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The soundtrack to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfdstkIEnKw , a YouTube video called "Guide: Download hulu videos to your PC for offline enjoyment". It may be classical, or just lift or elevator music. Or all three. Thanks. 92.29.142.75 (talk) 13:32, 8 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I hate it when this happens. It's from the soundtrack of a film (the film's main theme kicks in around 1:59), but the name of the film is eluding my memory. Now I'll be thinking about this until the name pops up in my mind or someone comes up with the answer. Deor (talk) 14:36, 8 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you, Frumpo. You've freed my brain from trying to remember. Deor (talk) 15:21, 8 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Without listening, let me guess: "A Time for Us". A major soft-pop hit in the wake of that film. ←Baseball BugsWhat's up, Doc?carrots→ 16:20, 8 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Yep.[1] If that's from the album, I would guess it's the "overture" or "opening credits music". I've never actually seen it, as it was already done up pretty well in West Side Story. The 1968 version of Romeo and Juliet was what we would call a "chick flick" nowadays. Tragic love, as with Titanic. ←Baseball BugsWhat's up, Doc?carrots→ 16:27, 8 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
NCIS
In what episode in season 3 or 4 does Tony meet Br. Benoit? I think I have watched all the episodes in that season, but that plot line still compeletly confuses me.
According to List of NCIS characters#Jeanne Benoit, she first appeared in Season 4, Episode 7, titled "Sandblast". However, we don't see them meet; the story with Tony and Jeanne starts in the middle, in order to conceal the true nature of their relationship as revealed at the end of the season. --Anonymous, 23:44 UTC, February 8, 2010.
mark coleman
whong did he come out to yesterday? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.246.254.35 (talk) 22:31, 8 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Hmmm. If you'd lke to:
(a) use English - what, for example, is "whong"?
(b) identify whether it's this guy or some other Mark Coleman you're talking about, and
(c) explain what your question is really about - "come out" could mean different things in different contexts
then we'd be happy to try and help you. -- 202.142.129.66 (talk) 00:44, 9 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
My guess is "What song..."--Frumpo (talk) 07:27, 9 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
OK. But what does "What song did he come out to yesterday" mean? Did he acknowledge his homosexuality in song? -- Jack of Oz ... speak! ... 07:35, 9 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
A search of news via google indicates that Coleman was involved in a UFC wrestling bout on Sunday - "In the second round after a takedown Randy went for his own patented ground and pound that forced Coleman to give up his back and allowed for Couture to secure a rear naked choke.". I believe that means he lost. I think the OP is probably asking what music was playing when Coleman entered the ring.--Frumpo (talk) 08:10, 9 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Mark Coleman entered to Drop the World. I just googled the lyrics; I have no idea if that was the original Eminem/Lil Wayne version or some cover. Matt Deres (talk) 11:37, 10 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
February 9
Need help finding a song that seems "voodoo/bayou blues/metal"
I'd heard a very heavy song i heard a while back, kinda sounded like it was bayou metal, if that makes sense...i dont remember much except it was low tempo and the voice of the vocalist was deep and low and the song was pretty heavy. I think it was under the blues genre, and the lyrics may have included talk of "bones". Anyhow, if anybody could help point me to the direction of possible names of the song I need to find, or even possible artists, I would appreciate it greatly.
That wasn't it...I think it was something older. This one is good for comparison though. The voice in what I'm looking for was much lower/deeper and the tempo may have been slower. Also the bass was much louder. Thank you though.
96.232.199.12 (talk) 01:41, 10 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I recall some tv show where people took pills that changed their skin color for a week to experience how other races lived, but I can't remember what it was called. Doc Quintana (talk) 03:44, 9 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Well there was Watermelon Man (film), and I'm sure there have been many others with the same premise. (No pills in that though.)--Shantavira|feed me 10:10, 9 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
German journalist Guenter Wallraff did the same in 2009, I saw a tv documentary about this. 195.35.160.133 (talk) 11:50, 9 February 2010 (UTC) Martin.[reply]
You might also be interested in Lois Lane comics issue # 106, which has a very similar plot. Details here: [[2]]. 195.35.160.133 (talk) 11:37, 9 February 2010 (UTC) Martin.[reply]
ADDENDUM to archived answers: you might be thinking of Soul Man (film), which has tanning pills in it's plot. 195.35.160.133 (talk) 10:47, 17 February 2010 (UTC) Martin.[reply]
Neighborhood hole
There is a line in the Switchfoot song "Free" (from Hello Hurricane, 2009) which goes "There’s a hole in the neighborhood/Where the shadows fall". When I heard it, it reminded me of the line in the Elbow song "Grounds for Divorce" (from The Seldom Seen Kid, 2008) that goes "There's a hole in my neighbourhood down which of late I cannot help but fall". Is the Switchfoot line an allusion to the Elbow song, or are they both drawing from a separate phrase that I am unfamiliar with? —Akrabbimtalk 03:54, 9 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Question regarding article Billy Garland( exblack panther)
Hello,Im a researcher and i read an article on the wikipedia website about ex black panther/ tupac's father Billy Garland.Im doing a research project on Tupac,now there is something interesting in the article about tupac's biological father Billy Garland that he is a decendant of the african tribe tuareg.Now I don't know the credibility of this information about billy garland's orgins which is stated on the wikipedia website.Please let me know where the information about tupac's father billy garlands heritage was obtained.I cannot find much information about billy garland, if the information about him being of tuareg heritage is credible. Then i can use it for the research paper im writing.
Which means, Kops, while researching your paper, if you can find a reliable reference that confirms the claim, or confirms a different story, please be bold and correct that article yourself. Comet Tuttle (talk) 17:51, 9 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Australian radio show: Kyle & Jackie O
Hi guys.. Could anyone please tell me where I can download an audio clip of the infamous lie detector episode (where a teenage girl confessed being raped)
from the australian radio show "Kyle And Jackie O Show"? I've looked everywhere but couldn't find it. Thanks in advance...Johnnyboi7 (talk) 09:09, 9 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Super Bowl XLIV
This question is about Super Bowl XLIV. I was surprised to see how many people — above and beyond the "normal" Super Bowl audience — watched this particular Super Bowl game on TV. Apparently, it was the highest rated Super Bowl ever. And, apparently, it was also the highest rated TV show ever ... even beating the 27-year-old record held by the final episode of M*A*S*H back in 1983. So, my question is ... what was the big draw to this particular Super Bowl game? How was this particular game different from any other ordinary, run-of-the-mill Super Bowl games? In all honesty, this year's match-up seemed relatively low-key, without an inordinate amount of pre-game hype. So, I was shocked to see the TV ratings records being broken. Any insights? Thank you. (64.252.68.102 (talk) 14:46, 9 February 2010 (UTC))[reply]
Perhaps because the team from New Orleans was playing? It seems all of New Orleans was watching. And people love an 'underdog'. They certainly needed a bit of a morale boost after Cyclone Katrina (Just a bit of a guess from Australia). 220.101.28.25 (talk) 15:13, 9 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
It is a New Orleans thing. For the next 30 years, the media will keep pushing for help for New Orleans because of Hurricane Katrina (which happened in 2005). They gave up on Homestead, Florida after a month or so, even though it hadn't recovered from Hurricane Andrew yet. They never suggested anyone should help Charleston, SC after Hurricane Hugo. The whole Haiti thing will dissipate in a month or so, but we'll still hear that New Orleans needs help to recover from Hurricane Katrina. The New Orleans bias is very clear. I don't personally understand it. -- kainaw™ 15:21, 9 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Even if all of New Orleans was indeed watching ... doesn't that one small city represent only a tiny miniscule percentage of the entire USA population as a whole? The New Orleans theory doesn't "add up" ... does it? Even if every single New Orleans citizen were watching, aren't they all collectively still a tiny drop in the bucket? (64.252.68.102 (talk) 15:31, 9 February 2010 (UTC))[reply]
He was saying that because it is New Orleans, the media was pressuring everyone else to watch (not just New Orleans). -- kainaw™ 15:33, 9 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Well, yes ... that "pressure" goes exactly to my point. Where was that pressure? I missed it completely. As my original post said ... "this year's match-up seemed relatively low-key, without an inordinate amount of pre-game hype". What did I miss? (64.252.68.102 (talk) 15:38, 9 February 2010 (UTC))[reply]
The pre-game hype was, in my opinion, more about New Orleans than the game. This is the type of news that I saw (what you saw may have well been very different): Will New Orleans win? New Orleans needs a win. How will New Orleans handle a loss on top of Katrina? Imagine the party if New Orleans wins! ... on and on, it was a media blitz to guilt everyone into watching to see how New Orleans would do. -- kainaw™ 15:45, 9 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Just now, on First TakeonESPN2, they just discussed this. They brought up two very good points:
The American population is 31% higher today than it was in 1983, when the M*A*S*H last episode aired.
The % of households tuned in to the game was 45% for this game. For Super Bowl XVI in 1982, a year before the M*A*S*H final episode, had a 49% rating. That M*A*S*H last episode? 60.2%.
Given the rising American population, having the last M*A*S*H episode defeated in terms of overall number of viewers was inevitable. In terms of a % of the American TV owning public, which is the vital stat here, it wasn't even the best rated Super Bowl, let alone the best rated show. --Jayron32 15:50, 9 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
"Figures don't lie, but liars do figure!" Still, the numbers are pretty good. I would like to think that it being about New Orleans gave it a boost (New Orleans has a special popularity in the U.S. as cities go), but another couple of considerations are that the Super Bowl typically draws well anyway, and a lot of folks were snowed in and had "nothing else to do." ←Baseball BugsWhat's up, Doc?carrots→ 16:40, 9 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Also, see List_of_most-watched_television_broadcasts#Top_network_primetime_telecasts_since_2000. Notice the raw number of viewers for the Super Bowls since 2000. WIth a few minor inversions, it has generally been true that the trend is that the number of viewers for each Super Bowl since 2000 has gone up incrementally. No Super Bowl did worse than the one two years before it; only two Super Bowls did worse than the one immediately preceding it, and most Super Bowls simple marginally beat out the one right before it. Its been a trend for some time now. --Jayron32 16:57, 9 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Also - the press made sure to tell everyone that President Obama was throwing a Super Bowl party. If you want to be cool like the President, you had to have a party yourself, right? -- kainaw™ 16:52, 9 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I believe how they calculate viewership numbers is different now (vs. MASH) and results in higher figures. I'll go and find a ref. -- Flyguy649talk 16:59, 9 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
It should be noted that back in 1983, television viewers were severely limited in programming choices compared to today.10draftsdeep (talk) 17:03, 9 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Don't forget that much of the East Coast was home-bound because of a record snowfall. With no where to go, more "Nielsen families" watched the game on their home TV rather than at a friend's house or restaurant. The Super Bowl got a higher rating in the Washington area than anywhere else in the country save New Orleans. That shouldn't affect total viewership, but Nielsen does a better job of "capturing" home viewers than people at sports bars. The fact that the Super Bowl always airs in at least 40% of American households is even more amazing when you consider that so many people are watching at other people's houses. It is possibly the biggest shared national experience there is in America. -- Mwalcoff (talk) 01:11, 10 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I didn't notice any Presidential elections on there, but maybe news events coverage is a separate category somewhere. ←Baseball BugsWhat's up, Doc?carrots→ 01:20, 10 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Well more Americans watched at least some of the Super Bowl (153.4 million) than voted in the last presidential election (131.2 million), so who knows whether as many people were watching Obama vs. McCain as Brees vs. Manning. Plus the election coverage is split between all the different networks while the Super Bowl is only on one network. -- Mwalcoff (talk) 01:32, 10 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Well, one might expect that there are a fair number of people under the age 18 watching the game who would obviously not be able to vote, not to mention those felons watching from their ultra plush prison cells. Googlemeister (talk) 21:12, 10 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
As a Brit,I like to feel it was The Who on the half time show.hotclaws 14:27, 10 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
If they ever bring Janet Jackson back for the halftime show, they might set a record that's untoppable. ←Baseball BugsWhat's up, Doc?carrots→ 11:57, 11 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks to all for the above input and discussion ... much appreciated ... (64.252.68.102 (talk) 15:10, 13 February 2010 (UTC))[reply]
M*A*S*H
My above Super Bowl question also brought to mind this question about the TV show M*A*S*H. Does anyone know why they use the three asterisks in the title? I could not seem to find out any information about this. I know that the M, A, S, and H stand for "Mobile Army Surgical Hospital" (or some such) ... but that still does not explain the odd use of three — not four — asterisks. Any insights? Thanks. (64.252.68.102 (talk) 15:36, 9 February 2010 (UTC))[reply]
It will be difficult to find a reference for this, but this is my memory... MASH, the movie, did not use asterisks. The movie poster did at the suggestion of producers/executive types who wanted people to understand that MASH was an acronym. This was a movie about mashed potatoes or something similar. The artist used asterisks instead of periods because it looked prettier. People seemed to like M*A*S*H as it was written on the poster as opposed to MASH as it was written on the film. So, the television series kept the asterisks. -- kainaw™ 15:41, 9 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
OK ... that is as I thought. So, you're saying that the asterisks are replacing conventional periods ... and that they simply omitted the final (fourth) asterisk/period? That is more or less what I assumed had transpired. Even though, of course, most acronyms do not even use periods anyway (radar, sonar, NOW, ERA, etc.). Thanks. (64.252.68.102 (talk) 15:46, 9 February 2010 (UTC))[reply]
That is just a memory from way back in the early 80's (possibly even late 70's). Since it was long before the Internet, I'm not finding much of anything to back that memory. -- kainaw™ 15:48, 9 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
And yes, for you geeks, I mean "web" when I say "Internet". Heehee! -- kainaw™ 15:49, 9 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Hate to sound like a broken record, but did you read the M*A*S*H* article? The "synopsis" section addresses the question. Kingsfold (talk) 16:26, 9 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
That synopsis doesn't make much sense. The novel is spelled "MASH". The movie is spelled "MASH". The movie poster is spelled "M*A*S*H". How does the use of asterisks come from the novel? -- kainaw™ 16:51, 9 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
You're right, the original novel was MASH, as is evident even just from google-imaging [mash novel]. I'm thinking that the re-issued novel had the movie poster as its cover, and maybe that compounds the confusion. I also saw that in the original illustration with the stars, they were much smaller, almost like dots, which is a convention sometimes used with acronyms. Later, the stars were made much larger. ←Baseball BugsWhat's up, Doc?carrots→ 16:58, 9 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks to all for the above input and discussion ... much appreciated ... (64.252.68.102 (talk) 15:11, 13 February 2010 (UTC))[reply]
Accordion/Techno song in Italy, Help!
I'm currently in Italy, and just the other day in Palermo, on 5 separate occasions I heard a song that had a really catchy accordion tune. I don't know if it was Italian or not, and I don't think the song had lyrics, but it was sort of techno-y and really happy sounding. I wish I could describe it more, but I really only heard snippets of it. I would know it if I heard it. Someone help! Thanks!! Jared(t) 18:42, 9 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
iPod Touch camera
Are there any plans/rumors for a future generation of the iPod Touch to have a built-in camera like the iPhone or iPod Nano? —C Teng(talk) 21:46, 9 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Rumors suggest the iPod touch was going to get a camera on par with the camera in the iPhone 3GS, but it didn't fit in the iPod touch form factor so it was dropped until it could be miniaturized enough to fit. If that is true, it suggests that some future generation of the iPod touch will receive a camera, but speculation on when that might happen would be best found by watching the market on auto-focusing cell phone camera components. Caltsar (talk) 17:27, 10 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
February 10
Bach's St. John's Passion recording
In your article on this Passion, you provide a link to a video performance of the opening piece -- Herr, unser Herrscher, dessen Ruhm -- but no info about conductor, choir, album number, etc., so one can purchase it. Anyone know the answer? Quinqua (talk) 00:22, 10 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
The conductor seems to be György Vashegyi (no article on English or even Hungarian Wikipedia). See here for visual comparison. I guess it might well be "his" Purcell Choir ("Purcell Kórus") and Orfeo Orchestra ("Orfeo Zenekar"). To make it easier for other volunteers: Article is Johannes Passion, YouTube clip is here. 80.219.8.3 (talk) 01:06, 10 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
"This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards." They're not kidding - I'm surprised such a major work has such a poorly-written article. Added to my watchlist to remind me to have a go at it. AndrewWTaylor (talk) 09:20, 10 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Actually on looking again I see it's not that bad, but it could still do with some TLC. AndrewWTaylor (talk) 10:11, 10 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
One of the older comments on the YouTube video is from a person who says he participated in this performance, as a bass in the chorus. He identifies Vashegyi, the Purcell Choir, and Orfeo Orchestra, the performance having taken place in 2004 at the Music Academy in Budapest. The logo seen in the video is that of the Hungarian television channel m2. I could not find any information about a CD or DVD release, so it may be that it has never been made available for purchase. ReverendWayne (talk) 01:30, 11 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
ultra in sports rivalry
In the big 4 US sports (baseball, basketball, football, hockey), how many championships have been played where both teams are from the same city (or very close like Oakland-SanFran)? Googlemeister (talk) 21:14, 10 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
It's never happened in the NHL, although the Stanley Cup was contested between two teams from Winnipeg in 1901. Montreal-Ottawa would be the next closest, also pre-NHL. In the NHL era the closest teams are New York-Philadelphia in 1980. Adam Bishop (talk) 21:32, 10 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Well, the sport with the most crosstown rivalries will be baseball, since at one point, there were three teams inhabiting the greater New York area (Yankees, Dodgers and Giants) and have been two teams in New York since the 60s with the introduction of the Mets. So, you may want to look at Subway Series. Philly had two teams, the Phillies and the Athletics up until A's moved to Kansas City in 1955, and they had the City Series. Both Chicago teams, the Cubs and White Sox, have never played in a World Series together, but their interleague games are called the Crosstown Classic. The only teams in football that are fairly close to one another are the Giants/Jets and, like you mentioned, the Raiders/49ers. Both combinations of teams have never played each other in the Super Bowl. For NBA, the Rochester Royals played the New York Knicks in 1951. As for hockey, the closest two teams I can think of would be the Buffalo Sabres/Toronto Maple Leafs, who have never played against each other. Hope that helps! Livewireo (talk) 21:39, 10 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Well NHL has closer teams but I guess putting the Islanders, the Devils and the Rangers all in the same division would preempt my scenario. Googlemeister (talk) 21:40, 10 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, the Devils and Rangers are only 20 minutes apart, but they can't play against each other in the current setup. Adam Bishop (talk) 21:47, 10 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Ahem. The Chicago Cubs and White Sox played each other in the 1906 World Series. The New York Giants and Yankees played in 1921, then again in 1922 and 1923, and again in 1936 and 1937. The Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers played in 1941, and again in 1947 and 1949. The Yankees and Giants played in 1951, the Yankees and Dodgers in 1952 and 1953, and again in 1955 and 1956. The Oakland Athletics and San Francisco Giants played each other in 1989 (the earthquake series). The New York Yankees and New York Mets played in 2000. Woogee (talk) 22:25, 10 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
The New York Giants and Buffalo Bills played in Super Bowl XXV, that may be the two closest teams to play each other, the San Francisco 49ers and San Diego Chargers played each other, that's another intrastate Super Bowl, though not that close geographically. The Giants and New England Patriots, though not in the same state, are not that far apart. Woogee (talk) 22:28, 10 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
As mentioned, the NY Giants and Jets are NFL's only pair in the same city. However, there was another pair from 82-94, the LA Raiders and LA Rams. They never played in the Super Bowl against each other. If you want to go into the AFL (pre NFL), Houston and Dallas played in the AFL's championship in 1962. -- kainaw™ 22:58, 10 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
The Rams actually played in Anaheim the last 14 years of their time in Southern California. Woogee (talk) 23:28, 10 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Giants-Yankees in 1921-22 (Polo Grounds), and Browns-Cardinals in 1944 (Sportsman's Park), shared home field. And Yankee Stadium (opened 1923) was just across the river from the Polo Grounds. ←Baseball BugsWhat's up, Doc?carrots→ 02:59, 11 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
MLB: 1906 (Cubs-Sox), 1921, 22, 23, 36, 37, 51 (Giants-Yankees), 1941, 47, 49, 52, 53, 55, 56 (Yankees-Dodgers), 1944 (Cardinals-Browns), 1989 (Giants-A's), 2000 (Yankees-Mets) -- The Giants and Dodgers played in an early "World Series" in 1889, when Brooklyn was in the American Association.
NFL: None. Closest is probably the 1952-4 NFL championships between the Browns and Lions (96 miles)
NBA: None, and unlikely due to the East-West set-up. Closest would probably be the 1948 BAA Finals between Baltimore and Philadelphia if we're counting the BAA years and the 1951 Finals between Rochester and New York if we're not.
NHL: None, and unlikely due to the East-West set-up. Closest would be the 1980 Finals between the Islanders and Flyers.
Honorable mentions: Ohio State and Cincinnati met in the finals of the 1961 and 1962 NCAA men's basketball tournament. #3 Florida played #1 Florida State in the 1997 Sugar Bowl (#2 Arizona State was obligated to play in the Rose Bowl). -- Mwalcoff (talk) 00:03, 11 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
It also happened once in the 19th century National League/American Association World Series. See List of pre-World Series baseball champions. In 1886 the NL New York Giants defeated the AA Brooklyn Bridegrooms. If the series had been held in 1891, then it would have paired the Boston teams from both leagues. --Jayron32 03:55, 11 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Cool thanks guys, am still looking forward to a Dodgers-Angels World Series. Googlemeister (talk) 14:31, 11 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
February 11
UNIVERSAL SOLDIER -Truck
Hi,
I would like to know more about the truck that was featured in the first UNIVERSAL SOLDIER movie. I have a bit of a liking for trucks and after I saw the one that was customized as a mobile lab I was intent on finding out more about this vehicle. I assume that there's not an article about it much less pictures/photographs.So if there's anyone out there who can help me with stuff like; who built the vehicle;how long id it take; the process etc. All those little bits of trivia, (if there are any) as well as maybe images or where I can find images, I would really appreciate it.
You might want to try poking around on the Internet Movie Car Database here. Dismas|(talk) 00:12, 12 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
where can i find this song??
i heard this song nearly 10 years ago.
its an album of mostly compilations of instrumental music with a few words or lyrics in between.
its like welsh or scottish music or could be what you call gaelic...
brilliant musci fast paced which begins slow and builds into a cresendo...
i have been trying to locate this for ages now
its a brilliant composition of maybe 10+ songs in one album
can any music lover help.
the music just haunts me —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.130.123.12 (talk) 16:01, 11 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Can you provide any lyrics, any themes of what the song (or songs) are about? Anything they sound similar to, are they the same artist or was it (noticably) different artists? You've given us incredibly little to go on beyond it being probably gaelic and fast-paced. 16:16, 11 February 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.221.133.226 (talk)
Your description made me think immediately of Afro-Celt Sound System, but there are many other things it could be. More info needed, if possible. Karenjc 20:27, 11 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Another possibility might be The Storm or one of the other albums by Moving Hearts, or an album by one of the members of that band such as Davy Spillane. Highly recommended, by the way. (Irish, rather than Welsh or Scottish though, obviously...) Ghmyrtle (talk) 23:24, 11 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks a bunch for all the replies... Karenjc if you had been in front of me I would have hugged you and kissed you a thousand times... thank you so much for putting me out of my misery - I did note down all the suggestions and started with Afro Celt Sound system on Youtube after checking four songs the fifth song was Release feat Sinead O Connor, this and the next song "Lovers of Light" were the songs that were haunting my mind for the last ten years. There is no way I can thank you enough for this but I can thank Wikipedia I have decided to contribute to the Wikipedia Fund for making my day. Thanks for bringing a smile on my lips. I will buy this CD for my wife tonite... thanks for giving me this pleasurable gift on Valentines, Thanks to all other contributers tooo. Gosh I cant type more... Thankss Wikipedia —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.211.95.48 (talk) 12:36, 14 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
You are most welcome! Release and Lovers of Light are favourites of mine - glad to help and happy Valentine's day to you and your wife :) Karenjc 17:01, 14 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Hmmm now that wifey has come home ( I had come home earlier and kept the song ready to play on You Tube) I played both the songs for her and did an impromtu dance and our 3 yr old darling daughter also joined us in our Valentines dance... My wife loved the music. Thanks again. Im wondering about the magic of English language. Here is a song I had listened to years ago. I had not even mentioned the words to you. I dint know the album name or the artist name. I had the haunting feel of the song just knew it had a scottish/ celtic or gaelic feel YET you managed to find it out for me, Im wondering how the human mind works... The feeling was like a nagging piece of food stuck in between your teeth and you cant rest till you spit it out.... I had done umpteen youtube searches and had given up till you and wikipedia came and saved me from further agony. My wife joins me in wishing you and your family a great Valentines. May this evening be as joyous and wonderful for u as it is for us. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.211.95.48 (talk) 18:04, 14 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
incorrect re-direct
From Bill Crosby to Bill Cosby...not the same person.
Bill Crosby was a blues singer that recorded for Columbia in the 1940's.
Bill Cosby is the Actor & singer from 20 years later....
Please correct, Thank You... Bob Bergmann Owner BoogiebobsRecords.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.209.125.221 (talk) 19:23, 11 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Seems you're quite right. Unfortunately, he's hard to pin down as most google hits for "Bill Crosby blues singer" bring up references to Bill Cosby, the comedian who also recorded a few albums. -- Jack of Oz ... speak! ... 19:46, 11 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I changed the Bill Crosby redirect to point to William Crosby, which seems more appropriate. If you do a search with Crosby in quotes, like this, Google will not return so many Bill Cosby hits. — jwillbur 21:11, 11 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Sci-Fi Title needed,50's,black and white,maybe Lloyd Bridges.
I am trying to find the title of a film(or more likely a TV episode)of a sci-fi story made in the fifties or early sixties.
It was shot in black and white and i think had Lloyd Bridges in it.
The plot revolved around four aliens from two different warring worlds(2 teams of 2)being sent to earth to find and kill each other,this being their way of settling disputes,rather than using armies.
These aliens where in human form so as not to arouse suspicion and had to wear special sunglasses through which they could identify each other (through these glasses the aliens looked like an energy mass,but humanoid in shape)
One of the aliens,Bridges?,befriends a human woman in his quest and is eventually the last one alive,but as he is about to leave he is shot in the back,falling to the ground,dead,his glasses fall off, landing by his side.
The final shot is a view through these glasses as the "woman" walks off,gun in hand and you are able to see she is actually one of the opposing aliens.
I have searched Lloyd Bridges biographies,outer limits,twilight zone and various other sci-fi sites and can find no answer,hopefully someone on here will know?
Bryston11 (talk) 22:27, 11 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I noticed that in 28 Days Later, they show the taxi heading along an apparently empty motorway.
Four options occurred to me:
They managed to find a completely empty UK motorway
It's special effects
They had the motorway closed
It's not really a motorway
Of the four options, I thought 2 unlikely (too hard to be convincing) and 1 impossible (even in the early hours, there's always some traffic on the UK's major roads, and they'd hardly go to the expense of setting up an outdoor shoot if they couldn't be sure of the shot).
That leaves three and four. Surely even Hollywood's money can't persuade the authorities to close motorways. In which case, I'm left with 4. Is it filmed on a defunct or not yet open to the public stretch of road? --Dweller (talk) 12:29, 12 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Indeed, although there is a fifth option that is often employed, i.e. they find a section of motorway that has not yet been opened (as in Withnail and I). This was easier a few years ago, but few new motorways are being constructed in the UK now.--Shantavira|feed me 14:15, 12 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I believe that they did this for Speed where they needed empty roadway for the bus to be crashing around. And then there's the point in the story where they "actually" are on an unfinished road and have to jump a gap with the bus. Dismas|(talk) 14:51, 12 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
And of course they could always have used the M96 if they could arrange access (they used it recently for The Day Britain Stopped). Nanonic (talk) 14:32, 12 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. Odd I didn't think to look there. I cannot believe that Her Maj's constabulary agreed to doing such a thing. How odd. Why would they put the public to such a disservice for the benefit of a filmmaker? If I'd been stuck behind the roadblock, I'd be furious if I knew why I was late for a meeting. --Dweller (talk) 14:33, 12 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I seem to remember reading somewhere that they did it early in the morning when there was little traffic about. They could have done it after sunrise in summer and there wouldn't have been much disruption. Or maybe there were special effects used to lighten the look of it, if it was filmed in relative darkness. --Richardrjtalk email 14:40, 12 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
This gives more background:『One of the biggest challenges during the production was filming on a deserted motorway. The production got permission to shoot on the M1 on a Sunday morning between 7.00am and 9.00am. With the help of the police gradually slowing the traffic both ways, and using 10 cameras, the filmmakers managed to capture a minute of emptiness as Frank drives his cab toward Manchester. “It was a technical nightmare but a fantastically weird scene,” says Boyle. “It makes you feel that the whole of Britain has been abandoned.”』 Ghmyrtle (talk) 14:59, 12 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
This is not unique. Roads are closed all the time for movies. I would be rather surprised if there isn't a road, somewhere in the world, that is going to be closed for filming today. -- kainaw™ 14:44, 12 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Consider that the money gained from allowing a film crew to film there could pay to reduce delays more than the filming itself caused. (Does this sentence make sense?) Vimescarrot (talk) 14:47, 12 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Indeed they are closed. Every once in a while, if you're watching on the of the US late night talk shows like those of David Letterman, Jay Leno, etc., either the host or their guest will complain in some off hand remark about the traffic being bad due to them being blocked off for filming. David Letterman is especially happy when he can get the street outside his studios closed off for some stunt. He'll often compare the frustration of the drivers in having to find an alternate route to his desire to have some childish stunt pulled off on the street. Dismas|(talk) 14:56, 12 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
To be fair, there is a bit of a difference between closing a highway and closing the 1 block in front of the Hello Deli (which probably increases foot traffic into the Hello Deli - which I think has a maximum capacity of 5 patrons). It can be annoying as well. I was driving from Laughlin to Palm Springs and took a "shortcut". After about 30 minutes of drive through the desert, the road was closed for 3 days (yes, 3 days), to film some stunt for Fear Factor. I had to circle back another 30 minutes and take the longer route which was much longer with the added hour. -- kainaw™ 15:03, 12 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
The Letterman bit was more of an aside. Sections of New York and LA are often closed for films was the point that I was trying to get across. Dismas|(talk) 16:11, 12 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I'd love to know the basis on which the police agreed to do this. Vimescarrot, your comment doesn't make sense, as even if the police charged Boyle for their time, that money would not be used to help anything other than fund the police's time. --Dweller (talk) 15:23, 12 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I think Vimescarrot's point (which may or may not be the case) was that the film-makers may have had to pay the Department for Transport for the privilege of filming on the road. --Richardrjtalk email 15:28, 12 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
That is correct. You have to pay whomever is in charge of the road - which is not the police. It will be some city or county official. -- kainaw™ 15:32, 12 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Ah. So, if I paid whoever it is enough, and it's my guess that it's the Highways Agency, would they close the M1 so I could indulge a whimsy to dance a jig across the six lanes, while accompanied by the massed bands of the Grenadier Guards? Who on earth decides that it's acceptable to discomfort the public in exchange for a bung? There is never a time, day or night, on any day of the year, when the M1 is not a pretty busy road; it's usually insanely busy. --Dweller (talk) 15:34, 12 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
A 'bung' in UK English usually means bribe which is not what's going on here. I think the point is that the money can be used to benefit the road users - perhaps by improving the road (and thus reducing the delays at other times) perhaps by reducing the taxes that are used to maintain the road. Plus the actual length of closure doesn't have to be very long. The shot can be set up while the cars are going through, then it's closed for a few minutes while the shot happens, then it opens again while the shot is reset. DJ Clayworth (talk) 16:27, 12 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
It takes money and a reason. To be more exact, it takes a LOT of money and a very GOOD reason. -- kainaw™ 15:39, 12 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
(e/c) I would have thought it would be on a case-by-case basis. If you're an internationally recognised film director like Danny Boyle, you're going to have a better chance of getting co-operation from the authorities than if you're just some film school kid with a camera. Plus, we're not talking about closing the M1 entirely. It was a mobile roadblock. Personally, I'm glad the Agency has the flexibility and commonsense to agree to this kind of thing once in a while. Getting to one's destination on time isn't everything, and the scene was memorable and effective. --Richardrjtalk email 15:43, 12 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
The Government backed UK Film Council[3] would be able to pull a lot of strings to make things happen, I imagine. Alansplodge (talk) 16:16, 12 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Googling "film permit road closure" yields actual fees for filmed road closures in a bunch of places. This page from York, Canada says the fees depend on how much interference with the traveling public occurs, and it looks like it's C$1000 if you shut off one lane. Of course, that's not a complete shutdown of the whole fricking M1; that must have cost a bundle. As for inconveniencing the public in return for a bung, most cities are eager, extremely eager, to do this, and have people in charge of trying to attract film crews to the city, because the bung is not only to the local government but the local economy in general — the cinematographers, production assistants, actors, and hangers-on do drink local coffee and eat local donuts. Comet Tuttle (talk) 19:25, 12 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Wrong York, Canada; that one doesn't exist any more. The page is from this one. --Anonymous, 00:03 UTC, February 13, 2010.
I think it was on NPR that I heard a story a few months back about how Los Angeles is trying to persuade filmmakers to actually make films in their city. Directors have been shooting in other cities because it's cheaper to go to another city and shoot instead of staying in LA. Dismas|(talk) 19:33, 12 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
This link says feature shoots in the LA area have fallen 32% since 1996, citing Film LA, "a non-profit group that arranges local film permits". The latter's website said last month that "on-location filming across all categories declined 19.4 percent in 2009 compared to 2008, the steepest year-over-year decline since tracking began in 1993". They're doomed. Comet Tuttle (talk) 22:48, 12 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I remember that two Hollywood movies of about 10 years ago featured scenes showing completely empty main streets in New York. In making Vanilla Sky (2001) they actually did close the streets, but in the other one they filmed the street with normal traffic and eliminated the traffic with special effects. I think that one was The Devil's Advocate (1997), but I can't find a confirmation of that. --Anonymous, 00:09 UTC, February 13, 2010.
One anecdotal example from 30 years ago: The filming of The Blues Brothers, in which downtown Chicago (which is fairly quiet on weekends anyway) was repeatedly closed during Saturdays and Sundays in the summer of 1979, which is how the stunt driver could take the Bluesmobile along under the L tracks at 80-100 MPH without fear of a horrific accident. ←Baseball BugsWhat's up, Doc?carrots→ 05:43, 13 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I don't have a source but I imagined they used a rolling roadblock for this. Three police cars manouvere so they are parallel to each other in the three lanes of the motorway and slow down to around 30mph forcing the traffic behind them to slow down. The faster moving traffic in front quickly outdistances them, leaving an empty gap in the traffic flow. You then shoot some footage, remove the rolling roadblock and allow the backlog to clear and repeat as required. From the normal drivers point of view they might have a five or ten minute period of slow traffic - hardly a major inconvenience. Exxolon (talk) 14:19, 13 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
You are correct, it says that in the article. --Richardrjtalk email 15:58, 13 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Option 5. being "Unopened road" per Shantavira, our OP missed option 6. "Build your own road" which is what I believe was done for the 2nd(?) Matrix film. --220.101.28.25 (talk) 05:04, 14 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Who is this actor?
Below is a link to a blooper reel from 1936. I have linked the video to start at 1:56, because I am wondering who the actor is in the three scenes starting at that point. I think that it could be Edward G. Robinson, but I wondered if somebody could please confirm or, if it isn't him, tell me who it is.
Beautiful. Interesting that "breakdown" was the popular term then. "Blooper" is a little less judgmental. ←Baseball BugsWhat's up, Doc?carrots→ 05:55, 13 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Yes I did. I wrote six and then could only find five so I changed my answer. That increases my impression that this would be a good list to have in Wikipedia. 75.41.110.200 (talk) 00:31, 14 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I may be picking nits but the luger didn't actually die during the games. The opening ceremonies weren't for another few hours. Dismas|(talk) 20:17, 13 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
He didn't die during his event, but there was some competition in at least one other event during the day prior to the official opening of the games. ←Baseball BugsWhat's up, Doc?carrots→ 20:38, 13 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
(ec) It's fuzzy enough to qualify, imo. Some Olympic events have actually started before the Opening Ceremony, so the ceremony is not necessarily the strict delimiter it might appear to be. Kumaritashvili had travelled to the games venue in order to compete, he had presumably already taken up residence in the athletes' quarters, and his death occurred in the overall context of the games. -- Jack of Oz ... speak! ... 20:44, 13 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
There were also the 5(?) Israeli atheletes who died during the Munich Massacre in 1972. They didn't acually die while participating in their sports, though. Buddy431 (talk) 21:10, 13 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I'd still include them. An athlete who dies in his bed of a heart attack, while at the Games, would be included; so why not athletes who were murdered while at the Games? -- Jack of Oz ... speak! ... 23:35, 13 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
The prospective article says "died during the Games", which would certainly count the Israelis (I think there were 7 of them). Regarding the opening ceremonies, the winter games, at least, have been conducting the start of competition before the opening ceremonies for quite awhile now. Not sure about the summer games, but you could really count anything that happened in connection with the Olympics that occurs at the Olympic city. The reasoning there is similar to what you said earlier - that they are there because they are going to be competing. Whether the actual competition has started is a nitpicking technicality. ←Baseball BugsWhat's up, Doc?carrots→ 07:23, 14 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Not all of them were athletes participating in the games, though. Yossef Gutfreund, for example, was a wrestling judge, and several of those listed were coaches. If we're going to count anyone killed in the context of the olympics, then the list will surely expand considerably. Buddy431 (talk) 17:27, 14 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
If memory serves, the football competition started before the opening ceremony of the Beijing games. -- Arwel Parry(talk) 00:37, 15 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
If I was compiling such an article, I'd say it should include anyone who was either an athlete, an official, or a member of the athletes' support staff such as doctors and trainers, while at an Olympic venue for games-related purposes. However, I can't think of a sufficiently terse way to say that in order to propose it as an article title. "List of Olympic-related deaths" could be taken as including deaths while training in the person's home country, for example. --Anonymous, 20:21 UTC, February 14, 2010.
February 14
Who dat?
http://imgur.com/zZvSh.jpg A friend of a friend did this painting of a woman who looks very familiar to me. Is she a celebrity of some kind? Thanks. --Sean —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.54.94.78 (talk) 01:13, 14 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I think Dismas is closer, but surely asking your friend would be the simplest answer...? Matt Deres (talk) 16:48, 14 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
All the Olympics athletes seem to have their country's name on their uniforms in English
Why is that? If you have proof of a counterexample in the form of a picture, that would put this question to rest too. 71.161.49.106 (talk) 02:36, 14 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I have no source for this but... It's likely because A) English is used as the standard language for a number of things such as with international airline pilots and B) by having them all be English, it's easier for the officials and fans to tell where everyone is from. Having a lot of uniforms using cyrillic or greek characters, for example, would confuse quite a few people. There are more people who understand the English versions of names rather than the native names. Dismas|(talk) 03:42, 14 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
As noted at The_Olympics#International_Olympic_Committee, the two official languages of the Olympics are French and English; the predominant or official language(s) of the host nation are also used in official announcements. I remember that during the 1992 Summer OlympicsinBarcelona, announcements were made in 4 languages: French, English, Catalan and Castilian Spanish. Pragmatically, since English is generally more widespread in usage, the uniform names are generally in English rather than French. It should also be noted that this may also be done for the TV viewing audience as well, the largest single private source of funds are United States television interests; NBC paid some $800,000,000 for the right to broadcast just this years Winter games, for example. --Jayron32 00:37, 15 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
2010 Olympic Opening Ceremonies performers
As part of the openening ceremonies, there were many well known Canadian performers, past and present professional atheletes, actors and the like. My question is: How much did the likes of Donald Sutherland, Bryan Adams, Bobby Orr, Wayne Gretsky and others get paid for their participation? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.250.117.26 (talk) 05:10, 14 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Up until the actual event details of what would be happening at the opening ceremony were kept secret by I presume the Canadian Olympic Committee and I would assume that this kind of infomation about the perfomers will be kept secret too, although I would guess they were all paid loads! Chevymontecarlo (talk) 08:30, 14 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not so sure. They could very easily have done it for the honour and taken the same rate as all the other performers. Not that this is what happened, but it could be reasonably considered. Aaronite (talk) 18:41, 14 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Pooh movies
Can I have a list of Pooh movies?--Mikespedia (talk) 14:09, 14 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Why can't Radio Bob continue the ADR signal after the shutdown of the analog satellite signal of the German TV channel 9Live? --88.76.18.70 (talk) 15:06, 14 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Song question...
I just watched the trailer for The Kid Stays in the Picture and I'm really annoyed that I can't remember the name of the song that is playing in the background. It starts at about 15 seconds and ends at about the 1 minute mark. It's so familiar, but I can't place it. Can anyone tell me what it is? Belisarius (talk) 16:03, 14 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Is the point of view of this song supposed to be a message or letter from the protagonist? It just sounds like a letter as well as the lyrics 'I love you, sincerely, yours truly, yours truly'...--Editor510drop us a line, mate 18:57, 14 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
What was that song?
I need to know that group that sang the song "So over."
The lyrics went something like this:
over, so over
you will never know
what'll it take to make you believe
...
you deserve a broken heart
cry me a river, you're so cruel
The music video showed a girl band and at the end of the video, the 'girls' took off the their wigs and walked away as boys.
I know this would ordinarily go on the article talk page, but those who check the talk page would have seen this problem (and have apparently ignored it). The initial photo in the article has been invalidated or otherwise meddles with and the link is shown instead of the photo. In case anyone can help. DRosenbach(Talk | Contribs) 21:01, 14 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
File:Musicology tour prince jamming on blue guitar.jpg would solve the problem, and I have added it to the article. The solution to these problems is just to search commons and find an allowable image. There were multiple images of Prince freely availible on Commons, so I just picked a good one. In the future, if this happens again, you are fully allowed to replace the deleted pic with a proper pic. --Jayron32 21:20, 14 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Looking for aircraft carrier sprites
I am looking for top-view sprites of World War II era American and Japanese aircraft carriers, and possibly also other Japanese warships, because I am making a game in Game Maker similar to the game "1943: The Battle of Midway" by Capcom. I have aircraft sprites, but I'm slightly stuck for warship sprites for the "surface attack" sequences.
I was watching an old Bugs Bunny cartoon on TV the other day, and I found it curious that someone (Chuck Jones) was credited as its "director". In general terms, I understand what a director does when working on a live-action film or on a live-action television show. What does a director do, however, in the case of an animated film or an animated TV show (cartoon)? Does anyone have any ideas? I can't imagine that they "direct" the voice actors, in the same way that a director directs live actors in a film or a TV show ... although, I guess that that is possible. But what exactly would there be to direct, in that case? I have read the Wikipedia articles on both film director and animation director. These did not answer my questions. In fact, the latter article specifically states: "The role (of animation director) is not the same as the director of an animated film". Thanks for any input. (64.252.68.102 (talk) 00:32, 15 February 2010 (UTC))[reply]
The director position in old WB cartoons was responsible for the pacing, keyframe animation, and other chores, depending on the director and the people he was working with. While the screenwriter (see Michael Maltese for one that worked on many of the best-known Warner Bros. cartoons) would lay out the basic plot and dialogue (sometimes in conjunction with the director), the director was the one that, well, took a screenplay and turned it into something that made you laugh. His job was essentially to have a vision of the completed film and work with all the various other folks to make that vision into something concrete. It's a bit like being a "normal" director, except that due to the format of the medium, this kind of director had much more control over every bit of the film - literally posing the actors as he wished. Matt Deres (talk) 01:25, 15 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Nadia Comăneci
Nadia Comăneci was the first person to earn perfect 10 scores (at the 1976 Summer Olympics). Have any others after her also earned the perfect 10 score? If so, who has done so? Does Wikipedia have an article on perfect 10 score Olympians? Thank you. (64.252.68.102 (talk) 01:07, 15 February 2010 (UTC))[reply]
has there ever been an auto race where *everyone* crashed?
I mean, absolutely nobody finished. this rose out of a discussion with a good friend who follows NASCAR. He and some others were talking about a humongous chain of wrecks last week, and it made me ask what happens if everyone wrecks in a race. My buddy said they can't end a race without a winner - which I presume is true. But, it got me to thinking, has this ever happened where every single car wrecked? It seems like it'd be hard, even in Hazzard County, but one never knows.209.244.187.155 (talk) 01:29, 15 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
