Word: turner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...whose discoveries ranged from Count Basie to Bob Dylan, turned impresario in 1938 and 1939 for a pair of Carnegie Hall concerts featuring an eye-popping array of now legendary jazz, blues and gospel artists, including Basie, Sidney Bechet, Charlie Christian, Benny Goodman, Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Big Joe Turner. Both concerts are available for the first time on CD, in digitally remastered sound, with 23 previously unreleased tracks thrown in to sweeten the pot. This three-disc boxed set is a platinum mine of great American music...
...titles and theme songs for James Bond movies are getting worse and worse. Goldeneye was an innocuous one and the Tina Turner ditty had some longevity. But what in God's name does Tomorrow Never Dies mean? And that cacophony by Sheryl Crow? And to prove that it wasn't a fluke, now we get The World is Not Enough (it sounds like a Danielle Steel novel) with a boring title track by Garbage. Bring back Octopussy...Michael Mann is one of the finest directors around. He's particularly intriguing because he makes testosterone flicks that somehow play better...
...worked for George Steinbrenner and Ted Turner. Which is worse: mean or nuts...
...Turner was worse, because I didn't have access to him. When I got fired by Ted, I had to arrange the meeting...
Three years ago, Gates, the richest man in the world with a net worth of $90 billion, was chided by Time Warner vice chairman Ted Turner and others for not giving away enough of his money. Since then, the Gates Foundation has pledged $4 billion to various causes...