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Huh? That's WAY off the mark. Look here: http://www.florentinefilms.com/ffpages/films.html Even his best-known films, while they certainly include African-Americans as prominent subjects, the films themselves are not all focused on African-Americans as a basic underlying theme. In other words, baseball and The Civil War are broader than just African-American history... anyway, look at the list of films he's made. Again, I don't think it's up to Burns to choose to represent every ethnic group. He had a specific plan for this film.

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Where's the bashing from the WWII vets who prefer free jazz? But seriously, without seeing this film, I'm not sure I understand the real need for each and every ethnic group to feel the need for specific representation. I can empathize with the latino community to a degree, but having expectations about something like this is tricky business, imo. Consider Burns' viewpoint on the subject (a snippet from the linked article): The filmmakers weren’t looking for representatives of specific ethnic groups. “That is not what the film is about,” Burns said. “It’s about the experience of combat from the perspectives of a handful of people—most of whom are from these four towns.” They searched especially for veterans who could give first-hand accounts of specific battles and events. Burns and Novick did feature stories of two groups of soldiers who fought despite discrimination at home — Japanese Americans, whose families were held in internment camps, and African Americans. “At some point, one has to understand artistic choice,” Burns said. “Those choices are symbolic and we hope that you see the whole.” “People, when they see the film, they will see the universality,” Burns said. “The comments that people make are not based on their ethnicity but on their humanity.” “We knew by the nature of the way we configured this story that many stories would not be told,” Burns said. To acknowledge the ground that the film does not cover, Burns decided three years ago that each episode of the documentary will open with a title card acknowledging its limited scope. He also asked PBS and CPB to back a related project of local outreach and production. “The film is done yet there are all these opportunities to tell all these other stories,” Burns said. “It’s not just me that can tell all these stories,” Burns said. “This is public broadcasting.” Seems reasonable enough to me. I don't have major problems with most of Burns' films. "Jazz" was the most problematic for me, but I still enjoyed much of it. I've enjoyed much of his other films as well.

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Good point, Lon. I hope that things will change for you soon, and you'll have more time for Loronixin'.

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Hopefully they didn't expend too much energy in that respectable loss @ San Antonio tonight. Baron didn't look good when he went off toward the end. At least they've got the toughest of the remaining opponents (Utah, Minnesota and Dallas) back at the Oracle. Not only do the starters have to continue to play well, we're going to have to get more from the bench guys.

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Welcome, Zeca! I hope you'll find time to visit here also. Of course, Loronix also has its own forums (Invision software ), they're just not yet as active as this board. So, zeca, where is the avatar?

WTH? I thought you were the one behind the "play along, let's fool Aric" thing. Did you notice all the edited posts? Anyway, I think a few were fooled. Not me.

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Here's some early Joao Gilberto, one of the seminal bossa nova albums that has been oop for over a decade (it's tragic... I always equate it to a jazz fan finding out that "Kind Of Blue" is oop): http://loronix.blogspot.com/2006/09/joao-g...udade-1959.html I really like a lot of the 60's stuff by Os Cariocas (the vocal group on that Bon Gourmet recording). Here's one of their early albums: http://loronix.blogspot.com/2007/03/os-car...iocas-1963.html It's hard to tell you where else to start, honestly. There's just a ton of great music there, a great variety of styles, and a great deal that I haven't even heard. There's plenty of the kind of material that inspired my "hard bossa" thread here, like the piano trios and small jazz groups. Just this past Friday, he posted this, which I would highly recommend: http://loronix.blogspot.com/2007/03/sambal...trio-vol-2.html Another great piano trio: http://loronix.blogspot.com/2007/02/os-bos...-tres-1963.html Tamba Trio: http://loronix.blogspot.com/2007/01/tamba-...tempo-1964.html Edison Machado e Samba Novo: http://loronix.blogspot.com/2006/12/repost...-machado-e.html The tip of the iceberg. I could spend hours just posting link after link to classic stuff. If there are any specific areas of interest that develop for you (bossa instrumentals, vocalists, brazilian jazz, etc etc, by all means come back and ask for more ideas). And check out that Hard Bossa thread, if you haven't done so.

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There you go. I remember that quite clearly as well...... now that you've mentioned it. Now, can you help me remember where I put my pills?

One thing leads to another... I went from Claude's link to some experimenting with the #'s at the end of the url, arriving at various members' pages, then I explored the wayback machine's blue note archives http://web.archive.org/web/*/bluenote.com/* and found that quite a few forum pages have been archived (even some threads can still be read), and then I noticed a post from kevin (Walters), and noticed his member #, and... http://web.archive.org/web/20020424051936/...&u=00000131 Too much time on my hands today.

I want to say Kevin W... Kevin Walter(s)? (Btw, just because I want to say something, that doesn't mean it will make any sense) Wasn't it Maltz? Don't know about whether it was Greg Maltz who harped on about that Elvin Jones, but I tried to find any evidence of that "other" Kevin, and turned this up: http://forums.allaboutjazz.com/archive/index.php/t-411.html Apparently the photos of Aric are no longer available. Not sure what became of Kevin...

From where I sit as a Pac-10 follower, it's easier to accept Florida's victory due to the weak offensive effort by UCLA. Florida is an outstanding team, and it would have taken a very strong effort for the Bruins to win. However, that first point about the officiating is key- the Bruins got too many bogus calls against them, imo. I'll tell you something else. The higher seeds/favored teams have been getting the advantage in terms of the officiating for years. No, I can't prove that, but I've been watching this tournament since I was a kid in the early 60's. When a team I'm pulling for is an underdog, they invariably have to overcome both their opponent and the zebras. This past week, I was corresponding with my older brother about this (he's an Oregon graduate, and a rabid Duck fan). After Florida beat Oregon in a game where the Ducks were hit with the expected rash of ticky-tack fouls in the first half (an inconspicuous way for the refs to put the underdog in an uphill battle later on), and where Florida had something like a 43 to 16 advantage in FT attempts for the game, I started getting curious. I decided to check the box scores from the all the games involving the top seeds (1's and 2's) in all of the Sweet 16 and Elite 8 games. In about 90% of those games, the high seeds not only had far more FT attempts than their opponents- it was often lopsided to the point of being too obvious, as in that Florida/Oregon game. By the way, I'm not sure how Malik Hairston can receive a cut over his eye for his efforts going to the hoop, and that's not a foul, but Marty Leunen gets whistled more than once for touching Joakim Noah on the back as he's pivoting in the paint. And speaking of Noah, how about that play tonight where he grabs Mata by the shoulders from behind and literally throws him to the floor, then dunks... and it was all cool. Nance and Packer did a nice job of ignoring it on the replay too, probably because Packer needed to prove his point that "the next time Noah touches the ball inside, he's going to score". It's bullshit. This is the first time I've ever bothered to look up FT attempts in the box scores to see if it would bear out my suspiscions. I wasn't surprised at all by the numbers.