"The Librarians" indie doc follows librarians as they become unlikely defenders of democracy and intellectual freedom against coordinated efforts to remove books. The film explores the risks, including personal safety, career threats, while fighting for the 1st Amendment and access to information
Thanks to friend Paul Spring for capturing another solo encore 🎻 from tour with #jonbatiste 🖤 Thought Orlando, Florida might be a nice place to play one of my favorite #Disney melodies 😉 Who knows it?
"In Southern culture, the phrase 'back-door man' refers to a man having an affair with a married woman, using the back door as an exit before the husband comes home..."
Recorded in 1960, Howlin' Wolf owning Willie Dixon's "Back Door Man."
The West Side Story creative team: composer Leonard Bernstein, playwright Arthur Laurents, choreographer Jerome Robbins, costume designer Irene Sharaff, lyricist Stephen Sondheim, producer Robert Griffith & production assistant Sylvia Drulie 📷 Martha Swope, 1957 NYPL digital collection
Charles Laughton, cinematographer Stanley Cortez, Robert Mitchum, Lillian Gish, Shelley Winters and Sally Jane Bruce during production of "The Night of the Hunter" (1955).
After months of layoffs and funding cuts by the Trump administration, the government shutdown has given some federal employees hope that their voices are finally being heard.
"I'm very much aware in the writing of dialogue, or even in the narrative too, of a rhythm. There has to be a rhythm with it. Interviewers have said, you like jazz, don't you. Because we can hear it in your writing. And I thought that was a compliment."
"...Easter Break - '66 A shack on Cape Sincere Mad Mona bakin' gospel candy It was a radical year We get a little silly And fall into microspace It's even better this time around With Coltrane on the K.L.H..."
Buster would spend hours every day visiting with seniors at a town-owned housing complex nearby. Shortly after he died a few pooled their resources and had this plaque made. He truly was one-of-a-kind.
"When the wind blew from the south and the French doors had been opened, the sound of cheering carried from Ebbets Field into the apartment. It was astonishing, to hear cheers from a major league crowd while sitting at home."
