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...although the instrument has long been revered in countries such as Germany, Finland and Japan, in Britain it has been considered to be rather silly. It has taken the pluck of the willfully eccentric, 21-year-old Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain to move the four-stringed dynamo toward mainstream recognition. From humble beginnings in a room above a London pub, the Ukulele Orchestra is today a regular at British festivals such as Glastonbury and the Hay Festival of Literature. All consummate singers and strummers, they perform their own compositions, as well as covers of popular songs that emerge freshly...
...their people. For one day, we become once more the Irish immigrants who marched to show their pride in their culture and their adopted country. We celebrate the achievements of those who came before us, who slowly but eventually pushed the anti-Catholic, anti-Irish bias out of the mainstream of American thought.In my senior year of high school, members of our Gaelic Society marched with the Ancient Order of Hibernians (AOH) in the great parade up Fifth Avenue. We stood in the biting cold for hours—and then marched for hours more—as an awful...
...experiment in form, happened in the 20s with Eisenstein and the other Russians did a lot of experimenting. In the 60s, you did get a lot of experimentation, especially here in San Francisco with Bruce Connor and all those guys. But it was too far out of the mainstream. And in the end the foreign film industries wanted to do what America was doing. They wanted to have their movies seen all over the world, they wanted audiences to love them. And to do that, you can?t be too experimental, because most people aren?t going to be attracted...
...called pimpumentaries vary in quality from mainstream productions like the Hughes Brothers ("Menace II Society") film "American Pimp," which was nominated for the 1999 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize, to roughly edited DVDs available online like "Really Really Pimpin' in da South," which was released last year. Brent Owens, the director of several films on prostitution for HBO including "Pimps Up, Ho's Down," says he makes such films to "shed light on a subculture"and is "not condoning it or glorifying it." Nonetheless, Las Vegas vice detective Aaron Stanton says that every juvenile victim he has interviewed...
...movie "Hustle & Flow," the life of a fictional pimp became mainstream entertainment. In several other movies about pimps, their real-life exploits are serving a more dismaying purpose: as vocational instruction, according to detectives and prosecutors in several U.S. cities. The law-enforcement officials say that pimps are using widely available movies to teach minors how to be prostitutes. The documentaries - available online and in video stores - explain the vocabulary and rules of pimping in the words of real people in the trade. Produced to give the public a window into an illegal and degrading business, the films...