tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38682592024-03-05T04:03:00.257-06:00Back with interestUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1733125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868259.post-32134883468819373862017-03-30T09:51:00.004-05:002017-03-30T09:51:50.962-05:00Good word"The Sex Pistols became successful because they failed; if they had succeeded, they would have sold out, or become diluted or commercial. I saw Johnny Rotten a few years ago at Sundance, still failing, and it made me feel proud of him."<br />
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-- <a href="http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/24-hour-party-people-2002">Roger Ebert</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868259.post-18304986090558431932016-12-26T15:53:00.005-06:002016-12-26T17:48:42.921-06:00Vive Madeleine Lebeau<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK3CSKwbJRjJThwDzble2s9Mm5mQOvxHnozMoAFzQo52fpXD90tQmLJQbP6tBLnqQwXppx_3SoJQ7bP9lgm6YL7YUuBGxo1k-QnO7ZoXZTEvC4PoqTMor90ZTydNacwsOlNz97iQ/s1600/Casablanca-Lebeau-Vive-la-France.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK3CSKwbJRjJThwDzble2s9Mm5mQOvxHnozMoAFzQo52fpXD90tQmLJQbP6tBLnqQwXppx_3SoJQ7bP9lgm6YL7YUuBGxo1k-QnO7ZoXZTEvC4PoqTMor90ZTydNacwsOlNz97iQ/s200/Casablanca-Lebeau-Vive-la-France.jpg" width="200" /></a>In a year of too many sad celebrity deaths, let's be grateful for the memory of Madeleine Lebeau, the last surviving cast member of "Casablanca." She died May 1 at age 92. You'll remember her as the character who cries while singing "La Marseillaise" and shouts "Vive la France!" A moving scene in a wondrous film.<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsuDWwn84KxDAHx2x5mDQrzS2h9kLYLgqzaNMX3gGQUVZK0pJTNoaElzUgZxns3OAosPqsGRAAJQzV34R_ca7z9Kp1_xqdQUrnOrPMEeh1fIBfql2HTjhg8BMvJj9Ki-Cbzfc7cg/s1600/Casablanca-Lebeau-Vive-la-France.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868259.post-80419829416341162672013-08-22T06:49:00.003-05:002013-08-22T06:49:52.903-05:00Dolly dishOn Wednesday, Dolly Parton disclosed big news about Dollywood, her Pigeon Forge, Tenn., entertainment complex: a $300 million investment that will yield a 300-room resort hotel, among other upgrades. Here's my <a href="http://www.themountainpress.com/news/x2042200283/Dollywood-announces-300-million-expansion">Mountain Press report</a> on the announcement, and here is my <a href="http://www.themountainpress.com/news/x2042200297/Dolly-Parton-imagined-a-Dollywood-resort-from-the-beginning">interview</a> with Parton about the development.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868259.post-91878204920591930122013-08-18T09:10:00.004-05:002013-08-18T09:10:35.526-05:00Back to schoolIn Sevier County, school started on Friday. Here's my Mountain Press <a href="http://www.themountainpress.com/news/x2042198173/At-Seymour-Primary-School-first-graders-cover-the-basics">report</a> from Seymour Primary and Mrs. Clark's first grade class.<br />
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"Does anyone know what a clock is?" asked Mrs. Clark.<br />A little girl raised her hand. "Yes?" said Mrs. Clark.<br />"It's like a round circle," the little girl said, "and it has clock stuff on it."</blockquote>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868259.post-65084881092428289862013-08-02T08:31:00.000-05:002013-08-02T17:09:53.710-05:00Music business people<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here's my Mountain Press <a href="http://www.themountainpress.com/mountainlife/x135060187/Sevier-County-hit-maker-Lisa-McCarter-returns-to-music-with-Runaway-Home">interview</a> with Sevier County native Lisa McCarter, of the Americana group <a href="http://www.runawayhomemusic.com/">Runaway Home</a>. In the 1980s she and her sisters performed as the McCarters and notched top-10 country hits like <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES-505D4P7g">"The Gift"</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPz30KgEbhM">"True and Timeless Love."</a><br />
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The sisters moved to Nashville in 1987. "We were scared to death," Lisa said. "We had never been around music business people. We would travel home to Sevierville every weekend."</blockquote>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868259.post-70543896479227723092013-07-30T06:55:00.000-05:002013-07-30T06:55:11.281-05:00Father's daughter's sonHere's my Mountain Press <a href="http://www.themountainpress.com/mountainlife/x533460893/Biography-chronicles-a-girlhood-in-the-national-parks">article</a> about Chas Hartman and his book "Daughter of a Park Ranger," a biography of his mom. Her father spent a career in the National Park Service, including a stint as superintendent of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868259.post-49260142759960524472013-07-28T08:52:00.001-05:002013-07-28T08:52:16.161-05:00Good word"An alien race that looks like a cross between Jabba the Hutt and Harold Bloom."<br />
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-- <a href="http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-2005">Roger Ebert</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868259.post-29953273594542660662013-07-28T08:01:00.005-05:002013-07-28T08:04:33.282-05:00Good word"Got up went to Twickenham rehearsed until lunchtime — left the Beatles — went home, and in the evening did King of Fuh at Trident studio, had chips later."<br />
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-- <a href="http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/george-harrison-living-in-the-material-world-2011">George Harrison</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868259.post-11495822583754809162013-07-26T07:21:00.001-05:002017-12-08T09:20:02.477-06:00Summer scenesThe middling summery comedy "The Way, Way Back" opens this week in Knoxville. My review in the alt-weekly Metro Pulse is <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130826192633/http://www.metropulse.com/news/2013/jul/24/way-way-back-borrows-all-wrong-things-classic-summ/">here</a>.<br />
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For better or worse, "The Way, Way Back" owes a lot to "Meatballs," including a nerdy character who gets picked on by the cool people because he’s just such a nerd. On behalf of nerds everywhere, I protest.</blockquote>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868259.post-20330197423451356112013-07-24T08:48:00.001-05:002013-07-24T08:48:17.782-05:00Song manHere's my <a href="http://www.themountainpress.com/mountainlife/x533458087/Kenneth-Burns-Take-it-from-a-busker-its-not-an-easy-job">latest Mountain Press column</a>, inspired by the buskers of Knoxville's Market Square. Did you know I've done some busking?<br />
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On a pleasant day, playing music outside is fun. It’s nice to see people smile when they hear a song they like. At places like State Street and Market Square, people tend to be in a festival mood, so impromptu singing and dancing may break out.</blockquote>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868259.post-83093949335323548962013-07-23T12:01:00.002-05:002013-07-23T12:01:27.190-05:00Good word"According to David Lee Roth this was because critics accused him of writing about nothing more than partying, sex, and cars, but Roth realized that he had yet to write a song about cars.[citation needed]"<br />
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-- <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_%28song%29">Wikipedia</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868259.post-67661980983020185092013-07-21T12:53:00.002-05:002013-07-21T12:53:04.620-05:00Today's top storyGrad Student Band's Bio Intellectually ImpoverishedUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868259.post-17134336908818686992013-07-20T07:51:00.001-05:002013-07-20T07:51:35.035-05:00Tennessee folkiesThe Maryville, Tenn., folk duo of Sparky and Rhonda Rucker perform this weekend in the Sugarlands Visitor Center at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. My Mountain Press preview is <a href="http://www.themountainpress.com/mountainlife/x533457905/Sparky-and-Rhonda-Rucker-perform-Civil-War-songs-at-Sugarlands">here</a>:<br />
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Sparky worked as a schoolteacher after he graduated from the University of Tennessee. He also worked for the Council of the Southern Mountains, “doing social-change work,” he said, “basically trying to make Southern Appalachian lives better – fighting mountaintop removal, getting benefits for black lung disease, trying to get unions organized in various areas. I’m quite a rabble-rouser.”</blockquote>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868259.post-40758672171650457092013-07-19T07:37:00.004-05:002013-07-19T07:37:52.703-05:00Good word"I'm not generally a fan of movies spun off from TV animation. 'The Flintstones' and 'Ninja Turtles' moved me only marginally."<br />
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-- <a href="http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-simpsons-movie-2007">Roger Ebert</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868259.post-64286947886475988762013-07-19T07:25:00.001-05:002013-07-19T07:25:56.333-05:00Good word"Obviously, people from other planets are going to have extra powers that Earth people don't have. Anybody who has ever watched television knows that."<br />
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-- <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Alan-Mendelsohn-Mars-Daniel-Pinkwater/dp/0525253602">Daniel M. Pinkwater</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868259.post-84921269142684830022013-07-18T07:30:00.001-05:002013-07-18T07:30:30.536-05:00Good word"I hate Woodstock. There is the birth of one of the most destructive myths shoved down the throats of Generations X and Y ever."<br />
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-- <a href="http://www.rogerebert.com/scanners/critic-trashes-worst-rock-movies-from-woodstock-to-scorsese">Jim DeRogatis</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868259.post-81136650031631520382013-07-18T07:24:00.003-05:002013-07-18T07:24:46.643-05:00Good word "He never quite forgave his father for being an admiral."<br />
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-- <a href="http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-doors-1991">Roger Ebert on Jim Morrison</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868259.post-50564785413245518502013-07-15T20:26:00.003-05:002013-07-15T20:27:42.423-05:00Musical youthNice pieces have run in <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323823004578593702523354898.html">The Wall Street Journal</a> and <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/13/arts/music/national-youth-orchestra-takes-purchase-washington-is-next.html">The New York Times</a> on the National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America. I wrote about the organization in The Mountain Press a while back when I <a href="http://www.themountainpress.com/features/x1592155814/17-year-old-violinist-Ben-Parton-to-train-with-top-musicians">profiled</a> a Sevierville high school kid who is touring with the group. Inspiring stuff.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868259.post-41731520945019430662013-07-14T10:14:00.002-05:002013-07-14T10:14:11.236-05:00Good word"Among schoolmates, informal, faddish, well-meant salutations that do no physical damage should not be condemned."<br />
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-- <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/miss-manners-when-it-comes-to-greeting-friends-only-do-no-harm/2013/06/14/c181f590-cfa0-11e2-9f1a-1a7cdee20287_story.html">Miss Manners</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868259.post-68582208336667974052013-07-14T08:25:00.001-05:002013-07-14T10:14:30.333-05:00Good word"For years I have wondered, during 'Don't Cry for Me, Argentina,' why we were not to cry. Now I understand: We need not cry because (a) Evita got everything out of life she dreamed of, and (b) Argentina should cry for itself."<br />
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-- <a href="http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/evita-1997">Roger Ebert</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868259.post-83709789552548167452013-07-12T07:36:00.003-05:002013-07-14T10:14:41.330-05:00Good word"When classical music is associated with popular entertainment, the result is usually to trivialize it (who can listen to the 'William Tell Overture' without thinking of the Lone Ranger?). Kubrick's film is almost unique in enhancing the music by its association with his images."<br />
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-- <a href="http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-2001-a-space-odyssey-1968">Roger Ebert</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868259.post-1398782750421254382013-07-10T07:26:00.004-05:002013-07-10T07:26:47.746-05:00My fellow AmericansWhen I was a kid, I got irked when <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/10/us/politics/the-fading-of-a-cultural-touchstone-the-oval-office-address.html">presidential speeches</a> took over all three broadcast networks. Since that was all we had. I used to flip between channels and note subtle differences between the feeds. Look, on NBC Reagan's suit is slightly more brown.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868259.post-69838198731805571852013-07-09T07:34:00.000-05:002013-07-09T07:34:01.527-05:00ResolvedNext time we move, I'm going to do some strength training to prepare, and I'm not even kidding.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868259.post-9783087634617266732013-07-08T18:08:00.001-05:002013-07-09T07:17:51.600-05:00Today's top storyIT Guy Says That Shouldn't Be HappeningUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868259.post-36700531634440574532013-07-08T12:19:00.002-05:002013-07-08T12:19:29.568-05:00FeelingsKe$ha wakes up in the morning feeling like P. Diddy. I wake up in the morning feeling like Harold Ramis.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0