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June 5 - 11, 2022 WHATS UP! T11 er, the one who married fellow thespian Arlene Martel, chose to go by a different name, Boyd Holister, for most of his career. Martel and this Palmer were both jobbing TV actors around the same time, though Martel would find more success. Her most famous role was as T'Pring, Spock's prospective bride in the second-season pre- miere of "Star Trek" in 1967. Palmer/Holister's peak came around the same time, with small parts in some of the big- gest TV dramas of the time, in- cluding "The Untouchables" in 1962, "Gunsmoke" in 1963 and an episode of "Mannix" in 1967. At that time, the pop singer Palmer was still a teenager dreaming of a music career. His success didn't really come until the mid-1980s, at which point Martel and the other Palmer's busiest years were behind them. Sadly, pop singer Palmer died young — he passed in 2003 from a sudden heart attack at 54. Mar- tel, who was 13 years his senior, died in 2014 at 78, also from a heart attack. The actor Palmer, who was older than both, died last year at 91. Q: When networks air sports events and the stadi- ums play music covered by copyright, do the networks need to pay for use during the events? Or is that covered by the owners of the stadi- ums when they get permis- sion to use the songs in the first place? A: The short answer is this music is not already covered — networks have to negotiate sep- arate deals to include these songs in their broadcasts. If you're thinking, "That's not fair — they can't control what other people are playing in the background," you're not alone. Though the networks and sports teams accept that they should pay something, they ar- gue that their lack of control means they should get a bit of a break. ESPN and music-licensing agency BMI settled a high-pro- file case in 2017 about this very issue. They were in court to ne- gotiate a blanket deal whereby ESPN could include any music published by BMI (and that's a lot of songs — BMI is the big- gest licensing agency in the U.S.) in its broadcasts. ESPN argued that BMI was asking too much money, since the music it was including was just background sound, rather than the feature of the program, while BMI counter-argued that, "ambient stadium music is a critical component of the broad- cast that allows ESPN to attract viewers by making them feel like they are sitting in the stadi- um cheering on their favorite team." The TV problem is repeating itself on new media as well. CBS Sports writer Jonathan Jones wrote a column in 2020 about the NFL's legal wran- glings with the music industry over background music in social media posts. He cited similar examples, including videos of "players mic'd up on the field before games with music play- ing in the background." That was in 2020, which means these negotiations are likely still ongoing. Have a question? Email us at questions@tvtabloid.com. Please include your name and town. Personal replies will not be provided. Advance Pest Control 2 x 2 TAKE 5 BY ADAM THOMLISON TV Media Q: I saw an episode of "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" re- cently in which someone was eating Let's brand po- tato chips. Then I saw the same brand in an episode of "Community." Is that a real chip company? I've never seen them for sale before. A: If you're not a props mas- ter on a TV show, it's unlikely anyone has ever tried to sell you Let's chips. Let's is a fake brand made by Independent Studio Services, the California-based props company behind many pre- tend TV products. (Heisler Golden Ale, consumed on such disparate shows as "Mal- colm in the Middle" and "Pris- on Break," is also an ISS prod- uct; as is Fight Milk from "It's Always Sunny in Philadel- phia.") Let's chips are perhaps ISS's most popular product, howev- er. They started as a plausible- looking brand that shows could use to get around having to get permission to use a real brand, and there was huge de- mand — they've been used in dozens of shows — but they became more than that. Let's popularity on TV led to real-world popularity — now you can buy Let's T-shirts on- line, and you can even watch an ISS staffer make a bag on the company's own TikTok feed. They became part of the joke on "Community," which got some laughs out of pointing to their obviously fake nature. See, for example, the Season 3 episode in which Leonard re- views the chips on YouTube. Q: I looked up actress Ar- lene Martel, who appeared in classic shows such as "Perry Mason" and "Star Trek," and saw that she was once married to a Robert Palmer. Is this the musician Robert Palmer? A: You might as well face it, Robert Palmer is a pretty com- mon name. For those who don't recog- nize it, I'm not trying to be rude, it's a reference to English pop singer Robert Palmer's 1985 pop smash, "Addicted to Love." But it's also true — Rob- ert Palmer is a common name. So common that the Pennsyl- vania-born actor Robert Palm- Donald Glover, Gillian Jacobs, Alison Brie and Danny Pudi in "Community" HOLLYWOOD Q&A Solution on page T23 Use the clues above and beside the grid to fill in the squares www.advancepestcontrolnwa.com Family Owned, Competitively Priced, Quality Service Since 1981 Rogers 479-636-5590 Springdale 479-756-1788 Eureka Springs 479-253-8967 PEST CONTROL TERMITE FERTILIZATION WEED CONTROL PRE-EMERGENTS