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February 5

Academy Award Category

Why was the Academy Award for dance direction abolished in 1937 after only two years? Valetude (talk) 23:42, 4 February 2017 Valetude (talk) 00:02, 5 February 2017 (UTC)

It was awarded for 3 years (35-37). There isn't a single reason it was removed. Each year, the Academy votes to add new awards and remove old ones. Someone asked for a vote to remove the dance direction award and various members of the Academy voted to remove it. Each person likely had their own reason. At the time, it was a odd award because it wasn't given for a specific movie. It was given for a choreographer's work throughout the year. That caused a stink because everyone wanted to have a movie tied to every award. So, you can see that each of the three awards given have a choreographer's name and a movie, but it was just one of the movies the choreographer worked on during the year. It is possible that some members voted it out because it was odd. It is possible that some voted it out because they thought the day for musicals was over (it wasn't). It is possible that some voted it out because they couldn't dance. Nobody can answer for every vote. So, we can only speculate and hunt for a few very old random interviews with Academy members, which likely don't exist. 71.85.51.150 (talk) 00:18, 5 February 2017 (UTC)

This item, from three years ago, has somewhat of a theory.[1] ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 00:19, 5 February 2017 (UTC)

Open Season Scared Silly

I was watching the entitled animation movie, I would like to know the song’s name (or a “Youtube” link) that is played at the background when they all dance with the Werewolf. 103.230.106.5 (talk) 19:01, 5 February 2017 (UTC)

Do you mean this song here [2]? If so, it is: What I Like About You by The Romantics. Hope this helps. Maineartists (talk) 21:37, 5 February 2017 (UTC)

Hidden Figures and John Glenn flight

In Hidden Figures there are scenes where they are talking about Glynn's possible loose heat shield on TV. As far as I've been able to tell, the general public did not know about that possibility at the time. Is that right? Bubba73 ^{You talkin' to me?} 21:34, 5 February 2017 (UTC)

I haven't seen the movie, but I did look at some same-day coverage in newspapers.com (pay site) and didn't see any public mention of the heat shield problem. That was being discussed in the next day's papers. If the movie The Right Stuff is accurate, they were reluctant even to tell Glenn about it. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 00:58, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

Yes, I watched some of the TV coverage of Glenn's flight on YouTube, and I didn't see anything about it there, but I didn't see all of it. He suspected something from the questions they were asking, but I don't think they told him until after the retrorockets were fired. Bubba73 ^{You talkin' to me?} 02:46, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

Quote from Manned Spacecraft by Kenneth Gatland pgs 151-152 (I hope there aren't any typos!)

"Glenn described this frightening situation when I interviewed him for BBC's Ten O'Clock programme. After retro-firing at 1420 hr. EST, with the capsule some 600 miles west of Los Angeles, the first effects of re-entry became apparent some minutes later. As the capsule began to feel the effects of frictional heating suddenly there was a 'bump'. Apparently this was a steel retaining strap breaking, but at the time Glenn thought the retro-pack had jettisoned. As heating increased an orange glow appeared outside the cabin, and it quickly became apparent that something was disintegrating on the outside of the shield. Flaming chunks of debris up to 8 in. across, growing bright orange, streamed past the window.

"As Glenn believed the retro-pack had gone, he wondered if the heat shield itself might be tearing up. In fact it was the retro-pack, and happily Glenn survived to tell the tale. .... Ironically, it was later discovered that the fault had been illusionary; the heat shield was securely attached all the time. --TrogWoolley (talk) 13:26, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

However, the question was about what the public knew, not what Glenn knew. As a Toronto Public Library member I can access back issues of what was then the afternoon Toronto Daily Star as well as the morning Globe and Mail. The Star's main front-page story for February 20 begins by saying that "Astronaut John Glenn went into his third orbit at 12:56 pm today feeling 'fine' after two circuits of the world. Only one problem, that of the tilt of his capsule, had cropped up and he had corrected that with a hand control." So evidently the edition went to press during Glenn's last orbit. Since the heat-shield indication was seen early in the second orbit, it's clear that the public was not immediately informed about it.

(On the other hand, the secret was not kept for long. In the following morning's Globe, the story says: "The only factors which prevented the flight from being letter-perfect were a minor malfunction of one of his attitude control systems and what appeared to be a faulty indication of a light during re-entry.") --76.71.6.254 (talk) 22:13, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

They were just fine with reporting it to the public once he was safely back on earth. As the program progressed, it was harder to keep secrets. Apollo 13 is an obvious example, but an earlier Apollo flight (I'm thinking 10) nearly had a disaster during their test of dropping the LEM toward the moon. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 01:20, 7 February 2017 (UTC)

Yes, it was Apollo 10. And Gene Cernan said some words that went out live on TV, to the shock of some people. Bubba73 ^{You talkin' to me?} 02:22, 8 February 2017 (UTC)

I remember Walter (or whichever commentator) saying later, "He said son of a gun, or something like that." ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 04:14, 8 February 2017 (UTC)

It is 2:17 in this video. Bubba73 ^{You talkin' to me?} 04:52, 8 February 2017 (UTC)