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Today every American city seems to have a Martin Luther King Boulevard, and old enemies running for office casually invoke his name. But it is important to remember that when the movement that he led began, he could not drink at a southern water fountain, could not ride in most seats on a southern bus, could not eat at a Woolworth’s lunch counter, and could not use the men’s room in any facility along the highway.
Ten years earlier, the movie The King’s Speechelicited similar interest. The movie depicts how his speech therapist helped King George VI control stuttering during his first radio broadcast. The movie won four Academy Awards and 12 Oscar nominations. A list of stutters compiled at Minnesota State University cites nearly 200 historical and contemporary people along with their notable achievements. The list includes famous actors, sports stars, politicians, singers, musicians, writers and others. Clearly, stuttering is not an insurmountable barrier to achievement. However, research findin...
Prediction: One year after Parasite’s historic victory, will the Academy have another uncommon spell of good taste? The stars appear to be aligning for Nomadland, which has won the top prize from the Hollywood Foreign Press, the British Academy, the Producers Guild, and the Directors Guild (the last three of which share lots of members with the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences). But don’t pop the bubbly for last year’s most critically acclaimed movie just yet. After all, 1917 won all of those same precursors, only to lose Best Picture at the finish line. Parasite, which s...
Screenshot: HBO In Los Espookys—an HBO comedy from Fred Armisen, Julio Torres, and Ana Fabrega—a group of horror movie-obsessed friends come to the realization that all the time they spend waiting around for life to happen Advertisement Slacker Renaldo (Berardo Velasco), dental hygienist Ursula (Cassandra Ciangherotti), Ursula’s weird sister Tati (Fabrega), and chocolate empire heir Andrés (Torres) all bring something different to their unique business that specializes in creating the illusion of supernatural happenings for a reasonable fee. Renaldo and Tati’s willingness to go all...
To date, seven exhaustive volumes have been published spanning hundreds of pages. Each volume is bound in a signature red cover. The work started in 1985 when Dr. Carson was handpicked by Coretta Scott King, founder of the King Center in Atlanta, to lead the project nearly 20 years after MLK was assassinated. Glover: "How long did you believe it would take you to get through all 12 volumes at the time?" Carson: "I'm kind of embarrassed to tell you the answer to that. I told (Coretta Scott King) 'probably in about 20 years I think we can wrap this up'." Glover: "So you were thinking 2005?"