Although Larry David had impersonated Senator Bernie Sanders brilliantly multiple times on “Saturday Night Live,” the men’s resemblance was written off as nothing but a joke. After all, they’re both older Jewish men from New York. Of course they’re similar.
On Tuesday night’s premiere of PBS’ “Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.” though, they discovered they have far more in common than just looks. After running a DNA test on the two, host Gates revealed that they share significantly long sequences of identical DNA. In short, they’re related.
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“What the hell?!” David said upon learning the news. “That is really funny. That is amazing! Alright. Cousin Bernie.”
In a separate interview, Sanders had a similarly delighted but stunned reaction. “You’re kidding. That is unbelievable.
On Tuesday night’s premiere of PBS’ “Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.” though, they discovered they have far more in common than just looks. After running a DNA test on the two, host Gates revealed that they share significantly long sequences of identical DNA. In short, they’re related.
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“What the hell?!” David said upon learning the news. “That is really funny. That is amazing! Alright. Cousin Bernie.”
In a separate interview, Sanders had a similarly delighted but stunned reaction. “You’re kidding. That is unbelievable.
- 10/4/2017
- by Hanh Nguyen
- Indiewire
Animation director on the Beatles film Yellow Submarine
The animation director Jack Stokes, who has died aged 92, had an energetic career that lasted more than 50 years, of which the highlight was his work on the Beatles' groundbreaking animated feature film Yellow Submarine (1968).
Jack's connection with the Fab Four was first established in 1965, when the London animation studio Tvc was commissioned to produce an animated television series The Beatles. It was a great ratings success in the Us, although it was never shown in the UK. Made to the typical standards of TV cartoons at that time, it showed no hint of what was to come with the feature film.
He was contacted by the Beatles again to do the animated titles and inserts on their Magical Mystery Tour film, which aired on the BBC on Boxing Day 1967. The following year came Yellow Submarine: there was barely a script to work from,...
The animation director Jack Stokes, who has died aged 92, had an energetic career that lasted more than 50 years, of which the highlight was his work on the Beatles' groundbreaking animated feature film Yellow Submarine (1968).
Jack's connection with the Fab Four was first established in 1965, when the London animation studio Tvc was commissioned to produce an animated television series The Beatles. It was a great ratings success in the Us, although it was never shown in the UK. Made to the typical standards of TV cartoons at that time, it showed no hint of what was to come with the feature film.
He was contacted by the Beatles again to do the animated titles and inserts on their Magical Mystery Tour film, which aired on the BBC on Boxing Day 1967. The following year came Yellow Submarine: there was barely a script to work from,...
- 3/28/2013
- by Roger Mainwood
- The Guardian - Film News
Today’s the day we celebrate Charles Montgomery Plantagenet Schickelgruber Burns, the owner and manager of the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant. Without this ancient billionaire, the Simpson family would simply be poor, instead of part of the working poor. So feel free to say “exxxcellent” all day long. And don’t forget to release the hounds.
Other people may tell you that this is actually the birthday of poet Robert Burns, and that you should celebrate by playing the bagpipes, eating haggis, drinking scotch, reciting poetry in a thick Scottish accent, and closing out the evening by singing Auld Lang Syne. But that just sounds frickin’ weird.
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Originally published on ComicMix as Happy Burns Day!
Other people may tell you that this is actually the birthday of poet Robert Burns, and that you should celebrate by playing the bagpipes, eating haggis, drinking scotch, reciting poetry in a thick Scottish accent, and closing out the evening by singing Auld Lang Syne. But that just sounds frickin’ weird.
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Originally published on ComicMix as Happy Burns Day!
- 1/25/2013
- by Glenn Hauman
- Comicmix.com
Everett Robert Burns (1759-1796), national poet of Scotland
Take the heart, liver and lungs of a sheep, mince onion, add oatmeal, spices, salt and stock, encase in animal stomach and simmer for three hours. That’s the recipe for haggis, the staple food of Burns Night Supper, better known as the annual celebratory tribute to the Scottish poet Robert Burns (1759-1796). The feast takes place on January 25, the bard’s birthday. Traditionally, the evening was reserved for men but as times modernized,...
Take the heart, liver and lungs of a sheep, mince onion, add oatmeal, spices, salt and stock, encase in animal stomach and simmer for three hours. That’s the recipe for haggis, the staple food of Burns Night Supper, better known as the annual celebratory tribute to the Scottish poet Robert Burns (1759-1796). The feast takes place on January 25, the bard’s birthday. Traditionally, the evening was reserved for men but as times modernized,...
- 1/26/2012
- by Alexandra Cheney
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
The Oscars didn't sub Neds – the film wasn't eligible for the awards. But Bafta is another matter. And it's not the first time Bafta has turned its nose up at a Scottish film
Most of us accept we're as likely to be surprised by the Bafta shortlist as Mel Gibson is to scoop a Nobel peace prize, but the establishment-toadying myopia displayed by this year's nominations list is unusually alarming. The exclusion of Peter Mullan's remarkable Neds, hailed by this paper's Danny Leigh on last week's Film 2011 as "film of the year" and already the winner of numerous overseas awards, isn't just infuriating, it's proof that Bafta is about as in touch with modern working-class Britain as David Cameron's Krug-slugging cabinet.
It's ironic that only a week after interloper Ricky Gervais shook up the American film industry with some ego-pricking home truths at the Globes, Bafta still behaves...
Most of us accept we're as likely to be surprised by the Bafta shortlist as Mel Gibson is to scoop a Nobel peace prize, but the establishment-toadying myopia displayed by this year's nominations list is unusually alarming. The exclusion of Peter Mullan's remarkable Neds, hailed by this paper's Danny Leigh on last week's Film 2011 as "film of the year" and already the winner of numerous overseas awards, isn't just infuriating, it's proof that Bafta is about as in touch with modern working-class Britain as David Cameron's Krug-slugging cabinet.
It's ironic that only a week after interloper Ricky Gervais shook up the American film industry with some ego-pricking home truths at the Globes, Bafta still behaves...
- 1/27/2011
- by Jane Graham
- The Guardian - Film News
If you're out and about at midnight on New Year's Eve, chances are you'll hear people ringing in 2011 by singing -- wistfully, loudly, drunkenly -- "Auld Lang Syne."
But although you may not know it from the guys at the end of the bar slurring their way through the song, "Auld Lang Syne" actually has lyrics, and they actually mean something. The words were written by the great Scottish poet Robert Burns in the 18th century and were later set to the tune of a traditional folk song. "Auld lang syne" loosely translates to "old times' sake," so it's sung at the end of the year as a remembrance of the things that have transpired in the past 365 days.
Here are the lyrics to the first verse and chorus. There are other verses, but most Dec. 31 renditions stop there. Read along as Mariah Carey gives you her rendition (complete with...
But although you may not know it from the guys at the end of the bar slurring their way through the song, "Auld Lang Syne" actually has lyrics, and they actually mean something. The words were written by the great Scottish poet Robert Burns in the 18th century and were later set to the tune of a traditional folk song. "Auld lang syne" loosely translates to "old times' sake," so it's sung at the end of the year as a remembrance of the things that have transpired in the past 365 days.
Here are the lyrics to the first verse and chorus. There are other verses, but most Dec. 31 renditions stop there. Read along as Mariah Carey gives you her rendition (complete with...
- 12/31/2010
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
If you're like us, you're going to go to a New Year's Eve party tonight, and as soon as the calendar turns over, somebody will inevitably start slurring the tune "Auld Lang Syne" because they thought they heard it in a movie or something (perhaps "200 Cigarettes" was on TV earlier in the day). But people very rarely nail down the correct melody, nor do they know all of the words. And what does "Auld Lang Syne" even mean?
Glad you asked! It began as a poem written by Scotland's Robert Burns (pictured!) in 1788 (with a few of the lyrics cribbed from a James Watson ballad from 1711 called "Old Long Syne"). The tune is a traditional Scottish folk song, and it quickly gained popularity in the U.K. as a song sung at the end of the year as well as at funerals. As Brits emigrated to other parts of the globe,...
Glad you asked! It began as a poem written by Scotland's Robert Burns (pictured!) in 1788 (with a few of the lyrics cribbed from a James Watson ballad from 1711 called "Old Long Syne"). The tune is a traditional Scottish folk song, and it quickly gained popularity in the U.K. as a song sung at the end of the year as well as at funerals. As Brits emigrated to other parts of the globe,...
- 12/31/2009
- by Kyle Anderson
- MTV Newsroom
When critic David Ehrenstein told actor Sir Ian McKellen that there existed a photograph of actor Roddy McDowell (How Green was My Valley, Planet of the Apes) performing oral sex upon himself, the great stage and screen star's response was immediate: "Put it up on the internet!" he boomed, in the voice that breathed life in to Gandalf the Grey.
Alas, or not, the image under discussion still apparently lacks a public forum, and is as elusive as McDowell's sole film as director, Tam Lin a.k.a. The Ballad of Tam-Lin a.k.a. The Devil's Widow, starring Ava Gardner.
1970, of course, was the one year in the history of western civilization when the ability to self-fellate was alone enough to guarantee a directing career, and so it was that McDowell found himself in Scotland, filming Ian McShane (sweary Al Swearingen from TV's Deadwood) running screaming through a swamp on Lsd.
Alas, or not, the image under discussion still apparently lacks a public forum, and is as elusive as McDowell's sole film as director, Tam Lin a.k.a. The Ballad of Tam-Lin a.k.a. The Devil's Widow, starring Ava Gardner.
1970, of course, was the one year in the history of western civilization when the ability to self-fellate was alone enough to guarantee a directing career, and so it was that McDowell found himself in Scotland, filming Ian McShane (sweary Al Swearingen from TV's Deadwood) running screaming through a swamp on Lsd.
- 11/20/2009
- MUBI
Poor Scotland -- it seems only if you have Mel Gibson or Liam Neeson in a kilt can you get one of your native heroes onscreen. Not that Gerard Butler hasn't tried. He's long cherished plans of starring in a biopic of Scottish poet Robert Burns. The problem has always been one of financing -- even after 300, Butler wasn't able to convince anyone to fund the film, apparently due to a combination of no one outside of Scotland remembering or caring who Robert Burns was, and no one quite knowing who this "Gerard Butler guy" was. (I imagine Scottish heroes are probably easier to market to overseas audiences if they're wielding massive claymores instead of pens.)
That may soon change. According to The Times, Butler hopes to get his chance in 2009. Vadim Jean is attached to direct, and James Cosmo is set to produce. (Presumably, Butler might as well since...
That may soon change. According to The Times, Butler hopes to get his chance in 2009. Vadim Jean is attached to direct, and James Cosmo is set to produce. (Presumably, Butler might as well since...
- 1/26/2009
- by Elisabeth Rappe
- Cinematical
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