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TIDBITS® FLIES HIGH WHEELS UP!

by Patricia L. Cook

Aileron, drag, lift, thrust–all terms pilots must learn if they are to get the “wheels up” and take off, whether on a seaplane, crop duster or a jumbo jet. Let’s look to the skies!

• Orville and Wilbur Wright built the “Wright Flyer 1,” the first gas-powered airplane in the early 1900s. Orville was at the controls for the first flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, that was airborne 12 seconds and flew 121 feet (37 m) on December 17, 1903. Wilbur flew the longest flight that day for 59 seconds, covering 852 feet (260 m). • Orville and Wilbur were awarded a total of 15 hon-orary degrees from colleges and universities in Eu-rope and the United States, but neither received high school diplomas.• Charles Lindbergh won $25,000 when he com-pleted the first solo transatlantic flight in 1927. Busi-nessmen in St. Louis, Missouri, provided the finan-cial backing so he named his plane the Spirit of St. Louis. After the successful flight, he became quite a hero and was sponsored by the Daniel Guggenheim Fund on a nationwide tour. He flew the Spirit of St. Louis to 92 cities in 48 states, gave 147 speeches and rode 1,290 miles (2076 km) in parades. Lind-bergh’s famous flight was 3,600 miles (5,790 km) and lasted 33 1/2 hours.

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Born the seventh of 13 children to Italian immi-grants from Palena, Italy, Perry Como operated his own barbershop while attending high school. His first career ambition was to be the best barber in his hometown of Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. • Como, called “Mr. C” by many fans, was known for his rich baritone voice, easy-going casual style and, like “Mr. Rogers, cardigan sweaters. He once said, “I’ve done nothing that I can call exciting. I was a barber. Since then I’ve been a singer. That’s it.” Como’s demeanor was so relaxed that some thought he was too calm. One music critic wrote, “Nobody was so intensely relaxed.”• Although he was considered a “heartthrob” to women, he was a wonderful family man who mar-ried his high school sweetheart, Roselle Beline in 1933. They had three children. She died two weeks after their 65th wedding anniversary in 1998. Como lived until 2001, dying six days before his 89th birthday. Shortly before his passing he became a great-grandfather.• One of Como’s best known tunes was “And I Love you So.” Romantic ballads were his main focus, but he also had some fun and popular nov-elty hits, such as: “Pappa Loves Mambo;” “Catch a Falling Star (and put it in your pocket);” “Hubba, Hubba, Hubba;” and the great tune “Hot Diggity (dog ziggity boom).”• Como got his first big break in 1933, while visiting Cleveland, Ohio. He was hired by Freddie Carlone’s band for about $25 per week. He took the job, even though he was earning more with his barbershop at the time. From the band, he moved on to become the vocalist for the Ted Weems Or-chestra. That led to radio and then television. • From 1948 until 1963 Como hosted television shows on NBC and CBS. These were “The Ches-terfield Supper Club,” “The Perry Como Show” and “The Kraft Music Hall.” He won Emmy Awards for best variety show on television in 1954-56, 1958 and 1959. • He hosted television Christmas specials from 1948 until his final in Dublin, Ireland, in 1993. The Dublin special was also his final recording.• Christmas albums were a big seller for Como. Even today his Christmas music is popular. In De-cember 2006, five years after his death, his 1946 recording of “Jingle Bells” topped Billboard Maga-zine’s Hot Ringtones chart.• Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, Como’s hometown, honored him with a life-size statue in 1999. At the unveiling of the statue, Mayor Daniel Caruso said, “Here’s a man who met the Pope and the President and the Queen Mother and is still the same Perry Como. There is nothing flamboyant about him; he treats everyone the same.” Mr. C, as he was called locally, was unable to attend the ceremony due to illness, but four generations of his family were there. An inscription at the base says, “To this place God has brought me,” one of Como’s favorite sayings. • Over Perry Como’s 60-plus-year career he sold more than 100 million records. He has three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for radio, televi-sion and music.

MUSIC LEGEND:PERRY COMO

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“Psycho 50th Anniversary Edition” (R) -- You prob-ably could fill a library wing with all the material that’s been written about this movie, and given the many, many releases of “Psycho” on home video through the years, chances are you’ve seen most of the special features included in this version. That said, if you’re a film purist, then you’ll want this new Blu-Ray release because it’s the only video release of the movie in its original aspect ratio.

“Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl” (Unrated) -- This is the latest in the new wave of low-budget Japanese extreme schlock cinema (“Machine Girl,” “Robogeisha”), a genre that features shock-ing scenes of over-the-top gore and horror so ex-treme that it goes beyond grotesque into the realm of the ridiculous. Because this is a family-friendly column, I can’t even begin to describe how de-liciously bizarre this movie is. Trust me though, watching this movie could screw you up for life.

TV SERIES“Pee-Wee’s Playhouse” The Complete Collection“Alias Smith and Jones” The Complete Series“The Dead Zone” The Complete Series “Accidentally on Purpose” The First Season“The Bionic Woman” Season One“Shaun the Sheep” Season 1“Tales From the Darkside” Final Season “Real L Word” The First Season “Scooby Doo Where Are You” Season One“Jonathan Creek” The Specials

TOP TEN MOVIES1. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (PG-13) Michael Douglas, Shia LaBeouf2. Legends of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole (PG) animated3. The Town (R) Ben Affleck, Jon Hamm4. Easy A (PG-13) Emma Stone, Penn Badgley5. You Again (PG) Kirsten Bell, Jamie Lee Curtis6. Devil (PG-13) Chris Messina, Bojana Nova-kovic7. Resident Evil: Afterlife (R) Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter8. Alpha and Omega (PG) animated9. Takers (PG-13) Matt Dillon, Chris Brown10. Inception (PG-13) Leonardo DiCaprio, Ken Watanabe

TOP TEN VIDEO, DVD of October 2, 2010Top 10 Video Rentals1. Killers (PG-13) Ashton Kutcher2. Date Night (PG-13) Steve Carell3. The Back-up Plan (PG-13) Jennifer Lopez4. Marmaduke (PG) Owen Wilson5. Solitary Man (R) Michael Douglas6. The Last Song (PG) Miley Cyrus7. Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married Too? (PG-13) Tyler Perry8. Death At a Funeral (R) Chris Rock9. Clash of the Titans (PG-13) Sam Worthing-ton10. Furry Vengeance (PG) (Summit)

Top 10 DVD Sales1. Killers (PG-13) (Lionsgate)2. The Office: Season Six (NR) (Universal)3. Supernatural: The Complete Fifth Season (NR) (Warner)4. Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married Too? (PG-13) (Lionsgate)5. Smallville: The Complete Ninth Season (NR) (Warner)6. Marmaduke (PG) (20th Century Fox)7. Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam (NR) (Buena Vista)8. Date Night (PG-13) (20th Century Fox)9. Thomas & Friends: Misty Island Rescue (NR) (Lionsgate)10. Diary of a Wimpy Kid (PG) (20th Century Fox)

PICKS OF THE WEEK

PICKS OF THE WEEK“Predators” (R) -- Produced by, and based on a script by Robert Rodriguez (“Grindhouse,” “From Dusk Til Dawn”), “Predators” breathes new life into an embarrassingly awful fran-chise and offers up a healthy dose of cheesy good fun. A buffed-up Adrien Brody stars as the leader of a group of eight people who are mysteriously deposited on an alien planet to be hunted as sport by an alien species. Thanks to an R rating, there’s gore aplenty, but also a few laughs, a couple of shocking moments and twist ending. “Predators” isn’t a great film by any stretch of the imagination, but it’s a solid B-movie and ripping good guilty pleasure.

“Apocalypse Now Three-Disc Full Disclosure Edition” [Blu-Ray] (R) -- This collection is a must-have for fans of Francis Ford Coppola’s opus set during the Vietnam War. The three-disc collection contains “Apocalypse Now” and “Apocalypse Now Redux” in 1080p high-def and -- for the first time -- in their original aspect ratio. Included is the riveting making-of docu-mentary “Hearts of Darkness,” which contains a commentary track with Eleanor and Francis Ford Coppola. There also are tons of new spe-cial features, including interviews with Martin Sheen and John Milius, a 48-page book with behind-the-scenes photos and too many more goodies to mention.

“The Rocky Horror Picture Show 35th Anni-versary Edition” (R) -- Remastered from the original negative and featuring 7.1 audio and a picture-in-picture “Shadowcast” option that gives the illusion of the Rocky Horror theatrical experience, this anniversary release, like the young Susan Sarandon, is a really well-put-together package. Special features include a karaoke option, audio commentary, a slew of documentaries and a 24-page booklet.

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¥ It was Polish-born British novelist Joseph Con-rad who made the following sage observation: “Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men.”

¥ Contrary to popular belief, seagulls don’t really explode if they eat Alka-Seltzer. ¥ Pizza is one of the most popular foods around the world, but in other countries it doesn’t always look the way it does when you order out here in the United States. For instance, in India you’re likely to find toppings like pickled ginger, minced mutton and a kind of cottage cheese. Brazilians like green peas on their pizzas, Costa Ricans like coconut and Pakistanis favor curry. A popular piz-za in Japan has potato, bacon and mayonnaise, while eel and squid also are common toppings. ¥ If you’re in the mood to indulge yourself -- and have the means to do it -- you can vacation in the penthouse suite at Hotel Martinez in Cannes, France. At a rate of more than $35,000 per night, it’s one of the world’s most expensive hotel rooms. ¥ An electronics shop in Seattle once advertised that it was selling stereos for “299 bananas.” As it turns out, 30-some odd customers showed up to take advantage of the special -- in a literal fash-ion. They each brought -- you guessed it -- 299 actual bananas. The local zoo ended up being the beneficiary of all the extra produce. ¥ The first state in the Union to declare Christmas an official legal holiday was Alabama, and it hap-pened in 1836.***Thought for the Day: “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little cor-ner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” -- Mark Twain

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WHEELS UP! (continued):• Airliners today can fly Lindbergh’s transatlantic route from New York to Paris in fewer than seven hours. • Chuck Yeager was the first pilot to fly faster than the speed of sound—supersonic—about 768 miles per hour (1,236 km per hour) at sea level. He ac-complished the feat in a Bell X-1 jet on October 14, 1947. Yeager is a retired brigadier general with the U.S. Air Force and still flying at 87 years old. He lives in Penn Valley, California.• Seaplanes are used in more areas than you may think. Vancouver, British Columbia, has a number of seaplanes used by commuters from the outlying islands as well as by tourists. Used for taking off and landing on water, the most famous seaplanes, called “flying boats,” were the Pan American Clip-pers in the 1930s. Their four engines propelled the planes at almost 200 miles per hour (322 km/hour). Pan Am, as it was called, was the first airline to cross the Pacific, the first to offer regular com-mercial service across the North Atlantic, and the first to establish extensive routes to South America. They had a fleet of 25 “flying boats.”• The largest “flying boat” ever built was the H-4 Hercules, better known as the “Spruce Goose.” Henry Kaiser, head of a large shipbuilding compa-ny, and Howard Hughes, a well-known business-man, movie producer, aeronautical engineer and aviator, joined forces to build flying transport planes capable of moving troops and supplies across the Atlantic for World War II efforts. • The “Spruce Goose” was finished in 1947, two years too late to help the Allied forces in the war. Disappointed with the timing, Hughes (Kaiser had left the project) was determined to show that his plane was flight-worthy.• Controversy over the amount of money spent on the “goose” led to a government investigation. Hughes ordered his team to prepare the plane for tests on his arrival back from the investigation. On November 2, 1947, with newsmen and others gath-ered, he glided the “Spruce Goose” across a three-mile stretch of the Long Beach, California, harbor. On the third taxi Hughes stunned the crowd as he lifted the seaplane off the water. On the only flight it ever made, it flew for a little over a mile (1.6 km) for about one minute at an altitude of 70 feet (21 m). He showed the skeptics that the big bird could fly.

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DEAR PAW’S CORNER: I moved into a home in rural Vermont this summer and was rather terrified one morning when I walked out into my backyard and found myself face to face with a bear. I ran back in the house, and it trundled off into the woods. Later, my neigh-bors told me the bear is well-known in the area and that some residents, including my home’s former owner, used to feed it. What can I do to keep it out of my yard? -- Jessica, via e-mail

DEAR JESSICA: Bears can be a real nuisance -- although in many places it’s human encroachment that exacerbates the problem -- and when well-meaning humans feed them, they become more than a nuisance: They’re then a danger.Let the Vermont Fish & Wildlife office (http://www.vtfishandwildlife.com/) near you know about the bear. Unlike some states and urban areas, the office may not be able to come out and capture or kill the bear, but they will give you advice on how to reduce the risk of another surprise visit.Meantime, follow these steps as well:¥ Don’t leave garbage cans outdoors; store in a shed or garage and have a well-latched cover.¥ Don’t place garbage on the curb the night be-fore trash pickup.¥ Feed your pets indoors.¥ After a barbecue, clean the grill well. Store in-side if possible.¥ If you have a bird feeder, empty it or take it inside for at least four weeks.Keep in contact with your neighbors about the bear. If you or they continue to have problems, stay in contact with Vermont Fish & Wildlife. The USDA Animal Damage Control Unit is another resource (http://www.aphis.usda.gov/wildlife_dam-age/).

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