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...their canvases. They kept making serioso dramas with soaring Broadwayesque scores, when the CG films were mopping up with brash, no-song comedies that appealed to young males as well as the family audience. New ideas were stifled. "It's kind of an irony," says Oscar-winning animator Eric Armstrong (The ChubbChubbs!), "because Walt was well known for being an innovative guy. A lot of people thought it was funny that Disney didn't want to try the same experimentation...
...shade of an athletic center turned medical complex, Earl Brown, 56, waited for his brother who was looking a buy a house. Brown listened to a radio, the only thing he had snatched from a community center in New Orleans before being airlifted to the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport by helicopter. He tuned it to oldtime classics, to a man crooning “When I’m down and feeling sad, you always comfort...
...year ago. Since then, some 10,000 original podcasts most by amateurs talking about everything from their sex lives to their favorite Cabernetshave emerged, creating an entirely new medium. This summer podcasting became a full-blown craze, marked by the word's entry into the Oxford English Dictionary. Lance Armstrong has one. So does Donald Trump. "It's one of the quickest trends I've seen in 12 years," says Jeremy Welt, vice president of new media at Warner Music Group. For the first time in radio history, audiences can "shape their own listening experience," says Jack Isquith, head...
...second-line parade, the po' boy sandwich, the shotgun house--is so many people's favorite city. But not favorite enough to embrace the integrated superiority of its culture as a national objective. Not favorite enough to digest the gift of supersized soul internationally embodied by the great Louis Armstrong. Over time, New Orleans became known as the national center for frat-party-type decadence and (yeah, boy) great food. The genuine greatness of Armstrong is reduced to his good nature; his artistic triumphs are unknown to all but a handful. So it's time to consider, as we rebuild...
...Open, tennis spectators head for the big name matches at the new Arthur Ashe stadium, or the old Louis Armstrong stadium (Pops could really swing, but he had no net game). Tennis fans, on the other hand, head for the side courts, where the world?s greatest players-OK, so maybe they?re not the top seeds-are no farther than a drop shot away. The first day session at the Open is a fantastic place to see the amazing skill you need to play at this level, to catch youngsters on the way up-say, Roger Federer...