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...security made way for the star of such recent films as Royal Tenenbaums and Bloodwork, Huston laughed as her entourage sang, “O, Angie we love you!” and other loud chants...
Fleurs de Sang, with actor/writer/director Myriam Mézières in person. The film features Mézières as a bohemian cabaret performer attempting to elevate herself and her daughter from the dregs of society. French with English subtitles. Friday, Jan. 17 at 7 p.m. Tickets $7, $5 students and seniors. Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy...
...Adults thought kids picked up an infection too. The same cultural paranoia that had parents burning horror comic books in 1954 had them calling for a TV ban on Elvis the Pelvis, and Presley was obliged to tone down his moves when, on "The Steve Allen Show," he sang "Hound Dog" in a tuxedo to an actual hound dog (in a tuxedo). In a revealing press comment in Charleston, S.C., the week before the Allen show, Elvis put his music and his performance style into cultural contest: "The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like...
...Podolsky may or may not have known, I too am Jewish and sang in the Jewish a cappella group Mizmor Shir. It is thus with a more personal touch that I find his parallel to be misinformed and unhelpful. Yiddish is undoubtedly recognized as an official language, spoken primarily by Jews for centuries. To assert that Ebonics is as widely accepted as an official language among African-Americans is a leap that one should be wary to make, regardless of what Vaux has to say in defense of its validity. The debate over Ebonics remains decidedly that?...
...Podolsky’s false assumptions. Our discussion with Vaux was respectful and well-intentioned. There was not, nor has there been since, any name-calling or race-baiting. There has been, however, disappointment. I was, and still am curious why the segue was made. The song we sang expressed no Ebonics terminology, and the racial diversity of the group did not reflect the standard African-American community as it might otherwise have had all of us been black. The segue was “clear” in its intention to connect our artistic work—one that...