Word: turneritis
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...WHAT'S TINA GOT TO DO WITH IT? Filmmakers Ismail Merchant and James Ivory have set many of their films in India. But the duo's The Goddess, still in preproduction, has Hindus up in arms over Tina Turner's being cast in the title role as the goddess Shakti: the singer's sex appeal is "improper" for the divinity, according to one anti-Tina petition...
...have to do more than keep media giants from growing larger; they're already too big." TED TURNER, former vice chairman of TIME's parent company, Time Warner, writing in the Washington Monthly...
...down-to-earth bloke - and a bit strange, like all artists are. He couldn't be him and not be a bit different from everybody else, could he? That angel he's got in England - that's just mind-boggling, the size of that goddamn thing." In 1995, the Turner Prize?winning artist erected a 22-m-high steel angel with wings the span of a jumbo jet's on a hill in northern England. But that was nothing compared to the logistics of Lake Ballard...
...where I could feel all old Arthur felt, I'd be a music man like nobody ever saw." (One could reasonably argue that Crudup's original That's All Right, which rocks at least as hard as Presley's follow-up take, is actually the first rock song) Ike Turner has said that when he performed in the black sections of Memphis in 1952 Presley would attend his concerts. In an interview with London's Daily Telegraph in 2001, Turner recalled that at the time he thought Presley "was just a white boy that would come over to black clubs...
...only a musician, he was a significant one, and one that would go on to become one of the most popular artists of the 20th century. But to date the birth of rock to his work is to deny those that came before him, not just Turner, but other black performers as well. Presley admitted his music had roots in the black community - so why isn't an artist from the black community being celebrated on rock's birthday? Why is Presley's name the only one on the cake? Presley had the courage to cross the color line...