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Music:
MOS DEF, pretty much! LOL! Uhhhh, who else...LOL! Whoa, this list could go on forever, but here we go...randomly: Sade, Minnie Ripperton, Roberta Flack, Aretha Franklin, Patti LaBelle, Anita Baker, Chaka Khan, Natalie Cole ('specially, "I Got Love On My Mind"), Diana Ross (Mahogany!!), Donna Summer, Cheryl Lynn, Dionne Warwick, Miki Howard, Whitney Houston, Teena Marie, Lauryn Hill, India Arie, Goapole, Jill Scott, Floetry, Res, Faith Evans, Diane Reeves, Tracy Chapman, Patti Austin, Angela Bofill, Phyllis Hyman (RIP, sweet lady), Layla Hathaway, Melissa Morgan, Cherelle, Mary J. Blige, Regina Belle, Stephanie Mills, Evelyn Champaign King, Nancy Wilson, Deniece Williams, Janet Jackson, Meshell Ndegeocello, Fantasia, EnVogue, Mariah Carey, SWV, Stacy Lattisaw, Betty White, Diana Ross, Anne Murray, Doris Day, Judy Garland, Stevie Nicks, Gloria Gaynor, Karyn White, Cher, Barbra Streisand, Carly Simon, Basia (!!!), Madonna, Enya, Olivia Newton-John, Juice Newton ("Queen of Hearts"), Patty Smyth ("Warrior"), KT Tunstall (!!!!), Kelly Clarkson, O'Jays, Sylistics ('specially "You Make Me Feel Brand New"), Tavares ("Penny For Your Thoughts"), The Spinners, The Whispers, Kook & The Gang, Ohio Players, LTD, Temptations, Fifth Dimension, Isley Brothers, Earth Wind & Fire, Gap Band, Staple Singers ("I'll Take You There", "Let's Do It Again"), Frankie Beverly & Maze, Doobie Brothers, Rolls Royce ("Love Don't Live Here No More"), Chi-Lites ("Have You Seen Her"), Main Ingredient ("Everybody Plays the Fool", "Just Don't Wanna Be Lonely"), War, The Miracles, Average White Band, Bee Gees (!!!!!), The Jacksons, Emotions, Supremes, The Whispers, Gladys Knight & The Pips, Ashford & Simpson, Pointer Sisters, Sister Sledge, Switch, Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes (among many, "The Love I Lost" featuring Teddy Pendergrass), Bloodstone ("We Go A Long Way Back"), Champaign ("How 'Bout Us"), Friends of Distinction ("Going In Circles"), Heatwave ("Always & Forever"), GQ ("I Do Love You"), McFadden & Whitehead ("Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now"), Parliament ("We Want The Funk!"), Hot Chocolate ("You Sexy Thing"), Mass Production ("Firecracker!!!"), 3 Degrees ("When Will I See You Again" -- "...when will we share precious moments..."), Rufus (as in what evolved into Rufus and Chaka Khan), The Dells, Midnight Starr, Atlantic Star, Cameo (all time favorite, "Shake Your Pants"), Gap Band (especially "Yearning"), Debarge, Surface, The System ("Don't Disturb This Groove"), Force MDs, Shalamar, Club Nouveau, Klymaxx, Ready For the World, Troop ("All I Do Is Think Of You"), Rude Boys ("It's Written All Over Your Face"), The Time, Vanity 6, Lisa Lisa & The Cult Jam, Expose, Guy, 112, Blackstreet, The Deal, Levert, Tony! Toni! Tone!, Escape, Shai ("If I Ever Fall In Love Again"), Portrait, Jodeci, KC & JoJo, New Edition, Boyz II Men, PM Dawn, Brand New Heavies, Urban Ave 31, Stevie Wonder, Lou Rawls, Curtis Mayfield, Billy Preston, Johnny Guitar Watson, Barry White, Al Green, Isaac Hayes, George Benson, Sam Cooke, Bobby Womack, Marvin Gaye, Michael McDonald, Will Downing (!!!), Donny Hathaway, Larry Ingram, Brian McKnight, Johnny Taylor ("Disco Lady"), Luther Vandross, Peabo Bryson, James Ingram, Teddy Pendergrass, Freddie Jackson, Seal (!!!!), Alexander O'Neil, Jeffrey Osborne, Lionel Richie, Carl Thomas ("Emotional"), Major Harris ("Love Won't Let Me Wait"), Prophet Jones ("Cry Together" -- "...we're not the only people in the world, who go through ups and downs...")Ray Charles, Otis Redding ("Sitting On the Dock of the Bay"), Fats Domino, Charlie Parker, Little Richard, Chubby Checker, Billy Preston ("Nothing From Nothing Leaves Nothing"), Frankie Lymon ("Why Do Fools Fall In Love"), Bobby Blue Bland, Nat King Cole, Lou Rawls, Billy Ocean, Gerald Levert, Tony Terry ("When I'm With You"), Chuckie Booker ("Why You Wanna Play Your Games On Me"), Howard Johnson ("So Fine...You Blow My Mind"), Bill Withers, Terrence Trent D'Arby, Johnny Gill, Keith Sweat, John Legend, Usher, Kenny Lattimore, Smokey Robinson, Rick James, Prince, Michael Jackson, Maxwell, Babyface, Wyclef Jean, Bobby Brown, Jon B., Junior, Tupac, Dr. Dre, Snoop, Notorious BIG, Nas, Jay Z, LL Cool J, Eric B. & Rakim, Big Daddy Kane, The Fugees, Public Enemy (all time fav "Give It Up!"), Boogie Down Productions, KRS1, Stetsasonic, Run DMC, Queen Latifah (hip hop and jazz!), Poor Righteous Teachers (PRT) (!!!), Curtis Blow, Sugar Hill Gang, Dougie Fresh and the Get Fresh Crew, DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, Slick Rick, Wreckin' Crew, Rob Base, Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five, D-Nice, Fat Boys, Kool Moe Dee, Bizmarkie ("And You Say He's Just A Friend"), Ice Cube, Snoop, DMX, Salt N Peppa, Camp Lo, MC Lyte, Da Brat, Lil Kim, Mase, Foxy Brown, Naughty By Nature, Heavy D & The Boyz, Beastie Boys, Geto Boyz ("Minds Playing Tricks On Me"), Craig Mack, 3rd Bass, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Puff Daddy (before Diddy), Outkast, Kanye West, Pharrell, Kwame & the Polka Dots ("Only You"!), Blackeyed Peas, The Winans, Commissioned, Men of Standard, BeeBee and CeeCee Winans, Clark Sisters, Yolanda Adams, Fred Hammond (!!!), Mary Mary, Kirk Whallum, George Duke, Gerald Albright, Al Jarreau, David, Koz, Grover Washington, Rascal Flatts (country), Dolly Parton, Shania Twain, Crystal Gayle (back in the day), Kenny Rogers, Gatlan Bros., Eddie Rabbit, Alabama, Keith Urban, Bee Gees, Andy Gibb, Eric Clapton (My song, "If I Can Change the World!"!!!), Kenny Loggins (!!!!), James Taylor, Elton John, Sting (!!!), George Michaels, Michael Franks (!!!), Christopher Cross, Bobby Caldwell (!!!)), Barry Manilow, Neil Sadaka, Frank Sinatra, Frankie Avalon, Crosby Steals & Nash, Don Henley, Stephen Bishop ("It Might Be You"), Richard Marx, Dan Hartman, Billy Joel (everything, but notably, "My Life" and "Just the Way You Are"), Ricky Scaggs, Elvis Costello, Bruce Springstein, John Cougar Mellancamp, Rick Springfield, The Beetles, Chicago, The Eagles, Air Supply, Journey, Ambrosia (!!!), Foreigner, Jefferson Starship, Captain & Tenille, Seals & Croft ("Summer Breeze"!!!!!), Mamas & Papas, Cass Elliot aka Mama Cass ("California Dreamin'", "Monday Monday", "Dream A Little Dream", "I'll Be Seeing You"), Bread, Supertramp ("Take the Long Way Home"), Fleetwood Mac (!!!), Boston ("More Than A Feeling"), The Police, Hall & Oates, Genesis, Wilson Phillips, Steely Dan, REO Speedwagon, Queen, Men at Work, Duran Duran, White Snake, Van Halen, Billy Idol, Adam Ant, Ace of Base, Bon Jovi, Twisted Sister, Night Ranger ("Sister Christian"), Wham!, Survivor, Spandau Ballet, Simply Red, Extreme ("More Than Words"), Huey Lewis & The News, Heart (!!!), Culture Club, Thompson Twins, Cyndi Lauper, The Cars, Dexys Midnight Runners ("Come on Eileen"!), Backstreet Boys... Alright, alright, this could go on forever. Trust me! LOL! I think you get the picture, though.
Movies:
Classics: My Fair Lady ("The Audrey Hepburn"), All About Eve (Bette Davis!! & Anne Baxter), Sunset Boulevard (William Holden & Gloria Swanson), The Women (excellent movie! Cast of all women including Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Paulette Goddard, Ruth Hussey, Joan Fontaine, Marjorie Main, etc., etc.), Notorious (Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains), The Great Dictator (Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard), Citizen Kane (Directed by Orson Welles!!! - cast of awesome characters, most notably Joseph Cotton), Carmen Jones (with Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafonte), Patch of Blue (Sidney Portier), Raisin In The Sun (Sidney Portier), In The Heat Of The Night (Sidney Portier), To Sir With Love (Sidney Portier), Guess Who's Coming To Dinner (Sidney Portier), Lillies Of The Field (Sidney Portier), Blackboard Jungle (Sidney Portier), My Girl Friday (Cary Grant - sigh - and Rosalind Russell), Auntie Mame (Rosalind Russell), Breakfast at Tiffany's (Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard), It Happened One Night (Cary Grant and Claudette Colbert), Judgment at Nuremburg (Wow! Burt Lancaster, Spencer Tracy, Montgomery Clift, Marlene Dietrich, Richard Widmark, Judy Garland, even a young William Shatner!), Gone With the Wind (Hattie McDaniel...we know the others in the movie! Gotta give the sistah her props!), Random Harvest (Greer Garson, Ronald Colman), Withering Heights, Tomorrow Is Forever (Orson Welles, Claudette Colbert, little Natalie Wood...around 7 years old!), Double Indemnity (Fred McMurray, Barbara Stanwyk), Born Yesterday (Judy Holiday and William Holden), State of the Union (Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy), The Philadelphia Story (Kate & Spence), Woman of the Year (Kate & Spence), Pat and Mike (Kate and Spence), heck, all things Kate & Spence!, All the Thin Man movies (William Powell & Myrna Loy), The Asphalt Jungle (Sterling Hayden, Jean hagen, Marilyn Monroe - although a small part), Cat on A Hot Tin Roof (Paul Newman, Elizabeth Taylor), Postman Always Rings Twice (Lana Turner, John Garfield...bestill my heart!), all Woody Allen movies, any and everything Alfred Hitchcock, pretty much anything classic!More recent (relatively speaking) stuff...Bridges of Madison County, Yentl (Barbra Streisand!), Love Jones, Sparkle (young Irene Cara), Claudine (Diahann Carroll, James Earl Jones), Usual Suspects, Grease (!!!), Breakin', Two Can Play That Game, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgandy ("I don't know how to put this, but I'm kind of a big deal. People know me. I'm very important. I have many leather-bound books and my apartment smells of rich mahogany" LOL!! Another notable, "Well, now, guess what, this is happening. That's how I roll!" ROTFLMBAO! You had to have been there!)...others, but can't affore to expend any brain energy on it just right now![List of some of my favorite actors and actresses who may not be listed above: Audrey Hepburn, Lena Horne, Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, John Garfield, Lana Turner, Grace Kelly, Gene Kelly, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Doris Day, Rock Hudson, Dick Powell, Diana Durbin, Jimmy Stewart, William Holden, Kim Novak, Tippy Hedron, Andy Garcia, Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda, Diane Carroll, Lola Falana, Robert Duvall, Denzel Washington, John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson]
