Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Entertainment/2011 March 2

= March 2 =

Wigger and its cousins
The word wigger mean a white person trying to be a black person, especially hip hop. So what about a term referring to Indian trying to be black?; Asian trying to be black?; latino trying to be black? an Arab or middle eastern trying to be black? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.53.228.223 (talk) 01:57, 2 March 2011 (UTC)


 * We have an article, wigger, but Urban Dictionary is a sort of open slang dictionary that probably has plenty of other slang (fake and real) to describe what you're looking for. Comet Tuttle (talk) 02:10, 2 March 2011 (UTC)


 * For Arabs, there's the highly offensive term sand nigger. StuRat (talk) 02:14, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
 * That's not the same thing, though, that's just a pejorative, and has nothing to do with an Arab acting black.  Corvus cornix  talk  03:42, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
 * "Chigger" is the east Asian version, according to Urban Dictionary. --Colapeninsula (talk) 09:41, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

Looking for the name of a SciFi TV series, ca. 1990-2000
Hi, I'm looking for the name of a SciFi TV series, and my google-fu is failing me.

What I remember is that the enemies were called "Banshees", though I'm not sure if that was the name of the race, the name of the spaceship, or if the race itself was a "living spaceship" like the Cylon Raiders in BSG reimagined.

There was a guy either named Draco or a member of a race called Draco, who wore some sort of metal collar (kinda in the shape of a V, and made out of one rigid piece), around his neck that suppressed his agressive nature; he would remove it for fights.

The spaceship of the good guys had a female pilot.

Also, since googling for Draco and Banshee didn't return any fitting results, I'm wondering if maybe I am mixing up two series?

Any ideas? -- 78.43.60.13 (talk) 13:36, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Space Rangers (TV series) ? Nanonic (talk) 14:06, 2 March 2011 (UTC)

Indeed! Thank you! -- 78.43.60.13 (talk) 14:20, 2 March 2011 (UTC)

Dave Brown's Motown Show
Can anyone tell me if the presenter Dave Brown has left Smooth Radio's Motown show? His Saturday evening show seems to have been taken over by someone else but their website still lists him as the presenter. 86.163.152.186 (talk) 19:35, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Simon Bates said on his show this morning that Dave Brown would be presenting the Motown show this coming Saturday evening, so my guess is that he was on holiday and hasn't left the show. TheRetroGuy (talk) 19:46, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

old baseball team--Monks called "sons of David"
while watching TV 3/1/11 PBS chan. antiques roadshow-postcards of an old baseball team that played proffessionaly but were at the same time a group of real Monks. they took vows like monks--not cutting hair, or facial hair, no romance, no red meat and they wore white robes and looked like apostles of Jesus during his lifetime (or what we think they looked like) this group of men made me very curious about finding more info on them. i cannot find anything--can you help me? Karen Maciejewski (aka: venus8i8) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Venus8i8 (talk • contribs) 20:40, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Probably House of David (commune). Clarityfiend (talk) 20:42, 2 March 2011 (UTC)

why are there two actresses called Lily James?

 * 1) http://www.lilyjamesactor.com/ older, blonde hair
 * 2) http://www.tavistockwood.com/clients/actors/james-lily/ younger, dark hair

Isn't Equity supposed to stop this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.128.101.30 (talk) 22:31, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Only if both were members of Equity, which in this case they obviously aren't. Equity has no say over names outside of its own membership. Nanonic (talk) 23:18, 2 March 2011 (UTC)


 * I think you mean either Actors' Equity Association or Equity (trade union). And as Nanonic says above, if the Lilys aren't part of the union, then the union has no say.  Dismas |(talk) 23:24, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
 * This isn't very uncommon if you look on IMDb. Actors in different countries, those who work in small roles/uncredited, etc.  IMDb lists over a dozen actors called  Paul Smith: in Australian film Storm Boy (1976); in Monster's Ball (2001); in German film Die zweite Ermordung des Hundes (1973); in Pearl (2010); in British thriller Harmony's Requiem (2010); in UK teen horror Nine Lives (2002); in Comeback (2000); in Fireflies in the Garden (2008); in Black Hills (1948); in The World Cup: A Captain's Tale (1982) (TV); in US silent short The Bargain Hunt (1928)); in Loving You (1957) aka A Paul Smith; in Aussie kids show the Henderson Kids II in 1987 aka Paul M Smith; and many more who have used that name occasionally. --09:52, 3 March 2011 (UTC)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Colapeninsula (talk • contribs)