No cue cards, no teleprompters, and no second takes–legendary funnyman Sid Caesar pioneered live television sketch comedy with his 1950s sitcoms Your Show of Shows and Caesar’s Hour. This classic sketch is “Argument to Beethoven’s 5th,” Sid Caesar and Nanette Fabray play a married couple in a argument with pantomimed action and the dialogue is classic music.
Argument to Beethoven’s 5th
May 31, ’07
11:00 PM
Interesting Images Found Using Google’s Street View
May 31, ’07
6:53 PM
Laudon Tech is compiling a list of interesting images found using Google’s Street View tool.
Below is a list of interesting sites and places people have found using Google’s new Street View feature. If you have found something interesting using Google Maps Street View, drop me an email and I’ll post it.
THE 100 SCARIEST MOVIE SCENES
May 31, ’07
2:14 PM
From RetroCrush:
This has been a great labour of love and truly one of the most fun articles I’ve ever had the pleasure of putting up on retroCRUSH. It’s easy to talk about scary movies, but we wanted to highlight the individual scary scenes that really stick out. Some films aren’t scary by design, but happen to have creepy and shocking moments that deserve special recognition. So enjoy this list and have fun discovering a bunch of new movies to see!
500 Years of Women in Western Art
May 31, ’07
1:47 PM
This has been going around for the past week or so but if you haven’t seen it yet….
Lieberman’s Iraq Tour of Duty
May 31, ’07
1:41 PM
BAGHDAD, Iraq – Spc. David Williams, 22, of Boston, Mass., had two note cards in his pocket Wednesday afternoon as he waited for Sen. Joseph Lieberman. Williams serves in the 82nd Airborne Division from Fort Bragg, N.C., the first of the five “surge” brigades to arrive in Iraq, and he was chosen to join the Independent from Connecticut for lunch at a U.S. field base in Baghdad.
The night before, 30 other soldiers crowded around him with questions for the senator.
He wrote them all down. At the top of his note card was the question he got from nearly every one of his fellow soldiers:
“When are we going to get out of here?”
The rest was a laundry list. When would they have upgraded Humvees that could withstand the armor-penetrating weapons that U.S. officials claim are from Iran? When could they have body armor that was better in hot weather?
Williams missed six months of his girlfriend’s pregnancy when he was given six days’ notice to return to Iraq for his second tour. He also missed his baby boy’s birth. Three weeks ago, he went home and saw his first child.
“He looks just like me,” he said. “I didn’t want to come back. . . . We’re waiting to get blown up.”
Then Joe appears:
Then Lieberman walked in, wearing a pair of sunglasses newly purchased from an Iraqi market that the military had taken him to in southeast Baghdad. He’d been equipped with a helmet and flak vest when he toured the market, which he described as bustling.
Doesn’t it defeat the purpose of a photo-op that’s supposed to show how positive things are in a marketplace when you’re in body armor surrounded by bodyguards?
Freight Train Collision
May 31, ’07
12:25 PM
Camera view of two freight trains colliding, shot from the engineer’s cab side view.
(via Andy’s Blog)
