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ZIEGFELD FOLLIES

April 8, 1946

Directors: Lemuel Ayers, Roy Del Ruth. Vincente Minnelli, George Sidney, Norman Taurog, Charles Walters. Robert Lewis Producer: Arthur Freed for Metro Goldwyn Mayer

The shooting schedule ran between April 10 and August 18, 1944, with retakes plus additional segments filmed on December 22, 1944 and then between January 25 and February 6, 1945. The film was first proposed in 1939.

Synopsis ~ We meet a grayed, immaculately garbed Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. in Paradise (his diary entry reads "Another heavenly day"), where he looks down upon the world and muses over the sort of show he'd be putting on were he still alive.

PRINCIPAL CAST

Lucille Ball ('Here's to the Ladies') is appearing in her 64th film since coming to Hollywood in 1933.

Fred Astaire ('Here's to the Ladies' / Raffles in 'This Heart of Mine' / Tai Long in 'Limehouse Blues’ / Gentleman in 'The Babbit and the Bromide') also appeared with Lucille Ball in Roberta (1935), Top Hat (1935), and Follow the Fleet (1936). His name was mentioned twice on “I Love Lucy.”

Lucille Bremer (Princess in 'This Heart of Mine' / Moy Ling in 'Limehouse Blues')

Fanny Brice (Norma Edelman in 'A Sweepstakes Ticket') appeared in the original stage version of many editions of The Ziegfeld Follies on Broadway.

Judy Garland (The Star in 'A Great Lady Has An Interview') also starred with Lucille Ball in Thousands Cheer (1943).

Kathryn Grayson (Kathryn Grayson in 'Beauty') also starred with Lucille Ball in Thousands Cheer (1943).

Lena Horne (Lena Horne in 'Love') also starred with Lucille Ball in Thousands Cheer (1943).

Gene Kelly (Gentleman in 'The Babbit and the Bromide') also starred with Lucille Ball in Thousands Cheer (1943), Du Barry Was A Lady (1943), and A Guide for the Married Man (1967). He made an appearance on the Lucille Ball special “Lucy Moves to NBC” (1980).

James Melton (Alfredo in 'La Traviata')

Victor Moore (Lawyer's Client in 'Pay the Two Dollars')

Red Skelton (J. Newton Numbskull in 'When Television Comes') also starred with Lucille Ball in Having Wonderful Time (1938), Thousands Cheer (1943), Du Barry Was A Lady (1943), and The Fuller Brush Girl (1950). On TV he appeared on “The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour” in “Lucy Goes To Alaska” (1958). Ball and Skelton appeared in numerous TV specials together.

Esther Williams (Esther Williams in 'A Water Ballet') also appeared with Lucille Ball in Easy To Wed (1946).

William Powell (Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.) also played the same character in The Great Ziegfeld (1936).

Edward Arnold (Lawyer in 'Pay the Two Dollars') appeared with Lucille Ball in Roman Scandals (1933) and Ellis in Freedomland (1952).

Marion Bell (Violetta in 'La Traviata')

Cyd Charisse (Ballerina in 'Beauty') also starred with Lucille Ball in Thousands Cheer (1943).

Hume Cronyn (Monty in 'A Sweepstakes Ticket') was honored by The Kennedy Center in 1986, at the same ceremony as Lucille Ball.

William Frawley (Martin in 'A Sweepstakes Ticket') played the role of Fred Mertz on “I Love Lucy” and “The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour”. He also appeared on “The Lucy Show,” his final screen appearance.

Robert Lewis (Chinese Gentleman in 'Limehouse Blues' / Telephone Voice in 'Number Please')

Virginia O'Brien (Virginia O'Brien in 'Here's to the Ladies') also starred with Lucille Ball in Thousands Cheer (1943), Du Barry Was A Lady (1943), and Meet The People (1944).

Keenan Wynn (Caller in 'Number Please') appeared with Lucille Ball in Easy To Wed (1946), Without Love (1945), and The Long, Long Trailer (1954).

SUPPORTING CAST

Ziegfeld Girls

Karin Booth

Lucille Casey

Aina Constant

Elizabeth Dailey

Frances Donelan

Natalie Draper

Karen X. Gaylord

Aileen Haley

Carol Haney

Shirlee Howard

Margaret Laurence

Helen O'Hara

Noreen Roth

Elaine Shepard

Kay Thompson

Dorothy Tuttle

Dorothy Van Nuys

Eve Whitney - appeared on “I Love Lucy” episode “The Charm School” (ILL S3;E15).

Dancers

Gloria Joy Arden

Jean Ashton

Irene Austin

Judi Blacque

Bonnie Barlowe

Norman Borine

Hazel Brooks

Ed Brown

Kathleen Cartmill

Jack Cavan

Marilyn Christine

Laura Corbay

Rita Dunn

Meredyth Durrell

Shawn Ferguson

Jeanne Francis

Jean French

Mary Jane French

David Gray

Bill Hawley

Doreen Hayward

Charlotte Hunter

Virginia Hunter

Patricia Jackson

Margaret Kays

Laura Knight

Laura Lane

Dale Lefler

Melvin Martin

Diane Meredith

Lorraine Miller

Joyce Murray

Janet Nevis

Ray Nyles

Billy O'Shay

Jane Ray

Dorothy Raye

Beth Renner

Melba Snowden

Walter Stane

Ivon Starr

Robert Trout

Chorus Boys

Rod Alexander

Milton Chisholm

Dick D'Arcy

Dante DiPaolo

Don Hulbert

Herb Lurie

Matt Mattox

Bert May - appeared on “The Lucy Show” in “Lucy and Tennessee Ernie Ford”

Jack Purcell

Tommy Rall

Ricky Ricardi (!)

Alex Romero

“LIMEHOUSE BLUES” starring Fred Astaire, Lucille Bremer, and Robert Lewis

Robert Ames (Masked Man)

James Barron (Couple with Banners)

Eleanor Bayley (Couple with Branches)

Mary Jo Ellis (Couple with Banners)

Sean Francis (Ensemble)

James King (Rooster)

Harriet Lee (Bar Singer)

Eugene Loring (Costermonger)

Charles Lunard (Masked Man)

Patricia Lynn (Ensemble)

Ruth Merman (Ensemble)

Garry Owen (1st Subway Policeman)

Ellen Ray (Couple with Parasols)

Jack Regas (Masked Man)

Billy Shead (Couple with Parasols)

Ronald Stanton (Couple with Branches)

Wanda Stevenson (Ensemble)

Ray Teal (2nd Subway Policeman)

“LOVE” starring Lena Horne

Juliette Ball (Club Patron)

Lennie Bluett (Dancer)

Suzette Harbin (Flirt)

Avanelle Harris (Club Patron)

Maggie Hathaway (Dancer)

Charles Hawkins (Club Patron)

Marie Bryant (Woman Getting Her Man Taken)

Cleo Herndon (Dancer)

“THIS HEART OF MINE” starring Fred Astaire and Lucille Bremer

Helen Boyce (Countess)

Feodor Chaliapin Jr. (Lieutenant)

Naomi Childers (Duchess)

Charles Coleman (Majordomo)

Sam Flint (Majordomo's Assistant)

Sidney Gordon (Masked Man)

Count Stefenelli (Count)

Robert Wayne (Dyseptic)

“PAY THE TWO DOLLARS” starring Edward Arnold and Victor Moore

William Bailey (Subway Passenger)

Joseph Crehan (1st Judge) - played a Detective on “I Love Lucy” “The Great Train Robbery”

William B. Davidson (2nd Judge)

Eddie Dunn (3rd Subway Policeman)

Harry Hayden (Warden)

George Hill (2nd Subway Policeman)

Wilbur Mack (Subway Passenger)

Larry Steers (Magistrate)

“NUMBER PLEASE” starring Keenan Wynn

Peter Lawford (Voice of Porky)

Grady Sutton (Texan)

Audrey Totter (Phone Operator Voice)

Kay Williams (Girl)

OTHERS

Bunin's Puppets

Elise Cavanna (Tall Woman)

Jack Deery (Man)

Rex Evans (Butler in "A Great Lady Has An Interview”)

Sam Garrett (Roping / Twirling Act)

Silver (Horse in "Here's to the Ladies')

Arthur Walsh (Telegraph Boy in "A Sweepstakes Ticket") - appeared on “I Love Lucy” in “Lucy Has Her Eyes Examined” (ILL S3;E11).

‘FOLLIES’ TRIVIA

Sidney Guilaroff, Lucille Ball’s hair dresser, who takes responsibility for her famous ‘golden red’ for this movie, becoming her trademark color.

Although they appear in different segments, this is the only feature film collaboration between “I Love Lucy co-stars" Lucille Ball and William Frawley. Coincidently, Frawley's character in this film shares a striking similarity with his iconic character of Fred Mertz on “I Love Lucy.” In this film he plays a money-hungry curmudgeon of a landlord, much like the show. In the above photo, he appears with director Minnelli and co-star Brice.

The horse ridden by Lucille Ball is the Lone Ranger's Silver!

Lucille Ball was actually fired by Ziegfeld from his road company production of Rio Rita in the 1930s.

In February 1956, Lucy and Desi appeared on “MGM Parade” to promote their MGM film Forever Darling. The show also included footage of Lena Horne singing from Ziegfeld Follies.

Lucy also played a showgirl in pink in “Lucy Gets Into Pictures” (ILL S4;E19) aired on February 21, 1955. The scene was inspired by Ziegfeld’s legendary stage shows featuring beautiful women wearing elaborate costumes navigating long staircases. To solidify the comparison, Ricky says he is going to a meeting with Mr. Minnelli. Vincente Minnelli was one of the directors of Ziegfeld Follies.

Lucy Ricardo had previously cavorted around in a lampshade in the manner of a Ziegfeld girl in both the unaired pilot and “The Audition” (S1;E6).

Ziegfeld Follies includes a sketch for Red Skelton called “When Television Comes” aka “Guzzler’s Gin” in which a (future) television spokesman gets increasingly sloshed on his product. This sketch was an obvious influence on Lucy’s Vitameatavegamin routine in “Lucy Does a TV Commercial” (ILL S1;E30) aired on May 5, 1952.

Ziegfeld Girl Eve Whitney appeared on “I Love Lucy” episode “The Charm School” (ILL S3;E15). She used her own name for the character.

The Telegraph Boy in "A Sweepstakes Ticket" Arthur Walsh - appeared on “I Love Lucy” in “Lucy Has Her Eyes Examined” (ILL S3;E11) as Arthur ‘King Cat’ Walsh. He teaches Lucy how to jitterbug.

The first Judge in the “Pay the Two Dollars” James Crehan also played the Police Detective on “I Love Lucy in “The Great Train Robbery” (ILL S5;E5) first aired on October 31, 1955.

Porky, a voice on the telephone in “Number Please” Peter Lawford, played “Password” against Lucille Ball on September 24, 1964. At the time, Lawford was married to President Kennedy’s sister, Patricia. On November 26, 1968, Ball was a guest on “The Tonight Show” when Peter Lawford was sitting in for Johnny Carson.

Chorus Boy Bert May appeared as a solo dancer on “The Lucy Show” in “Lucy and Tennessee Ernie Ford” (TLS S5;E21) in February 1967.

In the dressing room, Lucy jokes with Fanny Brice, one of the funniest women in showbusiness. This was the only time Ball and Brice collaborated and was Brice’s last film.

Ziegfeld’s follies began on Broadway, so it was appropriate that the show featured past and future Broadway musical stars:

Lucille Ball ~ Wildcat (1960)

Carol Haney ~ The Pajama Game (1954)

Tommy Rall ~ Call Me Madame (1950)

Fanny Brice ~ The Ziegfeld Follies

Marion Bell ~ Brigadoon (1947)

Victor Moore ~ Anything Goes (1934)

There was a lot of material that was not filmed, but written and cast. Some of the original skits would have added “Lucy” performers Mickey Rooney, Ann Sothern, and Van Johnson to the cast.

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hannibal-obsessed · 3 years

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30 REASONS WHY THE LAMBS ARE STILL SCREAMING!!!

- Celebrating 30 years of The Silence of the Lambs Movie -

The Silence of the Lambs is a pop culture phenomenon, who’s influence is still being felt today. It is considered one of the best horror/terror/thriller movies of all time!

Released in 1991 on February 14th, The Silence of the Lambs evoked a blood curdling Valentine’s Day scream!

Happy Valentine’s Day

1991-2021

Author – Harris worked the cop beat for a Texas newspaper and had an interest in the macabre, often freelancing for Men’s Magazines (Argosy, True), writing about some of the most gruesome stories.

1. Thomas Harris – As the author of The Silence of the Lambs and creator of Hannibal Lecter, none of this would be possible without Harris. He’s an impeccable researcher, studying the cases of the most notorious serial killers at the time. Harris was seen at parts of Ted Bundy’s Chi Omega trial taking notes.

Actors

2. Jodie Foster – Foster’s portrayal of rookie FBI in training agent Clarice Starling, is a spot on performance. Foster shows Starling’s vulnerability and how her abandonment issues and need to advance in the FBI, bring her under Lecter’s spell.

3. Anthony Hopkins – Hopkins portrayal of Hannibal Lecter left an indelible mark that still haunts us 30 years later. Thomas Harris wrote Lecter...Hopkins brought him to life. The duality of Lecter, which Hopkins plays to perfection, leads you into a false sense of security...that perhaps he’s not that bad...until he lets loose on the police officers during his escape from custody.

4. Scott Glenn – Glenn plays the head of the Behavioural Science Unit at Quantico, Jack Crawford aka the Guru by his agents. Crawford uses his father like status to entice Starling to interview Lecter thus hopefully gaining access, which Lecter had denied other agents.

5. Ted Levine – Levine‘s portrayal of Buffalo Bill has a creep factor that is impossible to put out of your mind, especially when the song Goodbye Horses by Q Lazzarus plays...and he dances...

6. Anthony Heald – Heald’s portrayal of Dr. Frederick Chilton oozes contempt and arrogance, which doesn’t make you feel a bit sorry him when he becomes Lecter’s meal.

7. Brooke Smith – The all American girl who’s kidnapped by Buffalo Bill and held in a pit for the harvesting of her skin. Catherine Martin is a clever one though and hatches a plan to escape using Precious the dog as a hostage.

8. Frankie Faison – The only actor to appear in 4 of the 5 Hannibal Lecter movies. Barney Matthews survives Lecter with his politeness as Lecter abhors rudeness. Lecter believes whenever feasible, one should eat the rude.

Art/Symbols/Theme

9. Basements – The basement is an underlying theme in The Silence of the Lambs: The BSU of the FBI work out of the basement at Quantico; Hannibal Lecter is kept in the basement of the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane and Buffalo Bill’s sanctuary is the basement of the former Mrs. Lippman's house.

10. Death Head Hawk Moth/Transformation – The theme throughout The Silence of the Lambs is transformation. The Moth represents Buffalo Bill’s transformation from a pupae/chrysalis/cocoon into a beautiful butterfly.

11. Salvador Dali/Philippe Halsman – In Voluptas Mors/Voluptuous Death (1951), the most scandalous photo of it’s time was the brainchild of Dali and Halsman. Dali arranged seven naked women into a macabre skull. This skull is used as the marking for the Death Head Hawk Moth on the poster for The Silence of the Lambs, which has become synonymous with the movie.

12. Cannibalism – Lecter doesn’t keep trophies in the usual sense, he eats his victims ensuring they will be part of him forever and leaving no evidence behind.

13. Sketches – Hannibal Lecter is a gifted artist and uses his talent to escape the confining basement walls of The Baltimore State Hospital with sketches of the Palazzo Vecchio and the Duomo as seen from the Belvedere in Florence.

14. Music – Hannibal Lecter has an appreciation for the finer things in life like classical music in particular Goldberg’s Variations Aria. Catherine Martin rocks out to Tom Petty’s American Girl and Buffalo Bill dances to Goodbye Horses by Q Lazzarus.

Behavioural Science Unit – It was a new age of criminal behaviour which needed a new type of agent...a profiler.

15. FBI – The Federal Bureau Of Investigation was formed to combat the criminal Mob element by J. Edgar Hoover. It was only upon Hoover’s death that the FBI started exploring other avenues to catch a new type of killer, the serial killer. After Hoover’s death the FBI would start to hire female agents, which would spur Harris to write a story about an up and coming female agent in training.

16. John E. Douglas – Douglas is the real Jack Crawford, an agent who helped in the development of Behavioural Sciences to catch the newly ordained serial killer. Douglas was a consultant for The Silence of the Lambs movie and is an author of many serial killer/profiling books.

17. Robert Ressler – Crawford is also based on Ressler who was in charge of developing the BSU and was instrumental in the creation of profiling serial killers by interviewing them behind bars. Ressler is responsible for writing some of the best profiling books.

Production

18. Jonathan Demme – It’s Demme’s vision as Director of The Silence of the Lambs which is the magic that has cemented The Silence of the Lambs in the minds of all who watch and re-watch and re-watch...

19. Orion Pictures – The little studio that took a big chance. Unfortunately The Silence of the Lambs wouldn’t save Orion from bankruptcy and they’d be bought out by MGM, who would acquire their movie catalogue.

20. Ted Tally – The man who would turn Harris’ novel into a great screenplay, hitting all the major marks. Tally would pass on the Hannibal screenplay; being lured back for the Red Dragon screenplay.

21. Dino De Laurentiis – If not for De Laurentiis passing on the movie rights to Harris’ novel, The Silence of the Lambs, after the bad box office return of Manhunter, and for allowing Demme to use Hannibal Lecter, we wouldn’t even be discussing this 30 years later.

Quotes – The Silence of the Lambs gave us a few extremely recognizable quotes!

22. Chianti and Fava Beans – “I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.”

- Hannibal Lecter

23. Lotion – “It rubs the lotion on it’s skin or else it gets the hose again.”

- Buffalo Bill

24. Friendship – “I’m having an old friend for dinner.”

- Hannibal Lecter

Serial Killers – Harris based Lecter and Buffalo Bill on some very real killers...

25. Ed Gein – Buffalo Bill is part Gein for without the crimes of Ed Gein, Buffalo Bill wouldn’t exist. It was Gein’s skinning of corpses and his two murder victims that would inspire Buffalo Bill...

26. Gary Heideck – If Buffalo Bill is part Gein, he’s also part Heideck, who’d kidnap women and then tortured them in a pit in his basement.

27. Ted Bundy – Buffalo is also part Ted Bundy, who would lure his victims with injuries like an arm in a cast; he would seem vulnerable seeking help with books or a canoe and in Buffalo Bill’s case a chair.

28. Ed Kemper – What do Hannibal Lecter and Ed Kemper have in common? A high IQ., a fondness of co-eds and a love of cars.

29. Alfredo Balli Trevino – Harris met Trevino in a Mexican prison, mistaking him for a doctor who worked in the prison; Trevino was actually an inmate working in the prison.

Trevino was convicted of murdering then dismembering his lover. It was this encounter that would set the tone for Lecter.

30. Alonzo Robinson – Lecter has been compared to many serial killers over the decades, many of who’s crimes are too late to be included in The Silence of the Lambs novel (1988). It was most likely the story of Alonzo Robinson/James Coyner/William Coyner that planted the seeds of a cannibal killer in the young mind of Thomas Harris.

Influence – Every Serial Killer book written after The Silence of the Lambs was released in theatres, has a reference to it...even BTK referenced Buffalo Bill in his essay to FBI Profiler, John E. Douglas, among an impressive list of serial killers...Ted Bundy, Son of Sam, Ed Kemper, Steven Pennell and Gary Heideck.

Conclusion: Thomas Harris’ first Lecter novel, Red Dragon, turns 40 in October, so Hannibal Lecter has been part of our literary world for 40 years. Although Manhunter was released in 1986 as the first film featuring Lektor (spelling in the movie), it was Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs that will be remembered as bringing Lecter to the masses. Even though Hopkins would play Lecter two more times in Hannibal (2001) and in the remake of Manhunter, Red Dragon (2002), it’s Hopkins Oscar winning portrayal in The Silence of the Lambs that we will always remember and keep the lambs screaming...

Shannon L. Christie

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highlydissfunctional · 6 years

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Social Media: For or against activists?

We’re in the 21st century. A few decades ago when our grandparents talked about the future, they probably thought – flying cars, time-travelling machines and cyborg assassins. Though we aren’t far off from cyborgs (cue Sophia the robot) and flying cars (Tesla), time-machines unfortunately could still be a few centuries away. But one thing’s for certain, no one 50 years back would look to the future and think: Social Media.

If they had, could the cause of activist Martin Luther King Jr. reached highs beyond his time? If our present form of social media had existed during the 1950s American civil rights movement when this great man put his life on the line for the equality and human rights of African-Americans, would it have made a bigger difference?

Let’s find out.

What does social media actually do for activism and protest? Yes, it could be used as means of representation – a tool used by people for ‘citizen journalism’, and for organizing collective action in mobilizing people into getting on the streets for protests (Gerbaudo 2012), but does its act of “fixing dates” and “creating groups” really make a difference in mobilizing and organizing a movement? Well yes, because social media’s role goes beyond that. It is true that protests are successful thanks to the years spent by networks of activists working together to build a firm, solid foundation for this groundswell. Without the help of social media, these individuals managed to unite around a grievance and found symbolic matters to organize under where these symbols that serve as protests and movements’ catalyst typically take the form of a human, charged with emotion and story-driven elements (Sigal & Biddle 2015).

But what happens when social media is added into the picture?

With the help of SNS like Twitter or Facebook to facilitate interpersonal connections across distance, the speed to find individuals and to learn from one another to develop common causes will definitely be increased. Not only does social networking sites empower people and enable them to gain greater access to information, they also provide more opportunities for everyone to engage in public speech in hopes to influence others into joining their cause. With this greater power to reach a wider audience, the ability to undertake collective action for a movement is therefore enhanced! Take our Bersih movement for an example. If it was not for the effects of social media buzz, the size of its rallies would not have grown from 30,000 in 2007 to 200,000 in 2015.

Moreover, social media is where the construction of “choreography of assembly” – the emotional scene-setting and process guiding the physical assembling of a highly dispersed and individualized constituency (Gerbaudo 2012) – occurs. It is because of “liquid/soft leaderships” like the faces of social media movements: Alice Garza (#BlackLivesMatter), Alyssa Milano (#MeToo) and other influential social media activists that scene-setting of movements is able to happen more effectively for more members of the public to be inspired and encouraged into joining a cause. These individuals become the symbols of movements who are responsible in constructing common identifications among a socially diverse constituency and triggering emotional impulses among the public.

Additionally, the people’s emotional chord can be further struck through streaming or viewing graphic media contents of incidents kick-starting protests and movements on social media platforms, which would help activists recruit new followers to join their cause. This shows that sensitive content shared on social media along with the rest of social media’s affordances can be used to build and bring up a movement.

However, this does not mean that social media is Mr. Perfect for activism and protest.

Like everything created by humans and even humans themselves, social media’s affordances are not without flaws. Protest slogans like #AllLivesMatter, #BlueLivesMatter and #HimToo are proof of social media backfiring on activists. Due to social media’s “open-to-all” attribute, this makes it easier for backlash in the form of protest slogans to occur, just like how #AllLivesMatter and #BlueLivesMatter were created by Caucasians to cast African-Americans as aggressors all because they felt excluded, discriminated against and was basically not used to something happening that did not revolve around them or around catering their needs.

This shows that although a group of individuals misinterpreted a movement, it was ultimately social media that allowed these misinterpretations to reach the public and gave the public a platform to counter originally genuine movements based on misguided understanding.

Furthermore, in regards to sensitive content shared on social media, most platforms use community policing mechanisms where users report others who violate a platform’s regulations to ensure that only generally-accepted content are shared online (Youmans & York 2012). This can actually work against activists as offended communities can abuse this function by reporting and removing contents they dislike or disagree with to censor views they oppose, which obstructs activists’ path to acquire more followers via sensitive contents shared. Also, automated social media protocols for discouraging “spammers” would also at times, disable or ban accounts with high volume of correspondence – working against activists by thwarting their attempt to reach more audiences.

In worse cases where there is authoritarian social media use at play such as the Syrian Electronic Army, a hacker group aimed to deface, eliminate an target sites that host anti-regime content, the state’s power over social media will eventually be seen in the form of content restrictions to repress movements (Youmans & York 2012).

Despite its pitfalls in the face of activism and protest, I strongly believe that social media can be the tool to champion activists’ cause. With the right people doing the right things, the affordances of social media can be used to take the success of protests and movements to greater heights more so than its detrimental qualities can impair movements. Some of the right things that can be done for a movement to achieve positive change include appealing to the majority of the population, using celebrities or influential individuals as the spokesperson or the face of a movement and acquiring political backing or support which I think is the most crucial action a movement can take to ensure success.

“We can either win wars or win election”.

An article explained that the only way for current generations to make real change is either through going to war or overthrowing governments authorities that do more harm than good. It was written that contemporary protest is broken because people’s will is no longer the basis of the authorities making up the government. Many things can be attributed to this with the topmost possible cause, in my opinion, being human greed. The greed of elected representatives has blinded them from doing right by their people and has made them put their own needed before the needs of others. Thus, as the people, we must exercise our rights by voting in the right individuals into position of power. And as activists, they must begin networking and liaising with politicians to gain the support of individuals in position of power.

References

Gerbaudo, P 2012, ‘Tweets and the streets’, Pluto Press: London.

Sigal, I, & Biddle, E 2015, 'Our enduring confusion about the power of digital tools in protest', Fibreculture Journal, Issue. 26, pp. 1449-1443.

Lafi Youmans, W. & York, J. (2012) ‘Social Media and Activists Toolkit’, Journal of Communication, pp 315-329.

#weeklyblogs #week6 #socialmedia #activism #protest #mda20009

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mariocki · 6 years

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RIP Trevor Preston (12.7.1938 - 29.4.2018)

A screenwriter of style and versatility, Trevor Preston was as well known for his early work on children’s television as he was for gritty gangland drama. Born in Kent in 1938, the young Preston was an avid reader of pulp fiction, played guitar in a skiffle group and loved the cinema. Whilst attending the Royal College of Art in London, Preston and some fellow students worked on an instalment of ITV’s arts programme, Tempo; Trevor soon found himself part of the regular crew. He followed this with his first works for children’s TV, adapting The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe (1967) and The Tyrant King (1968), followed by contributions to The Incredible Adventures Of Professor Branestawm (1969) and Freewheelers. Sadly, much of this formative work is considered lost.

As the 70’s dawned, Preston was moving into adult drama. He contributed scripts to a number of important genre shows - The Mind Of Mr. J. G. Reeder (1971), Callan (three episodes between 1969 and 1972) and Public Eye (5.7, ‘And When You’ve Paid The Bill, You’re None The Wiser’, 1971). In 1970, however, he got the chance to create his very own series - again for children, but Ace Of Wands (1970 - 1972) proved to be that rare cult series that appealed across generations. The story of Tarot, a supernatural investigator and magician, the show, like so much of Preston’s work, has suffered great losses - the first two series’ are considered completely lost. The third and final series is extant, though, and saw a well received DVD release from Network back in 2007.

Trevor continued to freelance throughout the decade, writing for Special Branch (1969 - 1973) and The Protectors (1973 - 1974), and even finding time to resurrect the villainous Mr. Stabs from Ace Of Wands for an episode of the children’s anthology series Shadows (1975). His work on Special Branch proved to be good training for the shows that followed. First there were eleven scripts for the hard-hitting, gritty cop show The Sweeney (1975 - 1978), making Preston the most significant writer for the series after creator Ian Kennedy Martin. As if to prove that he could do more than punch ups and robberies, Trevor followed this with the intense, psychological study of a career criminal, Out (1978). He wrote all six episodes of the miniseries, a sort of blend of The Sweeney and Brecht, with Tom Bell providing a powerhouse central performance as the seething, hurting antihero Frank Ross.

Next up was crime-family drama Fox (1980), envisioned as a novel for television and starring Peter Vaughan as the villainous patriarch. Although it was a success, Preston struggled to sell ideas for series after this and instead turned to single dramas and film. There was the deliriously abstract snooker-musical Billy The Kid And The Green Baize Vampire (1987) - Trevor had imagined the films as a gritty, dark location piece, but director Alan Clarke took a decidedly more avant garde route. Then there was Slayground (1983), a strange hybrid of independent British film and American slasher tropes. The script, and the film, are considerably better than the marketing (and that title) might suggest. Common Preston tropes - themes of guilt and innocence, loyalty, culpability and collateral damage - are all explored. His later career was much slower, but his final work - the script for Mike Hodges’ I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead (2003) was a belated return to form for the writer.

Preston was also a prolific writer for radio, and drew inspiration for his radio plays from his own life. For much of his life he was plagued by manic depression and bouts of ill health, including cancer and arthritis. He channeled this into his work, producing a portfolio of angry, but humane work. Many writers have made careers around writing crime drama, but few have tried so hard to capture the mentality and soul of the people they write about - to ask *why* just as often as *how* or *what*. Few writers, too, have been so badly served by the former processes of destroying television material. Although much of his work is lost, what survives shows a writer of rare perception and humanity. Trevor is survived by his partner of almost three decades, Susie, and by his daughter Isca and son Julian.

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Paul Crutzen, Nobel Laureate Who Fought Climate Change, Dies at 87 Paul J. Crutzen, a Dutch scientist who earned a Nobel Prize for work that warned the world about the threat of certain chemicals to the planet’s ozone layer, and who went on to push for action against global warming, died on Jan. 28 in Mainz, Germany. He was 87. The Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz announced the death, in a hospital, but did not state the cause. Susanne Benner, a spokeswoman for the institute, said Dr. Crutzen had suffered from Parkinson’s disease. “Paul Crutzen was a pioneer in many ways,” Martin Stratmann, the president of the Max Planck Society, said in a statement. Dr. Crutzen’s work, he noted, led to the ban on ozone-depleting chemicals, “a hitherto unique example of how Nobel Prize-winning basic research can directly lead to a global political decision.” The term “continues to teach us that our collective human activities are now the most powerful geological force on Earth,” Al Gore, the climate activist and former vice president, said by email, “and his life’s work continues to inspire us to take responsibility for how that force affects our planet’s ecological integrity.” Dr. Crutzen shared the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with F. Sherwood Rowland and Mario Molina. He had found in 1970 that certain chemicals could break down ozone, a molecule that, high up in the stratosphere, absorbs dangerous ultraviolet radiation from the sun. Four years later, Dr. Rowland and Dr. Molina were able to show that gases known as chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs, could break down in the upper atmosphere and attack the ozone layer. After years of skepticism and pushback from industry, British scientists in 1985 discovered a hole in the ozone layer, leading to the landmark international treaty known as the 1987 Montreal Protocol and a ban on production of CFCs. (As a bonus, those chemicals would later be shown to contribute powerfully to global warming, and the ban kept climate change from being even worse than it is today.) The 1995 Nobel citation said the three scientists “have contributed to our salvation from a global environmental problem that could have catastrophic consequences.” A 1995 article in The New York Times said Dr. Crutzen was “known among his colleagues as a nonconformist who shows up in an open shirt and sandals at conferences where everyone else is in formal attire.” “Instead of delivering formal papers at scientific meetings,” the article continued, “he fumbles a few handwritten notes, then ends up mesmerizing his audiences.” Paul Jozef Crutzen was born on Dec. 3, 1933, in Amsterdam to Jozef and Anna (Gurk) Crutzen. His father was a waiter, and his mother worked in the kitchen of a hospital. In an autobiographical essay on the Nobel website, Dr. Crutzen recalled profound privation during the Nazi occupation and the “hongerwinter,” or winter of famine, in 1944-45. “Many died of hunger and disease,” he wrote, “including several of my schoolmates.” Dr. Crutzen’s path to atmospheric chemistry was indirect; he first set out, in 1951, to train as a civil engineer in a three-year program at a technical school so he could save his parents the expense of college programs that might take four years or more. His father, he said, was frequently unemployed. From 1954 until 1958, in addition to serving in the military, he worked in Amsterdam’s bridge construction bureau. During that time, as he recalled, he also met “a sweet girl,” Terttu Soininen. “A few years later I was able to entice her to marry me,” he wrote. “What a great choice I made!” His wife survives him, as do their two daughters, Sylvia and Ilona Crutzen, and three grandchildren. In 1958, he saw an advertisement in a Swedish newspaper for a job programming computers in the department of meteorology at what is now Stockholm University. “Although I had not the slightest experience in this subject,” he wrote, “I applied for the job and had the great luck to be chosen from among many candidates.” At the meteorology institute, he began studies that would lead to his receiving, in 1963, the equivalent of a Master of Science degree from the university that combined mathematics, statistics and meteorology, followed by a Ph.D. in meteorology in 1968 and a doctorate of philosophy, the most advanced degree in the Swedish system, in 1973. In choosing a specific topic of research, he said, “I picked stratospheric ozone as my subject, without the slightest anticipation of what lay ahead.” He would later serve as director of research at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., from 1977 to 1980, and at the Max Planck Institute from 1980 until 2000. In a 2002 article in the journal Nature, Dr. Crutzen wrote of the increasing threat of climate change. A “daunting task,” he said, “lies ahead for scientists and engineers to guide society towards environmentally sustainable management during the era of the Anthropocene.” In that essay and elsewhere, he raised the prospect of employing geoengineering, the field that looks for ways to combat climate change through interventions like spreading sulfur in the atmosphere to help cool the planet. The idea of geoengineering remains controversial, not only because of potential unanticipated side effects but also because of the suspicion that the technologies could be used to postpone action on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Later, in an interview for a 2014 virtual exhibition on the Anthropocene, Dr. Crutzen said, “I share that fear,” adding that using the technology to avoid acting on emissions “would be totally wrong,” and that he doubted it would ever be used. In that same interview, the journalist Christian Schwägerl asked, “Have you remained an optimist?” Dr. Crutzen replied, “Did I say I am an optimist?” Mr. Schwägerl then asked what made him feel optimistic, and the reply was less curt. There were the “beautiful things around us like arts and literature,” Dr. Crutzen said. “There are so many beautiful things humankind is creating that I wonder when we will make Earth more beautiful again instead of depleting everything.” Source link Orbem News #Change #Climate #Crutzen #Dies #Fought #Laureate #Nobel #Paul

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jgerardinc · 4 years

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Barry’s Musings “Deception Index”: Would George Floyd Dub Trump’s Response to His Death “A Great Thing?”

By J. Gerard Legagneur, Esq., June 15, 2020

Recent events have inspired this timely installment of Barry’s Musings’ Deception Index. The “D.I.” will serve as its own version of The Washington Post’s esteemed fact-checking service, providing analyses of events that WaPo might lose in the shuffle, given the sheer volume of dubious Trump administration statements.

Washington D.C. – On Friday, June 5th, in the midst of the civil unrest following the murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers, President Trump took to the Rose Garden podium to do a victory lap over better-than-expected job numbers. Rather than “meeting the moment” by offering healing, thoughtful comments regarding racial injustice, Trump elected instead to clumsily claim that he should be revered as a champion for black folks whenever the U.S. economy improves. In a stunningly callous, tone-deaf statement, Trump went on to muse that George Floyd would be praising Trump from the Pearly Gates:

"Hopefully George is looking down and saying this is a great thing that's happening for our country. [It's] a great day for him. It's a great day for everybody… This is a great, great day in terms of equality." So, the question then becomes, would George Floyd approve of the actions Trump has taken in the wake of his untimely murder?

THE FACTS

1. George Floyd was murdered on May 25, 2020 as the result of a callous, emboldened Minneapolis cop using his knee to press Floyd’s neck into the pavement for 8 minutes and 46 seconds. Floyd laid there handcuffed, unarmed, submissive and pleading to his late mother for deliverance.

2. Trump’s past problematic relationship with racial issues has been well-documented.

3. Fast-forwarding to the immediate aftermath of George’s Floyd’s murder, Trump made some initial, cursory comments acknowledging that he had seen the video footage and considered Floyd’s death to be a “very sad event.” Trump also had a telephone call with Floyd’s family but apparently didn’t let them get a word in edgewise. Lastly, his campaign released a “tribute” video that was subsequently blocked by Twitter due to copyright violations. The video starts off as an apparent homage to George Floyd and the protests that followed, but after the first 56 seconds it becomes readily apparent that its intent is to both shine a bright light on the handful of rioters and praise law enforcement in general.

4. On May 29th, just four days following Floyd’s murder, President Trump tweeted out a message that labeled protesters as “thugs” and included a precedented dog whistle that fantasized a violent response: “When the looting starts, the shooting starts.” This remarkably blatant threat of lethal force caused Twitter to flag Trump’s offending tweet for the first time ever.

5. Three days later, on June 1st, Manbaby President Trump sought to reclaim the news cycle by notoriously posing outside St. John’s Episcopal Church while holding an upside down (and backwards) Bible. The photo op conveniently followed the clearing (and gassing) of peaceful protesters in Lafayette Square who would have otherwise caused Trump to hear mean things while he walked to the church. These unprecedented actions spurred condemnation and apologies from a slew of past and present military stalwarts, including the current chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mark Milley.

6. On June 5th, Trump retweeted a video of Glenn Beck and Candace Owens attacking the late George Floyd and impugning his character.

7. That same day, Trump once again took to Twitter to criticize Drew Brees for walking back his comments about kneeling during the National Anthem:

One should recall that kneeling during the National Anthem was a movement sparked by then-quarterback (and subsequently, summarily shunned) Colin Kaepernick to call attention to… wait for it… police brutality.

8. Two days later, Trump doubled down on his anti-kneeling rhetoric by calling out NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell via tweet:

9. As peaceful protests about black lives mattering continued outside the White House, a panicked Trump hid in an underground White House bunker. In typical Trump fashion, #DonTheCon subsequently lied about the incident by insisting he was merely “inspecting” the underground stronghold, only to be belied by his own Attorney General William Barr days later. Trump also ordered that a fence be built around the White House to protect his safety (and, no, Mexico did not pay for this one either).

10. Ironically (and sadly) camera phones have been capturing images of police officers brutalizing citizens who are peacefully protesting against police brutality. (Yes, you read that right.) One such victim was Martin Gugino, a 75-year-old man who was pushed to the ground by the police in Buffalo, New York, resulting in a bloody head injury and hospitalization. As if living in Bizarro World, the President of the United States responded in the most unsympathetic and bonkers way possible by sharing a depraved, ludicrous conspiracy theory with his 80 million Twitter followers:

Coincidentally (or not), the hashtag #TrumpIsNotWell has been trending on Twitter for the past several days…

11. To add insult to injury, Trump reignited his ardent defense of Confederate history, icons and symbolism via a series of tweets, one of which included an ad hominem, racist slur hurled towards Elizabeth Warren that Trump seems to relish.

12. Amidst the protests taking place throughout the country (and the world) Trump fired off a series of tweets in which he claimed (without factual basis) that he’s “done more for Black Americans… than any President in U.S. history, with the possible exception of another Republican President, the late, great, Abraham Lincoln.” (emphasis added) Trump iterated this claim during a Fox News interview on Thursday, June 11th, but added the following bizarre caveat: “[L]et’s take a pass on Abraham Lincoln because he did good, although, it’s always questionable, you know, in other words, the end result.”

Yes, you read that right. Still in doubt that Trump said this? You can watch the video for yourself. Trump called the “end result” of Lincoln’s actions “questionable.” Thankfully, the black Fox News interviewer, Harris Faulkner, was quick to remind Trump of what the “end result” was: “Well, we are free, Mr. President. So, [Lincoln] did pretty well.”

13. Trump bragged about how police and military forces “easily” dispatched the peaceful protesters in Lafayette Square, referring to the Secret Service as (this is not a joke) the “SS.” Yes, that really happened—you can’t make this shit stuff up.

14. As a final, double-barreled “F.U.” to the black community, President Trump decided to hold his first campaign rally (notwithstanding the subsistence of the Covid-19 pandemic) in Tulsa Oklahoma, the site of the largest massacre of African Americans in U.S. history, on June 19th, aka “Juneteenth”—the anniversary of the day when the last slaves were notified of their freedom under the Emancipation Proclamation. Clearly, either the president made his scheduling decisions purposefully or he doesn’t have a single black person around him (by design) to tell him how insanely offensive this move would be. Following backlash, Trump subsequently rescheduled his rally, but the damage had already been done in the black consciousness.

15. Lastly, we at the D.I. have it on good authority that George Floyd would rather be alive today than “looking down” and ruminating over Trump’s perceived “successes” with the black community.

The DECEPTION INDEX

When taken altogether, the foregoing leads the D.I. to only one conclusion regarding Trump’s claim that George Floyd would look upon his response to Floyd’s death with anything but utter shock, disgust and contempt. As a result, the Barry’s Musings Deception Index awards Trump’s claim with four Arnold “Side-Eyes”. (We only wish we had more side-eyes to give…)

Gerard Legagneur is a career corporate attorney dedicated to the use of sarcasm to advance sociopolitical awareness. Legagneur graduated with Honors in Economics from Harvard University and received his J.D. from Columbia Law School.

Follow me on Twitter @JGerardInc!

#political satire #satire #humor #fake news #Donald Trump #racism #bigotry #police brutality #george floyd #black lives matter #blm #facts matter #protests #deception index

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Seyi Shay

Seyi Shay is a Nigerian-based singer, songwriter and actress. She wrote and produced three songs for the soundtrack to Konami's video game Crime Life: Gang Wars (2005). Background information Full Name: Oluwaseyi Odedere Born: 21 December 1985 Birth place: Tottenham, London, United Kingdom Genres: Afropop, R&B, reggae Famous as: Singer, songwriter, performer, actress Years active: 2001 – present Labels: Stargurl, Island (former) Website: iamseyishay.com Movies: Lara and the Beat Albums: Seyi or Shay, Summer Vibe, Lara & The Beat (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Awards: The Headies Award for Best R&B Single

Biographical and educational history Seyi Shay was born and raised in Tottenham, London, England, to Nigerian parents. Her mother was from Northern Nigeria and her father is a native of Ife. She has two elder brothers and an elder sister. She and her siblings were raised by their single mother. Seyi Shay grew up in a religious setting and felt like a single child during her adolescence. She started visiting Nigeria when she was two years old, and eventually attended the Command High School in Maryland, Lagos. She went back to London to complete her undergraduate studies. Her interest in music was influenced by members of her household. Her late mother was a chorister and her sister used to compose songs for TV. Moreover, her brother was a radio and club disc jockey. Seyi Shay joined her secondary school choir and started performing at the age of 6. She performed for the London Community Gospel Choir during their world tour, which included 13 cities in Japan. Seyi Shay was applauded for her performances in Japan. She studied music at a local UK college and went on to study business management at the University of East London. In an interview with Lanre Odukoya of Thisday, Shay said that her mother wasn't a staunch supporter of her musical ambitions. Moreover, her mother wanted her to become a doctor or lawyer. Prior to departing the Earth, her mother told her to focus on her music career and put God first. Also Read About: Genevieve Nnaji

Music career Seyi Shay music career took an upswing when she signed her first ever record deal with No Apology, a record company affiliated with George Martin (commonly referred to as the "Fifth Beatle"). In 2006, Seyi Shay formed a girl band in the UK called Boadicea; they were managed by Ron Tom, the founder and manager of All Saints and Sugababes. The band separated after two years, and Shay decided to partake in the From Above UK singing audition. After the conclusion of the audition, she emerged as the lead vocalist for the now defunct girl group From Above. The group inked a record deal with Mathew Knowles' management company after performing for him. They were taken to Houston to undergo energetic vocal and dance trainings. The group supported Beyoncé while she was in the UK for her I Am... World Tour. They presented an award at the 2011 MTV Europe Music Awards and had their own MTV reality show called Breaking From Above, which aired in over 166 countries around the world. The group later disassembled and Shay had an opportunity to continue her management deal with Mathew Knowles, as well as secure a recording contract with Sony. Instead, she made a decision to join Flytime Music after getting an offer from them. Seyi Shay has worked with a number of musicians, including Justin Timberlake, Brian Michael Cox, Darey, Bilal, Michelle Williams, Chip, Rob Knoxx, H-Money, and Cameron Wallace. She also wrote "You Will See", a song that was included on Melanie C's third studio album Beautiful Intentions (2005). Shay wrote "White Lies", a song from Chip's Transition album. In November 2013, Shay signed an endorsement deal with telecommunications service provider Etisalat. In July 2015, she signed a record deal with Island Records.

Flytime Music Seyi Shay was introduced to Sound Sultan during his visit to London in 2011. After listening to some of her demos, Sultan convinced her to relocate to Nigeria and pursue her musical career there. In addition to meeting Sultan, Shay was introduced to Cecil Hammond of Flytime Promotions. Hammond signed her to his record label Flytime Music and decided to launch her solo career in Nigeria. In 2013, Shay left Flytime Music and told Vanguard newspaper that she had joined the label to promote her brand. She also said that while signed to the record label, she was very much in control of her brand. Moreover, she said she still has a relationship with the label.

Music style and role models Although her musical style is primarily a combination of Afropop and R&B, Shay doesn't conform to a particular genre of music. She believes that her musical prowess covers different genres, and has stated that her music draws from things that inspire her. Shay has cited her mother, Mathew Knowles, 2face Idibia, Beyoncé, Tina Turner, Sound Sultan, Wizkid, and Omawumi as mentors.

Notable performances Seyi Shay performed at the 2013 COSON song awards. In July 2013, she performed at one of Big Brother Africa 8's live eviction shows. On 20 July 2013, she performed in Asaba for the 2013 edition of Star Music Trek. On 27 September 2013, Shay graced the stage at the Sisters with Soul concert, which was headlined by Mary J. Blige. On 20 November 2013, she performed "Bad" with Wale at the Johnnie Walker Step Up to VIP Lifestyle Launch event (held at the Oriental Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos). Shay was a supporting act on the 2013 Hennessy Artistry 2013 Club. In December 2013, she performed at the Harp Rhythm Unplugged concert. On 15 February 2014, Shay performed with Kelly Rowland, D'banj, Tiwa Savage, Mo' Eazy, Zaina, Timi Dakolo, Waje, Muna, JJC and Eva Alordiah at Darey's Love Like A Movie concert.

Seyi Shay music release and albums

Shay released her debut studio album Seyi or Shay in November 2015. Work on the album started as early as 2011. Shay worked with several producers in Nigeria, including Jay Sleek, Tee Y Mix, Del B and Cobhams Asuquo. On 11 August 2011, she released "Loving Your Way" and "No Le Le", two promotional singles that helped launched her singing career in Nigeria. On 27 July 2012, Shay released "Irawo" as the album's lead single. The song was produced by Del B and was originally titled "Erawo". During the aforementioned interview with Ajose, Shay said she wrote "Irawo" to inspire her colleagues and workmates to pull together. The music video for the song was shot and directed in Nigeria by Clarence Peters. It was uploaded onto YouTube on 3 June 2013, at a total length of 3 minutes and 47 seconds. The remix of "Irawo" features rap verses from Vector and was released on 6 December 2012. In August 2013, Shay released the album's second single "Killin' Me Softly", featuring Nigerian singer Timaya. The song was written and produced by Del B. Shay told Ajose she felt in love with the song when she first heard it. Moreover, she reached out to Timaya for a verse because she wanted a different vibe on the song. On 6 October 2013, Shay released "Ragga Ragga" and "Chairman" as the third and fourth singles from the album. The songs were produced by Del B. The latter features vocals from Kcee, a recording artist who was present during the song's composition. Prior to releasing the singles, Shay signed a partnership deal with the international talent company J-Management. On 8 January 2014, Shay released the music video for "Ragga Ragga"; it was shot and directed in Lagos by Peters. "Ragga Ragga" peaked at number 7 on MTV Base's Official Naija Top 10 chart from 15 March through 19 March 2014. In May 2013, Shay told Lanre Odukoya of This Day she recorded a single with Olamide. She said that working with him was easy because of their work ethic. She also told Odukoya the song was written by Olamide and would be released in 2014. Seyi Shay has been featured on the records of several promising artists, including Praiz, Mr. Walz, Yung Grey C and Amir. On 1 April 2014, Shay released the Dokta Frabz-produced single "Murda". The song features additional vocals from Patoranking and Shaydee. Aribaba of Jaguda gave the song 9 out 10 stars, stating: "The use of familiar lyrics don't know what you've got till it's gone makes the first time listening experience even more enjoyable." On 11 May 2014, the music video for "Murda" was uploaded onto Vevo. It was directed by Meji Alabi for JM Films. In March 2019, Shay announced on Instagram that she had been given a concert residency in the United Kingdom. The 2-night residency at the Biosdale of Canary Wharf in London was billed to hold on 29 and 30 May 2019. Reference: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seyi_Shay Read the full article

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2019neworleansteentour · 5 years

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Day Three, The Return...

Perspectives from First Experience, June 28-30th…

On the last day and trip home, the group stopped at a few important historical sites for African Americans. These sites are landmarks in both the south and history because they serve as reminders of both where we came from and how far we’ve come. Along with a short visit to Tuskegee university, which represents what we as a people are capable of achieving on our own despite the situations we are facing against. -Daryl C.

Today finalized the WeCCAAN 2019 New Orleans Tour on Culture and Service Learning. This was an awesome experience for me not only because I got to give back to others without receiving anything for my service, BUT because I was humbled in so many different ways. This wasn’t just a service learning trip but also a vacation for me since I’ve never been to New Orleans. I learned so much about my African American culture in just a short period of time, like how the Congo Square was where we got to show off all of our talents in the music world. Going to the different colleges seeing all the African Americans who have, and some who are currently making improvements on the school. It made me realize how once we were at the bottom of the food chain, but slowly African Americans are headed to the top. Then, the talk with Mr. Green really touched my heart, hearing the story how he lost his mother and granddaughter. How he tried every option there was to save himself and his family, but he just couldn’t. How even though he was going thru his own trials he was still there being a helping hand to others around him. Driving down the streets of New Orleans seeing all the vacant lots where there were once homes, but Katrina had destroyed them, and families still 14 years later still haven’t rebuilt their homes. Walking down the streets seeing all the homeless people seeing them sleep on cardboard boxes, their shoes, or just the hard concrete. This just really humbled me and made me be even more appreciative of every single thing that I have. Also, this trip allowed me to meet new people, try new delicious foods, and see another culture. I am so grateful to be able to be apart of this trip, because if not I wouldn’t have been able to have these experiences. -Kylah F.

The trip to New Orleans was amazing with all these new people I got to learn a lot about them. After hearing all the amazing stories about hurricane Katrina and how it affected people’s lives they still kept fighting to make things right again. I also found out about Tuskegee university, which was established by Booker T. Washington, I knew nothing about the school but today that changed I learned that it wasn’t an experiment it was a study and it’s a historical black university and each building that was built on the campus was named after someone that helped build it. They also had a museum on their campus but we couldn’t go in it because it was closed. We also seen Troy university and across the street was where Rosa Parks got arrested for the bus situation in Alabama. My name is Elijah and this is my first trip outside of my normal time zone and to Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi and I would love to go on another one because it was the best trip I ever took. -Elijah H. W.

This trip to New Orleans was an overall great experience for me and fulfilled all my expectations and then some. While I went into it expecting to gain more knowledge, it was way more than that. It brought culture of places I had never been and information that has opened new doors. Hearing the stories of loss ones to those tragic events of Katrina was very heartbreaking and was felt enormously. Helping out by doing whatever I can always warms me, and being able to help that lady with her garden was a wonderful task. She was very appreciative and welcomed us from the second we arrived. Not only was New Orleans great itself but the people gone with made the experience ten times better. This trip has not only made me want to keep coming on these tours, but to also visit New Orleans in the near future. All that has happened will be remembered, and I am great full to have had the opportunity. -Bobby H.

Today was bittersweet as we not only said goodbye to the Big Easy but also said goodbye to everyone on the tour. It's something incredible about the bond forged in the tireless pursuit of service to others. So many great connections made this weekend. The good thing is that we will continue to support each other and our communities from what we learned while on the WECCAAN Tour. I'm already looking forward to next year for another impactful tour. A huge amount of gratitude to all the teens who gave of their summer to help and learn from others, all the incredible chaperones who made it their mission to support this endeavor and especially Dr Mike Weaver, who makes these tours possible every year. -Giovan B.

This weekend exceeded my expectations. I came here to learn about new things and to be grateful for the life I live now and I am. This weekend taught me to be proud, but not satisfied. I was given the opportunity to talk with some amazing people who showed me that I can make the future brighter and better with my willpower and determination. This weekend made me feel honored to be in so many historical places where amazing people have walked the Earth. I am extremely glad that I was given this opportunity and that I was surrounded by a great group of people. -Ayshia B.

This Whole Trip Taught Me About Life And Things I Want To Do As In Career Although I Want To Be A Nurse I Seen A Few Nursin Colleges . This Will Change On How I Act With People And Interfere With Things . Today I Visited Montgomery And Tuskegee Alabama And Learned So Much About The Tuskegee Airmen And About Tuskegee University. I Liked This Trip Had Fun And I Wish To Have Many More With You All. -Shakemia J.

2012 was the first time I came to New Orleans with my oldest son Javon. Now to come with my youngest son... is a gift I can never repay. Reflecting on both experiences, the similarities and differences, one thing is constant. The fact that these trips offer an incomparable experience. Each year has a new journey and new lesson. Reconnecting with friends that have become family makes this trip even more amazing. I have been telling Dr Mike for years that I need to keep coming. First I came with Javon from 2012-2017, Jordan from 2017-2018 and now with Jamil. These trips teach them valuable lessons of giving back, meeting new people and learning how to travel. I am forever grateful. -TeShania B.

I really enjoyed this trip, it opened my mind to new perspectives and deepened my insights into older ones. On the trip I was able to get firsthand experience with New Orleans and get a feel and sense of what some of the residents’ lives are like. I enjoyed the community service projects and getting to know the people that I care with and I intend on coming to another one later. -Daryl C.

The Last Day is usually the saddest. While on our journey to home we were able to visit one of my favorite HBCUs, Tuskegee University. While at Tuskegee i was able to learn about why Booker T Washington founded Tuskegee and the Tuskegee Study that happened at the University. I was amazed to learn that while doing to the Tuskegee Study that the men who were at art of it were promised something, received it. Before we went to Tuskegee we took a stop at the Rosa Park Library. Although we weren’t able to go in I do feel like i learned a lot that’ll impact my future in a positive way when reading the land markers. Overall, I was greatly satisfied with this whole experience and truly thank Dr. Weaver for all that he does to keep these service trips alive and going. -Roderick T.

I felt inspired when I saw the Tuskegee university and the statue of George Washington Carver. I like to learn about Martin Luther King jr and see statues. I feel super inspired. -Jamil B.

As we travel back to Atlanta, from a very educational weekend and stay in New Orleans, I can say my ride was very inspiring. From the historical facts behind Hurricane Katrina and the impact it left amongst the communities, I humble myself in deep respect for those who experienced this devastation. Visiting Alabama gave value to my culture being. Knowing that people very similar to me, were the start of what is now a wonderful place of study for our future leaders also inspired me. It makes me wish that I had instead ventured off to prestigious institutions to expand my education. Overall, this weekend has given me lots of perspectives relating to history and education - a very great push to continue pushing myself as well as my children and the children of our communities. -Tia J.

Today’s activities have been a reminder of things that I learned about during childhood, but don’t think about often, such as Rosa Parks’s role in black history, and the impact of George Washington Carver and Booker T. Washington, the importance of Tuskegee university and Tuskegee Airmen. Seeing it through the teenagers’ view reinforced to me that we, as parents and as a race, have to keep our history alive and relevant for the future generations. As I reflect on this weekend, the learning, the friendships made, and the activities, I am a little sad to see it come to a close. This weekend exceeded my expectations. I feel a sense of pride as I look at the pictures of Mrs. Gloria’s garden and the Magellan gardens. I feel a sense of peace to know that Katrina survivors are continuing to rebuild their lives despite governmental barriers. I feel more pride seeing Tuskegee, and remembering what it stood for when it started and for this present time. I am excited to become a part of the volunteer activities over the next year that will lead to the next see and serve opportunity. -Miriam C.

Perspectives from Second Experience, July 26-28th…

Today I appreciated our experience in Tuskegee. Not only did we get to see the campus of an HBCU that I wasn’t aware Booker T. Washington was responsible for building, but I was also not aware those bricks that have been standing for so many years were locally manufactured, which represents the power in Tuskegee at the time. That same power laid in Moton Field where we were able to see where the Tuskegee airmen were trained. I was also grateful for the clarification we received from Dr. Mike for the difference between the Tuskegee experiment and the Tuskegee study, which I hear get confused even in my adulthood. What today and this weekend in it’s entirety did for me is serve as inspiration. It reinvigorated me in my want to learn my own cultural history, to participate in service on a regular basis that affects my community and our youth, and to stand in my own power as my ancestors so valiantly have and do whatever work I am led to do to the best of my ability and knowing that I will accomplish leaps and bounds with that will, as well as with the support of my community as they’ve supported us this weekend to experience what we’ve been blessed to experience. I was disappointed I wasn’t able to attend the past few years of service trips with Dr. Mike and the group but in the following years I will absolutely be making it a point to go out of my way and be apart. This work is more than important and I want to remain involved. Thank you to Dr. Mike, Mark and all our benefactors for making this happen for us and our youth, I couldn’t be more grateful! -Caris A.

This weekend was the greatest I've had in a long time. I met new people and got to visit a new city. Seeing New Orleans was like a dream come true and being able to see the French Quarter and lower ninth was really cool. I spent way too much money but the food was good so it wasn't a total loss. Getting to try New Orleans food was exciting and I'm going to try to recreate some things at home. I've never done anything like this trip before and it's given me a new kind of clarity for my future. I want to be able to take trips like this all the time whenever I want with whoever I want which means that I'll have to work for that so I can. I'm crazy tired now at the end but I feel great. -Essence H.

This weekend in New Orleans was fun. I got to see how the people are in the day and in the night also how they celebrate everything you could possibly think of. One thing about the New Orleans people is that they have pride of their parish and have pride in themselves. They truly love where they are and wouldn’t leave for anything and if they did leave they are most likely going to come back. During the time that I was there was a different atmosphere, other than the humidity there was a loving feel and nobody cared about what you did as long as you were happy. I learned a lot of stuff that I didn’t know and it’s good to learn. One thing that I noticed about New Orleans is that it’s a combination of a city and an industrial place. Wherever you go there is a bridge even in the city part and I’ve never seen anything like it. -Jordan B.

I had a great time this weekend. This weekend been a long learning journey and I learned from the culture and the background of New Orleans and hurricane Katrina. Then the tours of the colleges and museums was also a good learning experience. And bonding with the new and old students on this weekend. -Iterrius J.

In these 72 hours, I learned a lot and experienced more than I can imagine. New Orleans showed strength, culture, and unity which I think touched us all. I’m so glad Dr. Weaver decided to do another tour to NOLA this year. I’m honored to once again volunteer and give my efforts to Magellan Gardens.

I realize how important it is for myself & others to travel the world learn our history ourselves. And to have an open mind through it all. I plan to return to New Orleans to explore more hidden gems the city has to offer. I’m humbled by this opportunity and can’t wait to share my experience with family, friends, and colleagues. -Shauna J.

This weekend was something special. I got to connect with people that I would not have met under normal circumstances and I got to see things that I would not see on a normal trip to any of the cities we visited this weekend.

New Orleans was a great experience. To see a city that was totally destroyed as evidenced by a Six Flags that still hasn’t been rebuilt and how far it has come. A city that had so much loss as evidenced by Mr. Green who lost his mother and granddaughter still have so much pride. I feel hard pressed to think of any other city that I have been to like that. New Orleans is somewhere that I definitely want to return to. Maybe not Burboun street (too much for my blood) but most definitely I want to return to the garden where we volunteered to see what it produces during other times of the year.

Tuskegee was a humbling experience. I never went to an HBCU and to be honest I had no clue that it was built by a black man. I’ve heard of Booker T Washington but before today I couldn’t have told you what he did or who he was. Seeing the actual airfield of the Tuskegee airman was cool. After seeing the movie Red Tails it was nice to be able to see the actual field and make the movie feel a little more real.

I’ve been to Atlanta more times than I can count and have never been to Morehouse. It was today that made me realize that most HBCUs are not open campuses like the PWI that I attended. I knew there were differences in the schools but I’m not sure how that difference makes me feel. On one hand I feel like the school cares enough to protect their students and if we’re being honest it’s very rare that we hear of a shooting on a predominantly black campus. On the other hand it makes me wonder if it has more to do with the fences around the campus to keep people in.

All in all I enjoyed this trip and hope to be invited on another trip in the years to come. -Aleeka M.

This expedition to New Orleans was very eye opening. I honestly wish I had made this trip sooner. I loved the scenery in New Orleans, especially the natural spaces. The wetlands were beautiful despite all that has been stripped of their natural scenery, what is left is still a site to see. I really really loved seeing the dragonflies this weekend. I believe all living beings serve a purpose. All organisms have a spirit and if we look close enough at them and deep enough into ourselves we can feel that spirit within us. I recently found that dragonflies were one of my spirit animals. In New Orleans, I was able to be surrounded by dragonflies and their beautiful energy. Dragonflies represent change, transformation, adaptability, and self realization.

For quite a while, I was so afraid of change especially in my youth. As I grew older and wiser, I discovered that change is inevitable. The best thing i can do for myself is be accepting of life and all the changes that come with it. New Orleans is a great testimony to adapting to change and undergoing transformation. Amongst the dragonflies and the spirit of New Orleans i has many self realizations and even realizations about the world. One of those realizations being that just like the people of New Orleans I can get through anything. Even if I lose every material thing I have as long as I have breath in my body and will in my heart I can pick myself up and rebuild or earn it all back. Change will happen regardless of whether I want it to or not, and when I resist these changes I make life harder on myself. I always try to remind myself to let go of all that does not serve me. However, that’s so much easier said than done. This trip has really shown me that it is actually quite easy to do when you have no choice. Choice is also a hot topic for me, I feel as though we all have choices about everything. We all have free will, we create our down destinies. You can manifest anything you want but you can also manifest the things you fear it’s about what you focus on.

After Katrina, the people of New Orleans had a choice to flee and never look back or face their losses head on. Of course they wept, that’s a necessary stage of the grieving process. They experienced anger and denial and regret and everything else. However, when the rain and the tears dried up they got up and handled their business. Even long before Katrina, during slavery times the black people in Nola chose to focus on the positive and build as much as they could for themselves and their community. This trip has inspired me to do the same. Dr. Weaver helped to confirm what I already knew, which was my worth and existence as a divine being. I already know my purpose and my power, I speak on it quite often. However, Dr. Weaver also helped me to realize it goes far beyond knowing or talking the talk. I have to walk in my purpose I have to act as the goddess I claim to be. I can no longer settle for the bare minimum. I can no longer know my power and not exercise it. How dare I be mediocre when royalty and divinity are right here in my DNA flowing through my veins? How dare I let my ancestors blood, sweat, and tears be in vain as I live a meager existence? How dare I not live up to my potential? When it’s all said and done I don’t want to look back on my life and wished I had done more, seen more, lived more, and been greater. This trip has inspired me to see all that I can while I can, go everywhere I can while I can, talk to connect with everyone I can while I can, and just really enjoy life and live intentionally.

Another eye opening aspect of this trip were the college tours. I attended Howard University and I wasn’t very fond of my experience there. I never felt at peace there, quite frankly there was always too much commotion going on for me to even listen to my intuition. I went there without touring there or any other colleges other than those in the AUC. I knew I wanted the HBCU experience and to be surrounded by fellow black excellence. However, I didn’t put a whole bunch of consideration into how different the experience could be depending on what institution I attended. I chose Howard because it was known to be the #1 HBCU in the country and I went in studying Political Science which was one of their strongest areas. Unfortunately, upon my arrival I found that Howard wasn’t the place for me. I really wish I had toured other HBCUs before I blindly decided on Howard. I love nature and I do my best to stay connected to the Earth around me. Howard lacked the nature aspect I loved so much being in such a busy and bustling city like Washington, D.C. If I would’ve explored my options before I decided to go to Howard my life path would’ve turned out very differently. I don’t regret any of my decisions but I can acknowledge that there were other options that held great potential had I ever considered them. That was a lesson to me to never rush such big decisions or pick based on popular opinion. I really loved the Tuskegee campus, I felt at peace there. I would’ve loved to have a college experience in such a beautiful and calming place. Nonetheless, I am grateful to have seen Tuskegee when I did and of course it’s never too late to further my education at a more fitting university for me.

In conclusion, this voyage to New Orleans has taught me so much about myself, my history, my options for education, and the world around me. I am so thankful to have had this opportunity and I will continue to reflect on all that I learned in the days to come. All that I learned on this adventure will remain with me forever. I have gained so much more knowledge since this journey began on Thursday night and I feel quite powerful. I would like to end this by saying a big thank you to Dr. Weaver and all the donors who helped make this possible. What you all are doing for the youth (black youth specifically) is such a blessing whether we realize it at the moment or not. Not many people care enough about us to present such opportunities of great and affordable travel to us. Also, a lot of people don’t realize how important it is to instill service and humane acts into young people. Volunteer experience goes a long way not just on applications and resumes but in character building and helping us to be more loving and culture. So once again, thank you so much to Dr. Mike Weaver, Mark Gibson, Meeka, and everyone else who made this possible. -Jzada J.

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LUCY AND THE RAFFLE

S3;E19 ~ January 18, 1971

Directed by Ross Martin ~ Written by Ray Singer & Al Schwartz

Synopsis

Kim wins a fast sports car in a raffle, but Lucy won't let her keep it. To pay the taxes on her win, they hold another raffle not knowing that it is illegal. Lucy, Kim, and Harry are all arrested and hauled in to court!

Regular Cast

Lucille Ball (Lucy Carter), Gale Gordon (Harrison Otis Carter), Lucie Arnaz (Kim Carter)

Desi Arnaz Jr. (Craig Carter) does not appear in this episode, but he does receive opening title credit.

Guest Cast

Hayden Rorke (Judge Gibson) played one of the “New Neighbors” (ILL S1;E21), Tom O'Brien, who moved into the Mertz apartment building and are believed to be spies (but actually are just actors). Rorke trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and made his television debut on “I Love Lucy.” Ironically, so did Barbara Eden, who played the title role in the sitcom that Rorke is best known for, “I Dream of Jeannie.” In 1947, he appeared on stage with Lucille Ball in Dream Girl. Rorke played the incredulous Dr. Alfred Bellows from 1965 to 1970, even returning for a “Jeannie” reunion special in 1985, his last screen project. He died in 1987.

Although the Judge’s name is not spoken aloud, his daughter, Betty Gibson, is named earlier in the episode as the winner of the raffle.

SPOILER: The Little Old Lady (Florence Lake) is his mother!

Paul Picerni (IRS Agent Frank Williams) makes the second of his four appearances on “Here’s Lucy.” He also appeared with Lucille Ball in the 1975 TV movie “Lucy Gets Lucky.” Picerni was a cast member of Desilu's “The Untouchables” from 1959 to 1963.

Picerni introduces this episode on the series DVD.

Rhodes Reason (Lieutenant Egan) marks the fourth of his five episodes of “Here’s Lucy” having previously appeared in “Lucy, the Matchmaker” (S1;E12) and “Lucy and the Gold Rush” (S1;E13). He also appeared with Lucille Ball (and Little Old Lady Florence Lake) in the 1974 TV movie “Happy Anniversary and Goodbye.”

Although the character identifies himself as Lieutenant Egan, the end credits list him as Detective Haggerty.

Robert Foulk (Permit Office Clerk at Window D) played the policeman on the Brooklyn subway platform in “Lucy and the Loving Cup” (ILL S6;E12) and a Los Angeles Detective in “Lucy Goes To A Hollywood Premiere” (TLS S4;E20). This is the first of his six characters on “Here’s Lucy,” two of which are also policemen.

Sid Gould (Permit Office Clerk at Window C) made more than 45 appearances on “The Lucy Show,” and nearly as many on “Here’s Lucy.” Gould (born Sydney Greenfader) was Lucille Ball’s cousin by marriage to Gary Morton and was married to Vanda Barra (Waitress).

Irwin Charrone (Permit Office Clerk at Window B) made five appearances on “The Lucy Show.” The expressive character actor also did an equal number of “Here’s Lucy” episodes. He died in January 2016 in Maplewood, New Jersey, at the age of 93.

Jody Gilbert (Woman in Permit Line aka “Mrs. Kong”) appeared with Lucille Ball and Gale Gordon on the 1952 special “Stars in the Eye” celebrating the opening of CBS’s new Television City studios. She played a prison matron in her only appearance on both “The Lucy Show” and in her next and final appearance on “Here's Lucy.”

Larry J. Blake (Man at the Front of the Permit Line) appeared as a Native American Medicine Man in “Lucy the Rain Goddess” (TLS S4;E15). He was an ex-vaudevillian making the third of his eight “Here’s Lucy” appearances.

Florence Lake (Little Old Lady aka Mrs. Gibson) did four films with Lucille Ball between 1936 and 1938. This is her second and final episode of the series – both times as a classic Little Old Lady. She went on to appear in the 1974 TV movie “Happy Anniversary and Goodbye” starring Lucille Ball and Rhodes Reason (Lt. Egan).

Emile Autuori (Officer Collins, First Bailiff) makes the second of his six appearances on “Here’s Lucy.” He passed away in early 2017. He was the uncle of writer / director P.J. Castalleneta.

Although not spoken aloud, his name tag reads “Collins.”

John J. 'Red' Fox (Second Bailiff) was best known for playing policemen, which is what he did on five of his eight appearances on “The Lucy Show” as well as three of his five episodes of “Here’s Lucy.”

Vanda Barra (Waitress) was Lucille Ball’s cousin-in-law and married to Sid Gould (Permit Office Clerk at Window C). This is just one of her over two dozen appearances on “Here’s Lucy” as well as appearing in Ball’s two 1975 TV movies “Lucy Gets Lucky” (with Dean Martin) and “Three for Two” (with Jackie Gleason). She was seen in half a dozen episodes of “The Lucy Show.”

Jack Berle (Detective, uncredited, right) was the older brother of Milton Berle. This is one of his eleven uncredited appearances on the series. He previously did two episodes of “The Lucy Show.”

Berle plays the Detective who arrests Harry, but has no dialogue.

Leon Alton (Courtroom Spectator, uncredited) appeared with Lucille Ball in The Facts of Life (1960) and Critic’s Choice (1963). He was in two episodes of “The Lucy Show.” This is the last of his three episodes of “Here’s Lucy.”

Shep Houghton (Courtroom Spectator, uncredited) began working as an extra while still a teenager, taking background jobs on weekends and attending high school during the week. Between 1934 and 1947 he made three films with Lucille Ball, including Too Many Girls, the movie that brought together Lucy and Desi Arnaz. He did two episodes of “The Lucy Show” and this, his only episode of “Here’s Lucy.” Houghton was one of the Winkie Guards in 1939’s The Wizard of Oz and a Southern Dandy in Gone With the Wind (1939).

Others at the Permit Office and in the courtroom are played by uncredited background performers.

January 19, 1971, the day after this episode first aired, Desi Arnaz Jr. (Craig Carter) celebrated his 18th birthday. Ironically, he does not appear in this episode.

When Lucy complains that the car her daughter won goes too fast (160mph!), Kim promises to put a governor in the car. Lucy says “Ronald Reagan has enough to worry about without riding around with you!” Former Hollywood actor Ronald Reagan had been elected Governor of California in 1967, a position he held until 1975. He was later elected 40th President of the United States and served until 1989. He was previously mentioned in the second episode of the series, “Lucy Visits Jack Benny” (S1;E2).

We learn that Harry plays croquet.

When the woman at the back of the line (Jody Gilbert) gets snide with Lucy, she says “Thank you Mrs. Kong. Give my regards to your son, King.” King Kong (1933) was a Hollywood film about a giant gorilla that attacked Manhattan. A sequel titled Son of Kong was released that same year.

When Lucy and Kim stack up the money they've made from their raffle, Lucy says “Oh, ho ho! You jolly green giant!” The Jolly Green Giant was the advertising character used to promote Green Giant Frozen Vegetables. Their ubiquitous TV commercial jingle went: “In the valley of the giant – ho ho ho – Green Giant!” The character was previously mentioned in “Lucy and Tennessee Ernie's Fun Farm” (S1;E23).

The winning raffle ticket belongs to Betty Gibson, a college friend of Kim's.

This episode is primarily based on "Ricky's European Booking" (ILL S5;E10) in which Lucy Ricardo and Ethel Mertz illegally raffle off a television set to fund their trip to Europe.

The Lucy character has been in the courtroom in front of many judges over the past 20 years:

“The Courtroom” (ILL S2;E7) in 1952, in which Moroni Olsen was the judge.

“Lucy Takes a Cruise To Havana” (LDCH) in June 1957, in which Jorge Trevino was the judge.

“Lucy Makes Room for Danny (LDCH) in December 1958, in which Gale Gordon was the judge.

“Lucy and the Runaway Butterfly (TLS S1;E29) in 1963, in which Ernest Sarracino was the judge.

“Lucy is Her Own Lawyer” (TLS S2;E23) in 1964, in which John McGiver was the judge.

“Lucy, the Metermaid” (TLS S3;E7) in 1964, in which Parley Baer was the judge.

“Lucy and the Soap Opera” (TLS S4;E19) in 1966, in which Sid Gould (who appears here as one of the Permit Office Clerks), played a judge in a TV soap opera. Which neatly brings things full circle!

FAST FORWARD!

Alan Rich plays Judge Cameron Potter in “Lucy, Legal Eagle” (S1;E7) aired on November 8, 1986.

Props! When Kim is shaking up the basket full of raffle tickets for Lucy to pick the winner, one ticket pops out. Lucie Arnaz says “Woops!” and pops it back in again.

“Lucy and the Raffle” rates 3 Paper Hearts out of 5

This episode isn't as compact and well-written as its inspiration, but it does feature a large cast of terrific actors and has a few laughs, too.

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VinePair Podcast: The Problem with #RealWine

VinePair, in partnership with Rémy Martin, is presenting the Bartender Talent Academy, an exciting Cognac cocktail competition. You can showcase your most creative Sidecar cocktail recipes to compete for a chance at the grand prize, a trip to Cognac, France in October to test your bartending skills against the world’s best. All you need is a shaker and a passport. So visit www.bartendertalentacademy.com for all competition details and to enter. Hope to see you there.

This week on the “VinePair Podcast,” Adam Teeter, Zach Geballe, and Joanna Sciarrino discuss the recent emergence of the hashtag #realwine. But first, Joanna recaps her vacation, and the hosts discuss the revitalization of small-town vacation spots.

Teeter, Geballe, and Sciarrino debate whether or not #realwine is problematic, and whether or not the wine industry should negate such divisive terms and embrace inclusivity.

If you have any thoughts on #realwine, please send your ideas to [email protected].

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Adam Teeter: From VinePair’s New York City headquarters, I’m Adam Teeter.

Joanna Sciarrino: And I’m Joanna Sciarrino.

Zach Geballe: And in Seattle, Washington, I’m Zach Geballe.

A: And this is the “VinePair Podcast.” And Joanna is back!

J: I’m back.

A: Joanna, how was your vacation?

J: My vacation was lovely. Thank you for asking.

A: What did you do?

J: My partner, Evan, and I did a nice little New England road trip. We stopped in Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Maine. We skipped over New Hampshire, not for any reason.

A: I was going to say you might have beef with New Hampshire.

J: No, no. We actually joined two of our friends for a couple of nights at a lakeside resort just outside of Portland, Maine. It was really nice, and I drank a lot of good stuff.

A: What did you drink? What did you eat?

J: I kept a list, as promised. We went to this sweet little cocktail bar in Providence, R.I., called The Eddy. There, I had this cocktail with tequila, honeydew, lime, dry vermouth, and coconut water. It was really good. It was really savory, actually. A mouthwatering type of vibe. The spot was really nice, too. I think it was our first time actually back in a bar just for drinks.

A: That’s always fun when it’s your first. I did mine one or two weeks ago. It feels weird because you are just there for the drinks. You are not doing dinner or anything, and you’re inside. It feels special again, which is awesome.

J: It did feel special. At this lodge in Maine, they had a bottle of Kabaj Sauvignon on the menu that felt random to have a Slovenian wine.

A: I love that winemaker so much. I love those wines so much.

J: Yes, it was awesome. I only had the Rebula before, but the Sauvignon was really nice.

A: Those wines are so cool.

Z: Credit to the lodge in Maine.

J: Yeah, they were so excited that we ordered the bottle.

A: That’s so funny. This is a totally random connection to that wine. Noami and I randomly a few years ago were in Ukraine. Don’t ask why, but we were at this random restaurant and they had this bottle on the list, too, and I ordered it. The waiter said, “How do you know to order this wine?” I said that I love this wine and it’s awesome.

Z: Just confirm for me that you were not working for Rudy Giuliani.

A: No, I was not working for Rudy. This was much earlier in the years before that was all going down. Anyways, that’s always cool when you order something on the list that you can tell people got excited that you ordered. Then they come over and talk to you because they were excited. It’s always this really fun experience, I find.

J: Yeah, it was nice. Then, we also had a bunch of really great Maine beer.

Z: For me, on the other side of the country, what were the couple of breweries that you were most impressed by?

J: Yeah, so we had a seasonal session IPA from Maine Beer Company called Post Ride Snack.

A: Interesting.

J: Then, we had one from Oxbow Brewing Company. We had a beer called Surfer Rossa, which was a grisette with sea salt and blood orange. It was really good. It wasn’t too juicy. It was really nice.

A: And did you eat lobster rolls for every meal?

J: Yeah.

Z: I saw Joanna post the picture on Instagram, and I don’t see a lot of food pics. I do recall, as you guys know, you get a lot of lobster on your roll.

A: You do. Our colleague, Mr. McKirdy, is there this weekend. Did you give him tips?

J: I did. He said he was only going to eat lobster as well.

A: He’s there starting today, I think. And that sounds great. I’m so glad you had an awesome vacation.

Z: We missed you. We are glad to have you back.

J: I caught myself up with the feed.

Z: You had to do something on that ride.

A: Right, just listen to Zach and me talk. Zach, what have you been up to?

Z: Well, I am in the process of starting a subscription wine club here in the Seattle area with a friend of mine who is a chef.

A: I don’t think you paid for the ad space to pitch that.

Z: I know, but I’m not going to go into more details. You guys know how to find me, but one of the cool things that have been our real emphasis is finding really interesting things that are happening in Washington, again because our focus is on the Pacific Northwest. For me, because I’ve been out of restaurants for 15 months now, one of the things that I was really excited about in launching this is really getting an opportunity to taste things again to explore more, because between not being in the restaurant and also just not traveling at all, I definitely believe there are projects that have come online in the last 15 months or that were brand new last year that I just never got to try. One of the ones that I really enjoyed was a Pét-nat, skin-contact Sémillon from a producer called Grosgrain, which is in Walla Walla. It was super tasty, and they’re really into doing a lot of interesting styles, including a few different varieties, including Lemberger, which is one of my little secret crushes in Washington. It used to be much more prevalent here, but it is an interesting wine. Then, a Gamay from Oregon from Division Wine.

A: I love Division.

Z: Yeah, so it was a blend of fruit from the Willamette Valley and then from the Umpqua Valley further south. That was really, really good. I mean, I enjoy Gamay. I wouldn’t say I’m always super into it in the way that certain somms and others are. However, this one was really beautiful. Bright fruit, just enough ripeness to be pleasant without being overbearing, and a nice herbal note. Division looks at the Loire Valley in France as their inspiration. Gamay and Beaujolais are grown there as well. This is definitely more in that style, a little brighter, and a little less funky, earthy, as opposed to the way Beaujolais can sometimes be. Those were the favorites that I had, although I will say that I definitely just got back from a local brewery. For my son’s birthday party this weekend, I definitely had a pint which is a collaboration between Fremont Brewing and a brewery in Colorado whose name I’m now forgetting. There’s only a couple in Colorado, so I’m sure I will figure it out. I was surprised because I took the dogs outside and had a beer at 11 o’clock in the morning, which is a totally normal occurrence. How about you, Adam?

A: Well, first of all, I will say Kate and Tom at Division make amazing wine. I think they do Gamay really well. I finally got to meet Thomas. I’ve never met Kate before. This was the last thing I did before the pandemic when he and I got to meet at the Charleston Wine and Food Festival. We’ve always been big fans of their wines. Are you including it in the club, or did you have this just for fun?

Z: It’s under strong consideration. We haven’t quite finalized our offering, but it was the fan favorite, so it stands a strong chance.

A: So yes, this weekend, I did this impromptu thing. Basically, Naomi and I have a car for the next month. Our really good friend is out of the country, and she said, “Do you want my car?” I really hate street parking, but I decided I would be OK with it. Now that we’re dealing with this, I am waking up on either Thursday or Friday morning to move it from Thursday to Friday or vice versa. If we’re going to go through this, we need to make sure that each weekend, we’re doing something with the car. Last weekend, we talked about going to Cold Spring or something upstate. Naomi really wanted to go to the western Catskills. One of the people that I worked with a long time ago at another media company, he and his partner bought a house in Livingston Manor 15 or 20 years ago, well before Livingston Manor was cool. We went up and hung out with them before in the western Catskills. It’s a far drive for two and a half hours but I’ll do it. First, I looked at any last-minute deals for hotel rooms. I quickly looked online, and there was a deal for this hotel at the Arnold House, which is owned by this company called Foster and Supply. They own seven hotels in this area now with Callicoon, Livingston Manor, Narrowsburg, etc. The area is definitely having a moment, which is super cool. I went up there and had some pretty delicious cocktails. We went to this one restaurant bar in Livingston Manor called The Kaatskeller, which is a pizzeria. I had a really delicious Negroni, actually. It was really, really quite tasty. Then, the Arnold House also had a pretty nice bar in the basement of the little motel they’ve renovated into a boutique hotel. Naomi had a really good Martini that was infused with a bunch of herbs that were actually from the garden of the hotel. It was really unique, interesting, and very tasty. That was my weekend experience in terms of drinks. Also, I had a beer or two from different breweries, but nothing to write home about. The best stuff I had were the cocktails. I also came to this realization of how much the craft cocktail movement has expanded to even these small vacation-y towns. There is a revitalization where the town has one tiny little grocery store, two or three restaurants, but also has a cocktail program designed by Apotheke, which I think is just so funny.

Z: Well, I think we’ve talked about this on the podcast a couple of times recently, and it’s come up with some interviews, too, where that whole realm of these getaway spots, especially in the Northeast, more people have either already moved into these spaces to operate or are seriously looking at it. It’s super cool. I think it’s fantastic that there is the opportunity to have these great cocktails and as you described, Adam, when we’re talking about returning to bars post-pandemic and being able to offer something that no person can recreate. It’s out of their garden. Sure, maybe you can find those ingredients at home. And if you really want to try to, you can. Yet, that is such a cool and unique experience that just can’t be recreated at home. It can’t even really be recreated at a bar in New York City. It is a real selling point to these destinations.

J: Yeah, I think it’s such a draw for people visiting those places. Then, also the people who have purchased homes, weekend homes, or vacation homes in those areas, like Livingston Manor, have very few new places to go to. If you’re visiting, you’re going to want to go to Kaatskeller or one of the other few spots you mentioned.

A: Yeah, it makes sense. If you have a vacation home, that doesn’t mean you’re going to want to go up there and always cook. Being able to have a few of these places that still do feel that they have some connection to the urban center that you probably live in full time is really interesting. It is definitely a movement that’s growing. Anyways, for today’s topic, a little bit of a hot-button issue. We were chatting among the three of us about this hashtag that has popped up on Instagram — a little on Twitter, but mostly on Instagram — where people take pictures of wine, and the hashtag is #realwine. We started chatting between the three of us: What the f is real wine? Because whenever you use a hashtag like that, you’re saying that there is other wine that is fake wine? My question to you is, what is real wine?

J: Let me give you my answer first. Real wine is anything that’s not the wine product that you can get at the grocery store or pharmacy in New York City.

A: I could see that, yeah.

Z: I think this is a really good point. One of the real challenges with this term is what it is implicitly saying about other wines. I was curious when we were prepping for this — and part of the reason I think this became more and more popular as a term and as a hashtag is the Real Wine Fair, which is a British-organized thing aimed at showcasing these styles of wine made with certain considerations. I have a lot of possible qualms with this and the biggest one is just that implication that other wines are unreal or less real. Like other terms that lack any real precision in their definition, it is open to exploitation, misinterpretation, and selective application. As an example, one thing that you see on the Real Wine Fair website is they have a whole seminar that is all about wines made in amphora. Most people who support hashtag #realwine would say we don’t want wines that are made in new oak. But why is a new vessel that imparts a lot of flavor to the wine unacceptable? But with amphora, which also dramatically affects the flavor of the wine, an acceptable thing. Clay isn’t more natural than wood. Is it just that new oak barrels are really expensive and associated with a certain style of wine? Well, fine, but then we’re really talking about a stylistic preference, not something that’s rooted in anything, truly. It doesn’t have to have a philosophy behind it. It has an aesthetic behind it, and fine, but then I can come back to the problem with the term.

A: Yeah, so this is what my issue is. I 100 percent support Joanna’s definition. Real wine is anything that’s not mass-produced, Mega Purple wine. Those wines have a place. I think that those are wines that totally have a place in certain parts of society. That doesn’t mean that I think Manischewitz is real wine. For holidays, it comes out, but come on. I think when it’s made in the lab according to a formula based on lots of different tasting points that they’re trying to hit in order to deliver the best flavors at a $6 price point, that’s very different. I do think, then, once you start looking at what we would call fine wine, I think once you start trying to divide fine wine into what is real and what is not, you have the same issues you have with any of these other terms where you can’t really define them. That’s why I think it comes off as being obnoxious, because these are shots being fired, not at mass-produced wines, but at other fine wines. To be fair, the people who are using this hashtag are not using it in order to call out Yellowtail. They’re not calling out Yellowtail. They’re calling out another wine of a similar price point, but of which they think doesn’t do the things correctly. And that, I think, is problematic. The piece that we ran this week on the site written by Jamie Goode was really interesting to me because I think a lot of things he said were very on point. I think that the majority of the wine community who is making really high-end wines owes a lot of positives to, let’s say, the natural wine movement, right? There are a lot more people embracing organics, biodynamics, purity of fruit, etc., in the cellar, which are all really positive things. Those are the styles of wine that I tend to gravitate towards. I like wines that showcase more of the actual fruit, less of the oak. That’s the same reason, as we discussed before, why I don’t like wines that are full of Brett and stuff like that, because then I think it’s the same flavor, just different that’s covering what should be the beautiful produce that someone took a lot of care to grow and made sure it was right to the perfect level, etc. I think some people do prefer those wines, and I don’t think that makes them any less real on either side. If you prefer wine that has a lot of Brett in it or things like that because those are the wines you’re into, those are still real wines to you — same as the person who really likes a specific style of Napa Cabernet that is big and bold and extracted and full of oak. That’s a special wine to someone else, and all of those are real. I don’t get why in wine there is this desire to have those pivot points. This doesn’t happen in other areas of alcohol. There is not #realbourbon or #realvodka. Do you guys think that this happens in wine so much because there’s no craft movement, since the art of making wine is a craft? I guess that’s my bigger question for both of you. Do you think that this happens more in wine with these hashtags that get picked up and then adopted by certain sects because wine doesn’t really have a craft movement, because the nature of winemaking is craft?

J: Yeah, I do think that’s part of it. I’m trying to not say natural wine here.

Z: It’s OK, it’s not Voldemort.

J: It was like the natural wine movement was claiming to be the “craft movement” of wine.

A: Right? I think that that’s true.

Z: Yeah. And I want to add a thought here, but I also want to ask a question first. As Adam mentioned, I think it’s a good point that you don’t have real bourbon or whatever. Is there #realfood? Would food get more tied together than wine and other beverage alcohol?

J: Yes. I don’t know about the hashtag, but I’m sure there’s a #realfood hashtag. I would say that there’s a similar movement of organic food without additives as that exists in opposition to everything else. However, I think it was meant to be in opposition to junk food originally. They both have this judgment attached to it, which I think is really problematic.

Z: To go back to Adam’s point about #realbourbon or #realvodka, I think part of the difference might be that we accept or people internalize to some extent that all vodka, all bourbon, is part of a process. You look at a kernel of corn or a grain of wheat or a potato, and you don’t think that’s basically just vodka or bourbon. We understand that there’s a long process between the raw inputs and the final product. I think wine both has intentionally sold the idea even long before #realwine or natural wine or any of that has sold the idea that from grape to glass is basically one small step that we don’t even really need to talk about. In reality, all wine is a very unnatural product. Wine does not occur naturally. Vinegar is a natural product. Rotten fermented grapes are a natural product. Wine requires human intervention to exist, and the extent of that intervention can vary. Pretending that there is any such thing as no-intervention or even really, honestly low-intervention wine is a rhetorical trick that people use because it sounds good, but it’s not really honest. To me, I think the reason why these things take hold is that, again, the concept of wine, as we think about it and as most people think about it, we don’t recognize the human hand in wine. Yes, there is a difference between the human hand holding a vial of Mega Purple and the human hand crushing grapes or stirring lees because those are not necessarily the same thing. I don’t want to claim that they are, but I do think it’s best to be honest on how we can’t really talk about wine without human intervention because it just doesn’t exist.

A: Then it becomes this connection to this fear of technology amongst certain people potentially who are using the hashtag, where they say, “If we’re not doing stuff the way it was done hundreds of years ago, then we’re not actually making wine.”

Z: Yeah, the whole amphora thing is just about fetishizing ancient technology.

A: I’m going to give an example here. You guys just bear with me. Just go with it. OK, so this morning or recently, The New York Times published an article about whether or not natural deodorant was better for you. I don’t know if you guys saw this article.

Z: I did not.

A: Well, for the last five years at least, there’s been a fervent call that we should all be using natural deodorants and regular deodorant is unnatural, plus it has all these side effects, etc. The New York Times decided to do a piece on it and actually figure it out. Let’s talk to dermatologists, scientists, etc. What they found is that the claim is bullshit. There’s no scientific data that links antiperspirant to any issues. Actually, the idea that it was linked to certain kinds of cancer all stems from a ’90s chain email that went viral. Basically, people started forwarding initial emails on why you shouldn’t use antiperspirants. There have been multiple scientific studies, and they cannot find the connection. Actually, in a lot of the natural deodorants, there is more likelihood that people will have allergic reactions, skin rashes, etc., because the type of oils that are being used in them in order to mask the smell are being derived from pure sources such as pure lemon extract that actually can be really irritating to certain people. That idea of, “OK, this is better” actually was proven wrong. It could be better for some people. Some people may prefer it was the idea, but it is not 100 percent easily better. To connect deodorant back to wine, in the same regard, there is no research at all that proves these wines are better for you, that are real. There’s no research that proves that they are better expressions of terroir or a place that is real, but there are some people that prefer them.

J: It’s a matter of taste.

A: It’s a matter of taste, right. I personally do not like sweating, and I wear antiperspirant. That is my personal decision. If you choose to wear natural deodorant, I may not stand next to you in the subway in the summer. That is still your decision, and I respect it. I just don’t want to be near you. In the same regard, if you choose to drink one wine or the other, that’s your personal preference and your personal choice. I think it’s so silly that we try to have these ridiculous camps when I think at the end of the day, the whole idea is let’s bring as many people into this world as possible. Let’s make it as open and inclusive as possible. Let’s not start drawing all these phony lines in the sand and saying, “Well, we want you to be part of the community, but only if you drink wines like this.” That, to me, is just so stupid, and I just don’t get it. So when I see hashtags like this on Instagram especially, what are we doing here for people? We’re not doing the work. We’re not actually helping people understand wine or making them feel comfortable. We’re literally telling them there is a right and a wrong beverage in this space, and it’s just so dumb. Rant over.

Z: To come back a little bit to the point Joanna was making earlier about real food and all that. To the point you were making about this issue where these wines are competing against other fine wines. With this term, they’re trying to differentiate themselves. It’s not $6 grocery store wine so much. Again, it’s so hard to disentangle this notion that large-production, corporate-scale wine is, in a lot of cases, especially at the lower price point, pretty manipulated. There’s no denying that. It’s just the reality of those wines is that for the most part, to get them on store shelves at that price, the winemaking involves a lot of technology, a lot of science, additives, things like that. Again, there is a place for those wines. I’m not saying they shouldn’t exist, but to connect that and to say that wines that are made that may not be fully organic, may not be biodynamic, may not be low-intervention in the way that we typically define them is not true. I don’t think under any real definition other than very precise and purposely drawn ones is it really fair to say that those two categories have much in common with one another. These days, as you mentioned and as Jamie mentioned, because of the influence of natural wine and other low-intervention movements focused on organic and sustainable viticulture, there just isn’t that big a difference. Sure, some of them might add nutrients to their yeast, some might water back or might add acid or sugar depending on where they are to help with fermentation. But by and large, those are the same things that people have been doing in wine for a really long time. The true technological marvels that allow for $4 or $5 bottles of wine don’t come near most of these things that we’re talking about.

A: Yeah, that makes sense.

Z: I don’t know if that was a rant exactly, but that’s what I got on this because it’s so unnecessarily divisive. I can’t imagine someone saying to my face and me not laughing at them, “Oh, well this is a real wine and that isn’t.” Get the f*ck out of here with that.

J: Yeah, I think there’s just this part of it being exclusive and you can be a part of this more exclusive community by saying you drink real wine, and it just feels so senseless. As you said, Adam, we’re not fostering an inclusive wine- drinking community. And why wouldn’t we want to do that?

A: Right. The biggest thing we can learn from the last year and a half or so is that there have been some major issues that we need to correct, and inclusivity is one of them. Why would we keep trying to create barriers? Again, why do we create anything where we can pick at it? You can take your definition either way, right? Is real wine only made by people who received degrees in winemaking? There’s a lot of people I know who use #realwine as a hashtag who are, for sure, self-taught winemakers. Is real wine when you only use amphora and neutral oak barrels? Again, it’s so ridiculous that it just doesn’t really seem to make sense. Why don’t we just have #Ilovewine?

Z: I’m going to start adding that to all my posts. Because it’s true.

A: Yeah, and that just makes more sense to me. Anyways, I think we’re all on the same page. I’d love to hear what listeners think. If you agree or disagree with us, shoot us an email, [email protected] or @VinePair on Instagram and let us know your thoughts about this because again, it’s becoming a hashtag I’m seeing more and more and more. Let’s put a stop to it together. Only you can prevent #realwine.

Z: Smokey the Bear. That’s great.

A: I know. Well, Joanna, Zach, this was another great conversation. I’ll see you both next week.

Z: Sounds great.

J: Bye.

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Now for the credits. VinePair is produced and recorded in New York City and in Seattle, Wash., by myself and Zach Geballe, who does all the editing and loves to get the credit. Also, I would love to give a special shout-out to my VinePair co-founder, Josh Malin, for helping make all this possible and also to Keith Beavers, VinePair’s tastings director, who is additionally a producer on the show. I also want to, of course, thank every other member of the VinePair team who is instrumental in all of the ideas that go into making the show every week. Thanks so much for listening, and we’ll see you again.

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VinePair Podcast: The Problem with #RealWine

Teeter, Geballe, and Sciarrino debate whether or not #realwine is problematic, and whether or not the wine industry should negate such divisive terms and embrace inclusivity.

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Adam Teeter: From VinePair’s New York City headquarters, I’m Adam Teeter.

Joanna Sciarrino: And I’m Joanna Sciarrino.

Zach Geballe: And in Seattle, Washington, I’m Zach Geballe.

A: And this is the “VinePair Podcast.” And Joanna is back!

J: I’m back.

A: Joanna, how was your vacation?

J: My vacation was lovely. Thank you for asking.

A: What did you do?

J: My partner, Evan, and I did a nice little New England road trip. We stopped in Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Maine. We skipped over New Hampshire, not for any reason.

A: I was going to say you might have beef with New Hampshire.

J: No, no. We actually joined two of our friends for a couple of nights at a lakeside resort just outside of Portland, Maine. It was really nice, and I drank a lot of good stuff.

A: What did you drink? What did you eat?

J: It did feel special. At this lodge in Maine, they had a bottle of Kabaj Sauvignon on the menu that felt random to have a Slovenian wine.

A: I love that winemaker so much. I love those wines so much.

J: Yes, it was awesome. I only had the Rebula before, but the Sauvignon was really nice.

A: Those wines are so cool.

Z: Credit to the lodge in Maine.

J: Yeah, they were so excited that we ordered the bottle.

Z: Just confirm for me that you were not working for Rudy Giuliani.

J: Yeah, it was nice. Then, we also had a bunch of really great Maine beer.

Z: For me, on the other side of the country, what were the couple of breweries that you were most impressed by?

J: Yeah, so we had a seasonal session IPA from Maine Beer Company called Post Ride Snack.

A: Interesting.

J: Then, we had one from Oxbow Brewing Company. We had a beer called Surfer Rossa, which was a grisette with sea salt and blood orange. It was really good. It wasn’t too juicy. It was really nice.

A: And did you eat lobster rolls for every meal?

J: Yeah.

Z: I saw Joanna post the picture on Instagram, and I don’t see a lot of food pics. I do recall, as you guys know, you get a lot of lobster on your roll.

A: You do. Our colleague, Mr. McKirdy, is there this weekend. Did you give him tips?

J: I did. He said he was only going to eat lobster as well.

A: He’s there starting today, I think. And that sounds great. I’m so glad you had an awesome vacation.

Z: We missed you. We are glad to have you back.

J: I caught myself up with the feed.

Z: You had to do something on that ride.

A: Right, just listen to Zach and me talk. Zach, what have you been up to?

Z: Well, I am in the process of starting a subscription wine club here in the Seattle area with a friend of mine who is a chef.

A: I don’t think you paid for the ad space to pitch that.

A: I love Division.

Z: It’s under strong consideration. We haven’t quite finalized our offering, but it was the fan favorite, so it stands a strong chance.

J: Let me give you my answer first. Real wine is anything that’s not the wine product that you can get at the grocery store or pharmacy in New York City.

A: I could see that, yeah.

J: Yeah, I do think that’s part of it. I’m trying to not say natural wine here.

Z: It’s OK, it’s not Voldemort.

J: It was like the natural wine movement was claiming to be the “craft movement” of wine.

A: Right? I think that that’s true.

Z: Yeah, the whole amphora thing is just about fetishizing ancient technology.

Z: I did not.

J: It’s a matter of taste.

A: Yeah, that makes sense.

Z: I’m going to start adding that to all my posts. Because it’s true.

Z: Smokey the Bear. That’s great.

A: I know. Well, Joanna, Zach, this was another great conversation. I’ll see you both next week.

Z: Sounds great.

J: Bye.

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DealBook: Bloomberg’s Bruising Debate Dents His Odds

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A no good, very bad night for Bloomberg

Mike Bloomberg has spent over $400 million during his ascent in the polls for the Democratic nomination. But money apparently couldn’t save the billionaire from a widely panned performance at last night’s presidential debate. It was like “the gap between an influencer marketing campaign and putting an actual product in front of reviewers,” as Nilay Patel of The Verge put it. (As a professional tech reviewer, he knows what he’s talking about.)

Mr. Bloomberg didn’t seem prepared. “His meek rebuttals seemed to inspire a wider reckoning among his peers, who slashed and bickered with an eagerness the race had not seen before,” Matt Flegenheimer of the NYT writes. He did get in a jab at Senator Bernie Sanders, though: “What a wonderful country we have. The best-known socialist in the country happens to be a millionaire with three houses. What did I miss here?”

How the other candidates whacked Mr. Bloomberg:

• Senator Elizabeth Warren: “I’d like to talk about who we’re running against: a billionaire who calls women fat broads and horse-faced lesbians, and no, I’m not talking about Donald Trump.”

• Joe Biden: “The fact of the matter is, he has not managed his city very — very well when he was there. He didn’t get a lot done.”

• Pete Buttigieg: “Most Americans don’t see where they fit if they’ve got to choose between a socialist who thinks that capitalism is the root of all evil and a billionaire who thinks that money ought to be the root of all power.”

• Senator Amy Klobuchar: “I don’t think you look at Donald Trump and say, ‘We need someone richer in the White House.’”

A hot topic was the issue of nondisclosure agreements that some former female employees of Bloomberg L.P. signed after accusing Mr. Bloomberg of harassment and discrimination. Mr. Bloomberg refused to release those women from the N.D.A.s, calling them “consensual” — then appeared flustered by further attacks by Ms. Warren and others.

Prediction markets quickly soured on Mr. Bloomberg’s performance. His odds of securing the Democratic nomination have tumbled about 10 percentage points in 24 hours, to about 19 percent, according to ElectionBettingOdds.com.

Our favorite snark from Twitter comes from @IvanTheK, with one for the Bloomberg terminal users: “Team Bloomberg right now: ”

The takeaway: “There was little in the debate to suggest that Mr. Sanders, the national front-runner and the favorite to win Nevada’s caucuses on Saturday, had been knocked off balance,” Alex Burns and Jonathan Martin of the NYT write.

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End of an era for Les Wexner and Victoria’s Secret

The longest-serving C.E.O. in the S&P 500 will step down after selling a majority stake in Victoria’s Secret, the WSJ reports. The deal between Mr. Wexner’s L Brands and the private equity group Sycamore Partners would value the lingerie company at $1.1 billion, the NYT writes.

Mr. Wexner bought Victoria’s Secret for $1 million in 1982. It now accounts for more than half of revenue at L Brands, which the 82-year-old billionaire has run for the past 57 years. Mr. Wexner will remain on the L Brands board and retain his stakes in both Victoria’s Secret and Bath & Body Works, which will be what’s left in the L Brands empire. (When Mr. Wexner steps down, Berkshire Hathaway’s Warren Buffett becomes the longest-serving blue-chip C.E.O., at 50 years.)

The retail tycoon’s long tenure ends under a cloud, with the NYT revealing a culture of misogyny, bullying and harassment at Victoria’s Secret and increased scrutiny over Mr. Wexner’s deep ties to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. From its peak in 2015, L Brands’ market value has fallen by about 75 percent as Victoria’s Secret has struggled to adjust to changing trends in fashion, especially notions of female beauty and representation in advertising.

An unexpected choice for UBS’s new boss

Ralph Hamers of the Dutch bank ING has been named the next C.E.O. of the Swiss banking giant, replacing Sergio Ermotti. Although it was an open secret that UBS was looking for Mr. Ermotti’s successor, Mr. Hamers was not at the top of market watchers’ shortlist.

What’s the plan now? Mr. Hamers has spent nearly 30 years at ING, and as chief was credited with a digital transformation of the predominantly retail-focused bank. UBS is a different beast, relying much more on its high-touch wealth management operations. It’s not hard to imagine that Mr. Hamers’ cost-cutting at ING could come to bear at UBS, which has recently struggled to keep its spending in check.

Mixed signals from the markets: The share prices of both UBS and ING were up on the news.

The White House sees no problem with monopolies

Having a few big companies dominating markets isn’t necessarily a bad thing, according to the Trump administration, Jim Tankersley of the NYT reports:

In their annual Economic Report of the President, released on Thursday, Mr. Trump and his advisers effectively dismiss an emerging line of economic research that finds large American companies increasingly dominate industries like telecommunications and tech, stifling competition and hurting consumers.

Yes, but: The administration is nonetheless looking into whether tech companies are too big, though that may be driven by settling political scores instead of purely economic concerns.

The E.U. sees many problems with monopolies

Officials in Brussels yesterday unveiled proposals to gain “technological sovereignty,” as policymakers in Europe fear that their economies are becoming overly reliant on “gatekeeper” tech companies based elsewhere (mainly the U.S.).

A key passage in the report suggests an expansive view of antitrust policy that could make life difficult for many U.S. tech giants:

Competition policy alone cannot address all the systemic problems that may arise in the platform economy. Based on the single market logic, additional rules may be needed to ensure contestability, fairness and innovation and the possibility of market entry, as well as public interests that go beyond competition or economic considerations.

Further reading: This being the E.U., the policy plan is spread across a convoluted array of reports, factsheets and communiqués. Politico has a useful summary.

The speed read

Deals

• Alstom and Bombardier are trying to shield their train merger from the political turmoil that sank Alstom’s previous deal with Siemens. (Bloomberg)

• Chinese conglomerate HNA is reportedly in talks for a state bailout, which could involve selling off its airline assets. (Bloomberg)

• Forever 21’s deal to sell itself to its two biggest landlords is official. (Reuters)

• Founders Fund, the venture capital firm co-founded by Peter Thiel, has raised $3 billion for its latest funds. (Axios)

• The political comms firm SKDKnickerbocker plans to announce this morning that it has acquired Sloane Communications, a financial P.R. shop. “This is our first (not last) acquisition,” the SKDK chief Josh Isay tells us.

Politics and policy

• The White House conceded yesterday that the trade war had hurt U.S. economic growth. (Bloomberg)

• Boeing has pushed Washington State lawmakers to end tax breaks for the plane maker to avoid international trade sanctions. (NYT)

• The Fed flagged the coronavirus outbreak as an economic risk at its meeting last month. (NYT)

• How the pharmaceutical industry lost some of its pull in Washington. (WSJ)

Tech

• Some Oracle employees are planning a walkout today over the company’s founder, Larry Ellison, hosting a fund-raiser for President Trump. (Business Insider)

• Google reportedly plans to end E.U. data protection practices for British users post-Brexit. (Reuters)

• The first wave of next-generation 5G wireless networks will probably cover only a quarter of the world’s population, according to McKinsey. (Fortune)

• MGM Resorts said that it suffered a data breach last year, but that customers’ financial data was not exposed. (NYT)

Best of the rest

• Some companies have stopped hiring smokers. (FT)

• Want to buy one of WeWork’s Gulfstream jets? It’s on the market. (Business Insider)

• Jho Low, the fugitive financier at the center of the 1MDB fraud scandal, was reportedly spotted recently in Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak. (Bloomberg)

• Hate corporate buzzwords? “Take a deep dive” into this article and let’s “touch base” later. (The Atlantic)

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The Netherlands' VC Group Will get a Gender Quota: The Broadsheet

http://tinyurl.com/y637p2xe Good morning, Broadsheet readers! J. Crew takes steps towards a Madewell IPO, Emmy nominations are prone to characteristic a number of female-led comedies, and we find out about a brand new form of quota. Have an exquisite weekend. EVERYONE’S TALKING – A quota for VCs. Quotas are an idea that pop up loads in range conversations since they’ve been launched in some nations—and not too long ago, the state of California—to deal with the dearth of ladies on boards of administrators. Now, a brand new initiative within the Netherlands is deploying the device to focus on one other space of enterprise the place ladies are underrepresented: enterprise capital. This week, 25 Dutch enterprise capital buyers dedicated to a venture known as #FundRight that goals to deliver extra ladies—and variety extra broadly—into the VC ecosystem and repair the underfunding of feminine founders. “We…consider in equal entry to finance and alternatives for all founders, no matter their background or gender,” the collaborating companies mentioned in a press release. The pledge, to be achieved over three years, requires the VC companies themselves to realize 35% feminine illustration at management and staff-wide ranges, and calls for that their future investments go to corporations that even have workforces which might be 35% feminine. A “vital proportion” of these portfolio corporations ought to be based by a lady. The VC group within the Netherlands pursued the initiative after analysis final yr revealed that 1.6% of enterprise capital cash within the Netherlands goes to feminine founders; 6.8% goes to companies led by mixed-gender groups. For comparability, within the U.S., 2.2% of all VC money went to women in 2018. The Dutch companies which have signed up thus far handle 1 billion euros, which represents 1 / 4 of the full property below administration by VC buyers there. Janneke Niessen, an investor at CapitalT, co-published the research on funding for girls with researcher Eva de Mol and helped conceive of #FundRight. She cited All Raise and Founders for Change as inspiration for #FundRight, and says the Dutch effort can apply to bigger VC markets just like the U.S. “The hot button is agreeing that there’s a big missed alternative within the system because it presently is,” she instructed me. And the quota, she says, is an important part. Critics say quotas can result in tokenism, relatively than deeper cultural change. Niessen argues that #FundRight’s method is exclusive in that it’s self-imposed by the business, relatively than mandated by the federal government. “Meaning it’s actually supported,” she says. And not using a quota, efforts to deal with the underrepresentation and underfunding of ladies stay “obscure and voluntary,” she says; a proportion aim means progress will be extra simply measured. “We’ve tried the light means,” she says, “that clearly doesn’t work.” Claire Zillman [email protected] @clairezillman ALSO IN THE HEADLINES – A Candy transfer. Julie Candy, CEO of Accenture North America and No. 32 on Fortune‘s Most Highly effective Girls listing, is taking excessive job throughout all of Accenture. The brand new chief govt spoke with Fortune‘s Alan Murray about taking the reins from interim CEO David Rowland and the potential for her to guide the corporate with greater than $40 billion in international revenues for a decade or extra. “What’s necessary is that you simply construct your organization to have the ability to seize the chance because it comes,” Candy says. Fortune – Hewson, Trump, and Houlahan stroll right into a plant... Lockheed Martin was set to shut a plant in Coatesville, Pennsylvania the place staff manufactured helicopters, citing an absence of demand for rotorcraft. After urging from President Trump, CEO Marillyn Hewson determined to maintain the ability open. Democratic Rep. Chrissy Houlahan, whose district contains the plant, had additionally been combating to put it aside. New York Times – Immigration, state seats, and re-election. Although she’s launched many coverage plans, Sen. Elizabeth Warren hadn’t shared her plan for immigration reform till yesterday. The 2020 candidate would decriminalize border-crossing violations, dramatically cut back detention, and use govt motion to get round impasse in Congress. Different 2020 information: a rating of which Democratic candidates are most helping Democrats win state legislative seats places Warren and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand on the prime; Sen. Kamala Harris is towards the underside of this listing. Plus: The president’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump is set to lead the Trump re-election campaign’s efforts to reach female voters, asserting the initiative alongside Republican Nationwide Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, former White Home communications aide Mercedes Schlapp, and former Fox Information character and girlfriend of Donald Trump Jr., Kimberly Guilfoyle. – Flare up. The Madewell IPO is (reportedly) taking place. Reuters has three sources confirming that J. Crew has employed banks to organize for the general public providing of the denim-centric model, pegged for after Labor Day, as a part of a technique to revive the bigger retailer. The IPO would place Madewell CEO Libby Wadle on the head of her personal public firm. Reuters MOVERS AND SHAKERS: Mellody Hobson was promoted to co-CEO of Ariel Investments; she is going to buy a portion of founder John Rogers’ possession stake and turn out to be the agency’s largest shareholder. Jill McDonald was ousted as the pinnacle of Marks & Spencer’s trend enterprise. Kate Jhaveri left her job as CMO of Amazon’s Twitch to start as CMO for the NBA. Twitch additionally employed former BuzzFeed head of HR Lenke Taylor as chief people officer. Lagunitas Brewing Firm introduced Kelly Murnaghan, beforehand of Vans, as its new CMO. G/O Media employed Angela Persaud as SVP, head of expertise. Kirsten Kliphouse, previously of Crimson Hat and Microsoft, joins Google Cloud as president of North America gross sales. IN CASE YOU MISSED IT – Squad v. Pelosi. 4 freshmen in Congress—all ladies of colour—say they’ve been remoted by Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib mentioned that Pelosi’s opposition to a few of their efforts appeared at first a strategy to preserve the progressive flank at bay and appease average Democrats, however has escalated; AOC known as it “the express singling out of newly elected ladies of colour.” Pressley known as Pelosi’s feedback, together with some she made in a recent interview with Maureen Dowd, “demoralizing.” Washington Post – The nominations are (virtually) in. When Emmy nominations are introduced subsequent week, anticipate female-led sequence to dominate the comedy class. It’s a giant shift from only a few years in the past, when Louie, Silicon Valley, and The Huge Bang Principle had been the frontrunners; now it’s Veep, Fleabag, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Russian Doll, and extra exhibits starring ladies within the prime roles. Fortune – No imposters right here. Right here’s an attention-grabbing tackle Christine Lagarde’s new gig on the European Central Financial institution: it’s a lesson in overcoming imposter syndrome. “She might not be the perfect certified candidate for ECB chief, however she will not be there by probability,” writes Anne Sylvaine-Chassany. Financial Times – Reduce it out? The intercourse trafficking prices in opposition to Jeffrey Epstein resurfaced an outdated Self-importance Truthful profile of the billionaire (though that standing is now in question). Author Vicky Ward says longtime Self-importance Truthful editor Graydon Carter lower her reporting on the sexual abuse allegations in opposition to Epstein from the piece. Carter responded by saying he “didn’t have faith in Ward’s reporting.” Now Kim Masters backs up Ward’s account along with her personal expertise; she claims Carter additionally lower incriminating materials from her journal tales within the 1990s to placate mates or celebrities. The Hollywood Reporter Right now’s Broadsheet was produced by Emma Hinchliffe. Share it Broadsheet with a good friend. In search of earlier Broadsheets? Click here. ON MY RADAR The Slackification of the American house The Atlantic Your first take a look at Girl Gaga’s complete Haus Laboratories magnificence line Allure Choose approves recasting of Harvey Weinstein’s protection group as trial nears Fortune Ty Haney’s Out of doors Voices work diary: Doing issues and #doingthings New York Times QUOTE I definitely don’t fit into a stereotypical wife role. I don’t even like that word. -Miley Cyrus in an ‘Elle’ profile Source link

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What Are The Best Tv Shows On Netflix

Best TV Shows on Netflix Right Now Scattered one of the better TV shows on Netflix are more and more of the streaming platform’s own original series. Watching TV on Netflix has gotten better and better as the support continues to add to its amazing catalog of network and cable collection, not to mention the proliferation of flashy Netflix originals. In reality, the business that spent its formative years in an effort to to see films has since become in the world’s main enabler of binge-watching. Our listing of the greatest shows on Netflix is here to help you discover the next TV series to devour, and we’ve appeared through the enormous catalog (USA only, sorry) to find these suggestions.

Breaking Bad

Creator: Vince Gilligan Stars: Bryan Cranston, Anna Gunn, Aaron Paul Giancarlo Esposito Network: AMC One of the things that created Breaking Bad one of the alltime greats was the writers did a phenomenal job introducing plot lines, complicated themes and tips, and then weaving them all together for an excessively fulfilling conclusion. It’s not an easy thing to do, especially when the display asks the audience to hold on tight until the end to see where it’s all going. In that way it’s similar to The Wire, a show that didn’t hammer its audience within the the pinnacle constantly with flashy occasions, but requested for patience as all the plot threads gradually untangled. And with Breaking Bad’s narrower focus, the stakes and emotional ties we have using the story and figures can be significantly higher.

Sherlock

Creators: Mark Gatiss, Steven Moffat Stars: Rupert Graves, Benedict Cumberbatch Mark Gatiss Network: BBC One h-AS only to seem in the sterling monitor record of Steve Moffat to witness a showrunner godin the creating. The guiding hand behind such English hits as Press Gang and Coupling, Moffat has acquired the most attention for resuscitating Dr. Who into the Anglo Saxon ambassador of science fiction. But Moffat and frequent collaborator Mark Gatiss transcended their best work with Sherlock, the BBC drama that hi Jacks Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s iconic sleuth into the present with awe-inspiring intelligence and type. Calling Sherlock a TV series is a tad misleading, although; the series h AS created two seasons consisting of three 90 -minute episodes each. In other words, a feature film has been averaged by the Sherlock group every 90 days since the Summer of 2010. The immaculate second period dug deeper into the psychological faultlines of Holmes, played with sterile arrogance by Benedict Cumberbatch (or as Seth Meyers mentioned on SNL, the only real man with a name mo Re preposterous than Sherlock Holmes). When the audience wasn’t trying to piece together the secret of the week, we were discovering fleeting clues to the guarded humanity of London’s best “Consulting Detective,”typically to the chagrin of longsuffering accomplice John Watson (Martin Freeman) and volatile love curiosity Irene Adler (Lara Pulver).

Dear White People

Creator: Justin Simien Stars:: Logan Browning, Brandon P. Giancarlo Esposito, Bell, DeRon Horton, Antoinette Robertson Ashley Blaine Featherson Network: Netflix Based on creator Justin Simien’s 2014 indie, Netflix’s unique series—narrated by Breaking Negative and Better Call Saul’s Giancarlo Esposito—replicates the pungent humor of the movie without ever see-ming stale, or static: Its knives are sharp, and they’re pointed in every path. Though its primary goal is white privilege, in forms both egregious (black-face events) and mundane (calls to finish “divisive”politics), Expensive White People, established on the campus of a fictional Ivyleague university, is even funnier when it turns to the information on the black students’ individual and ideological choices, transforming the the idea of the “problematic fave,”from the McRib to The Cosby Present into the engine of its own entertaining, incisive comedy.

The Fall

Creator: Allan Cubitt Stars: Gillian Anderson, Jamie Dornan, Valene Kane, SÃ©alinÃn Brennan Bronagh Taggart Sarah Beattie Network: BBC Let it be known that before he was Christian Grey, Jamie Dornan proved his performing chops and charisma as a disturbingly undisturbable murderer in this superb psychological thriller. Dornan’s mild mannered husband, father and grief counselor (!) is on the list of most terrifying onscreen serial killers in recent memory. Paul Spector is a stalker, as exacting and methodical as his eventual pursuer. Enter Gillian Anderson’s Stella Gibson, a British detective superintendent called to Belfast to look into a spate of gruesome murders. As the cat-and-mouse sport intensifies, Anderson’s characterization is its own triumph: analytical, uncompromising, reserved, but brazenly sexual on her own terms, completely unfazed by the politicking and dick-swinging of her male colleagues. That we know the identification of the killer from the show’s first frames, but can’t t-AKE our eyes off the screen is a testament to the stealth creep with which The Fall operates.

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The Office (U.K., U.S.)

Creators: Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant; U.S. edition developed by Greg Daniels Stars: U.K.: Ricky Gervais, Martin Freeman, Mackenzie Crook, Lucy Davis, Oliver Chris, Patrick Baladi, Stacey Roca, Ralph Ineson, Stirling Gallacher; U.S.: Steve Carell B, John Krasinski, Rainn Wilson, Jenna Fischer. J. Novak, Oscar Nunez, Brian Baumgartner, Angel A Kinsey, Ed Helms, Creed Bratton, Phyllis Smith, Leslie David Baker, Kate Flannery, Mindy Kaling Networks: BBC, NBC Ricky Gervais’ immortal Brit-Com deserves full marks for establishing this comedy franchise that killed the laugh monitor and introduced us to a hilarious bunch of paper-pushing mopes. Defying expectations that it could pale in comparison, NBC’s Workplace became an institution unto it self. While displaying much more heart in relation to the gang could muster in old England at its best, the American model was just as awkward as its predecessor.

Parks and Recreation

Creators: Greg Daniels Stars: Rashida Jones, Amy Poehler, Nick Offerman, Aziz Ansari, Adam Scott, Rob Low-E, Chris Pratt, Aubrey Plaza Network: NBC Recreation and Parks began its run as a relatively common mirror of The Off Ice, but in its third-season, the student became the master. As it’s fleshed-out with oddballs and unusual metropolis quirks, Pawnee has become the greatest tv town since Springfield. Today, the present flourished this yr with a few of the most unique and interesting figures in comedy. With one of the one of the biggest creating staffs of any present, Re Creation and Parks is only got better with time.

30 Rock

Creator: Tina Fey Stars: Judah Friedlander, Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin Jane Krakowski, Jack McBrayer, Scott Adsit Network: NBC The religious successor to Arrested Development, 3 Rock succeeded where its competition failed by mainly ignoring the real process of making a television show and instead focusing on the life span of one one person responsible of the procedure, played by display creator Tina Fey. 30 Rock never loses track of its own focus and generates a remarkably deep character for the its circus to spin around. But Fey’s perhaps not the only one that makes the sequence. Consistently spot-on performances by Tracy Morgan—whether frequenting strip clubs or a werewolf bar mitzvah—and Alec Baldwin’s evil plans for microwave-tele-vision programming produce an ideal le Vel of chaos for the show’s writers to unravel every week. 30 Rock doesn’t have intricate themes or a deep concept, but that stuff would be in the way of its own goal: having probably one of the most of the most regularly funny shows on Television. Suffice to say, it succeeded.

Arrested Development

Creator: Mitch Hurwitz Stars: Ron Howard, Jason Bateman, Will Arnett, Portia de Rossi, Tony Hale, David Cross, Michael Cera, Jeffrey Tambor, Jessica Walter, Alia Shawkat Networks: Fox, Netflix Mitch Hurwitz’ sit-com about a “wealthy family who lost every thing and the one son who'd no choice except to keep them all together”packed an entire lot of awesome into three short seasons. How much awesome? Well, there was the chicken dance, for starters. And Franklin’s “It’s Maybe Not Simple Being White.”There was Ron Howard’s place-on narration, and Tobias Funke’s Blue Man ambitions. There was Mrs. Featherbottom and Charlize Theron as Rita, Michael Bluth’s mentally challenged love curiosity. Not with every loose thread tying s O flawlessly in to another act h AS a story line that is comic been therefore perfectly built, since Seinfeld. Arrested Development took self-referencing post modernism to an intense that was absurdist, jumping shark but that was the level. They even induced the initial shark-jumper—Henry Winkler—as the family lawyer. When he was changed, normally, it was by Scott Baio. All of the Bluth family members was one of the better characters on tele-vision, and Jason Bateman performed a man that is straight that is brilliant to all of them. And after years of rumors, the present came ultimately back to Netflix for a fourth season—different in both construction and tone, but nevertheless, a gift to enthusiasts who'd to say goodbye to the Bluths alltoo so-on.

Orange is the New Black

Creator: Jenji Kohan Stars: Taylor Schilling, Laura Prepon. Harney, Michelle Hurst, Kate Mulgrew Network: Netflix Orange is the New Black is completely suited for the Netflix shipping program, if only as it might have been agonizing to wait a week for a new episode. But there’s more; the construct felt cinematic and compared to your average show, and I couldn’t help but feel that the all-at once release airplane freed the creators to make some thing less episodic and more free-flowing. Taylor Schilling stars as Piper Chapman, a woman living a content contemporary existence when her past rears up abruptly to tackle her from behind; 10 years earlier in the day, she was briefly a drug mule for her lover Alex Vause (the the wonderful Laura Prepon), and when Vause needed to plea her sentence down, she threw in the towel Piper. The story is based on the real-life events of Piper Kerman, whose e-book of the same title was the inspiration, but the truth is that the screen version is miles better. Schilling is the engine that drives the plot, and her odd blend of normal serenity combined with together with the growing rage and desperation in the late turn her life has taken strikes the perfect tone for a lifetime inside the women’s jail. Within the first few episodes, jail is treated like an almost-quirky novelty she’ll have to experience for 15 months, along with the wisest option director Jenji Kohan made (and there are many) was to heighten the stakes so that what starts as an off kilter journey quickly assumes the severe proportions prison lifestyle demands. And as fantastic as Prepon and Schilling are together, the cast is therefore universally outstanding that it almost beggars belief. You can find too many characters who make gold making use of their constrained display time to mention individually, but suffice it to say that there’s enough comedy, pathos and tragedy here for several exhibits. The reality that they fit therefore effectively into one makes OITNB a triumph .

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

Creators: Tina Fey Stars: Sara Chase, Ellie Kemper, Tituss Burgess, Jane Karkowski, Carol Kane, Lauren Adams Network: Netflix NBC has made any number of mistakes over the years, but few greater than shelving Tina Fey and Robert Carlock’s 3-0 Rock follow up, before punting it over to Netflix. Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt wound-up becoming one of the highlights of a great year for TV comedy. The fast-paced and flip sit com showcased breakout performances by Office vet Ellie Kemper as the titular former “mole woman”attempting to make it on on her behalf own in New York, and Tituss Burgess as her flamboyant and put-upon room mate, Titus Andromedon. (NBC has recently tri Ed to make it up to Kemper for dropping the ball on this by planting her in the guest host chair at Today—too little, also late, peacock peddlers.) Throughout the first season’s run, some writers and critics seemed deadset on finding some kind of flaw to pounce on using the present, zeroing in on the way in which the minority characters are re-presented. This may be a wild generalization, but I feel this was an organic reaction to perhaps one of the most of the most feminist sitcoms ever produced. Kimmy Schmidt is definitely upsetting the natural purchase of your network sit com that is typical. The show’s titular character is defining her li Fe on her own conditions and by her own standards. For many reason that still freaks out some people so they dismiss it or find some way to poke holes in the automobile for that idea. That is what makes the prospect of a second time so exciting. As the show can go in a myriad of directions that are different, so too can Kimmy Schmidt. Now that she has put the awful time in the bunker to mattress, she is able to face a brand new day with enthusiastic embrace of life-experience mindset, and that smile. Sorry nit pickers and network executives; Kimmy Schmidt will make it after all.

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