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...TURNER Atlantans protest CNN (and TIME) honcho's huge billboard plan. W&L sez: Make it bigger...
...that ends an era. In 1958 I walked into 4 East 77th Street, New York City. A slight man in his 40s was hanging paintings in a 23-ft. by 24-ft. room. This room became the showcase for a number of young, bold American artists. I, a former billboard painter, was one of them. Leo brought an Old World appreciation, but an understanding of the American spirit, to New York City and the world. In the late '50s and '60s, with his first wife, Ileana Sonnabend, he discovered Rauschenberg, Johns, Stella, Lichtenstein, Bontecou and others. I had joined Bellamy...
...rushing streams riding in on drifts of alpine air. Important because this level of creative nurturing doesn't exist anywhere else and because these future directors do not seem inclined--not yet, anyway--toward the variety of film that is promoted with either a Happy Meal or the billboard image of a star urinating on a wall...
Alternative rock isn't dead yet. Pearl Jam's latest single, Last Kiss, has proved to be the biggest hit of the band's career, ascending to No. 2 on the Billboard singles chart, a region inhabited lately by the likes of the Backstreet Boys. A cover of a song that was a hit for J. Frank Wilson & the Cavaliers in 1964, Last Kiss is on the compilation album No Boundaries: A Benefit for the Kosovar Refugees. Pearl Jam singer Eddie Vedder decided to cover the tune after finding a 45 of it in an antiques store...
...times as desired. Imagine a newspaper that automatically updates itself with fresh news and stock quotes and sports scores, in real time. Or a single textbook that becomes a math book in math class, a chemistry book in chemistry, and "For Whom the Bell Tolls" in English. Or a billboard that advertises a new sale every day. MORE...