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Saturday Night Live re-airing 1978 episode hosted by Fred Willard, a gig he got by chance Saturday Night Live will be honoring the late Fred Willard by re-airing the episode he hosted in 1978. The throwback episode will air Saturday night at 10 p.m. ET before a re-airing of the third at-home episode of the current season. “I saw the first show and it knocked me out. I said, ‘God, this is wonderful comedy,’” Willard - who died May 15 of natural causes at the age of 86 - said in a 2012 interview with the Television Academy Foundation. “And one night, shortly after I was sitting in The Improv, and John Belushi walked in and I walked up. I said, ‘John, I love your new show.’ He said, ‘Oh, thanks.’...I took him around the improv. ‘Everyone, this is John Belushi. You got to watch his show, Saturday Night Live.’ And he was—I could tell he was so impressed by that.” In the fall of 1978, Willard ran into the SNL crew at an Emmys event in Los Angeles and was convinced by his wife to go up and introduce himself to Lorne Michaels. “So I went over and I said, ‘Hi, I’m Fred Willard. I love your show.’ ‘Oh, Fred.’ I think they all loved Fernwood 2 Night,” Willard said in the interview. “And a couple of weeks later I got a call. I think Muhammad Ali was supposed to host the show and dropped out and they said, ‘We’d love you to host it.’ I said, ‘Oh my God, that would be wonderful.’ And I have a feeling John Belushi was a behind it.” Willard’s episode aired that October 13, with Devo as the musical guest. “So I went in, I must have written 20 sketches, 20 ideas to do. I took it very seriously,” said Willard, who detailed his evolving relationship with improv to The A.V. Club in 2009. “It was a big thrill, and to think that so many millions of people are watching you. I think you get nervous to a point, and then finally say, ‘You can’t get nervous anymore.’ And I just went out and did it. It was a wonderful, memorable night.” #fredwillard #snl #willardsnl #snlwillard #comedy #saturdaynightlive #comedian # comedydeath #unminced TRENDING COLLECTIONS

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“I wouldn't recommend the way our band came together to any other young woman,” chuckles Shirley Manson, as she and her bandmate Butch Vig sit with Yahoo Entertainment, reflecting on the unusual way that she came be the frontwoman of alt-rock supergroup Garbage a quarter-century ago. “You know, traveling from Scotland to Madison, with no money in my pocket, no way of really getting home, no way of touching base. I wouldn't recommend that for anyone. But I was very lucky that they weren't creeps. They could have easily been creeps, and at least one of them could have been a weirdo, but they were really great. And we still get along really well, for all our squabbles over the years.” In 1993, Vig — hot off his success producing Nirvana’s Nevermind and the Smashing Pumpkins’ Siamese Dream — was starting a band with fellow studio wizards Steve Marker and Duke Erikson, when Marker saw the music video for “Suffocate” by Manson’s band at the time, Angelfish, on MTV’s 120 Minutes. Marker taped the program and showed the video to Vig and Erikson the next morning, and Vig recalls, “We were all very struck by it. I think the thing that really drew us into the song, and to Shirley, was she singing really low and understated at the time. A lot of the bands on 120 Minutes, or sort of the alternative music scene that was breaking, were full-on roar. We just thought that Shirley was kind of doing the opposite of what a lot of singers were doing at the time. And then luckily, our managers tracked her down.” “I was touring with my band, which was starting to break up at the time, and they gave me a call and said, ‘What are you doing at the weekend? Do you want to come up and sing a track or two with us?’ I was like, ‘Yeah OK,’” Manson recalls. What ensued was a bizarre blind-date audition in Wisconsin, where Garbage were based. “So on my day off, I traveled up to Madison. They picked me up and we went to Steve's house, and they set me up on a mic at the top of the stairs.”  Manson actually auditioned in a laundry room (“I just assumed it was a ‘man cave,’” she shrugs), and she confesses that the experience was a total disaster. “They just said, ‘OK, we're going to play some music and you're going to just come see what you come up with, see what comes up off the top of your head.’ And I had never done any writing before in my life up to this point, but I had lied to them, saying yes I was a writer, because I thought if I was honest and said I didn't write, I wouldn't get a chance of auditioning. .. I think they were like, ‘Oh my God, who's this loser?’ And I went home, and their management called me up the next day and said, ‘I hear the audition didn't go so well yesterday.’ And I was like, ‘Yeah, it was terrible. But I feel like maybe if we had another go, it might go better.’” Thankfully, Manson’s future bandmates felt the same way. 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Taylor Swift is once again using her enormous platform to speak up against President Donald Trump and is sounding a stronger note that many Democratic leaders. On Saturday, Swift took to Twitter to talk about what has rapidly become the top political issue around the country: the United States Postal Service. Swift is siding with Democrats who say the Trump administration has launched an all-out assault on the Postal Service before an election in which more people than ever are expected to vote by mail. “Trump’s calculated dismantling of USPS proves one thing clearly: He is WELL AWARE that we do not want him as our president,” Swift wrote on Twitter. “He’s chosen to blatantly cheat and put millions of Americans’ lives at risk in an effort to hold on to power.” The pop star then went on to accuse Trump of “ineffective leadership” that made the coronavirus crisis worse and now he wants to take “advantage of it to subvert and destroy our right to vote and vote safely.” Swift ends with a piece of advice to her fans: “Vote early.” Swift was famously silent on political issues until 2018, when she announced she was voting for Tennessee’s Democratic Senate candidate. “In the past I’ve been reluctant to publicly voice my political opinions, but due to several events in my life and in the world in the past two years, I feel very differently about that now,” Swift wrote in the now-famous Instagram post. Since then, the singer-songwriter has been increasingly vocal about her anti-Trump stance and in May responded strongly to Trump’s tweet in which he suggested looters should be shot. “We will vote you out in November,” Swift wrote. In August of last year, Swift told the Guardian: “I just wanna do everything I can for 2020. I wanna figure out exactly how I can help, what are the most effective ways to help.” By DANIEL POLITI From www.UnmincedWords.com follow & shop   #TaylorSwift #Swifties #TSwift #music #unminced #fashion #newclothes  GET YOUR MASK   TRENDING COLLECTIONS            

NASA Just Powered Up Its Mars Helicopter NASA just powered up its Ingenuity Mars helicopter for the first time — not on the Martian surface, but during its long journey through interplanetary space. NASA’s Mars 2020 mission, comprised of the Perseverance rover with the helicopter in tow, launched on July 30. Then, just over a week later, the space agency powered up the helicopter’s lithium-ion batteries and started charging them, according to a NASA statement. The helicopter charged up to 35 percent over an eight hour period. The team found that this charge state is ideal during its six month journey to Mars. “This was a big milestone, as it was our first opportunity to turn on Ingenuity and give its electronics a ‘test drive’ since we launched on July 30,” said Tim Canham, the operations lead for Mars Helicopter at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in the statement. “Since everything went by the book, we’ll perform the same activity about every two weeks to maintain an acceptable state of charge.” It’s one more step on the road to what NASA hopes will be humankind’s first flight on an alien world. “This charge activity shows we have survived launch and that so far we can handle the harsh environment of interplanetary space,” MiMi Aung, the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter project manager, added. “We have a lot more firsts to go before we can attempt the first experimental flight test on another planet, but right now we are all feeling very good about the future.” By VICTOR TANGERMANN Visit www.UnmincedWords.com for #OutOfThisWorld #giftideas #space #mars #aliens #sciencefictionfan #syfy #unminced GET YOUR MASK   TRENDING COLLECTIONS            

The latest trend in RV'ing: Getting way off the grid. (CNN) - Recreational vehicle makers often boast how their RVs and trailers can feel just like home. Besides their cleverly packaged bathrooms and kitchenettes, when you park your rig at a campground you can find something else that will make you feel you never left home: neighbors. Often lots of neighbors. Sometimes noisy ones. Just like at home. That's why a lot of campers these days are enjoying the seclusion of "boondocking," or camping away from traditional campsites. And away from all those other campers. "You drive around. You find yourself a spot, you don't have any services of any sort," said Amanda Watson who's been living in a 1998 Safari motorhome with her husband for eight years. "That's what I consider boondocking." RV'ing in general has become increasingly popular over the past few years. And that's been especially the case recently, with the coronavirus keeping people away from shared lodgings. 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Dry camping Some homeowners rent out campsites that are often just easily accessible spots on their private land. But if you want to get to places that are more remote and away from drivable asphalt or gravel roads, you'll want a rig designed for that. Compact size is also important. You don't want something that's difficult to maneuver around boulders or between trees on the way to your secluded campsite. The Opus OP2 trailer. About three years ago, California architecture student Kyunghyun Lew set out to design a camping trailer light enough to tow behind his wife's Mazda3 or almost any SUV. He designed the Polydrop trailer, now available in four different styles from about $14,000 to $20,000, all of which resemble a space pod from a 1970's science fiction movie. With air conditioning and heating, it offers a comfortable place to sleep. A fold out kitchenette is also available and Lew says he is also working on a built-in toilet. For now, campers will have to improvise. Another company, Opus -- founded in the United Kingdom but with its US headquarters in Pittsburg, California -- offers rugged folding camping trailers. Advertised as "Tough Luxury," most Opus models are designed as, essentially, a tent in low-profile metal box riding on knobby tires. They come in various sizes, some with just enough room for two to sleep or big enough for four or six. Prices start at about $20,000. The tents inflate -- they have an inflatable frame -- in a couple of minutes, according to the company. The trailers have slide out stoves for cooking and also offer refrigerators and freezers. They also have water tanks that hold enough clean water to last several days. Opus offers a hybrid model, too. For a starting price of $47,500, it's more like a traditional metal-bodied camping trailer with a cloth-walled extension that unfolds from the roof for extra space. 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One of the strangest yet most well-known court cases blaming a band for a fan’s suicide concluded 30 years ago, on Aug. 24, 1990. On trial was the British heavy metal band Judas Priest, who released the album Stained Class in 1978. That record came out several years before the group broke internationally with British Steel, yet in legal circles Stained Class remains far more significant, since it spawned the precedent-setting case Vance v. Judas Priest. After a court battle that lasted more than six weeks, the band emerged victorious. “It was crazy for us, because we were a British metal band being taken to trial in a country that we loved so dearly over an incident that we thought was preposterous,” frontman Rob Halford tells Yahoo Entertainment. “And we had to go through the motions of this monthlong trial. It was absolutely ridiculous. It really was. We love our fans. We would never put anything in our music with the intent of harming them.” Here’s the background story: On Dec. 23, 1985, after repeatedly listening to Stained Class, Sparks, Nev., residents James Vance, 20, and Raymond Belknap, 18, grabbed a 12-gauge, sawed-off shotgun and entered the nearby courtyard of the Community First Church of God to carry out a suicide pact. Belknap shot himself and died instantly; Vance was severely facially disfigured from his subsequent self-inflicted shotgun blast, but he survived. Four months later, Vance wrote his mother a letter, which read in part, “I believe that alcohol and heavy metal music, such as Judas Priest, led us or even mesmerized us into believing that the answer to life was death.” Vance’s mother immediately contacted several lawyers to see if she had a case. Since the First Amendment of the Constitution protects free speech, and would therefore render inadmissible any claims that Judas Priest’s lyrics caused Belknap and Vance’s suicidal acts, attorneys looked for a back door. They examined Stained Class forward and backward — literally. When they played the record backward they decided “Better by You, Better Than Me,” a cover of a song by the English hard rock band Spooky Tooth, contained subliminal messages, including the phase “do it,” which “mesmerized” Belknap and Vance into wanting to take their own lives. During a pretrial hearing, Justice Jerry Whitehead ruled that “non-decipherable sounds below the conscious threshold of awareness” are not protected by the First Amendment. Almost five years after the tragedy, the members of Judas Priest were subpoenaed to appear for a hearing in Washoe County Court House in Reno, Nev. “As we got off the tour bus, we were told that we were going to be subpoenaed by the local police department and that we didn’t have to say anything,” recalls Halford. “We just had to take the envelope that was handed to each of us and carry on walking into the gig. We walked in single-file and the sheriff came up and said to each of us, ‘You’re served.’ That’s when the official legal process kicked in.” Vance’s mother, Phyllis, sued the band and CBS Records for $6.2 million. Her suit alleged that the backward “messages” in “Better by You, Better Than Me” were responsible for her son and Belknap’s actions, and that the record company shared the blame, since Stained Class was a “defective product” that attacked the listener’s subconscious and compelled them to commit acts against their will. Before the trial, Judas Priest insisted that there were no subliminal messages on the song, but Phyllis Vance refused to drop the case. With the court date pending, Judas Priest were given an option of having the trial heard by a jury or a single judge and opted for the latter. On July 6, the case began and Judas Priest entered the Nevada courtroom. Originally, James Vance was scheduled to take the stand against one of his favorite bands. However, on Nov. 29, 1988, he died from a methadone overdose during a stay at the psychiatric unit of the Washoe Medical Center. Still, the prosecution felt it had enough evidence to win the case. Judas Priest thought the whole experience was surreal and Kafkaesque. “It was just like being in a movie,” Halford says. “It didn’t seem real. The opening accusations by the prosecution started off with some guy going, ‘Your honor, the whole point of this is to receive justice and we will be screaming for vengeance and standing by the sad wings of destiny as we will ram it down.’ We just looked at each other going, ‘Oh my God, the prosecution is starting their accusations using our album titles in their argument!’ We were just stunned.” To win the case, the prosecution would have had to prove that an inaudible message was willfully hidden in the recording, that the message was subliminal, and that it clearly caused Vance and Belknap to shoot themselves. During the case, Vance’s attorneys relied on expert witnesses in the field of subliminal persuasion, including researcher Howard Shevrin and author Dr. Wilson Key. Some who were present felt that Key, who wrote four books about subliminal advertising, damaged his credibility by stating in his opening argument that subliminal messages could be found “on Ritz crackers, the Sistine Chapel, Sears catalogues, and the NBC evening news.” The case became stranger as it progressed. Members of Priest have said that between sessions some of the lawyers asked the members of the band for autographs to give to friends and family members. In addition, while Halford was on the stand, he was asked to sing an a cappella version of “Better by You, Better Than Me,” as performed on the album. The expert witness for the defense was Anthony Pellicano, who had previously analyzed the Watergate tapes and the video of the Kennedy assassination. Pellicano testified that the backward passage that sounds like the phrase “do it” was a fluke caused by the combination of Halford exhaling after a vocal line, coupled with the noise of an effects-laden guitar. Halford says the turning point in the case came when the he took the stand and played various backward passages from Stained Class that the band members scrutinized, using their imaginations in an effort to detect anything that sounded like a sentence. After finding a handful, including, “I-I-I asked her for a peppermint/I-I-I asked for her to get one,” “Hey ma, my chair’s broken,” and “Help me keep a job,” they played them for the judge, advising him what to listen for before they played the backward passages. “We wanted to prove to the judge that these sounds and ideas can be manufactured in the mind more than anything else,” Halford says. “If you can drop a seed of what something might be, then you can convince your brain that that’s exactly the sound or the phrase that you’re listening to. And as we played those passages back, you could see the judge’s mannerism change on the spot. He realized that the phrase [‘do it’] was there as a trick of the mind more than anything else. And I think he realized you can take anything from anybody and play it backward and create these imaginary phrases and sentences. Everything seemed to change that day.” In the end, Judge Whitehall ruled that Vance and Belknap were predisposed toward self-destructive behavior long before they heard Stained Class, and that even if the album contained backward masking, there wasn’t enough evidence to prove that the messages in and of themselves were enough to cause the young adults to consider suicide. “The scientific research presented does not establish that subliminal stimuli, even if perceived, may precipitate conduct of this magnitude,” Whitehead said. “The strongest evidence presented at the trial showed [that subliminal messages would cause] no behavioral effects [on an individual] other than anxiety, distress, or tension.” Judas Priest won the case, but the victory wasn’t as overwhelming as defenders of the First Amendment might have hoped. Judge Whitehead may have ruled that Judas Priest and CBS Records played no role in the suicide pact between Vance and Belknap, but he stated that the Stained Class contained subliminal messages, even if the messages were mere audio anomalies. In addition, it cost the band approximately $250,000 in legal costs and the judge ordered CBS to pay $40,000 to the prosecution, since the label did not provide master tapes of Stained Class to Vance’s lawyers. In 1992, director David Van Taylor released Dream Deceivers, a documentary about the story of Vance and Belknap and the lawsuit that followed, which features interviews conducted with Vance before his death. “Going to court is still a strong memory, because at the heart of it for us was a great sadness that these young guys who were hardcore Priest and metal fans had lost their lives through a combination of drugs and alcohol,” Halford says. “And we’ll have to live with that for our whole lives. But the state of mind that they were in had nothing to do with Priest and nothing to do with the music. They were in an unfortunate state mentally at the time that they did what they did. “If you look through the history of these situations, whether it’s us, Ozzy Osbourne, Randy Blythe [of Lamb of God], or any of the other artists that have been taken to court in the past with these crazy accusations that we are somehow responsible for these incidents, not one has been thoroughly convinced or proven,” Halford continues. “There are always these mitigating circumstances that lead to these kinds of tragedies, but there are people that continue to blame metal music, which is really quite sad, because I’ve always felt that our music helps people escape the difficulties in their lives.” If you or someone you know needs help, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255). 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