Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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GLORY! GLORY! (HBO, debuting Feb. 19 and 20, 9 p.m. EST). Jim and Tammy could raise the bucks at least. In this two-part movie, Richard Thomas plays the dullest evangelist on TV, who recruits a drugged-out rock singer to save his ministry...
...Brand New Bag sells a brand of rice. It's been a long time since the raw, driving soul music of James Brown sounded dangerous to mainstream white America. The rhythm-and-blues man, who says he is 55, belonged to a presidential task force and is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He has won two Grammy Awards and has had an audience with the Pope. When the phone rings in his office in Augusta, Ga., a receptionist crisply answers, "Godfather of Soul." But the boss can't come to the phone right now. James Brown...
Before he started to slide, Brown racked up 15 No. 1 R.-and-B. hits; amassed a personal empire that included radio stations in Augusta, Knoxville and Baltimore; and inspired later generations of rock 'n' rollers, including Mick Jagger and Michael Jackson. So great was his influence with young blacks that he was summoned to Boston and Washington to cool off race riots during 1968. He eagerly ticks off the Presidents he has met and supported, including George Bush. "I've been the American Dream," Brown plaintively notes. "When you say Old Glory, I'm a part...
...sees anything off the beaten track in Washington, because there is so much on it, but if you want to escape crowds, check out the Harvard-owned Dumbarton Oaks. This serene Georgetown park has a museum of Byzantine Art and a HOLLIS-listed library. Or take a walk in Rock Creek Park, a sinuous strip of hilly forest in the heart of the city...
...least that's what the hoofers hope. But the group of old tap dancing pros who sit on the third floor of Sonny's dreaming of the days before rock'n roll can't be sure whether a worn pair of shoes, an old flame and good music will be enough to convince Max to live an honest life...