Word: kids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Michael Cimino will be lucky if he ever gets another job, perhaps not because his movie is terrible, but because it is so huge and terrible. The golden boy stands in shame. The kid had potential. He coulda been a contenda. And instead, he's a bum--with nothing to console him but his delusions of grandeur...
Defensive standouts for the Crimson nine included shortstop Landya "Whiz Kid" Boyer, a freshman who snatched up Tufts line-drives like a gambler grabs the dice at a craps table...
...give the money back." Oilers Owner Peter Pocklington is enthusiastic: "I was offered $2 million for him, but $10 million wouldn't buy him. There's no price on greatness." Toronto Owner Harold Ballard can think of one. "I'd trade my whole team for the kid, and throw in the farm club...
...Orleans as far back as memory runs, marching brass bands have always tried to spread a bit of joy after the sorrow of a burial. Every jazz giant in the New Orleans pantheon-Kid Ory, Jelly Roll Morton, Bunk Johnson-developed his art partly by playing for funerals. The king of them all, Louis Armstrong, played a funeral the very day in 1922 when a telegram sent him off to join King Oliver in Chicago and soon onward to world fame...
...himself a jazzman. Albert Walters was his name. His melodic cornet was heard around town for more than half a century -and is still to be heard on such records as Albert Walters with the Society Jazz Band and West Indies Blues. Walters taught himself piano as a kid, took up the horn in 1927. He liked to say he was a carpenter by trade but a musician by choice. He appeared now and then with other traditionalists in Preservation Hall, but mostly he worked with Society Jazz. A short, stocky man, widowed several years ago, Walters retired from carpentering...