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...masterpiece, Beloved. Both would receive Pulitzer Prizes. In that same year, PBS aired Henry Hampton's Eyes on the Prize, the six-part documentary on the civil rights era, and Cornell scholar Martin Bernal published Black Athena, a highly controversial account of African sources of classical Greek civilization. Meanwhile, Spike Lee and Wynton Marsalis were establishing themselves as masters of film and jazz...
...shots he had to remove or trim in ( Natural Born Killers to secure an R rating from the classification board of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). There was the bring-me-the- head-of-Tommy-Lee-Jones scene, where prisoners put the warden's head on a spike. There was the see-through-the-palm-of-Robert-Downey-Jr. shot, after Mallory blows a hole in the newsman's hand. Stone has more, if you want to hear them...
...Music: Spike Jones' orchestrations called for pie pans...
That was then, and it's now too. Jones is again the cult rage. Jordan R. Young's carefully researched biography Spike Jones: The Man Who Murdered Music (Past Times Publishing; 00 pages; $0.00) is making its own noise in book stores. Rhino Records has issued The Spike Jones Anthology, a handsome, 40- song dose of the band's top tunes, including the chirping, barking, cackling Love in Bloom and the magnificent Hawaiian War Chant, which climaxes with a wail of electric-guitar dissonance that predates Jimi Hendrix by 20 years. A quirkier collection -- Spiked!, on Catalyst -- has some prime...
...Spiked! arrives with a cultural pedigree: cover art by Art (Maus) Spiegelman and liner notes by author-recluse Thomas (Gravity's Rainbow) Pynchon. "Yet there remains about Spike's work what is sometimes an almost uncomfortable complexity," proclaims Pynchon, later anointing Jones as "a conceptual artist with a head for business." One would like to drag semiology in here too, for the Slickers never saw a text they couldn't subvert. But Jones' tactic was not deconstruction so much as demolition. His long-touring Musical Depreciation Revue was a frontal assault on sonic propriety. Even his nickname was an action...