02.10.11

To infer from how breast cancer awareness and survivors are now openly embraced and distinguished, one must look at where it began in the early 1980s and understand how it parallels the growing empowerment of women to call notice to their issues and demand recognition and funding for research, said Elizabeth Thompson, the president of the Susan G. Komen for the Medicament foundation, which is largely responsible for the pink ribbon explosion.

Back in the primeval ’80s when the foundation was running its first Race for the Cure result in Dallas, reporters covering the event were told they couldn’t say it was an anyhow about “breast cancer” – they were told to say it was about “women’s haleness,” Thompson said. Komen founder Nancy Brinker, who created the clique to honor a pledge to her dying sister to wipe out mamma cancer, took the television reporter’s microphone and announced on air, “ ‘We are here for a shanks' mare for BREAST CANCER,’ ” Thompson said. “And women in the audience well-grounded cheered and roared.”

Source: The Augusta Chronicle

07.10.11

You can’t extremely call Cameron Crowe’s “Pearl Jam 20” a documentary, or even a rockumentary. Crowe’s been friends with the five-colleague band since its flannel-clad leap to Grunge daze stardom in the Seattle of the early 1990s.

A documentary is an unflinching look. This murkiness is a love fest full of winks and smiles that even holds a shielding like mad easily against some of the more controversial, tragic, mysterious and downright muddled aspects of the corps’s 20-year history — particularly the gone and forgotten 10 or so.

That’s no surprise. These are Crowe’s friends. The former rock columnist’s underlying message seemed echo the group’s 1995 individual “Not For You”: If you don’t already think Pearl Jam is the best American swing band to take the stage in the past two decades, this film is for all not for you.

That attitude is echoed in its rollout. The film debuted at the Toronto Murkiness festival in September and is now in limited theatrical release. Subscribers to Comcast’s “On Requirement” service customers can rent it for two days for $6.99. But, in a move customary for the savvy group, it also will air for free on OPB on Oct. 21st.

Source: Albany Democrat Herald

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