Posted on 09/16/2005 10:56:05 AM PDT by Taft in '52
,,, for his ability to compose and produce, Bacharach should have his face carved on Mount Rushmore. Given enough resources and the President's job though, just how much better could he do in crisis mode, stepping away from the piano? Older and wiser? Lack of evidence.
The famous Nawlins "hurricane defense" is calling your welfare case officer on your cell phone from your Cadillac, BMW or SUV with the really big shiny wheels with those spinning while standing still thingys on them and little skinny tires to request an extra "emergency check" for more crack befo de storm hits.
Thats the special New Orleans "hurricane defense".
I am so mean. I just ain't got no sympathy.
Oh yeah...them! LOL
Angie Dickinson 's ex-hubby spouting off eh? Shut up and write the music Burt.
There are soooo many. Who's got THAT much time?
I'm really an old geezer. And I watched Angie for years and years.
According to her biography, she was married to Burt from 1965 to 1980. I didn't know or care that she was married to anyone.
Now, that said, I didn't remember his name. And I still don't care what utterances Burt makes now or in the future.
Thank you.
How about the Rolling Stones, Kanye "Sugar Cane" West, and Linda Ronstadt?
Each year there are more to add to my list. So many movies I won't see. So many cd's I won't hear.... it just goes on and on.
Don't they get it at all?
Oops1 The Rolling Stones are already on your list. In any case, Jane Fonda is back in the news, so how about throwing her in, along with Paul Newman?
That's right...and so much SALAD dressing I won't eat, too.
This has been going on for a long time. You may recall that Aaron Copeland, arguably America's greatest composer, was a Stalinist, as was one of our greatest baritone vocalists, Paul Robeson, and in an op-ed piece back in the 1980's, the famous composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein called for the total abolition of America's armed forces (for more about Bernstein's flirting with radicals, read Tom Wolfe's Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing The Flakcatchers (1970).
What's wrong with the arts community?
He can show off how little he knows about politics as much as he wants. It won't diminish him in my book. His songs are magnificent, and they will live forever.
(steely)
Despite his earlier sins, Bernstein deserves kudos for a 1990 concert celebrating the fall of the Berlin Wall. The performance featured Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, which concludes with the singing of Johann Friedrich Christoph von Schiller's An Die Freude (Ode to Joy). Bernstein changed the word "Freude" (joy) to "Freiheit" (freedom). That performance gave me a thrill.
Saw that Bernstein performance and will not forget it. My favorite story about the multi talented polymath that was Leonard Bernstien invovles a European music student who was planning to come to America to study with him. "Be careful" his father warned him.."They say Bernstein has a fondness for young men." The student gasped and said "Is there anything he can't do!"
Of course, we all know what "Red" connoted. Around 1960, some military officers started a program to educate military personnel on American values as opposed to Communism. They decided to call it the Pro-Blue (as opposed to Anti-Red) program. However, this endeavor was dscontinued in 1961 after journalists generated controversy over it, and the expression "Pro-Blue" never caught on.
What's sad is, way back when, it seemed that Burt had class.
You know, back when there was a little glamour, when we listened to Dionne Warwick sing Burt's songs and she sounded so lovely.
Back when we were spared every little detail of their tawdry lives, and their small thoughts that diminished their stature.
Too bad.
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