• Jason Mewes is the comedic genius who plays the uninhibited foul-mouthed Jay to movie writer-director-actor Kevin Smith’s Silent Bob in such movies as Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. Jay and Silent Bob made a short but memorable appearance in the excellent film Chasing Amy. Since Mr. Mewes had not been acting for a while, Mr. Smith worried that he would not have his lines memorized, so Mr. Smith told his crew that they might be working for a while, perhaps filming Mr. Mewes performing one line of dialogue, then pausing as he memorized the next line so he could perform it, and so on. However, when it came time to record the scene, Mr. Mewes sailed through his dialogue with no problem whatsoever, and it was Mr. Smith who kept forgetting his lines. Afterwards, the crew teased Mr. Smith, saying, “Oh, yeah, Kevin, we better watch out for this Mewes character — we’re gonna be here all night.”
• While filming a scene in the movie Awakenings, Robin Williams’ character was required to restrain Robert De Niro’s character. Mr. Williams heard a loud pop, knew that he had accidentally broken Mr. De Niro’s nose, and started exclaiming, “Oh, no! Oh, God! Oh, Jesus!” Director Penny Marshall thought at first that he was overacting, but as soon as she saw the blood streaming down Mr. De Niro’s face, she realized what had happened. Mr. De Niro insisted on filming the scene nine more times, because his doctor wasn’t available yet, and he knew that his face was going to swell up and he wouldn’t be able to film for a week. Of course, Mr. De Niro was annoyed by the accident, but his nose had previously been broken, and Mr. Williams broke his nose in such a way that it was pushed back to where it belonged. The accident actually improved Mr. De Niro’s appearance.
• Hollywood cameraman James “Jimmy” Wong Howe remembers a few bad times involving guns during his long career. Once, he was filming a prison from an airplane. He saw the prison guards pointing their rifles at him but figured that they were simply making the scene more realistic. Later, he learned that they had been shooting at the airplane because the permit allowing him to film the prison had not arrived on time. On another occasion, several Mexican extras were given blank guns to shoot in a battle scene. However, some of the extras didn’t like each other, so they actually put small pellets in the guns — 50 people were hurt.
• Mexico-born Nicholas Magallanes had a few mishaps in his ballet career. While taking a break during the filming of the ballet A Midsummer Night’s Dream, he chewed on a breath mint. When filming resumed, he was instructed to open his mouth wide, which he did. However, the scene had to be filmed again — his tongue was bright green. On another occasion, this time involving live dance, he was engrossed in a game of chess in his dressing room. Having neglected to listen closely to the music during the performance, he was shocked to hear his entrance music coming over the PA system — he flew to the stage.
• Laurel and Hardy’s Big Business is a short film classic. In it, Laurel and Hardy are selling Christmas trees, and they get into an argument with James Finlayson — an argument that results in Laurel and Hardy deliberately destroying Mr. Finlayson’s house. To make the film, producer Hal Roach rented the house of a vacationing family, paying them a large fee for the privilege of wrecking their house. Unfortunately, the film crew went to the wrong address — that of the house of a different vacationing family — so Laurel and Hardy wrecked the wrong house.
Considered one of the most famous examples of Romanticism in English poetry, the subtitle of this work is "A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment". What is the title of this poem published in 1816?
The ancient Greeks believed this variety of quartz could prevent intoxication and it's also the official state gemstone of South Carolina. What is the name of this pretty rock?
Amethyst is a violet variety of quartz. The name comes from the Koine Greek amethystos from "intoxicate", a reference to the belief that the stone protected its owner from drunkenness. The ancient Greeks wore amethyst and carved drinking vessels from it in the belief that it would prevent intoxication.
Amethyst is the official state gemstone of South Carolina. Several South Carolina amethysts are on display at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History.
The Greeks believed amethyst gems could prevent intoxication, while medieval European soldiers wore amethyst amulets as protection in battle in the belief that amethysts heal people and keep them cool-headed. Beads of amethyst were found in Anglo-Saxon graves in England. Anglican bishops wear an episcopal ring often set with an amethyst, an allusion to the description of the Apostles as "not drunk" at Pentecost in Acts 2:15.
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
Amethyst.
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amethyst
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Amethyst.
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Amethyst
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The Amethyst.
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Amethyst.
Photo: Not surprising, but at their disgusting CPAP right wingers are literally going to worship a golden jackass
mj wrote:
Oddly enough
I could use this gem on the day after my birthday celebration, which is
lucky because it's also February's birth stone, the amethyst.
Cal in Vermont wrote:
The official gemstone and drunkeness, and therefore hangover, preventer of Souf Cackylacky is the Amethyst.
Barbara, of Peppy Tech fame answered:
The answer is amethyst.
Deborah, the Master Gardener responded:
Rose quartz? No, that’s my favorite. I believe it’s Amethyst.
Still unseasonably warm. The poppies are loving it.
Joe S (We resisted, we voted, we won. Get over it) replied:
That's Amethyst. I have lots of it all over the house. Carla loved it. I'm pretty much into it myself.
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CBS begins the night with a RERUN'FBI', followed by a RERUN'FBI: Most Wanted', then '48 Hours'.
NBC opens the night on the East Coast with a RERUN'Kenan', followed by 'Dateline', then an old 'SNL' (from 02/16/19) with Don Cheadle, music by Gary Clark, Jr.
NBC opens the night early on the left coast with a RERUN'Kenan', followed by a LIVE'SNL', then an old 'SNL' (from 02/16/19) with Don Cheadle, music by Gary Clark, Jr.
'SNL' is FRESH, with Nick Jonas.
ABC fills the night with LIVE'NBA Basketball', then pads the left coast with local crap.
The CW offers a RERUN'Superman & Lois', followed by a RERUN'Superman & Lois: Legacy Of Hope'.
Faux fills the night with LIVE'PBC Fight Night', then pads the left coast with local crap.
MY recycles an old 'Weather Gone Viral', followed by an old 'Storm Of Suspicion'.
A&E has the movie 'Taken 2', followed by the movie 'White House Down'.
AMC offers the movie 'Forrest Gump', followed by the movie 'Gone In 60 Seconds'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] ATTENBOROUGH AND THE GIANT ELEPHANT
[7:00AM - 1:00PM] SEVEN WORLDS, ONE PLANET
[2:00PM - 5:00PM] PLANET EARTH
[6:00PM] PLANET EARTH
[7:00PM] PLANET EARTH
[8:00PM] A WILD YEAR ON EARTH
[9:10PM - 2:50AM] PLANET EARTH
[3:50AM] A WILD YEAR ON EARTH
[5:00AM] SEVEN WORLDS, ONE PLANET (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has the movie 'Burlesque', followed by the movie 'Coyote Ugly', then the movie 'Coyote Ugly', again.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Bee Movie', followed by the movie 'Shrek Forever After', then an hour of old 'The Office'.
FX has the movie 'Talledega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby', followed by the movie 'Step Brothers'.
History has 'The Pacific', another 'The Pacific', followed by a FRESH'The Pacific', then another FRESH'The Pacific'.
IFC -
[6:00am - 12:00pm] Saved By The Bell
[12:30pm] Star Trek
[3:30pm] The Naked Gun: From The Files Of Police Squad!
[5:30pm] Up In Smoke
[7:30pm] Groundhog Day
[9:45pm] Groundhog Day
[12:00am] Nephew Tommy: Just My Thoughts
[1:05am] The Naked Gun: From The Files Of Police Squad!
[3:05am] The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell Of Fear
[5:05am] The Three Stooges - Tassels In The Air
[5:30am] The Three Stooges - Back From The Front (ALL TIMES ET)
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[6:30am - 10:30am] the andy griffith show
[11:00am - 5:00pm] hogan's heroes
[5:30pm] three amigos!
[8:00pm] ghostbusters
[10:30pm] ghostbusters ii
[1:00am] three amigos!
[3:30am] the andy griffith show
[4:00am] monk - Mr. Monk Is On The Run, Part 1
[5:00am] monk - Mr. Monk Is On The Run, Part 2 (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'Harry Potter & The Order Of The Phoenix', followed by the movie 'Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindlewald'.
Hollywood legends Jane Fonda and Norman Lear joined forces for a rare, and virtual, discussion before each will be honored at Sunday's Golden Globe awards (NBC, 8pm ET/5pm PT).
Iconic TV producer and writer Lear, 98, the third-ever recipient of the Globes' Carol Burnett Award, reminisced with two-time Oscar-winner Fonda, 83, who will receive the Cecil B. DeMille Award, about their renowned social activism, what the two still have yet to achieve – and Lear's continued cigar smoking during the pandemic.
During the interview, Fonda, whose 1972 trip to North Vietnam during the Vietnam War sparked national outrage, thanked fellow activist Lear for lending her a hand in the trip's aftermath. Lear invited Fonda to appear onstage for a public appearance with beloved actor John Wayne for the launch of the advocacy group People for the American Way.
"At the height of my being 'controversial' and I wasn't getting hired very much, you invited me to be to be on stage with John Wayne," said Fonda. "That meant the world to me, because that was not happening to me very often then. You went out of your way to send me a signal that I was still acceptable in the Hollywood crowd."
A writer who was chosen to translate American poet Amanda Gorman’s work into Dutch has handed back the assignment following criticism that a white author was selected to translate the words of a Black woman who is the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history.
Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, who last year became the youngest writer to win the International Booker Prize with her novel “The Discomfort of Evening,” announced the decision in a Twitter post Friday.
A Dutch translation of “The Hill We Climb,” the poem Gorman recited to wide acclaim at the inauguration of U.S. President Joe Biden, was scheduled to be released at the end of March by publisher Meulenhoff.
“I am shocked by the uproar around my involvement in the dissemination of Amanda Gorman’s message, and I understand people who feel hurt by the choice of Meulenhoff to ask me,” said Rijneveld, who writes poetry as well as novels.
The publisher said earlier this week that Rijneveld was the translator it had dreamed of and said that “Amanda Gorman herself was also immediately enthusiastic about the choice for the young poet.”
For nearly 36 years, a tapestry depicting Pablo Picasso's "Guernica" adorned the wall at the entrance to the 15-nation Security Council chamber at the United Nations' New York headquarters. But the tapestry, a haunting and harsh reminder of the horrors of war, has since been removed and returned to its owner.
The tapestry was commissioned in 1955 by Nelson A. Rockefeller and was loaned to the United Nations in 1984, Chef de Cabinet Maria Luiza Ribeiro Viotti said in a letter to the Security Council's president. Viotti added that Rockefeller's son, Nelson A. Rockefeller Jr., had recently, "notified the United Nations of his intention to retrieve it," and said the tapestry was returned earlier this month.
"We thank the Rockefeller family for having loaned this powerful and iconic work of art for more than 35 years," U.N. spokesperson Stephane Dujarric told CBS News.
Picasso painted the original piece in 1937. It depicted, in stark black and grey tones, the bombing of the Spanish city of Guernica by Nazi Germany during the Spanish Civil War. The bombing killed hundreds of people and destroyed much of the city's historic architecture, which the painting portrays through nightmarish images of humans and animals screaming.
The artwork, considered to be one of the world's most powerful anti-war paintings, is on display at the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid.
Prince Harry, who decamped from England to Southern California last year, rapped the theme song to the 1990s sitcom “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” during a late-night talk show appearance in which he said he didn’t walk away from his royal duties.
During a segment on the CBS television network’s “The Late, Late Show with James Corden” that aired early Friday, Harry said he decided to step away from his work as a front-line member of the royal family to protect his wife and son — and his mental health.
“It was stepping back rather than stepping down,” he told Corden. “It was a really difficult environment, which I think a lot of people saw, so I did what any father or husband would do and thought, ‘How do I get my family out of here?’ But we never walked away, and as far as I’m concerned, whatever decisions are made on that side, I will never walk away.”
The appearance marked Harry’s first interview since his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, stripped the prince and his wife, the former actress Meghan Markle, of their remaining royal duties earlier this month. Corden’s coup trumped Oprah Winfrey, whose interview with the couple is scheduled to air March 7.
At least 13 House Republicans have filed paperwork to have colleagues cast their votes on the COVID-19 relief bill Friday evening, citing the ongoing pandemic. However, they are also slated to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Florida.
Republican Representatives Madison Cawthorn and Ted Budd of North Carolina, Matt Gaetz and Greg Steube of Florida, Paul Gosar of Arizona, Mark Green of Tennessee, Devin Nunes of California, Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania, Darrell Issa of California, Lauren Boebert of Colorado, Ralph Norman of South Carolina, Jim Banks of Indiana and Ronny Jackson of Texas, filed paperwork with the House clerk this week, stating, "I am unable to physically attend proceedings in the House Chamber due to the ongoing public health emergency."
Cawthorn, Budd, Gaetz and Steube were slated to address the conservative gathering on Friday, while the others are slated for Saturday and Sunday remarks.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi implemented proxy voting in May 2020 to give members of the House a way to vote while avoiding travel that could expose them to COVID-19 during the pandemic. She has since extended proxy voting multiple times.
The move drew criticism from Republicans, particularly after Florida Democrats Charlie Crist and Darren Soto filed proxy letters citing the health emergency and were later found to be attending the SpaceX rocket launch in their home states.
As the House debated the Equality Act, legislation reintroduced by Democratic Rep. David Cicilline that would establish the first federal LGBTQ anti-discrimination protections, Rep. Al Green delivered a moving speech in support of the bill.
In his remarks, Green fought back against the notion that God and religion are adequate reasons to deny people their civil rights.
“And still I rise, Mr. Speaker,” Green said, quoting Maya Angelou.
He continued, “You used God to enslave my foreparents. You used God to segregate me in schools. You used God to put me in the back of the bus. Have you no shame? God created every person in this room. Are you saying that God made a mistake? This is not about God, it’s about men who choose to discriminate against other people because they have the power to do so. My record will not show that I voted against Mr. Cicilline having his rights. My record will show that when I had the opportunity to deliver liberty and justice for all, I voted for rights for all.”
Responding to Green’s speech, some (presumably Democratic) members on the House floor clapped in support.
A New York woman is recovering after a nose piercing infection led to a life-threatening condition, causing her to need a liver transplant.
Queens resident Dana Smith, 37, got a nose piercing shortly after Thanksgiving, CBS New York reported Thursday.
About a month later, Smith started to have stomach pains but was hesitant to go to the hospital because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Her sister took her to Long Island Jewish Medical Center on Jan. 12, where doctors quickly assessed that she needed a liver transplant and was suffering from fulminant Hepatitis B, ABC 7 reported.
Smith was transferred to North Shore University Hospital and placed into a medically-induced coma while waiting for a match for the transplant. One was found within 48 hours, and she had surgery on Jan. 17.
Scientists using a new technique have uncovered the colorful and once-hidden scenes in paintings of the ancient Etruscans, a group of people who flourished on the Italian peninsula around 2,500 years ago at a time before Rome became powerful.
For instance, they found new details in a painting from the "Tomb of the Monkey" and scenes of an underworld in another work of art.
The Etruscans created detailed paintings, but the passage of time has meant that many of them are now only partly visible and that much of their color has been lost.
The fact that some colors survive the passage of time better than others can give a distorted view of what ancient paintings looked like at the time they were painted, Adinolfi said. For example, some shades of green tend not to survive well, whereas red often does, she said. "Red oaks usually seem to be more resistant so that sometimes reds are dominant and alter the correct perception of the original polychromy of the pictorial decoration," Adinolfi said.
To reveal the paintings, the scientists used a technique called multi-illumination hyperspectral extraction (MHX), which involves taking dozens of images in the visible, infrared and ultraviolet bands of light and processing them using statistical algorithms developed at the National Research Council of Italy in Pisa, said team member Vincenzo Palleschi, a senior researcher at the research council.
Artificial Intelligence is getting really, freakily good at recreating the human face, as several viral videos of "Tom Cruise" using low-cost, fairly basic deep fakes have recently shown.
One cool new area that generative adversarial networks (GAN) have been applied to in photography is to restore old photographs and footage, upscaling the quality as well as depicting the world more similarly to how it would have appeared at the time.
A team of researchers from the University of Washington, UC Berkley, and Google Research has demonstrated their own AI program that does just this, showing historical figures such as Mao Zedong, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Andrew Johnson, Marie Curie, Thomas Edison, Huiyin Lin, Benjamin Disraeli, and Mahatma Gandhi as if they were photographed by cameras we have today.
One way that old photos are distorted is that the negatives of Lincoln's time were only sensitive to blue and UV light, which made cheeks appear darker than they were, and "overly emphasizing wrinkles by filtering out skin subsurface scatter which occurs mostly in the red channel."
Because of this, Lincoln appears in these old photos looking a lot more wrinkled (and a lot less sexy) than he would have in real life.
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