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'Maw made everything fun': Johnette 'Inky' Eckstine lived life to the fullest
- Johnette “Inky” Eckstine was an energetic, one-woman cast of characters with a flair for the fun and flamboyant.
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Sammy Davis Jr. Biopic Project Sets Up At Paramount Pictures
<strong>EXCLUSIVE:</strong> The biopic about Sammy Davis, Jr. now has been set up at Paramount Pictures, where producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura has his overall deal. The project is on the development fast track, soon to be hiring a writer and a director to make the feature film about the dancer-singer-actor-musician to becoming a reality. The movie will be based in large part on the 1965 memoir <em>Yes I Can: The Story of Sammy Davis, Jr.</em> that he penned with Jane and Burt Boyar. Davis’ heir
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The Book on Miles
In Miles: The Autobiography the trumpeter Miles Davis remembers his excitement at hearing the Billy Eckstine Orchestra, with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, in a St. Louis nightclub in 1944. It was his first in-person exposure to bebop, and also his baptism by fire as a musician—just eighteen at the time, he was pressed into service as an emergency fill-in. “The way that band was playing music—that was all I wanted to hear.”
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