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...naturally snubbed him and left him off the guest list for President Clinton's gala event hosting all the world leaders present. But the wily Cuban strongman, who has outlasted eight U.S. presidents, wasn't about to sulk off to a movie. He simply went back to the same Harlem church he'd addressed in the early '60s for an uproarious pep rally that drew most of the press corps (and the headlines) away from the Clinton event...
...Baby and the birth of soul. "I started playing a counterline on the piano that was like a Rimsky-Korsakov melody. Jerry said, 'That sounds like strings,' and I said, 'Why not? Let's do it.'" So came the first R.-and-B. record with strings. With Spanish Harlem, they added Brazilian and African percussion...
...Humped bovine 48. Procter & Gamble chairman Durk, who is stepping down unexpectedly 49. 45-Down's org. 51. Double-Tony-winning director Michael 54. Ron's second chief of staff 55. The Army says it shot down a rocket with one 56. Advance degree seeker's test: abbr. 57. Harlem Globetrotters organizer Saperstein 58. Lewis Carroll critter 59. Cry of surprise...
Echo Park, now playing at the historic Apollo Theater in Harlem, is an early attempt to combine the outsider rhythms of hip-hop with the conventions of musical theater. Echo Park's story line is slim and simple: Scott Jenkins (Derrik "Nine" Keyes), a young man growing up in the early days of rap, longs to be a deejay but has to persuade his mother Bertha (DK Dyson) to let him follow his dreams. Along the way, the show tries to educate the audience about hip-hop history (rap pioneer Kurtis Blow plays a narrator). Strangely, the rap songs...
...Latin music as we know it, the master of masters. He took all the hits in the beginning. Without Tito, who would have carried it on this long? Who would have helped generations make Latin music their own? He and I came from the same neighborhood in Spanish Harlem, and, knowing that, I felt nothing was impossible. The day I met him, he said I reminded him of his son, and thereafter he treated me as a son, always telling me, "Keep it up. You're on the right track." He had no idea how much those words meant...