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Links:

The Best Show website: http://thebestshow.net/

Billy Crystal’s ‘Jazzman’ clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX2mClXKME8&t=915s

Scharpling and Wurster’s ‘The Music Scholar’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z75qsaak9Po

Candy Bar Episode: http://thebestshow.net/episode/best-candy-bar-ever-ray-ray-hutchins-sound-collage/

Lost ‘2006′ Episode: http://thebestshow.net/episode/classic-best-show-from-2006-darren-from-work-the-world-ends-more/

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We were on location in the cemetery one gloomy, biting, raw day. Carol stood staring down a long alley of trees that flanked a perfectly straight, endless road whose perspective took it to a tiny point, finishing with grey sky. He simply announced: “Now we’ll shoot the ending.”

When the camera was ready, it was pointing its eye directly at that distant apex. Then Carol shouted, as loudly as he could, “Action!” From far, far away, Valli started her walk up that lane toward the camera.

The hero, smoking a cigarette, was standing in the foreground waiting for her. Like the audience, he was confident that she would join him, and they would stroll away happily together, arm in arm. Valli walked on and on, closer and closer, until at last she was a life-sized figure in the foreground with the hero. And then, without turning her head, or even glancing in his direction, she continued her steady pace, out of the shot, and into limbo.

I remained there, as directed, still smoking the cigarette. My eyes followed Valli out of the shot and, anticipating Carol’s shout of “Cut,” I almost strolled back to my chair to wait for the assistant to announce “Once more, please,” or for Carol to say, “Print.”

Nobody uttered a word. The camera kept rolling. The special effects men from their high perches continued to drop toasted autumn leaves from above. I continued to puff on my cigarette, and began to get quite panic-stricken. Was there more to the scene? Had I gone blank? What was Carol waiting for me to do? I took one more puff, then in exasperation threw the cigarette to the ground, at which point Carol shouted through his laugher the word I had been waiting desperately to hear — “Cut.”

- Joseph Cotten, Vanity Will Get You Somewhere

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NASA just saw something come out of a black hole for the first time ever.

You don’t have to know a whole lot about science to know that black holes typically suck things in, not spew things out. But NASA just spotted something mighty strange at the supermassive black hole Markarian 335.

Two of NASA’s space telescopes, including the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), miraculously observed a black hole’s corona “launched” away from the supermassive black hole. Then a massive pulse of X-ray energy spewed out. So, what exactly happened? That’s what scientists are trying to figure out now.

“This is the first time we have been able to link the launching of the corona to a flare,” Dan Wilkins, of Saint Mary’s University, said. “This will help us understand how supermassive black holes power some of the brightest objects in the universe.”

NuSTAR’s principal investigator, Fiona Harrison, noted that the nature of the energetic source is “mysterious,” but added that the ability to actually record the event should provide some clues about the black hole’s size and structure, along with (hopefully) some fresh intel on how black holes function. Luckily for us, this black hole is still 324 million light-years away.

So, no matter what strange things it’s doing, it shouldn’t have any effect on our corner of the universe.

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Ana Navarro rips into a Trump defender: “You seem insane. … He is a bigot, he is a racist, he is a misogynist.”

martymartinloki

WE NEED MORE BRAVE PEOPLE LIKE HER. CALL THESE IDIOTS OUT. OVER AND OVER AND OVER.

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Holy shit, she really ripped him a new one.

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“Let me say is again, and let me say it in two languages.”

luvkurai

FUCK YES

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ÉL ES UN RACISTA Y UN VIOLADOR

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The Phantom of the Opera (1925)

heyreallygiger

Hey everybody in Matthew’s path: Please stay safe. I know you don’t need to me to tell you that. But this thing looks scary and us northerners care about you.

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Kid Cudi enters rehab for depression, shares beautiful note with fans

Kid Cudi announced Tuesday night that he’s checking himself into rehab to address his “depression and suicidal urges,” as he wrote in an open letter to fans posted to Facebook.

The letter displays a level of openness and of vulnerability artists rarely offer their fans. Cudi deserves praise for his strength and the light that he’s shining on mental health especially as a black male artist.

Artists and fans have been sharing tributes to Cudi, with Joe La Puma of Complex posting a heartbreaking yet poignant Vine of the rapper.

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nyokoko

Praying for him.

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Inspired by a favorite Richard Scarry book, I drew some pages for a children’s book starring Philly Boy Roy. Manners, Philly Style teaches young readers how to behave as well as Roy.