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Bette Davis: The Greatest White Bitch of All
“In my day we didn’t talk much about happiness. If it came, we were grateful for it. But we were brought up in the belief that there were other things more important.” “What things?” “Oh, old fogey fantastic notions such as duty and personal responsibility.” “In This Our Life” was released in 1942 and provided…
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Hold That Tiger
If you know the way from the alley to Buckingham Palace and back, having listened to the glistening slime of pimps and hustlers can provide you with a perfectly realistic sense of human nature beyond the supposedly shocking Tiger Woods scandal. In my youth, almost any subject would be taken apart in the near darkness of…
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Stanley Crouch: On Lady Obama
Through her combination of cunning, empathy and resilience Michelle Obama embodies the blue steel level of revelation that’s central to the blues itself and to the tragic optimism of Americana at its best. Even though she is from Chicago, the urban blues capital, and her husband has the same birthday as Louis Armstrong, it is doubtful…
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