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...with literary discernment, and he's willing to pummel with his bare fists anyone who won't let him prove it. After being named Best Actor at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts for his role in A Beautiful Mind, Crowe read verse from the Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh as part of his acceptance speech. In so doing, he exceeded his allotted time. When the program later aired on the BBC, the poetry recitation was cut. Learning of the slight at a postawards dinner, Crowe confronted the show's producer, Malcolm Gerrie, escorted him to a storage room...
Allen Ginsburg was in and out of psychiatric wards. It was in one of these that the poet met Carl Solomon, who became a friend of the group and was Ginsburg’s inspiration for “Howl.” Solomon was committed after trying to steal a cafeteria sandwich in front of a uniformed policeman...
...Bono says, he has given up on music as a political force. He believes his work negotiating in political back rooms is more vital and effective than singing in sold-out stadiums. "Poetry makes nothing happen," the poet W.H. Auden once wrote, and Bono wistfully agrees. "I'm tired of dreaming. I'm into doing at the moment. It's, like, let's only have goals that we can go after. U2 is about the impossible. Politics is the art of the possible. They're very different, and I'm resigned to that now. Music's the thing that stopped...
...rock star as Bono is?and he has no rival?he has grown even larger over the past three years, molding himself into a shrewd, dedicated political advocate, transforming himself into the most secular of saints, becoming a worldwide symbol of rock-'n'-roll activism. Part poet, part pol, he has taken his cause?solving the financial and health crisis in Africa?and helped put it onto the agenda of the world's most powerful people...
...Bono says, he has given up on music as a political force. He believes his work negotiating in political back rooms is more vital and effective than singing in sold-out stadiums. "Poetry makes nothing happen," the poet W.H. Auden once wrote, and Bono wistfully agrees. "I'm tired of dreaming. I'm into doing at the moment. It's, like, let's only have goals that we can go after. U2 is about the impossible. Politics is the art of the possible. They're very different, and I'm resigned to that now. Music's the thing that stopped...