Nice Ears, Pupper!

Very funny.

Apparently my director went to see a production of West Side Story a few years ago, and the guy playing Chino forgot his gun before coming out for his final scene. Once it got to the big scene where he is supposed to shoot Tony, he screeched “Poison Boots” and kicked the actor playing Tony until he went down. The girl playing Maria then had to jerk the shoe off of Chino’s foot, and had to do the gunshot scene asking “How many kicks Chino? How many kicks, and one kick left for me”. 

The Central Branch of the public library in Kansas City, Missouri, has a parking garage that’s designed to look like a giant bookshelf.

The “shelf” displays 42 book titles, which were suggested by locals and voted upon by the library’s Board of Trustees.

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Devastating remix of Ellen's lecture on befriending George W. Bush disappears after copyright takedown ... then reappears in force

Rob Beschizza:

Ellen DeGeneres’s friendship with ex-President George W. Bush became controversial this week, in light of the progressive values she claims and the 600,000 corpses left by his occupation of Iraq. She delivered a monologue on her show in response, casting their friendship as an example of civility, overcoming political differences, and having “faith in America”. So Rafael Shimunov added a simple backdrop of Iraq war scenes to her monolog, in the hopes DeGeneres might better understand the complaints. In response, copyright takedown notices flew and it was removed from the ‘net, so it is at least getting under her skin.

Here’s a copy, which I’ll update if and when it disappears.

https://streamable.com/s/n83nk/asvscx

Not one word of hers is changed, and there are no misleading or misrepresentative edits to her performance. Only the backdrop is changed, so that it now shows scenes of abuse, atrocity and horror from her friend’s ruinous war instead of the blue studio wall.

The video is transformative and offers clear editorial comment, so its creator could certainly avail himself of a fair use defense in court. But social media is not the courts, and the companies running the platforms tend to side quickly with takedown requests and respond slowly to counterclaims.

The Streisand Effect, however, is something celebs and their agents can rarely control: countless social media users are reposting the remix in response to its disappearance, spreading it far wider than Shimunov could have ever hoped.

Thanks to Ellen DeGeneres’ chilling of my antiwar criticism by filing fraudulent copyright claims on my video with 10K views, people are reuploading all over Twitter for a now collective 300K (and growing) views faster than @andylassner can file false claims.

https://boingboing.net/2019/10/09/ellens-issues-copyright-take.html

Loved David Tennant as Dr. Who. He was the best actor playing that role in my experience.

Behind the Scenes of The End of Time - Part Ten

David Tennant, Catherine Tate, and Euros Lyn from the DVD commentary:

[talking about End of Time Part One after part of David’s suit gets burned] David Tennant: Now we just saw one of the Doctor’s suits being incernated, which was not a happy time for Louise Page, our costume designer.

Catherine Tate:  No - I bet.

DT: She was very sad, because there were only a few left - particularly the brown suit, which was made out of a material that we could no longer get any access to, so there would never be another one.

CT: So you couldn’t even replicate it?

DT: No, ‘cause that material has gone.

Euros Lyn: How many suits did you have?

DT: There was always a bit of a mystery about it, and I was never quite told…

CT & EL: [ Laughter ]

DT: I think that’s because Louise was protecting them, like a cat protects her kittens.  She was very proprietorial - quite right too.  She looked after those costumes very lovingly, and the thought that one of them would have to be trashed… In fact, in this episode, two of them end up getting trashed because one at the end gets all slashed and burnt.  She was very nervous of that.  I mean, you know, this is the final story they’re going to be used in, so it had to be done, but… yes, she was very manful about it in the end but she found it pretty tough.

CT: Not without a struggle.

EL:  What happens when Matt wears it at the end?   Was he wearing your suit?

DT: Well he was wearing the cut-up one… No!  No, that’s not true.  Because I get cut but then I change back, don’t I.  He was just wearing one of the suits.

EL: One of the spare ones.

DT: But I’m not quite sure what happens in his first episode.  I think he then maybe uses the one that got a bit torn up in ours, because doesn’t it get a bit torn up in… I don’t know maybe we shouldn’t talk about that.  That’s probably a secret.  Sorry Steven Moffat.  Yes, those suits are high currency because we can never make them again. 

EL: So did you get any of your costumes?

DT: I did. Louise very kindly gave me one of everything

CT & EL:  Awwwwwww

DT: Yeah.  So I’ve got one brown suit, one blue suit, and versions of all the shirts and ties and various combinations

CT: Oh, brilliant

DT: …and the tux, I’ve got that as well.  I think with the proviso that, come “The Fourteen Doctors” in 2020 I’m expected to provide my own costume.

CT & EL: [ Laughter ]

Other posts from this set can be found here: [ one ] [ two ] [ three ] [ four ] [ five ] [ six ] [ seven ] [ eight ] [ nine ]

The rest of the behind-the-scenes photosets are available [ here ]

Thank you to everyone who shares set photos

The Master of Deductive Reasoning

Picture of innocence

I want a blue dog!

An Australian Blue Heeler goes to sleep on top of the flock it has herded

I always said that Diet Pop tastes better from a glass container rather than from a plastic ir MN etal container.

Hot chocolate tastes better in an orange cup.

The color of the container you’re drinking from highly influences the way you think your drink tastes or how strong it is. Studies show people prefer hot chocolate when they drink it from cups that are orange or cream colored compared to drinking out of red or white cups, and the color of your cup can also influence how strong you think your coffee is.

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