• Even as a two-year-old child, Wah Ming Chang enjoyed drawing. He especially liked to draw lambs, and he enjoyed putting the pictures he drew under his mother’s pillow as a surprise gift for her. Later, he became a famous artist and an Oscar-winning creator of special effects for the movies Tom Thumb and The Time Machine.
• When the mother of children’s book author/illustrator Tomie dePaola was a little girl, she and her father went every week for 14 weeks to a movie theater to watch a serial adventure movie. Unfortunately, before they were able to watch the end of the serial, the movie theater was torn down, so they never did learn how it ended.
• Pistol Pete Maravich was a high scorer throughout his career. As a kid, he was always found with a basketball. He even used to dribble while riding his bike, and when he went to the movies, he carried a basketball with him so he could watch the movie while dribbling the basketball in the aisle.
• A young man who said he was W.C. Fields’ son came to visit the famous comedian. Mr. Fields asked the young man what he wanted to drink and after the young man asked for a Coke, Mr. Fields yelled for his butler and ordered him to throw the young man out because “he’s no son of mine.”
Clothing
• While attending Morehouse College, Spike Lee directed the coronation pageant, one of the biggest events of homecoming. Students dressed up nicely for the pageant, and the women usually wore slinky, revealing dresses. However, as director of the pageant, Mr. Lee decided to emulate old Hollywood musicals, and he wanted the women to be dressed in floor-length, not-so-revealing evening gowns. The male students wanted to see the women in revealing dresses, so when they learned about his plans, they threatened him, but the pageant came off as Mr. Lee had planned.
• Katherine Hepburn’s movie studio wanted her to dress stylishly all the time, but when she wasn’t acting, Ms. Hepburn preferred to wear comfortable clothing such as jeans. Therefore, the movie studio stole her jeans one day as she was acting. Ms. Hepburn sent the movie studio VIPs word that if her jeans were not returned, she would walk around naked. Of course, she didn’t walk around naked, but she did walk around wearing silk panties. The movie studio returned her jeans.
• A smart person with power is actress Julia Roberts, star of Pretty Woman. In the 1991 movie Sleeping with the Enemy, she had to film a scene wearing only panties and an undershirt, so she ordered the entire production crew to strip down to their underwear, too. She said later, “We all had a laugh and the night went a lot faster — because anybody working in his underwear wants to get done a little quicker!”
• When Marlene Dietrich was a big star in Hollywood, she frequently wore gender-bending clothing such as men’s tuxedos. In fact, at one time she was called “The Best Dressed Man in Hollywood,” and some newspapers referred to her and her clothing as “Mr. Dietrich and his fabulous wardrobe.”
• Olympic gold-medalist figure skater Sonja Henie felt very comfortable wearing her ice skates. In fact, when she felt uncomfortable filming a romantic scene with Tyrone Power for a movie, she mentioned that she would feel a lot more comfortable in the scene if she could wear her ice skates.
Perhaps best remembered for her starring role on a sitcom, she was also a longtime spokeswoman with "Wessonality". What is the name of this American actress and singer whose career spanned six decades?
"Komm, gib mir deine Hand" / "Sie liebt dich" (English: "Come, Give Me Your Hand" / "She Loves You") is a single released on 5 March 1964 by the English rock band the Beatles in West Germany. It contains the German language versions of "I Want to Hold Your Hand" and "She Loves You", respectively.
"Sie liebt dich", along with the original "She Loves You" B-side "I'll Get You", was released as a single in the United States on 21 May 1964. This release reached number 97 in the Billboard Hot 100.
The beginning of 1964 saw the Beatles reaching international levels of fame. As they became more famous outside of Britain, they expanded their touring. In January, the Beatles arrived in Paris for a 19-day residency at the Olympia Theatre, supporting French singer Sylvie Vartan and American singer-guitarist Trini Lopez. The German sub-label of EMI, Odeon Records, insisted with Beatles producer George Martin and manager Brian Epstein that they "should record their biggest songs in German so that they could sell more records there." At that time, recording unique versions for foreign markets was a standard practice. Martin recalled, "Odeon was adamant. They couldn't sell large quantities of records unless they were sung in German. I thought that if they were right we should do it. The Beatles didn't agree, but I persuaded them. Odeon sent over a translator from Cologne to coach the boys although they did know a little German from having played there."
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Cal in Vermont said:
The Beatles! "Oh, komm doch, komm su mir du nimmst mir den verstand..." and thus did the British enthrall Germany and the rest of Western Civilization, succeeding for all time where Germany did not.
mj wrote:
My minimal knowledge of German
Leads me to posit The Beatles.
Alan J answered:
The Beatles.
Dave responded:
The Beatles.
zorch replied:
The Beatles.
Billy in Cypress U.S.A. wrote:
The Beatles
Hooray, the power came on after 37 hours.
Deborah, the Master Gardener responded:
I’m going with The Beatles.
Heading out shortly to get my first vaccination. Sometimes it pays to be “old.”
John I from Hawai`i says,
The Beatles
Bob from Mechanicsburg, Pa replied:
The answer has to be the Beatles, and I didn’t look it up.
Roy, the Antifa Deputy Assistant CEO of the Tyler, TX chapter wrote:
I actually had that German version of "I Wanna Hold Your Hand." Lost it in a divorce from the starter wife, and now my entire collection of records from the '60s-'80s is in the hands of my eldest son. But I know it was the Beatles who recorded "Komm, gib mir deine Hand" in German.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, said:
It is i wanna hold your hand by the beatles
Dave in Tucson answered:
Der Deutsch versions of I Wanna Hold Your Hand and She Loves You were written & performed by the original artists, The Beatles. We were living in France at the time, my father was career Air Force, & I seem to recall both versions of the two songs were played on the Armed Forces Radio network.
Rosemary in Columbus responded:
The Beatles
Joe S (We resisted, we voted, we won. Get over it) said:
As I don't speak or understand German I had a bit of trouble with this question. I had no idea it was the Beatles.
On a happier note, Rush Limbaugh is dead.
George M. wrote:
Marty, the English rock group in question is none other than those four lads from Liverpool - as the late, great Ed Sullivan said it so well on February 9, 1964, "Ladies and gentlemen - The Beatles!"
BTW, I suspect that "Moscow Mitch" McConnell was born with only four toes on each foot - ergo, it is my suspicion that his parents were either a) cousins, or b) siblings.
Hence, my own nickname for the walleyed bastard, and here it is - Senator Inbred Jed.
You have my blessing to use this nickname in any manner in which you see fit.
Mac Mac answered:
The Beatles
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Tonight, Thursday:
CBS opens the night with a FRESH'Young Sheldon', followed by a FRESH'B Positive', then a FRESH'Mom', followed by a FRESH'The Unicorn', then a FRESH'Clarice'.
On a RERUNStephen Colbert (from 1/8/21) are George Clooney, Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, and the Mountain Goats.
On a RERUNJames Corden, OBE, (from 12/16/20) are Nicole Kidman, Kerry Washington, and Phoebe Bridgers.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'Mr. Mayor', followed by a FRESH'Young Rock', then a FRESH'L&O: SVU', followed by 'Dateline'.
On a RERUNJimmy Fallon (from 1/27/21) are Rami Malek, Bridget Everett, and Jesus Trejo.
On a RERUNSeth Meyers (from 2/3/21) are Amy Schumer, Thomas Middleditch, and Matt Cameron.
Scheduled on a FRESHLilly Singh is Lily Rabe.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'Celebrity Family Feud', followed by a FRESH'The Chase', then a FRESH'The Hustler'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Jodie Foster, Kelly Marie Tran, and Black Pumas.
The CW offers a FRESH'Walker', followed by a FRESH'Legacies'.
Faux has a FRESH'Hell's Kitchen', followed by a FRESH'Call Me Kat', then a FRESH'Last Man Standing'.
MY recycles an old 'Dateline', followed by an old 'L&O: CI'.
A&E has 'The First 48', another 'The First 48', followed by a FRESH'The First 48', then a FRESH'Killer Cases'.
AMC offers the movie The Divergent Series: Allegiant', followed by the movie 'Forrest Gump'.
BBC -
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
[6:00AM - 11:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE
[12:00PM - 7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
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[10:00PM] MORTAL KOMBAT
[12:15AM] JUDGE DREDD
[2:15AM] MORTAL KOMBAT
[4:30AM] DOCTOR WHO - VOYAGE OF THE DAMNED (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has 'Summer House', another 'Summer House', followed by a FRESH'Summer House', then a FRESH'Watch What Happens: Live'.
FX has the movie 'Baby Driver', followed by the movie 'Windows'.
History has 'Swamp People', another 'Swamp People', followed by a FRESH'Swamp People', and 'Swamp People: Serpent Invasion'.
IFC -
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[10:00am] Saved By The Bell
[10:30am - 1:30pm] Saved By The Bell: The College Years
[2:00pm - 5:30pm] Three's Company
[6:00pm - 12:30am] Two And A Half Men
[1:00am - 2:30am] Three's Company
[3:00am] The Three Stooges - Boobs In Arms
[3:15am] Scream 4
[5:45am] Evil Dead (ALL TIMES ET)
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[6:00am - 12:30pm] the andy griffith show
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SyFy has the movie 'Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen', followed by the movie 'Transformers: The Last Knight'.
TBS:
On a RERUNConan (from 2/1/21) is Jay Baruchel.
It’s official: Netflix has landed Tim Burton’s live-action Addams Family series with an eight-episode order for a spinoff focused on the iconic character of Wednesday Addams.
Titled Wednesday, the coming-of-age comedy, written by Smallville creators Al Gough and Miles Millar and to be directed by Burton, is a sleuthing, supernaturally infused mystery charting Wednesday Addams’ years as a student at Nevermore Academy. That’s where she attempts to master her emerging psychic ability, thwart a monstrous killing spree that has terrorized the local town, and solve the supernatural mystery that embroiled her parents 25 years ago — all while navigating her new and very tangled relationships.
The YA series, Wednesday Addams’ first solo vehicle, marks Burton’s first live-action show and his TV directing debut. He and Gough and Millar, who will serve as showrunners on the series, executive produce. Wednesday is produced by MGM/UA Television, which controls the underlying rights to the IP.
As Deadline first reported in October, MGM/UA TV took the project out last fall with Gough & Millar attached and Burton in negotiations, getting multiple bids with Netflix considered the likely winner. Wednesday marks a familiar territory for Millar and Gough, who successfully explored the coming-of-age story of another iconic character, Superman, with the hit series Smallville.
Also executive producing the series are TV writer-producer Kayla Alpert (Code Black, Up All Night) as well as several producers associated with the Addams Family IP: Andrew Mittman for 1.21 (The Addams Family, Alphas), Kevin Miserocchi (Tee and Charles Addams Foundation), Jonathan Glickman for Glickmania (Respect, Addams Family 2) and Gail Berman (The Addams Family, Alphas).
New Orleans, the youngest series in CBS’ formidable NCIS franchise, is coming to an end. The current seventh season will be the drama’s last, with the series finale slated for May 16. It will be the show’s 155th episode.
The NCIS offshoot starring and executive produced by Scott Bakula joins another long-running CBS series that is wrapping this season; news got out this afternoon that comedy Mom will end with its current eighth season.
Created by the late Gary Glasberg, NCIS: New Orleans revolves around the local field office that investigates criminal cases involving military personnel in the Big Easy, a city known for its music, entertainment and decadence.
Bakula stars in the CBS Studios-produced series alongside Vanessa Ferlito, Necar Zadegan, Charles Michael Davis, Rob Kerkovich, Daryl “Chill” Mitchell, Chelsea Field and CCH Pounder. Jan Nash, Christopher Silber, Chad Gomez Creasey¸ Ron McGhee, Stephanie Sengupta, Bakula and Mark Harmon executive produce.
As NCIS: New Orleans is coming to an end, Silber and Nash are working on a new spinoff, NCIS: Hawaii. The two are co-writing/executive producing the project, which is looking good for a pickup, with SEAL Team writer-producer Matt Bosack.
CBS’ praised Mom — the network’s longest-running comedy series on the air — will end its run after the current eighth season. Mom‘s series finale has been set for May 6 in its Thursday 9 p.m. time period.
This is the last season of Mom’s two-year pickup the Chuck Lorre-produced multi-camera comedy received in 2019. Also coming up at the end of this season was the current contract for star Allison Janney, who became the series’ sole lead after the exit of Anna Faris last summer.
Eight seasons in, Mom remains a solid ratings performer and an anchor of CBS’ Thursday comedy block. Currently Mom is CBS’ No. 4 comedy behind The Neighborhood and Lorre’s Young Sheldon and Bob Hearts Abishola. (The Neigbrhood and Bob Hearts Abishola were renewed earlier today; a pickup for Young Sheldon is expected.)
Mom also has been a solid asset for Warner Bros Television with off-network and streaming deals.
Starring Janney and featuring an ensemble cast including Jaime Pressly, Mimi Kennedy, Beth Hall, Kristen Johnston and William Fichtner, the CBS series began with Christy (Faris), a newly sober single mom raising two children, reuniting with her critical, estranged mother, Bonnie (Janney). Throughout the seasons, it grew to focus on the evolution of their mother-daughter relationship and the friendships and struggles of a group of women in recovery. It has attracted such recurring and guest stars as Yvette Nicole Brown, Ellen Burstyn, Kristin Chenoweth, Beverly D’Angelo, Patti LuPone, Joe Manganiello, Emily Osment, Kevin Pollack, Richard Schiff, June Squibb, Octavia Spencer, French Stewart (originally a series regular), Kathleen Turner, Steven Weber, Bradley Whitford and Rainn Wilson among many others.
Midnight Rider director Randall Miller told a Georgia court Wednesday that he never knowingly violated the conditions of his probation for the 2014 death of Sarah Jones, and that was just enough to convince a judge not to send him back to jail.
“I was allowed to continue to work in the film business as long as I worked in a role that did not involve safety,” Miller said in video testimony today from his home in California, regarding his understanding of the parameters of his probation and parole. “It was important to me that I had no role in safety if I was to do any movie at all,” the Bottle Shock helmer added.
“I get that he was nervous and heard what he wanted to hear,” Judge Anthony L. Harrison declared of Miller misunderstanding the scope of his sentence in the heat of trial back in 2015. Yet, the Georgia judge found it hard to swallow that the director repeatedly was left in such confusion over repeated interactions with the law.
Still, promising to make the conditions as clear as can be, Harrison ended up giving Miller only a sharp slap on the wrist at the conclusion of the nearly five-hour hearing, which arose it was discovered Miller returned to directing a film overseas in 2019. “You are not to act as a director, period, first assistant director, period, or in any other capacity in the film industry where you are responsible for safety,” Harrison reiterated today, asking an agreeing Miller if he now understood his sentence.
Having served a year behind bars after pleading guilty to involuntary manslaughter over the death of 27-year-old camera assistant Jones on the set on Midnight Rider nearly seven years ago, Miller was released on probation in mid-2016. One of the conditions of his release was that Miller is “prohibited from serving as director, first assistant director or supervisor with responsibility for safety in any film production.”
The Pentagon held off on promoting two female generals over concerns about how then-President Donald Trump (R-Lock Him Up) might react, The New York Times reported Wednesday.
Last fall, Mark Esper, then the secretary of defense, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley decided that Air Force Gen. Jacqueline D. Van Ovost and Army Lt. Gen. Laura J. Richardson should be promoted to four-star commands, but they didn't immediately move forward due to concerns that the nominations would hit a roadblock at the White House.
The New York Times wrote that "the two Pentagon leaders feared that any candidates other than white men for jobs mostly held by white men might run into turmoil." Other political factors may have also been involved.
Esper and Milley reportedly decided to delay the nominations until Trump and his team were out of office, assuming that a new Biden administration would be more willing to accept the nominations than the Trump White House with which Esper and Milley had occasionally fought.
Esper, who was fired shortly after the presidential election, acknowledged in an interview with The Times that the submission of the promotion nominations were delayed, specifically noting the political concerns.
Executioners who put 13 inmates to death in the last months of the Trump administration likened the process of dying by lethal injection to falling asleep and called gurneys “beds” and final breaths “snores.”
But those tranquil accounts are at odds with reports by The Associated Press and other media witnesses of how prisoners’ stomachs rolled, shook and shuddered as the pentobarbital took effect inside the U.S. penitentiary death chamber in Terre Haute, Indiana. The AP witnessed every execution.
The sworn accounts by executioners, which government filings cited as evidence the lethal injections were going smoothly, raise questions about whether officials misled courts to ensure the executions scheduled from July to mid-January were done before death penalty opponent Joe Biden became president.
Secrecy surrounded all aspects of the executions. Courts relied on those carrying them out to volunteer information about glitches. None of the executioners mentioned any.
Questions about whether inmates' midsections trembled as media witnesses described were a focus of litigation throughout the run of executions. Inmates' lawyers argued it proved pentobarbital caused flash pulmonary edema, in which fluid rushes through quickly disintegrating membranes into lungs and airways, causing pain akin to being suffocated or drowned. The U.S. Constitution prohibits execution methods that are “cruel and unusual."
A high-tech study has offered new clues into the killing of a pharaoh who ruled Egypt over three millennia ago, the antiquities ministry said Wednesday.
Seqenenre Tao II, "the Brave", reigned over southern Egypt some 1,600 years before Christ.
He famously led Egyptian troops against the Hyksos, a dynasty of West Asian origin which had taken over the Nile Delta.
Seqenenre's body had been examined by X-ray in the 1960s, revealing head wounds adeptly concealed by embalmers and giving rise to theories that he was killed in battle or a palace assassination.
But after conducting CT scans and producing 3D images, archaeologist Zahi Hawass and Cairo University radiology professor Sahar Salim concluded that he was killed in an "execution ceremony" after being taken prisoner on the battlefield.
Ancient DNA has revolutionized how we understand human evolution, revealing how populations moved and interacted and introducing us to relatives like the Denisovans, a "ghost lineage" that we wouldn't realize existed if it weren't for discovering their DNA. But humans aren't the only ones who have left DNA behind in their bones, and the same analyses that worked for humans can work for any other group of species.
Today, the mammoths take their turn in the spotlight, helped by what appears to be the oldest DNA ever sequenced. DNA from three ancient molars, one likely to be over a million years old, has revealed that there is a ghost lineage of mammoths that interbred with distant relatives to produce the North American mammoth population.
The new work focused on mammoth teeth found in Siberia, where conditions have favored both the preservation of remains and the preservation of the DNA they contain. The teeth come from layers of material that appear to have been deposited at the start of the most recent glacial period, which is when the ancestors of the woolly mammoth population should have been present in the area.
Previously, the oldest DNA obtained from animal remains is roughly the age of the youngest of these samples. But the researchers were able to recover some elephant-like DNA from each of the molars, although it was badly fragmented, and many individual bases were damaged. Researchers were able to isolate the full mitochondrial genome for each of the three teeth, as each cell contains many copies of this genome in each of its mitochondria. Only fragments of the nuclear genome could be obtained, however—at most, about 10 percent of one genome, and at worst under two percent. (Although less than two percent is still tens of millions of individual bases.)
Using the differences between the mammoth and elephant DNA and assuming a constant rate of mutation, the research team was able to derive independent dates for when each of the animals that left a tooth must have lived. Based on the mitochondria genome, the dates were 1.6 million, 1.3 million, and 900,000 years ago. For the two that had enough nuclear genome to analyze, the dates were 1.3 million and 600,000 years ago. The DNA-based dates for these two lined up nicely with each other and the date of the material they were found in. The oldest sample might be older than the deposit it's in, and thus it might have been moved after death.
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