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So, I have a question: is it known whether or not Andrew Lloyd Weber deliberately riffed off the first movement of Vaughan Williams' "London Symphony" when he was composing the main theme for his "Phantom of the Opera"? The crescendo of both pieces is nearly identical. MelancholyDanish (talk) 06:33, 29 September 2008 (UTC)MelancholyDanish[reply]
I don't know either piece, so can't really comment, but it is surely a matter of opinion whether the Phantom sounds like the London Symphony. By the way, it's only Roger Waters (former Floyd mainman) who is accusing Lloyd Webber of ripping off the Floyd track. --Richardrjtalk email08:36, 29 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not up on my V-W symphonies, or Phantom for that matter, but it can be a lot more serious than just a matter of opinion. There have been various legal cases where one composer successfuly argued plagiarism by another. Even if the second guy orchestrated the note sequence in a completely different way, used it in a completely different genre, or whatever, a succession of notes in one piece either is identical (or nearly identical) to a succession of notes in another piece, or it's not. If it comes to a court, the judge has to decide whether the plagiarism was intentional and deliberate, or entirely unconscious. Even if the latter, the judge can still find in favour of the first composer. When asked to write the lyrics for "Goldfinger" (1964), Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley immediately thought of the metreofHenry Mancini's "Moon River" (1961). Whether they ever passed their thoughts on to the composer John Barry, I don't know, but the fact remains that, if played in the same key, the striking first three notes of these two songs are identical, and depending on the style used by the performer, the metre can also be identical. Mancini might have had a case if he ever wanted to pursue the matter. -- JackofOz (talk) 22:10, 29 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
On the other hand, there are only a finite (though large) number of ways that a song can be constructed and still be familiar enough to the audience to be pleasing. For example, how many basic rock songs are written with a simple I-IV-V chord progression, or even more restrictive, are written in 16-bar blues form. Working in these simple forms, they can get unintentionally repetitive, especially over short sequences. Once you strip down a tune to is base melody, you could probably pull the same 5-6 note sequence out of hundreds of pieces of music. Its no proof that they all copied from one source. --Jayron32.talk.contribs02:47, 30 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Can anyone recommend songs beginning with the word "and"? They tend to have a certain quality of excellence and dreamlike surrealism which is lacking in other songs.
Jack, as a scrupulous punctuator, I'm sure you'll take this in the spirit in which it was intended... song titles are enclosed in quotation marks, italics are for album titles. --Richardrjtalk email08:32, 29 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
"And She Was" by Talking Heads seems to fit the bill perfectly. "And she was drifting through the backyard/And she was taking off her dress/And she was moving very slowly/Rising up above the earth/Moving into the universe/Drifting this way and that/Not touching ground at all/Up above the yard..." --Richardrjtalk email08:25, 29 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Meat Loaf - "Couldn't have said it better (myself)". Starting text: And you said nothing at all. Well, I couldn't have said it better myself. --Constructor16:52, 30 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Minus the Bear has a song on their album Highly Refined Pirates called Thanks For The Killer Game of Crisco Twister that starts off "And then we all bought yachts/and raced up to the islands" 12.155.80.115 (talk) 16:35, 1 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
That's the one I referred to way up above. I'm almost certain Andy Williams did a version; I'd forgotten about Perry Como. -- JackofOz (talk) 21:52, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
TV episode or movie with spaceship in a living universe
I've seen an episode or movie several years ago where a spaceship travels through an universe, searching an escape (?) but find that the universe behaves much like a body and may destroy them if they don't escape within a fixed time. I thought, it was from Outer Limits but it doesn't seem to be so. So can anyone tell me what it was? Maybe it was a movie of it's own but it wasn't anything where a micro-uboat is inserted in a body. Sadly, internet search doesn't yield results. The episode or movie was in color. --Constructor11:21, 29 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
No, it's not a miniaturisation into a human body. I don't remember much of it but the outside of the space never is shown and they got there from normal space. I don't remember exactly, how they got there. Maybe it was a warp that went wrong or they just traveled into unknown territory. That the universe may be alive is mentioned by someone but it's probably not a central part of the story. --Constructor21:08, 29 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I don't think so, but maybe it was The Cloud. It's too long since I saw it. I thought, the space was much brighter than on the picture. I remember not much story. It must be around 10 years since I saw it. Thanks! --Constructor04:25, 30 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
You can eliminate "Where No Man" & "Where No One"; not living universes. "Immunity Syndrome", "The Cloud", & "Bliss" sound good; my $'d be on "Immunity", since it's likely to have been syndicated more widely, & so more readily seen. TREKphilerhit me ♠ 08:22, 2 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Just an FYI, which is factually stated incorrect. I was googling Harland Svare, former coach and NFL player. Being from Clarkfield, Minnesota myself, I know there is not a Clarksville, MN. Harland Svare was born in Clarkfield and not in the fictional Clarksville. Thought I would let you know. If you don't believe me, look it up because in a town of about 1200, you know these things.
Thank you for the attention.
I've started listening to the music of the late Dave Carter, who seems (from what I've heard) to be a rather brilliant poet, and I see from the Wikipedia page that he was interested in both archetypal psychology and Charismatic Christianity. Has there been any other person (ever) who harbored this curious (not to say mad or eccentric) pair of fascinations in their heart of hearts?
While the reference desk cannot provide legal advice, a look at our article on copyright may be enlightening. We note that Mickey Mouse's copyright does not prohibit the creation of cartoons about anthropomorphic mice so long as they are sufficiently dissimilar to Disney's original. In the same vein, there's no copyright on a zombie-causing virus -- but a virus with the same name, symptoms, and/or transmission characteristics as Brooks' likely violates his copyright. If a high-level view such as this is insufficient, consult a lawyer. — Lomn12:59, 30 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
45 million viewers
in the 90s this drew over 45 million viewers..using only google and wikipedia for research i need to get the answer..my 1st gooogle hit gave me monica lewsinsky's interview conducted by Barbara Walters...help me and on googling 45 million viewers is the key word.. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.49.89.64 (talk) 13:05, 30 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
That 41.8 is the percentage of households, not viewers. 47 million households would be far higher than 47 million people. As such, likely every Super Bowl of the 1990s was seen by over 45 million people. Note that the US' top nine post-2000 telecasts were the nine post-2000 Super Bowls. Nielsen is estimating slightly over two people per household, so anything with a rating of 25 or better would correctly answer a poorly-phrased pub quiz question. — Lomn15:17, 30 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
The point is still valid - the question is invalid. By using the word "this", it is implying that only one event drew over 45 million viewers. It has been shown that more than one event drew over 45 million viewers. So, the valid question would be "In the 90's, what is one of the events that drew over 45 million viewers?" -- kainaw™17:01, 30 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
According to the article you link, Diana's funeral was watched by an estimated 2.5 billion people. So, while you could technically say that 45 million people watched it, the number was actually much higher. Your example just further highlights the problem with the question.Tomdobb (talk) 17:39, 30 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I find claims that 2.5 billion people watched anything on television to be spurious in the extreme. The world population in 1997 was only around the 6 billion mark. Take away the billions of people who do not even have access to electricity, as well as those who live in countries (eg China) where the funeral was not televised, and you are left with approximately 100% of the remainder watching the funeral. Clearly this is not the case.
The (grossly inaccurate) 2.5 billion figure must have been arrived at by totting up the total population of the countries which broadcast the funeral, without taking into account the fact that many (quite possibly the majority) of the people in those countries would not necessarily have been watching it. This article [2] suggests that Diana's funeral was watched by "more than half" the population of Britain; if nearly half the British public were not watching it, I find it hard to credit that some 2.47 billion other people worldwide were tuning in. Malcolm XIV (talk) 19:03, 30 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I figured that figure was probably BS, but it still seems entirely likely that the worldwide audience was significantly higher than 45 million people. Tomdobb (talk) 19:35, 30 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Not really an Entertainment question (Science would have been more appropriate), but here goes: have you read our article on the Celcius temperature scale? It should prove enlightening. — Lomn20:13, 30 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
And as a bonus, you might learn how to spell Celsius. --Anon, 05:27 UTC, October 1, 2008.
Nothing plays for me but wouldn't that be the name of the song, artist, and album there on the page that you gave us the link for? None of them sound familiar, so I'm not sure which is the artist, song title, and album title, though I'm sure it won't be too much work for you and Google. Dismas|(talk)20:57, 30 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
The lines following the reference to "Edmund Fitzgerald" ("At the break / Of the morning / A Cat named Stevens / Found a faith / He could believe in") allude to "Morning Has Broken" and presumably to Cat Stevens's conversion to Islam. Deor (talk) 02:18, 1 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
North American call sign#K and W explains that stations west of the Mississippi River are assigned a call sign beginning with K, while those to the east are assigned a sign beginning with W. But the article doesn't explain why those two letters in particular are used. Any ideas? Many thanks, --Richardrjtalk email15:46, 1 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I just rented 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall' on Blu-Ray and Universal has successfully replicated the entire HD-DVD interactive experience on Blu-Ray (video PIP commentary, scene specific video extras, branching, karaoke etc). Is there a list of movies that have U-Control or similar functionality? --70.167.58.6 (talk) 22:12, 1 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I imagine they would continue supporting the console for the remainder of its production life and then stop producing it and would not produce any further consoles with that brand although it depends on the strength of the brand they took over, they could do a Sega and keep the name but just produce games under that name. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.25.96.244 (talk) 08:12, 2 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
If Nintendo somehow merged with one of the other two, maybe we'd finally get decent online support for the Wii! APL (talk) 13:29, 2 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Am I right every scene Eli shoots in "The Stunt Man" was a lift from a real film released around 1968 (about the year the film was set)? And what was the putative name of the project (if it had one...)? Alan Swann08:13, 2 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
There are plenty of films featuring soccer, football, baseball... however, I am having a hard time finding films with a good amount of volleyball in them. Do you have any recommendations? Beach or indoor, doesn't matter. — QuantumEleven12:39, 2 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
It may have, but it was mainly about surfing, just like Top Gun was mainly about overcompensating for a small penis, er, I mean flying big planes very fast. Its strange that there hasn't been one of those weird High School/College films where the main character is the star athlete in a fringe sport that inexplicably draws much larger crowds than I remember (ala Vision Quest and wrestling or Better Off Dead and skiing or Bring It On and cheerleading or Back to School and diving, or... you get the idea) I mean, if we can buy Michael J. Fox as a basketball star, there must be at least one film where there's some climatic volley ball game in a high school gym with a huge crowd... --Jayron32.talk.contribs03:21, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
The cheerleaders in Bring it On were attending national cheerleading championship competitions. Those draw huge numbers of people, not the numbers that show up for national football competitions, but still large crowds as are correctly shown in the movie. Little Red Riding Hoodtalk22:26, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Why there is so few reverse gangbang movies compared to gangbang movies??? Porn movies are made thinking in male, and a male would problaby would want to see many womans on screen with one guy instead of the reverse. 189.0.207.195 (talk) 16:47, 2 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Most males cannot produce multiple "money shots" within a short space of time. Fifteen guys each with their own "money shot" is easy to arrange; but one guy doing it 15 times in an hour - very rare. -- JackofOz (talk) 20:09, 2 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Also perhaps because a subplot of most porn movies is humiliation of the female. If having a male ejaculate onto the face of a waiting female (how most porn scenes end) is humiliating, having 15 men do it is even more so. By the way, as a point of advice, don't try that in real life. It will likely get you punched in the nuts. --Jayron32.talk.contribs03:14, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
There is plenty of porn with no men at all. This entire concept was turned into a joke by Denis Leary (if I remember correctly). He called it the "one penis rule". For him, he wanted one penis in his porn fantasies - his own. He didn't want a bunch of other penises messing it up. So, he preferred lesbian porn. -- kainaw™14:40, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
He's welcome to it. To some people, penisless porn is a contradiction in terms. (In fact, it's such a confronting and frightening concept that I've never had occasion to use the word "penisless" before now, and I hope I never will again.) -- JackofOz (talk) 21:48, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Just one? On the nails? The assumption that there is one answer is certainly way off. Even if it was limited to tattoos on the fingers, it wouldn't be just one. Writing "LOVE" on one hand and "HATE" on the other has been a cliche for many years (see the "Blues Brothers"). So, do you want a list of every guitarist who has ever written "HATE" on his nails? -- kainaw™01:24, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Slightly related, I know for a fact that guitarist Nate Albert, ex of the Mighty Mighty Bosstones used to have two amplifier stacks he wrote "LOVE" and "HATE" on. (having been to about 20 Bosstones shows you'd tend to notice something like that)... However, as noted, the Love and Hate on the fingers theme, which dates to Night of the Hunter, has been repeated so many times, that it is hard to determine who you are looking for without more info... --Jayron32.talk.contribs03:28, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Goo Goo Dolls Information
After searching for about a day, the name of the girl on the cover of "Let Love In" by the Goo Goo Dolls has not been found. Could you please figure this out because I seem to be having some trouble. Thanks.
Well, according to this page, the photographer of the girl was an artist by the name of Josh Rothstein, and he has his own website with contact info. Now that you know the photographer's name, you could either contact him directly, or use it to help your research. Good luck, and there's a start... --Jayron32.talk.contribs03:06, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
song- children are people (who live in a land ....)
I started with Wikipedia following Bruce Forsyth who sang a song in the 1960's 'Children are people who live in a land full of snowdrops etc........ '
I thought I could discover more about this and in time possibly purchase the lyrics and music as I am a baritone singer in a Male Voice Choir and wish to perform this number . If any one could advise and/or assist I would be very grateful.
Does the film Romeo Must Die have a character in it called Romeo? The central male character (played by Jet Li) isn't called that, and nobody mentioned in Wikipedia's plot synopsis is.
If not, why (apart from the Shakespeare parallel) is it called Romeo Must Die?
I saw Coldplay in concert a few months ago, and they had two groups open for them. One was Juniper Lane, and my friends and I really liked them, as did pretty much everybody around us. But then, they brought out this band Santogold, and everybody around us, including us, hated it. I was just wondering why Coldplay would pick a band that had such an opposite sound from theirs to open for them. We came to hear beautiful music, so Juniper Lane was a good choice. But this band was an incomprehensible jumble of bad music, singing, and weird female dancers that just stood there most of the time. It was like going to go see Mozart and the opening act is Mushroomhead. Why would Coldplay think people who liked their music would like Santogold's as well? BioYu-Gi! (talk) 16:43, 4 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Sadly, it does not matter what Coldplay thinks. Coldplay's record label might have wanted Santogold to get some attention, and then there's nothing more to it, even if it is a complete mismatch /Coffeeshivers (talk) 23:37, 4 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
KRadio station KDKA in Pittsburgh (the first ever) also begins with a K because of its age, before the rules were in place. Since it began as a radio station in 1921 and only later expanded to TV, I suspect that it, too, was grandfathered in, and when the owners started the TV station, it just naturally was allowed to keep the letters, also.209.244.187.155 (talk) 01:31, 5 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Gun-toting foreign cops
In TV cop shows, a theme that crops up from time to time is the foreign cop visiting the UK in pursiuit of the killer. Quite often the foreign cop is allowed to continue carrying his firearm. In reality, would a foreign cop actually be allowed to do this? Astronaut (talk) 20:26, 4 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Definitely not. The only exception I'm aware of are armed guards for diplomats and foreign leaders, and even the the Met likes to do that with its own diplomatic security guys, and only FO armtwisting will budge them. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk20:31, 4 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
The theory of hot pursuit holds if you talk about, say, a cop crossing the border into Canada from a state like North Dakota, but that's dependent on the policeman in question not being able to stop and think, to put it very simply. C;early, the rule could not apply if the person must take his or her time to hop on an airplane to an island nation.209.244.187.155 (talk) 01:25, 5 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
i was disabled in the year 2000 by changing channels.. who was this person. i bet he was an American but i read somewhere that a guy got disabled for changing channels anybody who can GET THIS ARTICLE I'D BE GREATFUL —Preceding unsigned comment added by 196.1.26.35 (talk) 21:28, 4 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Perhaps you might like to think about giving us a comprehensible question, then we'd be happy to look into it for you. What does "changing channels" refer to - switching to a different TV channel, for example? How could that disable anyone, and in what way? -- JackofOz (talk) 21:35, 4 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
LOL, that has the most confusion in the fewest words I've ever seen! Definitely takes the prize. And the fact it's in entertainment; I'm not even sure it belongs here (or anywhere).
Even the difference between "by" and "for" - "injured by something" implies in the process of doing it the person wa sinjured, "for doing it" implies to me he was disabled as some sort of consequence. (i.e.: "His license was suspended for wreckless driving.")
To the OP, did you place a bet that the person this happened to was an American? An odd thing to bet on, but knowing how London bookmakers bet on the Super Bowl I guess anything is fair game.
Also, why not just Google the terms, like "changing channels" and injury or something? I mean, I seriously doubt there can be *too* many articles about it. Unless you're totally uncertain about anything but the vague facts you have, and if that's the case, we can't know any more than you.209.244.187.155 (talk) 22:25, 4 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Jesse Michaels of Operation Ivy
I thought Jesse Michaels from Operation Ivy was from Pittsburgh, PA. In one article it says he graduated from Taylor Allderdice High School in 1981, But in the Bio of Operation Ivy it says he's from Berkley, California. I have also heard Tim Armstrong from Operation Ivy say Jesse is from Pittsburgh. So which article is right? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.58.14.180 (talk) 22:41, 4 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
October 5
the son of hickory hollow's tramp
There was a song in the 60's called "The Son of Hickory Hollow's Tramp" Does anyone know who the original artist was? I have heard a version by O.C. Smith but I don't think that is the original version I heard. Mind you I was only 11 or 12 but..... Judy Carmichael —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.68.129.174 (talk) 00:05, 5 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I was going to say that you could check out our Bob Seger article and find it, but after taking a look at it (and Seger's discography) I found that there doesn't appear to be such a song by him. A Google serach revealed that he does have a song called "Shame on the Moon" on his album The Distance, though, which includes the lyric "Oh, blame it on midnight, oh, shame on the moon." I'd bet that's the one you're looking for. Take a listen. -- Captain Disdain (talk) 00:57, 5 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
