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• Early in her career, dancer Ann Miller performed live on vaudeville bills featuring the Three Stooges. One day, the stage manager forgot to put down a rubber mat that protected the stage when the Three Stooges engaged in a pie-throwing sketch. When Ms. Miller came on the stage to dance, she slipped and fell into the orchestra pit. The Three Stooges thought this was funny, but Ms. Miller was upset and left the stage briefly before returning to dance. Afterward, the Three Stooges sent her flowers and congratulated her for acting so professionally by performing after the mishap.
• While filming Follow the Fleet in 1936, Fred Astaire suffered a mishap while dancing with Ginger Rogers. She was wearing a beaded gown, and the right sleeve hit Mr. Astaire’s head, dazing him. However, he continued dancing. Although they made 30 takes of the dance, the best take was the one in which Mr. Astaire carried on despite being dazed.
• Ivan Nagy once danced with Margot Fonteyn in Puerto Rico. They were scheduled to dance at a university, but because of a strike they were forced to dance on an emergency stage at a Holiday Inn with low ceilings. At one point, Mr. Nagy was supposed to pick up Ms. Fonteyn and run with her. He began running, but suddenly she was no longer in his hands. Looking back, he saw her hanging from a chandelier.
• Ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev could be cocky. In 1963, after a late performance, he was walking in Toronto, Canada, when he began to dance up the centerline of a street. A police officer arrested him, and Mr. Nureyev said, “You can’t arrest me. I’m Rudolf Nureyev.” The police officer replied, “Yeah, and I’m Fred Astaire — but you are under arrest.” Mr. Nureyev was taken away in handcuffs.
• For a while, Oscar-winning actress Goldie Hawn was a chorus girl. While dancing in the chorus of the musical Kiss Me, Kate, she witnessed an actor who played a strongman run into a problem. He couldn’t find his costume — a loincloth — so he ended up appearing on stage while wearing a woman’s leotard. Ms. Hawn says, “I laughed so hard I peed down my leg.”
• Nora Kaye was a very energetic ballerina. Once, while dancing in Valerie Bettis’ Streetcar Named Desire, she accidentally knocked out her partner, Igor Youskevitch, forcing her to finish the rape scene by herself.
• Edward Renton once conducted a dance with such a slow tempo that dancer Robert Helpmann, who tried mightily to jump to the music, complained, “Have you never heard of gravity?”
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• A society woman once made the mistake of announcing that Anna Pavlova would dance at one of her affairs. Afterward, she asked Ms. Pavlova how much she would charge for a dance, and she was shocked when Ms. Pavlova said the price would be £500. The society woman asked, “Surely £500 is a very great deal of money for a performance which will last only five or six minutes?” Ms. Pavlova stood firm, and since the society woman had already announced that Ms. Pavlova would dance, she was forced to agree to Ms. Pavlova’s price. However, Ms. Pavlova thought for a moment about the kind of guests who would likely be present at the society woman’s party, then she said, “If you do not insist upon my sitting with your friends at supper, I will reduce my fee to £300.”
• Léonide Massine choreographed “The Dying Swan” for Anna Pavlova, and the only two people he taught it to were Ms. Pavlova and his wife. However, when his student Patricia Bowman expressed an interest in learning to dance “The Dying Swan,” he asked his wife for permission to teach it to her. She agreed — provided that Ms. Bowman paid $300 for the privilege. After Ms. Bowman had paid the fee and had learned the dance, Mr. Massine said she might forget some of the steps, so he handed her a book that had photographs of “The Dying Swan” and descriptions of all its steps — Ms. Bowman could have learned the dance merely from reading the book! In addition, Mr. Massine charged her $5 for the book!
Written and originally recorded by Johnny Nash in 1972, this song reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100, and in 1993, it became Jimmy Cliff's highest-charting single in the United States. What is the title of this song?
A player hums, rather than blows, into this American musical instrument that modifies its player's voice by way of a vibrating membrane. Central to the Temple City Orchestra, what is the name of this instrument?
The kazoo is an American musical instrument that adds a "buzzing" timbral quality to a player's voice when the player vocalizes into it. It is a type of mirliton (which itself is a membranophone), one of a class of instruments which modifies its player's voice by way of a vibrating membrane of goldbeater's skin or material with similar characteristics.
Similar hide-covered vibrating and voice-changing instruments have been used in Africa for hundreds of years, often for ceremonial purposes.
A kazoo player hums, rather than blows, into the bigger and flattened side of the instrument. The oscillating air pressure of the hum makes the kazoo's membrane vibrate. The resulting sound varies in pitch and loudness with the player's humming. Players can produce different sounds by singing specific syllables such as doo, ‘’too’’, who, rrrrr or brrr into the kazoo.
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Cal in Vermont wrote:
Oh. My. God. It's a Kazooooo!
David of Moon Valley answered:
ah'm a-guessin'...
…a kazoo…..and if i ain’t write then shoot darn heck….maybe i’ll get it right next time…...
Dave responded:
Kazoo.
Daniel in The City replied:
Kazoo
Jim from CA, retired to ID, said:
Kazoo
DJ Useo wrote:
Ahh, the ‘kazoo’. I love kazoos, & own several different types.
There’s mainly 4 kinds of kazoos.
01 - Cheap plastic kazoos given out by realtors.
02 - Metal kazoos made of tin that you can buy very cheaply.
( or win by throwing darts at balloons )
03 - Wooden hand-crafted kazoos that cost over 200 clams.
04 - Mis-used bootleg kazoos handed out by shady dealers aka Lefty Louie down on the corner.
Michelle in AZ answered:
Kazoo
Deborah, the Master Gardener responded:
Going with a WAG: a kazoo. Never really learned to play it, or the harmonica, very well.
There’s an “atmospheric river” approaching and it sure looks and feels like it. An evening in front of the fireplace sounds just right.
Rosemary in Columbus replied:
Kazoo
Joe S (We resisted, we voted, we won. Get over it) wrote:
It's a kazoo. I could be wrong, but I don't think so.
Barbara, of Peppy Tech fame said:
The answer is kazoo.
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Can still hear chainsaws in my head - pictures of the tree removal below.
Tonight, Wednesday:
CBS starts the night with a FRESH'The Price Is Right At Night', followed by a FRESH'SEAL Team', then a FRESH'SWAT'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Billy Crystal and Rep. Jackie Speier.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are Adam Devine and BLACKPINK.
NBC opens the night with a FRESH'Chicago Med', followed by a FRESH'Chicago Fire', then a FRESH'Chicago PD'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Rami Malek, Bridget Everett, and Jesus Trejo.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Stanley Tucci, Kate Berlant, and Jacqueline Novak.
Scheduled on a FRESHLilly Singh is Vir Das.
ABC begins the night with a FRESH'The Goldbergs', followed by a FRESH'American Housewife', then a FRESH'The Conners', followed by a FRESH'Call Your Mother', then a FRESH'For Life'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Naomi Watts and Leslie Odom Jr.
The CW offers a FRESH'Riverdale', followed by a FRESH'Nancy Drew'.
Faux has a FRESH'The Masked Dancer', followed by a FRESH'Name That Tune'.
MY recycles an old 'Dateline', followed by another old 'Dateline'.
A&E has 3 hours of old 'Storage Wars', followed by a FRESH'Animals Gone Wild', then another FRESH'Animals Gone Wild'.
AMC offers the movie 'Star Trek', followed by the movie 'True Lies'.
BBC -
[6:00AM - 11:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE
[12:00PM - 7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
[8:00PM] THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
[10:30PM] THE SHINING
[2:00AM] THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
[4:30AM] DOCTOR WHO - THE WOMAN WHO FELL TO EARTH (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of OC', another 'Real Housewives Of OC', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of OC', then a FRESH'Real Housewives Of SLC', followed by a FRESH'Watch What Happens: Live'.
IFC -
[6:00am] The Three Stooges - Sock-A-Bye-Baby
[6:30am] The Three Stooges - Squareheads Of The Round Table
[7:00am] The Brady Bunch Movie
[9:00am] Back To School
[11:00am] Starsky & Hutch
[1:15pm] Crocodile Dundee II
[3:45pm] The Dukes Of Hazzard
[6:00pm - 12:30am] Two And A Half Men
[1:00am] Fury
[4:00am] Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Gauntlet - Experiment 1201: Mac And Me (ALL TIMES ET)
Sundance -
[6:00am - 10:00am] the andy griffith show
[10:30am] the heartbreak kid
[1:00pm] failure to launch
[3:00pm - 2:00am] criminal minds
[3:00am - 5:00am] perry mason (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'Hancock', followed by the movie 'Guardians Of The Galaxy, Vol. 2', then a FRESH'Resident Alien'.
Jane Fonda cemented herself into Hollywood allure as a chameleonlike actor and social activist, and now the Golden Globes will honor her illustrious career with its highest honor.
Fonda will receive the Cecil B. DeMille Award during the 78th annual awards ceremony on Feb. 28, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced Tuesday. A member of one of America’s most distinguished acting families, Fonda has captivated and inspired fans along with critics in such films as “Klute” and “Coming Home.”
Fonda, the daughter of Oscar winner Henry Fonda and sister of Peter Fonda, made an impact off-screen by creating organizations to support women’s equality and prevent teen pregnancy and improve adolescent health. She released a workout video in 1982 and was active on behalf of liberal political causes.
The DeMille Award is given annually to an “individual who has made an incredible impact on the world of entertainment.”
Past recipients include Tom Hanks, Jeff Bridges, Oprah Winfrey, Morgan Freeman, Meryl Streep, Barbra Streisand, Sidney Poitier and Lucille Ball.
The Television Academy’s decision to merge the late-night and sketch series categories at this year’s Emmy Awards is coming under fresh fire as networks and showrunners have joined forces to lobby for a reversal of the changes.
Deadline understands that broadcast networks including ABC, CBS and NBC as well as cable nets including Comedy Central, HBO and Showtime are among those petitioning the TV Academy following the changes unveiled in December.
Depending on the outcome from the letter, some late-night players are even suggesting a threat to boycott the Emmys entirely.
The changes, which were revealed at the start of December, mean that sketch shows such as Saturday Night Live and A Black Lady Sketch Show are going to be competing to be nominated in the same category as the likes of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and The Daily Show with Trevor Noah.
This means that at least one of TBS’ Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Trevor Noah and CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert will likely miss out and possibly more if SNL is nominated.
The first inaugurations of Presidents Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama were the only ones to exceed Joe Biden’s in popularity among television viewers over the past 40 years.
With the prime-time game, CBS easily won the week in the ratings, averaging 10.4 million viewers. ABC had 3.4 million, Fox had 2.7 million, NBC had 2.5 million, Univision had 1.2 million, while Ion Television and Telemundo each averaged 1.1 million viewers.
CNN led the cable networks, averaging 2.76 million viewers in prime time. MSNBC had 2.67 million, Fox News Channel had 2.56 million, TNT had 1.19 million and HGTV had 1.1 million.
ABC’s “World News Tonight” won the evening news ratings race, hitting 10.1 million people. NBC’s “Nightly News” had 8.3 million and the “CBS Evening News” had 6.2 million.
For the week of Jan. 18-24, the top 20 prime-time programs, their networks and viewerships:
The United States Postal Service announced Tuesday that it will be rolling out a collection of new “Star Wars” stamps in the spring.
The character-inspired stamps will feature 10 different droids, including IG-11, R2-D2, K-2SO, D-O, L3-37, BB-8, C-3PO, GNK, 2-1B, and C1-10P, the USPS said.
The characters are shown against backgrounds representing settings of memorable adventures in the Star Wars galaxy.
A release date for droids-inspired stamp collection will be announced later this year.
Trump administration alumni Larry Kudlow is joining Fox News amid reports that a colleague, former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, will soon be joining him.
Fox announced Tuesday that Kudlow, a former CNBC personality who was national economic council director in the just-concluded Trump administration, will host a weekday program on the Fox Business Network and be a commentator across all of Fox’s platforms.
Even though former President Donald Trump (R-Lock Him Up) soured somewhat on Fox in the final months of his administration, the network remains popular with his fans.
In a public financial disclosure report filed with the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, McEnany said she had an employment agreement with Fox News, to start in January. The report was first posted publicly by the organization Citizens for Ethics.
McEnany signed the report, attesting to its accuracy, on Jan. 12 — which would mean she had agreed to work for the news organization while still employed by the government as the person most responsible for getting the administration’s news out to all of the public.
Earth’s ice is melting faster today than in the mid-1990s, new research suggests, as climate change nudges global temperatures ever higher.
Altogether, an estimated 28 trillion metric tons of ice have melted away from the world’s sea ice, ice sheets and glaciers since the mid-1990s. Annually, the melt rate is now about 57 percent faster than it was three decades ago, scientists report in a study published Monday in the journal The Cryosphere.
While the situation is clear to those depending on mountain glaciers for drinking water, or relying on winter sea ice to protect coastal homes from storms, the world’s ice melt has begun to grab attention far from frozen regions, Slater noted.
The melting of land ice – on Antarctica, Greenland and mountain glaciers – added enough water to the ocean during the three-decade time period to raise the average global sea level by 3.5 centimeters. Ice loss from mountain glaciers accounted for 22 percent of the annual ice loss totals, which is noteworthy considering it accounts for only about 1 percent of all land ice atop land, Slater said.
Across the Arctic, sea ice is also shrinking to new summertime lows. Last year saw the second-lowest sea ice extent in more than 40 years of satellite monitoring. As sea ice vanishes, it exposes dark water which absorbs solar radiation, rather than reflecting it back out of the atmosphere. This phenomenon, known as Arctic amplification, boosts regional temperatures even further.
The Biden administration is adding a sign language interpreter to its daily press briefings.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki announced the move during Monday’s briefing, and an interpreter could be seen on the White House’s YouTube stream of the event.
Psaki said President Joe Biden “is committed to building an America that is more inclusive, more just and more accessible for every American, including Americans with disabilities and their families.”
It marks a shift from the Trump administration, which had only sporadic press briefings and didn’t include an interpreter until late in President Donald Trump’s term.
Last August, the National Association of the Deaf joined five deaf individuals in suing Trump and press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, charging the failure to provide an interpreter undermined the ability of deaf and hard-of-hearing Americans to access key information about the coronavirus pandemic.
A giant Mayan mask as tall as a person has been revealed at an archaeological site in the Mexican state of Yucatán.
The mask, which depicts the face of an unknown deity or elite person, was sculpted from the building material stucco and dates back to a period in Maya history known as the Late Preclassic (about 300 B.C. — A.D. 250), according to the news outlet Novedades Yucatán.
The discovery was made in 2017 at the archaeological site of Ucanha, near the modern-day city of Motul, and since then researchers with Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) have worked painstakingly to restore it.
The mask is a stucco relief, a type of brightly-colored painted sculpture carved from a background of stucco. The Maya typically placed these masks around stairways with pyramidal bases, according to the statement. Archaeologists have found similar reliefs in Acanceh and Izamal, but this is the first in Ucanha. The discovery is part of ongoing research into Mayan mounds found at the site.
The mask was temporarily reburied after its discovery so that the structure was protected until it could be properly studied and preserved. Samples taken from the structure revealed deterioration and it was re-excavated in 2018 so that archaeologists could restore it.
The tree was about 80 years old and died a while back - was terrified that it would come down in our now too common wind storms.
Took the work crew about 9 hours.
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