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...reflects ruefully, “I was pretty good, but when you play the trumpet, you quickly learn that the masterworks of Western music are not for the trumpet.” Monson soon found that her instrument had a wider range in other forms of music. Hearing Charlie Parker play his ‘Funky Blues’ was a transformative moment. She recalls, “I was captivated with it. I was intrigued by improvisation, yet nothing in my classical training had given me any idea whether I could do that.” Monson pursued jazz...
...Ashley Parker Angel—“Picture Perfect” “I stole this from my brother after watching [Angel’s] new reality TV show for all of intersession,” says Schwartze. The former O-Town teeny-bopper lust bucket’s new MTV show, There And Back, chronicles his struggles to recover from having spent all of his boy-band earnings. 2) Tim McGraw—“Let Me Love You” Lauren’s Explanation: “I’m from Missouri...
Hehir, the Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of Practice of Religion and Public Life at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG), was cautious in condemning the cartoons...
...Searchlight Pictures Directed by Ol Parker 3 stars I’m always hesitant to trust movies that take their titles from the lyrics of popular songs. Mediocre romantic comedies especially have notoriously abused this trend with less-than thrilling results (“Sweet Home Alabama” comes to mind). Writer/director Ol Parker develops “Imagine Me & You” around the Turtles’s oldie “Happy Together.” Although borrowing lyrics is a standard fixture of romantic comedies, “Imagine” posits an unexpected love triangle...
...middle of nowhere, farm country. Where I did not fit in, at all. I never did, and I always knew I wanted to leave, and go to New York. I was a huge reader, so I'd read all these New York-set books. I was all about Dorothy Parker, at probably a dangerously young...