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Then, of course, there is the show's M.C., Chris Rock. Host of the MTV awards for several years, Rock has been promoting his new gig by bashing the Oscars ("What straight black man sits there and watches the Oscars?" he said last month), raising concerns that his irreverence might be too much for Oscar--or the FCC. But there will probably be a time delay, and Cates insists he isn't worried. "He told me a couple times he never curses in front of his mommy," says Cates, "and his mom's going be at the show." Cates also...
...senior, Corey has retired his hammer and plays with various bands in the Boston area, but he cites his time with the Kuumba Singers of Harvard College as being one of his more important and fruitful commitments. He began playing with Kuumba out of coincidence. While playing a gig with a singer in Boston, he was spotted by the former leader of the Kuumband who asked him to play on their spring break tour. This year he has become the leader of the band and he describes emphatically that his experience with the Kuumband and the choir has been...
...excuse to get together with friends and awesome musicians. Covering R&B and Classic Soul tunes, the band consists of other Harvard jazz musicians that he met while playing in Harvard’s small jazz scene. At the beginning of the school year, the band had a regular gig at the Harvard Square bar Grafton Street, but Corey is hoping to revive them while continuing to compose his own music...
...watch Mitchell at Feinstein?s, in a gig that continues through Feb. 19, you see a friendly face that automatically smiles. His mouth, his eyes ... even his curly hair seems happy. You guess that, offstage, in a living room or a mall or asleep, his face would radiate a purring contentment. I haven?t met the man, but I know a few people who know him, and they say, unbidden, that he is The Nicest Guy in the World. And when my in-house theater maven, Mary Corliss, chatted with him a while back, she said he was as gracious...
...Jamaican music industry. In 1973, while on tour with his band the Wailers, he found that some white audiences wouldn't open up to his radical message, while black fans weren't even showing up for his concerts. In an August 11, 1973 Melody Maker review of a Wailers gig in New York City (headline: "Wailers Fail to Catch Afire") one critic wrote "[The Wailers] found themselves playing to largely unconverted ears...and, with virtually no exception, white ears." Marley said to High Times in September 1976 "Well, I hear dat we not gettin' through to black people. Well...