The Daily Populous

Sunday May 28th, 2017 night edition

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Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) may not have been where he is today with the help of some loyal pirates (and a particular Navy captain).

Davenport says the filming crew was so huge for the second and third installments he recalls the craft services chef telling him that around $2 million alone was used for snacks.

The point is that was just a snack line item.”.

“There was a legendary speech the line producer, Eric McLeod, made at the end of the third movie about ‘Well we’ve finished up shooting.

"Stuff like that started to add up like you would have driven around the earth 120 times with all the fuel used.

It resonates with you when you understand the magnitude of it…Most people don’t get an opportunity like that in the film business.

“Every fan for a year or two who would come get an autograph would bring me a jar of mayonnaise. »

TIL Peggy Bundy, played by Katey Sagal, whose real life pregnancy was written into season 6. When the actress suffered a miscarriage, the pregnancy storyline was written as a dream of Al's, as it was felt it would be too traumatic for Katey Sagal to work with an infant.

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Peggy Bundy was played by actress Katey Sagal, whose real life pregnancy had been written into the series during season 6.

Her parents refer to her by her given name, Margaret, while she is known to everyone else as Peggy or Peg.

In "Breaking Up Is Easy To Do Part 1", she admits that her childhood dream was to be a ballerina. »

Tech giants Elon Musk, Sam Altman push universal basic income concept

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It’s called universal basic income, a radical concept that’s picking up steam as a way to provide all Americans with a minimum level of economic security.

But prominent tech leaders from Tesla CEO Elon Musk to Sam Altman, president of Mountain View-based startup accelerator Y Combinator, are proponents.

Altman is personally funding a basic income experiment in Oakland as the concept gains momentum in the Bay Area. »