Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Entertainment/2014 October 8

= October 8 =

French with a German accent
do you know any movies where German people try to speak French, or are able to provide your own recordings? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.231.227.91 (talk) 02:20, 8 October 2014 (UTC)


 * Here is an American actor playing a German performer doing English, French and German. No idea how good it is, but I liked it. HiLo48 (talk) 07:22, 8 October 2014 (UTC)
 * His French does strike me as German-accented – but I'm American. — Reminds me of an older scene where a Hungarian(?) Jew played a Japanese impersonating a German, speaking English in Egypt. —Tamfang (talk) 08:37, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

glaring omission in entry "Free Jazz" ......the composear musician Bill Dixon
I don't have computer skills to edit an entry I was looking at the entry for Free Jazz and Bill Dixon was not mentioned. --162.233.201.36 (talk) 05:37, 8 October 2014 (UTC)
 * He does actually get a brief mention but the only reason he isn't featured more prominently in the article is that no-one has added him yet. Personally I'm a bit skeptical of the claim made in Bill Dixon that he was "one of the seminal figures in the free jazz movement", he seems like a marginal figure to me. Anyway, the best place to raise this issue is not here but on the article's talk page. --Viennese Waltz 07:48, 8 October 2014 (UTC)
 * I took the liberty of posting a note on the talk page, but noticed that the average time from query to response is about 4 years. — 71.20.250.51 (talk) 08:28, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

Martial arts TV series
I recall watching a programme in the early 00s probably, featuring an English martial arts practitioner, who went around the world meeting Masters of various disciplines, including some really quite niche ones. I think one of these might have been the only one left in the world. Can't remember much detail. Probably on Channel 4 or Channel 5 late at night. The host may have been ever so slightly tubby and unlikely looking as a martial arts expert, but that might be my memory playing tricks. Can anyone point me in the right direction? --Dweller (talk) 10:48, 8 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Mind, Body & Kick Ass Moves --Viennese Waltz 12:08, 8 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Spot on, thank you. --Dweller (talk) 13:39, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

Neil deGrasse Tyson's Cosmos and treating Michael Faraday as a "Fundamentalist Christian"?
I was watching Neil deGrasse Tyson's Cosmos episode about Michael Faraday, and one verse caught my attention, which was the verse about Michael Faraday's upbringing in a "Fundamentalist Christian" household. I think that's a factual inaccuracy, as the Fundamentalist Christian movement didn't come about until the late 19th century. Wikipedia does mention that his father is part of the Glassite sect of Christianity. In what way would a Glassite sect of Christianity be considered "Fundamentalist", or in this case, pre-Fundamentalist? 71.79.234.132 (talk) 14:05, 8 October 2014 (UTC)


 * See Glasite. "Fundamentalist", as commonly used, refers to any religious movement that is absolutist in its doctrine and practice, and the Glasites seem to qualify. --Nicknack009 (talk) 14:22, 8 October 2014 (UTC)


 * At least it shouldn't be capitalized. Clarityfiend (talk) 15:49, 8 October 2014 (UTC)


 * Tyson's work has been shown to be full of fabrications, from his first episode of the new Cosmos where he champions the mystic Giordano Bruno as a scientist to his more recent total untruths about the context and quotes of George W Bush. He should be treated as a floating head, not a reliable source, certainly not as a scientist or any other sort of credentialed academic. μηδείς (talk) 21:18, 8 October 2014 (UTC)


 * "Tyson's work"? - none of the text in Cosmos is written by him. He is credited as a presenter. All the episodes were written by Ann Druyan and Steven Soter Trieste (talk) 10:56, 11 October 2014 (UTC)