Word: parkers
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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...
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...
...Well I don?t think that you have a choice, like it or not. I knew when I adopted Parker I was going to raise him in the light, and not to be ashamed, without lies. Our children have never not known. Although people in the public didn?t know that I was gay, everyone in my career always knew. Before I signed the deal with Warner Brothers to have a talk show there was a meeting and I said ?I just want to be clear in front of everyone here that I?m gay and I?m going...