We’d like to wish a very happy 50th birthday to Michael Jeffrey “Air” Jordan, the undisputed best basketball player of all-time. The Hall of Famer won six NBA championships as a member of the Chicago Bulls thanks to his unrivaled competitive instinct, his 46-inch vertical leap, and his really rad footwear. Mj’s impact on the sport that began with a college professor throwing a round ball through a peach basket is immeasurable, but if we were to forced to name the one thing that defines his legacy, it would have to be his tongue.
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From the time he burst onto the spotlight in 1982 as a freshman guard on the Ncaa championship winning North Carolina Tar Heels, Jordan played the game with an exuberance that had never been seen before, and one that has yet to have been matched. This joie de vivre, if you will, was best exemplified...
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From the time he burst onto the spotlight in 1982 as a freshman guard on the Ncaa championship winning North Carolina Tar Heels, Jordan played the game with an exuberance that had never been seen before, and one that has yet to have been matched. This joie de vivre, if you will, was best exemplified...
- 2/17/2013
- by Mark Graham
- TheFabLife - Movies
Jobriath a.d.
Produced and Directed by Kieran Turner
Newfest 2012, Film Society of Lincoln Center
Screened on July 28, 2012
In 1974, Bruce Wayne Campbell, who legally changed his name to Jobriath Boone, attempted to be the first self-declared gay pop star. His recordings were hailed by a scant few reviewers and most critics were either moderately impressed or dismissive. Commercially, he failed miserably. Moreover, he became a laughing stock of the broader press corps, particularly because they had been mega-hyped by his manager, Jerry Brandt, to expect a pop music savior--so they were nearly universal with vicious and vitriolic ridicule of Jobriath. The gay press said just about nothing, due to the macho man "clone" craze at the time, and Jobriath’s florid style certainly didn’t fit in with that. He quickly faded from view, later reinvented himself as Cole Berlin, a sophisticated saloon singer, and passed on from AIDS in 1983. Over the years,...
Produced and Directed by Kieran Turner
Newfest 2012, Film Society of Lincoln Center
Screened on July 28, 2012
In 1974, Bruce Wayne Campbell, who legally changed his name to Jobriath Boone, attempted to be the first self-declared gay pop star. His recordings were hailed by a scant few reviewers and most critics were either moderately impressed or dismissive. Commercially, he failed miserably. Moreover, he became a laughing stock of the broader press corps, particularly because they had been mega-hyped by his manager, Jerry Brandt, to expect a pop music savior--so they were nearly universal with vicious and vitriolic ridicule of Jobriath. The gay press said just about nothing, due to the macho man "clone" craze at the time, and Jobriath’s florid style certainly didn’t fit in with that. He quickly faded from view, later reinvented himself as Cole Berlin, a sophisticated saloon singer, and passed on from AIDS in 1983. Over the years,...
- 8/10/2012
- by Jay Reisberg
- www.culturecatch.com
"I pick up my axe and fight like a bomber now,
but you still blast me down to the ground."
Before becoming Jimi Hendrix's manager, Michael Jeffery had been a covert op for British Intelligence. According to one of his original clients, Eric Burdon of the Animals, Jeffery often boasted of his 007 escapades during the Cold War -- staging assassinations in Greece, torturing Kgb agents, blowing up Russian/Egyptian bases in the Suez.
The Animals' singer, Jimi's future close friend, took these stories as drunken tall tales until, early one morning, the former MI6 agent invited him out to the London harbor where the U.S. Seventh Fleet happened to be trolling for some lost nukes.
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but you still blast me down to the ground."
Before becoming Jimi Hendrix's manager, Michael Jeffery had been a covert op for British Intelligence. According to one of his original clients, Eric Burdon of the Animals, Jeffery often boasted of his 007 escapades during the Cold War -- staging assassinations in Greece, torturing Kgb agents, blowing up Russian/Egyptian bases in the Suez.
The Animals' singer, Jimi's future close friend, took these stories as drunken tall tales until, early one morning, the former MI6 agent invited him out to the London harbor where the U.S. Seventh Fleet happened to be trolling for some lost nukes.
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- 9/18/2010
- by DavidComfort
- www.culturecatch.com
The search is on for an unknown to play Jimi Hendrix in a new movie about the guitar great's hoax kidnapping in 1969. Director R.H. Greene is hoping to make a start on his film Slide in early 2010, but he admits he's yet to find his Hendrix.
The movie is based on an alleged bogus kidnapping attempt on the rocker. Rumor has it Hendrix's manager, Michael Jeffrey, paid a New York gang to abduct the star, so he could 'rescue' him and prove how indispensable he was to the guitar legend.
Greene tells TwentyFourBit.com, "While we have to be speculative because no definitive version of the event exists, this takes it out of the realm of fiction for me. It's part of Jimi's story, and I think it offers an opportunity to show him fully but from a unique angle. That was my aim in writing it, and that's going...
The movie is based on an alleged bogus kidnapping attempt on the rocker. Rumor has it Hendrix's manager, Michael Jeffrey, paid a New York gang to abduct the star, so he could 'rescue' him and prove how indispensable he was to the guitar legend.
Greene tells TwentyFourBit.com, "While we have to be speculative because no definitive version of the event exists, this takes it out of the realm of fiction for me. It's part of Jimi's story, and I think it offers an opportunity to show him fully but from a unique angle. That was my aim in writing it, and that's going...
- 12/30/2009
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
The doctor who attempted to revive Jimi Hendrix on the night that he died has suggested that it is "plausible" that the guitar legend was murdered. Rumours about the icon's death emerged last month, after former roadie James Wright claimed that Hendrix's manager Michael Jeffery had admitted killing him in order to claim a £1.2 million life insurance policy. Doctor John Bannister, who was the on-call registrar at the hospital where Hendrix passed away, has now stated that medical evidence is consistent with the allegation that Jeffery hired a gang to force sleeping pills and wine down the star's throat. Speaking to The Times, he said: "The amount of wine that was over him was just extraordinary. Not only was it saturated (more)...
- 7/20/2009
- by By Lara Martin
- Digital Spy
Jim Hendrix did not die accidentally but was actually killed by his manager Michael Jeffery, it has been claimed. A new book by Hendrix's roadie James Wright states that Jeffery killed Hendrix for £1.2 million in life insurance in September 1970. The author writes that Jeffery admitted to the crime in a drunken confession at his apartment in 1971, two years before his own death in a plane crash, the Daily Telegraph reports. Wright said: "I can still hear that conversation, see the man I'd known for so much of my life, his face pale, hand (more)...
- 6/1/2009
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
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