Word: booker
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When David Bowie went through his R.-and-B. phase, they called it plastic soul. Now Neil Young is playing with the guys from Booker T. and the MGs, singing melodies ripped from the Otis Redding playbook, adding his own ragged guitar solos and flower-child lyrics: call it all-natural gra-soul-a. It's nearly always a little too sweet, with Young's voice reaching high to deliver heartfelt avowals of love tinged with sadness at the state of the world. A tightly professional backup of organ, mid-tempo drums and precise rhythm guitar keeps him from getting...
...mother's Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles records. (She won't discuss the circumstances of her parents' relationship, but she emphasizes that Shankar had a very small role in her upbringing; at one point, Jones and Shankar went 10 years without contact.) She discovered singing while attending the Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts (Erykah Badu and trumpeter Roy Hargrove are also alums) and pursued jazz piano at the University of North Texas. After her sophomore year, she took a summer sublet in New York City, where she waited on tables in the mornings...
...RELEASED. ARUNDHATI ROY, acclaimed Indian novelist jailed for a day for contempt of court, after she paid a $42 fine to avoid serving another three months; in New Delhi. Roy, who in 1997 won Britain's Booker Prize for her first novel, The God of Small Things, was convicted for criticizing a Supreme Court decision to approve a controversial hydroelectric project...
...Hoskins and Ray Winstone) bibulously set forth to scatter his ashes in the sea. As they drive, flashbacks inform us of a life richer in complexity, coincidence and moral confusion than we might expect from a humble shopkeeper. Schepisi also wrote this patient adaptation of Graham Swift's Booker prizewinning novel, in which wry humor and even a certain sexiness break through the reserve of a rueful, realistic, but finally emotionally rewarding film. --By Richard Schickel
...self-deprecating, hilarious, self-disclosure, the mystery of how Atwood became a writer still remained. True, the events of her life play a large role in the content of her fictional works and her poetry, but how she made the leap between the football field and the Booker Prize was left largely undisclosed. She curtailed her story at the publication of her first novel, and finished her speech without instructions, only a warning and a smirk: “Beware…it’s a daunting, shark-filled lagoon out there.” Margaret Atwood knows...