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...gorillas, he did not dream of becoming a cartoonist. Instead, as a communications major at Washington State University in Pullman, he hoped someday to save the world from mundane advertising. As it turned out, the world was not ready for salvation when he graduated, so he played the banjo in a duo and worked at a music store. The latter job so depressed Larson that in 1976 he temporarily quit to try his hand at drawing. In two days he sketched a few cartoons and sold them (six for $90) to a local magazine. Two years later the Seattle Times...
...lasers and a cast of 12,000, not counting the thousands in the audience who will participate in a flashlight stunt. Performers include the Statue of Liberty All-American Marching Band, a 476-member consortium from 92 colleges and universities that will have 40 sousaphones and 76 trombones; 300 banjo and fiddle players; an 800-voice chorus; a 250-voice gospel choir; an 850-member drill team; 300 jazzercize dancers; 200 square dancers and 300 tap dancers --and, of course, those tenscore Elvis Presley impersonators. All that plus Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, Elizabeth Taylor, the Temptations, the Four Tops, Frankie...
Princess Margaret tipsily suggests that the new royal baby be christened Johnny Walker, then collapses in a drunken heap. The Pope comes on as just another hipster in wraparound shades, with a banjo and a Texas drawl. And Ronald Reagan spends most of his time in pajamas searching for his missing brain...
...sweet, highly personal letter from Young to his son. It just barely survives disembowelment at the hands of a heavy, overmixed electric guitar solo before the final verse. "Why're you growing up so fast, my boy?" the banjo-plucking Young asks, an appropriate enough question in an age when Ringo Starr is enjoying his new status as a grandfather. The album's final two cuts, "Bound for Glory" and the wailer "Where Is the Highway Tonight?" are classic Nashville shlock...
...experience as a banjo player helped her when it came to researching bluegrass music. Little work had been done on the topic before, and Brown conducted a large series of field interviews with founders of the music form. "Some of them already knew who I was," she says. "They were pretty willing to open up. A lot of them feel like they haven't gotten the fame they deserve...