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THIS DAY IN GAY HISTORY

based on: The White Crane Institute's 'Gay Wisdom', Gay Birthdays, Gay For Today, Famous GLBT, glbt-Gay Encylopedia, Today in GGay History, Wikipedia, and more … January 2

1806 – Ohio repeals its common-law reception statute. Since it has no sodomy law, sodomy becomes legal and remains so for nearly eighty years.

1900 – (Charles William) Billy Haines (d.1973) was an American film actor and interior designer. He was a star of the silent era until the 1930s, when Haines' career was cut short by MGM Studios due to his refusal to deny his homosexuality. Haines never returned to film and instead started a successful interior design business with his life partner and was supported by friends in Hollywood.

Billy Haines was born in Staunton, Virginia. Haines ran away from home at the age of 14, accompanied by another unidentified young man whom Haines referred to as his "boyfriend". The pair went to Hopewell, which had a reputation for immorality. Haines and his boyfriend got jobs working at the local DuPont factory for $50 a week. To supplement their income, the couple opened a dance hall, which may have also served as a brothel. His parents, frantic over his disappearance, tracked him through the police to Hopewell. Haines did not return home with them, remaining instead in Hopewell and sending money back home to help support the family. The couple remained in Hopewell until most of the town was destroyed by fire in 1915. Haines moved to New York City settling into the burgeoning gay community of Greenwich Village. It is unclear whether his boyfriend accompanied him.

He worked a variety of jobs before becoming a model. Talent scout Bijou Fernandez discovered Haines as part of the Samuel Goldwyn Company's "New Faces of 1922" contest and the studio signed him to a $40 a week contract.

Haines's career began slowly, as he appeared in extra and bit parts, mostly uncredited. His first significant role was in Three Wise Fools (1923). However, he continued to play small, unimportant parts at Goldwyn. It was not until they loaned him to Fox in 1923 for The Desert Outlaw that he got the opportunity to play a significant role. In 1924, MGM lent Haines to Columbia Pictures for a five-picture deal. The first of these, The Midnight Express (1924), received excellent reviews and Columbia offered to buy his contract. The offer was refused and Haines continued in bit roles for Goldwyn.

On a trip to New York in 1926, Haines met James "Jimmie" Shields, probably as a pick-up on the street . Haines convinced Shields to move to Los Angeles, promising to get him work as an extra - some sources say Shields worked as Haines' "double' in his films. The pair were soon living together and viewed themselves as a committed couple.

In 1933, Haines was arrested in a YMCA with a sailor he had picked up in Los Angeles' Pershing Square. Louis B. Mayer, the studio head at MGM, delivered an ultimatum to Haines: choose between a sham marriage (also known as a "lavender marriage") or his relationship with Shields. Haines chose Shields and they remained together for almost 50 years. Mayer subsequently fired Haines and terminated his contract, quickly recasting Robert Montgomery in roles that had been planned for Haines. Haines did make a few minor films then retired from film.

Haines and Shields began a successful dual career as interior designers and antique dealers. Among their early clients were friends such as Joan Crawford, Gloria Swanson, Carole Lombard, Marion Davies and George Cukor. Their lives were disrupted in 1936 when members of the Ku Klux Klan dragged the two men from their home and beat them, because a neighbor had accused the two of propositioning his son. Crawford, along with other stars such as Claudette Colbert, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Kay Francis, and Charles Boyer urged the men to report this to the police. Marion Davies asked her lover William Randolph Hearst to use his influence to ensure the neighbors were prosecuted to the full extent of the law, but ultimately Haines and Shields chose not to report the incident.

Haines and Shields remained together for the rest of their lives. Joan Crawford described them as "the happiest married couple in Hollywood."

Haines died from lung cancer in Santa Monica, California at the age of 73, a week short of his 74th birthday, which was on the new year of 1974. Soon afterward, Shields, who suffered from what many believe to be Alzheimer's Disease, put on Haines' pajamas, took an overdose of pills, and crawled into their bed to die. They were interred side by side in Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery.

1905 – Over the twentieth century, Sir Michael Tippett, (d.1998) a most unlikely composer and musician, progressed from being the great enigma of British classical music to being one of its most respected and influential figures. His visionary, idealistic humanism, which, while firmly grounded in the traditional, embraced contemporary and popular forms as well. Tippett was, in the words of his partner Meirion Bowen, an "unabashed homosexual," and he defied the social taboos of his time by incorporating homoerotic themes in his operas.

Michael Kemp Tippett was born in London, and raised in Surrey, where he lived most of his life. Unlike many composers, he was not a child prodigy, and, aside from piano lessons, he had little early involvement with music. In his teens, however, he attended concert performances of Beethoven's symphonies, and as a result of this experience he realized his desire to become a composer.

Consequently, he persuaded his parents to support his studies at the Royal College of Music, from which he graduated in 1928. For several years, he taught French in a preparatory school and conducted local musical ensembles. In 1940, he was appointed Director of Music at Morley College in London, a post he retained until 1951.

Although Tippett's early compositions had their first public performance in 1930, the work that brought him widespread recognition came a decade later. The oratorio A Child of Our Time (1939-1941) was inspired by Tippett's concern for the oppressed and his outrage over Nazi persecution of the Jews. The work is dedicated to Hershel Grynzpan, a gay Jewish youth who, in 1937, assassinated a Nazi official in a Paris club frequented by homosexuals, an act that the Nazis used as a pretext for the acts of anti-Semitic terror known as Kristallnacht. Tippett also wrote the libretto for this oratorio, as he would subsequently do for all his vocal compositions.

Aside from A Child of Our Time, he is perhaps best known, for his operas. Tippett's first opera, The Midsummer Marriage (1955), was first staged at Covent Garden with a young Joan Sutherland, then beginning her stellar career, in the lead role. Although the opera has endured the test of time, the plot at first bewildered audiences used to more traditional opera fare.

King Priam (1962) retells the ancient story of the siege of Troy and, in one scene, presents the homoerotic attachment between Achilles and Patroclus. More daring is The Knot Garden (1970), an examination of the dynamics of contemporary relationships. Among the main characters are Mel and Dov, an unambiguously gay, mixed-race couple.

Tippett's final major work was the opera New Year (1989), written by the octogenarian composer as a sort of postscript to his long career. In keeping with Tippett's ongoing interest in contemporary currents in music and culture, this late piece is perhaps the first opera to include a "rap" vocal.

Tippett was a lifelong humanist and pacifist who stood by his beliefs, even when they were out of step with the rest of society. In 1943, he was incarcerated for three months in London's notorious Wormwood Scrubs prison for refusing to do the civil defense duty expected of conscientious objectors; he responded to his conditions by organizing and conducting the prison orchestra.

Tippett was, moreover, openly gay at a time when male homosexual acts were criminal in Britain. Yet despite his "outlaw" history, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1966, made a Companion of Honour in 1979, and granted the Order of Merit in 1983. Tippett remained active through his eighties, and only declined at the very end of his life.

His autobiography, Those Twentieth Century Blues, was published in 1991. In November, 1997, while attending a retrospective celebration of his music in Stockholm, he was stricken with pneumonia. He died of the illness in his London home on January 8, 1998, days after his ninety-third birthday.

1918 – Clyde E. Martin (d.2014) was an American sexologist. He was an assistant to Alfred Kinsey on the Kinsey Reports and served as a co-author on Sexual Behavior in the Human Male and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female.

Martin commenced study in economics at Indiana University in 1937. Soon after in December 1938 Martin actively sought out Kinsey and gave Kinsey his sexual history. The pair formed a bond, and Kinsey offered the cash-strapped Martin work in his garden. From spring 1939, he was assisting Kinsey with tabulation of his sexual history surveys. In 1941 when funding for the project was received from the National Research Council, Martin became the first researcher hired by the project. In 1960 he resigned from the Institute for Sex Research to pursue his doctoral degree, receiving his Ph.D. (in social relations) from Johns Hopkins University in 1966. From 1966 until 1989, he conducted research, specializing in gerontology and sociology at the Francis Scott Key Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland. He retired in 1989, and died on 5 December 2014, aged 96.

In May 1942, Martin married his girlfriend, Alice, in the garden of the Kinseys' house. Before marrying, he had a sexual relationship with Alfred Kinsey.

The 2003 musical Dr. Sex focuses on the relationship between Martin, Kinsey and his wife, with the character of Wally Matthews being based

1928 – Ray Kassar was president, and later CEO, of Atari Inc. from 1978 to 1983. He had previously been executive vice-president of Burlington Industries, the world's largest textile company at the time, and president of its Burlington House division. A member of the Board of Directors, Kassar had spent over thirty years at Burlington.

Ray Kassar was hired in February 1978 as president of Atari Inc.'s consumer division by Warner Communications, which at the time owned Atari. By this time, rifts had begun to develop between the original Atari Inc. staff (most of whom had engineering backgrounds) and the new hires brought in by Warner (who, like Kassar, mostly had business backgrounds).

In November 1978, when Atari Inc. co-founder Nolan Bushnell left the company after a dispute with Warner over the future of Atari Inc., Kassar became CEO. Under his leadership, sweeping changes were made at Atari and the laid-back atmosphere that had existed under Bushnell's leadership all but disappeared. Kassar's twenty-five years at Burlington Industries had given him a taste for order, organization, and efficiency and his efforts to revamp Atari along similar lines provoked substantial animosity. Kassar shifted the focus away from game development and more toward marketing and sales. Atari Inc. began to promote games all year around instead of just at the Christmas season. R&D also suffered deep cuts and the discipline and security at Atari Inc. became strict.

In a sense he also helped create the video game maker Activision. While Kassar was at Atari he angered a large number of the game developers by not crediting them in any way to the point where they walked out of Atari. He told them that they were no more important to the games then the people that worked on the assembly line. They started their own company and called it Activision.

Ray Kassar is the namesake the widely popular game “ Yar’s Revenge.” The creator of the game was a former employee at Atari “Yar” is Ray spelled backwards. The title is a deliberate jab at Kassar, mocking his dictator-like work ethic as well as his flamboyant manner. Ray Kassar was known by the employees at Atari to be an extremely flamboyant homosexual outside the work place. Employees didn't care what his sexual preferences were, but they were irked by his daily habit of being chauffeured to work in a limo and then proceeding to make grand entrances into the office.

Kassar built Atari into a video game giant that it was, before he was forced to resign because of allegations of insider trading in 1983. He sold all of his shares in Atari just hours before a report was published that Atari had suffered monetary loses in the millions.

1929 – Charles Beaumont (d.1967) is born Charles Leroy Nutt. He was an American author of speculative fiction, including short stories in the horror and science fiction subgenres. He is remembered as a writer of classic Twilight Zone episodes, such as "The Howling Man", "Miniature", "Printer's Devil", and "Number Twelve Looks Just Like You", but also penned the screenplays for several films, among them 7 Faces of Dr. Lao, The Intruder, and The Masque of the Red Death.

In 1954, Playboy magazine selected his story “Black Country.” Playboy has been loved by straight men for decades but it was this gay short story that built its reputation. Hugh Hefner was the only one to accept a science fiction story about heterosexuals being the minority against homosexuals. When letters poured in, he said: 'If it was wrong to persecute heterosexuals in a homosexual society, then the reverse was wrong too.'

1961 – Todd Haynes is an American independent film director and screenwriter. He is best known for his feature films Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, Poison, Velvet Goldmine, Safe, and the Academy Award-nominated Far from Heaven and I'm Not There.

In 1987, while an MFA student at Bard College, Haynes made a short, Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, which chronicles the life of American pop singer Karen Carpenter, using Barbie dolls as actors. The film presents Carpenter's struggle with anorexia and bulimia, featuring several close-ups of Ipecac (the prescription drug Carpenter was reputed to have used to make herself vomit during her illness). Carpenter's chronic weight loss was portrayed by using a "Karen" Barbie doll with the face and body whittled away with a knife, leaving the doll looking skeletonized. The film is also notable for staged dream sequences in which Karen, in a state of deteriorating mental health, imagines being spanked by her father.

Superstar featured extensive use of Carpenter songs, showcasing Haynes' love of popular music (which would be a recurring feature of later films). Haynes failed to obtain proper licensing to use the music, prompting a lawsuit from Karen's brother Richard Carpenter for copyright infringement. Carpenter was reportedly also offended by Haynes' unflattering portrayal of him as a narcissistic bully, along with several broadly dropped suggestions that he was gay and in the closet. Carpenter won his lawsuit, and Superstar was removed from public distribution; to date, it may not be viewed publicly. Bootlegged versions of the film are still circulated, and the film is sporadically made available on YouTube.

Haynes' 1991 feature film debut, Poison, garnered Haynes further acclaim and controversy. Drawing on the writings of "transgressive" gay writer Jean Genet, the film is a triptych of queer-themed narratives, each adopting a different cinematic genre: vox-pop documentary ("Hero"), 50s sci-fi horror ("Horror") and gay prisoner love story ("Homo"). The film explores traditional perceptions of homosexuality as an unnatural and deviant social force, and presents Genet's vision of sado-masochistic gay love as a subversion of heterosexual norms, culminating with a marriage ceremony between two gay male convicts. Poison marked Haynes' first collaboration with producer Christine Vachon, who has since produced all of Haynes' feature films.

Poison was partially funded with a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. The film subsequently became the center of a public attack by Reverend Donald Wildmon, head of the American Family Association, who criticized the NEA for funding Poison and other works by gay and lesbian artists and filmmakers. Wildmon, who had not viewed the film before making his comments publicly, condemned the film's "explicit porno scenes of homosexuals involved in anal sex", despite no such scenes appearing in the film.

Poison went on to win the 1991 Sundance Film Festival's Grand Jury Prize, establishing Haynes as an emerging talent and the voice of a new transgressive generation. The film writer B. Ruby Rich cited Poison as one of the defining films of the emerging New Queer Cinema movement, with its focus on maverick sexuality as an anti-establishment social force.

Haynes achieved his greatest critical and commercial success to date with Far From Heaven (2002), a 1950s-set melodrama inspired by the films of Douglas Sirk about a Connecticut housewife Cathy Whittaker (Julianne Moore) who discovers that her husband (Dennis Quaid) is secretly gay, and subsequently falls in love with Raymond, her African-American gardener (Dennis Haysbert).

Haynes is openly gay. He currently lives in Portland, Oregon.

2005 – Bonnie Bleskachek became the first openly lesbian fire chief of a major city, Minneapolis. She was demoted two years later amid claims of harassment and discrimination, but return to the department as a staff captain. She co-founded the Minnesota Women Fire Fighters Association.

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muppet-facts · 1 year

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Muppet Fact #592

Cookie Monster has eaten Stephen Colbert's Peabody Award.

Source:

The Colbert Report. June 19, 2008.

The Colbert Report. "Stephen's Missing Peabody." Season 4 • 06/19/2008. Comedy Central.

#jim henson #muppet facts oc #the muppets #muppets #muppet facts #fun facts #cookie Monster #steven colbert #the colbert report

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simonalkenmayer · 2 years

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My favorite way to reveal my politics is to have a group dynamics influenced encounter with someone whom I know disagrees with me, but feels strange about raising the objection. It minimizes their point of view into what it really is and inspires more education.

For example:

Clerk at shop is making small talk and says, “it’s better than politics these days.”

She is wearing an American flag pin. I guess. I am right as soon as I say the first few words, and so carry on in confidence: “I know. It’s absolutely saddening to see 70 million people be so utterly scammed by a rich racist who has failed at literally every business. He stole 250 million dollars! It’s appalling. And all the party wants to do is wait and see if he can succeed. If he can, they’ll cling. If he can’t, they’ll shun him and regroup. All they want is to make themselves richer and keep control by any means necessary. They want to remove rights!”

The lady behind me in line is nodding. The man behind her is grinning.

The checker has lips sealed tighter than a nun’s fanny, eyes so scornful and hatefully uncertain, you can feel them scrape you brain like claws on a chalkboard.

“I mean can you believe that they are running on a platform of getting rid of social security, and that every single Republican voted against capping the cost of insulin for people on Medicare? It’s criminal!”

I smile at her, and watch as confusion begins to dawn.

Woman behind me says “Do you think that Ivana was murdered?”

Me: “I think it’s highly possible, especially given how many people Putin has assassinated trying to keep control of the public image of his dictatorship. I think that Trump and Putin could have planned it, or it could have been a warning.”

“This Elon musky guy makes me want to slap him.”

“Elon Musk is a Putin collaborator. He’s made that very clear. I can’t believe he shut down the Starkink satellite over Ukraine right after Russia called him a “smart guy” and asked him why he was helping Ukraine. It’s bold as brass and repulsive. The Ukrainians are unbelievably brave.”

“Bastards”

Clerk blinks in absolute mental shock and horror, her eyes glassy. As I am bagging my items, she blinks at me “How do you know all that stuff?”

“I read the front page of every paper, I follow the twitters of every single reporter or source in those articles. I compare spin and bias.”

Her: “Do you watch TV”

Me: unfortunately, there’s no decent unbiased news anymore. So what I do is watch MSNBC, and then overlap it with BBC. Then read the funny stuff like the onion, watch the funny stuff like last week tonight, or Seth Meyer, or Stephen Colbert, something like that.”

Her: “Oh ok”

And that is the best outcome possible. It popped her from her insular bubble, group pressured her into wondering if she is wrong. She heard our very different and knowledgeable discussion, and then she asked how she can find information.

Inception…

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lastweeksshirttonight · 1 year

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April is here and so is more looking back at the past ten seasons of Last Week Tonight. Wooo!

I'm going to aim to have Last Lee Tonight posted every week on Thursdays. Work is always a wrench in my plans but I'm pretty sure I can keep up that pace. They'll let me leave at some point right? hahaha help.

Now that the admin notes are out of the way, let's get cracking.

Last Lee Tonight (wherein John waited three episodes to dump music knowledge on us and honestly I'm impressed he waited that long) Season One, Episode Three

(original air date: 5/11/2014) Major topics covered: global warming; campaign finance and 2014 Senate political ads; Russia/Ukraine tensions

"History was made this week. ...Technically, history is made every week, that's kind of how history works."

We are still in that unique transitory period where John's team has figured out that longform segments are probably the way to go... but aren't really sure how to best utilize the rest of their show's time. The first two episodes were marked contrasts to each other structurally and were easier to compare. This third episode is all over the place, rushing through the first small segment on football, before covering a wide array of information and sources on Russian actions in around 8 minutes, which then gets us to our first main segment about ten minutes in. You can tell that the writers are still really trying to work out how to best structure their strange new show.

We start the episode talking about the first openly gay player in the NFL, Michael Sam, something I swear happened both earlier than and later than 2014. I fucking love that ESPN completely ignored the player in question's sexuality and just talked stats and genericisms. SPORTS!

We don't spend long there, as we move straight into discussing the present Ukranian/Russian tensions, first through the lens of Eurovision. I am truly shocked that John hasn't covered Eurovision every damn year, because it's the kind of overly theatrical camp nonsense he adores. We get a very Daily Show-esque bit where John grabs a paper way on the other side of his desk to quote Russia's entry, and it makes me sad that the audience barely registers it as a joke.

Also shit Conchita Wurst won Eurovision nearly ten years ago. I feel so fucking old.

Russia also recently annexed Crimea at the time, and John briefly covers the struggles Putin will have with the annexation. Putin is busy minting a two-pound commemorative coin over his 'victory', so we get a fake commercial for the "Worthless Desolate Landmass Commemorative Coin". This feels very much like a Bugle bit, complete with the satirical underpinning of acknowledging that Russia will actively make Crimeans' lives worse. And obviously Putin shirtless on a horse.

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(I know that continually mentioning other things John has done that line up with these LWT bits probably seems a bit harsh or uncharitable, but LWT was clearly still trying to find a voice that wasn't cribbed from the two productions John was most associated with - to say nothing of the gigantic shadow The Colbert Report cast over every talking-head show in its wake. There's a lot of what I'd consider essential LWT that's been completely missing from these early episodes, from the common running gags of being a furry and shitting on his appearance, to a more unhinged level of social disruption and trolling, to even some of his linguistic choices - and that honestly makes sense. John has said multiple times that no one on the show had any idea what they were doing at this point, so why not pull from things that worked before?)

The first major story starts 10 minutes in, and regards campaign finance. The FEC has allowed bitcoin contributions to campaigns and jesus christ kill me now

Sorry. Campaign finance just innately pisses me off, and John gets me by basically saying "what else is left" while listing off all the campaign finance fuckery of the past few years at that time. I wish 2023 Me and 2023 John did not have to see what else was left.

John's joke about cribbing band names from the Kentucky Derby is gold. Tag yourself I'm California Chrome.

We get our first delightfully off impression of the series from John in this section - it's the rich evil Southern gentleman voice, in the form of Mitch McConnell threatening to kill people with a shovel over his love of coal. No amount of context will help me explain that better.

John also confirms that Mitch McConnell is not a homegrown Kentucky girl like his then-competitor, Alison Lundergan Grimes, by noting that "Politifact rates that true". I laughed so hard at that I had to pause. Please bring that gag back.

The Kentucky piece is overall worth watching, as it hits how campaign finance has influenced political advertising in ways directly detrimental to statewide and nationwide issues of import. The only part of this on YouTube is the capper, where John makes the most over-the-top and morally repugnant ads he can possibly think of. Trigger warning for gory violence including disembowelment, implied animal cruelty, and old man and middle-aged nudity. (Required note from this blog: it is not John Oliver nude. Fucking weirdoes, the lot of you [/j]) Link is here bc the video is, quite reasonably, age-restricted.

We now move to our very first "How Is This Still A Thing?", with the subject "Dressing Up as Other Races". Honestly no notes here, this segment came out the gate strong and basically in the same format it retains in the current day. (Seriously stop using other cultures as a costume.)

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Finally, with five minutes left, we get to the segment Wikipedia thinks is the main one, on climate change. (The pacing of LWT Season One is a rollercoaster.) Global warming in 2014 threatens everything, yet 1 in 4 Americans think it doesn't exist. I would like to travel through time to scream at them and John thinks even talking about that kind of stat is fucking pointless. Bill Nye is brought on to have a statistically representative debate on the topic, which involves a random fuckload of people being on stage at once. I love the chaos but this is a very slim bit.

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This was the weirdest episode to watch so far, I think. They took the lessons of the last episode and did attempt to apply them, but we aren't quite at the sweet spot of LWT pacing and structure yet. We'll get there eventually, I'm sure.

Random notes:

Lee obviously focuses on important things corner: After the absolute banger that was "red check pattern" last week, we return to neutral blue shirt and bubble-patterned navy tie. The unique tie elevates this to a 8/10 look, but one thing I cannot wait to get to is his "bold outfit choice" era of shit like silver suit and blue check shirt.

John describing bitcoin as something only "heroin dealers and assassins" use makes me yearn for the innocent time of 2014, when people were not trying to sell me every goddamn coin and ape doodle and metaverse on earth.

The YouTube team for this episode truly had no idea what to clip for this one. Their main segment doesn't have an authorized clip, and I don't know why they decided to take a 5 minute segment and make two clips out of it, an abbreviated version and a full version.

Speaking of weird shit on the LWT YouTube, have this 45 second bit of HBO selling the fuck out of their new show and John being obviously uncomfortable with it. However, in this clip he is, and I say this with a minimal amount of bias, hot as fuck. ("I'm no one's idea of a photogenic human being" SHUT UP MATE MY GOD)

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I found this ad on their YouTube as well, which was very fun. Back when we expected some actual timely news discussion on LWT!

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#john oliver #last week tonight #last week tonight with john oliver #last lee tonight #bangs appreciation hours #truly that buzz clip is so fucking odd #Youtube

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seasurfacefullofclouds1 · 1 year

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… But beneath all this hoopla and hyperbole and well-deserved celebration, there’s one essential bit of information that nobody at CBS or on The Late Late Show is daring to say out loud (at least, not on the record). And that is, Corden’s show was wildly unprofitable and may well have been heading to the chopping block whether he stayed or not.

Even if Corden had wanted to stay in his seat, there was bound to be a late-night reckoning. He would have faced a multimillion-dollar pay cut or painful staff reductions or both, according to two sources who worked with him closely. No wonder he wanted to move back home to England.

Television budgets are typically well-kept secrets inside major media companies like Paramount Global, which owns CBS, so reporters have to rely on a different set of data to judge a show’s success: Nielsen ratings. There, too, a reckoning was obvious. In the pre-cable, pre-internet era, Carson could draw 10 million viewers a night. As competition mounted, Letterman averaged 3 million to 5 million. Now, all three 11:30 p.m. stars—Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, and Jimmy Kimmel—reach 5 million, combined. That shrinkage has hurt the 12:30 a.m. shows, too. When Corden debuted, in 2015, he was averaging around 1.6 million viewers. Lately, he’s down to 700,000 to 800,000 a night and fewer than 200,000 viewers in the 25- to 54-year-old demographic that advertisers (and publicists) most covet.

Late-night shows used to be the engine that propelled pop culture. An appearance on Carson or Letterman could make or break a comic’s career. An apology on Jay Leno’s show could save a career (just ask Hugh Grant). But that influence has evaporated. Every publicist has a story about a client who guests on a late-night show and barely hears from anyone afterward. A question hovers in the air: “Was anyone watching?” Was it worth getting dressed and manicured and made up?

Corden loved the big American stage: It greatly expanded his fame and gave him a chance to rehab his brand, which was summarized by multiple British newspapers as “arrogant jerk.” He admitted, in a 2020 interview with The New Yorker, that he behaved “like a brat” at an earlier stage of his life. “It’s so intoxicating, that first flush of fame,” he said. “And I think it’s even more intoxicating if you’re not bred for it.”

#james corden #late late show #cbs #los angeles magazine #it was funny when Harry told James he was proud of him

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foxsimthings · 2 years

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Eoin Enfield for @rainymoodlet ‘s Daniel Taylor! (aka loml)

Where in the world is punk playboy Eoin Enfield?

It was five years ago that the world of punk was rocked by Holy Havoc’s disbanding. Following the death of his father, Peter Enfield, leading man Eoin shrunk out of the spotlight and left his band in the dust.

But where is he now?

Sources were able to find Eoin at last in Mt. Komorebi, where he looked a little worse for wear, but altogether alright. Touting a new black eye and split lip, he chuckled as he explained to reporters, “All I’ll say is I’ve learned my lesson about how differently the locals and I use the word ‘fanny’.”

Last we heard, Enfield was off for another round in rehab, this time in the snowy mountains. This punk rock giant has never been shy about his history with drug and alcohol abuse, and sat down for an interview with Stephen Colbert about his catastrophic downfall, spurred by the early death of his father.

“You can’t know how important these things are when you’re in that position,” he confessed during the interview, “when you’re young and you think you’re the king of the world, all it means is you’ve got so much further to fall. Wasn’t it an infection that killed Achilles, in the end? If I had paid more attention to my life - my real life, not the bullshit fame - I might not have had to crash and burn. And maybe he’d still be here. I’m not sure. But if you’re listening now and you’ve some issue with your mum or your dad or what have you, this is Eoin Enfield telling you to just pick up the fucking phone and call them. As a kid, you can’t understand that your parents have intricate lives of their own, but you’re grown now. Now you know. So listen. If it’s all you can do, just listen.”

Sources say that Enfield is on the road to recovery now. Much of his attention goes to the Better Death Foundation he co-founded with his aunt in 2019, devoted to ensuring that grieving families have access to financial support following the loss of a loved one. The Better Death Foundation supports funeral and cemetery costs, cultural practices, as well as meals and therapy for the family of the deceased.

As much as punk fans want to believe that Enfield will make a triumphant return to the music industry, we’ve seen this all play out before. Is this the start of a softer, gentler Enfield living a clean life, or will he be back to his old ways in no time?

Public Information:

Eoin Fan 11′s Eoin Enfield Fan Page - (theme by sophiezhng)

claireemelle453′s Eoin Enfield playlist

US Weekly article on Eoin

Private Information:

Biography (note that bio has mentions of drug and alcohol use and abuse, as well as claims of dv, false accusations and parental death)

Moments - released under the pseudonym P. Graves

#sims 4 #ts4 #this consumed the last like 12 hours for me #and there's still more in my brain

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charmac · 1 year

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About the OG pilot cost: Charlie explained on Colbert (not the best source because it's jokey late night, but I think he or Glenn said this on a another interview too -- will surely tag you if I can find it!) that they just gave out a random figure to industry reporters because $0 sounds fake. It was only the cost of their camera (etc). But we know they'd already bought all the equipment for previous home movies. (They'd made a Haley Joel mockumentary before they struck on iasip acc to the pod.)

Yeah that makes sense it was next-to-nothing and they just kinda throw a number out, lmfao

God I can’t 100% remember perfectly but Rob said something on Smartless like it was the cost of the camera first but then they couldn’t reliably burn it to DVDs from their Macbook so they had to go get VHS tapes.

They also refused to mail them in and walked it into 9 studios, studio to studio. Fox was the only studio to turn them down.

Also, while I have the mic and I can dump about Smartless: Jason Bateman and Will Arnett have never seen Sunny (not a single frame) which kinda blew my mind. Will has seen MQ tho

#iasip #ask #re sunny pilot #side note #the smartless guys and rcg should swap podcasts for a week

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What are the dangers of the reliance of social media for public health campaigns?

At this age, social media has become one of the source that populace has depend on for information about everything. An example was given by Al-Rahwi (2017) that states that celebrities who are famous in time such as in social media are the most high-end influencers of the era, or the popularizing of the role playing game Genshin Impact through users sharing via social media (Greting, Mao & Eladhari 2022). However, social media have taken over in medical news, providing discussions and updates through the net without stepping outside, which has become more essential amongst the era of pandemic (Vera, Colbert & Lerma 2020). However, is there a possibility of treating social media like a tool for widespread health news may do more harm than good? Are there any dangers from depending on social media for medical updates? This blog will cover reasons why public health campaigns using social media may not be such a good idea.

Medical Propaganda and Misinformation

Firstly, as a human invention, both research information and social media are imperfect creations, and therefore have a chance for misinformation, whether purposeful or accidental. This happened with the COVID-19 pandemic when it was reported that the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes the disease COVID-19, has a possibility of inflaming cardiac muscles which may lead to myocardial dysfunction (Basso et.al. 2020). The article written by Vera, Colbert and Lerma in the "Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine" states that the above misinformation caused widespread panic since netizens thought COVID-19 can damage the myocardium despite the same article stating that further pathological changes on the studied patients' hearts had yet to be described in full.

(Image taken from HullLive)

However, not all misinformation is innocent or a product of accidents. Many far-right groups, such as in Europe, has used social media as a propaganda, misleading the netizens about COVID-19 so they could do the groups' bidding (McNeill-Wilson 2020). For example, anti-immigration, neo-fascist organization based in Britain called the Hundred Handers scapegoated migrating outsiders entering the country as a cause of the pandemic spreading to the British Isles. Across the pond, Canadian public health officer, Theresa Tam, a woman from Hong Kong, was accused by right-wingers of being a Chinese spy, using the coronavirus excuse as a means to insert Chinese influence into the country (Zhou 2020). To conclude, depending on social media for information leads to susceptibility to propaganda and misinformation, whether intentional or accidental by the authors.

Lack of Reach

As of 2023, 38% of the global population still possess no access to the internet, according to a statistic done by Flynn (2023). As such, if medical news would to be spread in social media, those who do not have online connection would be ostracized from those information. In many parts of Africa, for example, medical help and progress hits a hindrance due to the lack of people who have experience in the ICT field to collect and analyze medical data (Kirigia & Berry 2008).

(An example of MySejahtera homepage, image taken from Civil Aviation Authority of Malaysia)

Even within reach of internet access, not all of the public are able to understand how to use social media to access those information. This case is prevalent among the elderly, who struggle with using the internet to learn about their condition or know more about their medical status. There is a pressure on the elderly to adapt using phones, tablets, and other gadgets to gain access to health information, and they require help from those who understand, which can compromise other factors, such as the case with elderly vaccine registration through Malaysia's MySejahtera app, where asking for help may cause problems with self-isolation (Pazim 2021).

Division

Some studies suggest that providing healthcare information through social media is unfair to those who are not able to afford a device to access such websites or are not capable to due to lack of internet connection in the area. This is supported through the World Health Organization (1998) which states that 90% of information and ideas are sourced from developed countries. Other than that, there is also a division between those who are digitally capable or those who have an intelligence capacity and those who are slightly challenged in any of the two fields (World Bank 1999).

(Drone taking off, picture taken from TIME)

However, not all hope is lost. According to the journal by Sharma and Kshetri (2020), many governments are interfering less with healthcare sectors, thereby allowing them to grow and improve for the wellbeing of the local population. For example, in Rwanda, medical supplies delivered through drones have been accepted by the nation's government, as well as partnering with American company Zipline, allowing blood supplies to be delivered in less developed, rural areas (Baker 2017).

Conclusion

It has become clear that there are many disadvantages to using social media as a tool to spread information about health and wellness into the public. There could be misinformation, whether accidental or purposeful, that deceives or panics the digital community, or the lack of reach to those who are in less developed areas or are less tech-savvy, or the question of inequality that this method might have inadvertently caused. Still, this does not mean that there are no advantages to social media in this regard. Like all things, there must be balance and moderation between digital and physical outreach, especially for such things as health. Also, research must still be done in regards for social media advantages and disadvantages, as well as counterstrategy against the obstacles, such that social media can be a better health information tool (Gamache-O'Leary & Grant 2017).

#mda20009 #week 7 #social media #medical care

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