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...rest of O'Hara's life--the move to New York, the succession of affairs, the eventual job as curator at the Museum of Modern Art--was equally filled with the motion and sounds of colorful personalities, including Jackson Pollack, Larry Rivers, LeRoi Jones, Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler and Allen Ginsberg. These sections of the biography are almost impossibly juicy, filled with gossipy anecdotes and discussions of trends in all the artistic genres with which O'Hara became involved...
...insiders call it, won't be released until the Christmas season. But already Lee has fought off rival attempts to make the film, wrangled with the poet Amiri Baraka (once known as LeRoi Jones) and other black nationalists about how their hero should be portrayed on the screen, knocked heads with Warner Bros. over how much money and playing time are needed to tell Malcolm's story, and lost financial control of the project. "I knew this was going to be the toughest thing I ever did," he says, sitting wearily in his editing room. "The film is huge...
...Raja Mahidhara (HARVARD) d. Tope Laivani (MIT), 15-14, 15-10 15-7; 7. Sam Halpert (HARVARD) d. Eric Nudelman (MIT), 11-15, 15-5, 15-3, 15-2; 8. Steve Fraga (HARVARD) d. Rajeer Tewari (MIT), 15-12, 15-8, 15-7; 9. Doff McElhinney (HARVARD) d. Leroi Leeuw...
...names, commonly in favor of names with an African or Islamic flavor, persists. Malcolm Little became Malcolm X and then Malik al-Shabazz. Cassius Clay transformed himself into Muhammad Ali. Lew Alcindor became Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Civil rights activist Stokely Carmichael changed his name to Kwame Ture. The writer LeRoi Jones converted to Amiri Baraka...
...generation, was . . .what? To challenge authority. To change the world. To announce itself: Power to the imagination! Philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre declared the upheaval "the extension of the limits of the possible." At Columbia University, Mark Rudd, a scion of Corporate America, borrrowed an epigram from the street poet LeRoi Jones (now Amiri Baraka): "Up against the wall, motherf*****, this is a stickup...