Remember playing records backwards?
Posted on 07/06/2022 1:33:39 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Incorrect answers are fairly common on Jeopardy!, but viewers couldn’t get over a couple whoppers from Tuesday’s show. In fact, the opening round category “A Number Between 1 and 100” drove much of the fanbase to Twitter, where they commented on the shockingly incorrect response.
“Your standard phonograph record until the 1950s, or the age Diana Ross turned in 2022,” was the first clue to cause trouble. Contestant Jake Marvin wagered all his winnings on the Daily Double clue, but he may have lost more than money when he incorrectly guessed 90.
The 78-year-old singer has a very passionate fanbase, and they did not appreciate her being labeled a nonagenarian. During a Final Jeopardy! round in March, two contestants separately guessed that Diana Ross was 95 years old and fans were outraged. Unfortunately for Marvin, the Diana devotees have not forgotten that recent perceived transgression.
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I guess these guys have never used a phonograph?
There weren’t many of those 16s. I think I saw maybe 1 or 2 turntables that would do 16 in the 50s. It was like Quadrasonic sound. Never took off.
Remember the guy at the music store asking, “Big hole or small?”
When I did the shoot for Diana Ross we were still using Hasselblads and film. So retouching was not as big deal. And quite frankly she didn’t need a lot of retouching because the film and her skin tones and her features matched up really well. The problem that I had was that I felt it was so un-American. It was as though she was some kind of English queen that’s what pissed me off royally. As I said before till this minute I’m still pissed about that. And I swore every opportunity I could get to put down this whole diva attitude I would.
Remember playing records backwards?
That 120 film in my Hasselblads showed every little detail. To have flawless features was a real blessing. Many used a soft focus filter to hide facial features rather than do a retouch, which was done with pencil lead and a magnifying lens.
(The correct response: "Who is Tony Bennett?")
I was doing three-quarter length photographs to full length of her. That’s what was called for there was no close-ups unfortunately. She would do a change sometimes between each number. Also other people were added into the photographs as a grip and grin. Not being able to talk to her just made it very difficult at times. Not quite as spontaneous. But at the end of the day it all worked.
math is racist
I would be talking to Diana during the photo shoot—things like, “lick your lips,”move your hips to the left,” “turn your shoulders,” and “tilt head forward.” I suppose having her say “cheese” would have been cornball. Instead, I would have asked her to say, “Fuzzy pickles!”
How come Zero has no chest hair? Isn’t that odd for a man to have no body hair?
I had the entire New Testament on discs at 16 rpm. I actually listened to it...
partly...
once...
The performer had grown up with a terrible speech impediment which he conquered. I have forgotten his name long since. That set of records has disappeared and who will ever miss it?
I now own Alexander Scourby’s reading of the NT on cassette tapes. One set of tapes is re-recorded by an amateur at increased speed. You get through it much faster that way if you can accept that Paul the Apostle sounds like a chipmunk!
I listened to one of those tapes...once...
Ken Jennings was not blessed with a face for a TV show. His nose seems to be curling into a sneer unless he maintains an active smile. Mayim Bialik however has an almost pretty look to her that may be appropriate for the intended audience. Sure the host does not need to actually be smart as she genuinely is, but must look smart as she does.
Full disclosure: I hardly ever watch.
However I am inclined to agree with you about him. I saw him a couple times and he was good.
Art Fleming was right in his criticism of the show. He disliked the Hollywood glitz and especially (from his wiki)
“He also claimed that the new show was too easy and he feuded publicly with the staff of the modern Jeopardy! over the nature of the clues, as he believed that the writers were inserting hints into the clues to make the correct response seem obvious and easy to guess.”
“That set of records has disappeared and who will ever miss it?”
I’m sure someone.
It sounds interesting to me.
His performance was actually a little stilted. Not as good as Scourby’s which was considered stilted by some. I remember back in the 1980’s there was a version of the Bible on Tape which was read by real gospel preachers. They were supposed to have read it like they really meant it, however though they were good men who loved the Book, they were NOT actors, and it did not come off well at all.
I have worked hard for decades to read the Bible well and I work to make it an exciting and engaging story, but my voice is high and strident, not a radio voice at all. I have listened to the Bible dramatized on various websites, but there is not one I really recommend. (Well, they are all okay.) They always use grade B actor wannabes, and the music is hokey movie background music. If you know of anything I would appreciate your recommendation.
FReegards!
The 78 basically died in the 1950s. That said some of the early Elvis singles were pressed on 78s as well as the ascendant 45s.
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