i suppose, to the outsider, we might seem a little unorthodox, but what does this outsider know anyway? who is he to judge us? the whole notion of the outsider. i mean, it s a strand that goes through most sitcoms, i think. you took tongue right out of my mouth. outsiders help us relate as an audience. what are you some kind of nerd? i m not some kind of nerd, i am the king of nerds. [ laughs ] they re seeing everything with fresh eyes. you rang? that dynamic is pretty awesome, it s special. that confidence really made people feel like they could be okay to be whoever they are. did i do that? and i think, if i believe in who i am and own it, i can still be cool. hello? anybody in there? fly, be free! the absolute essence of a successful sitcom is one word, and that is emotion. we abolished emotions on ork a billion bleams ago. they took a vote, and everyone said all in favor? eh. we have a great love for these alien characters who were st
Came on. just had so much energy, so magnetic. people loved the character, and thus mork & mindy was born. uh, how do you say thank you in your language? we spit. [ laughter ] the mork character was he was just sort of a misfit failure on his planet. they just sent him to earth and said, you go study that. you expect me to eat this slop? mindy wasn t all that complex. what are you doing? i m putting your buns in orbit, that s what i m doing. what is wrong with you? i was the best-paid actress in hollywood for going, oh, mork, what did you do? early sensor reading says anxiety, depression, and state of de-funk. what seems to be the matter? oh, i m just disappointed in the mail. ah, then let me teach you something. you see it s common throughout the universe for the female of the species to be disappointed in the male. [ laughter ] by the late 70s, when mork & mindy became a huge success, the producers of that show decided, you know, why don t we ma
China, by the late 70s, was an exhausted, i mpoverishedimpover isolated country by the regime whose red china had caused any global relevance. this couple s chinese parents were among the poorest people in the world with fewest options. then came hua guofeng. they had resulted in what the economist jeffrey sachs has called the most successful story in world history. china s economy grew by 10% a year. and the gdp capital has jumped more than 25-fold. with this came a new chinese society, much more open, more
duran duran have just released their 15th album called future past. it commemorates their decades-long career since their debut album in 1981. this song, anniversary, is basically a happy birthday to themselves. the group started work on the latest album in 2018 after some pandemic-related difficulties. they finally released it this week. we would never have expected to be still making music together after all this time. i mean, you know, we were just kids. you know, we came together in punk rock, you know, the late 70s where nobody was thinking long term. i think as time has passed and we ve grown into each other, we re perfectly matched for each other. we ve grown together as artists. formed in 1978, duran duran rose to fame with hits such as girls on film and rio.
Preference. things were getting better and better and there was no stopping the march forward. alongside the push for gay rights came a successful effort to remove homosexuality from the american psychiatric association s list of mental disorders. one of the most important things to come out of the soma riots was an energetic movement within the scientific and particularly psychiatric communities to have homosexuality removed from the dsm in 1973. overnight, millions of lgbtq people were cured of their mental illness. but it took homosexuality from the realm of the medical establishment into the realm of opinion. and sin. jesus loves me by the late 70s, the growing march for gay acceptance and