Word: thorntons
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...clear antecedent for hip-hop) in the 1940s, that too crossed over as whites gravitated toward the language, fashion, attitude and music of hip cats like Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. And I think most people today are clear that it was artists like Louis Jordan and Big Mama Thornton, not Elvis Presley, who created rock and roll and laid the musical foundation that crossed it over to young white people...
...changed music forever, the revolution was already well under way. In fact, you could say it began in 1950, when a pair of 17-year-old white kids named Leiber and Stoller teamed up to write for black rhythm-and-blues performers like Jimmy Witherspoon and Big Mama Thornton--for whom they yelled and banged out Hound Dog in 10 inspired minutes...
Consider the quasi-royal encore wedding of Anne Andrews, 45, and John Carleton Thornton III, 50, both of whom were married once before. Held last month at the home of California state senator Joe Dunn, a family friend, the $30,000 affair was a step up from Andrews' first wedding, which cost a fourth as much. This time, a separate coordinator was hired just to handle the children at the ceremony, who were ferried about in an antique Rolls-Royce complete with uniformed footmen. The rehearsal dinner, a picnic at a lake, included a trout-fishing derby...
Academy Award winners BILLY BOB THORNTON, 44, and ANGELINA JOLIE, 24, were married after a brief courtship...
...stock that you expect will rise a great deal before you die, consider gifting the stock up to the annual gift limit. "Do it early, before the value goes up," says Karen Goldberg, a tax lawyer with accounting firm Grant Thornton. "That way you keep future appreciation out of your estate...