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true story: there was a lipsync contest in my school in 4th grade and me & my best friend were going to do "old man river" but then his mom told him it would be "racist" becuz of the blackfacish element i suppose but i thought it was stoopid becuz it was an anti-racist song and my dad, an old liberal thort so too.
but he pulled out and did weird al's "living with a hernia" with another friend instead & i did johnny b. goode on my own.
later in high school jm and i talked about but never actually did an ultra-angsty rendition of NIN's "hurt" for that lipsync contest.
i also sorta wanted to do bad bad leroy brown back in 4th grade but never did that, tho me & some friends did "love potion #9" for "50s day" (!) in 7th. (was that you jm? i don't remember. i remember sean tho).
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 01:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
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“His life and legacy was the film I wanted to make the second after Hunger,” McQueen said, referring to his debut movie, about the IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands. “But I didn’t have the power, I didn’t have the juice.”
McQueen was speaking on stage in New York at the Hidden Heroes awards, organised by the Andrew Goodman Foundation, named in honour of one of three young civil rights activists murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi in 1964.
The director told the audience that he first discovered Robeson at the age of 14. A neighbour called Mr Milton used to give McQueen books and articles he thought might be of interest, and one day put a cutting about Robeson through his parents’ letterbox.
“It was about this black guy who was in Wales and was singing with these miners,” remembered McQueen. “I was about 14 years old, and not knowing who Paul Robeson was, this black American in Wales, it seemed strange. So then, of course, I just found out that this man was an incredible human being.”
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/nov/18/steve-mcqueen-to-make-film-about-paul-robeson
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 19 November 2014 12:52 (nine years ago) link
i tried reading that "la review of books" article but the font was so horrendous (particularly on the letter b) that i had to give up! i wish i wasn't such an oversensitive crank. :(
― rushomancy, Wednesday, 19 November 2014 22:29 (nine years ago) link
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