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...substantial link to the direction the guitar would take. Blake played in the more sophisticated ragtime style, laying down syncopated bass lines with his thumb while picking out complex melodic patterns with his fingers, and anyone interested in the fingerpicking styles of Ry Cooder (who recorded Blake's "Diddie Wa Diddie") and Jorma Kaukonen can hear where it all started on these tracks. The Blake collection also benefits from better fidelity, perhaps a function of the guitarist's forceful playing style, which projects with considerably greater impact than Jefferson's. But both anthologies provide a fascinating insight into the origins...
...much of the campaign year, environmentalist groups have dogged the Gore campaign over the fate of the U'wa, an 5,00-strong indigenous Colombian tribe who've threatened to commit mass suicide if Occidental goes ahead with a plan to drill oil on land they hold sacred. Just last week pro-U'wa hecklers disrupted a University of Missouri speech by Karenna Gore-Schiff, and a second group were arrested trying to enter a Gore campaign office in Washington state. Of course, these protests are mostly an opportunistic effort by the tribe's supporters to take advantage...
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...WA: Well, years ago, we both shared the same agent, Sam Cohen, and he kept badgering me to look at this girl, Tracy Ullman. I wasn't working at the time, I was between films and I kept saying, "I have no interest in looking right now, but when I'm casting..." And he kept sending me tapes and letters and I put it off and put it off and then one day I was home and I put the tape on. I was just amazed and I called in friends and they were like, "Sure, she's on television...
...WA: Why this movie? [pauses, stammers for a second] It wasn't my idea. Dreamworks puts together a promotional package and in a big meeting they ask me, "What are you willing to do? Would you do Letterman or Leno..." And I'm like, "I don't want to do television." Then they say, "Well Hugh Grant is doing things and Tracy Ullman's doing things so you have to do something. Then they said, "Why don't we do a few colleges" and I said, "Sure, if it's helpful for the film." They'll show the movie...