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...this time through a thick orchestral flourish. But as should be expected at this point in the album, the tone shifts on a dime, turning from Sufjan Stevens to Mika without ever really sinking in. By far the highlight of the album comes when the funk slows down to Marvin Gaye speed on “St. Exquisite’s Confessions.” With a beat that would make for some good low-rider music and vocals that warp and disintegrate under the weight of some cool effects, it’s easy to understand why Barnes...
...fact. This "mano a mano" confrontation between father and son is a fairly well-known incident ... Over the Christmas holidays in 1972, by then twenty-six, George W. went to Washington to visit his family. "After Junior arrived at the house, he took his 15 year-old brother, Marvin, to a friend's house, where they both drank too much holiday cheer. On the way home, Junior struck and dragged a neighbor's garbage can noisily down the street before turning into the Bush driveway. The elder Bush asked his son to step into the den. Junior, who recalls being...
...Marvin R. Brams, a student at the Divinity School, said that Dershowitz is “probably Israel’s best friend in America and maybe its best ally in the entire world...
...Bush, the "good" son (played by Jason Ritter), is a fleeting presence in W., as is mother Barbara (Ellen Burstyn), and Neil, Marvin and Dorothy are virtual no-shows. The secret sibling is Stone himself, who, like Dubya, came from a wealthy family and entered Yale in 1964. He left after a year and wound up in Vietnam, where his destiny ambushed him. Perhaps the political biography Stone really should put on film is John McCain...
...During much of the 1960s and '70s, Norman Whitfield wrote and produced more than a dozen hit songs for Motown Records and his independent label, including Marvin Gaye's "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" and the Temptations' "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone." As one of Motown's most prolific and successful writers, he holds the title for penning the label's all-time best-selling single with "Grapevine...