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April 5
Haiti charity singles
How much money was raised from We Are the World 25 for Haiti and Somos El Mundo? If more information is available, please let me know. Thank you.24.90.204.234 (talk) 04:01, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
April 6
TENNESSEE WALTZ
WAS THERE A REAL "TENNESSEE WALTZ" WHICH HAS BEEN REFFERED TO IN THE CW SONGS OF RECENT (1947+-) VINTAGE? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.192.93.195 (talk) 01:32, 6 April 2011 (UTC) <email removed> —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.192.93.195 (talk) 01:34, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
- The wikipedia article at Tennessee Waltz describes the history of the song and how it was written. In short, the song was not inspired by an earlier song or dance called "The Tennessee Waltz", but by a Bill Monroe song titled "Kentucky Waltz". You can search on YouTube for both songs and hear numerous versions of them. Both Kentucky Waltz and Tennessee Waltz are written in 3/4 time which is commonly called "Waltz time", which is probably at least the partial source of their names. For those that don't know music well, follow the primary beat of the rhythm section in the music of both songs. They go BUMP-bah-bah/BUMP-bah-bah, in both songs rather slowly. This BUMP-bah-bah rhythm is what makes them Waltzes. --Jayron32 03:20, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
- You also may want to read Waltz#Styles, which describes the Country Western Waltz, a dance which seems to date from well before either song was written; so yes Waltzing was prominent in country western culture from before Tennessee Waltz was written. --Jayron32 03:23, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
Starslip Alterverse War
Does anyone know where to find the archives of Starslip Crisis: Alterverse War? It was a non-canon crossover prequel to Starslip.
- I recommend simply emailing Kris Straub and asking him. Web-cartoonists are usually pretty responsive to emails. APL (talk) 06:10, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
British resort sitcom
Can't remember title or actors or channel. Takes place in a fictional holiday all-inclusive resort. Main cast is a mother, father, daughter, son and mother-in-law who smokes like a chimney and rides around in a wheelchair all the time. Daughter has a bi-racial son. Brad (talk) 02:14, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
- Benidorm (TV series). Nanonic (talk) 02:48, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks! Brad (talk) 11:00, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
Name this show
This is a British sitcom about a group of friends living in London I think. I think there are about four friends, maybe five or six. One of the females is blonde and works in a law(?) office. I think she dates one of the male characters. There is one funny male Scottish character. There is another male character who is nicknamed "donkey" and is a little slow. Eiad77 (talk) 06:47, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
- Not exactly a sitcom but could you be thinking of This Life? --Viennese Waltz 07:30, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
- Coupling (UK TV series) Dalliance (talk) 08:09, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
- Yes, Coupling is the show, thanks :). Eiad77 (talk) 09:15, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
- It also sounds like a mid '90s show I remember called Game On. SpeakFree (talk) 00:03, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
- I think it's more likely to be Game On (UK TV series), as there wasn't a male Scottish character in Coupling , but there was a Welsh character who was a little slow. In Coupling, all the girls seemed to be involved with all the males (except the Welsh character for some strange reason - I thought he was cute!) at various times. --TammyMoet (talk) 08:36, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
- At the beginning of the series, Susan has history with Patrick and Steve is trying to dump Jane; Susan and Steve become the central couple. I don't think Sally and Steve ever hooked up. — Jeff was a virgin at 29 because he over-analysed everything. —Tamfang (talk) 01:46, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
Name the film
Hi everyone. I remember watching a film a fair while back on TV, and unfortunately I can't remember much about it. I remember that it was something about a teacher coming to help a class of kids who had been more or less given up on, and there was a section where the teacher asks about 10 different questions on subjects, the answer to which is Lincoln (eg something about the cars, the president, etc). Can anyone tell me what film it was? I think the teacher's car gets destroyed at some point too. -mattbuck (Talk) 21:57, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
- Possibly Stand and Deliver? --Thomprod (talk) 17:28, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
- If not, see our Category:Films about educators, or see the list of "Examples" at the TVTropes "Save Our Students" page. Comet Tuttle (talk) 19:10, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
- Nope, none of those. If it's any help, I think the teacher's car gets driven off a cliff in a game of chicken. -mattbuck (Talk) 14:00, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
- That happens at the end of The Pom Pom Girls, if memory serves; though it's not a teacher's car, and such an incident is likely far from unique! —Tamfang (talk) 20:03, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
In the scene before the opening credits, Pumpkin tells Honey Bunny the story of a man who robbed a bank with a telephone. Is there a real-life incident in which such a robbery occurred? Also, did Jules Winnfield commit any crime at the end of the film when he made Pumpkin return his wallet but otherwise let him and Honey Bunny escape with the other wallets and register? Hemoroid Agastordoff (talk) 22:35, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
- Hmm, the last thing could be aiding and abetting I guess. -mattbuck (Talk) 22:39, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
- First off, Jules has bigger problems if the California state police ever catch up to him. But the negotiation over the wallet is best characterized as compounding a felony, which falls short of aiding & abetting and in most (but not all) of the world, it's not considered a punishable offense. --M@rēino 14:01, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
- I didn't find anything with a quick Googling, but in the US, some large number of bank robberies occur with the robber simply handing a note to the cashier demanding the cash, and with the robber never displaying a weapon or saying anything. Here's an example. It's still a federal crime, of course. The bank robbery article says in Australia, 28% of bank robbers are unarmed. Comet Tuttle (talk) 19:03, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
April 7
William Refrigerator Perry
Please Add The AP News Story Of April 7th 2011 About The 10 Year Old Boy Cliff Forest. Who Took 8500.00 Out Of His Savings Account To Buy Perrys Super Bowl Ring And Gave It Back To Perry —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.243.1.129 (talk) 15:57, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
- You can do it too, you know. No one here is any more special than you regarding the right to make articles better. --Jayron32 16:09, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
- Please learn to use capitals properly before you do that, though. Not every word needs one. Britmax (talk) 16:30, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
- What air head of a mother allows her son to use money earmarked for his college education to do such a thing?! Clarityfiend (talk) 19:53, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
- Please learn to use capitals properly before you do that, though. Not every word needs one. Britmax (talk) 16:30, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
Jerry Lewis
Is Jerry Lewis fluent in French?
Thanks, Wanderer57 (talk) 19:02, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
- Not according to this BBC article, which says he doesn't speak French. (It's one of the referenced articles in our Jerry Lewis article.) Comet Tuttle (talk) 19:05, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
- Thank you. I continue to be amazed by the huge range of questions the Reference Desk is able to answer. Wanderer57 (talk) 20:11, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
burlesque theaters
--Sterlingboy (talk) 19:41, 7 April 2011 (UTC)I am told that the last active burlesque theater in America was the Folly Theater in Kansas City. It was a burlesque house from 1940 to 1974. Is this true?
- As our burlesque article discusses (in the "American Burlesque" section), there has been a nostalgic minor revival of the form since the 1990s. Our Neo-Burlesque article is about recent burlesque theater. Comet Tuttle (talk) 21:36, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
- I have been to the Folly Theater and it is a remarkable little building with a very unique interior. While it is very much in operation today, it is a regular concert hall now. Kansan (talk) 02:33, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
April 9
Law and Order Feature Film
Hello, wikipedians I`m asking a law and order question, yes about the tv show. Basically I`m wondering given the format of the show, which I don`t feel I have to explain since whoever answers this questions probaly knows how the show is structured. What are the chances it will hit the big screen? And how best would it translate to the big screen? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.77.82.235 (talk) 02:22, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
- The format of the show, in which there's basically a different set of characters for each half, doesn't lend itself to standard big screen treatment. Hollywood usually wants a main protagonist to carry a film from beginning to end. If a Law & Order film were to hit the big screen, it would almost certainly not follow the structure of the show, but instead focus on a main character, like Exiled: A Law & Order Movie did. Dick Wolf has declared that the original show is officially dead, so don't expect a feature film anytime soon. My guess is that a feature film will be made years from now with a new, movie star cast, in the way that Miami Vice was revived. —Kevin Myers 04:17, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
- I don't see why the "two halves with different characters" approach wouldn't work. It would be like watching a double feature. StuRat (talk) 06:26, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
- Of course it could work. It's probably been done in a low budget or independent film. Just don't look for Hollywood to try this kind of experiment with an established franchise name. —Kevin Myers 14:25, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
- There have been other Hollywood films, working with an established franchise name, which also involved multiple stories (and casts), sometimes linked together. Cat's Eye (1985 film) (written by Steven King) and Twilight Zone: The Movie come to mind. StuRat (talk) 18:29, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
- Those are known as anthology films, and they do not resemble the structure of Law & Order. I can't think of any film that does, but I assume there must be. (Sliding Doors, cited below, does not.) —Kevin Myers 20:07, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
- Particularly Cat's Eye, which follows a cat through 3 stories, seems similar to L&O, which follows the criminal through 2 stories. StuRat (talk) 17:47, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
- There is a film, Sliding Doors, which has the plot device of what happens after the doors shut someone in, and then what happens after the doors shut someone out. It sounds similar to what you're asking. --TammyMoet (talk) 10:00, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
- Actually, a movie where they DID try a similar format (show in two halves, loosely connected via the plot) was Full Metal Jacket, however the result was that no one remembers the second half. The film was supposed to be about the Matthew Modine character (he's the only character to connect the two halves, and acts as the first-person perspective for the film), but the film is stolen by R. Lee Ermey, and he dies at the end of the first "act"... --Jayron32 20:27, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
- FMJ does have a single protagonist through the film, so it's not the classic Law & Order format, but I think we're getting warmer. The closest in structure that I've thought of so far is Zodiac, where Downey and the detectives are the protagonists early on, but by the end Gyllenhaal has emerged as the sole protagonist. The gradual shifting of protagonists in Zodiac is what struck me as being the most unusual aspect of the film.
- For those who don't know, by the way, the structure of the original Law & Order series was this: the first half of the show followed the detectives as they investigated a crime; the second half followed the prosecutors as they prosecuted the crime. It was a marriage of two genres: the police procedural and the courtroom drama. What made the show unusual was that there was limited interaction between the casts of the two halves of the show. The only major connection between the first and second half of the show was usually the crime (and the criminal). —Kevin Myers 20:59, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
- Well, if that's the case then what about another Kubrick film, A Space Odyssey, but that film is told in 4 parts (not two). Still, the distinct, disjointed acts work like law-and-order, and the "Monolith" acts like the crime does for L&O... --Jayron32 21:12, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
- I always thought that movie must have been two movies mashed together. There was the film about a homicidal computer, something like Terminator, which I liked, and then there was the movie about the monoliths (told in several parts), which I didn't like as much. I don't see any inherent reason why those belonged together, except perhaps that the monolith plot was rather boring on it's own. StuRat (talk) 17:45, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
- Typically a feature film based on a TV series needs and wants to be "more than just a 2-hour TV movie". Given the usual approach to the "Law & Order" series, I don't see how they could make it work. But that wouldn't necessarily stop them from trying. :) I think of the "Star Trek: Next Generation" films as a good example of how to create movies from a TV series. Although the TV show's production values were very good, there's still something grander about the movies. To make it work for Law & Order, they would have to get out of the "box" that each TV episode is normally contained in. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 18:10, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
- Let's see, you could stretch the length by adding a "twist", which they frequently do anyway. For example, they could catch and convict the original criminal, only to have him:
- A) Escape and come after the police and prosecutors, attorneys, judge, and jury.
- B) Turn out not to be guilty, requiring them to get him retried or released and also now catch and try the real guilty party.
- Also, to make it "grander" than the usual TV show, they could make parts take place abroad, such as going there to help catch a fleeing felon or help prosecute somebody who committed a crime in the US (but isn't tried there due to diplomatic immunity, fleeing to a nation with no US extradition treaty or that refuses to extradite to nations with capital punishment, etc). StuRat (talk) 18:26, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
- What I would like to see is for them to bring together the main characters from all 3 shows, to solve a highly complex sex-and-murder mystery. They all operate in the same "universe", but only ever vaguely allude to each other. Imagine Munch and Goren working on a case together. That would be interesting. In any case, it would expand the normal bounds of the TV series. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 18:31, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
- There have been several crossovers between the L&O series. Couldn't find a list on WP or elsewhere. Perhaps you know Munch himself is a crossover character who started as a lead on Homicide: Life on the street. Staecker (talk) 01:36, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
- What I would like to see is for them to bring together the main characters from all 3 shows, to solve a highly complex sex-and-murder mystery. They all operate in the same "universe", but only ever vaguely allude to each other. Imagine Munch and Goren working on a case together. That would be interesting. In any case, it would expand the normal bounds of the TV series. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 18:31, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
- Also, to make it "grander" than the usual TV show, they could make parts take place abroad, such as going there to help catch a fleeing felon or help prosecute somebody who committed a crime in the US (but isn't tried there due to diplomatic immunity, fleeing to a nation with no US extradition treaty or that refuses to extradite to nations with capital punishment, etc). StuRat (talk) 18:26, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
- L&O jumped the shark (IMO) after the couple of seasons featuring Lenny and Ed Green. As someone said above, that's about when they really got away from the format where the first half of the episode followed the detectives, and the other half followed the prosecutors. Around that time was when you really started to see the spin-offs, like SVU (probably one of the better spin-offs), criminal intent, and others. I think it would be possible to do a feature film, but I don't think it would be well received. Also, there is a TV movie Exiled: A Law & Order Movie, featuring the on-again, off again L&O character, Mike Logan, that is pretty good, and might have been do-able on the big screen. Quinn ☂THUNDER 21:06, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
CNN Live reports from the president not live
Fifteen minutes ago I looked at Twitter.com and saw a "top tweet" for a speech from Obama. I accessed it at [1] and, dissatisfied with the skippy playback, read the full transcript.[2] A few minutes later I switched to CNN, and heard to "stay tuned" for a live speech from the president. Lo and behold, it's the exact same speech! How long does CNN typically delay speeches like this, and why? (note: this was the speech after the midnight budget deal to avoid a "government shutdown", a very important speech relatively speaking) Was it to get the other speeches (Harry Reid etc.?) To give their talking heads a chance to rehearse their lines? And when they then told the talking head, "I have to cut you off, but a speech by Harry Reid is coming on", is that just play-acted patter, since I assume that one too is delayed by some minutes? What's the story here? Wnt (talk) 04:12, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
- That the media sometimes lies. HiLo48 (talk) 04:29, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
- Many speeches are written ahead of time, and their transcripts are availible before they are given. Often, the press gets a copy of the speech before it ever is delivered. Admitedly, the president can speak extemporaneously or change things up, and may do so, but the speech is usually a decent draft of what he is going to say, and he may have just stayed on script very well this time. --Jayron32 04:54, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
- No, there was a White House video, and I watched a few seconds of it - I just turned to the transcript because it kept stopping and starting. But it looked like the same speech I heard later. Unless he stood in the same place, made the same speech, just so the media could have a "live" version ... which I doubt. Wnt (talk) 05:50, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
- Three of the four DC-area TV stations (except WTTG, go figure) and WTOP aired the speech at around 23:10 ET, at the same time as CNN. The BBC mentioned that it was beginning at 23:12. NPR didn't send a news alert until after the speech was over, at 23:15. The White House transcript is timed at 23:04, and at 23:05 the BBC (who had ostensibly seen the transcript) said that a statement was coming shortly -- so perhaps a transcript was indeed released before the speech. At what time did you watch the website video? Xenon54 (talk) 13:36, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
- Above I said I thought I'd seen the video on the web site around 23:57 EDT (22:57 EST) - I know it was before midnight. The news media ran it at maybe 24:05 or 24:10 EDT? I went straight here as soon as I realized it was the same speech, and posted at 24:12. I reiterate, the video of the speech was already up at the White House site before I read the transcript; it was just not playing well for me. Wnt (talk) 18:09, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
- Three of the four DC-area TV stations (except WTTG, go figure) and WTOP aired the speech at around 23:10 ET, at the same time as CNN. The BBC mentioned that it was beginning at 23:12. NPR didn't send a news alert until after the speech was over, at 23:15. The White House transcript is timed at 23:04, and at 23:05 the BBC (who had ostensibly seen the transcript) said that a statement was coming shortly -- so perhaps a transcript was indeed released before the speech. At what time did you watch the website video? Xenon54 (talk) 13:36, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
- No, there was a White House video, and I watched a few seconds of it - I just turned to the transcript because it kept stopping and starting. But it looked like the same speech I heard later. Unless he stood in the same place, made the same speech, just so the media could have a "live" version ... which I doubt. Wnt (talk) 05:50, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
buhbees
wher do babies come from? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.2.239.80 (talk) 08:19, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
- Mendoza Province
- Paris —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.51.168.147 (talk) 12:12, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
- We have an article on Human fertilization. If you feel it is too complicated, you can always come back and ask questions. --Cookatoo.ergo.ZooM (talk) 21:18, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
- In the case of the IP, they come from Brooklyn Hospital. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 23:53, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
- I heard storks delivered them ... image evidence here. Astronaut (talk) 14:24, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
- That looks definitive. Specifically, they deliver them to hospitals. They used to do home delivery, but that pretty came to an end once they unionized. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 14:34, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
- I heard storks delivered them ... image evidence here. Astronaut (talk) 14:24, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
- I think Rudy from the Cosby Show described it best once in an episode. Something along the lines of: A husband in wife gets in the bed together. The husband asks the wife, "Do you want to have a baby?" The wife says, "Yes." And then the baby pops out. Quinn ☂THUNDER 20:54, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
¿En qué idiomas va a estar OilRush ?
What languages will OilRush support besides english?
190.51.168.147 (talk) 12:11, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
Why is ska so forgotten?
Ska and variations thereof are virtually unknown genres to many. I remember an Onion headline reading "Ska Band Outnumbers Audience", even! Why is ska so commercially unsuccessful, and what are some of the most successful ska/ska-punk groups? 75.73.225.224 (talk) 13:03, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
- I don't know where you are but here in the UK ska was fairly successful. Bands like The Selecter and The Specials had high followings during the early to mid 1980s and the most successful ska based band here with several chart hits were Madness. It's gone off the boil now, as these things do, but Madness still perform and several of the other acts are still about. Oh, and ska influenced bands like Bad Manners still show up. Britmax (talk) 13:34, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
- (edit conflict)Ska has, at times, been more popular than it is now. During the late 1970's and 1980's in the UK there was the 2 Tone ska movement, The Specials had a #1 hit in the UK with "Too Much, Too Young", so it was clearly popular. In the U.S., 2-tone ska went largely unnoticed, save for a lone hit by Madness, "Our House", which was a fairly big MTV hit in America. Madness was one of the most popular bands in the U.K. at their heyday, but in the U.S. they were a minor player, and no other 2-Tone ska band had any impact. The only 1980's U.S. ska band to have any impact at all was probably Fishbone. The U.S. had to wait for the 1990s and Third Wave Ska and Ska punk to take root; the vanguard of that movement was Operation Ivy, whose song "Knowledge" was hugely influential, if not popular in the mainstream. 1996-1997 was the peak of the Third Wave Ska movement. The song "Don't Speak" from No Doubt came out in 1996, and introduced a radio-friendly Pop version of Ska, and the summer of 1997 was dominated by three songs in particular, Reel Big Fish's "Sell Out", Sublime's "What I Got" and the Mighty Mighty Bosstones' "The Impression That I Get". In the U.S. market, 1997 was the summer of ska; the Bosstones song in particular was a huge crossover hit that year, while Sublime became a big song on Modern Rock/AOR stations, and Sublime remains a popular band in those formats even today. Like all musical trends, however, it washed out within a few years; and probably about 10 years ago was the end of ska as a viable popular form of music. The Bosstones are still around, and still host their "Hometown Throwdown" in Boston every winter (I went this year, was a GREAT time), and of course you can still find CDs of a lot of these bands, but you are correct that there's not a lot of current ska acts getting radio play. That doesn't mean they don't exist, there's probably underground ska acts playing clubs in a major city near you right now. Its just not the major force that it was in 1997... --Jayron32 13:37, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
- Here in Coventry, where 2 Tone started, we now have a museum to it. It's still very popular here. --TammyMoet (talk) 15:02, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
- Ska isn't forgotten, I remember it every time I play Scrabble. StuRat (talk) 01:45, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
- Ska has always been outside of the mainstream, by necessity. Heh. I remember it showing up on an episode of the old Police Squad! tv series, when Dirk Clark used Det. Drebin's informant to ask about ska. [3] Dayewalker (talk) 01:52, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
- Good to know. BTW, isn't Sublime more reggae-rock than ska? Did Reel Big Fish's song actually chart? Why 1997? And relatively, what is the recognition level of the notable group Streetlight Manifesto? 75.73.225.224 (talk) 02:20, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
- Sublime certainly infused lots of reggae as well as ska into their music. Dial up their song "Date Rape", and it's pure ska, tho. "Santeria" has a slow-ska vibe to it as well. Since Ska predated reggae as a musical style, and heavily influenced it, its not surprising to find both styles present in the same band. Like many bands, it isn't helpful to pigeonhole them into one single tiny restrictive genre. But they certainly had ska influences. "Sell Out" by RBF certainly charted, it peaked at 69 on the hot 100; which is quite respectable for a ska-punk outfit. It got a lot of airplay on the alternative rock stations that summer; didn't quite have the pop crossover that "The Impression That I Get" did. As far as "Why 1997" Who knows? Why not 1997. Musical fads like this come and go with no discernable reasoning. Why did Punk Rock get so huge in 1977? Perhaps the best thing I can come up with for the Ska revival in 1997 was that it coincided with the Big Band swing revival. The release of the movie Swingers made 1996-1997 also a time of swing revival bands like Cherry Poppin' Daddies, Squirrel Nut Zippers, The Brian Setzer Orchestra, and Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. The swing revival coincided nicely with the Third Wave Ska movement, and the two movements share a lot of common instrumentation and styling. As far as Streetlight Manifesto, I've heard some of their stuff around the internet on underground podcasts and stuff like that, but they have had next to zero impact on wide-appeal mainstream media; unlike the earlier Ska movements. --Jayron32 03:09, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
- Good to know. BTW, isn't Sublime more reggae-rock than ska? Did Reel Big Fish's song actually chart? Why 1997? And relatively, what is the recognition level of the notable group Streetlight Manifesto? 75.73.225.224 (talk) 02:20, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
- Ska has always been outside of the mainstream, by necessity. Heh. I remember it showing up on an episode of the old Police Squad! tv series, when Dirk Clark used Det. Drebin's informant to ask about ska. [3] Dayewalker (talk) 01:52, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
Last song Last King of Scotland
What was the name of the song that was playing when they were showing the real footage of Idi Amin and real facts? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.95.105.232 (talk) 15:53, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
Assuming that the last song on the list, Kay's Lament, is the one performed over the final credits, the song you referred to (which bridges from the section you mention into the final credits) is "Acholi Pot Song" by "The Ndere Dance Troupe". Or so I gather from the credits on my copy of the DVD (which I haven't got around to watching yet otherwise). Britmax (talk) 16:57, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
And confirmed here Britmax (talk) 16:59, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
April 10
Is there a phone number or e-mail address for Daniela_Sea manager who played Max on The_L_Word?
Is there a phone number or e-mail address for Daniela_Sea manager who played Max on The_L_Word? Neptunekh2 (talk) 01:51, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
- Go to http://pro.imdb.com/name/nm2121084/agent?d=nm_ovrview_contact, but you'll have to register and they will bill you if you keep the account for longer than the trial period. Corvus cornixtalk 23:26, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
Is there an upcoming The_L_Word covention in Calfornia this year?
Is there an upcoming The_L_Word covention in Calfornia this year? Neptunekh2 (talk) 01:52, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
DT rush against Starcraft pro-gamers
It took me some 8-9 minutes to conduct a dark templar rush against comp in SC Brood War. How effective this rush would be against terran or protoss pro-gamers, such as Flash?--89.76.224.253 (talk) 02:21, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
- I don't know much about Flash, but I would suggest study his play style (Should be alot of replays for a pro gamer) and see how often he gets observer type units (I forget the name of units that can spot hidden units). Bluefist talk 13:13, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
- Flash is a progamer account played frequently by drewbie (of ROOT) and maybe others, who incidentally plays Terran. DT rushes don't take 9 minutes, if that's all you do you can have a DT out before 8 minutes easy. It's possible to have 3 dts out around 7 minutes in sc2. Shadowjams (talk) 07:32, 16 April 2011 (UTC)
美少女戦士セーラー天王星のウェブサイト
誰もが何か良いセーラー天王星のWebサイトに名前を付けることはできますか? Neptunekh2 (talk) 04:14, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
- As I mentioned over at the Miscellaneous desk, this is the English Wikipedia. We don't hold grudges against other languages, but if you want to be answerable by the most people, please post them here in English. If you genuinely wish to converse in another language, use the interlanguage links to the left to find the equivalent page at that language's Wikipedia. Its a bit obnoxious to keep posting in other languages, expecting most of us to be able to follow you. If you are looking for an English language response from the native speakers of a language, then ask in English, but say "If someone who speaks Chinese could answer this question, I would appreciate it" and it will happen that way... --Jayron32 04:32, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
- The question in ja is not understandable even to a native speaker. Oda Mari (talk) 04:39, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
- Yeah, given this user's recent questions, I was guessing that it was a machine translation of an English question, which only reinforces the fact that it would just be better to ask it in English. I didn't recognize it as Japanese myself (I apologize for mistaking it for Chinese) as I am completely illiterate in non-European languages. --Jayron32 05:39, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
- We can tell it's Japanese by the admixture of curvier characters: もが か い の に を けることはできますか. —Tamfang (talk) 08:37, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
- Curvier? That might be a nice new heuristic. My impression is that the kana are less dense than the kanji, I didn't notice that they're also more curvy. However, just looking for の alone is enough to recognize most Japanese text, but maybe that character is not only frequent but also distinctive because it's curvy. – b_jonas 18:50, 16 April 2011 (UTC)
- We can tell it's Japanese by the admixture of curvier characters: もが か い の に を けることはできますか. —Tamfang (talk) 08:37, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
- Yeah, given this user's recent questions, I was guessing that it was a machine translation of an English question, which only reinforces the fact that it would just be better to ask it in English. I didn't recognize it as Japanese myself (I apologize for mistaking it for Chinese) as I am completely illiterate in non-European languages. --Jayron32 05:39, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
- Here is a literal translation of the original question: "Can anyone name some good Sailor Uranus websites?" "Anyone" should have been translated to "誰か" rather than "誰もが" which is for a positive, non-interrogative sentense and "name" should have been translated to "の名を挙げる" rather than "に名前を付ける" which is in the sense "to give a name to". Lastly, Sailor Uranus is セーラーウラヌス, not セーラー天王星. --Kusunose 11:38, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
- The question in ja is not understandable even to a native speaker. Oda Mari (talk) 04:39, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
what is the name of the movie
plot revolves around the relationship between a wife and husband. The wife's boss asked her (most probably inside an airplane as far I remember) to sleep with him, which she accepted. Later the wife admitted to her husband that she slept with her boss. After she told him that she was approached by her boss, the husband tells: "What did you say?" and repeating the question again and again, and the wife replies that she accepted the offer. The husband then expresses sorrow.
In a later scene, the husband accidentally hit the wife and laments, and the wife says I love you. Can anyone guess the title? --Voulgdoerle (talk) 13:29, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
hospital B in Paris
In Le Dîner de Cons (film), what is the name of the hospital? It begins with B and is translated(?) as "West Side". —Tamfang (talk) 19:55, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
- It's the hôpital Bichat [4] 194.6.163.244 (talk) 06:13, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
- (or, in preferred link syntax, fr:Hôpital Xavier-Bichat) ...named for Marie François Xavier Bichat. Merci. —Tamfang (talk) 08:39, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
April 11
Baseball
A BATTER HITS A GROUND BALL TO SHORTSTOP HE THROWS THE BALL TO FIRST BASE THE FIRST BASEMAN TRAPS THE BALL ON THE GROUND WITH HIS BARE HAND ON TOP OF THE BALL AND HIS LEFT FOOT ON THE BAG IS THE RUNNER OUT OR SAFE ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.19.163.49 (talk) 01:19, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
- I DONT KNOW I ALSO DONT CARE IS YOUR CAPS LOCK STUCK IS THE KEY TO THE LEFT OF THE QUESTION MARK KEY BROKEN? —Tamfang (talk) 01:32, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
- I've added a heading to your question. And the answer depends on whether the first baseman had the ball before or after the runner reached first base. Dismas|(talk) 01:43, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
- The runner is safe. Rule 2.00 states that a "tag" is defined as "is the action of a fielder in touching a base with his body while holding the ball securely and firmly in his hand or glove; or touching a runner with the ball, or with his hand or glove holding the ball, while holding the ball securely and firmly in his hand or glove." Notice how many times it states "ball securely and firmly in his hand or glove". If the ball is touching the ground, it is NOT "securely and firmly in his hand or glove." Official rules of MLB found here. --Jayron32 02:05, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
- I think it would be up to the umpire's judgment as to whether the first baseman was holding the ball securely. If he's merely pressing down on it, the call would more likely be "safe". If he has his fingers wrapped around it, the call would more likely be "out". Having said that, I'm trying to imagine such a scenario even arising. It's going to be a hard throw, and a fielder's natural instinct is to try to catch a hard hit or hard thrown ball with his glove. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 10:25, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
- Well, it is always up to umpires judgement, but by the rules if the umpire judged the ball to be holding the ball as described by the OP, with the ball on the ground with his bare hand on top of it that seems to unambiguously NOT be securly and firmly in the hand. Judging by typical practice in an analogous play, another time that the phrase "securely and firmly in is hand or glove" occurs in the rules is in the Rule 2.00 definition of a catch, and in order to be adjudged a catch for the purpose of putting a player out, the ball cannot have touched the ground before it is secure and firm in the hand or glove. Even if the contact with the ground occurs simultaneous with the catch, it is usually ruled a non-catch. In this situation, if the batter-runner reaches first base before the firstbasemen secures the ball in his hand or glove, he's safe. --Jayron32 14:37, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
- Yes. The difference is that it's a thrown ball rather than a fly ball. And I'll grant that in a situation like the OP describes, it is most likely that the umpire would judge the first baseman to not be fully controlling the ball. However, there's no acounting for umpire's judgment. There's the-perfect-game-that-wasn't, last year. There's the-tag-that-wasn't in the 1970 World Series. And maybe you've heard about the Cubs-Cardinals game in 1959 or so, when an umpire managed to put an extra ball into play. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 14:49, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
- Well, obviously, there's the fact that umpires are human, and make calls which turn out to be the wrong call where that call affects the game. That doesn't represent a fundemental difference in how the rules are supposed to work. This is true of every official in every sport; whether a football ref makes a phantom "roughing the passer" call that decides a playoff game, or a basketball ref misses a blatant foul, or a missed handball that everyone saw except the officials on the field. That the umpire screws up, and the game is changed by it, doesn't make the rules any different. I'm fairly confident that if the umpire did call the player above "out", it would be soundly denounced as the wrong call from the top down. The correct call is that the runner is safe; and if an umpire screws up, that doesn't change what the call should be. --Jayron32 15:30, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
- If the player does not have the ball fully in control, then the runner should be called safe, yes. And hopefully the ump will get the call right. I just wonder if this type of situation has ever actually arisen. It does not sound familiar, but in baseball most anything can happen at least once. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 15:41, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
- Well, obviously, there's the fact that umpires are human, and make calls which turn out to be the wrong call where that call affects the game. That doesn't represent a fundemental difference in how the rules are supposed to work. This is true of every official in every sport; whether a football ref makes a phantom "roughing the passer" call that decides a playoff game, or a basketball ref misses a blatant foul, or a missed handball that everyone saw except the officials on the field. That the umpire screws up, and the game is changed by it, doesn't make the rules any different. I'm fairly confident that if the umpire did call the player above "out", it would be soundly denounced as the wrong call from the top down. The correct call is that the runner is safe; and if an umpire screws up, that doesn't change what the call should be. --Jayron32 15:30, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
- Yes. The difference is that it's a thrown ball rather than a fly ball. And I'll grant that in a situation like the OP describes, it is most likely that the umpire would judge the first baseman to not be fully controlling the ball. However, there's no acounting for umpire's judgment. There's the-perfect-game-that-wasn't, last year. There's the-tag-that-wasn't in the 1970 World Series. And maybe you've heard about the Cubs-Cardinals game in 1959 or so, when an umpire managed to put an extra ball into play. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 14:49, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
- Well, it is always up to umpires judgement, but by the rules if the umpire judged the ball to be holding the ball as described by the OP, with the ball on the ground with his bare hand on top of it that seems to unambiguously NOT be securly and firmly in the hand. Judging by typical practice in an analogous play, another time that the phrase "securely and firmly in is hand or glove" occurs in the rules is in the Rule 2.00 definition of a catch, and in order to be adjudged a catch for the purpose of putting a player out, the ball cannot have touched the ground before it is secure and firm in the hand or glove. Even if the contact with the ground occurs simultaneous with the catch, it is usually ruled a non-catch. In this situation, if the batter-runner reaches first base before the firstbasemen secures the ball in his hand or glove, he's safe. --Jayron32 14:37, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
Death of Peter Christopherson
Musician Peter Christopherson of Throbbing Gristle and Coil died last year at his home in Thailand. He was 55. I'm trying to establish the cause of death but cannot find any information on this. All the news reports and every online source I've looked at just state that he died in his sleep without mentioning the actual cause. So can anyone find any more information? I'm wondering if a death certificate – which would presumably state the cause – is a public document in Thailand. Thanks. --Viennese Waltz 12:27, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
Narrator in Let's Make Love
At the very beginning of Let's Make Love, a man is narrating the story of a family's lineage. I'm trying to find the name behind that voice. The credits at IMDb are locked as "Verified as complete" (one of IMDb's many unimpressive little peculiarities), but I don't see any narrator listed. The voice, to me, sounds absolutely like Richard Haydn's. Unfortunately, I can't find an online clip of the intro of this movie. Would anyone know who the narrator may be? Thank you. – Kerαunoςcopia◁galaxies 14:10, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
Canadiens vs Leafs: Head-to-Head
I was wondering what the win/loss stats are for the Montreal Canadiens vs. the Toronto Maple Leafs, going head-to-head, since the last time the Leafs have won the Stanley Cup, 1967? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.28.86.188 (talk) 20:34, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
- Using hockey-reference.com, here are the season stats:
- 67-68 3-5-2
- 68-69 3-4-1
- 69-70 1-4-3
- 70-71 4-2
- 71-72 1-4-1
- 72-73 0-5-1
- 73-74 3-2
- 74-75 2-1-2
- 75-76 1-3-1
- 76-77 1-2-2
- 77-78 0-4-1 (playoffs semi-finals 0-4)
- 78-79 0-3-1 (playoffs quarter-finals 0-4)
- 79-80 1-3
- 80-81 1-3
- 81-82 0-2-1
- 82-83 1-0-2
- 83-84 1-2
- 84-85 3-0
- 85-86 1-2
- 86-87 1-2
- 87-88 0-3
- 88-89 1-2
- 89-90 1-2
- 90-91 1-1-1
- 91-92 1-2
- 92-93 2-0
- 93-94 0-2
- 94-95 lockout, didn't play each other
- 95-96 0-2
- 96-97 1-1
- 97-98 1-1
- 98-99 2-3
- 99-00 4-1
- 00-01 4-1
- 01-02 2-3
- 02-03 3-1-1
- 03-04 4-2
- 04-05 lockout
- 05-06 4-4
- 06-07 4-4
- 07-08 4-4
- 08-09 3-3
- 09-10 3-3
- 10-11 3-3
- Thus, if I've added correctly, the Leafs are 76-101-20, plus 0-8 in the playoffs. (They should have beat the Canadiens in the Cup finals in 1993 of course, but, well, you know.) Adam Bishop (talk) 14:03, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
April 12
Overweight lady pop singers
Why have very overweight female singers like Adele (UK) suddenly become no. 1s in the top ten? A few years ago it would have been the kiss of death to try to promote a fat pop singer, nobody would even have considered it. Thanks. 92.15.21.224 (talk) 13:32, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
- Is she "very overweight"? Anyway, Beth Ditto's success might have encouraged promoters to push some female singers who aren't thin. Warofdreams talk 13:42, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
- Not forgetting Susan Boyle. doomgaze (talk) 13:55, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
- Adele is not very overweight; she's a UK 14-16[5], which is about average (14 is generally cited as average[6]).
- I don't think is a recent trend. There have always been singers fatter than the normal sylph-like sex symbols. It's been very popular in soul and disco (Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, Mavis Staples, latterly Ronnie Spector, even Tina Turner at times); Alison Moyet had lots of UK hits in the 80s; Missy Elliot; Queen Latifah; Michelle McManus; Ana Matronic of the Scissor Sisters (who has lost weight recently); not to mention novelty acts like The Weathergirls and Monserrat Caballe (with Freddie Mercury). --Colapeninsula (talk) 14:11, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
- Sophie Tucker, Kate Smith, Cass Elliot, Bette Midler, Carnie Wilson, those are a few popular plus-sized singers that come to mind from various generations. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 14:20, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
- OTOH, there's examples from the age of music video, especially Martha Wash of Black Box and the C+C Music Factory and Ann Wilson of Heart who either got partially or totally written out of music videos and other public appearances for no reason other than their weight. Marta Wash got particularly screwed when they would put other women lip syncing to her videos, and she would get no public credit for the singing she did. These women are among the best vocalists, male of female, of the past 30 years, and because of their weight there was a concerted effort to minimize their contributions. --Jayron32 15:24, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
- Sophie Tucker, Kate Smith, Cass Elliot, Bette Midler, Carnie Wilson, those are a few popular plus-sized singers that come to mind from various generations. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 14:20, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
- Not forgetting Susan Boyle. doomgaze (talk) 13:55, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
April 13
Down by Law
In Down by Law, when Bob is abandoned on the riverbank he babbles to himself in Italian; what is he talking about? (I have some Italian but got nothing out of this.) —Tamfang (talk) 07:22, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
On the accuracy of Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in Tom and Jerry.
So, I finally have children who are of the right age to appreciate the wit and sophistication of Tom and Jerry. Right now, they are watching "The Cat Concerto", and I noticed (for the first time, since I haven't seen it since I was a kid) that Tom (playing the above piece of music) seems to actually be playing the piece of music on the piano. In most cartoons where a character is playing an instrument, no effort is made to make sure that the animated hands of the character play the piece correctly. You just see some random movement, sometimes the animators make a halfassed effort to make the hands move in time with the music, but its all pretty random usually. However, in this cartoon, he seems to be hitting all the correct notes. Does anyone know (or can anyone point me to any analysis thereof) if the cartoon cat is actually playing the correct notes, or am I imagining it? --Jayron32 19:05, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
- According to the Big Cartoon Database, the animation was "based on the animators studying the fingers of great cartoon composer Scott Bradley playing Franz Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody #2". ---Sluzzelin talk 19:22, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
I — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gerry Renert (talk • contribs) 19:49, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
- Awesome. Thanks for finding that. Anyone know how accurate the attempt was? That is, can any piano players confirm that he's doing a really good job? --Jayron32 20:07, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
- It would be interesting to find out if the playing in Rhapsody Rabbit was in the same neighborhood of accuracy. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 20:38, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
- I'll check that out some other time, if no one else does before me. I did watch The Cat Concerto and checked with the sheet music. The beginning is certainly accurate. There are some passages where accuracy makes way for comic effect, like the glissandi produced by Jerry's frantic running under the white keys , which obviously aren't played on white keys only. In other cases, out of considerations of visual composition, I assume, the registers aren't always accurate. The espressivo part Tom plays between knocking Jerry out with a tuning hammer and having Jerry slam the piano lid on his fingers, for example, is depicted an octave too low, as far as I can tell. But all in all, it looks quite accurate, and certainly appears as though a lot of pianistic thought went into the animation. ---Sluzzelin talk 21:06, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
- As for Bugs ..., you got some serious practicing to do! I merely checked the beginning, and Bugs Bunny plays rising intervals when they sound descending. No match in that department, I'm afraid. ---Sluzzelin talk 22:16, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
- Good enough for confirmation. Bugsy's playing for laughs rather than accuracy. There's also the question of why the cartoon is introduced by a segment of the Siegfried Funeral March, but that's another story. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 22:34, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
- The "other story" is that it's not Siegfried's Funeral March at all, but Prelude No. 24 in D minor from Frédéric Chopin's 24 Preludes, Op. 28. It was written for piano solo, as was Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, but someone has orchestrated them for the cartoon. (Liszt and Doppler did arrange 6 of the Hungarian Rhapsodies for orchestra, including No. 2, but I've never heard any of them played as a concerto for piano and orchestra, except No. 14, which was given the new title Hungarian Fantasy in that guise.) -- Jack of Oz [your turn] 10:19, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
- I assume you're talking about the intro to "Cat Concerto".[7] I was talking about the intro to "Rhapsody Rabbit", whose intro is taken from this segment at about 4:35 from Siegfried. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 10:32, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
- Right on. -- Jack of Oz [your turn] 10:39, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
- I assume you're talking about the intro to "Cat Concerto".[7] I was talking about the intro to "Rhapsody Rabbit", whose intro is taken from this segment at about 4:35 from Siegfried. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 10:32, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
- The "other story" is that it's not Siegfried's Funeral March at all, but Prelude No. 24 in D minor from Frédéric Chopin's 24 Preludes, Op. 28. It was written for piano solo, as was Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, but someone has orchestrated them for the cartoon. (Liszt and Doppler did arrange 6 of the Hungarian Rhapsodies for orchestra, including No. 2, but I've never heard any of them played as a concerto for piano and orchestra, except No. 14, which was given the new title Hungarian Fantasy in that guise.) -- Jack of Oz [your turn] 10:19, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
- Good enough for confirmation. Bugsy's playing for laughs rather than accuracy. There's also the question of why the cartoon is introduced by a segment of the Siegfried Funeral March, but that's another story. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 22:34, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
- How does Tom manage to play accurately, with just three fingers (plus thumb) on each hand? — Michael J 22:31, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
- Or Bugsy, for that matter. See for yourself: [8][9] (sorry about the foreign stuff) Then try to figure out which one is funnier... who plagiarized from who... and just what exactly Bugsy is saying to himself at the end of his cartoon. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 22:52, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
- 1,338 IMDb users gave The Cat Concerto an average rating of 8.2. Merely 343 users rated Rhapsody Rabbit, and they gave it a 7.8. Anyway, they're both hilarious, as far as I'm concerned. But, as a former teenage amateur stop motion clay-figure animator, I can say that love for detail is
havehalf the fun and ambition, and I never liked Vicky the Viking because of its crappy and unimaginative animation. Bugs's animation is superb, of course, and it's ok that they didn't care about keyboard-plausibility. Obvious performance inaccuracies do bother me in otherwise more realistic films (for example the actors' gamba playing in Tous les matins du monde), but not in cartoons. It is still fun to note this particular distinction between these two rival films. As for the four fingers, of course the accuracy, where it exists, isn't 1:1, I was judging more in terms of visibly hit keys, correspondence of direction (left = down, right = up), where Bugs failed, as mentioned. ---Sluzzelin talk 08:50, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
- 1,338 IMDb users gave The Cat Concerto an average rating of 8.2. Merely 343 users rated Rhapsody Rabbit, and they gave it a 7.8. Anyway, they're both hilarious, as far as I'm concerned. But, as a former teenage amateur stop motion clay-figure animator, I can say that love for detail is
- Watching both I'm impressed by how much effort was made to look fairly accurate--way more than most such things (I think of the Marx Brothers' Duck Soup and the "Going to War" song, especially when all four brothers are "playing" the banjo but none remotely fretting the same (which doesn't make Duck Soup any less the funniest movie ever made)). Yes, I suppose The Cat Concerto is somewhat more "realistic" than Rhapsody Rabbit (especially the bits when Bugs runs up and down the keys and the pitches go down and up instead; and Bugs also plays some chords with all three/four fingers playing neighboring keys--hardly a "chord"), but then again, both are remarkably in the vicinity of "accurate", with much leeway for comic effects (and the Bugs uses rather wilder "alternate techniques" on the piano, making "accuracy" beside the point at times). I never saw either before, so thanks for the links. I wonder, they are so similar--even the Bugs one has a pesky mouse battling the pianist--was the Bugs one inspired by the Tom and Jerry one? It seems that the Tom and Jerry one came out slightly earlier, but in the same year. Did they really crank out these things so fast they could copy one another within months? Pfly (talk) 09:39, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
- The article on Rhapsody Rabbit has a section discussing the question of who-stole-from-who, and the only certainty is that Rhapsody Rabbit was registered prior to Cat Concerto. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 10:12, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
- Regarding the speed at which they "cranked them out", yes, they really did produce a LOT of episodes. In its heydey, short subject animation was very popular film format; remember that for the time period when most of these shorts were produced, TV either didn't exist, or had not yet caught on as a popular media. It really wasn't until color TV arrived in wide release in the 1960s that the Golden Age of the animated short died out completely. A look at List of Tom and Jerry cartoons shows that, during their height, Tom and Jerry was averaging 8-10 films per year during the period 1947-1957, when TV likely put a major hurt on theatre-going. However, remember this was only one franchise from one studio (MGM) which was probably the third most prolific cartoon studio of the day; if you look at the Warner Brothers studio output, see Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography, you'll see that during the same decade, Warner Brothers was averaging 30 shorts per year, or better than one every other week. The Walt Disney Studio was averaging 15-20 film shorts per year until about 1954, when they switched a large part of their effort to Television with the premier of the first Walt Disney anthology television series. Since neither MGM nor Warner had a significant presence on TV at the time, that explains why they kept their production higher for longer. --Jayron32 18:02, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
- The article on Rhapsody Rabbit has a section discussing the question of who-stole-from-who, and the only certainty is that Rhapsody Rabbit was registered prior to Cat Concerto. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 10:12, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
- Watching both I'm impressed by how much effort was made to look fairly accurate--way more than most such things (I think of the Marx Brothers' Duck Soup and the "Going to War" song, especially when all four brothers are "playing" the banjo but none remotely fretting the same (which doesn't make Duck Soup any less the funniest movie ever made)). Yes, I suppose The Cat Concerto is somewhat more "realistic" than Rhapsody Rabbit (especially the bits when Bugs runs up and down the keys and the pitches go down and up instead; and Bugs also plays some chords with all three/four fingers playing neighboring keys--hardly a "chord"), but then again, both are remarkably in the vicinity of "accurate", with much leeway for comic effects (and the Bugs uses rather wilder "alternate techniques" on the piano, making "accuracy" beside the point at times). I never saw either before, so thanks for the links. I wonder, they are so similar--even the Bugs one has a pesky mouse battling the pianist--was the Bugs one inspired by the Tom and Jerry one? It seems that the Tom and Jerry one came out slightly earlier, but in the same year. Did they really crank out these things so fast they could copy one another within months? Pfly (talk) 09:39, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
- (I'm pretty sure that the Marx Brothers were doing that intentionally for comedic effect. That whole number was performed in a ridiculous over-the-top parody of more serious musicals.) APL (talk) 13:33, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
- At the very least, Groucho and Harpo knew how to play stringed instruments, so your guess on that point is probably on the mark(s). ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 13:55, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
- (I'm pretty sure that the Marx Brothers were doing that intentionally for comedic effect. That whole number was performed in a ridiculous over-the-top parody of more serious musicals.) APL (talk) 13:33, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
- @Michael J - in Rabbit of Seville, Bugs was given an extra digit so he could play a short piece on Elmer Fudd's head using the proper motions (there was no keyboard involved there, though, just poor Elmer's scalp.) Matt Deres (talk) 18:19, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
April 14
Can anyone name some good Sailor Uranus websites? Neptunekh2 (talk) 00:16, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
- Type "Sailor Uranus" into the little white box in the middle of the page at the website http://www.google.com --Jayron32 01:47, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
- This is like deja vu from 3 days ago. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 02:27, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
Easy Rider Movie
The motorcycles in the movie Easy Rider were stolen before the last scene was shot. How were they stolen and were any ever recovered? Anyone know the inside story? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Robcasey20 (talk • contribs) 07:26, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
- The article Easy Rider speculates they were taken to a chop-shop. Whoever knows the inside story, assuming they're still among the living, is not likely to go public unless they want to run the risk of arrest. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 10:04, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
Who is Chyna whyte?
Who is this Rapper Chyna Whyte? Why is she so mysterious? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.92.149.174 (talk) 15:33, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
- From my research, she appears as a vocalist on a few records here and there. Being "not that famous" does not make her that mysterious. She doesn't appear to have done more recording than the average session musician, and not every one of those has a whole lot of public information about them. --Jayron32 17:50, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
Mahisasura Maridini Stotram
Does anybody know of a decent-quality recording of this Hindu song available for purchase on CD or download? Thanks. ╟─TreasuryTag►Lord Speaker─╢ 16:53, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
- I know it is a surprise to find intelligence in youtube comments but they say it is on this CD meltBanana 19:08, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
American Idol - Pia Toscano elimination
Why was Pia Toscano eliminated? I know they say because she did not receive enough votes, however I don’t buy that. According to the Pia Toscano article, she was considered to be a front-runner in the competition. There was Las Vegas odds of 300 to 1 against her going home and 2 to 1 she would win the competition. What went wrong?
These are the questions I have:
- Was it because there were more female voters than male?
- I don’t buy that logic, because females would have voted for her also - because she has such a wonderful voice. I didn’t vote, but if I had, she would have received my vote.
- Was it because somewhere along the line of the voting system, many of her votes were received by another (intentionally or unintentionally)?
- Was it because there is some sort of software that can speed-dial so another can receive thousands of votes, that they really don’t deserve?
We are missing out on the sweet voice of Pia as the audience and therfore cheated, because somewhere the American Idol producers are not running the voting system correctly. Where can I send an e-mail to them - which I’m sure they will not read. All I can do in protest is refuse to watch the program and watch Survivor instead. How much did the audience drop because Pia was eliminated?--Christie the puppy lover (talk) 18:47, 14 April 2011 (UTC)