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Bob Dylan Voted Into Elite Arts Academy

Posted on 03/13/2013 by Associated Press | General News | Comments

Bulletin Today | EntertainmentBy Hillel Italie, National Writer, The Associated Press If he lived in England, he’d surely be Sir Bob Dylan. The most influential songwriter of his time has become the first rock star voted into the elite, century-old American Academy of Arts and Letters, where artists range from Philip Roth to Jasper Johns and categories include music, literature and visual arts. According to executive director Virginia Dajani, officials couldn’t decide whether he belonged for his words or for his music, so …

Tonight: Movies for Grownups Goes Prime Time!

Posted on 03/1/2013 by Bill Newcott | Movies & TV | Comments

EntertainmentIt’s a big night for grownup movie lovers: Movies for Grownups Presents premieres at 8 p.m. Eastern and Pacific on RLTV (click here to see if it’s available on your cable carrier). Every Friday night I’ll introduce a feature film, then return throughout the program with trivia and fascinating info about the movie. Plus, I’ll preview films that are arriving in theaters, on DVD, and on Video on Demand. Tonight’s movie is Bing Crosby and Bob Hope in The Road …

‘Pepper’ Paire Davis: In a League of Her Own

Posted on 02/5/2013 by Patrick Kiger | Who's News | Comments

Bulletin Today | Entertainment | LegacyIf you’re a fan of sports movies, you’ve probably seen A League of Their Own, director Penny Marshall’s 1992 homage to the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. The latter was a circuit of women’s teams that Major League Baseball put together in 1943 to keep fans coming to ballparks at a time when male baseball players were being drafted into the nation’s armed forces.The film focuses largely on the travails of a fictional player, Dottie Hinson (portrayed by Geena Davis), …

Where Are These ‘Girls’ Going?

Posted on 02/4/2013 by Lorrie Lynch | AARP Blog Author | Comments

Entertainment | Home & FamilyI spent my weekend in the company of five interesting 20-somethings, four of them young women. Then I went home to watch HBO’s Girls. Talk about a disconnect. The young people with whom I spent Saturday and Sunday are part of a volunteer corps in Washington, D.C. (I’m on a board that supports it) and are counseling the jobless, attending to rape crisis hotlines, translating medical forms for Spanish-speaking people who need the services of mobile health clinics and otherwise …

Ed Koch: Hizzoner’s Best Bons Mots

Posted on 02/1/2013 by Patrick Kiger | Who's News | Comments

Bulletin Today | Legacy | PoliticsNew York has had a lot of colorful, idiosyncratic mayors, from Fiorello La Guardia to Rudy Giuliani. But Edward I. Koch, who led the city for three terms in the late 1970s and early 1980s, was perhaps the most quotable. Koch, who died on Feb. 1 at age 88 in New York, “could out-talk anybody in the authentic voice of New York,” as his hometown paper, the New York Times, put it. Here are 10 classic Koch bons mots. “Her …

Leroy ‘Sugarfoot’ Bonner: 5 Facts About the ’70s Funk Legend

Posted on 01/29/2013 by Patrick Kiger | Who's News | Comments

Bulletin Today | EntertainmentIf you grew up in the 1970s and loved to cruise around in your parents’ car with your buddies, getting down to some funk music on the AM radio, the words to the Ohio Players’ “Fire” probably are still seared into your frontal lobes. The way you walk and talk really sets me off To a full alarm, child, yes, it does The way you squeeze and tease, knocks me to my knees ‘Cause I’m smokin’, baby, baby Everything about the OPs …