Mes: septiembre 2019

Even before Harry Belafonte won global fame as a performer, he saw himself as part of a grand tradition of artists who use their voices for change. His role model was Paul Robeson, the singer, actor and activist whose career was derailed by McCarthyism.  This week, the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress honored Belafonte by selecting his 1956 album “Calypso” for permanent preservation.  CBS News’ Vladimir Duthiers sat down with Belafonte, who drew a direct line from his years traveling the world with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., 구미출장만남 back to something Robeson told him when he was just starting out. Harry Belafonte: “He said, artists are the gatekeepers of truth. He said only through the world of the arts do we know who and what we are in the history of civilization. Long before historians. Long before people ascribe themselves as the caretakers of life and culture. The song did that, and in the black community, it was our primary tool of communication. So I saw the song as having something far more than something to delight audiences and people could dance and sing. It had content, and I began to see this content of black protest music.” Vladimir Duthiers: “It strikes me that you are willing to risk everything for your beliefs, and I wonder if – did you ever think about that, that...

(CBS/AP) NEW YORK – Photographs of the Beatles’ first concert in the United States have sold at auction for over $360,000. Photographer Mike Mitchell took the photos at the Washington Coliseum show in 1964 when he was 18 years old. On Wednesday, 라스베가스 호텔 추천 Christie’s auction house said it sold 50 silver gelatin prints that Mitchell made from the negatives for $361,938. The images, plus photos from another Beatles concert, had been estimated to fetch a total of $100,000. Pictures: The Beatles Through the YearsPictures: John...

“Captain America” opens in theaters Friday across the U.S., but will the film keep comics alive? “Early Show” co-anchor Jeff Glor recently visited the man behind Marvel Comics — Editor in Chief Axel Alonso — to find out. Glor reports that, long before Captain America showed up in the 2011 summer film, he was seen on the cover of a Marvel comic book in the spring of 1941. Showing Glor the original comic, Alonso said, “These are little pieces of history you are holding in your hands here.” Pictures: “Captain America” debuts For more than 70 years, Marvel has been making comics, with writers and illustrators penning fantastic tales of good versus evil. Spider-Man, The Hulk and X-Men are just some of the company’s heroes. Alonso, pointing to characters in the comics, said, “That’s’ Angel, Beast, Cyclops, Iceman and Magneto. … I couldn’t tell you who any of them were when I got the job.” That’s because the latest caretaker of Marvel’s famous characters is a guy who got into it by accident. “Working in comics was never a goal,” he said. “I went to Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, I wrote for a bunch of papers, but I actually answered an ad in The New York Times for editors at DC Comics. And I thought ‘Oh, I’d kinda like to check that out.”‘ After finding success at rival...