ROVIN'
AND RAVIN' WITH MIKE
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Click on their names to join in a well-earned rave in their honor.
Rovin'
and Ravin' Home
Leonard Baskin,
Jacob Lawrence, Jeff MacNelly, George Segal
You
have seen works by these artists…
and
may have had a piece by one of them in your mouth!
Theodore M. Berry,
Vincent Canby, Gus Hall
These
three American leaders have very little in common,
except
that they died within a few days of each other
The Buddha, Charles
Schultz
I
am honoring each by pairing him with the other.
Johnny Cash, Tito
Puente, Kurt Weill
Three
great musicians:
one
has a 3-CD retrospective of his career, one has died,
and
one is remembered around the world and around the Internet
on
his hundredth birthday.
Eugene V. Debs
Often
compared to Jesus Christ and Abraham Lincoln,
and
named for two French novelists,
he
enjoyed almost three years of Southern hospitality
as
a prisoner in the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary.
Marlene Dietrich
Could
she have been the most typical person of her century?
Homer
He
was just a “dude” who may or may not have been one person;
he
might even have been a woman!
Stanley Kubrick
Call
him a genius, with all the baggage that goes with that word.
Eddie Owens Martin
He
is Georgia's own bigmouth bogeyman,
redneck
hippy, suicidal self-proclaimed saint,
and
if you visit his home, watch out for the trained snakes!
Walter
Matasschanskayasky
How
much pleasure and how many laughs
he
brought to movie audiences for years!
You
mean you don’t recognize his name?
Caroline
Miller
She
was the first recipient of the Pulitzer Prize from Georgia,
remembered
here (one of R & R’s high points) by her niece.
Jacobo
Timerman
A
prisoner who reclaimed his own name,
he
reminded us to speak our own.
Frank Turner
He
has been called one of the ten people
who
most changed our lives.
Billy Wilder
Join
the celebration of the Hollywoodiest director of them all.
General William
Jenkins Worth (I)
Best
known for his leadership in a very important war
that
is not well known today,
in the name of Worth County.
General William Jenkins Worth (II)
A
family member of General Worth's
tells tales on his famous ancestor.
Marguerite Young
There's
the mad penguin lover,
Miss
Marguerite, my darling.