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Yahoo! Answers is a good way for me to put my needlessly broad academic background to use. So here I am! If I had to be pinned down, I'd say the performing arts and philosophy are my main water-cooler subjects.
What are the jazz standards for male singers?
1 AnswerJazz1 decade agoWhich is easier in terms of the odds, selling a book to a publisher, or selling a screenplay to a producer?
I'm talking about the statistical chances. For example, are the odds of placing a manuscript 1 in a million, while the screenplay odds are 1 in 100,000? Are they both about equal? This question is for anyone who knows those stats, knows where I can find them, and/or has a lot of submission experience in both areas.
6 AnswersBooks & Authors1 decade agoWhy do so many performing 'artists' lack talent and skill?
In the music biz, it's like the labels are looking for people who suck. 'Suck' is the new standard. For every Stevie Wonder you've got 10,000 tone-deaf models.
Same thing with film acting. For every Meryl Streep, you've got 10,000 sorry excuses for thespians.
What's going on? Is corporate America TRYING to destroy the arts, or is it somehow more profitable to do business with no-talent hacks?
13 AnswersPerforming Arts1 decade agoWhy so many typos and such bad syntax on this site?
Does anyone else get frustrated trying to find a coherent question? Jeez.
5 AnswersYahoo Answers1 decade agoThe presidential debates: did anyone actually answer a question?
I heard a lot of redirection, off-topic responses, and mud-slinging (as is typical - regardless of party), but very few relevant answers.
Are Americans intelligent enough to recognize when a question is being answered and when it's not? Or do buzzwords, rhetoric, and emotional button-pushing throw us off?
12 AnswersElections1 decade agoCan race determine moral behavior?
10 AnswersOther - Cultures & Groups1 decade agoDid President Bush's grandfather help finance Hitler during World War II?
Prescott Bush was his name. Is that for real, or a conspiracy theory? Bush is a German name, so I wondered.
7 AnswersHistory1 decade agoWho profited from the stock market crash of 1929?
In an economy, money is never really "lost" - it is only transferred. Therefore, who received all of the money that middle-class citizens "lost" during the crash?
Accurate, unsanitized takes, please.
4 AnswersHistory1 decade agoWhy do the guilty have a "right" to defense?
I thought of this when I learned that even if a lawyer knows her client to be guilty, she cannot turn in the client.
On what reasonable grounds should the agents of the legal system protect a guilty person, in any way and to any extent? Are this and the pursuit of justice not contradictory?
To clarify, the 5th Amendment is irrelevent here; I am not questioning one's right to avoid SELF-incrimination, but the mandate that other parties, specifically servants of the law (attorneys), be required to essentially aid and abet the maintenance of a lie. Yet, if witnesses do the same thing on the stand, it's called perjury.
Thoughts?
8 AnswersLaw & Ethics1 decade agoWhy do eyes in a photograph seem to follow you when you move?
Whereas, for example, mannequin eyes do not?
3 AnswersPhotography1 decade agoWhat's the most difficult language to learn?
As an American college writing tutor, I would often hear from foreign students that English was especially difficult. Any thoughts?
13 AnswersLanguages1 decade agoWill blacks vote for Obama and females vote for Clinton?
How often do people choose candidates for cosmetic reasons?
12 AnswersElections1 decade agoWhy do we say that prices "go up," instead of saying that people raise prices?
Is such passive economic language designed to hide the acting agents, e.g., "Gas prices climbed (all by themselves) to 5$ per gallon?" As opposed to saying, "Oil industrialists quadrupled gas prices?"
4 AnswersEconomics1 decade agoWhy do liberals even bother appearing on Bill O'Reilly's show?
Don't they know what he's going to do?
2 AnswersMedia & Journalism1 decade agoIs Denzel Washington a sell-out for doing "American Gangster" and "Training Day"?
Some say he's played so many positive black roles that he's "earned" the right to play a few bad ones. Others say our modern-day Sidney Poitier went slumming for a few bucks and no longer deserves the comparison. Some say it's just a movie. What do you think?
17 AnswersMovies1 decade agoWill outside screenwriters get a shot during the Hollywood writers' strike?
Since the "pros" are out of the way temporarily, do the wannabes have a window of opportunity?
5 AnswersMovies1 decade agoHow old is too old to be a rapper?
Keep in mind that a lot of today's rapper are really in their 30s, but people don't know it.
16 AnswersRap and Hip-Hop1 decade agoWhy do people like gangster rap better than positive rap?
There's Kanye and Common, yeah, but they're among the few. What's better about the negative stuff?
13 AnswersRap and Hip-Hop1 decade agoHow do you avoid losing your self-respect when you can't find a job?
I've done everything humanly possible, and I'm fairly healthy in terms of how I normally feel about myself, but it's starting to get to me now. Any tips?
12 AnswersPsychology1 decade ago