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...song hit the top of the pop charts. What's extraordinary is that Theme from Shaft somehow beguiled the Bel Air senior citizens who constitute the Academy membership. Hayes, a newcomer to Hollywood movie scoring, was up against such former and future Oscar winners as Johnny Mercer, Henry Mancini, Marvin Hamlisch and the Sherman Brothers. The award typically went to doyens of the classic-pop establishment, all of whom were white. For nearly two decades, the movie-music fraternity had fought the onslaught of rock and soul music through the simple expedient of ignoring it. The closest Oscar had come...
Friday director F. Gary Gray to helm MARVIN GAYE biopic...
...Gordo,” begins a hurried letter to his freshman year roommate Marvin A. Gordon ’58, “as you know, we are running low on”—and here, he drew a picture of a toilet paper roll—“Unless you’d like to wipe your rectum with dollar bills, you might well let me know when the next 50 cents is coming, or buy the stuff yourself...
...able to make a cease-fire stick, he'll have demonstrated an alarming cohesion within the militancy. "If the militants are able to shut down attacks, and keep them shut down for this period of time, it proves that the terrorist attacks were not by freelance bombers," says Marvin Weinbaum, scholar in residence at the Middle East Institute in Washington and a former Pakistan expert at the U.S. Department of State. "What they can turn off, they can turn back...
...risks have to be serious ones. Marvin Zuckerman, psychologist and professor emeritus at the University of Delaware, says risk-taking can mean seeking sensory experiences through food or travel or the more primal thrills of sex--as may be the case with Eliot Spitzer. The problem is, he says, that "high-sensation seekers tend to underestimate the risk...