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...This April, The Sympathizer becomes an HBO mini-series starring Robert Downey Jr....
...Scottish violinist Nicola Benedetti, who makes her debut as director of the highbrow Edinburgh International Festival, looks to Martin Luther King Jr for inspiration....
...For years he fought to stabilise his relationship with this complicated, wealthy Catholic, the wife of Ernest Hoschedé — his chief collector — a spendthrift bankrupted because he had bought too many Monets...
...Animals and fantastical beasts often emerged from their canvases, which were inspired by folk art and the drawings of children, as well as other renegade artists of the time – from Picasso and Miró to Jackson...
...JR: There are three things. The first of them, obviously, is it’s a recognition that [Weta founder and Lord of the Rings director] Peter Jackson was a genius, when you go back nearly 30 years ago....
...Gifted veteran Jackson Silva (Clifton Collins Jr) has had his share in a long career, one that seems to be winding down before two arrivals....
...Off the court, he was a civil-rights leader who marched on Washington with Martin Luther King, Jr. and had an interminable competitive spirit and humour to boot....
...Jackson HouldingUmm, not very, but a bit. Leo HouldingWas it — were you scared at all? Jackson HouldingNo....
...The owner, Willy Bogner Jr, worked as a cameraman for a few of the Jimmy Bond movies, which is why Moore was often wearing their sportswear.” Sean Scully, painter “Picasso’s Child with a Dove....
...The 1700s are still felt in Congo Square – sacred land – and in the French Quarter with Jackson Square, Bourbon Street and the monuments that are both beautiful and problematic....
...The reissue campaign includes a remix of their 1981 song “Can You Feel It” with sampled speeches by Martin Luther King Jr and Barack Obama....
...Highlights include a gospel duet between Mavis Staples and Mahalia Jackson, Sly Stone show-stealing with a rasping, electric “Everyday People”....
...[MUSIC PLAYING] Today, central bankers are gathering for their big annual meeting that usually takes place in Jackson Hole....
...of populist Andrew Jackson....
...Tony Jackson and Andrew Hill...
...“I started to think you can call this art if you want to,” he says, just “not in Jackson, Mississippi — you got to get to New York to call this art.”...
...(FT) March in Washington Rev Al Sharpton and other civil rights leaders will mark the 57th anniversary of Dr Martin Luther King Jr’s 1963 March on Washington at the Lincoln Memorial on Friday....
...It was for an official event and, partly because Ernest Bai Koroma, then Sierra Leone’s president, saw it happen, I was immediately helped up and given space to carry on reporting....
...Sunday”, in March 1965, as he and around 600 protesters marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama to advocate for their voting rights and to express their anger at the killing of Jimmie Lee Jackson...
...We asked Peter Jackson to help us, and he put the concert together and it’s incredible....
...When John D Rockefeller Jr discreetly began spending the inheritance from his billionaire father in the 1920s, his intentions seemed noble....
...“We are in a moment of a bit of a whirlwind,” said D’atra Jackson, BYP100’s national director, who lives in North Carolina....
...Her delicately cooked, immaculately presented food makes the average meal look like it was plated by Jackson Pollock....
...Mr Mercuriadis said 82 per cent of the income generated by Stax drummer Al Jackson Jr’s 1,850-song catalogue was derived from Al Green’s “Let’s Stay Together”, while other well-known songs including Booker...
...She describes the works as “a comment on [Jackson] Pollock”, who had pioneered the drip painting approach in the 1940s....
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