When people say that music lives forever, and that long after someone has passed on, the music – good music, will last, these artists are examples.
Today, we remember Nat King Cole, who is considered the first Negro ‘ crossover’ star.
When people say that music lives forever, and that long after someone has passed on, the music – good music, will last, these artists are examples.
Today, we remember Nat King Cole, who is considered the first Negro ‘ crossover’ star.
Even though 3Chics Politico is written and curated by three women: Ametia, Rikyrah, and SouthernGirl2, I must nominate this as one of the most engaging blogs I've found. Devoted to politics and culture, these three shine a light on contemporary life with humor and spirit.
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Juanita Moore, Oscar-Nominated Actress in Imitation of Life, Dies at 99
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/juanita-moore-oscar-nominated-actress-dead-99-21393848
Juanita Moore, a groundbreaking actress and an Academy Award nominee for her role as Lana Turner’s black friend in the classic weeper “Imitation of Life,” has died.
Actor Kirk Kelleykahn, her grandson, said that Moore collapsed and died Wednesday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 99, according to Kelleykahn. Accounts of her age have differed over the years.
Moore was only the fifth black performer to be nominated for an Oscar, receiving the nod for the glossy Douglas Sirk film that became a big hit and later gained a cult following. The 1959 tearjerker, based on a Fannie Hurst novel and a remake of a 1934 film, tells the story of a struggling white actress’ rise to stardom, her friendship with a black woman and how they team up to raise their daughters as single mothers.
It brought supporting actress nominations for both Moore and Susan Kohner, who played Moore’s daughter as a young adult attempting to pass as a white woman. Kohner’s own background is Czech and Mexican. By the end, Turner’s character is a star and her friend is essentially a servant. The death of Moore’s character sets up the sentimental ending.
“The Oscar prestige was fine, but I worked more before I was nominated,” Moore told the Los Angeles Times in 1967. “Casting directors think an Oscar nominee is suddenly in another category. They couldn’t possibly ask you to do one or two days’ work. You wouldn’t accept it. And I’m sure I would.”
Thank you for this article, SG2.
YVW! Imitation of Life is a classic.
Yes, I first saw it when I was in college.
Slideshow: The 20 best black sitcoms of all time
Since television’s inception, African-Americans have been woefully underrepresented. Nevertheless, some shows have been able to break through and find a loyal black audience. Several others crossed over and became influential successes with viewers regardless of race. These sitcoms have had a big impact on pop culture and the black community.
http://thegrio.com/2010/03/02/slideshow-the-best-black-sitcoms-of-all-time/#s:slideshow-best-black-sitcoms-cosby-show-jpg
Hawaii All State Marching Band – 2014 Rose Parade
Liberty High School Marching Band at the 2014 Rose Bowl Parade
love the marching bands!
Hi Ametia.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9bKwRW0l-Qk
Verse from song:
I am ready to fly and reach out even more!
I became a fan the LRB in nursing school. The Albatross & whale they are my brother……
Yes, I love the Little River Band.
Dolphins, whales, albatross….so many of nature’s wonders!
I pray that this New Year finds our hearts guided to change our society to create an atmosphere where our children will be safe.
May bullying end.
May stereotyping and profiling end.
May only responsible people have guns.
May our gun laws not be so vague that people feel that there is no alternative to shooting a gun.
May no one ever feel free to commit a hate crime with no consequences.
Too many people have lost their loved ones.
One more prayer.
May all people pick up the spirit of this song:
“Imitaition of Life” actress Juanita Moore died.
NEW YORK (AP) — Juanita Moore, a groundbreaking actress and an Academy Award nominee for her role as Lana Turner’s black friend in the classic film “Imitation of Life,” has died.
Actor Kirk Kelleykahn, her grandson, said that Moore collapsed and died Wednesday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 99, according to Kelleykahn. Accounts of her age have differed over the years.
Moore was only the fifth black performer to be nominated for an Oscar, receiving the nod for the glossy Douglas Sirk film that became a big hit and later gained a cult following. The 1959 tearjerker, based on a Fannie Hurst novel and a remake of a 1934 film, tells the story of a struggling white actress’ rise to stardom, her friendship with a black woman and how they team up to raise their daughters as single mothers.
It brought supporting actress nominations for both Moore and Susan Kohner, who played Moore’s daughter as a young adult attempting to pass as a white woman. Kohner’s own background is Czech and Mexican. By the end, Turner’s character is a star and her friend is essentially a servant. The death of Moore’s character sets up the sentimental ending.
“The Oscar prestige was fine, but I worked more before I was nominated,” Moore told the Los Angeles Times in 1967. “Casting directors think an Oscar nominee is suddenly in another category. They couldn’t possibly ask you to do one or two days’ work. You wouldn’t accept it. And I’m sure I would.”
Moore also had an active career in the theater, starting at Los Angeles’ Ebony Showcase Theatre in the early 1950s, a leading black-run theater. She also was a member of the celebrated Cambridge Players, with other performers including Esther Rolle and Helen Martin.
http://thegrio.com/2014/01/01/juanita-moore-oscar-nominated-actress-dead-at-99/
http://youtu.be/jjXoof4oLYI
KILLA scene and comment to tell your MAMA! God rest your Soul Ms. Moore.
We Whites MUST answer for what we have done!
AND
We Whites MUST do EVERYTHING within our power to repair the damage committed by Whites.
May there be a better America!
May you rest in peace in His loving arms, Ms. Moore.
Colorado’s open for POT Bizness. Talk about ROCKY MOUNTAIN HIGH.
bwa ha ha ha ha…good one!
LOL!
“Up they go, in to the wide, blue yonder, Up they go!”
Hey….what’s in this fog-like cloud in this Pikes Peak photo?
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FGHTH0MFI-I/T4SsVu61iRI/AAAAAAAAAMY/0iRi0ykcK3U/s1600/pikespeak2.jpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIDX18Xl16s
One of my all time favorite Nat King Cole songs. SMOOTH, SUAVE, SENSATIONAL.
I so love his style!
Mona Lisa Mona Lisa, men have named you
You’re so like the lady with the mystic smile
Is it only ’cause you’re lonely, they have blamed you
For that Mona Lisa strangeness in your smile?
Do you smile to tempt a lover, Mona Lisa?
Or is this your way to hide a broken heart?
Many dreams have been brought to your doorstep
They just lie there and they die there
Are you warm, are you real, Mona Lisa?
Or just a cold and lonely, lovely work of art?
musical interlude
Do you smile to tempt a lover, Mona Lisa?
Or is this your way to hide a broken heart?
Many dreams have been brought to your doorstep
They just lie there and they die there
Are you warm, are you real, Mona Lisa?
Or just a cold and lonely, lovely work of art?
Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa
Oh, yeah!
Smooth!
he Obamacare success stories you haven’t been hearing about
By Michael Hiltzik
November 25, 2013, 3:45 p.m.
Last summer Ellen Holzman and Meredith Vezina, a married gay couple in San Diego County, got kicked off their long-term Kaiser health plan, for which they’d been paying more than $1,300 a month. The cause wasn’t the Affordable Care Act, as far as they knew. They’d been living outside Kaiser’s service area, and the health plan had decided to tighten its rules.
That’s when they discovered the chilly hazards of dependence on the individual health insurance market. When they applied for a replacement policy with Anthem Blue Cross of California, Ellen, 59, disclosed that she might have carpal tunnel syndrome. She wasn’t sure–her condition was still being diagnosed by Kaiser when her coverage ended. But the possibility was enough to scare Anthem. “They said, ‘We will not insure you because you have a pre-existing condition,'” Holzman recalls.
But they were lucky, thanks to Obamacare. Through Covered California, the state’s individual insurance marketplace, they’ve found a plan through Sharp Healthcare that will cover them both for a total premium of $142 a month, after a government subsidy based on their income. They’ll have a higher deductible than Kaiser’s but lower co-pays. But their possible savings will be impressive.
More important than that was knowing that they couldn’t be turned down for coverage come Jan. 1. “We felt we didn’t have to panic, or worry,” Holzman says. “If not for the Affordable Care Act, our ability to get insurance would be very limited, if we could get it at all.”
Holzman and Vezina are exactly the type of people Obamacare is designed to help–indeed, rescue from the cold, hard world of individual health insurance of the past. That was a world where even an undiagnosed condition might render you uninsurable. Where your insurance could be canceled after you got sick or had an accident. Where your financial health was at risk as much as your physical well-being.
These are the stories you’re not hearing amid the pumped-up panic over canceled individual policies and premium shocks–many of which stories are certainly true, but the noise being made about them leads people to think they’re more common than they are.
We’ve compiled several alternative examples for this post. They’re anecdotes, sure, just like the anecdotes you’ve been seeing and reading about people learning they’ll be paying more for coverage next year.
http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-obamacare-success-20131125,0,1801769.story#ixzz2pBZrcr9J
Great piece. ACA-AKA-OBAMACARE is HERE TO STAY, BITCHES!
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Politico Defends Mike Allen on the Grounds That People Are Allowed to Read Mike Allen
By Jonathan Chait
After initially refusing to address Erik Wemple’s exhaustive documentation of Mike Allen’s pattern of parroting the editorial line of his advertisers, Politico editor John Harris appeared on Howard Kurtz’s Fox News show to rebut the charges. Well, “rebut” may be too strong a term. He acknowledged the charges and then strung together a series of words in response to them. But the words do not make a great deal of sense:
Harris seems to be claiming that we should have no issue with Allen editorializing on behalf of his paid sponsors because it’s “transparent.” Harris defines transparency to mean that “anyone can read it” and therefore guess at the ulterior motives behind any individual item. That seems like a pretty low bar. What would a nontransparent publication be? A tip sheet that people are not allowed to read?
It’s possible that Harris actually means something different from what he actually said when he’s thinking of transparency. The ads are transparent, and any reader can look at them and then match them up with Allen’s editorial slant. This is precisely what Wemple did. But, again, what is the alternative? Ads are always public. That’s what an ad is. If the advertiser were giving Politico money, and Politico was not publishing the advertiser’s message, then it wouldn’t be an ad at all. It would be a bribe.
It’s hard to think of any definition of transparency by which Playbook ranks especially high. When you read, say, a story on the front page of the New York Times about bombings in Russia, you don’t have to guess why the story is there. It’s because there were bombings in Russia. There’s no netherworld of friends and/or sources and/or paid sponsors lurking behind every word. If transparency simply means that the motives are hidden but the product itself is open, then yes, Playbook is tied for first place as the most transparent publication in the city. It’s also tied for last place.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/12/people-are-allowed-to-read-mike-allen.html?mid=rss
Kennett Area Dems @KennettDems
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Correction: Those 5 million who were going to lose their insurance under #Obamacare? Make it 10,000. http://wapo.st/1lxn8xG #GOPfail
9:37 AM – 1 Jan 2014
comments about Obamacare and real life repercussions from a commenter:
http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2014/1/1/11103/97638#7
https://twitter.com/Kahsai/status/418472056343113730/photo/1
BUT, BUT, BUT……. He’s BLACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!
‘Fresh Prince’ Star James Avery Died at 65
Jan. 1, 2014
By LESLEY MESSER
James Avery, the actor who played Uncle Phil on “The Fresh Prince of Bel Air,” died on Tuesday, his publicist confirmed to ABC News.
The actor, 65, died from complications of open heart surgery.
Born James La Rue Avery in Virginia, Avery was raised in Atlantic City. After high school, he served in the Vietnam War from 1968 to 1969 as a member of the U.S. Navy. After returning home, Avery moved to San Diego, where he wrote poetry and TV scripts for PBS, including the Emmy Award-winning production, “Ameda Speaks: Poet James Avery.”
However, Avery perhaps was most beloved for his acting. In addition to his most famous role on the sitcom “The Fresh Prince of Bel Air,” he also lent his voice to several animated TV series, including “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” and “Iron Man.” He also appeared on the big screen in films including “Dr. Dolittle 2” and “License to Drive,” and hosted the travel series “Going Places” on PBS. Most recently, Avery worked on Zach Braff’s film, “Wish I Was Here,” which will premiere at the Sundance film festival.
” I’m deeply saddened to say that James Avery has passed away,” his “Fresh Prince” co-star Alfonso Ribeiro tweeted. “He was a second father to me. I will miss him greatly.”
Avery is survived by his wife of 26 years, Barbara, his stepson, Kevin Waters, and his mother, Florence.
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/fresh-prince-star-james-avery-died-65/story?id=21391201
Father-Daughter Duet: “Unforgettable”
I loved when Natalie Cole sang with her Dad’s video of him singing:
Indeed!
RIP James Avery! I loved and admired Uncle Phil.
No one could throw a person out of their home like Uncle Phil. He didn’t have time for the nonsense.
I will miss him. Prayers for his family and loved ones.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/james-avery-fresh-prince-bel-air-father-dies-65-article-1.1563487#ixzz2pBCldKQz
Uncle Phil brought us so much laughter and enjoyment.
Uncle Phil was a good character. A smart, intelligent, hardworking successful Black man with a beautiful Black wife, who was the head of his family with strength and never buffoonery.
ALL OF THIS!
Yes! His character showed love, and tough discipline when needed. Prayers to James Avery’s family.
http://youtu.be/1ZPsfO2I4bo
http://youtu.be/qQtDXxXyPYQ
http://youtu.be/w4WOPG0OE_U
*tears*
Yeah, a map is not the cure for our society :(
Oh, that sad hug.
*tears*
@TheToast2013
How are black people saying black people with unusual names won’t go anywhere in life when the president of the US is Barack Obama?
If it’s not a name, or class status, or color, it would be whatever the oppressor wills on one.
There are NO LIMITATIONS, except for the limitations we have made for ourselves.
Happy and blessed and terrific and prosperous and awesome and fortunate and healthy New Year to 3chics and everyone and me too!
Happy New Year to you and your family, Vitamin. May it be blessed and prosperous throughout the year.
Thank you, SouthernGirl!
Happy New Year to you, vitaminlover!
Blessings!
Thank you!
Great!
Bill de Blasio means business!
Good!
About time for NYC!
Happy New Year, 3Chics and everyone!
Nat King Cole is a lifetime favorite of mine, and my favorite NKC recording is “Ramblin’ Rose” that has to be one of the saddest love songs ever. But that’s why I like it.
Liza, I love it too. Good and sweet memories!
I’m playing it over & over, Liza. Loves it.
Liza, I love “Ramblin’ Rose” too!!
It came out when I really started listening to the radio!
It was the summer between 7th and 8th grade when I was 12.
@Yahtc…I remember it playing on the radio when I was growing up. Liza brought back some memories for me. It was good times in our house. *tears*
Oh, those nostalgia tears…feeling for you, SG2
What grade were you in when it came out, SG2?
It’s good to hear that ya’ll love this song too.
I think that “Ramblin’ Rose” as performed by NKC is one of those rare songs that are just flawlessly beautiful. When I was really young I remember thinking about the lyrics, a man in love with a woman who couldn’t settle down, so he was letting her go. In my own context I came of age during that era when women were just beginning to compete with men for careers. There were times when I wondered if this would be the story of my own life because I moved around quite a lot back then. “Who will love you with a love true when your ramblin’ days are through?” It’s a good question about the life choices that we make when we do, in fact, have choices.
So here is this song, with these deceptively simple, timeless lyrics and Nat King Cole’s beautiful voice. Music just won’t get better than this.
@Yahtc
I’m not sure what grade I was in. I just remember it being such a happy time.
Liza, what a beautiful comment…and how mature you were at that young age to consider the meaning of the lyrics!
SG2, so wonderful that you have warm memories of that good time!
Lovely!
love it. This is AMERICA folks. Get over it.
thanks for this….ICAM..
THIS IS AMERICA.
The times they are a changin’.
Oh, yeah :)
His children are going to be tall like him.
I think so too.
Happy New Year, Everyone
BREAKING NEWS: Building explodes in downtown Minneapolis; injuries reported. Developing…
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2014/01/01/22133009-building-explodes-in-downtown-minneapolis?lite
As many as a dozen people have been injured in a building explosion in Minneapolis, NBC affiliate KARE reported.
First responders are on the scene of 514 Cedar Avenue South, near Interstate 94 in in the city’s Cedar-Riverside neighborhood.
KARE is reporting that injuries include burns and trauma suffered by people falling or jumping from windows.
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Tyren and Ametia… you guys alright up there?
Ametia, Tyren, please check in
I’m fine. Just getting up for the day and heard about it on the news. I don’t live n downtown Minneapolis. The fires still burning. It was an apt. building. Hubby said probably boilers
Yes; Tyren please check in too! It’s frigidly, brutally COLD -3 degrees
YIKES!
@Tyren. Happy New Year, and thanks for checking in.
Good Morning 3Chics,
Happy New Year. Just woke. No TV or coffee yet. I’m on the other side of town (BC.) Thanks for the update and concern.
Thank God you’re alright. We were worried about you guys up there.
Praying for the injured….may they all recover from their injuries.
Tyren and Ametia, glad both of you are all right!
Brrr…… -3 degrees!
[I was in Mnpls in the late eighties when there was a huge downpour with 3 tornados touching down. The manholes in the roads were spouting like gysers! As my husband and I rushed 8 feet from the restaurant door to the taxi at the curb, my hair and clothes became absolutely soaked as if I had jumped in a lake….lightening everywhere.]
For Renisha McBride… A Poem
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=e4lqW0Kva0k
Published on Nov 15, 2013 by Nicole Newman
“Trayvon Martin And 2013 Revealed Harsh Reality Of Racism In America”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/01/2013-racism_n_4525622.html
Supreme Court Justice Halts Birth Control Mandate in Health Care Law for Catholic Group
WASHINGTON January 1, 2014 (AP)
Justice Blocks Contraception Mandate on Insurance in Suit by Nuns
By STEVE KENNY and ROBERT PEAR
Published: December 31, 2013
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/01/us/politics/justice-sotomayor-blocks-contraception-mandate-in-health-law.html?_r=0
Supreme Court halts contraception mandate for religious groups
Mike Theiler / Reuters file
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/12/31/22128010-supreme-court-halts-contraception-mandate-for-religious-groups#comments
From Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia_Sotomayor
Last resort? —-
http://veneremurcernui.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/contraception-cartoon.jpg
I love how Nat King Cole imitated Sammy Davis’s attempt to imitate Nat :)
Mother sets up funding website to move Jahi McMath from hospital
Jahi McMath’s mother has set up a funding website to raise money, so that she can move her daughter from Children’s Hospital Oakland.
http://www.gofundme.com/Jahi-Mcmath
California Department of Public Health Investigating Jahi McMath Case
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/California-Department-of-Public-Health-Investigating-Jahi-McMath-Case-238319021.html?_osource=SocialFlowTwt_BAYBrand
The California Department of Public Health has opened an investigation into Children’s Hospital Oakland and its handling of a 13-year-old girl declared brain dead after suffering complications from a routine tonsillectomy.
Anita Gore, spokeswoman for the state Department of Public Health, on Tuesday told NBC Bay Area the investigation was launched two weeks ago and could not get into the details of the investigation.
The investigations comes as the family of Jahi McMath work to transfer the Oakland girl to a center on New York’s Long Island that specializes in traumatic brain injuries.
Chris Dolan, an attorney representing the McMath family, told NBC Bay Area on Tuesday that he planned to “confirm today” the Medford, N.Y. center was still accepting the girl. The New York facility — founded by a former beauty salon owner — is willing to keep Jahi on life support, according to the family.
Dolan also said the family “is looking to find a place closer to home.” Court filings state the alternate facility is in Arizona.
Children’s Hospital Oakland reminds me of the hospital in the movie John Q. Why are they continually putting up road blocks for the parents?
CHO is either covering up a HUGE MEDICAL MISTAKE and if they willing assist with the transfer, they’ll be admitting they fucked up.
I have never seen such lack of compassion from a hospital. It’s heartbreaking to see road block after road block being put up against the parents.
Nat King Cole!!!!!!!!!
Unforgettable
That’s what you are,
Unforgettable
Tho’ near or far…
Happy New Year, everyone!
Happy New Year, SG2 and Everyone :)
http://watchabc.go.com/live
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/01/sports/ncaafootball/new-years-day-bowl-games.html?_r=0
Darnit! I missed it. I was busy getting my dinner on. My kids will be here later.
SG2, I missed it also.
I went back to bed and slept through it
HAPPY NEW YEAR, 3 CHICS & EVERYONE!!!
*sipscoffee* What are y’all doing this fine day?
Happy New Year! Good to see you’re alright.
Tyren, where are you? Check in please and let us know you’re alright.
I think I will start serving my husband and me a ton of veggies a half an hour before our dinner entrée. Might help….tee hee :)
I haven’t exercised as much as I should since I started commenting on blogs this last year…..you know….those extra 12-14 pounds :)