Painter from missouri. He was most famous in the 1930s, 1940s. He is known for doing a style of art called regionalism. A lot of the midwest rural scenes, he often paints. He paints a lot of American Labor scenes. But it tends to be the rural aspect of it. His core belief was common art for the common man. But he is an artist that becomes very famous during his career. And fairly welltodo. Tom benton came from a political family. He was named for his great uncle senator thomas benton. So tom grows up surrounded by politics. Father, a colonel, was a successful lawyer in missouri where tom was born. His father was a u. S. District attorney. In 1896 when tom was seven his father was elected to the house of representatives. The family does move to washington, d. C. For eight years. For benton the ages of seven to 15 growing up in d. C. Then coming back to the ozarks every summer, that will be formative for him to experience those two different worlds. To be able to move in this political,
Artists. Won 7 grammys and nominated for 32 and won an Academy Award for purple rain and inducted into the rock n roll hall of fame in 2004 and ranked as number 27 on the list of one hundred greatest artists of all time. As tributes continue to pour in, we are working to learn more about the moments leading up to his death. Tmz broke the news this morning and spokely after we spoke to harvey leven. It never made accepts that he had the flu and he made the Emergency Landing. It didnt make sense. He did two big shows in atlanta and did just fine and his voice was great and he was fine and all of a sudden an hour later he makes an Emergency Landing 48 minutes from the city that he lives in. Makes an Emergency Landing in illinois to be rushed to the hospital. We were told that he was in bad shape in the hospital and they felt he was released too early but his people wanted to get him home. Officials in his home state are investigating the exact cause of the singers death. Princes music car
Winner of the voice. An inside look at the starstudded finale and well hear from the winner today, wednesday, december 18th, 2013. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today on a wednesday morning. Im matt lauer. Good morning, im Savannah Guthrie along with al roker and natalie morales. Were all losers. We didnt win the Mega Millions. But thats a lot of cash. If you bought your tickets in either california or georgia check your ticket carefully. The first Winning Ticket was sold at a gift shop in san jose. The other at a newsstand inside that building in atlanta. All right. Get your ticket out. Get your coffee going. For the record the winning numbers are 8, 14, 17, 20, 39, and the mega ball 7. I always wanted to do that. Lets get right to Gabe Gutierrez who is outside the winning location in atlanta. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Were here in buckhead, one of the nicer
Mame. Jerry herman. Oh, my gosh. It is wines day wednesday, everybody. December 18th. Its National Free shipping day for 930 retail outlets. How are you supposed to know if theyre one of them . I guess you have to call up or check online or something. Yeah. I guess so. We adore him. Do you know what i like about him, justin long . Hes unpredictable. He comes to play. He does. And its hard to get him to leave. He showed me a horrifying picture. Its horrifying. Hope were able to reveal it on the air. Oh, okay. Plus lastminute gifts for all the guys in your life. How many guys are you supposed to have . Youre supposed to have just one guy, arent you . I dont know. Big night last night. Oh, my gosh, the voice. Before we reveal the winner, we have in a hermetically sealed briefcase. We have our picks for who we thought was going to win the voice. Jerry sat on it all night. Gerard. One of them. Or gerard. Yes. Heres your. Thank you, darling. Heres mine. And we both said tessanne. And we were
[inaudible] the gentleman benefactor that paid for his college that paid for his College Tuition spontaneously after hearing a speech and guess i yes i spoke to him during the research both before and after the hopefully with a happy ending. Guess its nice to be out in the world talking to people as opposed to in the garage in the dark. One more. That was an interesting thing. He was so calm part of comport with the lightest and that relates to the question he really did sort of sector off to friends parts often friend parts of himself in different environments. Not only for himself but his friends. They have the different forms and those were the different parts and they really do start to see a Bigger Picture they have this version. I think it was cathartic for everyone to start to see how big of a personality and how big of a story this was. Thank you. Appreciate it. [applause] thank you for your questions and for sharing the story with us tonight. We will now come to the book signi