Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Entertainment/2011 October 24

= October 24 =

Megan Mullaly Webshow Where She Is A Cerebral Palsy Doctor
What is the name and link of the web show where Megan Mullaly is a doctor with Cerebral Palsy?Curb Chain (talk) 00:23, 24 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Childrens Hospital and it's a real TV show now 67.162.90.113 (talk) 04:56, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

Tuning for glissando
What determine the tuning of notes in a rapid scale/glissando? Is it the chord or the key signature? Specifically, I like to know the tuning of a glissando in A-minor. Aquitania (talk) 02:07, 24 October 2011 (UTC)


 * I've never heard of glissandi being in any specific key. If we're talking about the white notes on a piano, the only time a glissando would correspond to a scale would be one that started on C and ended on a different C, making a C major scale.  Start on any other note and you get a sequence of notes that does not correspond to any key.  If you start on A, you get A-B-C-D-E-F-G-A ..., which is not A minor (that contains G♯, not G), or A major (that is A-B-C♯-D-E-F♯-G♯-A).  --   Jack of Oz   [your turn]  07:48, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
 * A minor (that contains G♯, not G) - well, it depends what you mean by an A Minor scale. G♯ occurs in the harmonic minor scale, and in the ascending melodic minor, but the "natural minor" scale is the white-key sequence A-B-C-D-E-F-G-A. AndrewWTaylor (talk) 10:52, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Our article Glissando has more information. Thomprod (talk) 14:26, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

Orphan (film)
In the 2009 film Orphan, at 1:41:51, we see Leena Klammer (disguised as Esther Coleman) in bra without her "Esther makeup". I want to know whether this scene was done by Isabelle Fuhrman herself or by a body double. --X44toyrojso (talk) 02:45, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
 * The only double listed in the credits is a stunt double, Angelica Lisk, who is black and 42 years old. Fuhrman, as you likely already know, is a 14 y.o. white girl.  So, it wouldn't seem that the scene was done with a body double.  Dismas |(talk) 02:58, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
 * But the woman shown in the scene has well-developed figure and is hiding her face with hand. This is why I am suspecting it may be a body double. --X44toyrojso (talk) 05:50, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Body doubles aren't always listed in the credits, e.g. Shelley Michelle who famously doubled for Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman isn't credited. --Colapeninsula (talk) 08:58, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

To become a film maker
In India, how can one who has no background in film industry (also no course attended related to film making)become a film director in a short period of time - 3 to 4 years? Also by not spending much! What all should that one do in 3 to 4 years to become a film maker? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.224.149.10 (talk) 04:45, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm not an expert on the Indian film industry, but I would say: make films! You can get great results with a cheap video camera or DSLR.  Get your friends to help/act or find wannabe actors and technicians.  Post on YouTube or similar forums, enter competitions, talk (online or otherwise) to other filmmakers, publicise yourself.
 * You could be more precise as to what you want - do you want to direct big-budget studio films in India, which may have a more specific career route in, or something else? Also "not spending much" - can you afford a camera? film school? --Colapeninsula (talk) 08:54, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Your advice echoes something that Stephen Spielberg said many years ago. It worked for him. :) ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 10:06, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

Thanks. I can afford a camera, also arrange friends and upload some short films online. I wish to pursue my career in film making. I asked because I am already 27 and completed post graduate in bioscience. I hesitate to begin from first doing a full time course in a film school. So asked for other probabilities. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.224.149.10 (talk) 10:18, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Another idea is to find work on films doing entry-level menial jobs. See if you can get work as a production assistant.  You'll basically be making photocopies and getting people coffee and stuff like that, but if you work well and make good relationships and contacts with people those sorts of things can be invaluable.  If you keep at it, and work your way up the ladder you may be able to find work in jobs with more and more responsibility, which can lead to more and better contacts.  In filmmaking, as with any industry, it is more important who you know than what you know.  -- Jayron  32  14:40, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

Yes. Well said. Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.164.22.32 (talk) 19:11, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

Poem treating of female genitalia
As far as I remember, there is an English 19th century poem dealing with the richness of detail that is peculiar to female genitalia. The last verse was, according to my memory, "with such a very short and unimposing word." But Google research failed, thus I probably remember some detail wrongly here. Does anybody know the poem? --KnightMove (talk) 18:08, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Apparently early 20th century rather than 19th. You can find it quoted by Gershon Legman here (p. 106), with an attribution to A. P. Herbert. --Antiquary (talk) 20:22, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
 * There is also the late 20th Century piece, O Fishy, Fishy, Fishy, Fish. μηδείς (talk) 22:08, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks. --KnightMove (talk) 15:34, 25 October 2011 (UTC)