The Oscars are known for many odd customs and bits of superstition, but American Blacks best know the Color Purple Curse. Viola Davis was upset by the veteran Meryl Streep at the Oscars, even though Davis had won the Screen Actors Guild award days earlier.
The average Joe has zip, zero, nada understanding of what the hell is going on with the economy. Don’t feel bad, many economists aren’t far behind you.
Online video producer Emergent Order and George Mason University put together a couple of rap music videos that do for economics what School House Rock did for basic math and English concepts in the 1970s.
1978. I am sixteen years old. I sit before a device developed by two men not much older than myself. I sit before one of the first personal computers in the world, my Rev 0 Apple II. One of the first 150 in production. The manual is a xeroxed copy of designer Steve Wozniak’s code and a bit of Jobs explanation of how to use it in a dime store report holder with a clear plastic cover and a copy of their printed brochure with a picture of an Apple on it and the slogan:
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Peter Falk, the actor who created the role of the brilliant detective who used his rumpled, cigar-smoking, befuddled persona to drive killers to confess their crimes on the Sunday NBC My, died Thursday, according to family sources. Born September 16, 1927, he was 83 years old. Read the rest of this entry »
Dustin Hoffman doesn’t play him in the movie. I’m not sure who could play comedian Bill Hicks and get all of his complexity. The eighties’ Lenny Bruce, he lived the requisite life of Hollywood pictures, but he didn’t have the drug-additcted burn of a Bruce, or the spectacular flame-out of an Andy Kaufman. Cancer was his mortal enemy, which is always a seat-squirmer as it can strike anyone at any time, making the audience a tad uneasy. Hicks was not your Jay Leno yock-it-up kind of comic. He was a searing satirist, a social philosopher preaching and railing at the masses in an agora with a two-drink minimum.
“American: The Bill Hicks Story” is a documentary, but a very non-traditional one.
Yes, I speak jazz heresy: Maybe it is time that the promoters of the annual April/May music festival in New Orleans fess up: Jazz may get top billing on the signage and the posters at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, but it rides the back of the bus on the fairgrounds.
There’s a reason for this too… (Shhhh…) Jazz doesn’t make the festival much money.
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