Eubie Blake was born in the 1880s & his parents lived through slavery & yet his parents taught him not to be prejudiced & not to hate all white people - unlike the modern left that promotes race warfare on a regular basis pic.twitter.com/2N9COBNlkX
Jonathan Winters drew a bunch a psychedelic pictures - one of which is a surreal bunny pic.twitter.com/Dq4kq5KGBJ
— 🎼AdagioForStrings🎻 (@adagioforstring) May 16, 2018
Jonathan Winters: [discussing the art studio located in his basement]: So when you do come out of your basement, it's a little bit of a treat.
Carson: It's like the papers have been signed and you're out!
Winters: So, you're kind of an out patient, you know? Come and go as you please. But it's a great little place for me to work. You had Dong Kingman on, an old friend of mine.
Carson: One of the fines water colorist in the world.
Winters: He's a great guy. Wonderful sense of humor.
Carson: This is for you
Winters: I'm working in inks. These are ink pens and, boy, they really give you bright colors. That's an unusual title. It's called, "Whale." [audience laughs]. "Whale with Teeth".
Carson: A very multi colored whale, also?
Winters: I have a lot of influence by the Indians, Mexicans, Aztecs, South Americans do a lot of them. You know, bright colors with cloth, and uh, with their artwork. This is called uh, this is called uh, "Bird with a Split Personality." [audience laughs].
Carson: Seems logical
Winters: Here's a religious bird standing on a religious turtle.[audience laughs and claps]
— 🎼AdagioForStrings🎻 (@adagioforstring) May 16, 2018
Winters: Here's a man who hasn't got it all together. [ audience laughs] He's dressed up for something that just isn't going to come off.
Winters: This is called "A Kitty Who isn't Paying Attention" [audience laughs]
Winters: I have two more, this is pencil, this is called "Hollywood Pool Man" [audience laughs]
Carson: There are fish
Winters: There are fish all throughout his body there. He's kind of far out and strange little face.
Carson: You're selling fairly well, aren't you? at your art show...
Winters: Fairly well....This is called "An American Easter." Peoples say. [using a high pitched mocking voice] "I don't understand. Where's the bunny and the eggs and things?" [audience laughs] But, uh, there's a lot of things going on in there. That's the great thing about surrealism is that you see what you want to see.
Here's Jonathan Winter's "American Easter" where I think the bunny is in the lefthand corner 🐇 who is being chased by Joan Crawford [no coat hanger emoji ] pic.twitter.com/TguvBjso0s
— 🎼AdagioForStrings🎻 (@adagioforstring) May 16, 2018
— 🎼AdagioForStrings🎻 (@adagioforstring) May 16, 2018
Carson: Were you influenced by [Salvador] Dali?
Winters: I have always been a great admirer of Dali.
Carson: Most people forget that he's a fine technician when he draws uh realism [I think Carson means impressionism] uh a seascape or something, it's absolutely startling.
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Winters: He's a great, great painter. Paul Klee is another guy that I've always enjoyed. And I have great respect for René Magritte, who is a Belgian painter, a surrealist, great humor, great painter.
Carson: What do you think of the price of art has become absolutely fantastic. You know, like the Vermeer that was just returned to Ireland [sic - actually it was stolen from England probably by someone from the Irish Republican Army] for $4.5 million for one painting.
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Carson is referring to this story: Janson, Jonathan. “Vermeer Thefts: 1974 - The Guitar Player.” The Golden Age of Dutch Art, www.essentialvermeer.com/fakes_thefts_school_of_delft_lost_sp/vermeer_theft_02.html#.WvzGFa6nGUk.
"On Saturday night February 23, 1974, Vermeer's Guitar Player was stolen from Kenwood House, in Hampstead, London."
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Carson: I find it hard to put that kind of a value on something.
Winters: I'd feel a little scared to own something like that.
Carson: Imagine having a $4 million painting on a wall?
Winters: I think that the thing to do would be to build a concrete room, you know, blocks about this thick [holds arms out about a yard]
Winters: And uh just put the painting up on that and visit once a month, you know, under heavy guard and just sit there, with a flashlight and look at it, you know, and then, "OK, boys, let's go upstairs." When you get up around that kind of money, boy, that's a lot of money.
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Just to round things out, another seascape, this time from Paul Klee, perhaps hunting for a multicolor whale:
Here's the entire May 8, 1974 Johnny Carson Show where he gave anti Nixon writer Jack Anderson a solid half hour to slag off Nixon and spread rumor and innuendo:
Carson then advertised Sarandon as a pro Nixon guest who was allegedly invited to balance out Anderson, so I can only presume Sarandon's publicist completely misrepresented her political point of view to Carson's producers.
Apparently @SusanSarandon pulled a bait & switch on Carson producers & told them she'd defend Nixon but slagged him off instead when she got on the air pic.twitter.com/fvraCrvOXZ
— 🎼AdagioForStrings🎻 (@adagioforstring) May 14, 2018
Johnny Carson: Now to take the [Nixon] administration side [laughs] That's not very fair. She's a lovely young actress. She's been with us before. She's played the daughter in the movie, "Joe" and Young Zelda in television's "The Last of the Belles" Will you welcome, Susan Sarandon.
[ audience claps]
Carson: I didn't mean to imply that you were politically going to get involved in any of this at all although you may have some views on what's happening.
Sarandon: I wrote him a letter.
Carson: You wrote who a letter?
Sarandon: Mr. Nixon.
✂️--------------------------------------- Notice how Sarandon did not use the honorific President Nixon. Leftists become very irate when Republicans don't use honorific titles for Democrat public servants, specifically Clooney @2:20 in linked video upset when his messiah not shown proper reverence :
✂️--------------------------------------- Carson: You really sit down and write letters? Sarandon: You have to because .... I mean, I'm sure he doesn't read them. But, uh, someone reads them. I send him telegrams. I write him more than my relatives [laughs]. Carson: May I ask you what you write? Sarandon: I just told him I didn't believe him any more, although I never did, I thought that it would sound better if he thought that I had [well, if Nixon watched Carson's show, he then knew that Sarandon was a total fraud and a liar]. Carson: I thought you were going to balance this out.
Sarandon: And then I said that I uhm that impeachment wasn't uh ...that is was a safety structure in the Constitution and certainly not a threat to the democracy [the USA is a republic and not a democracy, tho]. And that, uh, even if he was innocent [and all citizens are innocent until proven guilty in English common law societies] and had an uncanny amount of bad luck, surrounding himself with all these dishonest men, he should put his ego aside for the good of the country and resign.
Carson: Well, that certainly balances out Jack's uh...I get a strong feeling I'm going to get a call from Ron Ziegler [ Nixon's Press Secretary] right after this show is over. I don't know why. Carson: What have you been doing lately? Talk about what's happening with you. Sarandon: Oh, I've been working, and I've been robbed, and my house has been hit by lightning, and my cat died. Carson: You want to take those one at a time? We thought the country was in trouble. You got ripped off? Sarandon: Yes, I was staying at a hotel here I came out to do some... Carson: No, don't mention the hotel Sarandon: No, I won't mention the name. But they uh during the night someone came into my very room and stole a large satchel that had everything I need to live on. I was planning to move the next day into an apartment. Carson: You were in the same room when he came in? Sarandon: Yes, it was at the foot of my bed. Much to my surprise in the morning when I woke up it was gone - all of my cash, my travelers checks, my tarot cards, my kazoo, my pen knife. Everything I need. Carson: Your tarot cards? I guess Susan Sarandon and her psychic tarot cards that couldn't predict that she'd get robbed were used to predict the outcome of the 2016 POTUS election
Orson Bean delivered one of the worst "jokes" I've ever heard on the March 25, 1977 Johnny Carson "Tonight Show":
I didn't know how this "comic" could make his "joke" mocking people with substance abuse problems any worse - but he did by mocking the fact that they have a dead child #WhatIsWrongWithPeople 💁♀️ pic.twitter.com/c0NQS9a4he
Comic: They [ his children] had seen, a few years ago there was a special, a children's special called "The Littlest Angel"
Comic: Little things with wings and a halo. I thought it was pretty awful but the kids liked it. Any way, shortly after that, we took the whole family out to a restaurant, a pizza restaurant. And we're sitting there and people at the next table get up and leave and the door opens and in comes a pair of drunks. A man and a woman who have been drinking for so long that the first shot in the morning activates twenty years worth of booze. You know, they've got these funny little eyes, and red nose. And I said "oh, it's just like something out of a bad movie." And they come and they sit down and they see the children. And they immediately become maudlin.
Comic [pretending to be poor people he's mocking] "Hello, kids"
Comic: and I said [to his children] "Don't talk to them. I don't want to get them involved talking to us." So this poor old drunken couple was sitting there talking to our kids and the guy says to Max, who was six years old at the time, [imitating the old man] "We had a little boy like you but he isn't with us any more" And Max asks "Where is he?" [The old man replies] "Well, they say he's in heaven." Max says, "Is he an angel?" And tears come to their eyes and they say "Yes, I guess he is." Max says, "I think we saw him on television!"
Johnny Carson: Well, that's wonderful. The honesty of children, I mean
Comic: Kids are so up front.
Carson: The bottom line. There's no devious routes to getting to truth, is there? "We saw him on television."...
Mitzi Gaynor on March 25, 1977 Johnny Carson seems to equate acting "Hungarian" with being depressed versus being a Gipsy with being happy:
In case above link breaks:
Gaynor: No. I plotz because I'm very energetic person I have a very outgoing .. you didn't notice?
Carson: You have a high energy level
Gaynor: Yes, I do. I wear a lot of people out. Some people think I'm a big pain in the neck because I'm always so up. Like a friend of mine said, just a little while ago, "Hey, cheer down, Mitzi."
Carson: "Cheer down"? I wonder who that could have been?
Gaynore: He plays the trumpet on your show!
Carson: Don't you ever get depressed?
Gaynor: Depressed? Oh, my god. I'm a basket case sometimes.
Carson: But you always seem "hi!"
Gaynor: Oh, I wouldn't bring it to you. No, the only people I really show that side of me are my very, very, very close friends. Like, my husband takes a lot of it.
Carson: Jack?
Gaynor: Oh, does he take a lot of it. Because I have Hungarian days where, you know, the fiddle is going like you can't believe it.
Carson: Not only are you married, but he's also your manager so
Gaynor: He gets it all! He really does
Carson: So if you have a performance, you're up. And if it doesn't go the way you think you also...
Gaynor: You know, he will say it, and he has a perfect right to, "Why is it when you're with other people you're always so kind of hipsy pipsy gypsy, so full of this and that, then when everybody goes home, you go [she slumps back into chair] ahhhh" I said, "Well, you know, I don't like to bring other people down." I mean, if I'm not feeling too hot, it's not their fault.
Carson: Go out and perform
A comment on youtube noticed that Johnny seemed a bit downbeat during this interview:
One possible cause for Carson's downcast demeanor is he tried, presumably an expensive, gag earlier in the show that didn't go off. He had bussed into his studio audience the entire town of Essex, California who were not able to receive a broadcast television signal. He possibly thought he'd awe them with the delights of the big city, but they all seemed rather nonplussed and didn't appear at all interested in joining his crusade to expand NBC's broadcast signal. Carson's line of questioning to Gaynor about becoming depressed after a performance that doesn't hit it off with an audience seems to be an informal group therapy session.
Carson; What is the consensus generally on television in Essex [ California ]? You're one of the few communities, according to the paper, there about a million people around the United States who are in a similar situation, they don't get [television broadcast] reception. Do you miss it? Do you want it? Or, couldn't you care less?
Female Guest: We have a pro and a con. I don't miss it.
Carson: You don't miss it?
Female Guest: No.
Male Guest: Well, I do
Female Guest: But he does.
[ Audience laughs]
Male Guest: I miss "The Johnny Carson Show"!
[ Audience "oh.."]
Carson: Well, that's nice of you to say.
Carson [speaking to female guest]: You don't miss it all? How about the children in town? You know a lot of people use television as a baby sitter. They plop the children down there and they watch it.
Female Guest: That's why it's nice not to have television. You become baby sitters of your own children. You talk to them. I made this statement a little while ago, that when your husband's mad at you, you find out about it the same day. When you have television, some times it's a couple of weeks before it gets back to you.
[ Audience laughs]
Carson: You've got a point, there. I suppose the youngsters, they have to make their own recreation. They have to go out and find things to do. You have youngsters out there?
Male Guest: Oh, yeah. They hike and of course, they entertain themselves. The younger ones, six, seven and eight they go out and play together. Make cars out of blocks and tin cans, you know
Carson: Back to the basics
Male Guest: Yeah, they just create their own recreation, really.
Female Guest: They use their imagination which is something people with television do not.
Carson: You're absolutely right. OK, we're going to come back and talk some more. We have to do a few commercials here. You know we have to do this once and a while..to pay for the bus trip! [Audience laughs] This message from Heinz Ketchup - nothing else is quite the same.
Johnny Carson was paid by his corporate sponsors to pronounce the word "ketchup" 🍅 pic.twitter.com/XuFHylYSVt
made a cameo in PBS Masterpiece Theater "Mr. Selfridge" playing in the background of the party scene in Delphine Day's club of Season 2, Episode 1
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers also danced the Castle Maxixe in The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle, but there isn't a clip on youtube, so you'll have to download the video if you wish to enjoy their displays of Terpsichorean artistry, or put up with this kludgy recording:
However, there was a clip of Ginger Rogers dancing with Johnny Carson:
Rather odd everyone appears civil in this clip b/c Ginger slags off Carson in her autobiography "Ginger: My Story" for being so gauche as to ask her how old she was. Of course, in today's age of imdb, it's more challenging, if not well nigh impossible, for actresses to hide their true ages, as another one of Ginger Roger's nemesis, Katharine Hepburn, tried to pull off in Love Among the Ruins
The blog title, "noli insipientium iniurias pati" is Latin for "Don't let the turkeys get you down." Benjamin Franklin bookcases the blog header title for two reasons:
1) He allegedly suggested the US adopt the turkey as its official mascot
2) His discovery of electricity helped Al Gore invent the internet
Quantum Physics equation under profile picture explained here
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