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...like a stalker. In the movies he was the voice of Audrey II, the voracious plant ("Feed me!") that's really a Mean Green Mother From Outer Space in Little Shop of Horrors. Another Motown treasure, songwriter-producer Norman Whitfield (I Heard It Through the Grapevine, Papa Was a Rollin' Stone, War), died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Richard Corliss's 2008 Entertainment Death Reel | 1/10/2009 | See Source »

...During much of the 1960s and '70s, Norman Whitfield wrote and produced more than a dozen hit songs for Motown Records and his independent label, including Marvin Gaye's "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" and the Temptations' "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone." As one of Motown's most prolific and successful writers, he holds the title for penning the label's all-time best-selling single with "Grapevine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

Slavitt dominated the proceedings rhetorically, drawing on his debating days at Yale under the tutelage of legendary coach Rollin Osterweis, whose other pupils included William F. Buckley and presidential candidate Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass...

Author: By Michael M. Grynbaum, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Affiliate Debates in Local Race | 10/14/2004 | See Source »

Slavitt dominated the proceedings rhetorically, drawing on his debating days at Yale under the tutelage of legendary coach Rollin Osterweis, whose other pupils included William F. Buckley and presidential candidate Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass...

Author: By Michael M. Grynbaum, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Affiliate Debates in Local Race | 10/13/2004 | See Source »

...music. He knew its varied roots and how to tap them. As he announced at the conclusion of his belated, heroically defiant debut at the Grand Ole Opry in 1973: "Let me tell ya somethin' about Jerry Lee Lewis, ladies and gentlemen. I am a rock-'n'-rollin', country-and-Western, rhythm-'n'-blues-singin' mothafucker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Golden Sun | 8/10/2002 | See Source »

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