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Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Dule Hill gets a ‘West Wing’ moment with Obama Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK — Few people get to meet a U.S. president. Dule Hill has met three — one fake and now his second real one.
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FILE - This April 11, 2012 file photo shows Dule Hill at the opening night performance of the Broadway play “Magic/Bird” in New York.
The actor and dancer, who played a personal presidential aide on “The West Wing,” got a chance to perform a song Monday night for President Barack Obama and other world leaders attending the U.N. General Assembly session. Hill and cast members of the upcoming Broadway show “After Midnight,” a musical celebrating Duke Ellington’s years at the famous Cotton Club nightclub in Harlem, sang a few numbers at the Waldorf Astoria, a swanky Park Avenue hotel. Hill sang “I’ve Got the World on a String,” and cast members sang the songs “Devil and the Deep Blue Sea” and “Creole Love Call.” “I really enjoyed it,” Hill said afterward. “I never thought this would ever happen. If you’d have told me I was going to sing in front of all these dignitaries a month ago I would have laughed.” It’s Hill’s third close encounter with a commander in chief: He met Jimmy Carter at the Democratic National Convention a few years ago and was, of course, a close associate of Josiah Bartlet, the president played by Martin Sheen on “The West Wing.” Hill learned only last Wednesday that he’d scored his latest gig. “It’s not something that happens every day,” said Hill, who plays the master of ceremonies in the upcoming show. “When
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they asked me, it wasn’t like I said, ‘Well, let me check my schedule. I might want to watch the game.’” “After Midnight,” directed and choreographed by Warren Carlyle with musical direction by Wynton Marsalis, appeared off-Broadway last year at New York City Center under the name “Cotton Club Parade.” Songs include “Stormy Weather” and “I Can’t Give You Anything But Love.” Performances start Oct. 18 at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, with an official opening night set for Nov. 3. Hill joins Grammy Awardand “American Idol”-winner Fantasia Barrino in the lively show, which will feature 17 musicians and 25 vocalists and dancers. Hill, who stars in the USA network’s hit detective series “Psych,” was last on Broadway as Spoon, a lawyer-turnedbudding novelist, in Lydia R. Diamond’s thoughtful family drama “Stick Fly” in 2011.
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Wednesday, September 25, 2013
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Litigants battle over photos of legendary bluesman
Associated Press Writer
JACKSON, Mississippi — A legal battle over profits from the only two known photographs of legendary Delta bluesman Robert Johnson — who is said to have sold his soul to the devil for prowess on the guitar — now rests with the Mississippi Supreme Court. Johnson, whose songs have influenced a host of famous musicians, was destitute when he died in Mississippi in 1938 at age 27. His estate is valuable, partly because of a collection of his recordings that won a Grammy in 1990. Three justices heard arguments Monday in the dispute about the photos, one of which is a studio portrait taken of the Mississippi bluesman by Hooks Brothers Studios in Memphis, Tennessee. The other photo, known as “the dime store portrait” or “the photo booth self-portrait,” was taken by Johnson himself. Presiding Justice Jess H. Dickinson said he and his colleagues will take time to consider the case. He didn’t say when they will rule. On one side are descendants of Johnson’s late half-sister, Carrie Harris Thompson. Their attorney, Stephen E. Nevas, argued the photos were Thompson’s personal property but others profited from them.
On the other side are Sony Music Entertainment Inc.; Johnson’s only heir, his son Claud Johnson; and Stephen C. LaVere, a promoter whose Delta Haze Corp. had a 1974 contract with Thompson. Anita Modak-Truran, a Jackson attorney representing Sony Music Entertain-
ment, said Monday that court battles over Johnson’s estate have dragged out nearly a quarter century — almost as long as the blues legend lived. “This case plays like a broken record and the needle is stuck on ‘Crossroads Blues,’” Modak-Truran said. IBP/File Photo
Tourists flocked in Kuta Beach, Bali Island, during holiday season. Bank Indonesia for Region III Bali-Nusra estimated Bali’s economic growth would be lower than the year before. The slowing economic growth of Bali was mostly caused by inflationary pressures.
Bali’s economic growth slows down Bali Post
DENPASAR — Bank Indonesia for Region III Bali-Nusra estimated Bali’s economic growth would be lower than the year before. This happened due to the global economic slowdown and inflation in the country.
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In this Feb. 1, 2006 photo, Claud Johnson, seated, and poses with his son Michael Johnson, both of Crystal Springs, Miss., next to a poster of one of the rare photographs of his father, Robert Johnson, a blues pioneer.
Representative Head of Bank Indonesia for Region III BaliNusra, Dwi Pranoto, said the slowing economic growth of Bali was mostly caused by inflationary pressures. The inflation of Bali in August reached 8.3 percent (yoy) or
higher than the same period in the previous year which only reached 4 percent more. As a result, the economic growth of Bali would experience a slight contraction at the end of this year. “We predict the economy of
Bali only grows in the range of 6.2 percent to 6.7 percent this year. Last year, the economy of Bali grew around 6.7 percent and 7.1 percent,” said Dwi Pranoto, in Denpasar. Nevertheless, the BI was optimistic that the economy of the Island of the Gods would be boosted by a number of international events held before the yearend 2013 such as the Miss World and the APEC Summit to be held next October. “We have not been able to provide the data of September because
it still ongoing. By all means, many events taking place in Bali this year will bring in a positive impact on the economy of Bali,” he explained. Meanwhile, a banking and SME observer of Bali, Ida Bagus Kade Perdana, assessed the weakening economy of Bali recently was a reasonable condition because the national and global economy was on the decline. Skyrocketing inflation would make the people’s purchasing power decrease so that
the movement of economy would be slightly sluggish. “The impact of global economy on Bali is not so significant. Even, the most influential pressure to the economy is the inflation,” he said. According to him, the policy of Bank Indonesia to raise the BI rate would make it difficult for businesses to obtain credit. Banks would tighten their liquidity. “Hopefully, the banks could disburse loans to prospective entrepreneurs,” he said. (kmb27)