Tag: legends
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When Dick became my chosen writer, at age fourteen, in 1978, with Martian Time-Slip, one of my two or three favorites among his novels, the presence of the Israeli settlement on… more ›
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Mike Tyson, the 58-year-old former heavyweight champion who has recently recovered from a stomach ulcer, is set to face 27-year-old YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul in a boxing match the AT&T Stadium… more ›
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GET OUT. US. NOPE. Jordan Peele is an award-winning writer, director, and producer of these groundbreaking films, and founder of Monkeypaw Productions. On this episode, Jordan walks Ryan Coogler through… more ›
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Charles Clinton Spaulding led the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company from 1900 to 1952, a span during which North Carolina Mutual was the largest business owned by African-Americans. Known… more ›
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As a classic genre in cinema history, film noir showcases the shadowy side of human society better than almost any other. Generally spanning from the 1940s through the 1950s, classic… more ›
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Sometimes conventional wisdom is true: there has been no greater original screenplay in the last 50 years than the one Robert Towne wrote for Chinatown. https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/jun/20/chinatown-movie-anniversary more ›
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Penniman figured he met Esquerita in 1951, although musicologists Pierre Monnery and Jay Halsey place the meeting a couple of years later, since “One Mint Julep” wasn’t recorded by the… more ›
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Six years ago I celebrated my 68th birthday by gifting my children 68 bits of advice I wished I had gotten when I was their age. Every birthday after that… more ›
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The pioneering cartographer of the human genome, Craig Venter, discusses synthetic biology and his new book, “Sorcerer II: The Expedition That Unlocked The Secrets of The Ocean’s Biome” with Noema… more ›