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RunDNA t1_jckh5mf wrote

Reply to TIL about Jim Gordon, a drummer that worked with George Harrison, and shared a songwriting credit for "Layla", with Eric Clapton, but suffered from various mental health issues and spent 40 years in jail for the murder of his mother. by jdward01

He played on two songs on Pet Sounds too: he was the drummer on I'm Waiting for the Day and a percussionist on God Only Knows.

Not the first murderer with a Beach Boys connection.

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RunDNA t1_j9ojbi0 wrote

Reply to TIL that in 1554 Elizabeth Crofts hid in a wall on Aldersgate Street, where she pretended to be a heavenly voice. Reputedly 17,000 people came to listen to her give out anti-Catholic propaganda. by Kurma-the-Turtle

More info from the Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900:

> CROFTS or CROFT, ELIZABETH (fl. 1554), was the chief actor in an eccentric imposture, contrived early in 1554, on the part of the protestants to excite an open demonstration in London against the projected marriage of Queen Mary with Philip of Spain.

> The girl, who was only about eighteen years old, appears to have concealed herself within a wide crevice in the thick wall of a house in Aldersgate Street. The wall faced the street, and by means of a whistle or trumpet her voice assumed so strange a sound as to arrest the attention of all passers-by. Large crowds constantly assembled, and confederates scattered among the people interpreted her words as divinely inspired denunciations of King Philip, Queen Mary, and the Roman catholic religion.

> The device deceived the Londoners for many months, and the mysterious voice was variously named "the white bird," "the byrde that spoke in the wall," and "the spirit in the wall."

> Before July 1554 the imposture was discovered; Elizabeth was sent to Newgate and afterwards to a prison in Bread Street, and there confessed the truth. She said that one Drake, Sir Anthony Knyvett's servant, had given her the whistle, and that her confederates included a player, a weaver of Redcross Street, and a clergyman...

> On Sunday 15 July she was set upon a scaffold by St. Paul's Cross while John Wymunsly, archdeacon of Middlesex, read her confession. "After her confession read she kneeled downe and asked God forgivenes and the Queen's Maiestie, desyringe the people to praye for her and to beware of heresies. The sermon done she went to prison agayne in Bred Street. … And after Dr. Scorye resorted to her divers tymes to examin her; and after this she was released" (Wriiothesley, Chronicle, ii. 118).

> On 18 July one of her accomplices stood in the pillory "with a paper and a scripter on his hed." No other proceedings appear to have been taken, although seven persons were said to have taken part in the foolish business.

> The imposture resembles that contrived with more effect twenty-two years earlier by Elizabeth Barton [q. v.], the maid of Kent.

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RunDNA t1_j2eirx8 wrote

Reply to comment by tuna1694 in Five Non-2022 Movies by tuna1694

Yes, I watched that afterwards and enjoyed it too. It was an excellently cast film. Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan are great, of course, but it was also one of those films where every member of the supporting cast was memorable. I didn't expect to see David Chappelle show up.

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RunDNA t1_j2egjzd wrote

Reply to Five Non-2022 Movies by tuna1694

The big one for me was The Shop Around the Corner from 1940. For some weird reason I'd barely ever heard of it, even though I've since learned that it's quite famous. Every scene was so damn delightful.

I've always admired Jimmy Stewart, but I'd never seen Margaret Sullavan before and she was a revelation. The two had excellent chemistry.

It was one of those films that I will watch every year for the rest of my life.

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