• The great dancer Bill Robinson, aka Mr. Bojangles, was known for his charity as well as his appearances in movies with Shirley Temple. During the Depression, the 132nd Precinct Station in Harlem kept a list of people it could turn to when a good deed needed to be done — such as buying a family a bag of groceries or paying for a funeral or paying the doctor bill of an ill child. Mr. Bojangles’ name was at the top of the list.
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• Many people are familiar with the Oscar-winning 1950 classic film comedy Harvey starring Jimmy Stewart as Elwood P. Dowd, a tippler who is befriended by a pooka named Harvey. (A pooka is a Celtic fairy spirit that frequently appears as an animal — always very large. In this particular case, Harvey is a six-foot-plus white rabbit.) Unfortunately, to most people pookas are invisible — Harvey chooses very carefully the people by whom he is seen. Such people are usually harmless rumpots or crackpots. Before Harvey became a movie, it was a play. Once, several children attended a theater performance featuring Mr. Stewart and his invisible friend. During Act I, all went well. But during Act II, Mr. Stewart noticed more and more children whispering to their parents. Finally, one child couldn’t stand it any longer. He stood up and yelled, “WHERE’S THE RABBIT?”
• Marilyn Harris played the little girl whom Frankenstein’s Monster drowned in the movie Frankenstein, starring Boris Karloff. In the brief scene, part of which was later edited out, the Monster throws the little girl into the lake, thinking that she will float like a flower. Two takes were needed for the scene, but little Marilyn didn’t want to be thrown into the lake a second time. Therefore, the director, James Whale, promised to give her anything she wanted if she did the scene a second time. She agreed, and she asked for a dozen hard-boiled eggs. A week later, Mr. Whale sent her two dozen hard-boiled eggs.
• The great dancer Bill Robinson, aka Mr. Bojangles, was very protective of Shirley Temple, the child actress with whom he starred in several films. While working in films together, they were known as “One-Shot Temple and Robinson” because they made so few mistakes. One day, Shirley made a mistake, and Mr. Robinson said, “Why don’t you let that child alone? She’s hungry and she’s tired.” He then insisted on a 15-minute break, during which he ate some ice cream. Shirley was chubby then and not allowed to eat ice cream, but he gave her some ice cream when no one was looking.
• Musical comedy star Donald O’Connor of Singin’ in the Rain fame was on stage when he was three days old. His mother was in a vaudeville troupe, and she played piano as she recovered from the pregnancy. As she played, baby Donald was on the piano bench beside her. At 13 months, he was dancing on stage. Well, he wasn’t actually dancing — one of his parents held him up and he moved his feet as fast as he could.
• In San Francisco, comedian Robin Williams (among other roles he has played, his voice is the voice of the genie in the Disney movie Aladdin) stopped in at a Disney store. A mother shopping there recognized him and told her young son, “Look, honey. It’s the genie from Aladdin.” The child looked at Mr. Williams, but seemed confused. Then the child smiled — behind Mr. Williams was a big picture of the Aladdin genie.
• Will Rogers became famous first for his tricks with a rope, then for his jokes as a comedian, and finally for his skills as an actor. However, he didn’t want his own children to be actors. One day, he was very annoyed by a stage mother who was trying to get her child a role in one of his movies. After finally getting rid of her, Mr. Rogers told his own children, “I’m glad you don’t have any talent.”
"Up to eleven", also phrased as "these go to eleven", is an idiom from popular culture, coined in the 1984 movie This Is Spinal Tap, where guitarist Nigel Tufnel proudly demonstrates an amplifier whose volume knobs are marked from zero to eleven, instead of the usual zero to ten. The primary implication of the reference is one in which things that are essentially the same are seen as different, due to mislabeling or the user's misunderstanding of the underlying operating principles. A secondary reference may be anything being exploited to its utmost limits, or apparently exceeding them.
In 2002, the phrase entered the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary with the definition "up to maximum volume".
The phrase was coined in a scene from the 1984 mockumentary/rockumentary This Is Spinal Tap by the character Nigel Tufnel, played by Christopher Guest. In this scene, Nigel gives the rockumentary's director, Marty DiBergi, played by Rob Reiner, a tour of his stage equipment. While Nigel is showing Marty his Marshall guitar amplifiers, he points out a selection whose control knobs all have a highest setting of eleven, unlike standard amplifiers whose volume settings are typically numbered from 0 to 10. Believing that this numbering increases the highest volume of the amp, he explains, "It's one louder, isn't it?" When Marty asks why the ten setting is not simply set to be louder, Nigel hesitates before responding blankly again, "These go to eleven."
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Spinal Tap (stylized as Spin¨al Tap, with a dotless letter i and a metal umlaut over the n) is a fictional English heavy metal band created by American comedians and musicians Michael McKean (as lead singer and co-lead guitarist David St. Hubbins), Christopher Guest (as lead guitarist Nigel Tufnel) and Harry Shearer (as bassist Derek Smalls). They are characterized as "one of England's loudest bands". McKean, Guest, and Shearer wrote and performed original songs for the band.
The band first appeared on a 1979 ABC television sketch comedy pilot called The T.V. Show, starring Rob Reiner. The sketch, actually a mock promotional video for the song "Rock and Roll Nightmare", was written by Reiner and the band, and included songwriter/performer Loudon Wainwright III on keyboards. Later the band became the fictional subject of the 1984 rockumentary/mockumentary film This Is Spinal Tap.
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mj wrote:
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Go to eleven like the one used by Spinal Tap?
Dave said:
Spinal Tap. The movie is “This is Spinal Tap.” Eleven is louder than ten, obviously.
Adam answered:
Spinal Tap
Their 1992 album 'Break Like the Wind' came packaged in an ecologically-minded extra long long-box thereby giving the consumer extra cardboard to recycle.
David of Moon Valley replied:
welll this one...
….i can write in without consultation of the All-Seeing Wikstress or the Great Googley Moogley….i say Spinal Tap as in This Is…….
John I from Hawai`i says,
Spinal Tap
Deborah, the Master Gardener responded:
Wracked my brain a bit but I’m pretty sure it’s Spinal Tap.
T-minus 25 hours until my first COVID-19 vaccination. Bring it!
Jim from CA, retired to ID, said:
This is Spinal Tap
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The answer is Spinal Tap.
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Spinal Tap
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Spinal Tap
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That was Spinal Tap.
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Henderson............wait I'm gonna call a friend...........................It's Spinal Tap, that's my final answer.
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Nerve Salad, a fan, wrote, “Always a good day when Gloria put some new music out. I see you, France. I see you seeing me. I see me seeing you seeing me. Go-go dancer, B-movie psychedelic pop with a classy, yet whimsical sheen. This sound is all their own, and that's beautiful.”
CBS starts the night with a FRESH'Tough As Nails', followed by a FRESH'SEAL Team', then a FRESH'SWAT'.
On a RERUNStephen Colbert (from 1/14/21) are Sen. Bernie Sanders, and FINNEAS.
On a RERUNJames Corden, OBE, (from 11/19/20) are Marc Maron, and Royal Blood.
NBC opens the night with a FRESH'Chicago Med', followed by a FRESH'Chicago Fire', then a FRESH'Chicago PD'.
On a RERUNJimmy Fallon (from 1/21/21) are Shaquille O'Neal, Alison Brie, and Pa Salieu.
On a RERUNSeth Meyers (from 2/1/21) are Post Malone, Mary Steenburgen, and Matt Cameron.
Scheduled on a FRESHLilly Singh is Patton Oswalt.
ABC begins the night with a RERUN'The Goldbergs', followed by a RERUN'American Housewife', then a RERUN'The Conners', followed by a RERUN'Call Your Mother', then a FRESH'For Life'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Will Arnett, Rosamund Pike, and NAV featuring Gunna.
The CW offers a FRESH'Riverdale', followed by a FRESH'Nancy Drew'.
Faux fills the night with a FRESH'The Masked Dancer'.
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'I Survived A Crime', then another FRESH'I Survived A Crime'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Love Letter', followed by the movie 'Divergent', then the movie 'Insurgent'.
BBC -
[6:00AM - 11:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE
[12:00PM - 4:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
[5:00PM] TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY
[8:00PM] TROY
[11:30PM] TROY
[3:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
[4:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of NJ', another 'Real Housewives Of NJ', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of NJ', then a FRESH'Real Housewives Of SLC', followed by a FRESH'Watch What Happens: Live'.
FX has the movie 'Pitch Perfect 3', followed by the movie 'Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle', then the movie 'Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle', again.
History has 'Forged In Fire', another 'Forged In Fire', followed by a FRESH'Forged In Fire', and another 'Forged In Fire'.
IFC -
[6:00am] Zack And Miri Make A Porno
[8:15am] Drillbit Taylor
[10:45am] Zoolander
[12:45pm] Starsky & Hutch
[3:00pm - 5:30pm] Scrubs
[6:00pm - 12:30am] Two And A Half Men
[1:00am - 2:30am] Three's Company
[3:00am - 5:30am] Community (ALL TIMES ET)
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[6:00am - 9:30am] the andy griffith show
[10:00am] ghostbusters
[12:30pm] ghostbusters ii
[3:00pm - 2:00am] criminal minds
[3:00am - 5:00am] perry mason (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'Olympus Has Fallen', followed by the movie 'Fast Five', then a FRESH'Resident Alien'.
Larry Kudlow’s debut on Fox Business Network on Tuesday has generated a lot of attention, and most of it not good due to his expletive-filled big mouth.
“Earlier on Fox News Channel, I made some comments about that clip, you might have read about it, if not you could Google it,” the ex-director of Donald Trump (R-Lock Him Up)’s National Economic Council said this afternoon early in his new show. Those comments, to put it mildly, arose from a hot-mic reaction by the former financial analyst to Vice President Kamala Harris’ claims in an Axios interview that the new administration was “starting from scratch” on the coronavirus vaccine rollout.
Appearing on FNC’s America Reports to promote his new self-titled show, which will air weekdays at 4 p.m. ET, Kudlow was heard chanting “Bullsh*t! Bullsh*t! Bullsh*t!” as the clip of Harris played. The show co-hosted by Sandra Smith and John Roberts tried to pull the plug on Kudlow’s mic as Smith herself could be heard saying “that is Larry Kudlow weighing in…Wow.”
“I may have said a bad word,” Kudlow said later in response on his own show. “I’m not usually a guy who swears but what the Vice President said burned me up and it’s simply not true, okay? It is somewhere between cognitive dissonance and an outright falsehood lie.”
The irony of sorts is that as part of the tweaking of FBN with the dismissal of firestarter Lou Dobbs earlier this month after he and the Rupert Murdoch outlets were named in a blistering $2.7 billion defamation suit by election systems company Smartmatic, Kudlow today promised a kinder, gentler program.
Seal oil has been a staple in the diet of Alaska’s Inupiat for generations.
The oil — ever-present in households dotting Alaska coastlines — is used mainly as a dipping sauce for fish, caribou and musk ox. It’s also used to flavor stews and even eaten alone.
But when Inupiat elders entered nursing homes, they were cut off from the comfort food. State regulations didn’t allow seal oil because it’s among traditionally prepared Alaska Native foods that have been associated with the state’s high rate of botulism, which can cause illness or death.
That’s changing for 18 residents at Utuqqanaat Inaat — in English, a place for elders — a part of the Maniilaq Health Association in the Chukchi Sea community of Kotzebue, about 550 miles northwest of Anchorage. The association has worked with partners in Alaska and the Lower 48 to develop a process to kill the toxin in seal oil and make it safe for consumption.
Maniiliq staff members and an ad hoc seal oil task force worked for more than five years with two universities to develop a way to eliminate the botulinum toxin without dramatically changing the taste or reducing the nutritional value of seal oil.
Two major "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" stars have broken their silence about director Joss Whedon, who stands accused of toxic behavior.
David Boreanaz, who played Angel on "Buffy" and the titular lead of it's spin-off series, "Angel," rallied behind former co-star Charisma Carpenter, who detailed in a lengthy Twitter post the "abuse" she allegedly suffered while working for Whedon.
Carpenter, who played Cordelia Chase on both "Buffy and "Angel," issued a statement on Feb. 10 in support of "Justice League" actor Ray Fisher who first accused the director of fostering a hostile work environment.
Boreanaz replied to the actress' post over the weekend -- the one in which she accused Whedon of verbal abuse and retaliatory actions -- and praised her for coming forward.
Boreanaz wasn't the only fan-favorite vampire to publicly support Carpenter. James Marsters, who played Spike on "Buffy," expressed that he is "heartbroken" by the allegations.
Leading British actors including Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart and Julie Walters warned the government on Tuesday that the U.K. culture sector faces irreparable damage unless artists can tour the European Union without visas.
Since Britain made its final split from the EU at the end of 2020, U.K. citizens can no longer live and work anywhere in the bloc. British artists now have to comply with differing rules in the 27 EU nations, negotiating visas for performers and permits for equipment. Many say the costs and red tape will make it impossible for British artists to perform on the continent, endangering the country’s status as a cultural powerhouse.
In a letter from actors’ union Equity, more than 100 U.K. performers said post-Brexit immigration rules meant “we have to pay hundreds of pounds, fill in form after form and spend weeks waiting for approval - just so we can do our jobs.”
“Not acting now will do further and irreparable harm to the U.K.’s creative workforce, our industries and to our standing on the international cultural stage,” said the letter, which follows a similar appeal last month from more than 100 leading musicians including Ed Sheeran and Sting.
A musicians’ representative said Tuesday that Britain’s 111 billion pound ($154 billion) a year creative sector would be irreparably damaged if the problems weren’t sorted out within a few months.
Texas senator Rafael "Ted" Cruz (R-Unindicted Co-Conspirator)’s cruel tweets about California power outages have come back to haunt him as more than 4 million people in his home state struggle without electricity.
The Republican lawmaker mocked California last summer when a heave wave caused major blackouts across the Golden State.
“California is now unable to perform even basic functions of civilization, like having reliable electricity,” he tweeted last August.
Now the Lone Star state has ground to a halt under winter storm Uri, which has seen wide scale blackouts caused by record-breaking freezing temperatures.
“Hey Ted! It was 5 below when I got up this morning, it’s 7 above and snowing like crazy now here in Wisconsin and everyone has working electricity! Tell us more about the paradise you call Texas,” tweeted Daniel Timm.
Mike Bowen’s warehouse outside Fort Worth, Texas, was piled high with cases of medical-grade N95 face masks. His company, Prestige Ameritech, can churn out 1 million masks every four days, but he doesn’t have orders for nearly that many. So he recently got approval from the government to export them. “I’m drowning in these respirators,” Bowen said.
On the same day 1000 miles (1,600 kilometers) north, Mary Turner, a COVID-19 intensive care nurse at a hospital outside Minneapolis, strapped on the one disposable N-95 respirator allotted for her entire shift.
Before the coronavirus pandemic, Turner would have thrown out her mask and grabbed a new one after each patient to prevent the spread of disease. But on this day, she’ll wear that mask from one infected person to the next because N95s — they filter out 95% of infectious particles — have supposedly been in short supply since last March.
Turner’s employer, North Memorial Health, said in a statement that supplies have stabilized, but the company is still limiting use because “we must remain mindful of that supply” to ensure everyone’s safety.
One year into the COVID-19 pandemic, many millions of N95 masks are pouring out of American factories and heading into storage. Yet doctors and nurses like Turner say there still aren’t nearly enough in the “ICU rooms with high-flow oxygen and COVID germs all over.”
A former South Florida lawyer whose pants caught on fire during a 2017 arson trial has been charged with cocaine possession, authorities said.
Stephen Gutierrez, 32, was pulled over on Monday night for a broken headlight, according to a Miami-Dade police report.
An officer noted a bulge in Gutierrez’s pocket, which he thought was a knife, officials said. The bulge turned out to be a cylinder container with a bag of white powder inside, officials said. As the officer inspected the substance, Gutierrez blurted out, “That’s cocaine,” according to the arrest report.
Gutierrez's arrest comes after his license to practice was suspended last February before being revoked in October, according to Florida Bar records.
Gutierrez made headlines four years ago while he was defending a client who was accused of setting his car on fire for insurance money. During the March 2017 trial, Gutierrez was explaining that the incident was a result of spontaneous combustion when his pants caught fire.
The earliest megalithic circle at Stonehenge was first built in the west of Wales more than 5,000 years ago, before its stones were dug up and dragged over 140 miles (225 kilometers) to its present site in the west of England, new research suggests.
The findings also support a wild legend that the mythical wizard Merlin ordered giants to move Stonehenge from Ireland and rebuild it in its current location.
The researchers discovered the remains of the original stone circle in the Preseli Hills in Wales, near the ancient quarries where geologists have determined that Stonehenge's famous bluestones were cut. The new study, published Thursday (Feb. 11) in the journal Antiquity, suggests that the bluestones that formed the first stage of Stonehenge may have symbolized the ancestors or lineages of the Neolithic people who lived near the quarries, which may have been why they took the stones with them when they left for a far-off region.
The research could explain the mysterious origins of Stonehenge and why its first builders made such efforts to transport the massive stones almost halfway across Britain. "I had a hunch," said Michael Parker Pearson, an archaeologist at University College London who led the team that made the discovery. "Why would anyone say, 'We're going to build a circle with stones from a quarry 140 miles away?'”
Stonehenge is most famous for the giant "sarsens" in its main circle, but these large stones were erected centuries after the monument was first built. Recent research shows the sarsens are local sandstone boulders that were transported only a few miles to the Neolithic monument about 4,500 years ago.
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