There are no saints out there and anyone who tries to convince you they are owed beatification is selling you porkies as well as paper and ink.
I rather get my teeth into the sort of biographies that are written by fearless sleuths who may not have talked to the subject at all, assuming they’re still living, and instead talked to everyone else.
These are penned by investigative journalists and historians who refuse to leave a dusty archive undisturbed or a murky lead untraced.
I don’t mean the type who up-end bins or source their quotes simply from the disaffected or malevolent. But those that give you as much truth as their subject requires but perhaps more that than the famous normally like you to know.
Allan Bloom’s 1987 meditation,
The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today’s Students, was a run-away bestseller. Bloom made this observation of popular music:
“Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music…Today, a very large proportion of young people between the ages of ten and twenty live for music. It is their passion; nothing else excites them as it does; they cannot take seriously anything alien to music.”[1]
Cardi B’s “WAP” has proved that Bloom’s statement still holds true to this very day. Maija Kappler of the
The Biggest Problem For The Prom Is James Corden s Casting
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There s a fine line when it comes to straight actors playing LGBTQ+ roles. When it s an important public or historical figure, there s no question they should be portrayed by someone from the LGBTQ+ community. When it s a fictional role like Barry Glickman from
The Prom, there s more of a gray area. That said, James Corden should not have been cast as Barry in Netflix s adaptation of the Broadway musical due to his over-the-top and, at times, offensive portrayal.
While
The Prom features a heartwarming story about a girl just wanting to take her girlfriend to prom with the help of a few down-and-out Broadway actors, Corden s casting taints the message it s trying to say.
relationship to strom thurmond, what work he did in the kind of thing. and he said it was 40 years ago, you know. any interview would be a wasted your time and money. so my only thing i can do is he was sitting at the time to write a criticism of the book once it came out. and he got a number of other things wrong. he quoted goldwater speaking with thurmond and talk about the importance of equal rights in columbus after lunch a few days before the presidential campaign in 1964. what he didn t say is that he began by everybody singing dixie. there were many confederate flags and american flags, and as the new york times reported in that meeting that a considerable section in his speech was devoted to denouncing the 1964 civil rights act. and any review that said that the only key issues in thurmond s career or constitutionalism and national security, i don t think you will be taken, i don t think that passes the laugh test of a we all know about strom thurmond and his career.