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...those films are memorialized in Tarantino's own. "People ask if my love of movies can be too much," he says. "What annoys me about the question is the snobbery; it treats movies like a bastard art form. Could a novelist ever read too many books, or a musician listen to too much music? Well, I totally love movies...
Consider the achievements since 1993 alone, when Bill Clinton invited Maya Angelou to be the first poet since Robert Frost to read an original work at a presidential Inauguration. George C. Wolfe won a Tony Award for his direction of Angels in America. Novelist Toni Morrison became the first black woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Rita Dove was appointed the country's first black poet laureate. Two works inspired by the Rodney King affair -- 56 Blows, a symphony by Alvin Singleton, and Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992, a one- woman docudrama by playwright and performer Anna Deavere Smith...
...cites as models not only Miles Davis but also Igor Stravinsky. "It's limiting to be called just an African-American composer," he says. "There's no reason to limit yourself in any way." This attitude particularly marks many of the youngest and brashest creators, labeled "cultural mulattoes" by novelist Trey Ellis. Largely reared in integrated suburbs and educated at prestigious colleges and universities, they lay claim to the cultural traditions of both blacks and whites...
...American novelist Tom Morrison won the Nobel Prize for Literature...
...Poet lived a life divided by elation and sorrow, each emotion intensifying the glory or bitterness of the other. Fortified by fiery wit and fiery whiskey, Oscar Wilde tackled the foibles of Victorian society with equal panache at the Albermarle Club and Reading Jail. As poet, dramatist, novelist, and aesthete, Wilde succeeded in expressing through his writing the myriad emotions he experienced and observed in the world around...