Former teen idol Pat Boone recalled some of his most memorable celebrity encounters over the years. He remembered having a "little bone" to pick with Elton John when they met for the first time.
By Conway Crew
We spoke with the legendary Pat Boone about his life and amazing career.
Singer, actor, TV host, producer, songwriter, author, motivational speaker, TV pitchman, radio personality, record company head, TV station owner, sports team owner, family man, humanitarian, a man unafraid to air his views. A lot of Pat Boone s from which to pick and choose. A lot of Pat Boone s to go around. Right now, Boone - the #10 all time top recording artist, according to music industry bible, Billboard - is the Lion in Winter, five decades of recording history behind him and a busy future ahead.
Former teen pop idol Pat Boone recalled meeting his pal from Tennessee Elvis Presley. The singer, who is now 86, also described his last conversation with the King before he passed away on Aug. 16, 1977 at age 42.
EXCLUSIVE: Pat Boone fired back after Speedy Gonzales – the fastest mouse in all of Mexico – was deemed racially insensitive.
On March 3, The New York Times published an op-ed by columnist Charles M. Blow who argued that Speedy Gonzales’ on-screen friends helped popularize the corrosive stereotype of the drunk and lethargic Mexicans.
The decades-old Looney Tunes character, who is bilingual, is known for wearing a sombrero and speaking in a thick accent. The classic cartoon famously outsmarted and outran villains while repeating his Spanish-language mantra: ¡Andale! ¡Andale! ¡Arriba! ¡Arriba! ( Come on! Come on! Up! Up! ).
Families could wait for decades to get affordable housing in Newark | Opinion
Updated Mar 03, 2021;
Posted Mar 03, 2021
In a new study, David Dante Troutt, director of the Rutgers Center on Law, Inequality and Metropolitan Equity (CLiME), says 60% of Newark s residents spend one-third of their income on housing and almost one-third of residents spend at least half of their incomes on rent. (Aristide Economopoulos | NJ Advance Media) Aristide Economopoulos | NJ Adva
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By David Dante Troutt
If Newark was to meet its residents’ current need for affordable housing at least 16,000 units it would take over 20 years and still fail to reach hundreds of households. Yet by that time, another generation of very low-income families would show all the symptoms of deep economic scarring laid bare by the pandemic chronic housing instability and displacement, school absenteeism, increased exposure to trauma, poverty-level wages and, as the city’s 2,300 COVID-19 deaths c