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...book, In the Key of Genius, published May 3, Ockelford recounts the extraordinary story of Paravicini's bizarre early lessons, his TV appearances and his concerts for charity (one at Buckingham Palace, another with the Royal Philharmonic Pops Orchestra) and ends with him playing Scott Joplin's The Entertainer to 12,000 people in Las Vegas last year. Paravicini, who is related through marriage to Prince Charles' wife Camilla Parker-Bowles, was only 5 years old when he and Ockelford first met. Ockelford was giving a piano lesson to a girl at a school for the blind when Paravicini...
...fifteen years, Planned Parenthood of Southwest Missouri clinics in Joplin and Springfield have offered free breast and cervical cancer screenings as part of the state's "Show Me Healthy Women" program. Now Governor Matt Blunt has announced that he will cut off all program funding to Planned Parenthood and redirect it to other health clinics. "Patients should not have to go to an abortion clinic to access life-saving tests," Blunt declared. Refusing to fund cancer screening at the clinics, he said, "ensures women may access important preventative care without contributing to abortion providers' goal of facilitating the destruction...
...understand that you had similar distribution problems with Monterey Pop, your film about the music festival, featuring breakout performances by Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix...
This summer, Randal Myler’s off-broadway hit, “Love, Janis,” seared the national stage for the first time, presenting the meteoric rise and fall of iconic 1960s rock vocalist Janis Joplin based on letters that Joplin wrote home to her parents. In the two-actor set, singer-actress Katrina Chester (“Sex and the City”) portrayed Joplin as she lived hard and drank hard, convincingly mimicking Joplin’s raspy singing voice and incendiary stage presence in the live performance of 19 Joplin classics. Meanwhile, actress Morgan...
...last week when we held a dinner in New York City for the TIME 100. Juanes, the Colombian rock star, opened the evening, Jon Stewart delivered an exceptionally witty monologue, and then the glorious Melissa Etheridge brought the guests to their feet with her set, culminating in the Janis Joplin classic Me and Bobby McGee. More than 50 influentials attended, and several of them--Bill Belichick, Martha Stewart, the architect Santiago Calatrava, the Dutch women's-rights advocate Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Indian superstar Aishwarya Rai and Eliot Spitzer--toasted those who had influenced them...