In an interview with
Rolling Stone, the Laker Girl-turned-pop star listed her
Coming to America scene as one of the top moments of her choreography career. “This was one of my moments of having to really prove myself, because I was still pretty new in my career as a choreographer,” Abdul said. “John Landis, the director, wanted the person that choreographed Janet Jackson. I was still a Laker Girl. I went in and he looked at me and said, What are you, a teenager? And I said, Yes, I am! He basically was telling me, What do you know about African dancing? And this is my whole thing when becoming a choreographer: I ll just tell everyone yes, I know exactly what I m doing, and then I ll figure it out later. ”
This is Spinal Tap s Tony Hendra has died at 79
March 5, 2021 by:
THIS IS SPINAL TAP, died yesterday at the age of 79 after battling Lou Gehrig’s disease.
Tony Hendra started writing and performing comedy while attending Cambridge University and soon formed a comedy act with Nick Ullett. After traveling to the United States, the pair performed stand-up on the comedy circuit, even appearing on
The Merv Griffin Show and
The Ed Sullivan Show, but Hendra decided to pursue a career writing for television and broke up the act. After several years writing for
Playboy After Dark and
Music Scene, Hendra got himself into trouble when he wrote an open letter to the chairman of General Motors to scold him on the company s record on pollution. Unfortunately, his manager had just gotten him a major gig writing a special that was to be sponsored by Chevrolet. I was flooded with supportive calls from Hollywood’s nascent left, Hendra wrote in Harpers in 2002, and I was finished in
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Biden is definitely doing more than Donald Trump did to punish Saudi Arabia, but he is letting the the main culprit off the hook.
Now that the report from the Director of National Intelligence confirms Mohammed bin Salmanâs involvement in the murder and dismemberment of Jamal Khashoggi, youâd think President Biden would come down hard on the crown prince himself. No such luck.
Biden took the path of realpolitik and is punishing MBSâs underlings with sanctions and travel bans but nothing that directly targets Prince Bonesaw. The argument is that we generally donât target heads of state, particularly of nations we consider allies. This argument is false.Â
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