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...bearing on what direction these original innovators would take, precisely because they represented the most marginalized of minorities in America. The greatest ambassador of this brand of disco, at least in my mind, is a now little known producer and composer named Arthur Russell. A pockmarked gay Iowa farmboy and classically trained cellist, Russell spent his youth between a Buddhist monastery, psychedelic San Francisco, and ultimately New York City, where he produced dance music with a singularity deserving of his improbable biography. This proto-disco he has come to stand for was marked by a graceful sense of levity, camp...
...Sure, Rose’s story has been told plenty of times on these pages: the son of an Ohio farmboy Marine and his Japanese-born wife, growing up in Hawaii where football takes a back seat to surfing...
...Sure, Rose’s story has been told plenty of times on these pages: the son of an Ohio farmboy Marine and his Japanese-born wife, growing up in Hawaii where football takes a back seat to surfing...
Examples of this phenomenon abound in our popular culture. A seemingly weaker David vanquished the intimidating Goliath. Town pansy George McFly summoned his inner strength to knock out reviled bully Biff. And most clearly, Clark Kent, the mild-mannered farmboy-turned-reporter, was Superman, hero to millions in Metropolis...
...many more who never would. And then there was the story--a heroic epic set, as we all know so well now, in a galaxy far, far away. Admit it, if you were a studio executive in the '70s, you would probably have turned down Star Wars. A farmboy from another galaxy leaves home to fight an evil empire and save a beautiful princess? On paper at least, it sounds like a high-budget kiddie flick. And, in effect, thats what itreally is. No one but a bunch of pre-pubescent boys and perhaps a handful of adults who just...