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...world needs Spike Jones, the 1940s bandleader with a Dead End Kid's mug and a wardrobe of cacophonous checks and plaids. Jones had fun with music. He took a sedate standard like Laura or Chloe, played it straight for a minute and then revved it up double-time and orchestrated it for tuba, kazoo and other instruments that mimic indiscreet bodily functions. Then he set this raucous pastiche to a junkyard syncopation of washboards, cap pistols, Klaxon and bicycle horns, pie pans and garbage cans -- augmented by bird whistles, brays and tag lines from radio ads ("Super Suds!" "Bromo...
From the day in late 1942 when Spike Jones & His City Slickers stormed the charts with Der Feuhrer's Face, they were the official naughty boys of music. They slowed down when Musicians Union boss James V. Petrillo imposed a two- year ban on union members' making records, but they hit the top spot in late '44, when their impudent version of Cocktails for Two sold two million records. Four years later, the holiday jape All I Want for Christmas (My Two Front Teeth) sold 1.5 million copies in six weeks. Jones cinched his renown with a high-rated radio...
There is more black--a black poster of various distrorted images of director Spike Lee, a class project, grace another wall--but Alex Chang is more than an artist who likes to make things black. Fluorescent City-Step posters and a wooden-encased, 70s family-style television break up the room's pretenses at modernism, as do the walls, which Change has repainted a "warm" white: "Dusky Santa Fe Rose." Two long rectangular mirrors hang horizontally, the longer on the bottom, above his bed. "People usually go, 'ooh kinky!' but I just though they made my room much larger." Except...
...took Spike Lee's seminar...
Students say interracial relationships can carry a social stigma, including director Spike Lee's notion--developed in the movie "Jungle Fever-that people date interraciallybecause of an idealized notion or curiosity aboutanother race...