Wheel of Fortune: Top Five Most Amazing Solves! A Streetcar n***d Desire?
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Wheel of Fortune Contestants n***d Goof Exposes Epic Fail (Video)
A contestant on Wheel of Fortune completely blew it on Tuesday, eliciting shocked gasps from the studio audience.
After confidently solving all but one letterof the puzzle, Kevin screwed up the titleof the Pulitzer-winning Tennessee Williams play A Streetcar Named Desire, guessing the letter K instead of the very, very obviously correct answer, M. To be fair, you can see how he got there.
Even host Pat Sajak was stunned into silence by the flub, only able to choke out a short no before moving on to the next player, who solved the puzzle no problem.
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Dude on Wheel of Fortune just thought the play was called "A Streetcar n***d Desire." This is the highlight of my sick day.
Erica Lenti (@ericalenti) March 21, 2017
Nothings funnier to me than Wheel of Fortune fails. Unlike Jeopardy its literally spelled out for you https://t.co/e2rVTzsGTO
J.A. Adande (@jadande) March 22, 2017
Hey, Wheel of Fortune contestant who just tried to fill in A STREETCAR NA_ED DESIRE with a K, DM me I"ll buy you a beer or 20. pic.twitter.com/h1o5104fni
Rick G. Rosner (@dumbassgenius) March 22, 2017
Dude on Wheel of Fortune had to solve this:
A STREETCAR NA_ED DESIRE
He asked for a K.
Im gonna go lie down.
David Aldridge (@daldridgetnt) March 21, 2017
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William Shatner has a birthday today.
So does the world-famous character that made his fortune: Capt. James T. Kirk of the Starship Enterprise, who set out to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations in the U.S. television show Star Trek.
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A Canadian, Mr. Shatner trained as a Shakespearean actor before moving into TV and film.
In the mid-60s, television executives rejected the first pilot of the show, but the second, in which Mr. Shatner played Kirk for the first time, fared better.
I never thought itd become a big deal, just 13 episodes and out, Mr. Shatner told The New York Times Magazine in 2010.
In fact, it lasted 79. The show gained a cult following in syndication and spawned a pop cultural phenomenon with multiple television series (a new one is planned) and 13 feature films (and counting).
Mr. Shatner turns 86 today, but James Tiberius Kirk wont be born for another 216 years.
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TORONTO -- The Toronto Raptors were virtual spectators for the Russell Westbrook show Thursday.
The Oklahoma City guard had 24 points, 16 assists and 10 rebounds for his 34th triple double of the season, as the Thunder roared past the Raptors 123-102 for their fourth straight win.
Westbrook, who took less than three quarters to notch his triple-double, now needs just seven more to beat Oscar Robertson"s single-season record.
DeMar DeRozan scored 22 points to lead the Raptors (39-29), who have won just once in their last four games. Norman Powell had 13 points while Cory Joseph added 11 and Delon Wright chipped in with 10 for Toronto, which shot a woeful 5-for-20 from three-point range.
Victor Oladipo added 23 points for the Thunder (39-29).
With 14 games left in the regular season, the Raptors are trying to claw their way back up the Eastern Conference standings. They were fourth and two games behind third-place Washington to start the night.
The Raptors, wearing their Drake-inspired black and gold uniforms, never led. One decent but brief stretch during the second quarter pulled Toronto to within two points, but Westbrook and the Thunder quickly extinguished any hopes of a comeback, stretching their lead to as many as 27 points in the third quarter.
Leading 97-70 to start the fourth, the Thunder would go up by 30 points with just under nine minutes to play when Enes Kanter converted a three-point play. The Thunder"s biggest lead was 32 points before both coaches went to their benches for mop-up duty.
Thunder coach Billy Donovan praised Westbrook pre-game, calling him an "old-school guy" when it comes to effort.
"He lines up every night and he goes up and plays. It"s amazing for 82 games," Donovan said. "There have been games maybe he hasn"t played up to the level that he"s wanted to play to. But I don"t think there"s been a game this year he"s came off the floor and thought I didn"t leave it all out there."
Raptors guard Kyle Lowry, meanwhile, had his injured wrist examined Wednesday.
"It"s on schedule, on time," coach Dwane Casey said. "There"s still no timetable or anything like that. But everything checked out and is where it should be."
The Thunder sprinted out to an 11-point lead, but the Raptors closed the first quarter with a 10-4 run to cut Oklahoma City"s advantage to 29-24 heading into the second.
The Raptors pulled to within two points on a jumper by Jonas Valanciunas midway through the second, but Westbrook orchestrated an 18-6 Thunder run -- either scoring or assisting on every basket -- and Oklahoma City was back up by 14 points. The visitors took a 58-48 advantage into halftime.
The Raptors are in Detroit on Friday then return home to host Indiana on Sunday and Chicago on Tuesday.
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A bit bored with wearing the Apple Watch on your wrist? Theres a way to put it on a chain, hang a fat bee, feathered arrow, or silver tassel from it, and wear it as a pendant around your neck.
Were juxtaposing antique talismans with new technology, said Jessica Lee, creative director and co-founder, along with one of her brothers, Jonas, of the California-based company Bucardo, which is named after a Spanish mountain goat that was the first animal to be brought back (even briefly) from extinction through cloning. People can express themselves with the watch and still use the technology. When the wristband pieces are slid off an Apple Watch, the chain can be slid onto the top groove and the charm onto the bottom, to hang down like a pendant.
Photo The Arrow charm, by Bucardo.
In August 2015, the siblings posted on the crowdfunding website Kickstarter their idea for a fob and chain combination to turn an apple watch into a pocket watch and hit their $25,000 target in 15 days, Jonas Lee said.
The company sells that pocket watch combination and other items on its website. Now, in a desire to expand the charm collection, Ms. Lee said she chose the bee, arrow and tassel from 50 ideas because the shapes were easily identifiable.
Finding the balance between the charm size and the rectangular Apple case was the toughest challenge, Ms. Lee said. Its difficult to get the wingspan right, she said about the bee. We need to make the bee smaller and more delicate, lightening up the wings by softening the shape or cutting out work with the metal.
The new products at $169 for a gold charm and chain, $149 for a silver set and $59 for an individual charm will be available online in April. Plans include more-casual charms made out of leather, and sports wrist straps.
TV Legend Chuck Barris Who Created "Newlywed Game" Dies At 87
Mr. Barris wrote Palisades Park along an odd path to an eventual career in television. He was born in Philadelphia on June 3, 1929; his father, a dentist, died when he was young.
After graduating from Drexel University in his home city in 1953, he was accepted into a management training program at NBC in 1955. But, he told The Philadelphia Inquirer in 2003, the department he was placed in daytime sales was eliminated, and he found himself trying, unsuccessfully, to sell the devices then known as TelePrompTers.
During the payola scandals of the 1950s, he was hired to keep a young ABC star, d**k Clark, of American Bandstand, out of trouble. (He sat around doing nothing all day but drawing on a pad of paper, Mr. Clark told The Inquirer.) By 1959 he was ABCs director of West Coast daytime programming.
But he wanted to make his own shows, and in 1965 he came up with The Dating Game, in which a bachelorette or bachelor would choose a date from among three unseen members of the opposite s*x after asking them questions.
He followed that the next year with The Newlywed Game, another question-and-answer show that put just-married couples compatibility to the test. Both shows stayed on the air into the mid-1970s and spawned assorted sequels (The All-New Dating Game and The New Newlywed Game).
Mr. Barriss next game shows were less successful, but just as it seemed he was losing his touch, he came up with the concept that would catapult him to a new level of fame: The Gong Show, which had its premiere on NBC in June 1976. The show featured a series of performers, most of them amateurs, and a panel of three celebrity judges. Mr. Barris himself was the brash, irritating host.
The performers, who were often terrible, would be allowed to go on until one of the judges couldnt stand it anymore and sounded a gong, putting an end to the spectacle. Those who werent gonged were rated by the judges on a 1-to-10 scale. In keeping with the ridiculousness of the proceedings, the prize amount they vied for was ridiculous: $516.32 on the daytime version of the show, $712.05 on the prime-time edition.
Gene Gene The Dancing Machine, a regular feature on The Gong Show. Video by Thomas2878
The show, which ran on NBC until 1978 and then in syndication (with revivals in later years), became a cultural sensation. Critics complained about its crassness and cruelty, but Mr. Barris, like purveyors of burlesque and circus sideshows in earlier generations, knew there was a large audience for lowbrow. At one point the daytime version was attracting 78 percent of viewers 18 to 49.
In my opinion, a good game show review is the kiss of death, Mr. Barris said in a Salon interview in 2001. If for some strange reason the critic liked it, the public wont. A really bad review means the show will be on for years.
The ghost of The Gong Show is evident in numerous reality-television shows of more recent vintage the early rounds of any given season of American Idol, for instance.
Mr. Barris always bristled at the King of Schlock label that was hung on him as far back as The Dating Game. In a 2003 interview with Newsweek, he noted that shows much like the ones he created were by the 21st century being received differently.
Today these shows are accepted, he said. These shows arent seen as lowering any bars.
By the end of the 1970s, thanks to The Gong Show, Mr. Barriss television production company was busy and profitable, but he was itchy to try something else. What he tried, disastrously, was The Gong Show Movie, which he directed and, with Robert Downey Sr., wrote. It was released in May 1980 and flopped.
Mr. Barris gradually withdrew from television, selling his holdings, spending most of his time in France and turning to writing. He had already written one book, You and Me, Babe (1974), a novel about a television producer whose marriage failed; it drew heavily on his own rocky marriage to Lyn Levy, a niece of the powerful CBS chief William S. Paley, in the 1950s. They were divorced in 1976.
That first book sold well, but it was the next one that would give mr. barris yet another burst of notoriety: Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (1984), a supposed autobiography in which he claimed that while traveling in his role as a television producer in the 1960s he was also an assassin for the C.I.A.
The book got only a smattering of attention, but it caught some eyes in Hollywood, and in 2003, after many delays, a film version came out, directed by George Clooney and starring Sam Rockwell as Mr. Barris. (Charlie Kaufman wrote the screenplay, embellishing Mr. Barriss tale.)
The film brought Mr. Barris, by now in his 70s, a fresh round of publicity and endless variations on the obvious question: Was it true? Mr. Barris generally played coy, delivering elliptical answers that neither confirmed nor denied. The C.I.A. was more direct: Various spokesmen said Mr. Barris had had nothing to do with the agency.
In later years Mr. Barris continued to write books, among them the comic novels The Big Question (2007), about an outlandish game show where the stakes are literally life or death, and Who Killed Art Deco? (2009), about the murder of a wealthy young man.
In 2010 he turned to a much more serious subject with Della: A Memoir of My Daughter, telling the story of his only child from his marriage to Ms. Levy who as a girl sometimes turned up on The Gong Show. She died of a drug overdose in 1998, at 36.
Mr. Barriss second marriage, to Robin Altman, ended in divorce in 1999. He is survived by his wife, the former Mary Clagett.
Which of his several careers was his favorite? In 2007, during an appearance at the Book Passage bookstore in Corte Madera, Calif., he dealt with the question.
When you go to that great game show in the sky, he asked himself, would you rather be known as an author or as a TV game show producer?
Thats the easiest question of all, he responded. I would love to be known as an author, but I dont think its written that thats the way its going to be. I think on my tombstone its just going to say, Gonged at last, and Im stuck with that.
Leave it to Demi Lovato to laugh off a n**e photo leak scandal! The singer apparently became the latest victim of misogynistic hackers recently, but she didnt let them get under her skin. In fact, she had the best response ever to the whole situation.
A photo reportedly of Demi Lovato lying in bed with her top unzipped began circling the internet in the last few days, according to Page Six.
On Tuesday night, Demi responded to the photo with amusement, laughing about the fact that people are freaking out about the leaked photo, which she says isnt even n**e, it just shows a lot of her cleavage.
Another reason the n**e leak wasnt so jarring for Demi is shes come to accept and show off her body much more in the past few years.
She went on to point out that shes posed n**e or in revealing outfits numerous times in recent years, and even shaded the leaked photo as being photoshopped by writing that her b***s arent as big as they are in the image.
of course, demi made a huge statement to the world about accepting her body and sexuality when she released her sultry music video for Cool for the Summer, which featured the singer in a much more provocative wardrobe than ever before.
And as Demi pointed out in her tweet, she also posed n**e in a photo spread for Vanity Fair towards the end of 2015. The photo shoot feature Lovato posing in a bathtub without clothes or makeup, geared towards her authentic and self-accepting reinvention.
This also isnt the first time that Demi Lovato has been involved in a n**e photo leak. Demi was one of the many celebrities targeted in the infamous iCloud hack of 2014 that resulted in numerous private photos of celebrities to be leaked online.
Unfortunately, now it appears as though these celebrity photo leaks are happening more often again.
A couple months ago, private photos and videos of numerous young male actors like Tyler Posey and Cody Christian were being passed around the web. And just last week, Emma Watson revealedshes had private photos stolen from her.
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Mr. Barris wrote Palisades Park along an odd path to an eventual career in television. He was born in Philadelphia on June 3, 1929; his father, a dentist, died when he was young.
After graduating from Drexel University in his home city in 1953, he was accepted into a management training program at NBC in 1955. But, he told The Philadelphia Inquirer in 2003, the department he was placed in daytime sales was eliminated, and he found himself trying, unsuccessfully, to sell the devices then known as TelePrompTers.
During the payola scandals of the 1950s, he was hired to keep a young ABC star, d**k Clark, of American Bandstand, out of trouble. (He sat around doing nothing all day but drawing on a pad of paper, Mr. Clark told The Inquirer.) By 1959 he was ABCs director of West Coast daytime programming.
But he wanted to make his own shows, and in 1965 he came up with The Dating Game, in which a bachelorette or bachelor would choose a date from among three unseen members of the opposite s*x after asking them questions.
He followed that the next year with The Newlywed Game, another question-and-answer show that put just-married couples compatibility to the test. Both shows stayed on the air into the mid-1970s and spawned assorted sequels (The All-New Dating Game and The New Newlywed Game).
Mr. Barriss next game shows were less successful, but just as it seemed he was losing his touch, he came up with the concept that would catapult him to a new level of fame: The Gong Show, which had its premiere on NBC in June 1976. The show featured a series of performers, most of them amateurs, and a panel of three celebrity judges. Mr. Barris himself was the brash, irritating host.
The performers, who were often terrible, would be allowed to go on until one of the judges couldnt stand it anymore and sounded a gong, putting an end to the spectacle. Those who werent gonged were rated by the judges on a 1-to-10 scale. In keeping with the ridiculousness of the proceedings, the prize amount they vied for was ridiculous: $516.32 on the daytime version of the show, $712.05 on the prime-time edition.
Gene Gene The Dancing Machine, a regular feature on The Gong Show. Video by Thomas2878
The show, which ran on NBC until 1978 and then in syndication (with revivals in later years), became a cultural sensation. Critics complained about its crassness and cruelty, but Mr. Barris, like purveyors of burlesque and circus sideshows in earlier generations, knew there was a large audience for lowbrow. At one point the daytime version was attracting 78 percent of viewers 18 to 49.
In my opinion, a good game show review is the kiss of death, mr. barris said in a Salon interview in 2001. If for some strange reason the critic liked it, the public wont. A really bad review means the show will be on for years.
The ghost of The Gong Show is evident in numerous reality-television shows of more recent vintage the early rounds of any given season of American Idol, for instance.
Mr. Barris always bristled at the King of Schlock label that was hung on him as far back as The Dating Game. In a 2003 interview with Newsweek, he noted that shows much like the ones he created were by the 21st century being received differently.
Today these shows are accepted, he said. These shows arent seen as lowering any bars.
By the end of the 1970s, thanks to The Gong Show, Mr. Barriss television production company was busy and profitable, but he was itchy to try something else. What he tried, disastrously, was The Gong Show Movie, which he directed and, with Robert Downey Sr., wrote. It was released in May 1980 and flopped.
Mr. Barris gradually withdrew from television, selling his holdings, spending most of his time in France and turning to writing. He had already written one book, You and Me, Babe (1974), a novel about a television producer whose marriage failed; it drew heavily on his own rocky marriage to Lyn Levy, a niece of the powerful CBS chief William S. Paley, in the 1950s. They were divorced in 1976.
That first book sold well, but it was the next one that would give Mr. Barris yet another burst of notoriety: Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (1984), a supposed autobiography in which he claimed that while traveling in his role as a television producer in the 1960s he was also an assassin for the C.I.A.
The book got only a smattering of attention, but it caught some eyes in Hollywood, and in 2003, after many delays, a film version came out, directed by George Clooney and starring Sam Rockwell as Mr. Barris. (Charlie Kaufman wrote the screenplay, embellishing Mr. Barriss tale.)
The film brought Mr. Barris, by now in his 70s, a fresh round of publicity and endless variations on the obvious question: Was it true? Mr. Barris generally played coy, delivering elliptical answers that neither confirmed nor denied. The C.I.A. was more direct: Various spokesmen said Mr. Barris had had nothing to do with the agency.
In later years Mr. Barris continued to write books, among them the comic novels The Big Question (2007), about an outlandish game show where the stakes are literally life or death, and Who Killed Art Deco? (2009), about the murder of a wealthy young man.
In 2010 he turned to a much more serious subject with Della: A Memoir of My Daughter, telling the story of his only child from his marriage to Ms. Levy who as a girl sometimes turned up on The Gong Show. She died of a drug overdose in 1998, at 36.
Mr. Barriss second marriage, to Robin Altman, ended in divorce in 1999. He is survived by his wife, the former Mary Clagett.
Which of his several careers was his favorite? In 2007, during an appearance at the Book Passage bookstore in Corte Madera, Calif., he dealt with the question.
When you go to that great game show in the sky, he asked himself, would you rather be known as an author or as a TV game show producer?
Thats the easiest question of all, he responded. I would love to be known as an author, but I dont think its written that thats the way its going to be. I think on my tombstone its just going to say, Gonged at last, and Im stuck with that.
