“According to biographer Taylor Branch, King’s autopsy revealed that though he was only 39 years old, he had the heart of a 60-year-old-man, evidencing the stress the 13 years in the civil rights movement had on him. It implies that in the 13 years prior to his death, he had aged 34 years or 2 [...]
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The History (4) Boys
Diane caught up with Leicester radical historian Ned Newitt the other day and bemoaned the fact that I wasn’t ‘doing history’ any more. OK, that’s partly just another common mum type theme about sons not doing what their mothers want. But I confess since ‘Uni’ (1987) I haven’t entirely been quiet. After all I did [...]
Dreamgirls
Didn’t make it to Nick’s birthday but made it to Dreamgirls. Liked the film’s joke at Martin Luther King, ‘an amateur on the front of a record sleeve’. Plus, recalled that Eddie Murphy had once pissed off James Brown by satirising him, now in the role akin to Brown (extract from wikipedia):
“One of Eddie Murphy’s [...]
Oona King - again..
God, why do I have to keep seeing former East End MP Oona King on the TV? You may ask why am I so irritated. And to be frank it’s just plain dumb ego. I’d suggested way back in 1997 or 1998 I think it was to documentary producer Dev Varma (after spotting his name [...]
Turning the MLK Memorial Dream into Reality
Well after a pretty uneventful day I came back home and opened my emails and find the groundbreaking ceremony for the MLK National Memorial is tomorrow, 13 December.
Nice to see that GE and FedEx chipped in some cash recently to help it on its way. Not everyone know this, but FedEx are headquarted in [...]
What would you most love to see?
In Wednesday’s FT Mike Lynch, the chief exective of Autonomy, tells Joia Shillingford he’s most love to see “a machine that lets everyone view the same situation or information from a common perspective”..
Chinese sculpture to do Dr Martin Luther King
To my surprise now I find, a Chinese sculpture artist Lei Yikin has just been chosen for the (MLK) memorial sculpture..
$40 million for the 40th anniversary
In a few months time the plan is that work will start on a memorial to Dr Martin Luther King Jr in Washington DC, due to be completed by 2008 for the 40th anniversary of King’s death..
Oliver Stone’d>Stone Mountain>
Funny, I recall trying to get an interview with Stone way back when I heard he was sniffing around a possible film about the assassination of Martin Luther King. I hassled a couple of his PR people but naturally being a stone-cold loser got nowhere..
Strange but true/1
It’s strange but true that I have shaken the hand of Jerry Ray, the brother of James Earl Ray, the convicted killer of Martin Luther King.