'Your papers, please' must never be heard in America
"Ever since I can remember," Barbra Streisand told a crowd at Lincoln Center on Monday night, "people have been calling me bossy and opinionated." She continued: "Maybe that's because I am. Three cheers for bossy women!"
Hard to believe, but Jay Mohr's tweet rescinding the Second Amendment wasn't enough to clinch victory for gun control advocates in Wednesday's Senate vote on a measure to expand background checks on gun buyers. So Paul McCartney on Wednesday became a late addition to an anti-gun campaign spearheaded by crooner Tony Bennett. That wasn't enough either: Faster than you can say "Hello, Goodbye" the Senate rejected the new background checks late Wednesday afternoon.
They haven't hit the studio yet, but Tony Bennett says he "can't wait" to record his next album with Lady Gaga.
Tony Bennett doesn't think Amy Winehouse's life was tragic. He believes the singer who died at age 27 lived a complete life because she was able to achieve her goal: becoming a respected musician.
Clive Davis, a kid from Brooklyn, makes his way through New York University and Harvard Law School on brains and ambition. He is hired by a New York law firm and impresses his bosses with his capacity for hard work. He is soon making good money, with the realistic expectation of making much more in the long run.
Tony Bennett doesn't think Amy Winehouse's life was tragic. He believes the singer who died at age 27 lived a complete life because she was able to achieve her goal: becoming an accomplished musician.
Justin Anderson scored 15 points, including four key free throws in the final minutes, and Virginia overcame a sloppy offensive performance to beat Norfolk State 67-56 in the first round of the NIT on Tuesday night.
For both programs, it's not a terrible situation. Not this year at least. It does bring up the question as to when too much NIT is too much? At what point does the heat get turned up?
President Obama's State of the Union speech Tuesday was carefully staged to promote his gun-grabbing second-term agenda. Arrangements were made so TV cameras would pan to the faces of victims of gun violence in the House galleries.
Last week, singer Tony Bennett told Congress the violence in the United States was like that in Germany prior to World War II, when "the Nazis came over, created tragic things and they had to be told off" ("Tony Bennett: Without gun control, U.S. may become 1940s Germany," Web, Wednesday). Mr. Bennett's singing talent notwithstanding, his understanding of history is ridiculous.
Joe Harris scored 22 points, and Virginia showed its flexibility with an uncharacteristic lights-out shooting performance in an 80-69 victory over Maryland on Sunday.
Salaam Remi has been producing music for more than 20 years, but he says he's not mad that he's just earning the top producer nomination at the Grammy Awards.
Nothing adds pizazz to a tired policy issue in Washington like flying in celebrities for a news conference. Gun-control advocates have been losing legislative steam since the Newtown, Conn., tragedy, so they called on the glitterati to brighten their case before the Capitol hallways on Wednesday.
President Obama has consistently called for a national conversation on gun violence since December's Connecticut school shootings, and on Wednesday, some of his most loyal backers — Hollywood's B-List — responded.
President Obama's gun control push got some Hollywood star power at a Wednesday morning news conference at the Capitol that included appearances from actors Chris Rock, Adam Scott, and Amanda Peet — as well as crooner Tony Bennett, who cautioned that if America does not act on the issue of gun violence, it could be headed down the road of 1940s Germany.
NEW YORK (AP) - They haven't hit the studio yet, but Tony Bennett says he "can't wait" to record his next album with Lady Gaga.
He says "we have it all worked out already on paper."
