Word: townsends
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Back in Brooklyn, Lee is at home. When he was honored last month by the Black Filmmaker Foundation, Lee pledged allegiance to his home borough and teasingly swore never to join Hollywood's "black pack," whose members include Eddie Murphy and director Robert Townsend. Lee's next picture, the story of a jazz musician who must balance his career and love life, will also be shot in Brooklyn and Manhattan. Hollywood holds little allure for the man who rides around on a twelve-speed Peugeot bicycle (he doesn't have a driver's license) and considers a relaxing evening "going...
...elected in a day-long process in which Review editors formed committees to review the records of each candidate, said executive editor Robert I. Townsend '87. The candidate pool, in which a third of the second-year class participated, was narrowed to two candidates "after about 11 hours," said Townsend...
Douglas A. Townsend '89, an organizer of the event, says, "It [the concert] shows the concern that Harvard students have for this cause but also the concern that Harvard students have about jazz. We don't have a lot of forums for jazz and this event provides the opportunity for talented musicians to get together and play what they love to play...
...Townsend says that jazz lends itself very easily to working for public service organizations and raising social consciousness...
...Jazz has always been associated with Black consciousness," Townsend says. "Jazz was one way to express their problems with society. One of the reasons that musicians get involved with jazz is because it [jazz] goes beyond the music, it has often had social implications...