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The problem for anyone trying to make what Bob Marley once called “rebel music” today is not that there’s too little rebellion out there but, by Western pop culture’s liberal definition, that there’s way too much. Since the dawn of rock ‘n’ roll, popular music has been de facto rebellious, at least insofar as the term is defined by record labels and soft-drink ads.
THE CONFIDENCE MAN IN AMERICAN LITERATURE by Gary Lindberg; Oxford; 319 pages; $19.95 Con artists are familiar figures in American literature, though they are usually directed through culture's back door.
Budgets spiraling out of control; cast and crew on the verge of collapse; sets destroyed: Just a few of the catastrophes to afflict the ill-fated productions in The Screening Room’s Top 10 movie shoots from hell. From “Cleopatra” to “Apocalypse Now,” these infamous productions have all been struck by extreme weather, tragedy, illness and sometimes death.
An international rocker is creating a rare opportunity to sing about change on the Communist island of Cuba.
An American Airlines flight out of Florida made an emergency landing Thursday night after a written bomb threat was found in a bathroom, officials said. Scam artists are calling veterans and posing as VA workers who need credit card information to update prescription information, as part of a scheme that fraudsters have recycled over the years.
Lots of people never made it to Woodstock, in part because the 400,000 who did caused the most famous traffic jam in New York history. But for those of us who missed it because of the inconvenience of having not yet been born, the concert’s 40th anniversary is instinctively less a cause for celebration than an excuse to plug our ears. We know the basics — or think we do.
The star-studded BET Awards got under way without "the greatest star in the world," Joe Jackson, father of the late Michael Jackson, said on Sunday night.
Michael Jackson’s impact on pop culture is indelible. But perhaps his biggest legacy will be how he changed the music industry. “As a performer he changed history ..
From street corners, buses and subways to phone calls, text messages, online posts and tweets, people around the world commented, pondered, and paid tribute to pop legend Michael Jackson, who died Thursday afternoon in Los Angeles. Around midnight at London’s Leicester Square, as news of Jackson’s death spread, Luis Carlos Ameida and his friends were surrounding a car listening to the star’s music
It’s an old parlor game: Can you name 10 famous Belgians? Belgium is a tiny nation, and often the butt of its neighbors’ jokes, but it can claim two 20th-century artistic giants who would make it onto that list: Hergé — or at least his globetrotting comic strip character Tintin — and René Magritte, the subversive surrealist painter