Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Glaring, Embarrassing Omissions

The Turtles, Paul Revere & Raiders, Tommy James and Mitch Ryder all had landmark hits in the 1960s–lots of them–and merit RockHall recognition. Nancy Sinatra was a true female icon of the period, and has a score more hits than “These Boots Are Made For Walkin’.” Laura Nyro didn’t have any major hits of her own, but wrote key ones for the varied likes of Blood, Sweat & Tears, Three Dog Night, the 5th Dimension and Barbra Streisand–and her albums remain hugely influential.

The missing Roc kHall travesty of the 1970s is the New York Dolls, who helped set the stage for punk rock. Like ‘em or not, Kiss did in fact “rock and roll all nite,” and Grand Funk Railroad was the ultimate arena/stadium rock act. And Joan Jett should go in, with or without her pioneering 1970s girl rock group The Runaways.

This website would also cite Chicago, Sonny and Cher, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Linda Ronstadt, Carly Simon, Chubby Checker and Mary Wells–and could easily make a strong case for all of them.

And let’s not forget one special man who should have gone in long ago as a Non-Performer: Ed Sullivan. Ed gave so many Rock and Roll Hall of Famers of all subgenres primetime national network TV exposure–for which all rock ‘n’ roll fans are forever indebted.

PS Editor’s note: and producers–Richard Perry, Phil Ramone, and Richard Gottehrer, just for example, as well as Quincy Jones. And of course, the glaring omission: the late, great Don Kirshner.

PS I hope when Neil Diamond makes his speech he mentions all the artists who’ve been ignored. He’s been on the ballot for years. It’s only been with a lot of outside pressure that he finally made it. Believe me, he was never Wenner’s first choice.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s 26th annual induction ceremony tomorrow night at the Waldorf is bound to have at least one indisputably great moment when Darlene Love finally gets her due, having first set the rock ‘n’ roll world on fire in 1962 as the voice of The Crystals on the Phil Spector-produced chart-topper “He’s A Rebel.” Neil Diamond, long ignored but equally deserving for his 1960s Brill Building songwriting and early hits, rectifies another glaring omission. I’ll leave others to sing the praises of Alice Cooper, Tom Waits and Dr. John–who are certainly credible.

This still leaves at least a score of music heroes I’d induct if given carte blanche, starting with Paul Anka, far and away the most important of the teen idols that made up much of early rock ‘n’ roll, and Lesley Gore, whose early ’60s Quincy Jones-produced classics include “It’s My Party” and the proto-feminist anthem “You Don’t Own Me.”

That surf music royalty Jan & Dean have been denied is, as they say, a travesty. I’d say the same about Lou Christie, one of rock ‘n’ roll’s most distinctive vocalists and songwriters. British Invasion group The Zombies have likewise been overlooked, despite its unique creativity.

080807bachelor 224x300 The Bachelor Finale: Emily Isnt Wearing A Ring! No Wedding? The Bachelor Finale: Brad and Emily Brad Womack chose Emily Mayna

I can understand the feelings they both must be having… not seeing each other for over a month, watching the show on television but being secretly engaged. It’s no wonder they’ll have to adjust to the real world.

Emily also stated on After the Final Rose that she is not ready to move with her daughter to Austin, Texas.

But, Emily says she is in love with Brad and sees her getting married to him.

But what about the ring????

Brad had to get it re-sized to fit her! Or maybe even get her a new style, not sure because it didn’t look like the same one!

But on The Bachelor: After the Final Rose ceremony, Emily wasn’t wearing her engagement ring!

Why?

It was revealed on the after-show that Brad and Emily have already had some issues. They had even planned to be married today but postponed the wedding!

Why the issues?

Emily said she had anxiety watching the show every Monday night, and was troubled by seeing Brad’s relationships with the other women.

But what about the ring????

'The Bachelor' finale: Does Brad Womack propose to Emily Maynard, Chantal O'Brien - or no one?

Chantal's Family Date

Chantal's outgoing vibrant personality goes over big with the brothers. She tells them she initially had doubts about Brad both choosing or not choosing, but now she's all in and she would get married on the spot. Pamela grills Chantal a bit about falling in love so quickly and Chantal talks about finding out who she is after her first failed marriage. The whole family seems completely smitten with Chantal.

When she leaves, they seem so wonderful and in love and he talking-heads that she is extraordinary, the family loved her and that he "will marry her" if "everything works out." Hmmm. What does that mean? What would NOT work out? And if she's not the girl you want, that's a weird thing to say.

Emily's Family Date

Emily looks like a little island Barbie doll. The brothers notice how much more reserved Emily is as compared to Chantal and they are concerned about the fact that she has a kid and brother Wes asks if Ricky's father would be OK with them moving to Austin, TX. So Emily has to tell the whole story and everybody is in tears.

Wes and Chad take the time to say to Brad that being a father is hard and this is an instant family. He can't not be ready to take it on. Brad assures them that he gets the warmest feeling from it and that he's very taken with Ricky.

Pamela is dumbstruck (in a good way) by Emily calling Brad "her angel" and hopes for the best for Emily because her life has been so hard. As she leaves, Brad is hoping his family can give him good advice. Does he not know yet who he is going to choose?

Chantal vs. Emily

The family sees it as "fun loving" on one hand and a "rooted-down family" on the other, which is kind of true, but it's not like Chantal is just some crazy party girl. I think Brad could really build a family with Chantal, but the family thinks she's to free-wheeling. The sisters-in-law think Emily is already fitting right in with them, since they are already moms and Chantal is the girl they'd call to go out drinking.

Pamela says he can't keep his hands off Emily and that she's the whole package - Pamela has cast her vote, as have the rest of the family. It's interesting because I find Emily a little boring compared to Chantal and I see more chemistry between Chantal and Brad than between him and Emily. Guess we'll see.

Chantal's Romantic Date

Swimming with sharks. And not little nurse sharks, these are great big honking maneater Great Whites. And while a fear of sharks is basically silly because they don't hunt humans and they're endangered and blahblah, that would still be scary. "I got no spit."

"You go inside the cage? Cage goes in the water, you go in the water. Shark's in the water. Our shark .... Farewell and adieu to you fair Spanish ladies. Farewell and adieu to you ladies of Spain. For we've received orders for to sail back to Boston. And so nevermore shall we see you again."

Ahem. Sorry. That night, Chantal gives him a map with all the places they've been marked on it with a little narrative to go along. She talking-heads that she "basically traveled the world for him." Uh, it's not like you paid for it, chica.

She also has a wonderful letter for him expressing all her feelings. They part for the night and Brad just seems ... like he knows he's not going to pick her? And I type that not knowing the outcome, but it seems like that, right?

Emily's Romantic Date

After a helicopter ride and a hike up a lot of steps, they have a cliff-side picnic and he can't stop telling her how much his family loved her, which she thinks it's great. But then she brings up being a dad again. She's not sure if he has fully realized what that means.

That night, he says that ever since he met Ricky, he's wanted the chance to be an actual father to her. Not a replacement to Ricky her dad, but more than a stepfather. So she asks what that means to him, what his role would be.

He says it means unconditional love, a provider, a protector, a friend when it's appropriate and a disciplinarian when that is called for - good answer, Brad. But he's very uncomfortable having been put on the spot like that. Emily just keeps repeating, "It's not always fun." Uh, we get it, mom! We get that kids are hard. Sometimes I worry Emily isn't the brightest bulb on the bush.

Brad is getting upset about her repeated grilling of him, which probably has a lot to do with the fact that she's acting like he wouldn't be there for Ricky in the emergency room if she fell and hurt herself. Uh, I don't even know Brad in real life and I feel I can say with certainty that he would care if Ricky got hurt. I mean - good lord.

So Brad kind of turns the tables because this is making him worry that she's not ready to let him into their lives - that is completely fair, she's being a little nutty at this point. So he says he's ready and he hopes she's ready.

Emily is worried her head screwed it up and Brad is defeated at the rejection with which his declaration was met. Yeah, that was epically bad.

"The Bachelor" finale is upon us. Who did Brad Womack choose, Emily Maynard or Chantal O'Brien?

After the family meet-and-greet, two final dates and a supremely awkward conversation about being a father, Brad finally proposed to Emily Maynard and she said yes. Chantal was heartbroken.

But let's see how we got there.

Family Matters

The part of the show that is not a video recap or a coming up montage sees Brad gazing thoughtfully off his balcony out at the beautiful Cape Town seascape. His family arrives and it's his mom Pamela, twin brother Chad (hellooooo Chad), younger brother Wes and sisters-in-law Dylan and Prima . Brad is really overwhelmed with emotion, it's quite adorable. He also assures his family that he's definitely proposing.

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Jalen Rose On Duke: “They Only Recruit Black Uncle Toms”

“For me, Duke was personal. I hated Duke. And I hated everything I felt Duke stood for. Schools like Duke didn’t recruit players like me. I felt like they only recruited black players that were Uncle Toms.”

Rose later clarified his comments, while still sticking by his stance.
Michigan — In the new ESPN 30 for 30 on Michigan’s Fab 5 premiering this Sunday, former Wolverine and current ESPN analyst Jalen Rose professed his hate for Duke. Rose even took a shot at the Black players they recruited.

Jalen Rose Thought Duke Basketball Was Full of ‘Uncle Toms,’ Plus More on His Fab Five Documentary

“I was jealous of Grant Hill. He came from a great black family, congratulations,” Rose said. “Your mom went to college and was roommates with Hillary Clinton. Your dad played in the NFL, is a very well-spoken and successful man. I was upset and bitter that my mom had to bust her hump for 20-plus years. I was bitter that I had a professional athlete that was my father that I didn’t know.”

A lot of the hate was directed toward Laettner, who was considered the best player on the Duke team and was often the catalyst when people pointed out what they didn’t like about Duke.

“Duke was like America’s team and Christian Laettner was like God and I didn’t like him,” Howard said.

“I thought Christian Laettner was soft,” King said.

“Overrated,” Jackson said.

“Pretty boy,” Howard said.

Others had more disparaging words for the former Duke standout not suitable for using here.

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Michael Rothstein, annarbor.com, March 8, 2011

Jalen Rose played on the Fab Five teams at Michigan.

Now he’s helped produce a documentary about the college basketball program that created a culture shift in basketball with black socks and baggy pants. The Times hated the Blue Devils.

“For me, Duke was personal. I hated Duke and I hated everything I felt Duke stood for,” Rose says in the film. “Schools like Duke didn’t recruit players like me. I felt like they only recruited black players that were Uncle Toms.”

“The faces of Duke, I didn’t like them,” Jimmy King said.

“I hated Duke. I hated Duke,” Ray Jackson said.

“Coach K, you have Christian Laettner, Bobby Hurley, Grant Hill, yeah, they winning and keep in mind they won a championship the year before,” Juwan Howard said. “I respect that but we are talented, too.”

Three Mile Island accident History

The Three Mile Island accident was a partial core meltdown in Unit 2 (a pressurized water reactor manufactured by Babcock & Wilcox) of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania near Harrisburg in 1979. The plant was owned and operated by General Public Utilities and the Metropolitan Edison Co. It was the most significant accident in the history of the American commercial nuclear power generating industry, resulting in the release of up to 481 PBq (13 million curies) of radioactive gases, but less than 740 GBq (20 curies) of the particularly dangerous iodine-131.
The accident began at 4 a.m. on Wednesday, March 28, 1979, with failures in the non-nuclear secondary system, followed by a stuck-open pilot-operated relief valve (PORV) in the primary system, which allowed large amounts of nuclear reactor coolant to escape. The mechanical failures were compounded by the initial failure of plant operators to recognize the situation as a loss of coolant accident due to inadequate training and human factors, such as industrial design errors relating to ambiguous control room indicators in the power plant’s user interface. The scope and complexity of the accident became clear over the course of five days, as employees of Metropolitan Edison (Met Ed, the utility operating the plant), Pennsylvania state officials, and members of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) tried to understand the problem, communicate the situation to the press and local community, decide whether the accident required an emergency evacuation, and ultimately end the crisis.