January 2010
24 posts
Known as the Knockers Up Gal, she has frequently been called the mother of the sexual revolution. Her career began in the early 1950s in Phoenix, Arizona. Later she moved her act to Las Vegas, Nevada. Her comedy routines exposed the subject of sex from a female perspective. Her most famous contribution to the sexual revolution was the song “Bounce Your Boobies” in which Warren...
At a 1909 appearance, the luggage containing Tucker’s makeup kit was stolen shortly before the show, and she hastily went on stage without her customary blackface. Tucker was a bigger hit without her makeup than with it, and, at the advice of Morris, she never wore blackface again.
Tucker played piano and sang burlesque and vaudeville tunes, at first in blackface. She later said that this was at the insistence of theatre managers, who said she was “too fat and ugly” to be accepted by an audience in any other context. She even sang songs that acknowledged her heft, such as “Nobody Loves a Fat Girl, But Oh How a Fat Girl Can Love”.
She made a name for...
Fields was plagued with health problems the last two years of her life. In April 1976, her left leg was amputated above the knee when surgery to remove a blood clot failed. This caused her to use an Amigo POV/Scooter for mobility. In June 1977, to the astonishment of her fans, Fields starred in the Home Box Office special seriesStanding Room Only, beginning her show seated in a wheelchair. As the...
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Water cure has since come to have two opposing definitions, which can cause confusion. (a) a course of medical treatment by hydrotherapy (b) a form of torture in which a person is forced to drink large quantities of water
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In 1908, the A.B.C. tea shops once again figured in women’s issues of the Edwardian era. It was the custom of the day for women to wear corsets so tight that it gave the wearer waistlines of as little as 17 inches. This was referred to as “tight-lacing.” In an instance that gained certain publicity, a waitress at an A.B.C. tea shop died as a result of tight-lacing. Her death...
The tearooms were significant since they provided one of the first places where women of the Victorian era could take a meal — sans male escort — without risk to their reputations. In at least one instance, one could find a women’s social club housed directly above an A.B.C. tea shop:
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March 2009
5 posts
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang DVD Commentary
Val Kilmer: Watch Magnolia for jumbled up dialogue that works. It’s wonderful. They’re all so stressed out that they…
Robert Downey Jr.: Can we not direct people to other films while we’re talking about this one?
Val Kilmer: Less people saw Magnolia than Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.
Shane Black: Less people saw it?
The writers of Mannequin, Edward Rugoff and Michael Gottlieb, based the character of Hollywood on André Leon Talley, editor-at-large of Vogue magazine.
In the 1991 sequel Mannequin: On the Move, Hollywood revealed that he was a former member of the United States Marine Corps, because, in his words, “The Marines were looking for a few good men, and so was I.” In this movie, he was the only character who related some knowledge of the events of the first movie and is, therefore, the only character unsurprised by the events in the sequel.
Hollywood was in many ways a stereotype of an effeminate gay man; He was a fashion expert who wore pink sunglasses at all times, dressed his “subjects” (the store’s mannequins) in flashy outfits, and often wore flamboyant purple suits. His car is a pink convertible called “Bad Girl”, and it has a flashy cover which is navy blue with pink dots painted all around. He...
Hollywood Montrose is a fictional character played by Meshach Taylor in the 1987 romantic comedy film Mannequin.
February 2009
17 posts
Fanta has its origins in Nazi Germany ,when a trading ban was placed on Germany by the Allies during World War II. The Coca-Cola company therefore was not able to import the syrup needed to produce Coca-Cola in Germany. As a result, their chief chemist, Dr. Schetelig, decided to create a new product for the Germany market created using only ingredients available in Germany. They called the new...
In 1979, Universal sued Sony, claiming its timed recording capability amounted to “copyright infringement”. However, a district court found that noncommercial home use recording was considered fair use and ruled in favor of Sony. In appeals, the United States Court of Appeals reversed this decision in 1981 giving the edge to Universal, but the Supreme Court of the United...
Many of the same points of law that were litigated in this case are still being argued in various cases, particularly in light of recentpeer-to-peer lawsuits; for example, in A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc. 239 F.3d (9th Cir. 2001), the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a fair use “space shifting” argument raised as an analogy to the time-shifting argument that...
The film industry lobbied Congress to impose a small statutory royalty on the sale of blank videotapes, but Congress would not follow suit, noting the increased profits for film studios in the home video rental and sales market
Immediately after their loss in the Supreme Court, the plaintiffs lobbied Congress to pass legislation that would protect them from the effects of home copying. However, in the eight years that had passed since the suit was initially filed, the use of home recording devices had become sufficiently widespread that Congress was not prepared to take any actions to the detriment of the significant...
The legality of time-shifting programming in the United States was proven by a landmark court case of Universal Studios versusSony Corporation (Sony v. Universal), when Sony argued successfully that the advent of its Betamax video recorder in 1976 did not violate the copyright of the owners of shows which it recorded.
In recent years, the advent of the digital video recorder (DVR) has made time shifting easier, by using a electronic program guideand recording shows onto a hard disk. Some DVRs have other possible time shifting methods, such as being able to start watching the recorded show from the beginning even if the recording is not yet complete. In the past, time shifting was done with a video cassette...
Time shifting is the recording of programming to a storage medium to be viewed or listened to at a time more convenient to the consumer. Typically, this refers to TV programming but can also refer to radio shows via podcasts.
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She is married to American movie actor, director, writer, and producer John Landis.
Nadoolman Landis has created several iconic costumes throughout her career, such as the fedora and jacket of Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford), the “college” t-shirt worn by John “Bluto” Blutarsky (John Belushi), and Michael Jackson’s red jacket in Thriller.
Nadoolman Landis graduated from UCLA with a M.F.A. in Costume Design in 1975, and graduated with a Ph. D. in the History of Design from the Royal College of Art in London.
Landis recently completed her second term as president of the Costume Designers Guild of which she has been a member for more than thirty years.
Deborah Nadoolman Landis
(born 1952) is an Academy Award nominated American film and theater costume designer responsible for costumes in many notable flims, including Animal House, The Three Amigos, and Raiders of the Lost Ark.
January 2009
94 posts
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The authors believe he was trying to create a Surrealist masterpiece out of a real human being and the book gives a ton of circumstantial evidence on the resemblances between the murder and Surrealism. Incidentally, Hodel was accused by his daughter of incest and acquitted in court.
The case has never been solved, but a book focuses on one of the suspects in the case, doctor George Hodel, who was extremely invoved in the art scene in California throughout his life.
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