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Music Legend 'Fats' Domino Coping With Katrina By Eli Saslow Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, September 2, 2005; 4:39 PM BATON ROUGE, La., Sept. 2 -- New Orleans music legend Antoine "Fats" Domino survived Hurricane Katrina, but he's still unsure, he said Friday, about how he will survive its aftermath. Domino spent the last three nights sleeping on a couch in the two-bedroom, Baton Rouge apartment of Louisiana State starting quarterback JaMarcus Russell, a distant family friend. Domino left that apartment Friday afternoon with his wife, two of his daughters and a son-in-law. He had no idea, he said, where he would go next. "We've lost everything," Domino said. "I don't know what we're going to do." Domino and his family waited out the storm on the third floor of his apartment in New Orleans, he said. The water level rose to about 15 feet, threatening the stability of the third floor. Rescue workers saved Domino, 77, late Monday night, taking him out of the city by boat. They transported him to a shelter in Baton Rouge, where Domino and his family received anti-bacterial shots. After two hours at the shelter, Domino called Russell, who came to pick him up. "Without JaMarcus, it would have been even worse," Domino said. "We can't thank him enough for letting us stay. "I'm worried about all the people in New Orleans. Tell them I love them, and I wish I was home with them. I hope we'll see them soon," Domino said. Russell has had more than 15 people stay in his off-campus apartment since the hurricane hit, he said. When Domino arrived, Russell ran out to Wal-Mart to buy food and water. He went to a drug store, he said, to fill prescriptions at 3 a.m. The sophomore quarterback -- who had met Domino only once before, through his girlfriend -- said he had not slept for two days. He needed to get a hydrating IV during Thursday's practice of the LSU football team. The team's game against North Texas scheduled for Saturday has been canceled. "Fats just stayed at my apartment, rested, watched the news," Russell said. "I've had people sleeping on the floor, the couch, everywhere. It's been pretty crazy." Those closest to Domino had feared the R&B legend might not be okay. The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, whose hit singles include "Blueberry Hill" and "Ain't That a Shame," did not contact anybody in the three days after the hurricane. His agent, Al Embry, reported him missing earlier this week, and concern about his fate grew until his daughter, Karen Domino White, said Thursday that she had recognized her father in a picture taken Monday by the New Orleans Times-Picayune. Domino wore jeans and a blue striped shirt, she said. He was wearing the same outfit when he left Baton Rouge Friday afternoon.

Here's a depressing news story involving the 1950's Les Brown band.

"None of this has been planned," he said. "Not a single elected official has come down here in days to talk to us and tell us anything, not the mayor, not the police chief, nobody. On Sunday the colonel said his main objective was to protect and serve, and that has been a mockery. No one has materialized to do anything. I'm a social worker, and I can tell you, no one thinks about the human aspects." "This is mass chaos," said Sgt. Jason Defess, 27, a National Guard military policeman who had been stationed on a ramp outside the Superdome since Monday. "To tell you the truth, I'd rather be in Iraq," where he was deployed for 14 months, until January. "You got your constant danger, but I had something to protect myself. [And] three meals a day. Communications. A plan. Here, they had no plan." For a harrowing look inside the Superdome check out http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...5083102801.html

Here's Anka's reaction to the "The guys get shirts" recording: Anka: That was recorded 15 years ago by a real snake that we fired. We had a nice big moment on Howard Stern, where he played the tape and he absolutely agreed with it. He said "I've done that. I do that." And everybody does. I think any guy running a company gets the whole point of that tape. I'm a real stickler for detail, and I have a real strong responsibility to my audience. When I'm up on that stage, anything I do has to be as perfect as possible for the consumer and for whomever. I don't just go to work and take the check and run. What happened there was there were a lot of mistakes in the band, in the sense that we'd rehearsed it one way, and we'd have a cutoff, where everybody has to end together. The other thing was that we'd spent a lot of money getting guys dressed so there was uniformity. And the guys just dropped the ball. You know, a lot of musicians—some of them are drinkers, some of them are doing dope and what have you, and you learn that, you know, later in the gig. It's like hiring people—the résumés are one thing, and everybody's on their best behavior, but until you get somewhere into the voyage and you realize you've got some bad apples in there, that's when you have to deal with it. It's a funny tape; that's me; I'm that way. People don't toe the line, they're out. http://www.reason.com/hitandrun/2005/08/it...e_a_tough.shtml

So some angry yahoo says fuck during a 10 second interview and that's supposed to make Smith look bad?

I wasn't suggesting that the experts are overhyping things. I was saying that if the experts are saying this thing will be catastrophic and issuing dire reports then the media is merely doing it's job by reporting what the experts are saying.

Here's the National Weather Service bulletin from yesterday. How was the media suppose to report this without being accused of overstating things? MOST OF THE AREA WILL BE UNINHABITABLE FOR WEEKS...PERHAPS LONGER. AT LEAST ONE HALF OF WELL CONSTRUCTED HOMES WILL HAVE ROOF AND WALL FAILURE. ALL GABLED ROOFS WILL FAIL...LEAVING THOSE HOMES SEVERELY DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. THE MAJORITY OF INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS WILL BECOME NON FUNCTIONAL. PARTIAL TO COMPLETE WALL AND ROOF FAILURE IS EXPECTED. ALL WOOD FRAMED LOW RISING APARTMENT BUILDINGS WILL BE DESTROYED. CONCRETE BLOCK LOW RISE APARTMENTS WILL SUSTAIN MAJOR DAMAGE...INCLUDING SOME WALL AND ROOF FAILURE. HIGH RISE OFFICE AND APARTMENT BUILDINGS WILL SWAY DANGEROUSLY...A FEW TO THE POINT OF TOTAL COLLAPSE. ALL WINDOWS WILL BLOW OUT. AIRBORNE DEBRIS WILL BE WIDESPREAD...AND MAY INCLUDE HEAVY ITEMS SUCH AS HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES AND EVEN LIGHT VEHICLES. SPORT UTILITY VEHICLES AND LIGHT TRUCKS WILL BE MOVED. THE BLOWN DEBRIS WILL CREATE ADDITIONAL DESTRUCTION. PERSONS...PETS...AND LIVESTOCK EXPOSED TO THE WINDS WILL FACE CERTAIN DEATH IF STRUCK. POWER OUTAGES WILL LAST FOR WEEKS...AS MOST POWER POLES WILL BE DOWN AND TRANSFORMERS DESTROYED. WATER SHORTAGES WILL MAKE HUMAN SUFFERING INCREDIBLE BY MODERN STANDARDS. THE VAST MAJORITY OF NATIVE TREES WILL BE SNAPPED OR UPROOTED. ONLY THE HEARTIEST WILL REMAIN STANDING...BUT BE TOTALLY DEFOLIATED. FEW CROPS WILL REMAIN. LIVESTOCK LEFT EXPOSED TO THE WINDS WILL BE KILLED. AN INLAND HURRICANE WIND WATCH IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS NEAR HURRICANE FORCE...OR FREQUENT GUSTS AT OR ABOVE HURRICANE FORCE...ARE POSSIBLE WITHIN THE NEXT 24 TO 36 HOURS.

He's been born again...again. I think he's trying for the all time record.

There already was such a book, written by Jeff Pearlman: "The Bad Guys Won!" A Season of Brawling, Boozing, Bimbo-chasing, and Championship Baseball with Straw, Doc, Mookie, Nails, The Kid, and the Rest of the 1986 Mets, the Rowdiest Team Ever to Put on a New York Uniform--and Maybe the Best http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detai...651138?v=glance

Yeah Curt why can't you just get with the program, you're just a dumb ball player who should mouth tired cliches when he's asked to speak. MLB can't have guys who speak their own mind, it might upset the fans and that's not good for business.

← You're right. It's Susan Harrison. Joan Harrison was a pioneering female producer who often worked with Alfred Hitchcock.

She was fine! I don't think she appeared in any other films. Are you saying that chicks don't dig bald, bespectacled guitarists? As a bald, bespectacled guitarist, I resemble that. I mean resent that. ← The IMDB shows Joan Harrison appearing in one other film in 1960 and in a bunch of TV shows. I'd like to know who played the awkward female jazz fan who tries to strike up a conversation with Milner betwen sets. Her very brief role seems to be a dig at a certain kind of jazz fan.

7. Yankee fans arguing whether this player or that player is a "true Yankee." 8. Billy Crystal talking about Mickey Mantle for the 1000th time 9. Rudy G in his field box seat (everybody knows you're a big fan, so the Yankee jacket and hat aren't really necessary anymore) 10. Standing ovations for Jason Giambi

Another rave review http://www.citypages.com/databank/26/1290/article13630.asp

``I'm always worried about him,'' said Yankee right fielder Gary Sheffield, who is Gooden's nephew. ``The family has tried everything. I've sent him to rehab, spent a lot of money. There comes a point where you just have to let him go through what he has to go through.'' http://news.tbo.com/news/MGBK4K22RCE.html

Former boyfriend sues the disappearing jazz singer, claiming he discovered her By Jonathan Brown Published: 24 August 2005 The troubled jazz singer Madeleine Peyroux is embroiled in a bitter and long-running legal battle with her former boyfriend and musical collaborator who says he "discovered" her singing in a bar. The acrimonious case, which casts light on the star's so-called "missing years" between her first hit and her latest success, is being brought by the musician William Galison amid claims of physical abuse, harassment, libel and thwarted ambition. It is expected to be heard at the Federal Court in New York next month. Galison, who has performed with stars such as Carly Simon, Barbara Streisand and Shaka Khan, is claiming $1m (£555,000) in damages resulting from the split with Peyroux. The dispute centres on the recording of a seven-track CD entitled Got You On My Mind in March 2003, shortly before Peyroux signed with Universal, the world's biggest record label. http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americ...ticle307882.ece

My 81 year old mother calls them "music discs" as in "The next time you're in a music store can you look to see if they're any Mandy Patinkin music discs."

He also played hot young jazz guitarist Steve Dallas in "Sweet Smell of Success" where he got on the wrong side of Burt Lancaster's J.J. Hunsecker.

I told her not to take that gig in Aruba.

This picture has nothing to do with the topic but I can't find anywhere else to post it.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-ug...ines-california

I can identify with this guy because after my first wife left me she went on to become quite active in community theatre in the Philadelphia suburbs. 08-17) 09:00 PDT Lewiston, Maine (AP) -- James Dougherty, the retired Los Angeles detective who was the first man to marry Norma Jeane Baker — before she went off to Hollywood and took the name Marilyn Monroe — has died. He was 84. Dougherty died Monday in San Rafael, Calif., of complications of leukemia, his stepdaughter, Annie Woods of Sabattus, told the Sun-Journal of Lewiston. He had spent much of his later years in Maine. Dougherty married Baker in 1942, before he went to sea as a merchant mariner. She was 16 at the time. Baker set out to pursue a Hollywood career while Dougherty was gone, and the two were divorced in 1946. Dougherty remarried twice. Dougherty worked for the Los Angeles police department for 25 years, serving as a detective and training the department's first Special Weapons and Tactics group. After his retirement in 1974, he moved to Arizona and later to Maine, living in the small town of Sabattus. Dougherty refused for years to talk about his time with Monroe, but after his second divorce he was more comfortable with the subject. In 1997, Dougherty wrote a book titled "To Norma Jeane with Love, Jimmie." He said he followed Marilyn's career until her death in 1962. She was a movie star, while the woman he married was a small-town girl, he said. "I love her, but I'm not in love with her," he told the Sun-Journal in a 1997 interview. "There's a lot of difference between loving someone and being in love." In 1995, he showed up at the Skowhegan post office for a party celebrating a new stamp bearing Monroe's picture. He autographed books of stamps as his current wife looked on from a nearby seat. "It seemed like a nice, positive program, so I said I'd come out," he said. He recalled that 16-year-old bride's "plans then were to be a homemaker." While living in Maine, he served a stint as an Androscoggin County commissioner and taught at the Maine Criminal Justice Academy. "His years with Marilyn Monroe, that was just a small part of his life," said Schani Krug, who wrote, produced and directed a documentary titled "Marilyn's Man" about Dougherty last year. "He was everything she never had." His third wife, Rita, died in 2003. Dougherty's family plans to fly his body back to Maine for burial, Woods said.

Two news stories, the first from Aug 4 and the second from Aug 16 both from The Chichester (UK) Observer Protest to Vatican over jazz concert A Petworth Festival jazz concert is to go ahead in a Roman Catholic church despite an appeal to the Vatican to intervene on the grounds that its sacredness will be violated. Campbell Burnap and his All-Star Jazz Band have been booked to give the lunchtime concert at the Church of St Anthony and St George, Duncton, and every £8 ticket has already been snapped up. But Christopher Savage, a worshipper, part-time organist and a member of the choir at the parent Sacred Heart Church in Petworth, has vowed to work to the last minute to get it moved to another venue. He says he has the support of other Roman Catholics in the area. Mr Savage said: "I do not object to jazz in the right setting. It is the fact that it is not suitable there, in a very precious, small church which is almost a cemetery chapel. "It is in a graveyard and Anthony Wright-Biddulph of Burton Park, who had it built, and other family members are buried in the crypt." The church, which was consecrated by Cardinal Manning in 1869, has been the venue for Petworth Festival performers in the past but Mr Savage said they were 'genteel' string quartets or classical singers. Bishop stops ban on jazz in church The Roman Catholic Bishop of Arundel and Brighton has intervened in the row over a Petworth Festival jazz concert held at a church in Duncton last Saturday. Bishop Kieran Conry, who has just returned from a pilgrimage to Lourdes, said he had no intention of stopping the show going ahead, despite pleas from a Petworth parishioner, Christopher Savage, a worshipper at the parent church in Petworth, the Sacred Heart. Mr Savage, who had also written to the Vatican, had claimed that the sacredness of the Church of St Anthony and St George would be violated by the concert, given at lunchtime by Campbell Burnap and his All-Star Jazz Band. Mgr Conry told the Midhurst and Petworth Observer this week: "I had no intention of blocking the performance because that would have been disruptive. The church cannot be seen acting in such a heavy-handed and insensitive manner." And he said that, technically, the ruling from Rome under which Mr Savage had made his challenge, would bar any secular music from being performed in a Roman Catholic church. "There would be no difference between a Beethoven quartet and jazz. You cannot make a judgement on the style of the music," the bishop said.