July 2012
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07/16/12Remembering Tom Donahue (1948-2012)Memphis artist Tom Donahue passed away this weekend at the age of 64. He was perhaps as well known for his extraordinarily skillful portrait painting as for being the older brother of Commercial Appeal columnist Michael Donahue. We profiled this talented man in our July 1995 issue. Here's what freelance writer Chris Haywood had to say about him then: - - - - - - - - - - You can learn a lot about a man from his answering machine and license plate. Memphis artist Tom Donahue has a trio of male offspring, and he paints portraits. You know this because his answering machine plays the familiar tune to the 1960s TV series My Three Sons, and his car license tag reads "PORTR8S." But except for these clues, Donahue is a private fellow who doesn't like to talk... |
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07/13/12Morgan Freeman on Barack, Batman, and "Black Is Beautiful"With one of the most distinctive voices on stage or screen, it's nice to know that acclaimed actor Morgan Freeman isn't at a loss for words. In a recent story in The Guardian, published in the United Kingdom, the star of the new Batman film The Dark Knight Rises expressed a rather low opinion of the American political system, which he compared to "plenty of maggots still squirming around there under the stone." (He's referring to members of a certain political party, but we won't give that away here.) At the age of 75, he is still happy to be offered major acting roles, for the simple reason, "I prefer working to idleness. And I like my job. I'm lucky, I'm not working because I have to; I'm working because I love to." And... Posted at 02:53 PM | Permalink | Comments: 1 |
