Jim Weatherly, whose song ‘Midnight Train to Georgia’ started with a plane to Houston, dies at 77 Harrison Smith One evening in 1970, Jim Weatherly picked up the phone and called his friend Lee Majors, the film and television actor who would soon became known as “The Six Million Dollar Man.” Mr. Weatherly, a struggling songwriter, had been a star quarterback at Ole Miss before moving to Los Angeles, where he bonded with Majors through a flag-football league, playing against the likes of James Caan. Instead of Majors, the actor’s new girlfriend, Farrah Fawcett, answered the phone. “Just during the course of the conversation, she mentioned she was packing her clothes and she was going to take the midnight plane to Houston to visit her family,” Mr. Weatherly later recalled. “ ‘Midnight plane to Houston’ got kind of stuck in my mind in bold letters. When I got off the phone, I wrote ‘Midnight Plane to Houston’ in about 30 to 45 minut
Netflix Announces Will Smith-Led Documentary Series Amend: The Fight for America (TV News Roundup)
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Amend: The Fight for America” will premiere on
Feb. 17. Executive produced and hosted by
Will Smith, each hour-long episode will explore American history through a lens that will have its viewers questioning what a “United States” really means.
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Millennials” will begin premiering weekly on
Feb. 25. Centered on the lives of four 20-something roommates and their neighbors across the hall, the new comedy follows them navigating the chaos of being young and finding success in the city of angels. “Millennials” stars
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Pandemic or no pandemic, Savannah is now kicking off its bustling spring season of festivals.
While we are obviously missing out on vital opportunities to gather as a community and get to know more of our neighbors in face-to-face settings, the altered schedules present some opportunities that might benefit local culture in the long run.
The 32nd annual festival’s emphasis on virtual rather than live events has prompted a significant website upgrade and plans for high quality video streaming. Highlights will likely include a gospel concert featuring Demetrius West on Feb. 7 and the Future of Jazz Concert along with a tribute to the late Ben Tucker on Feb. 16.
); These horrific incidents seemed to keep them enmeshed with one another, in a taboo bond of manhood
Anna Krien, author of the award-winning Night Games: Sex, Power, and a Journey to the Dark Heart of Sport, is our guest on this week’s Behind the Lines. Gavin Cooney By Gavin Cooney Tuesday 2 Feb 2021, 8:00 PM Feb 2nd 2021, 8:00 PM 47,343 Views 3 Comments
Anna Krien, pictured in 2014.
Image: Andrew Matthews
Image: Andrew Matthews
IT IS ALMOST eight years since the publication of
Night Games, Anna Krien’s award-winning illumination of the dark culture of misogyny and sexual violence festering within Australian sport.
The book centres on a trial in which a young woman – called Sarah in the book – alleges she was raped by a minor league Australian rules footballer after a house party, at whic
Thacker Mountain Radio Hour is Back, Featuring Nikki Giovanni and Bobby Rush
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The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour, Oxford’s award-winning music and literature show will open its spring season this weekend with two legends: celebrated poet Nikki Giovanni and veteran bluesman, Bobby Rush. Also featured will be Colorado singer-songwriter, Xanthe Alexis. The show is hosted by Jim Dees and Thacker house band, the Yalobushwhackers.
The broadcast can be heard this Thursday, Jan. 21, at 6 p.m. on WUMS (92.1 FM in Oxford) and online: https://myrebelradio.com/. The show can also be heard every Friday at 9 a.m. on WYXR Memphis (91.7 FM in Memphis) and online: https://wyxr.org/.