• Anna Pavlova took dance rehearsals seriously. Early in her career, she arrived at the Mariinsky Theatre, but discovered that she had forgotten her practice clothes. No problem. She wrapped two towels around her body and practiced — despite the sniggering of the stagehands in the theater.
Religion
• After Rumi, the founder of the Whirling Dervishes, died, zealots went to the ruler and asked him to suppress Rumi’s innovations of sacred dance and sacred music. The ruler, being a wise man, asked a learned man, the Mufti of Qonya, Sheik Sadru-’d-Din, if he should listen to the zealots. The Mufti told him, “Do nothing of the kind. Listen not to such biased suggestions. There is an apostolical saying to this effect: ‘A laudable innovation, introduced by a perfect follower of the prophets, is of the same nature with the customary practices of the prophets themselves.’” The ruler took the Mufti’s advice and did not suppress the Whirling Dervishes’ sacred dance and sacred music.
• Dance is sometimes liturgical. At a Catholic Church, a young female dancer rhythmically moved down the aisle, then laid a lily at the bishop’s feet. The bishop joked to the pastor, “If she asks for your head on a platter, she can have it.”
Respect
• Even at very young ages, ballet dancers can command attention. While Antoinette Sibley was still at the British junior ballet school — the White Lodge — the ballet students were excited over a program listing all the dancers, even the minor ones, of a performance of The Sleeping Beauty. The excitement was not over the dancers performing Aurora or the Prince but over a dancer with a minor role — “Antoinette Sibley is a Lilac Fairy attendant!”
• Soviets respect ballet. To correctly film a scene in Romeo and Juliet, ballerina Galina Ulanova had to run 70 or 80 yards several times. At first, a group of watching sailors applauded each time she made the run, then they began to worry that she might exhaust herself. One sailor told choreographer Leonid Lavrovsky, “If you kill her, we’ll kill you.”
• When Eleanora Hughes was dancing in Paris, a Spanish marquis fell in love with her and threatened to jump out of a window unless she returned his love. She told him, “All right, dear, go ahead and jump. But since the room is only two stories above the ground, I’m not the least impressed by your bravery.”
Retirement
• Modern dance pioneer Martha Graham danced until she was 75, and she took her retirement from dance hard, although she continued to teach and to choreograph. One day, Tim Wengerd, a dancer in her company, saw that she had been crying, and she explained that she had been dreaming that she was dancing — something she was now incapable of doing in real life.
• As the great dancer Rudolf Nureyev edged closer to his 50th birthday, critics began to say that it was time for him to retire. However, Mr. Nureyev declined to stop dancing. Instead, he said, “Inside, I am only twenty-three, an eternal youth. Dancing, for me, is forever.”
Sabotage
• During her performance in the ballet Firebird in New York, Irina Baronova leaped onto the stage, only to have her shoulder straps break and the top of her costume fall down. Her dance partner, Paul Petroff, reached under her arm and held up her costume while she finished the dance. Later, they examined her costume and discovered that it had been sabotaged — a razor blade had been used to almost sever the shoulder straps.
• After ballerina Marie Taglioni made her triumphant debut at the Paris Opéra, several ballet dancers became so jealous that before her next performance, they sprinkled bits of soap on the stage in the hope that she would slip on them.
Petula Clark became the first UK female artist to have a US #1 hit during the rock and roll era with this song in 1964, and swiftly cut non-English versions for the markets in France (Dans le temps), Italy (Ciao ciao), and Germany (Geh in die Stadt). What is the title of this song in English?
Also known as chimes, this musical instrument was favored by Mike Oldfield on what is now considered the the "Theme from The Exorcist". What is the name of this member of the percussion family?
Tubular bells (also known as chimes) are musical instruments in the percussion family. Their sound resembles that of church bells, carillon, or a bell tower; the original tubular bells were made to duplicate the sound of church bells within an ensemble. Each bell is a metal tube, 30–38 mm (1 1/4–1 1/2 in) in diameter, tuned by altering its length. Its standard range is C4–F5, though many professional instruments reach G5. Tubular bells are often replaced by studio chimes, which are a smaller and usually less expensive instrument. Studio chimes are similar in appearance to tubular bells, but each bell has a smaller diameter than the corresponding bell on tubular bells.
Multi-instrumentalist Mike Oldfield has used tubular bells on many of his studio albums, most notably Tubular Bells (1973), Tubular Bells II (1992) and Tubular Bells III (1998). He has also used them on most of his other albums such as Hergest Ridge (1974), Ommadawn (1975), Incantations (1978), Crises (1983), Islands (1989) and Amarok (1990).
The animated television series Futurama's theme is played on tubular bells.
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What is now considered the "Theme from The Exorcist", i.e. the piano-based melody which opens the first part of Tubular Bells, the 1973 debut album by English progressive rock musician Mike Oldfield, became very popular after the film's release, although Oldfield himself was not impressed with the way his work was used.
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He named a piece of work after the instrument
At least I think he did. Tubular bells.
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Ah, ye olde Tubular Bells, a theme one cannot forget, especially if one saw “The Exorcist.”
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The instrument in question is/are Tubular Bells.
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Do you mean "Tubular Bells"? Much better than "Tituler Bells".
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Info: This album also includes the excellent “Until There Was You.”
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CBS starts the night with the FRESH'Super Bowl Greatest Commercials 2021', followed by a RERUN'SEAL Team' then a RERUN'SWAT'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Salma Hayek and Mark Harris.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are Kal Penn and Josh Groban.
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 Kelly Ripa, M. Night Shyamalan, and Fireboy DML.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Amy Schumer, Thomas Middleditch, and Matt Cameron.
Scheduled on a FRESHLilly Singh is Richfresh.
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 Magic Johnson, Jenny Slate, and Ashnikko.
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 2 hours of old 'Court Cam', followed by a FRESH'Court Cam', then another FRESH'Court Cam', followed by a FRESH'Nature Gone Wild', then another FRESH'Nature Gone Wild'.
AMC offers the movie 'Cliffhanger', followed by the movie 'Escape Plan', then the movie 'Road Home'.
BBC -
[6:00AM - 11:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE
[12:00PM - 7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
[8:00PM] THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER
[11:00PM] THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER
[2:00AM - 5:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has 3 hours of old 'Real Housewives Of SLC', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of SLC', then a FRESH'Watch What Happens: Live'.
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[6:00am] Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Gauntlet - Experiment 1205: Killer Fish
[7:45am] Summer School
[10:00am] Kingpin
[12:45pm] Zack And Miri Make A Porno
[3:00pm] This Is 40
[6:00pm - 12:30am] Two And A Half Men
[1:00am] Zack And Miri Make A Porno
[3:15am] Warm Bodies
[5:30am] Community (ALL TIMES ET)
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[6:00am - 11:30am] the andy griffith show
[12:00pm] basic instinct
[3:00pm - 2:00am] criminal minds
[3:00am] hap and leonard: the two-bear mambo - The Two-Bear Mambo
[4:00am] hap and leonard: the two-bear mambo - Ho-Ho Mambo
[5:00am] hap and leonard: the two-bear mambo - T-Bone Mambo (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen', followed by the movie 'Avengers: Age Of Ultron', then a FRESH'Resident Alien'.
The 78th Annual Golden Globe Awards is going bicoastal. Hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, returning to helm the the ceremony for the first time since 2015, won’t be in the same room together: Instead, Fey will broadcast live from The Rainbow Room (at the top of Rockefeller Center) in New York City, while Poehler will host from the Globes’ usual spot inside the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif.
This marks the first time that the Golden Globes has been beamed from multiple locations in its 78-year history, but not the first time an awards show has been simultaneously held in both New York and Los Angeles, as the Oscars did it for several years in the mid-1950s. The decision to station Fey on the East Coast and Poehler on the West Coast comes as the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, NBC and Globes producers Dick Clark Prods. continue to iron out plans for this year’s awards show and adjust to the realities of mounting such a telecast during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Among details still to be revealed: Whether presenters and nominees will be invited to participate in person, by remote means or via a mixture of both (which is what the Primetime Emmys did last September). By having two production bases on both coasts, that could allow for more opportunities to include talent working on the East Coast or in Europe who might not otherwise be able to travel to Los Angeles. It also presumably allows Fey to remain put in her home base of New York.
The ceremony will air live on Sunday, Feb.28, at 5 p.m. PT/8 p.m. ET on NBC — pushed back nearly two months later than normal due to the pandemic. Television nomination ballots were due on Jan. 12, while motion picture nomination ballots were due on Jan. 30. Final ballots will be mailed to all HFPA members by Ernst & Young on Feb. 10, and will be due by 5 p.m. on Feb. 23.
As previously announced, Satchel and Jackson Lee, children of filmmaker and three-time Golden Globe nominee Spike Lee, and producer/philanthropist Tonya Lewis Lee, have been tapped to serve as the 2021 Golden Globe Ambassadors.
Jeopardy! executive producer Mike Richards announced the newest lineup of guest hosts, listing Anderson Cooper, Savannah Guthrie, Dr. Mehmet Oz and Dr. Sanjay Gupta as the latest television personalities set to helm the trivia game show.
Joining Bill Whitaker, Mayim Bialik, Katie Couric and Aaron Rodgers, the newly announced guest hosts will take over the emcee slot following the death of Alex Trebek. As part of each host’s time on the show, Jeopardy! will make a donation to a charity of their choice. The amount donated will equal the cumulative winnings of contestants that compete during the weeks they serve as guest host.
“We look forward to each guest host bringing their unique abilities to the show and to our contestants winning a lot of money that we can match for charity,” Richards said.
Though a majority of the newly announced hosts have not appeared on the trivia show themselves, Cooper is previously competed in Jeopardy!’s Power Players Tournament back in 2012 and 2016.
During an appearance on NBC’s Today on Monday, Dolly Parton said she was offered the Presidential Medal of Freedom two different times by former president Trump. The country music icon said she had to decline.
“I got offered the Freedom award from the Trump Administration. I couldn’t accept it because my husband was ill and then they asked me again about it and I wouldn’t travel because of the Covid,” she said, in reply to a question about how former president Obama, regretting that he never presented Parton with the award during his two terms in office, was going to suggest the honor to President Biden.
But Parton says she’s not certain she’d accept the Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor, at all.
“Now I feel like if I take it I’ll be doing politics, so I’m not sure,” she said. “I don’t work for those awards, but I’m not sure that I even deserve it. But that’s a nice compliment for people to think that I might deserve it.”
Elsewhere, Parton’s iconic anthem of empowerment “9 to 5” is set to make an appearance in an upcoming Super Bowl ad for the create-your-own-website company SquareSpace. Retitled and rerecorded as “5 to 9,” the new lyrics reference after-hours side jobs.
Several programs on MSNBC and CNN had their most-watched months ever in January, the Nielsen company said. CNN as a network did so, too, in a newsy month where the Capitol insurrection and President Joe Biden’s inauguration left a lot to talk about.
For the weekday prime-time schedule — the heart of the networks — MSNBC averaged 3.31 million viewers, CNN had 3.12 million and Fox News Channel had 2.89 million. Fox has been the top-rated cable news network for 19 years, and this represented the first month it finished third to its rivals since 1999, Nielsen said.
For the week, CBS was the most-watched broadcast network, averaging 4.7 million viewers in prime time. ABC had 3.6 million, NBC had 3 million, Fox had 2.6 million, Univision had 1.4 million, Telemundo had 1.12 million and Ion Television had 1.11 million.
Fox News Channel led among the cable networks, averaging 2.56 million viewers. MSNBC had 2.23 million, CNN had 1.79 million, HGTV had 1.33 million and History had 1.03 million.
For the week of Jan. 25-31, the 20 most-watched programs, their networks and viewerships:
1. “NCIS,” CBS, 10.03 million.
2. “60 Minutes,” CBS, 9.36 million.
3. “FBI,” CBS, 8.28 million.
4. “911,” Fox, 7.22 million.
5. “Chicago Med,” NBC, 7.2 million.
6. “Chicago Fire,” NBC, 6.96 million.
7. “Celebrity Wheel of Fortune, ABC, 6.61 million.
8. “The Neighborhood,” CBS, 6.42 million.
9. “FBI: Most Wanted,” CBS, 6.23 million.
10. “Chicago PD,” NBC, 5.971 million.
11. “Bob Hearts Abishola,” CBS, 5.967 million.
12. “911: Lone Star,” Fox, 5.91 million.
13. “Bull,” CBS, 5.39 million.
14. “The Bachelor,” ABC, 5.27 million.
15. “America’s Funniest Home Videos,” ABC, 5.07 million.
16. “The Price is Right,” CBS, 4.89 million.
17. “The Chase,” ABC, 4.86 million.
18. “Young Sheldon,” CBS, 4.67 million.
19. “To Tell the Truth,” ABC, 4.484 million.
20. “Blue Bloods,” CBS, 4.437 million.
Former president Donald Trump (R-Lock Him Up)’s new legal team got off to a shaky start in a legal brief on Tuesday, addressing their arguments to the “Unites States Senate” instead of the United States Senate, the body that will try Mr Trump on 9 February on allegations he incited the 6 January attack on the Capitol.
The typo comes right off the bat, with the document declaring it is for “The Honorable, the Members of the Unites States Senate,” five lines in.
The legal memo, which argues the president can’t be impeached after leaving office, was exercising his free speech rights criticising the election, and didn’t cause the riot, also contains, for the true grammarians out there, a missing apostrophe.
The mistakes come after the former president announced two new lead lawyers on Sunday, including David Schoen, who’d discussed representing Jeffrey Epstein before his death by suicide in 2019. The shake-ups followed the departure of five lawyers from Mr Trump’s impeachment team in recent days.
They’re also reminiscent of the president and his allies’ chaotic legal effort to overturn the legitimate election results, where lawyers backing the president bungled basic composition somewhat regularly, once writing “DISTRCOICT” instead of “district,” and submitting another lawsuit with a promise it contained “plenty of perjury."
Activist wife of Supreme Court Justice apologises to his clerks for furthering divide after promoting false Trump claims
Virginia Thomas (R-Sedition Caucus), the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, apologised to a group of his clerks for a divide that developed in the group after she fervently supported former President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign and the 6 January rally that led to the violent storming of the Capitol.
Ms Thomas, a conservative activist who goes by Ginni, wrote to a private email list consisting of her husband’s staff from over three decades that “I owe you all an apology. I have likely imposed on you my lifetime passions … My passions and beliefs are likely shared with the bulk of you, but certainly not all. And sometimes the smallest matters can divide loved ones for too long. Let’s pledge to not let politics divide THIS family, and learn to speak more gently and knowingly across the divide.”
On her no longer visible Facebook page, Ms Thomas wrote “Love MAGA people,” on the morning of 6 January, Slate reported.
Two days later she added the appendage: [Note: written before violence in US Capitol]
Rafael "Ted" Cruz (R-Sedition Caucus) has been mocked for appearing to have misunderstood Avengers: Endgame in a rant about “leftist Hollywood”.
During Monday 1 February’s episode of his YouTube show Verdict with Ted Cruz, the US senator appeared to claim that Thanos, the genocidal warlord who serves as the main villain of the Avengers films, was used to convey leftist messaging that “people are a disease”.
“The left loves to virtue-signal, they love to show how virtuous they are by being willing to give away your job,” Cruz declared.
“If you actually respect people, you say you ought to be able to choose what you want to do with your life … I’m not going to presume to tell you that what you choose to do is somehow illegitimate and should be eliminated.”
“Have you noticed in how many movies how often rabid environmentalists are the bad guys?” Cruz asked. “Whether it’s Thanos or Watchmen. Where the view of the left is people are a disease.”
A study looking at the language people use when they are going through breakups has found that markers of an impending breakup can be seen three months before the breakups occur.
Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin looked at 1,027,541 posts from 6,803 Reddit users. The users were specifically chosen because they had posted on the subreddit r/BreakUps. No, before you think it, the indication that a breakup was coming was not them posting in this particular forum – but the fact that they had posted there as well as on many other areas of Reddit gave researchers the opportunity to see how their breakups affected their use of language.
The team, who published their results in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, looked at posts before, during, and after the breakups across two years of posts. They found that language markers indicating a breakup began 3 months beforehand, and users didn't return to their baseline until (on average) around 6 months after the event.
"Signs included an increase in I-words, we-words, and cognitive processing words (characteristic of depression, collective focus, and the meaning-making process, respectively)," the team wrote in the study, "and drops in analytic thinking (indicating more personal and informal language)."
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