Perhaps because of his Internet experience, he's comfortable only with that relationship. His Goon Show, with Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan, pioneered the manic-surreal comedy picked up by Monty Python, the Firesign Theater, and Beyond the Fringe. Widow of Henri Matisse s son Pierre, she was a longtime New York gallery owner and influential modern art patron. Once the essence of the counterculture, the Beat movement is now a legitimate part of American literature. This doesn't stop eighty-two year old poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti from being as hip and edgy as ever.
Poetry is a sofa full of blind singers who have put aside their canes.
Poetry is a picture of Ma in her Woolworth bra looking out a window into a secret garden. Legendary Broadway producer brought some 50 plays to the stages of Broadway and the West End. The conductor Sir Thomas Beecham died 40 years ago. He was a seminal figure in British music, but remembered now more for his sharp wit. Not so very long ago, America's top orchestral musicians were paid on a scale little better than waiters, and their working hours were determined solely by the men standing on the podium.