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Reader Response
Re: Britney Spears
Didn't understand your piece on Britney Spears' statement.
She said ''My love for New Yorkers right now is indefinite''
I looked it up in the Merriam-Webster Thesaurus
and it actually is a synonym to endless:
Entry Word: endless
Function: adjective
Text: 1
Synonyms
ole-kristian
I also used Merriam-Webster, but their dictionary, not the thesaurus.
Main Entry: in·def·i·nite
Pronunciation: (")in-'def-n&t, -'de-f&-
Function: adjective
Etymology: Latin indefinitus, from in- + definitus definite
Date: 1530
: not definite: as a : typically designating an unidentified, generic, or unfamiliar person or thing (the indefinite
articles a and an) (indefinite pronouns) b : not precise : VAGUE c : having no exact limits d : of floral organs :
numerous and difficult to ascertain in number
© 2001 by Merriam-Webster, Incorporated
Merriam-Webster
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Started this evening with 'Enterprise', yeah, that Scott Bakula is a lucky man.
Saw some of 'Drew Carey', but I may stop admitting it.
Tonight, Thursday CBS starts the evening with a rerun 'CSI: Crime Scene
Investigation', followed by fresh episodes of 'CSI: Crime Scene Investigation'
and 'The Agency'.
NBC starts the night with a fresh 'Friends', and follows it with a rerun
'Friends'. Then it's all fresh with 'Will & Grace', 'Just Shoot Me',
and 'ER. Get your fix tonight. For the next 2 1/2 weeks, NBC will be offering nothing
but 'Olympics'.
ABC starts its programming with a rerun 'Whose Line', and then goes all fresh for the
rest of the night with (more) 'Whose Line', 'Regis', and 'PrimeTime Thursday'.
The WB offers a night of 'Charmed', with the first episode a rerun, and the 2nd fresh.
Faux has a fresh 'Family Guy' followed by a rerun 'Family Guy', and then 'Fornication
Island'.
UPN has 'WWF Stuff'.
AMC has BIG pictures night, with 'Giant' (Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Sal Mineo -
it's about 2 generations in Texas, & the last movie James Dean made) and 'The Music Man' - '76
Trombones', 'Trouble', Ronnie Howard lisping his way through 'Gary, Indiana',
Buddy Hackett's 'She-Poopy' and Eddie Albert!
TCM seems to be celebrating Gina Lollobrigida, with 'Beat The Devil' (Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre, and more -
it was written by John Huston & Truman Capote!), 'Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell', 'Hotel Paradisio' and
'Trapeze'. Che bella!
This mini-fest is followed by a Danny Kaye classic 'Merry Andrew' (please note that he's merry,
not gay).
After that, they go to a silent film, 'The Crowd'.
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
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Injunction Against Printing
``The Lord of the Rings Diary''
A one-man publishing house has been ordered not to publish - at least for now - his ``The Lord of the Rings Diary,'' which
puts J.R.R. Tolkien's beloved epic trilogy in chronological order.
U.S. District Judge Barbara Rothstein issued an order last week barring publication of the volume by Inkling Books'
Michael W. Perry, pending resolution of a copyright-infringement lawsuit filed on behalf of the Tolkien estate.
``I'm ceasing and desisting,'' Perry said in an interview. ``I'm hoping to work out some kind of agreement. ... I think
there's been a lot of misunderstanding.''
Perry considers his slim volume a guide to ease readers through Tolkien's layers of time and space and myriad characters.
The estate's lawyers will review the work in its entirety and decide whether to press for a permanent ban on publication. The lawsuit
cites the potential for substantial damages if Perry's work is published, seeking ``at least $750,000.''
But it might have trouble collecting from Perry if it wins. Perry - whose past works include ``Stories for Girls,'' which transforms
dense 19th-century translations of Hans Christian Andersen's tales into modern English - estimated his 2001 income at about $7,000.
``The Lord of the Rings Diary''
Jenna's 'Special' Friend Last Summer
Brandon Davis
A gambling debt run up by the troubled grandson of Beverly Hills billionaire Marvin Davis has led to a falling-out
with a former friend of the family, Peter Morton, owner of the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.
And Brandon Davis is no longer on speaking terms with his childhood friend, Peter's son Harry Morton, 20. "They went
to school together. They were best friends," said one insider.
It was Harry who allegedly arranged for Brandon to gamble at the Hard Rock last year although he was underage,
sources say. "When Brandon turned 21 in November, Harry set him up with a line of credit for $150,000," our
insider said. "Within a month he had lost it all."
While some customers are given time to settle accounts, or allowed to work out a payment plan, the Hard Rock
supposedly went after Brandon the very next day.
"Bottom line, the casino gave the family two days to pay," said the source.
But it is being talked about in Beverly Hills, and some see the problem as a clash of cultures. The Davises are
Hollywood royalty, while the Mortons are nouveau-riche. "Harassing a friend for immediate payment? It's just not what you do."
Brandon Davis
Even the very-well-to-do need to know & keep their place when in the hallowed halls of BFEE.
'Patriotic' Peacock Being Retired
NBC Logo
In another sign that TV's gotten back to normal post-Sept. 11, NBC is about to remove the red, white and blue from
its on-air Peacock ``bug.''
Shortly after the attacks, NBC changed the hue of the small Peacock logo -- which stays onscreen during almost all
network programs -- from clear to the colors of the U.S. flag. Other networks made similar patriotic changes, which
lasted anywhere from a few weeks to a few months.
But nearly five months after Sept. 11, NBC's patriotic Peacock remains. That will change Friday night -- just as
the network begins its coverage of the Salt Lake City Olympics.
NBC executives didn't want to keep such a visibly pro-USA symbol on-air during an international event that's meant
to promote global unity. Past Olympic broadcasts on NBC (and other U.S. networks) have been accused of promoting
American athletes to the exclusion of those from other nations.
Meanwhile, in a dose of good news for viewers tired of on-air clutter, Peacock insiders said the Olympic rings -- which
have been part of NBC's on-air logo during most of the 16 months since the 2000 Summer Games -- will finally disappear
when events in Salt Lake City conclude later this month.
NBC Logo
Easter Sunrise Services At The Hollywood Bowl
Trinity Broadcasting Withdraws!
The world's largest Christian television ministry that won the rights to an Easter sunrise service at the Hollywood
Bowl with a coin toss has backed out of the deal.
Officials for the Santa Ana-based Trinity Broadcast Network said Tuesday that they changed their mind after people
complained about the Jan. 25 coin toss.
Two groups wanted to broadcast the service - Trinity Network and the nonprofit Hollywood Bowl Easter Sunrise Service
Inc. The service group claimed first rights to the event because it founded and produced it for years. The group also
believed that they gave the Hollywood Bowl to the county in exchange for permission to use it every Easter morning.
The ministry's withdrawal now means the nonprofit organization will likely televise the service, which is in its 80th
year. "We're just happy we're getting it back to the people and putting it on by the people," said Norma Foster, the
chairman of the group's board of directors.
Trinity Backs Down & Hopefully Out
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Jean Cocteau's ``Beauty and the Beast''
Re-Released
A restored version of Jean Cocteau's ``Beauty and the Beast'' will bow in New York in April prior to a national rollout
under a new partnership that will bring classic films back to theaters.
Cowboy Pictures, currently in theaters with ``The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition,'' has pacted
with Janus Films for rights to the classic films in its library.
During the 1950s and '60s, Janus introduced American moviegoers to such filmmakers as Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kurosawa,
Jean Renoir, Francois Truffaut and Federico Fellini. Janus Films became a regular supplier of pictures to film schools
and revival houses. The company also co-founded the Criterion Collection, a continuing series of classic and contemporary
film releases on laserdisc and DVD.
Cowboy plans to rerelease about six Janus titles a year, beginning with ``Beauty and the Beast,'' and will follow it with
Bergman's ``Smiles of a Summer Night'' in August, Henri-Georges Clouzot's recently restored ``Wages of Fear'' in October,
and Ermanno Olmi's ``Il Posto'' in December.
The partners hope to make more Janus titles available to commercial theaters, universities and museums. Cowboy also is
preparing a series to be called Janus Weekend Classics, designed to reintroduce art film classics to contemporary audiences.
New prints of the slated pictures will be struck.
Jean Cocteau's ``Beauty and the Beast''
Jean Cocteau's ``Beauty and the Beast'' is a wonderful black & white telling of the tale. The hall of candles scene
(arms holding lit candelabra swing out from the walls as Belle & the Beast walk along) is still a great effect.
Was always disappointed in the Beast, though. Still a great movie.
The Top Fives
TV, Movies, Music
By The Associated Press,
TELEVISION FILMS SINGLES AND TRACKS ALBUMS
1. ``Super Bowl XXXVI: New England vs. St Louis,'' Fox.
2. ``Fox Super Bowl Post Game: New England vs. St Louis,'' Fox.
3. ``Friends,'' NBC.
4. ``Friends,'' NBC.
5. ``ER,'' NBC.
(From Nielsen Media Research)
1. ``Black Hawk Down,'' Sony.
2. ``Snow Dogs,'' Disney.
3. ``A Walk to Remember'' Warner Bros.
4. ``The Count of Monte Cristo,'' Disney.
5. ``A Beautiful Mind,'' Universal.
(From Exhibitor Relations Co.)
1. ``U Got It Bad,'' Usher. Arista.
2. ``How You Remind Me,'' Nickelback. Roadrunner.
3. ``Always On Time,'' Ja Rule (feat. Ashanti). Murder Inc.
4. ``My Sacrifice,'' Creed. Wind-up.
5. ``In The End,'' Linkin Park. Warner Bros.
(From Billboard magazine)
1. ``Drive,'' Alan Jackson. Arista Nashville.
2. ``Weathered,'' Creed. Wind-up. (Platinum - certified sales of 1 million units)
3. ``(Hybrid Theory),'' Linkin Park. Warner Bros. (Platinum)
4. ``Word Of Mouf,'' Ludacris. Disturbing Tha Peace. (Platinum)
5. ``Silver Side Up,'' Nickelback. Roadrunner. (Platinum)
(From Billboard magazine)
Top Fives
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MSNBC's Signature Voice Man
Dee Snider
CNN has James Earl Jones. Saturday Night Live has Don Pardo. Comedy Central has Penn Jillette. Now MSNBC has
its signature voice man, and he's a doozy: Dee Snider, the former lead singer of the heavy metal band Twisted Sister.
MSNBC hasn't made a big fuss about it, but Mr. Snider has been doing voice-overs for the news network since the
early winter. He's recorded promotions for Brian Williams, Ashleigh Banfield and Alan Keyes, among others.
Mr. Snider, the voice behind the 80's anthem "We're Not Gonna Take It"—and the man who memorably feuded with Tipper
Gore over music censorship and used to wear more makeup than Tammy Faye Bakker—was hired by MSNBC after a lengthy
search, said Val Nicholas, the network's vice president of advertising, promotion and marketing.
Mr. Snider said his sandpaper-like voice is the byproduct of decades of wailing at the top of his lungs. The singer, who records
his spots from his home studio, said he never smoked, drank or did drugs. "But I did screech my brains out night after night after
night for thousands of shows, and it gave me a voice-over career," he said.
Dee Snider
National Public Radio
Terry & Gene Getting Personal
The quiet and high-minded National Public Radio airwaves were shattered earlier this week by a name-calling confrontation
between - of all people - tongue-waggling KISS frontman Gene Simmons and soft-spoken interviewer Terry Gross.
Simmons, a guest on Gross's show, "Fresh Air," called her "boring." And Gross called Simmons "obnoxious."
"The notion is if you're going to welcome me with open arms you also have to welcome me with open legs," said Simmons,
was on the show to promote his new book, "KISS and Make-Up."
"That's a really obnoxious thing to say," Gross fired back.
At one point, Gross asked Simmons about his "studded codpiece."
"It holds my manhood, otherwise it would be too much for you to take," Simmons said. "You'd have to put the book
down and confront life."
The conversation continued:
Gross: Has it come to this? Is this the only way you can talk to a woman, with that shtick?
Simmons: Let me ask you something - why is it shtick when all women have ever wanted since we crawled out of caves is,
'Why can't a man just tell me the truth and speak to me plainly?' So if I do that, you can't have it both ways.
Gross: So you really have no sense of humor about this, do you?
Gross: "I'd like to think the personality you presented on our show today is a persona that you've affected as a member of
KISS, but that you're not nearly as obnoxious when you're at home or with friends."
Simmons: "Fair enough, and I'd like to think that the boring lady who's talking to me now is a lot sexier and more
interesting than the one's who's doing NPR, studious and reserved."
Terry & Gene, Getting Personal
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Someone's Personal Favorite
Drew Carey
Tom DeLay finally had his chance to go mano a mano with Bill Clinton at last week's GOP retreat at West Virginia's
posh Greenbrier resort.
Well, not really — the House majority whip came to faux blows with "SNL's" Darrell Hammond, who was reprising his
role as the former Prez, to the delight of all assembled.
DeLay loosened up again the next night, donning a wig and joking, "[Washington Congresswoman] Jennifer Dunn told
me I needed a new haircut, so I got one." His new 'do made him look suspiciously like Ohio Democrat James
Traficant, Roll Call reports.
Meanwhile, Drew Carey has signed on as a gagman for the White House Correspondents' dinner, on May 4, according
to U.S. News and World Report. President Bush shouldn't sweat the potential abuse too much — Carey's a Republican
and one of Dubya's personal favorites.
Drew Carey
Praised For Playing Basketball?
Nelly & the St. Lunatics
While Gov. Bob Holden and members of the Missouri House honored St. Louis rapper Nelly, some questioned whether the state
should praise a group that sings about illegal drug use and sexual promiscuity.
Nelly and his group, the St. Lunatics, were honored Tuesday for their promise to play basketball with high schools that
showed increased participation in standardized state tests.
Lawmakers and young Capitol interns were among the hundreds of fans and spectators who showed up for the lunchtime event.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol sent nearly 30 officers for crowd control.
Rep. Charles Portwood, R-Ballwin, found copies on the Internet of Nelly's lyrics - which included profanity and graphic
sexual references - and carried them around to show people.
Nelly, whose given name is Cornell Haynes Jr., shrugged off criticism.
``Hip-hop has run into a lot of resistance, period. We are the voice of the youth. Any time you are the voice of the
youth, you run into resistance,'' said Nelly, who's nominated for a Grammy for his hit ``Ride Wit Me.''
Nelly & the St. Lunatics
'Let's Get Away From It All'
Liza Minnelli
Friends of the impetuous Liza Minnelli who worry that she's rushing into marriage No. 4 are not going to be
reassured by the following story.
Heard from reliable sources that a week or so ago Liza and her fiancé, the somewhat younger event producer David
Gest, decided they were going to elope.
Liza, I'm told, called her good friend Claudia Cardinale in Paris, and asked her to approach her friend, the
City of Light's mayor, Bertrand Delanoe, to see if they could have a quickie marriage over there.
M. Delanoe was very apologetic. He'd love to help - he'd marry the couple himself if he could - but French law
requires the posting of banns two weeks before anyone can get hitched.
Liza Minnelli
'Bob Woodward vs. John Belushi and Me'
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Michael Dare - 'The Life and Death of Captain Preemo'
13 One-Hour Episodes Ordered
``Dinotopia''
Erik von Detten (``The Princess Diaries'') and Shiloh Strong (``The Mommies'') will lead the cast of a series version
of ABC's upcoming miniseries ``Dinotopia.''
The network on Tuesday officially ordered 13 one-hour episodes of the series, which features an entirely different
cast from the miniseries.
It will pick up where the storyline of the miniseries leaves off, offering a portrait of a lost continent where dinosaurs
and humans live together in harmony.
Principal photography on the series gets under way this month in Budapest, and it may be ready to air as soon as midseason 2003.
ABC's six-hour, $85 million ``Dinotopia'' miniseries is slated to premiere on ABC in May. The concept is derived
from James Gurney's books.
``Dinotopia''
Which Rick Solomon?
Shannen Doherty
Shannen Doherty has married producer Rick Solomon. But, he's not the married producer of "I Am Sam."
Doherty's Rick Solomon worked for HSI Productions on "American Girl." He's also a divorced father of two
and a super-middleweight boxer. They met late last summer.
Shannen Doherty
Man With An Opinion
Norman Mailer
Influential American writer Norman Mailer has criticized the ``patriotic fever'' gripping the United States
following the Sept. 11 attacks.
``What happened on Sept. 11 was horrific, but this patriotic fever can go too far,'' Britain's Daily Telegraph
quoted Mailer, 79, as saying Wednesday.
``America has an almost obscene infatuation with itself. Has there ever been a big powerful country that is as
patriotic as America?'' Mailer asked in an interview.
``You'd really think we were some poor little republic, and that if one person lost his religion for one hour, the
whole thing would crumble. America is the real religion in this country.''
``The right wing benefited so much from Sept. 11 that, if I were still a conspiratorialist, I would believe they'd
done it,'' he said.
Norman Mailer
Altering TV Frame-By-Frame
''Time Machine''
It's called a Time Machine, and the television industry only wishes it was as benign as the device that sent Michael J.
Fox back to the future. Instead, the new box that can warp TV time is making many people grumble, while others see only dollar signs.
Invented by Bill Hendershot, an engineer from San Jose, Calif., the Time Machine enables television stations to compress
their programs to fit in more commercials.
It works by going through these programs frame-by-frame, and when two identical frames appear side-by-side, one is removed.
Usually, this can be done enough in a 22-minute program (the actual length of most sitcoms without commercials), to
add 30 seconds of time.
He's sold about 100 Time Machines to television stations across the United States. They cost $93,000 each. If a station uses
it two or three times a day - Hendershot warns against overuse - the machine would pay for itself through additional advertising
revenue in two months, he said.
The Time Machine's existence might have gone unnoticed by the public at large if it hadn't been for a reporter who was covering a
Pittsburgh Steelers football game last October. He noticed that the game in front of him on the field didn't match the game being
broadcast on KDKA, the CBS-owned television station.
KDKA got in trouble with CBS network executives, since the National Football League limits the number of commercials that can be
shown during their games.
CBS has been quietly discouraging its stations from using the Time Machine, and the public spotlight may scare some station managers away.
``This is a commercial industry,'' he said. ``The reason you get to see free television in this country is because somebody is paying for it.''
Altering TV Frame-By-Frame
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Dealing With Ugly Gossip
Matthew Broderick & Sarah Jessica Parker
When it comes to scrubbing away ugly gossip, there's no more effective detergent than humor. So, while Matthew Broderick
and Sarah Jessica Parker wish people would stop claiming their marriage is in trouble, they've decided the best
thing to do is laugh at the rumors.
Broderick did just that Monday night at the "Seasons of Hope" benefit. He and his "Producers" co-star, Nathan Lane, were
emcees at the event, which raised $600,000 for AmFAR and Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.
"The burning question on everyone's mind is, 'Why didn't Sarah Jessica Parker thank you at the Golden Globes?'" Lane
asked Broderick in front of guests at the Cipriani 42nd Street event. "So are you in the doghouse? Is the marriage really
on the rocks? Is the whole thing really a show business sham put together by your Scientologist managers?"
Broderick said Parker didn't forget him when she picked up her Globe for "Sex and the City."
"It was a very big misunderstanding," said Broderick. "If you watch the tape really closely, you can see that indeed, in Morse
code, she is thanking me with rapid eyeblinks: 'Thank you, Matthew, I couldn't do it without you. Please give
our dog Sally a hug and a kiss.'"
Also on hand were "Sex and the City" scribe Candace Bushnell, who read; Barry Manilow, who performed; and Jimmy Fallon, Alan Cumming,
Liev Schreiber, Illeana Douglas, Darren Star, Anna Wintour, Kenneth Cole, Frederique van der Wal, Mariska Hargitay and Sheryl Lee Ralph.
Matthew Broderick & Sarah Jessica Parker
''In The Bedroom'' and ``Memento'' Are Ineligible
Writers Guild of America
In a blow to the films' screenplay Oscar chances, the Writers Guild of America (WGA) has ruled that kudos favorites ``In
the Bedroom'' and ``Memento'' are ineligible for its honors. WGA nominations for feature films will be announced Thursday.
At the time the films were made, the writers weren't members of the WGA, and the productions were not WGA signatories. As
a result, in accordance with longstanding WGA rules, the two pictures were not on the list of films to be considered.
Both pictures have won notable early-round contests: ``Bedroom'' took the National Board of Review and Golden Satellite honors,
while ``Memento'' has collected laurels from the American Film Institute and the Los Angeles, Toronto, Las Vegas and
broadcast critics groups.
Writers Guild of America
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Shooting His First TV Pilot
Frank Oz
Veteran feature director Frank Oz (``The Score'') has signed to shoot his first TV pilot, the ABC comedy contender ``The Funkhausers.''
The plot revolves around an eccentric yet tight-knit family. Emmy-winning writer/producers Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein
(``The Simpsons'') wrote the pilot.
Frank Oz
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
U.S. Olympic Team Uniforms
Roots LTD
When the U.S. Olympic Team takes the stage for the opening of the 2002 Olympic Games in Salt Lake City on Friday, they'll
be wearing uniforms made by a Canadian company.
The U.S. Olympic Committee approached several Americans to create the togs athletes will wear at opening, closing and awards
ceremonies, an insider says. But the U.S. designers turned the committee down.
The insider wouldn't name names, but a Nike spokesman confirms that the company declined an offer. Nike and other American
companies have designed U.S. team uniforms that will be worn during some of the competition.
U.S. Olympic officials argue that giving the contract for the ceremony uniforms to Toronto-based Roots LTD is not unpatriotic,
because company founders Don Green and Michael Budman are from Detroit.
Roots LTD
U.S. Department of Labor Launching Investigation
Screen Actors Guild Election
The U.S. Department of Labor has launched an investigation into the bungled national elections of the Screen Actors
Guild, according to a published report Wednesday.
The federal probe could settle the voting dispute if the Department of Labor makes a judgment about the validity of
a rerun election, The Hollywood Reporter reported Wednesday.
Melissa Gilbert, who played Laura Ingalls Wilder on ``Little House on the Prairie,'' narrowly defeated ``Rhoda'' star
Valerie Harper for the guild's presidency in November.
Meantime, Gilbert will remain SAG president through April, when results of the follow-up election are expected.
Ballots will be sent to the guild's nearly 98,500 members on Monday and are due back by March 8.
Screen Actors Guild Election
Filing For Chapter 11
Hare Krishna
Hare Krishna congregations named in a $400 million lawsuit alleging sexual and emotional abuse of boarding school
students will file for bankruptcy to avoid being sued, a spokesman for the Hindu sect said Wednesday.
About a dozen congregations will start filing for Chapter 11 reorganization next week in several states, said Anuttama
Dasa, a Maryland-based spokesman for the International Society of Krishna Consciousness, or ISKCON.
The group hopes that if their plan is approved by federal bankruptcy judges, the lawsuit filed in Dallas by former
boarding school students will be dismissed.
The Texas lawsuit alleges young children at Krishna schools in India and the United States were terrorized by their
instructors. There are 94 plaintiffs in the lawsuit, according to the office of Windle Turley, the Dallas attorney
who filed the lawsuit.
A devout branch of Hinduism, the Hare Krishna spiritual community grew quickly in the United States during the 1960s.
Roughly a dozen schools operated in North America by the late 1970s, but all have since closed. There are currently
75,000 Hare Krishnas in North America.
Hare Krishna
In Memory
Claude Brown
Claude Brown, author of the best seller "Manchild in the Promised Land," died Feb. 2 of a lung condition. He was 64.
In the book, Brown wrote about his childhood spent on the streets of Harlem with killers, drug addicts and prostitutes.
"Promised Land" sold more than four million copies and was translated into 14 languages. It sells more than 30,000
copies annually and is required reading in many high schools and colleges.
Born in Harlem, Brown was kicked out of school at the age of eight, and was sent to a reform school when he was 14.
He later graduated from Howard University and attended law school at Stanford and Rutgers.
Claude Brown
