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Sammy Davis Jr

"Identity Crisis"

Jerry Zezima | Posted 10.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Plastic Surgery, Sammy Davis Jr., Gas, Car, Ipod, Humor, Identity Theft, Bank, Atm, Debit Card, Newspaper, Itunes, Journalism, Popeye, Jerry Zezima, Lol, Living News
Jerry Zezima

At the risk of being sued by Popeye, I am what I am. Unfortunately, what I am can't be printed in a family newspaper. I don't even know who I am anymore. That's because my identity was recently stolen.

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Annie Leibovitz: Still One of the Greatest Artists Ever

George Alexander | Posted 09.03.2009 | Living

Read More: Michael Jackson, Sammy Davis Jr., The Rolling Stones, Art Capital, Magic Johnson, Tammy Wynette, Annie Leibovitz Photographs 1970-1990, Ron Kovic, Vanity Fair, Muhammed Ali, Bob Dylan, Miles Davis, Richard Pryor, Louis Armstrong, Richard Nixon, Sly Stone, Bette Midler, Financial Crisis, Ella Fitzgerald, Ray Charles, Jesse Norman, Divine, Annie Leibovitz, Living News
George Alexander

Annie Leibovitz and the description "struggling artist" can't even be mentioned in the same hemisphere. So I thought.

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"Gay, or Straight, Black, or White: Love is Love, Right is Right!" Right?

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 06.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Civil Liberties, Lesbian, George W. Bush, Gays and Lesbians, Harry-Belafonte, African-American History, Clarence Thomas, Civil Rights, Edna Thomas, Gay Rights, Walter Nagel, Tiger Woods, Racism, Frederick Douglass, African-American Issues, Jasmyne Cannick, Sammy Davis Jr., Phillip Johnson, Pearl Bailey, Olivia Whyndham, Michael Bloomberg, Walter-White, Mildred Loving Interracial Marriage, Lena Horne, Interacial Relationships, Interacial-Sex, Interracial Marriage, Jimmie Daniels, Gays in the Military, Seal, Martin Luther King, Jack Johnson, Homophobia, California Gay Marriage Ban, Bayard Rustin, Gay Marriage, Gay Issues, Sidney Poitier, Living News
Michael Henry Adams

Many activist gays have readily embraced the notion that "Queers" are "today's African Americans," with marriage equality an issue comparable to earlier more bitter struggles for civil rights.

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Let Us Rejoice (And Rock Out): The Jews On Vinyl Revue

Tony Sachs | Posted 06.07.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Miami Beach, Idelsohn Society, Sammy Davis Jr., Los Angeles Dodgers, Ron Cey, Roger Bennett, Lincoln Center, Jews on Vinyl Revue, Burton Sisters, Johnny Yune, Reboot Stereophonic, Irving Fields, They Call Me Bruce?, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, Hava Nagilah, Josh Kun, Bagels and Bongos, Entertainment News
Tony Sachs

As the 93-year-old pianist and the Korean singer launched into a high-octane take on "Hava Nagilah," the sold-out crowd went wild, swaying, shimmying and stomping to the beat.

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Sammy Davis Jr.'s Widow Dies At 65

AP | Posted 04.15.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Sammy Davis Jr., Altovise Davis, Entertainment News

LOS ANGELES — Altovise Joanne Gore Davis, a dancer and actress and the widow of Sammy Davis Jr., has died. She was 65. Davis died Saturday at C...

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Joe The Plumber: Obama Tap Dances Like "Sammy Davis Jr."

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 11.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Sammy Davis Jr, Joe the Plumber Interview, Joe Wurzelbacher, Joe the Plumber, Joe the Plumber Katie Couric, Presidential Debates, Joe the Plumber Sammy Davis Jr, Politics News

In a phone interview with CBS' Katie Couric, Joe Wurzelbacher said Barack Obama "tap dance[d] ... almost as good as Sammy Davis Jr." in their conversa...

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Barack Obama, Sammy Davis Jr. and Me

Shawn Amos | Posted 08.05.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Sammy Davis Jr., Racial Identity, Race, Music, Barack Obama, Civil Rights Movement, Pop Culture, Civil Rights, Entertainment News
Shawn Amos

I'm living on Sammy's shoulders. So is Barack. We all are. From Prince to Gnarls Barkley to Will Smith. The color line is blurry now thanks to Sammy Davis Jr.

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