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...roader," says Thomas Catina, executive director of the American Conservative Union. "I chuckle through his speeches, thinking, 'This guy's got guts.'" Heston's rhetoric on homosexuality, feminism, multiculturalism and the skin color of the Founding Fathers has made it onto the website of white supremacist David Duke. (Headline: CHARLTON HESTON SPEAKS UP FOR THE WHITE MAJORITY!) But does it help the average duck hunter to preserve the sporting life? Or even the Second Amendment fundamentalist who believes, as Heston does, that any infringement of the "right of the people to keep and bear arms" is a slide down...
...dagger through his heart. Meanwhile, in the recently released The Opposite of Sex, Christina Ricci plays a take-no-prisoners 16-year-old, one who steals and dumps a series of boyfriends, including her half brother's. On the music front, singer-actress Brandy and fellow teen phenom Monica duke it out for love in their No. 1 duet, The Boy Is Mine--and in the video version, join in alliance to show up a two-timing boyfriend. But the words of singer Fiona Apple best capture the grrrl spirit, "It's a sad sad world/ when a girl will...
Music was particularly hard. People's opinions tend to be based on when they grew up: as Wallace was pushing Sinatra, I was pushing Dylan. Also on where they grew up: I'm from New Orleans, and Pearlstine, whose deities include Miles Davis and Duke Ellington, is convinced that's the only reason Louis Armstrong made the list...
...DUKE ELLINGTON (1899-1974) From the 1930s to the '50s, the master composer's Big Band was jazz's gold standard, creating such classics as Black, Brown and Beige. Duke's compositions--timelessly elegant and invested with rich textures and emotional fullness--helped push jazz to unparalleled heights. Just as his popularity seemed to be fading, he reignited his legend with the fiery 1956 recording Ellington at Newport...
Throughout the '20s, Chanel's social, sexual and professional progress continued, and her eminence grew to the status of legend. By the early '30s she'd been courted by Hollywood, gone and come back. She had almost married one of the richest men in Europe, the Duke of Westminster; when she didn't, her explanation was, "There have been several Duchesses of Westminster. There is only one Chanel." In fact, there were many Coco Chanels, just as her work had many phases and many styles, including Gypsy skirts, over-the-top fake jewelry and glittering evening wear--made of crystal...