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...Yeah Inc., the one-man corporation he formed to finance Sweetback, is a busy business: there is the film and the sound-track album. A paperback of the movie is already "making some good bread." T shirts, sweatshirts and nighties announce I AM A SWEETBACK. This fall his play Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death opens on Broadway. Coming up: Sweetback douche powder. Boasts Van Peebles: "You are looking at a black conglomerate." But he still considers himself first and foremost a film maker-and not necessarily for blacks only. "If films are good," he says...
There are only a few total dissenters to the classic concept, and one is Giorgio di Sant'Angelo, who is something of a constant rebel. "Fashion people think it will save the dress business, but it ain't gonna save it," he says. "Who wants an old-fashioned dress? Women won't buy the same dress they bought in the '40s and pay three times as much for it." As his alternative, Sant'Angelo is offering bright colors in an Oriental ambience. "My new clothes have a feeling of the Chinese," he says. "But modern...
Whisky, you ain't no good. I declare I'm through with you. You done taken all of my money, Now you done taken my woman...
...fences eight feet high. At the approach of humans. Rocky races down to the other end of the pen, perks his ears, then lays them back and gallops in mad circles. Only the pen is too small, the turning angle too sharp, and Rocky keeps falling on his side. "Ain't he sorry?" laughs Mustanger Bill Victor. "He ain't hardly a horse...
Indeed, there are some who worry whether jazz can (or should) be taught at all. "If you have to ask what jazz is," Louis Armstrong once observed, "you ain't got it." His view is both right on and slightly wrongheaded. Schooling alone can no more produce a creative jazz player than a novelist, poet or even an All-America fullback. Yet the nurturing of naturally gifted kids is a proud and longstanding challenge to the American academic scene. Any young jazz player can certainly stand some formal polishing of his delayed triplets, skimmed notes, quarter-tone vibratos...