Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Entertainment/2009 September 20

= September 20 =

add a new application in orkuts application dictionary
How can i add a new application in orkuts application dictionary?

Mrs John Hollins
Does anyone know who the wife of John Hollins, and the mother of Chris Hollins, is? Neither of our articles says. --TammyMoet (talk) 10:12, 20 September 2009 (UTC)

music theory
Im on a piece (arabesque by debussey)on piano in the 95th measure there is a double breve meaning the note is held for two bars while there is a run which thoughout these two bars twice crosses over this note. How is this done when the note is supposed to be held? im self taught so i have no one to ask.
 * Play the run with one hand while holding the note with the other? --TammyMoet (talk) 14:25, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Some of Debussy's work calls for a sostenuto pedal which would certainly help in this case. Sostenuto pedals are usually not found on upright pianos, however. ---Sluzzelin talk  15:46, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Hi Tammy and Sluzzelin thanks for responding so fast,when i said crosses over i meant that the run actually lands on the note twice while it is supposed to be being held down plus the run goes from left to right hand,sorry i didn't word the question too well
 * That is how I understood your question the first time. The sostenuto pedal would allow you sustain the note that "is supposed to be being held down" without actually holding it down. If you hit the sostenuto pedal while pressing the keys of the sustained notes, it will allow these and only these strings to oscillate undampened for as long as you keep the pedal down. You can hit the keys again and again: as long as the pedal is down it will have the same effect as hitting a note again and again while keeping down the regular sustaining pedal, except no other notes are affected by the sostenuto pedal.
 * This is all assuming the other notes in the runs aren't allowed to resound sustained. I'm assuming you are talking about Debussy's first of his Deux Arabesques, "Andantino con moto". The runs you refer to are actually arpeggi played while a single note is sustained for one or two bars. It is perfectly acceptable to play these arpeggi softly while holding down the regular sustaining pedal. That way you only have to hit depress the sustained notes once briefly (and perhaps slightly more forcefully than the pp arpeggi) and can play the runs without your fingers getting in each others way or having to keep the keys depressed. I also listened to a couple of recordings, and to me it sounded like those bars are played with the regular sustaining pedal pressed down. ---Sluzzelin talk  11:05, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

Actor in Gilda
Has anybody a name for this actor in Gilda, who seems to be very impressed by Rita? Thanks in advance for your help. --César (talk) 12:18, 20 September 2009 (UTC)




 * George Macready? --Cookatoo.ergo.ZooM (talk) 19:20, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Not Macready. I don't recognize him. Likely just an uncredited extra. Clarityfiend (talk) 21:51, 20 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Here's the trailer. Go about 21 seconds in, and she calls him "Gabe", which would be Mark Roberts (actor). The frame pictured here is at the 28 second mark of that clip. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots 23:00, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Duuh. I looked all over for photos of Roberts and the other minor credited actors and didn't think to look here. Clarityfiend (talk) 23:53, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Finding photos of the right Mark Roberts is difficult, as it's a fairly common name. The one that seems to come to the top is about some idiot streaker. The Mark Roberts that I know about is the WRAL-TV broadcaster. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots 23:57, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
 * And by the way, that's Glenn Ford with his back to us. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots 02:00, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

Name of the brunette money talks presenter
What is the name of the brunette money talks presenter? and also the blond girl? thanks
 * Which "money talks" - the film? TV?83.100.251.196 (talk) 18:31, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
 * No. The pornographic serial on the website. there she
 * The stars in that episode are Julia-James Jada Alexandria no image Carmen-Brown no image Havoc Kimberly no image any of these?83.100.251.196 (talk) 22:33, 20 September 2009 (UTC)

family estate affairs
When Barbara Hutton died in 1979, leaving $3,500 on deposit in her bank accounts, did her cousin, Dina Merrill, inherit the money? It's understood Barbara Hutton had made bequests to friends in her last will, and her remaining jewelry, furniture and other valuable items were privately sold or auctioned. (In November 1999, a single strand of 41 natural and graduated pearls was auctioned and sold by Christie's Geneva for $1,476,000. In 2006, a sing Imperial Qing Dynasty porcelain bowl was auctioned and sold by Christie's Hong Kong for the record-breaking price of $22,240,000.) Did Dina Merrill inherit all the money from the sales and auctions of her cousin's possessions?69.203.157.50 (talk) 22:46, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Why are variations of this question being asked repeatedly? 218.25.32.210 (talk) 02:58, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

I feel Dina Merrill has rights to the estate of her late cousin, Barbara Hutton. Both of their fathers were brothers. Barbara Hutton had no other living heirs since her son, Lance Reventlow was killed in a private airplane crash in 1972.69.203.157.50 (talk) 06:13, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Then retain a lawyer and take it up with them, in court. This is a REFERENCE desk, not an attorney's office, nor a judiciary.218.25.32.210 (talk) 09:10, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Stop scolding the questioner, please, just because you're not interested in answering his/her question. This question is not a repeat, it's slightly different.  Comet Tuttle (talk) 17:21, 21 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Wasn't the answer to your previous variant of this question was that she had a will and left her estate to her friends? Did you find some evidence that this wasn't correct?  Comet Tuttle (talk) 17:21, 21 September 2009 (UTC)


 * I Am Not A Lawyer. Given that, what little, unqualified familiarity I have with western legal systems makes me personally very doubtful that, in the USA, a cousin would have any legal claim on a deceased's estate that was not specified in the deceased's will, unless said cousin had been either a dependent of the deceased at the latter's death, or had been the deceased's carer before death and could convincingly show that this care had been provided in the expectation of a bequest. Neither appears to apply in this case, any such question would be entirely Dina Merrill's business, and she (or anyone representing her) would seem to be someone capable of having sought and paid for informed legal advice (apologies if you are she/they and this is not so) sometime in the 3 decades since Barbara Hutton's death.
 * Anyone with a genuine personal interest (where interest means a potential legal claim, not merely curiosity) in such a case could easily get free or cheap legal advice about such matters, and should do so rather than fishing for uncorroborated advice from anonymous strangers on the Internet.
 * (I hope this does not verge too near to giving legal advice, but if another user thinks otherwise, I would not contest deletion.) 87.81.230.195 (talk) 17:28, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

Well, given the fact Barbara Hutton, like Dina Merrill, was an only child, she lived with her cousin and her family for a time. They could've been friends. Lance Reventlow was Barbara Hutton's only child. Dina Merrill had quite a few children, two of them are now deceased. She now has some grandchildren. They could be beneficiaries of Barbara Hutton's estate. I wasn't seeking legal advice to tell the truth.69.203.157.50 (talk) 21:01, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
 * They would normally only be so if Barbara Hutton's will had so specified. Neither they, nor Dina Merrill herself, would be automatic heirs by any usual legal principle because she and they were not blood descendents of Barbara, but rather of a common ancestor two generations earlier. The only possibility that springs to mind is if Barbara Hutton had inherited any property subject to the now rare condition of fee tail (sometimes known as an entailment), which (as that linked article indicates) has been abolished in all bar 4 states of the USA. Otherwise, property claims other than some (by no means many) European noble titles, or royalty, are not traceable 'up and over' through generations preceding the deceased - I think.
 * You might get some more authoritative answers, though you would be advised to ask in more general terms (i.e. without specifying these individuals), from a specialist legal affairs blog, forum or print journal. 87.81.230.195 (talk) 22:52, 21 September 2009 (UTC)


 * If, as the original poster said, Hutton left a will, then that will would determine to whom Hutton's cash went. But suppose Hutton had not left a will. In that case, Dina Merrill might well have inherited Hutton's cash (or at least part of it). Apparently Hutton was not survived by a spouse (she was divorced), a descendant (her son died before her, and apparently he didn't have any children), a parent (her parents died long before she did), a sibling (she never had any), or a descendant of a sibling (obviously). In that case, depending on the applicable state law, the next heirs in line might be her grandparents or their descendants -- which could include a first cousin such as Dina Merrill. (This is not legal advice.) --Metropolitan90 (talk) 04:58, 26 September 2009 (UTC)