…………did he win/lose because of, or despite, this song? LOL! 🙂
Below is what he looked like when he beat Adam Clayton Powell.
And now:
And here’s a timeline.
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I Will (As) Happily (As I Can) Wait Two Years For “Sherlock’s” Season 4……..
…..as long as Stephen Moffat keeps the quasi-promise he makes here. 🙂
Thank You, Casey Kasem
I’ve told several people that I didn’t know what white radio was until I was in my early teens, in the early 80s. What I don’t mention was that when I did “discover” white radio, I found (? was told about?) Casey Kasem and that was it. Casey Kasem and “American Top 40” WAS radio to me.
When I decided I wanted to be a broadcaster, I started to imitate Casey Kasem. Listen to me read something today, and you’ll hear me pause before the last three words or so of a paragraph. That’s me still doing Casey Kasem.
Stop Kidding Around, Warner Bros!
The “Man of Steel” sequel has Batman, Wonder Woman AND NOW AQUAMAN? LOL! Just call it a “Justice League” movie, already! (I hope Henry Cahill is happy about the money he’s going to make!)
And, Speaking of “Star Trek” (re: Levar Burton Reading Rainbow/Kickstarter Update)……………..
………….I found this a GREAT idea! They’ll make $5 million for sure, now! (Although they were going to, anyway 🙂 )
For some reason, I’ve become obsessed recently with the LYRICS to “Star Trek: TOS.” It’s a little known fact. Here they are (and good going, whichever fan sang this 🙂 ):
Beyond
The rim of the star-light
My love
Is wand’ring in star-flight
I know
He’ll find in star-clustered reaches
Love,
Strange love a star woman teaches.
I know
His journey ends never
His star trek
Will go on forever.
But tell him
While he wanders his starry sea
Remember, remember me.
Asante Sana, Ruby Dee
In Europe And Want To See “Mumia?”
Well, here’s your chance!
A powerful film (and yes, of course I would say that! 😉 )!
Poor Rene Russo……!
Why do filmmakers keep cutting out her best scenes in these “Thor” movies?!? (Damn, didn’t she used to be a major movie star?) She basically cameoed in the first, and [SPOILER ALERT!] died in the second!
Above is her cut scene from “Thor: The Dark World,” and below is her cut scene from “Thor.”
And, being the Cap fanatic I am, of course I loved the final version of the below scene. In the one that made the movies, Chris Evans cameos as Cap!
Maya Angelou and Dave Chappelle
Wow! From 2006.
Richard Pryor and Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou is being memorialized as I write this. This video from 1977, from one of Richard Pryor’s television specials (before he got a very short-lived and controversial show), has been making the Web rounds.
A Woman Called MAYA: 1928 – 2014
[col. writ. 5/28/14] © ’14 Mumia Abu-Jamal
Maya Angelou had to be the name of a poet; for it is too perfect, too lyrical to fit any other personality.
Born on April 4, 1928 as Marguerite Johnson in St. Louis, MO., she blazed an incandescent streak across the heavens as a voice of memory, as poet, actress, author and activist. She taught generations of students as an honored professor of literature. As a young woman she struck the boards as an African dancer.
And she was a close friend and colleague of Malcolm X, working briefly as a leading member of his post-Nation of Islam grouping, the Organization of African-American Unity (OAAU).
During the early ‘60s presidency of Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana attracted activists from around the world, especially Black Americans. Maya Angelou would be among them, making Western Africa her home.
There she would meet Malcolm again, tanned dark by the African sun, goateed, and fresh from his Hajj to Mecca, appearing at her door.
The assassination of Malcolm X seemed to have marked a turning point in her life, for it seemed like the work of “crazy people”, she said.
She got a call while visiting a relative in San Francisco, and the news of Malcolm’s fate numbed her into shock.
Her brother appeared at the house, unbidden, and drove her away. As they walked the city’s Black district – then the Fillmore – the conversations being heard around them were about Malcolm – but decidedly negative: “ ‘[H]e got what he deserved,” said one; “Serves him right”, said another.
Her brother turned to her and said, “These are the people that he died for.”
She would thereafter write, mother, teach and mentor.
Her autobiography, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”, a tale of childhood betrayal, vengeance, and death, would be joined by works of poetic wonder, light and hope.
Her majestic contralto would lend Presidential Inauguration nobility if did not deserve, when she delivered “On the Pulse of the Morning”, reciting:
History, despite its wrenching pain,
Cannot be unlived, but if faced
With courage, need not be lived again. (1993)
It seemed more fitting for her own extraordinary life.
She is the mother of the brilliant novelist, Guy Johnson.
-© ‘14maj
