DUKE ELLINGTON’S STAR, HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME – 9.16.10
“You gotta find a way of saying it, without saying it”–music transcending every cultural, social, political, economic, spiritual divide. The Duke.
Remember when Duke Ellington would play the piano?
America reborn, in the sounds of his ebony and ivory fingers worn
across sorrow’s spine, in melodies torn, tinkering from history’s shackels
of black wood and bone overtone, now cascading upwards into a country
being born afresh from the sweat of hands and soaring spirit again
of ‘labor influencing forgiveness experiences’
like a baptism miracle road parting histories red sea waters
played with compassion in the Ellingtonesque uniqueness
of this epipelagic, ephinaous symphony of our
United States of
Life.
We are again, on the precipece keyboards of such a golden age.
New songs of freedom, being born, being torn. Dig deep and push
from songsheet of soul. Labor is upon us, sings from us in new melodies of history reborn.
Let’s go America, the Beautiful and move forward boldy. Mauri ora. This is our song from Hollywood Today.
[song: Duke Ellington Orchestra, Sophisticated Lady from The Best of Jazz Classic. Poetry by Horiwood for America making wiser and inspired decisions in the future, written in the fused traditions of Jack Kerouac and Toni Morrison's stream of consciousness literary art.]
~You’re welcome. Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 9.16.10~
TEN AUTHORS WE LOVE ACCORDING TO FORBES WITH A GLANCE BACK AT WILLIAM FAULKNER for TONI MORRISON
Authors write characters we want to, or don’t want to be like –that they set in worlds that are either ordinary or extraordinary. Both work. A hero is only a hero of an author’s tale unless they overcome great odds or equally as great villains in an author’s tale.
According to Forbes latest line up of authors who not only write good narratives but that have good marketing too, here’s the top ten authors and what they’ve raked up in monetarily value and notoriety, in parentheses, that Forbes knows about:
A. James Patterson ($70M)
B. Stephenie Meyer ($40M)
C. Stephen King ($34M)
D. Danielle Steel ($32M)
E. Ken Follett ($20M)
F. Dean Koontz ($18M)
G. Janet Evanovich ($16M)
H. John Grisham ($15M)
I. Nicholas Sparks ($14M)
J. J. K. Rowling ($10M)
What a stellar effort. Meanwhile Oprah‘s book club in non-Forbes news, touts a guide to reading the works of Nobel prize winning, William Faulkner (an American writer who greatly influenced Toni Morrison‘s work, who is Oprah’s favorite author). To read about some of Faulkner’s writing techniques via Oprah’s team, go here.
To read the top ten authors best-selling genres, and secrets of money trail literary success, go here to Forbes.Com to read. Hollywood teaches us in film that genre-fusions become ‘the next best thing.’ So there’s some food for thought for all potential novelists to imagine.
[Above is a timely book for our political times regarding Washington and the Middle East, in this Romeo & Juliet story simply titled Courage to Love, set in Israel and Gaza by Robert Ellis. Clink on book cover to learn more. Images of William Faulkner and vintage Chloe Wofford (Toni Morrison) courtesy of blogs 1 & 2]
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California, USA. 8.20.10~
