Good Blings Happen
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Good blings happen 59 Center Street, Rutland, VT and they can happen to you 773-3377 | timcojewelers.com Connect with us on LAYAWAY NOW FOR THE HOLIDAYS! THANK YOU *** Gift Certifi cates are always available *** for supporting local businesses BY JAY BOBBIN BY JAY BOBBIN Cartoon frog, online calamity in A new ‘GRAMMY Salute to Music ‘Independent Lens’ season-opener Legends’ honors John Prine, What can you learn from a cartoon frog? More than you might expect ... including how a character developed for amusement could be Chicago and others hijacked and recast as a symbol of hate. Such is the subject of “Feels Good Man,” a Sundance Yola. Presenters include John Legend, LL Cool J, Film Festival-honored documentary that opens Joe Mantegna (“Criminal Minds”), Henry Rollins, the 22nd season of PBS’ anthology series The late John Prine is among those Rhiannon Giddens and music producer Don Was. “Independent Lens” Monday, Oct. 19 (check Jimmy Jam notes he has “some connection” to local listings). honored on “Great Performances: every artist celebrated on the show, “because that’s The project by writer-director-animator Matt Furie GRAMMY Salute the great thing about what music does. I have to say Arthur Jones and writer-producer- to Music Legends” cinematographer Giorgio Angelini traces Chicago was my favorite group growing up. I was a the surprising history of Matt Furie’s “Boy’s this. He tried to handle that via his artistic Friday on PBS sax player when I was younger, and I tried to play all Club” comic figure Pepe the Frog, intended to community first, then he tried to find a set of their horn parts. I was a drummer, and I tried to play represent male college graduates’ experiences lawyers to enforce the copyright in a way that he all their drum parts. in the “real world.” The image was copied by felt was right for him.” “The first concert my parents took me to when I online communities that used it to convey Furie notes the process confirmed for him that was young was a Chicago concert,” adds Jimmy Jam. extreme views, with Furie left generally helpless “it is hard to control anything on the internet,” “When my partner Terry (Lewis) and I were inducted to reclaim Pepe from his unintended role on the with Angelini adding, “I think it is important to into the (Songwriters) Hall of Fame, we went in the internet. understand there’s no playbook for this. There’s same year as Robert Lamm of Chicago, so I got to “This is something that has never happened not really anybody that’s had to go through what meet my hero.” before,” Jones maintains. “The Anti-Defamation Matt’s gone through. It is admirable what he did The “Salute’s” writer, journalist and music-show to defend his work, and it is also a lesson in how League never has declared a meme a hate symbol Each year, several music icons get a special tribute staple David Wild, laments that Prine being named before. It has never declared a copyrighted we should approach media in the internet era. from the organization that presents the Grammy such a “Legend” came in the same year the singer- character a hate symbol before. So, it was a I think the takeaway is really that the truth of Awards – and, at least in that respect, this year is no process for Matt to figure out how to handle Pepe is that he is a symbol of love.” songwriter died of coronavirus complications. “He different. wanted to perform” on the special, Wild reports. Airing again as a PBS “Great Performances” “He was scheduled to fly back, I think it was, from presentation Friday, Oct. 16 (check local listings), Dublin. Instead, we are going to honor him. One the “GRAMMY Salute to Music Legends” honors way or another, we are going to keep that music Publisher/Executive Editor Steven Pappas another diverse assortment of singular talents going.” (Carlile, Isbell and Shires perform Prine songs who have received the Recording Academy’s 2020 on the program.) Lifetime Achievement Awards: Roberta Flack, Iggy Staging familiar events such as the “GRAMMY General Sales Manager Tim Duguay Pop, the groups Chicago and Public Enemy, and – Salute to Music Legends” during a pandemic can be posthumously – Isaac Hayes, John Prine and Sister challenging, but Wild maintains, “The writing is the Creative Services Manager Keri Franzoni Rosetta Tharpe. Among others feted are composer last and easiest part. Working with people like Jimmy Philip Glass and longtime Grammy-show producer Jam ... like, when Prince passed. I had worked with Ken Ehrlich. Prince and knew him. Jimmy happened to be already Customer Service Manager Melody Hudson Jimmy Jam hosts the program, which features in the room, and I said, ‘Jimmy, we need you to go performances of the honorees’ music by Laurie out there and say something about Prince before we Anderson, Philip Bailey, Brandi Carlile, Cynthia say anything else.’ When you have the right talent to Erivo, Chris Isaak, Jason Isbell & Amanda Shires, work with and the right sort of souls to work with, Cyndi Lauper, Sam Moore, Leslie Odom Jr. and everything else is possible.” Television’s thieves BY JAY BOBBIN Questions: 1) What was the name of the 2006 CBS series about a robbery gang that starred Ray Liotta and Simon Baker?
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