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...minstrel show--a format "so negative, so offensive and racist" that it will prove his point about the lack of ethical or aesthetic standards on TV. Aided by his skeptical, ambitious assistant (Jada Pinkett Smith), he hires as his stars a homeless tap dancer (Savion Glover) and his pal (Tommy Davidson). Renamed Mantan and Sleep 'n Eat, they are given a supporting cast of Topsy, Rastus, Sambo and Aunt Jemima--enough reminders of racism to spur protests from an enraged citizenry. Guess what? The show is a smash. Audience members show up in blackface. The unknowns become stars. America loves...
...early career he provided much of his own material, as displayed on "Cup of Loneliness," a superb double-CD compilation of his late-Fifties/early-Sixties recordings. The majority of the tracks on the first disc are either written or co-written by Jones, most often with boyhood pal Darrell Edwards. That includes "Mr. Fool," a languid honky-tonker about lost love that is perhaps the supreme recorded example of Jones's exquisite phrasing. "No one can ever call me Mr. Fool no more," runs the last line of the chorus. Each of four renditions of the phrase takes...
...Bush wanted his old pal Larry King to moderate the debates. And he wanted them to be in a "free-flowing format." He was disappointed on both counts. But this week, his staff did manage to negotiate a cushion of time into the normally rigid debate format. Just in case he wants to say a little something spontaneous...
...openly for years with another woman in New York'") without flatly denying it ("I didn't quite get this stupid and arcane implication, but on the other hand, I did"). She writes of 15 years of living in "close companionship," but she calls Love nothing more amorous than her "pal." Is she hiding something? Leading...
...very concerned." Although the sites give their posters--who generally use pseudonyms--a feeling of anonymity, they're usually not anonymous at all. Faced with a subpoena, most sites will readily divulge a poster's name to the authorities. And that's something a good off-line work pal would never...