Tony Award Winner and Oscar nominee, Mark Medoff paid us a visit this morning to talk about the upcoming White Sands International Film Festival (www.wsiff.com)
The festival runs from April 15-18th at the Allen Theaters Cineport 10 in Las Cruces. Writer/Director Medoff (Children of a Lesser God, Back Red Ryder and the soon to be released, Refuge starring Linda Hamilton) is a member of the Screen Writers Guild, Directors’ Guild, Screen Actors’ Guild and Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science and as such cast votes for all the various major award ceremonies. For best picture he voted for Hurt Locker until the Oscars when he decided to change his vote for Precious.
Today is National Mom & Pop Business Owners Day. Today is National Lemon Chiffon Cake Day. It’s the beginning of National Cleaning Week. Before the Easter Bunny arrives, we’ve got to take out the dust bunnies!
The 101 number one song of the day was written by the same guys that wrote the song it replaced at the top of the charts. That happened twice before but never for two completely unrelated artists…even the whole sound was different. The writers were Kenny Nolan and Bob Crewe who was a onetime member and longtime producer for Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. In fact the song that was knocked out of the top spot by today’s featured song was “My Eyes Adored You” by Frankie Valli. Today’s featured song was recorded by a group that had been around since the early sixties but with only limited success. Now with a new name – which they took from their lead singer – they finally scored a huge hit. Unfortunately, it would also be their last although the lead singer is still very active to this day. On March 29, 1975 this song reached number one – “Lady Marmalade” Labelle (Patti LaBelle)
A man has been charged with public drunkenness after he tried to give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to roadkill. Police arrested Donald Wolfe, 55, after witnesses reported seeing him trying to revive a long dead possum. One reported seeing Mr Wolfe kneeling before the animal and gesturing as though he were conducting a séance. Another reported seeing him give mouth to mouth resuscitation to the carcass on a highway north-east of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. State police trooper Jamie Levier said the animal had been dead a while. Trooper Levier says the Brookville man was "extremely intoxicated" and "did have his mouth in the area of the animal's mouth, I guess".
A study by Ioannina University in Greece confirmed that married people are more likely to become obese than single people. Researchers say single people are more likely to keep trim to attract a mate. But once they have one, people "let themselves go." Married women are twice as likely to get fat as single women, and married men are three times as likely to get fat as single men. They exercise less and eat more, including more fattening foods in front of the TV. But married people also report less stress and anxiety and smoke less, which increases the appetite, and they are more comfortable in their lives. And on their couches
Remember all those reports that livestock was responsible for one-third of all greenhouse gas emissions. Now there’s a new study from The American Chemical Society that says that’s ridiculous. They found the true ratio is more like 3%. They think the original numbers were purposely fudged along with other global warming statistics. They’re calling this new revelation…’Cowgate’.
And finally, we dig deep in the news – so you don’t have to. Like the Australian company that did ten years of research before proudly announcing the world’s first electronic underpants. These are underpants that are able to communicate through text messaging. And while it sounds silly – it’s actually an incontinence aid for seniors in nursing homes. The underpants send a text message to the nursing station when a bladder or bowel accident occurs. They say the new electronic underpants will provide comfort and dignity for the elderly. -The comfort part – I get. But dignity? You have a little ‘oops’…you want your shorts telling the whole world?!?!? -Of course…I guess texting is somewhat professional. Their first underpants…a light on your hat would start blinking.
We’ll “see” you tomorrow on the radio!
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