#Phil Donahue (1995)

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This Legendary Quote From Marilyn Manson Regarding The Upbringing Of Children.

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Remembering Phil Donahue 1935-2024

TV talk show host Phil Donahue has died at 88. He hosted the day-time talk show Donahue from 1967-1995. I primarily remember his show in the 80s, when my older sister watched his show after school. He didn't shy away from controversial topics, but I mainly liked it when he had celebrity interviews, i.e. when he had the SNL cast members on or musicians talking about censorship.

Donahue interviewing Ringo Starr in 1978

Within pop culture, he appeared as himself on TV shows like Who's the Boss?. On SNL, he was impersonated by Joe Piscopo, Phil Hartman and Darryl Hammond (Hartman being the funniest IMHO).

The link above is the obit from EW.

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BOB ROSS

BOB ROSS 1942-1995 AMERICAN ARTIST Bob Ross was born in Daytona Beach, Florida, US and raised in Orlando. With a soft caring nature, teenager Ross looked after injured wild animals. After school he worked as a carpenter with his father but due to an accident he lost part of his left index finger. In 1961, aged 18 he enlisted in the US Air Force and became master sergeant at the clinic at Eielson Air Force, Alaska where he saw snow and mountains which later became main themes in his paintings. In his spare time he would paint and later attended art classes. Ross was working as a bartender when he saw a TV program ‘The Magic of Oil Painting’, where he learned art skills. He then started selling his own Alaskan landscape paintings and started his own an art company. He went on to host a TV program ‘The Joy of Painting’ which was filmed in Indiana. He became well-known for his permed hair, which he resented but kept it because it was the company’s logo. His TV series ran from 1983-1994, but re-runs continued to run after it ended in America as well as all over the world. He used his fame to create a $15 million business - Bob Ross Inc. Ross loved wildlife, and would often film wildlife, especially squirrels from his garden and would continue to look after injured or abandoned squirrels and other wildlife. These animals would often appear on his TV program as well as feature in his paintings. Ross released a book and appeared on the Phil Donahue Show as well as on MTV. Ross painted thousands of paintings during his lifetime and is worth thousands of dollars. His paintings are hard to come by. Ross was married three times and had two children. He smoked most of his life and suffered from numerous health problems. Ross died in 1995, aged 51 in Orlando, Florida due to complications from lymphoma. Ross’s business partner Annette Kowalski was left the sole ownership of his company, the Kowalski’s were allegedly aggressive towards Ross’s family and attempted to pressure the ill Ross to sign over rights of his estate to them before his death. Ross wrote the Kowalski’s out of his will, leaving his estate to his son and half-brother, the Kowalski’s went to court and won the lawsuit against Ross’s children. Questions about where his art work led to an investigation which found that the Kowalski’s were in possession of them.

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On Grizabella’s day, I’m going to force you all to listen to Laurie Beechman’s performance of “Memory”; specifically:

Her guest appearance on The Phil Donahue Show, soon after her cancer returned for the final time in 1995. 

And then her performance in the record breaking performance of CATS in June of 1997, while she was still undergoing treatment. Beechman passed away in March of the following year at the age of 44. 

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1995 Phil Donahue

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Elton John Masterpost

So, I went down a deep rabbit hole of old videos and made a giant ass list of Elton John performances, interviews, and documentaries (mostly) pre-21st century. Idk who would want this but I’m sure there is someone out there…  Have fun ;)

(1970) Live at the Troubadour — https://youtu.be/QWhg0-39wQU [notes: low quality, sometimes video, sometimes just images]

(1970) Interview in Chicago — https://youtu.be/gvjwVfWxH6s [notes: just images, no video]

(1970) Live on BBC TV, “I need you to turn too” — https://youtu.be/saIhPu4fOR0

(1971) Aquarius Documentary Part One — https://youtu.be/VDY2w-8S2Ng [notes: includes a very early demo of “Tiny Dancer”]

(1971) Aquarius Documentary Part Two — https://youtu.be/U2UtLYXrYJ8

(1971) Documentary made in Stockholm, Sweden — https://youtu.be/obQdSr-3de4

(1971) Australian TV Interview — https://youtu.be/CoN2nKq058M

(1973) Interview with Bob Harris — https://youtu.be/ushxCHGahCs

(1973) Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Live on BBC1 — https://youtu.be/RZ3Bb4UsXhU [notes: this performance was lip synced, not truly “live”]

(1973) “Goodbye Norma Jean” Documentary — https://youtu.be/gFKzDG3EELw

(1974) Interview and live performance of “Candle in the Wind” — https://youtu.be/gFKzDG3EELw [notes: this is one of my personal favorite interviews :))) ]

(1974) “Rocketman” live in concert — https://youtu.be/P3cPsaEPJFA

(1974) “Saturday Night’s Alright (For Fighting)” live in concert — https://youtu.be/m9g-mfTEu1g

(1974) “Saturday Night’s Alright (For Fighting)” live in concert — https://youtu.be/Xdlv34X34Mw [notes: this is just another recording of the same performance listed before as #13]

(1974) “Lucy in The Sky With Diamonds” live — https://youtu.be/FTAUHKkDXyE [notes: this performance was lip synced, not truly “live”]

(1974) “Daniel” live in concert at Watford — https://youtu.be/UzppMaZzTTc

(1975) Dodger Stadium Documentary Part One — https://youtu.be/Ys8AfACUdCI

(1975) Dodger Stadium Documentary Part Two — https://youtu.be/Po9NqWqS8i4

(1975) Dodger Stadium Documentary Part Three — https://youtu.be/Yox1F9uQMHg

(1975) Dodger Stadium Documentary Part Four — https://youtu.be/ti_SbdFSczs

(1975) Captain Fantastic Interview — https://youtu.be/9Q9kKCMvnFE

(Mid-1970’s, exact year unknown) Elton Visits Tower Records — https://youtu.be/PO0Z3SYx8Tw [notes: very little speaking, poor quality audio]

(1975) “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds” live on the Cher Show — https://youtu.be/RtX9Ul5_Eys [notes: this one actually was live]

(1975) “Philadelphia Freedom” live on Soul Train and a mini interview — https://youtu.be/tJKkrutrDa4 [notes: this is, in my opinion, the best live performance of this song]

(1975) “Bennie and the Jets” live on Soul Train — https://youtu.be/WOm0CdyYXIc

(1975) Countdown Interview — https://youtu.be/_hRZr-J589w

(1976) Parkinson Interview — https://youtu.be/sczf5V69iqw

(1976) Tom Snyder Interview — https://youtu.be/xlAFMm0fmQw

(1976) Watford Football Club Interview — https://youtu.be/lmhRJq-SjBE [notes: this video is only 20 seconds long]

(1976) “Bennie and the Jets” Live — https://youtu.be/qLqbWhUDNrQ

(1976) Rolling Stones Interview — https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/elton-john-lonely-at-the-top-rolling-stones-1976-cover-story-238734/ [notes: this is just an article, not a video. This is the interview where he came out as bisexual, the interviewer was incredible, it is very good and also very sad]

(1977) Countdown Interview — https://youtu.be/ptD9-pV-ZjA

(1977) Mike Douglas Interview — https://youtu.be/GrMCit90NPs [notes: this is also a very good interview]

(1977) Thames TV Interview — https://youtu.be/0sSuK8g3ThY

(1977) London Concert — https://youtu.be/eNAkoG6mKzA

(1977) “Bite Your Lip (Get Up and Dance)” live ft. Stevie Wonder — https://youtu.be/F99UQiLeu9k

(1978) “Bennie and the Jets” Live on The Muppet Show — https://youtu.be/FYkxSxKt7_Q

(1978) “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart” Live on The Muppet Show — https://youtu.be/gJWo7Z5m6e8

(1978) “Crocodile Rock” Live on The Muppet Show — https://youtu.be/Ji6qM1-NJ_0

(1978) “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” Live on The Muppet Show — https://youtu.be/wfNv3BLhRSk

(1978) The Muppet Show Credit Scene with Elton — https://youtu.be/dUSA4XHV-Pk

(1978) Sam and Kermit talk about Elton John’s clothes on The Muppet Show — https://youtu.be/3dXEe3XEtUc [notes: this clip doesn’t actually have Elton in it but it was just too precious for me not to include]

(1978) Countdown Interview — https://youtu.be/S2kmKMPlYrE

(1978) Old Grey Whistle Test Interview — https://youtu.be/nRjCAAQl3tQ

(1979) Interview in the USSR — https://youtu.be/KQW1C5iNu2Q [notes: this one is really interesting considering Elton was one of the few western artists allowed in the USSR]

(1980) Tomorrow Show Interview — https://youtu.be/BhmJJHdXus8

(1980) Johnny Carson Interview — https://youtu.be/GjdbSe_oJPY

(1980) Paul Gambaccini Interview — https://youtu.be/eAkFmrY2wwc

(1980) Phil Donahue Show Interview — https://youtu.be/vlCAI600teA [notes: another fantastic interview]

(1981) Tomorrow Show Interview — https://youtu.be/oQbtNZcPJOQ [notes: ANOTHER fantastic interview lol]

(1982) “Ball and Chain” live on SNL — https://youtu.be/2KMyYAsamIU [notes: low quality]

(1982) “Empty Garden” live on SNL — https://youtu.be/2KMyYAsamIU [notes: low quality]

(1982) Clip of Elton arriving in France during the Jump Up Tour — https://youtu.be/XOotJC4ooNE

(1983) Morning with Frost Interview — https://youtu.be/mRoJj2SBrXk

(1983) Time and Again Interview — https://youtu.be/gwSl8S8WVNM

(1983) Good Morning Parkinson Interview — https://youtu.be/WBgBMdgO5OQ

(1984) Countdown Interview — https://youtu.be/KnYZECUL2B4

(1984) Shazam! Interview — https://youtu.be/ituT3zEYr9o

(1985) Terry Wogan Interview — https://youtu.be/yr4Xrpy7aCY

(1985) Blue Peter Interview — https://youtu.be/zO7KuDAn6Hc

(1986) Tour de Force Documentary — https://youtu.be/Pt0cnko0oHs

(1986) Saturday Morning Live TV Interview — https://youtu.be/RUoq85M3fv0

(1986) The Joan Rivers Show Interview — https://youtu.be/kRGK3ISF-Mc

(1988) The Last Resort Interview — https://youtu.be/9agGz3nAsso

(1988) Wired Interview — https://youtu.be/SwZfoPX9GT0

(1990) The Wogan Show Interview — https://youtu.be/w8zhnzz5BdE

(1990) The Arsenio Hall Show Interview — https://youtu.be/I-a0O07NBco

(1991) Rowan Atkinson Interview — https://youtu.be/Nl0HqlbX7dc [notes: this is a joke interview]

(1995) The Letterman Show Interview Part One — https://youtu.be/y2pDd-EqGJY

(1995) The Letterman Show Interview Part One — https://youtu.be/8Mka5Ez8nuU

(1995) Time and Again Interview — https://youtu.be/StSPrZokpDE

(1996) Conan O’Brien Interview — https://youtu.be/y3fhBL7m744

(1996) The Rosie O'Donnell Show Interview — https://youtu.be/dEa6qy1HpQI

(1997) The Rosie O'Donnell Show Interview — https://youtu.be/8Mka5Ez8nuU

(1998) Micheal Parkinson Interview — https://youtu.be/HX0wtdqm9gs

(1999) The Rosie O'Donnell Show Interview — https://youtu.be/BqFD3k6tiO8

(2009) Little Britain Red Nose Day Interview — https://youtu.be/vlCAI600teA [notes: this is a joke interview]

(2017) Zane Lowe Interview — https://youtu.be/VIB_ynYL-fM

A compilation of funny moments from multiple interviews and some shows — https://youtu.be/r0-qvnuTuog

I was really upset because just before I was about to post this a full recording of “Tantrums and Tiaras” got copyright claimed and taken down :((( I wish it could have been on this list.

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407. Two Donahue Hoaxes

My first memory of television talk show host Phil Donanue was around the time I started Kindergarten in 1988. My teacher, Ms. Walker was absolutely shocked that I could read. Which I guess it was rare for Kindergarteners to read in 1988? Someone help. Anyway, she asked my mom to watch an episode of Donahue about Child Geniuses, maybe? I don’t remember, I just remember bringing home a post it for mom to watch Donahue.  I don’t remember her watching it. A few weeks later we began to learn math, and my genius days were over with.

Donahue looked like what I remember my dentist, Dr. Stall looking like when I was five. I still see Dr. Stall today and he still kinda looks like old Phil, sans glasses.

Oh, and the closing logo and jingle with the little “m” for “Multimedia”.  I remember that from when I was little.

Later on, in middle school in 1994 or 1995, my sixth grade teacher Mr. Hankins who was mean as dirt would made us do busy work all morning long, including reading these incredibly dated readers from the 1980s, where we had to read an essay and answer questions about it.  

The only essay I remember is one about how religious fanatics were passing out flyers that stated that someone from Proctor & Gamble came onto the Phil Donahue show in the early 1980s to announce that profits from the company went to the Church of Satan. 1 Also that the Proctor & Gamble “moon man” logo was a symbol for Satanism, and that the curls in the man’s beard were “666”’s. Below is an example of the flyer that was passed around:

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Thing is, nobody from Proctor & Gamble has ever been on Donahue.  1. The flyers flew around again in 1985, and P&G finally decided to give in an change the moon man logo in 1991. 2 6.  I found one instance where Amway salespeople passed the flyers around (in 1995!) to convince buyers to buy their products instead. 3 4 A Washington Post article posted in 1991 mentioned morons people who still roamed the aisles of grocery stores, careful to not buy products from Proctor & Gamble.

The Rev. Jay Hurley walked down Aisle 12 of Food Lion in Hagerstown, Md., last week and reached for Cottonelle toilet paper instead of his usual brand. Buying White Cloud, he believed, would involve him in Devil worship.

"I didn't buy Folger's coffee either; I'm going to replace that brand with Nestle's," said Hurley, pastor of the Greenbrier Baptist Church in Boonsboro.

Hurley is one of thousands of Americans who continue to boycott Procter & Gamble products, convinced, beyond any measure of logic, that the corporation's president is in league with the Devil. Currently, fliers are circulating in rural Maryland, among other places, listing the allegedly damnable P&G products.

[…]

Hurley said an Army chaplain friend gave him a copy of the flier several weeks ago. He distributed copies to his 70-member congregation. A copy hangs on the church bulletin board just inside the door.

The flier, headlined "The Phil Donahue Show," states that on March 1, 1991, P&G's president appeared on "Donahue" and announced that he was "coming out of the closet" about his financial support for the Church of Satan. "He stated that a large portion of the profits from Proctor {sic} & Gamble products goes to the support of the church," the flier says. Then Donahue, it continues, asked the P&G president whether his ties with Satanism would hurt business.

"There are not enough Christians in the U.S. to make a difference," he's quoted as telling a nationwide television audience.

On March 1, 1991, no one representing P&G, let alone its president, appeared on "Donahue."

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So many calls have flooded "Donahue" headquarters in New York that staffers set up a voice-mail answering system that advises, "If you are calling about Procter & Gamble, press 6 now. ... The president of Procter & Gamble has never ever appeared on the 'Donahue' show. If your family and friends say they've seen it, they are quite mistaken."So many calls have flooded "Donahue" headquarters in New York that staffers set up a voice-mail answering system that advises, "If you are calling about Procter & Gamble, press 6 now. ... The president of Procter & Gamble has never ever appeared on the 'Donahue' show. If your family and friends say they've seen it, they are quite mistaken." 5

In 2013, the moonman with a much sleeker beard reappeared quietly on Proctor & Gamble products. 6.

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In January of 1985, Phil Donahue moved his show to 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City so he could be closer to his wife, actress Marlo Thomas. 8 On January 21, 1985, weeks after the move, several people in the audience fainted while he show was being filmed.  

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At first, it was speculated that people standing in line in sub zero temps and then entering a 70º studio made people pass out. (Just the thought of that makes me get a headache, I’m that jerk who runs her ac in the car during the winter because I’m ~sensitive~)  After 40 minutes, Phil decided to ask the audience to leave, and he interviewed his guests (gay senior citizens) in an empty studio. 7.

About a month later, an actress, Deborah Harmon came to the New York media and said that the fainting was a hoax, created by master Hoaxer Alan Abel. 9 I had to look up who Abel was. Abel who died in 2018, created such hoaxes such as the Society for Indecency to Naked Animals, Citizens Against Breastfeeding, and a company that sold jars of Jenny McCarthy’s urine. 10 11 Abel orchestrated the hoax because he was protesting sensationalist tv. 12.

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1. Belkin, Lisa. “Procter & Gamble Fights Satan Story.” The New York Times, April 18, 1985, sec. Home & Garden. https://www.nytimes.com/1985/04/18/garden/procter-gamble-fights-satan-story.html.

2. Hendon, Donald W. Classic Failures in Product Marketing: Marketing Principles Violations and How to Avoid Them. New York: Quorum Books, 1989.  86-87.

3. DiFonzo, Nicholas. The Watercooler Effect: An Indispensable Guide to Understanding and Harnessing the Power of Rumors. New York: Avery, 2009. 168-169

4. “Procter & Gamble Wins $19 Million in Satanism Suit.” The New York Times, March 20, 2007, sec. Business. https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/20/business/worldbusiness/20iht-satan.4966053.html.

5, Blumenfeld, Laura. “PROCTER GAMBLE’S DEVIL OF A PROBLEM.” Washington Post, July 15, 1991. https://archive.is/9pbBt

6. Stampler, Laura. “In Spite Of Old, False Satanist Accusations, P&G Put A Moon Back Into Its New Logo.” Business Insider. Accessed February 27, 2020. https://www.businessinsider.com/pg-puts-moon-in-new-logo-despite-satanist-accusations-2013-5.

7. Los Angeles Times. “7 in Audience of Donahue Show Faint--1 On-Camera,” January 21, 1985. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-01-21-mn-14194-story.html.

8. AP NEWS. “Phil Donahue Does First Show from New New York City Home.” Accessed February 27, 2020. https://apnews.com/c817c27eee2417e681eb1f0f048a9fe1

9. International, United Press. “DONAHUE SHOW HOAX DESCRIBED.” chicagotribune.com. Accessed February 27, 2020. https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1985-02-02-8501070060-story.html.

10. Fox, Margalit. “Alan Abel, Hoaxer Extraordinaire, Is (on Good Authority) Dead at 94.” The New York Times, September 17, 2018, sec. Obituaries. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/17/obituaries/alan-abel-dies.html.

11. E! Online. “Famous Hoaxster Gets Jenny McCarthy PO’d,” November 10, 1997. https://www.eonline.com/news/35474/famous-hoaxster-gets-jenny-mccarthy-po-d.

12. Hendley, Nate. The Big Con: Great Hoaxes, Frauds, Grifts, and Swindles in American History. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2016.

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Friendly Fascism

The following are updated excerpts from an article I wrote on “friendly fascism” in the U.S.  This is information our schools should be teaching on history, so that the average citizen is well-informed enough to participate in the nation’s political life and make knowledgeable choices. The article relates to the Iraq War, but it also applies to fascism in the U.S. today.   Not all kinds of fascism have to equate precisely to the classic form represented by Hitler or Mussolini. Fascism doesn’t have to involve mass genocidal slaughter, nor does it have to be equal in degree to the fascism practiced by members of the Axis powers.   Traits of classic fascism include: strong nationalism, expansionism, belligerent militarism, meshing of big business and government with a corporate/government oligarchy, subversion of democracy and human rights, disinformation spread by constant propaganda and tight corporate/government control of the press. Today all of those conditions exist in the U.S. to a degree. Let’s focus on corporate/government control of the press, specifically corporate control of U.S. television news networks. According to a March 24 article, “Protests Turn Off Viewers” by Harry A. Jessell, 45 percent of Americans rely on cable channels as their primary source of news, and 22 percent get most of their news from broadcast networks evening newscasts. Only 11 percent rely on other forms of media as their principle source of war news.

Our corporate controlled TV networks might as well be state controlled, because they promote war and policies of the oligarchy fairly consistently and have virtually eliminated all dissenting voices.  NBC fired Phil Donahue despite his good ratings, saying in an internal network memo they didn’t want to air Donahue’s antiwar views. Reporter Peter Arnett was fired for giving an interview to Iraqi TV and merely stating the obvious on a number of issues. For example, Arnett said media reports of civilian casualties had helped the growing challenge about the conduct of the Iraq war.

According to William Shirer (The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich), the Reich Press Law of October 4, 1933, ordered editors not to publish (among other things) anything which tends to weaken the strength of the German Reich … or offends the honor and dignity of Germany.’ The Nazis forced dissenting journalists out of business and consolidated the press under party control. U.S. television news networks have been consolidated under the control of a handful of corporations. America doesn’t need a press law'prohibiting the airing of anything which might weaken the strength of U.S. war policies, because the corporate owners of today’s television networks are in total agreement with the state. It is irrefutable that corporate owners of American television networks want only pro-war opinions aired, because those are virtually the only views that are in fact aired.  The Phil Donahue and Peter Arnett firings, especially when coupled with the NBC internal memo explaining the Donahue firing, also indicate this is true. Do the various TV networks do a good job of informing the public, or do they more often propagandize? Propaganda is aimed at the emotions, while news sources that disseminate factual information aim toward reason. In Nazi Germany: A New History (Continuum Publishing, 1995), Klaus P. Fischer says Hitler promoted a system of prejudices rather than a philosophy based on well-warranted premises, objective truth-testing, and logically derived conclusions. Since propaganda aims at persuasion rather than instruction, it is far more effective to appeal to the emotions than to the rational capacities of crowds. If you’ve spent much time watching the pro-war cable television news programs, you cant help but notice they manipulate (whether deliberately or not) the viewing audience’s emotions rather than appealing to viewers’ logic.That is, instead of providing the American public with a broad range of necessary facts and varied viewpoints about our wars, the TV networks exploit emotions by urging the audience to focus on and identify with the day-to-day plight of individual soldiers and their families. There’s nothing inherently wrong with empathizing with the troops. However, when that aspect of war news is heavily emphasized at the expense of hard facts and varied debate, the networks serve the purpose of managing the public mood rather than informing the public mind.

According to Klaus Fisher, the Nazis eliminated from state media any ideas that clashed with official views. He writes that permissible media topics for public consumption included war itself and the Nazi movement; support of Nazi soldiers; praise for Hitler and celebrating the thrill of combat and the sacredness of death when it is in the service of the fatherland.  

Today’s war-promoting TV networks have also deemed only certain subjects permissible,‘as evidenced by the irrefutable fact that they only cover a narrow range of subjects. Coincidentally, the proverbial network list'would read virtually the same as the list mentioned above. Permissible topics include praise for U.S.  war policies, support for our soldiers;  and celebrating the thrill of combat and the sacredness of death when it is in the service of’(in this case) the homeland, even though there is no rational link between attacking countries designated for regime change and defending our soil.

Of course, who needs rationality or facts from TV news when the American public already has enough information about world events?  In a March 26 article for Editor and Publisher, “Polls Suggest Media Failure in Pre-War Coverage”, reporter Ari Berman refers to a Knight Ridder/Princeton Research poll. This poll showed 44 percent of respondents believed most'or some'of the September 11 hijackers were Iraqis. Only 17 percent gave the correct answer: none. In the same poll, 41 percent said they believed Iraq definitely has nuclear weapons. As Berman points out, not even the Bush administration has claimed that. Berman also refers to a Pew Research Center/Council on Foreign Relations survey showing that almost two-thirds of people polled believed U. N. weapons inspectors had found proof that Iraq is trying to hide weapons of mass destruction.’ This claim was never made by Hans Blix or Mohammed ElBaradei. The same survey found 57 percent of those polled falsely believed Saddam Hussein assisted the 9/11 terrorists, and a March 79 New York Times/CBS News Poll revealed that 45 percent of respondents believed Saddam Hussein was directly involved in the 9/11 attacks. TV news reporters have done little to correct the public’s misconceptions. On the contrary, network reporters and their guests have often helped bolster the false impressions by mentioning September 11, or the threat of terrorism by al Qaeda, and the threat posed by Saddam in the same breath.

Individual TV reporters aren’t always free to choose the information they pass along to the public. CNN now has a relatively new script approval'system, whereby journalists send their copy in to CNN chiefs for sanitizing. In his article, Guess who will be calling the shots at CNN,'British foreign correspondent Robert Fisk quotes a relatively new CNN document (dated Jan. 27), Reminder of Script Approval Policy.The policy says, All reporters preparing package scripts must submit the scripts for approval … Packages may not be edited until the scripts are approved … All packages originating outside Washington, LA or NY, including all international bureaus, must come to the ROW [a group of script editors] in Atlanta for approval.  

William Shirer comments on the Nazi party’s control of press, radio and film, “Every morning the editors of the Berlin daily newspapers and the correspondents of those published elsewhere in the Reich gathered at the Propaganda Ministry to be told by Dr. Goebbels or by one of his aides what news to print and suppress, how to write the news and headline it, what campaigns to call off or institute and what editorials were desired for the day. In case of any misunderstanding, a daily directive was furnished along with the oral instructions.

In an interview with TomPaine.com, Janine Jackson of the media watchdog group, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), said that the group examined two weeks of nightly television news coverage. FAIR found that 76 percent of all news sources or guests on ABC, NBC, CBS and PBS’s NewsHour were current or former government officials,'leaving little room for other diverse voices.In addition, FAIR found that only 6 percent of those sources were skeptical about the war. Jackson noted that on television news at night, there’s virtually no debate about the need to go to war. It would further public understanding if the TV networks would offer substantial debate on the following: The Bush administration’s invasion of Iraq has alienated many world leaders and lost this country the respect of millions of citizens around the globe. The Bush team has created instability in the Middle East and risked retaliation. They’ve undercut the U.S. economy with the financial cost of this endeavor. They’ve increased the likelihood that worldwide nuclear weapons proliferation will increase. And, according to a recent Red Cross report, they have likely helped create a horrifying number of human casualties and a rapidly expanding humanitarian crisis in Iraq.

The content of television news lacks range and diversity, but the way the news is presented is also disturbing. Television reporters often deliver news of the war'with apparent breathless excitement, as if they’re giving play-by-play descriptions of football games.

People are dying in this conflict. Civilians are caught in the middle, being blown to pieces or losing loved ones. Children are left behind when their soldier-parents are killed. Instead of presenting news of this war'with giddiness, wouldn’t it be more appropriate, more human, for network reporters to take a somber, respectful approach?

On TV, we see bombs dropping from a distance. Network commentators seldom offer the public close-ups. In his article, Military precision versus moral precision,'Robert Higgs, writes that the much-used JDAM bombs dropped in Iraq kill most people within 120 meters of the blast. According to Higgs, such a bomb releases a crushing shock wave and showers jagged, white-hot metal fragments at supersonic speed, shattering concrete, shredding flesh, crushing cells, rupturing lungs, bursting sinus cavities and ripping away limbs in a maelstrom of destruction.

Just yesterday I heard a TV reporter describe certain casualties with the sterile phrase, “This is what war does”.Well, it isn’t “war” that bursts sinus cavities and rips away limbs - nothing as nebulous as that. George W. Bush and his administration have done these things. They have directly ordered that these things be done. The bombs’ shredding of flesh and crushing of human cells didn’t just passively happen.

In an April 5 article for The Mirror, “The saddest story of all,” reporter Anton Antonowicz describes an Iraqi family’s loss of their daughter. Nadia was lying on a stretcher beside the stone mortuary slab. Her heart lay on her chest, ripped from her body by a missile which smashed through the bedroom window of the family’s flat nearby in Palestine Street. Nadia’s father said, “My daughter had just completed her PhD in psychology and was waiting for her first job. She was born in 1970. She was 33. She was very clever. Everyone said I have a fabulous daughter. She spent all her time studying. Her head buried in books. Nadia’s sister Alia said, “I don’t know what humanity Bush is calling for. Is this the humanity which lost my sister? It is war which has done this. And that war was started by Bush.”

Today we’re again getting a whiff of fascism from U.S. promoters of regime change war, including war with Iran,  This isn’t the equivalent of Hitler or Mussolini - just sort of a creeping fascism light, and the corporate controlled television news networks are only one example of the way even light fascism undermines what little democracy remains in the U.S.  

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Kingston Livingston III

PERFORMER Kevin Clash

DEBUT 1993

Kingston Livingston III (named after his dad and his grandfather) is a young boy Muppet on Sesame Street who first appeared in Season 24, in episode 3103.

Kingston takes pride in doing his own thing instead of simply following the crowd. When his friends wear their baseball caps backwards, Kingston wears his to the front because he likes that better, and he loves dancing even when it's different than everyone else's. His friends, notably Loretta, don't mind if he's different, and think he's cool for it. He sits next to Roxie Marie in class, who befriended him and she showed him around the neighborhood.

For Season 26, when the show emphasized the importance of literacy, Kingston was the Muppet character who embodied this lesson. He often wrote short stories, and once reported for "The Wide World of Writing", travelling around the Street to see what writing could be used for.

Kingston was mostly active on the show until Season 29. However, two insert segments continued to air through Season 38: his biographical song "Just Happy to Be Me" (First: Episode 3178) and the birthday song "A Cat Had a Birthday." (First: Episode 3331)

APPEARANCES

Sesame Street

Episode 3103

Episode 3163

Episode 3182

Episode 3270

Episode 3369 (voiceover)

Episode 3379

Episode 3385

Episode 3424

Episode 3471

Episode 3562

Episode 3717

Episode 3770

Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration

The Phil Donahue Show

Elmo Says BOO!

"Don't Forget to Watch the Movie"

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BOOK APPEARANCES

Who's Who on Sesame Street (1994 edition)

Sesame Street Storybook Fun (1995)

Rise and Shine! (1996; reworked as Up, Up, Up! in 2011)

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Three Identical Strangers Movies-at-Home Review

Note: This review contains unmarked spoilers. As always, I suggest you watch films knowing as little about them as possible. Everyone has at least one really good story in them. Because it’s important or they believe in it or just because they’ve practiced it to perfection, they can nail it every time, even if they couldn’t tell any other story on earth to save their lives. That’s the impression you get when Robert Shafran starts talking. He’s an affable man, adopted at birth, with a feel good story to tell about the time he found out he had two twin brothers. The story will take the sort of dark turns you only expect to find in yellowing old 1960’s paperbacks, but at that moment it is just a man with something to say.

Robert’s brothers Eddy Galland and David Kellman discover each other after Robert, at 19, enrolls at a college he’s never been to and on arrival finds that, like at the very best bars, everybody knows his name. His name isn’t David, of course, but too many people are sure they know him for them to be entirely mistaken. Then, coincidence of all coincidences, his new roommate recognizes him and knows there must be a mistake, as he’s sure his friend from the previous semester did not re-enroll.

That topples the dominoes, and soon enough the boys are together for the first time since birth. It is initially a joyous reunion. They move in the same ways, they have the same mannerisms, they finish each other’s sentences, they like the same types of girls. They are largely oblivious to the concerns of their parents, all of whom understandably want powerful adoption agency Louise Wise (now defunct) to explain why none of them were ever informed their children were triplets. The name is mentioned several times before we visit a recreation, and by the time we do the agency---a “New York institution” decades old and run by the city’s elite---has taken on an almost legendary quality, the way a menacing name is spoken and re-spoken throughout a fictional story before we are finally introduced to it. The Agency acts suspiciously, and we later find out way: the boys were divided up deliberately.

This takes place in 1980, and the footage of the time used, some of which was supplied by relatives, has that grainy feel of old camcorders that will never be seen by a generation used to videos looking better than real life. I am fond of it, it being the mode of recording in which I spent childhood, but here it takes on a double-edged importance. It starts out invoking a lost time when cars and houses were colorful and video was something to be saved for the important memories.

Soon, that fuzzy feeling is perverted as we learn of a labyrinthine science experiment that separated the boys for little apparent reason except curiosity. Respected psychologist Peter Neubauer, who died before the documentary was released, placed each child with a family of a different income level, allegedly to study the concept of nature vs nurture. Neubauer’s voice is heard on tape replying evasively to journalist Lawrence Wright, who first exposed the case in 1995. He knows people think this will be wrong, and cares about public perception, but because it is bad publicity, not because what he is doing is harmful. His aged assistant, Natasha Josefowitz, insists that in the ‘50’s no one had an issue with stuff like this. To use a not-so-scientific term, this is of course pure bullshit. Josefowitz thinks no one cares because the academics she spent her time with did not care. This is science that never asked if it should.

These revelations eventually lead to tragedy, heartbreak and struggle for the many subjects of the study. Yet what director Tim Wardle seems most interested in are the moments of humor, warmth and disquietude. Phil Donahue points out the brothers are all sitting exactly alike; they immediately react and all end up sitting in the exact same new position, a five-second clip that somehow has the quality of silent physical comedy. The men find and go to meet their birth mother, who is seen only as a photograph. They discover she struggles with alcoholism and is not much use to them, but she left me wondering. Their lives went three directions that became one; hers went in another. I imagined her, her teenage beauty faded now, vanishing back into the tangle of New York streets to resume whatever her life was. What would she think, if her head were clear, of the events around the children she produced? Asides like this remind me of one of my constant credos: we are all the main character in our own stories.

Everyone wants, above all, to believe their life has purpose. The movie concludes by letting us know that the study, sealed away until 2065 but shown to the subjects after immense public pressure, reached no conclusion. Imagine that the sum of your life was that you were found not especially useful. The story is currently being prepared for dramatic treatment, but as with a documentary on Mr. Rogers, it’s hard to imagine that format having the impact of Robert Shafran, looking into the camera, remaining silent for a moment as he is asked what he thinks about his life and those of his brothers, and then letting out a little laugh

Verdict: Highly Recommended

Note: I don’t use stars, but here are my possible verdicts.

Must-See

Highly Recommended

Recommended

Average

Not Recommended

Avoid like the Plague

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“We cause the music to do what it does... I think I think moshing is a sign of what Christians would call uh... the Apocalypse”

The Phil Donahue Show (1995)

[riotatthemovies]

31 days of Halloweeners

JACK-O (1995)

I always thought this was even older then 1995.  Anyways I have spoken about this movie to death... read my first book on bad movies it is definitely in there on how it introduced me and addicted me on home made horror crapola.

Hilarious cheap and feels like a bad nickelodeon kids horror movie except we sees boobs and people get brutally killed with the most cliche homemade gore gags.

A little boy, played by the director sons and who looks like he hates doing anything in this movie, is haunted by the family curse of the killer pumpkin man. Some how he stops the pumpkin man after a few random neighbours are killed on halloween night. How he does it is not important just know it feels like a Canadian made for tv movie in the 80s but shockingly isn't. One actress won her role in the movie on the Phil Donahue show as a P R stunt for this no budget movie and for an excuse to not have to pay an actress. 

Best parts are the legendary scream queen Linnea Quigley as the babysitter that has a no reason show. Quigley looking in that odd random of sometimes looks 21 other seconds looks 49. Odd. I love her so though :)

Then the cameos by two legends of b film that had been dead for years as they cut in scenes of Cameron Mitchell and John Carradine. Carradine is in fact a major part of the plot and they speak his his ghosts, which is obviously blurred in his face from another movie and dubbing over random dialog.

Fred Olen Ray produced it but basically as a way to use no money and get his name on Phil Donahue in a horror movie mix media stunt. He obviously didn't care what actually happened to the film. Thus leading to a dvd release 20 years later and having one of the worst commentary track ever. Search youtube as it has the commentary track on it and you hear Olen ray seem to get into a legit fight with the director. It is amazingly awkward. Almost as amazingly awkward as the awful performance by one of the worst child actors ever. I think the kid hated doing it so much he is pouting and not acting on purpose to upset his dad. Or he was sedated on heavy drugs.. one of those two is the right answer I am sure of it.

I screened it tonight to the secret film club at Eyesore. Only about 10 people there and all were top notch regulars though. Remind me not to have a film partying gathering the same night the Laserblast guys do I guess... waahhh waahhhh. Smallest audience I think I have had yet. I hope that is not a sign of the time. But even if it is it was a great audience that totally got it and enjoyed it. Also kudos to the two raffle prize winners and Andy for bringing extra halloween goodie bags to go along with all the candy and junk food I brought to the party. Hope to see you wacky people again soon. Gatherings for B cheesy horror films are the best.  Thank you!

Halloween is in full effect now.

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5-10!

5. do you think of yourself as a human being or a human doing? do you identify yourself by the things you do? - my lazy depressed ass don’t do shit lmao i just EXIST and i hate it

6. are you religious/spiritual? - nope. i’ve been an atheist for as long as i can remember

7. do you care about your ethnicity? - depends on how you define “caring” tbh. i’m just polish trash and i love me some you slav you lose memes LMAO

8. what musical artists have you most felt connected to over your lifetime? - marilyn. manson. like, back in 1995 he was on the phil donahue show and said “parents should raise their kids better or someone like marilyn manson is going to“ and i’m definitely one of those kids even though i wasn’t even born yet back then

9. are you an artist? - nope. back in my “baby genius” days i would draw and write all the time but my creativity is long gone, i just don’t have that in me. no talent, no skills, no drive, no motivation. sounds pretty sad tbh

10. do you have a creed? - no

fuck me up with some questions y’all!

[shyearthquakedaze]

Marilyn Manson Interview - Phil Donahue Show - 1995 HD REMASTERED (By me)

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Centerville, Ohio, 2021 by Jake Lester Via Flickr:

Bill's Donut Shop Bill's Donut Shop's Facebook page says: "A tradition since 1960, the shop founded by Bill and Faye Elam originated in downtown Dayton. Through the years, Bills Donut Shop has moved numerous times. In the 1970s, there were multiple locations in the Dayton area including the cities of: Vandalia, Wilmington, Kettering, and Huber Heights. Over time, the Elam's decided to focus their resources and talents in one store location. "In 1967, the shop was located at the intersection of Franklin and Main, close to where Panera Bread is today and the parking was one of the biggest problems in those days. Bill Elam admits that the added parking available in the current location was a big motivator in moving. In the earlier years, Bills was not open 24 hours a day. The advent of the third shift arose from the need of late night workers who would travel to work for NCR. “Back in those days, NCR was going strong and everybody south of town worked there. They all took Route 48 home-to Centerville, Lebanon or Springboro.” Faye says. Many Centerville residents worked for the company and for a while Bill would provide coffee and donuts to the workers at the back door using the honor system. Within a month, third shift was launched. "Bills Donut Shop moved to its current location at 268 N Main Street in Centerville in 1979. There are numerous local media celebrities like Mike Hartsock and Don Donaher that have enjoyed the atmosphere that defines the shop. But you might be surprised to know that Phil Donahue, who used to live in the area visited quite often before he became a talk show host in the 1970s. Also Congressman Mike Turner and singer Chet Atkins are among the past patrons. "In 1995, Bill and Faye sold the family business to two of their children, Lisa and Jim Elam. Lisa and Jim have made sure that the friendly atmosphere and hospitality that has defined the shop since its beginning remains a mainstay today. When asked why the shop has been such a success, Lisa said, 'We know many of our customers by name, we’re very family oriented.' "In the past few years, Lisa and Jim have added newer items like danishes, buckeyes, cupcakes, cookies, as well as cappuccino. In the past few months, the donut shop has added the use of credit cards to make purchases and a new gift card that can be bought for any denomination. In Centerville, Bills would have to be considered one of the oldest businesses, and hopefully it will be here for many more years."