Word: legendizing
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...Legend tells of a great a cappella king who long ago held court in this common room. On quiet nights you can still hear the bone-chilling echoes of cheesy guys making dorky pretend drum noises with their nerd-mouths...
...episodes will run regularly on Cartoon Network. “The new show will be geared towards a more adult audience than the original,” says Angell. “It’s going to explore the more mystical and dark side of the He-Man legend.” Angell is not just an eager fan in this case. He has played a direct role in the He-Man revival. Mattel has contracted him and Eatock to create an encyclopedia of all the He-Man and She-Ra cartoons so the writers can stay true...
...Live is considered by some to be a “living legend,” a modern maestro who scratches and spits peerless poetry over his own beats. Though his virtuosic debut The Best Part was shelved indefinitely by record companies, All Of The Above may be his magnum opus. It is a consummate progression of the Native Tongues movement (led by De La Soul and A Tribe Called Quest) that was eclipsed in the early ’90s by gangsta rap. The album oozes with the legacies of jazz, funk and soul. Like Common?...
Everywhere one turns a rock legend is humbly crediting their musical birth and inspiration to Elvis’ music. Bob Dylan: “When I first heard Elvis’ voice I just knew that I wasn’t going to work for anybody and nobody was going to be my boss…Hearing him for the first time was like busting out of jail.” Jim Morrison: “Elvis is the best ever, the most original. He started the ball rolling for us all.” Chuck Berry...
...years Robeson was a legend, a giant, an epic figure, a cue for awe and resentment. He would earn a place in any history of race relations by being the first black man in movies to call a white man "boy."("Take care of the camels, boy," he genially tells his costar in the 1937 "Jericho.") But Robeson was much more than an uppity, or for that matter heroic, film star. Then and now, one gazes up at him and asks: How could one man - and a black man, at a time when African Americans were denied basic rights - have...