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Post by debjorgo on Jul 9, 2016 11:55:52 GMT -5
Minnie Driver's new show for this fall has this promo picture:
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Post by debjorgo on Jul 23, 2016 8:04:00 GMT -5
Beatles on TV - Lite: CBS This Morning has a story coming up on Reading on the Beach. Paperback Writer was played going to the commercial.
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Post by debjorgo on Jul 24, 2016 9:48:58 GMT -5
CBS Sunday Morning did a story on Gibraltar and John and Yoko's marriage there got a mention.
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Post by debjorgo on Jul 25, 2016 19:20:50 GMT -5
At the risk of being political again, according to Inside Edition tonight, Ivanka Trump entered into the RNC last Friday to the song Here Comes the Sun. She got this response from the family of the late George Harrison;"The unauthorized use of Here Comes the Sun is offensive". I do agree with Trump on daughter Ivanka. He said if he "wasn't married and, ya know, her father,...."
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Post by John S. Damm on Jul 27, 2016 13:37:48 GMT -5
I was watching live when the daughter came out and it was a cover of "Here Comes The Sun" and I immediately said to myself, "Oh boy, this will raise a storm of protest!"
The Harrison's subsequent post was funny.
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Post by Joe Karlosi on Jul 27, 2016 15:34:49 GMT -5
The Harrison's subsequent post was funny. It was an inspired bit of cleverness, I admit, for the Harrisons to offer "Beware Of Darkness" in place of "Here Comes The Sun". The problem is, they fail to acknowledge the whole point that we ARE in the "darkness" stage already.
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Post by debjorgo on Jul 27, 2016 17:30:42 GMT -5
Things seem pretty rosy to me. Economy's good, unemployment's down. Challenges are being dealt with in a cool and collected way.
That's all I'll say, or Steve will come by and tell us to move along, take it elsewhere. And rightly so.
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Post by debjorgo on Jul 31, 2016 16:39:12 GMT -5
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Post by debjorgo on Aug 3, 2016 23:19:37 GMT -5
From Wayward Pines, 5/25/16. They were put into cryo and are now living in the distant future, trying to make a new world. Complications follow.
One of our actors gets the jump on another who was about to inject her with a vial of pain medication. She now has a knife at the evil ones throat. She says "We've done so many great things. So many. The pyramids. Man on the moon. The Beatles. We were capable of so many great things...."
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Post by debjorgo on Aug 14, 2016 22:20:33 GMT -5
On the Walking Dead: Season 7 Preview tonight, Jeffrey Dean Morgan talks about going to Coma Con the last ten years and now after being on Walking Dead for twelve minutes, walking out on the convention floor it was "like, being the Beatles. You know what I mean. I'd imagine. It was that kind of crazy."
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Post by coachbk on Aug 16, 2016 12:55:49 GMT -5
Heard on NBC Olympics coverage today:
"What Jim Brown was to running backs and the Beatles were to pop music is what Karch Karoli was to USA volleyball"
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Post by debjorgo on Aug 16, 2016 17:02:19 GMT -5
Heard on NBC Olympics coverage today: "What Jim Brown was to running backs and the Beatles were to pop music is what Karch Karoli was to USA volleyball" You'd think they would have stuck with the sports comparisons. There is a long history of holding high esteem for the old sports figures. ESPN's Hall of 100 baseball players has Babe Ruth at number 1. You'd think that would had been updated, even if the stats didn't back it up. Again the Beatles are used as the measuring stick!
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Post by coachbk on Aug 16, 2016 19:12:27 GMT -5
Heard on NBC Olympics coverage today: "What Jim Brown was to running backs and the Beatles were to pop music is what Karch Karoli was to USA volleyball" You'd think they would have stuck with the sports comparisons. There is a long history of holding high esteem for the old sports figures. ESPN's Hall of 100 baseball players has Babe Ruth at number 1. You'd think that would had been updated, even if the stats didn't back it up. Again the Beatles are used as the measuring stick! Actually I completely agree with Babe Ruth being kept at #1. He was so far ahead of everyone else of his time as a power hitter. He also hit for a high average. Furthermore before he became an outfielder he was one of the best pitchers in baseball. In short, he was the Beatles of baseball!!!
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Post by debjorgo on Aug 16, 2016 19:55:58 GMT -5
You'd think they would have stuck with the sports comparisons. There is a long history of holding high esteem for the old sports figures. ESPN's Hall of 100 baseball players has Babe Ruth at number 1. You'd think that would had been updated, even if the stats didn't back it up. Again the Beatles are used as the measuring stick! Actually I completely agree with Babe Ruth being kept at #1. He was so far ahead of everyone else of his time as a power hitter. He also hit for a high average. Furthermore before he became an outfielder he was one of the best pitchers in baseball. In short, he was the Beatles of baseball!!! Did he get the speed in his pitches that today's pitchers get? How well could he have batted against the pitchers of today. I am sure someone with a want to do so could put someone else at the top.
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Post by winstonoboogie on Aug 20, 2016 20:06:37 GMT -5
Actually I completely agree with Babe Ruth being kept at #1. He was so far ahead of everyone else of his time as a power hitter. He also hit for a high average. Furthermore before he became an outfielder he was one of the best pitchers in baseball. In short, he was the Beatles of baseball!!! Did he get the speed in his pitches that today's pitchers get? How well could he have batted against the pitchers of today. I am sure someone with a want to do so could put someone else at the top. Maybe, but don't forget that he (arguably) rescued baseball after the game had suffered a huge black eye after the Black Sox scandal - not unlike how the Beatles (also arguably) saved rock and roll from its post-Elvis-drafting doldrums! (Also Buddy Holly et al dying, but you get my drift!) (You see how I brought it back to the Fabs?)
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Post by debjorgo on Aug 20, 2016 21:49:34 GMT -5
Did he get the speed in his pitches that today's pitchers get? How well could he have batted against the pitchers of today. I am sure someone with a want to do so could put someone else at the top. Maybe, but don't forget that he (arguably) rescued baseball after the game had suffered a huge black eye after the Black Sox scandal - not unlike how the Beatles (also arguably) saved rock and roll from its post-Elvis-drafting doldrums! (Also Buddy Holly et al dying, but you get my drift!) (You see how I brought it back to the Fabs?) Excellent job!
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Post by debjorgo on Aug 21, 2016 10:32:12 GMT -5
A page from the CBS Sunday Morning Almanac:
August 21, 1961, Motown releases Please Mr. Postman. 55 years ago today. A musical piece worth writing home about. It quickly became Motown and the Marvelettes' first number 1 hit. A cover version was recorded by no less than the Beatles. (Their version was played too.)
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Post by debjorgo on Aug 25, 2016 21:10:28 GMT -5
I usually avoid commercials but happened to see a commercial I've seen many times before in high fast-forward speed. I never knew that the Jennifer Aniston commercial were she is talking candidly to the camera has All You Need is Love as the background. Of course it's a cover version. The commercial has something to do with having dry eyes.
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Post by debjorgo on Aug 25, 2016 21:56:23 GMT -5
Entertainment Tonight did a snip on this:
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Post by sallyg on Aug 27, 2016 21:39:21 GMT -5
Although this is more Beatles and Dodger Stadium, I didn't feel like creating a new topic. They had fireworks and Beatles music last night at Dodger Stadium in observation of their concert there years ago. www.facebook.com/breakfastwiththebeatlesla/?fref=ts
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Post by debjorgo on Aug 28, 2016 10:21:40 GMT -5
Fred Armisen was on Today this morning. He said he wants to look back on these days and it would be like the sixties, when the Beatles were hanging with the Rolling Stones, Donovan and Peter Sellers, hanging out, doing stuff together. "I want this to be our time (referring to the SNL people). 'Remember when we all did shows'." He named a bunch of the cast members. "I love it. We're all seeing each other."
Willie Guist asked "Are you Mick Jagger in that scenario? McCartney?"
Armisen says "I really want to be Paul McCartney. He is really good at reinventing himself."
"So you just consider yourself the next Paul McCartney?"
"Yeah! Yeah! I'm comparing myself to Paul McCartney! ON TV. I don't want to hear any backlash. Keep it to yourself. I'll say it one more time. I'm comparing myself to PAUL MCCARTNEY."
The wrap-up: "Portlandis fans will be happy to know, Fred, the Paul McCartney of his time, is already working on the 7th season of the show"
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Post by debjorgo on Sept 8, 2016 20:57:51 GMT -5
From Seth Meyers:
"Hillary Clinton spent the primary defending off a challenge from Bernie Sanders by casting herself as a champion of the working class. But since then, according to the New York Times, she's been spending most of her time raising money from ultra rich donors, including a recent fund raiser at a waterfront Hamptons estate [where she] danced alongside Jimmy Buffett, Jon Von Jovi and Paul McCartney, and joined in a sing-along finale to "Hey Jude". Soon to be known as the least bootlegged copy of Hey Jude.
"Ah dude, you got to here this! McCartney, Buffet, Bon Jovi and Clinton, Hamptons '16!""
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Post by ReturnToPepperland on Sept 8, 2016 23:48:17 GMT -5
Things seem pretty rosy to me. Economy's good, unemployment's down. Challenges are being dealt with in a cool and collected way. That's all I'll say, or Steve will come by and tell us to move along, take it elsewhere. And rightly so. I am glad you are doing so well, but your facts about the economy are wrong. GDP (Gross Domestic Product), that is our economy, is growing at 1% which is just above recession. The real unemployment numbers are not rosy at all. The real rate is not 4.7% or whatever they emphasize. If you include those who have fallen off the unemployment rolls and have not found a job, the rate is closer to 11% and much worse for minorities.
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Post by debjorgo on Sept 9, 2016 6:08:01 GMT -5
I'm out of my element here to discuss world economies at any depth, but a search of Wiki has the US at the top of many of the list of countries by GDP.
The unemployment rate has always been higher than reported. There have always been people who have fallen off and not counted.
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Post by ReturnToPepperland on Sept 9, 2016 22:01:49 GMT -5
19 I'm out of my element here to discuss world economies at any depth, but a search of Wiki has the US at the top of many of the list of countries by GDP. The unemployment rate has always been higher than reported. There have always been people who have fallen off and not counted. The US may be doing better than the rest of the world, but that is always the case. We have the best economy in the world so that even the President cannot destroy it with his terrible economic policies. Having said that, relative to the 8% and 9% growth we have had especially under Reagan, and even the 4% and 5% we had before the housing bubble burst in 2008, we are indeed doing very poorly now at 1%. You cannot generate real job growth at that GDP level. And the jobs that are generated are part time, minimum wage, not good manufacturing jobs upon which you can raise a family. As for unemployment, the amount of those who have dropped out is at s 40 year high and worst since the late 1970s recession. If you were to count those people, the unemployment rate would be at 16% and worse for minorities. The stock market has been propped up by the Fed for the last 7 1/2 years with trillions of dollars recklessly printed and forced into the equities market. The result is a bubble that has to pop and interest rates that have been driven so low around the world that some banks are charging negative rates to hold money which is nothing more that confiscation of personal property. Also, the average Joe's savings account now yields zero interest income. Another result is that few banks with loan money for mortgages and other loans including small business loans, that home ownership is at a 15 year low. Businesses cannot expand and regulations such as the Affordable Health Care act and Dodd-Frank are strangulating them with extra cost and red tape quite unnecessarily.
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Post by debjorgo on Sept 10, 2016 6:59:24 GMT -5
Yes but on Seth Meyers last night:
"Put aside all of Trump's blatant contradictions, even when he tries to sound smart about foreign policy, he accidentally reveals the limits of his knowledge. Like when he shared what he thought was a stunning revelation about Iraq."
Tramp: "People don't know this about Iraq but they have among the largest oil reserves in the world!"
Audience laughter.
Seth: "People don't know Iraq has oil? That's literally the only thing people know about Iraq! That's like saying people don't know this about Paul McCartney, that before Wings, he was in the Beatles."
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Post by debjorgo on Sept 11, 2016 16:32:55 GMT -5
CBS Sunday Morning, this morning, had this teaser:
"Next week, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, and....Bruce Springsteen? Next week on CBS Sunday Morning."
No explanation, just the teaser.
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Post by debjorgo on Sept 14, 2016 19:41:45 GMT -5
Jon Bon Jovi on Entertainment Tonight:
"That was especially fun because Paul McCartney is Beatle Paul of course. No matter who he's around, you become a giddy little kid. Because he's one of the Beatles."
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Post by debjorgo on Sept 15, 2016 19:21:04 GMT -5
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Post by debjorgo on Sept 17, 2016 17:22:56 GMT -5
Entertainment Tonight had Paul and Ringo in London for the premiere of Eight Days a Week. Paul was wearing the same jacket he wore to the premiere of Hard Days Night. Ringo let the press know "This jacket is older than you!" Also at the premiere, Madonna and Eric Clapton as well as Olivia and Yoko.
Paul "We were like brothers!" Ringo "We weren't like brothers. We were brothers!"
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