Skip to main content

The story of SNL's cue cards is fascinating. No, really.



#SNL, #CueCards ,

 This surprisingly interesting video goes behind the scenes at Saturday Night Live to show how crucial their cue cards are to the show. No teleprompters for them. A team of eight, led by SNL's cue card supervisor Wally Feresten, lovingly handwrites (and edits and rewrites) them for each and every episode.

(Lifehacker)
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

"Love is a combination of six ingredients: care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust". Bell Hooks

#AfricanAmerican #BellHooks #Love #Respect  #WhereWeStand  #ClassMatters  "Love is a combination of six ingredients: care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust". Bell Hooks A writer, teacher and cultural critic, bell hooks is best known for her work examining systems of domination, especially racism and patriarchy, and how they may be overcome. She has published more than twenty books, including  Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black; Killing Rage: Ending Racism , and  Where We Stand: Class Matters . hooks says that uncovering and naming the forms of oppression in our society is an extension of her lifelong curiosity about love and her desire to see love manifested. “Perhaps the most common false assumption about love is that it means we will not be challenged or changed,” she once wrote in the Buddhist magazine   Shambhala Sun . “When I write provocative social and cultural criticism that causes readers to stretch the...
Post a Comment
Read more

Natalie Cole - This Will Be (An Everlasting Love) (Video)

Ms.Natalie Cole, Autotune was not used in the recording of this song. #NatalieCole #ThisWillBe #RnB #NatKingCole #EverlastingLove   Songwriters: Chuck Jackson / Marvin Yancy  lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc Ooh Ooh Ooh Ooh Ooh ooh oh yeah Mm mm mm mm This will be An everlasting love This will be The one I've waited for This will be The first time anyone has loved me, oh-oh-oh I'm so glad He found in time And I'm so glad that He rectified my mind This will be An everlasting love for me, whoa, ho Loving you Is some kind of wonderful Because you've shown me Just how much you care You've given me the thrill of a lifetime And made me believe you've got more thrills to spare, oh This will be And everlasting love, oh, yes, it will now You've brought a lot of sunshine into my life You've filled me with happiness I never knew You gave me more joy than I ever dreamed of And no one, no one can take the place o...
Post a Comment
Read more

The Enduring Beauty of Selena Quintanilla-Perez, the Queen of Tejano

    #Selena #Tejano #SelenaQuintanillaPerez #Mexicana #Tejas By Tijana Ilich  Selena Quintanilla-Perez became known as the "Queen of Tejano Music" during her short but well-received music career performing in the genre in her home state of Texas before her tragic death at age 24 in 1995. Selena was born on April 16, 1971, in Lake Jackson, Texas, and raised in a Mexican-American family, but only spoke "kitchen Spanish," originally learning to sing her Spanish tunes phonetically but later taking intensive Spanish classes to sharpen her vocabulary and pronunciation. She released her first album, "Mi Primeras Grabaciones" with her band "Selena y Los Dinos" in 1984, but the group wasn't noticed until seven years later, in 1989, when she signed a record contract with Capitol/EMI. Growing up in Texas Selena was the youngest of three children born to Mexican-American Abraham Quintanilla and Marcella. Her father loved music and formed a band with Se...
Post a Comment
Read more

Kate Bush's "50 Words for Snow"

  #50WordsforSnow #KateBush #RunningUpThatHill From up on that hill, perhaps wearing a capelet over a flowy Victorian gown, Kate Bush has been regarded as a spirit saint of fearless individuality by a generation of musicians such as Björk and Tori Amos as well as younger mystics-in-training such as Florence Welch, Leslie Feist and Bat for Lashes. All that adoration in the ether must’ve stirred the reclusive British singer-songwriter to create not just one album this year — “Director’s Cut,” a reinterpretation of songs from “The Sensual World” and “The Red Shoes” — but also a second one, “50 Words for Snow,” an art-song cycle that veers from delicate to blustery but always with a sheen of elegance.  Bush grounds her songs in the permafrost of winter, with her piano work sounding like the first stirrings after a cold snap. “Among Angels” could be the soundtrack for plants stretching toward the new spring sun, but as much as it’s connected to the natural world, the s...
Post a Comment
Read more