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Abe Vigoda, Actor of ‘Godfather’ Fame, Dies at 94
Mr. Vigoda was reported dead 34 years ago — erroneously — a story that stuck with him and helped make him a cult figure.
This is the headline and subheading for the NYT's twitter feed. The false death report goes all the way back to 1982; I didn't realize it was that long ago! The article mentions the reporting mistake in the body of the piece.
RIP Mr. Vigoda.
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That lower register for her is very good. Actually the rest isn't bad either, but the low is definitely her strong point.
That was one of the things I liked best about her voice. I also liked that she didn't get to 'twee' in her higher register and that she didn't overdo the runs. I hate, hate both of those things. Voices that are just as much air as sound drive me crazy.
She isn't that well miked either. I mean the echo might possibly be on purpose, but clearly she needs to invest in some better equipment.Oddly, I also liked that aspect. Just a teenager in her room, using earbuds to hear and the mic on her laptop/phone/whatever, singing away. I guess I liked seeing someone with potential.
I'll have to check out that other video you posted later tonight; I'm taking a break from doing Blizzard of 2016 stuff. and need to get back to it (Like carving out some more yard space for the dog. She is soooo freaked out.)
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I was looking on YouTube for acoustic covers; I needed a bit of help on some chords and progressions for a few songs. Anyway, I bookmarked this one which is rare for me. Just liked it, both her playing and her voice. Did a Google news search and nothing related to music came up.
Steph Micayle:
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Up until this past Saturday night, when a misguided and slightly inebriated friend chose it during karaoke, I thought it was "Kiss from a rose on a grave."
Oh well.
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I find Adele charming. Here's a video interview she did with James Corden: Adele Carpool Karaoke. So fun!
That was amazing! I think I've become a fan through her talk show appearances - the Jenny bit on Graham Norton, Hello on Fallon with the grade school instruments, and now this clip. I watched them on YouTube. Though I'm late to the Adele party - just started listening with this release - I'm in.
I especially liked it when Corden asked her when she was going to realize she was "Adele." That, her rapping (and doing it well!) and them revisiting her Spice Girls obsession from when she was a kid. What a fun video.
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Samantha Who, it only lasted two years and due to her medical problems in mist of the show.
But it was a still a funny show. Her parents were just as funny.
I watched this a couple of years ago on Hulu, mostly because I saw Jean Smart was in the cast. She and Kevin Dunn were great as the parents. Jennifer Esposito and Melissa McCarthy were also good as friends of the main character. Nothing groundbreaking; just a fun, cute show.
Smart won an Emmy for her role; Applegate was nominated both seasons. And this was the first time I saw McCarthy in anything, having not yet seen The Gilmore Girls.
It was a nice piece of fluffy entertainment, good for over the summer or the holiday hiatus.
As often as Firefly is mentioned I think I'm going to have to watch. I grew to adore Adam Baldwin on Chuck, Gina Torres is one of Suits saving graces, and Fillion seems personable (haven't seen Castle.) So maybe I'll add it to my watch list.
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That's very sad. I will remember his great humor when Jimmy Fallon did an impression of him to him.
And that was only seven months ago! He was funny and lovely ... What a terrible loss. RIP, Mr. Rickman.
His reaction to the Fallon and Cumberbatch impersonations :
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I loved him and his music, and was downright giddy when I download the new album Friday night. Now, well, this hurts.
RIP David Bowie. You will be missed.
A very early Bowie tune, one of my favorites (of which there are many.) A lovely and poignant song.
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I really like Elvis Costello's version of "Days" by The Kinks. But to be honest, I heard Costello's version first; I didn't learn it was a cover until much later.
Costello:
Kinks:
Previously mentioned in this thread - Michael Andrews and Gary Jules version of Mad World. They took an 80's electronic pop song and created something so emotionally honest. Just lovely.
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I could totally see them doing something random at some point.
I think so too. Didn't KMc, in that posted blog entry, say she had worked with Finola with last year? I do think it was as a director, but sometimes people do both.
Yeah, I wasn't ready. Their goodbye was only one quarter of the episode, TR only had two lines, and they didn't even get the Friday show!
And I could swear they've used that exact same montage before. Either that or I've developed some kind of weird montage foresight because I knew the scene order for the whole darn thing. They couldn't have made a new one? Or mixed in a few more clips?
So while I liked that the writers gave them a HEA, I don't like that the last two main characters to portray doctors on a show called General Hospital were sent off in a way that was so obviously rushed.
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This just may be one of the cutest things I've ever seen (Kirsten and Brandon's daughter, her 2nd birthday):
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James Wolpert - Love Interruption (my very favorite blind audition)
Michelle Chamuel - I Kissed a Girl (still my favorite Voice contestant to date.)
Vicci Martinez - Rolling in the Deep
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I liked it, especially the Larry David sunscreen story, Jerry couch-slouching in the Oval Office, and the attempts to get the car out of the White House gate (the guard did a good job) which, of course, was never going to happen. And I really liked the tag - "He's going to be hiding in the bushes? Well, don't shoot Jerry Seinfeld!"
But then I've enjoyed Obama at the various White House Correspondents dinners; he's been quite funny at those.
Even though it's his second term there's still a full year left in his Presidency. I guess it's way too soon for POTUS to be just Barry again.
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If Valerie's bangs were any longer she'd be Sia.
Robin and Patrick's love scene was sweet. I liked that they played it as being somewhat tentative, especially on KMc's part. They haven't been together in a long time. And they've had, what, two months together in the last four years? It was a rediscovery, for both characters.
I like Brandon / Johnny and wish he could stay. He's not dead in the eyes like almost every other male character in his age range.
The pool scene with Jason and Sam was chock full of soap tropes. Which is fine with me. I like most soap staples (except for the one where someone spends an entire episode trying to get one sentence out.)
Curtis is quite nice to look at and it seems he's being set up with Jordan. Maybe she'll actually get an actual story now and come off the back burner.
This is my last remaining soap so I'm still hanging in. They don't make it easy though, what with Sonny and Carly and the rest of the Corinthi being PC's go to for family scenes. I miss my Quartermaines, Scorpios and Spencers. But yeah, I'm going to be here until the bitter end. Stupid show.
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HTGAWM - I bailed after the first few episodes because I just couldn't stand the butchery to lawschool and the legal profession even worse than TGW (which I only stick with for Diane and Eli).
This is one of the reasons I quit on Suits this season. That and the lather, rinse, repeat that the show has become.
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Wild Thing by The Troggs. I'm trying not to read anything into that...
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Sorry if this was mentioned before. Now I know why new Paul Hornsby looked familiar. He was the guy on Seinfeld who called both Elaine and the ugly baby "breathtaking".
I'd forgotten about the Seinfeld appearance! Though I think Burgi, for me, is always going to Karl from Desperate Housewives. Oh, and bad guy Decker on Chuck.
I think he's quickly headed into "Hey, it's that guy!" territory, if he's not there already. I just looked his IMDB credits list and he's worked pretty much nonstop since the early 90's.
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About an hour after Jordan was announced I realized the only contestant's full name I could remember was Manny Cabo (yeah, I was like wtf?), and that if this was preordained to be a season of big, bombastic, OTT performances with a side of cheese, I'd rather have had Manny around during the lives to take a shot at something like Shinedown's "Second Chance."
Not that he would have won or anything. But I would have had more fun.
Here's to a better season next year! In other words, please let's not kill off all the rock voices.
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And to me, the explosion of original programming on services like Netflix and Amazon is actually a good thing for consumers because it makes it more feasible to get rid of cable (thus eliminating one annoyingly large monthly bill) and replace it with subscriptions to a couple of the streaming services, which makes it less expensive overall.
This is how I do it; I cut the cord a couple of years ago. Netflix, an Amazon Prime membership and Hulu cost me $24 a month. I use the CBS site to watch Survivor. I have a few premium channel shows (Veep, Episodes, The Comeback); I buy season passes for those. Now my TV cost averages $40 a month; it used to be four times that.
And I guess I should be watching Mozart in the Jungle.It was pretty good, definitely worth checking out.
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Watching Jackson on Nashville definitely turned me into a JJ fangirl. I liked him on GH, but he's grown way, way beyond the show. I hope he finds something really wonderful to do after Nashville; it seems headed for likely cancellation.
Thanks for posting the clip; I've only seen videos of a few of his original songs, and a couple from the show. (The Exes should be a real band.)
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Everything about this Jason reveal has been anticlimactic. Keeping his identity a secret for a full year may have been one of the worst GH writing decisions ever. And there have been plenty of bad ones.
For the past few weeks, DZ has been playing every scene with dead eyes. Very dead. Like a shark's eyes.
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Five million sold in just 3 weeks. This album is quite the sales monster and no end in sight, with another 660,000 this week.
I wish I could own the Fallon version of Hello - the one with the classroom instruments. That performance is when I decided that I really did like the song.
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My first thought re the television nominations - the TV networks really are becoming irrelevant, aren't they?
Movies: I'm a little disappointed Sarah Silverman didn't get a nod, especially right after she was nominated for a SAG award. That, and I Smile Back is one of the few movies I've managed to see this year. I thought she was really good so the SAG award nomination didn't surprise me. Her being passed over for a GG nom does.
The Martian is a comedy or musical?I had the same question. I was under the impression it was a drama. If it's funny, or even a dramedy, I may decide to see it. (I'm done with angst as entertainment re this year's releases.)
S05.E04: No Girl
in New Girl [V]
I have no idea why but the randomness of the girl from Japan singing the theme song from Frasier and giggling at her phone cracked me up to the point where I had to pause the show. And that rarely happens with me.
Winston is still my MVP. But I also like Cece; at some point during the second season Hannah Simone really seemed to come into her own. Team her with Winston in a story line and it's a win win.