDowell.
"I've never seen a major reentry pass directly over so many major conurbations [metropolitan areas]!" McDowell tweeted.
A tooth and six bone fragments found in a Bulgarian cave are the oldest directly dated remains of Homo sapiens in Europe, scientists say.
Until now, most of the earliest fossils of humans on the continent ranged in age from around 45,000 to 41,500 years old. But those ages are based on dates for sediment and artifacts associated with the fossils, not the fossils themselves. The newfound remains date to between roughly 46,000 and 44,000 years ago, researchers report May 11 in Nature.
A previous report of the earliest human fossil in Europe centered on a skull fragment from what's now Greece (SN: 7/10/19). That fossil may date to at least 210,000 years ago, which would make it the oldest by far, but the dating and species identification of that find are controversial.
The new discoveries at Bulgaria's Bacho Kiro Cave have added evidence for a scenario in which African H. sapiens reached the Middle East approximately 50,000 years ago (SN: 1/28/15) and then rapidly dispersed into Europe (SN: 11/2/11) and Central Asia (SN: 10/22/14), the scientists conclude.
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