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So I’ve been thinking a lot lately about a foggy concept that I’ve dubbed The Great Rock And Roll Novel. It started when I re-read Stanley Booth’s "The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones."
The book, written and re-written over a period of two decades, details the Stones’ arrival in 1969 Los Angeles, following the recording of "Gimme Shelter," after the death of Brian Jones. Writing in the first person, Booth wends his way backwards and forwards in time, corralling images of Keith, Mick and Brian in dingy London bedsits with interviews of their parents and their history as rising rock icons, concluding in the nightmarish Altamont Free Concert (see photo above) where a black audience member, Meredith Hunter, was stabbed to death, and from which the Stones (and Booth) escaped by helicopter.
To read this book is to know as much about Booth himself, as a twenty-something covering the Rolling Stones–his wife left behind in Memphis, his feelings of dread in the face of agent Allen Klein’s legal rigamarole, his inevitable touring infidelities–as it is to go behind the scenes of the traveling sideshow that was their progress through the ’60s.
Booth’s book, however, is not a novel. It trades on a shared knowledge of one famous rock and roll band and the songs they played. If you’re not a fan, chances are you’ve never even heard of it.
For me, the Great Rock and Roll Novel would be broadly defined as a fictive version of what Stanley Booth accomplished.
It would be a novel that somehow combines a set of fictional characters’ experiences and realizations with the experience of what it’s like to be a megalithic rock star. It would manage to make sense of a short period of time (say a decade or less) through the vein of a recognizable rock band, while also serving to reveal the narrator (yeah, it would probably have to be first person) as culpable and as self-serving as Jack Burden, the narrator in Robert Penn Warren’s "All The King’s Men."

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It’s his memory of the children with mutilated faces that Allan Rock can’t shake.
The former federal cabinet minister and Canadian ambassador to the UN has amassed an impressive resume as a lawyer, politician and diplomat, but Rock feels most transformed in recent years from touring wartorn countries.
The message of peace hit home at a mud-hut refugee camp.
“In the camps of northern Uganda you commonly come across people, sometimes children, whose ears and lips have been cut off,” said Rock, about a militia practice to rule by force and fear. “Going to Africa and working in the midst of conflict has changed me profoundly.”
In Sri Lanka, as part of a campaign to prevent the use of child soldiers, he encountered more ruined lives.
“People told me about armed men arriving in the middle of the night, ransacking the homes, taking the children, threatening the family if they tried to do anything about it,” Rock said. “I met with young men, 15 and 16, who had escaped after spending a year or two in the service of the Tamil Tigers. They were beaten to maintain discipline, forced into battle.”
Without peace, Rock said, horror prevails.
“I remember how stunned I was when I came back from Africa the first time and walked into a drugstore and saw 60 kinds of toothpaste,” said Rock, now a Windsor lawyer with Sutts Strosberg whose father served as a UN peacekeeper in the ’50s and ’60s. “Seeing the absolute poverty and violence in Africa makes it impossible for you to carry on like before.”
Peace is an elusive concept.
Experts say peace requires a change in societal thinking, though as the Rotary World Peace Summit this week in Windsor shows, the concept of peace resonates powerfully.
More than 1,000 people from around the globe have registered for the Windsor peace summit, the fourth and final such event Rotary has sponsored around the world over the last year in Sofia, Bulgaria, Istanbul, Turkey and Nairobi, Kenya.

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Back to work: Elizabeth Keener (”The L Word”) has been signed to create and star in a new hour-long dramatic series for the cable channel here!
The series, described as a cross between “Silence of the Lambs” and “Twin Peaks,” centers around a lesbian FBI agent (Keener) sent on an extended undercover assignment in a mysterious small town.
Keener’s character juggles personal demons with the demands of her investigation and soon finds herself increasingly enmeshed in the lives of the town’s inhabitants.
Covering all bases: Disney’s “Camp Rock,” a Disney Channel original movie, will premiere on Disney Channel, the ABC Television Network, ABC Family, Radio Disney and Disney.com June 20-23.
As if that wasn’t enough, the “Camp Rock” soundtrack will be released June 17 from Walt Disney Records, and the DVD will hit stores Aug. 19.
So, will everybody love “Men”? TNT has ordered a one-hour test episode of “Men of a Certain Age,” a new character-based drama from “Everybody Loves Raymond” Emmy-winners Ray Romano and Mike Royce.
Romano will star in the project that takes a look at what it means to be a guy approaching mid-life while also exploring the unique bonds of male friendship.
No date for the launch has been announced.
Something original: ABC will air eight original series over the summer. The shows include the return of “The Bachelorette,” 9 p.m. May 19 following the finale of “Dancing with the Stars”; “The Mole,” 10 p.m. May 26; “Wipeout,” 8 p.m. June 24; “I Survived a Japanese Game Show,” 9 p.m. June 24; ” ABC News’ “Hopkins,” 10 p.m. June 26; “Dance Machine,” 8 p.m. June 27; “High School Musical: Summer Session,” 8 p.m. July 20; and “Wanna Bet,” 9 p.m. July 21.
Here come the judges: The judges for this year’s “2008 Miss USA Pageant” on NBC at 9 p.m. Friday include: Heather Mills, contestant on season four of “Dancing With the Stars”; Rob Schneider, star of “I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry”; Joey Fatone, host of “The Singing Bee”; Kristian Alfonso, star of NBC’s “Days of Our Lives”; Olympic gold-medal swimmer Amanda Beard; Christian Siriano, this season’s winner of “Project Runway”; San Diego Chargers linebacker Shawne Merriman; celebrity hairstylist Ken Paves; Kelly Carlson, star of “Nip/Tuck”; and Vanity Fair’s celebrity journalist George Wayne.

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Del La Hoya is a big name boxing and now there is another Del La Hoya with the gloves on in the reality show ring.
(PRWEB) April 13, 2008 — Del La Hoya is a big name boxing and now there is another Del La Hoya with the gloves on but instead of the ring its, reality TV's biggest show on VH1, "Rock Of Love" with Brett Michael's of POISON.
Daisy Del La Hoya readies for action on final episode this Sunday, April 13. Daisy Del La Hoya from Denver, CO is making a huge name for herself as seen on the VH1's highly rated 2nd season of Brett Michael's "Rock Of Love" show each week as she competes for Brett's love match made in heaven. Now down to the final few weeks of the show season, the sexy tattooed goddess named Daisy and Amber are left to battle it out to the end. Daisy has been doing personal club appearances all over the country at this time thru her exclusive booking agent and appearance guru, Celebrity Agent, Mike Esterman of Esterman.com].
Esterman says, she has been one of the most requested names at this immediate time for all club talent buyers and she is so affordable to connect with her fans anywhere in the country plus she loves to travel and see new faces each day so it makes a winning combination." Daisy is one of those faces and names that will not be a flash in the pan as her roots have been digging deeper with long term deals in the works and more offers and requests are still pouring in for this highly requested sexy rocker girl with an appetite to take on the world of opportunity.
Daisy is also working on her music as a recording artists and will collaborate with other major players and names in the music industry to take that area to another level and some of her demo songs can be heard now on her MySpace page.Her official MySpace page,www.myspace.com/daisyrocksmusic For more information contact Mike Esterman at esterman @ mindspring.com. For media interviews contact Neil Cirucci at neilciruccipr @ aol.

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With the season finale of Rock of Love 2 up and coming, fans just can’t wait to see who Bret Michaels will choose between the thirty-something-year-old Ambre and 25-year-old Daisy, who admittedly still lives with her ex-boyfriend. In the last episode of the VH1 reality dating series, we saw Bret Michaels get some quality time with the final three women and a few of their relatives. Destiney’s father had the time of his life when Bret gave him a little ride on Bret’s Harley. However, when it came to elimination time, it was Destiney who had to pack her bags and walk away.
VH1 recently sat down with Destiney to talk about the relationships she had with the girls in the house and her entire experience with Bret Michaels on Rock of Love 2.
During the competition, Destiney’s honesty caught the attention of viewers, making them think that she was too "real for reality TV." In fact, this became more evident when she got into a conflict with Kristy Joe.
"The response I’ve been getting from a lot of people…came from me giving Kristy Joe so much s***," Destiney said in talking about her straightforward attitude when it came to Kristy Joe. "I got a lot of negative feedback, but you know, I don’t have a problem with her at all. The situation of being on a reality show makes you act in ways you normally wouldn’t."
While other women would easily fall into that certain emotional situation, Destiney thought twice before letting her feelings get the best of her. Despite landing a spot on the final three, she was not as in love with Bret Michaels as the other women were.
"When Daisy and Ambre came to me before my elimination to tell me that they were really in love with him, I saw their passion for him. I didn’t share that with them," she admitted. Moreover, she believed that the time constraint factored in her lack of emotions for Bret.

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n “My Name is Earl,” 8 p.m., NBC. While Earl is in a coma, Randy realizes that every item he completes off Earl’s list helps Earl get better, and asks Joy and Darnell to help him solve the mystery of a stolen motorcycle.
n “30 Rock,” 8:30 p.m., NBC. Jack, riding high on the success of a new reality show, “MILF Island,” is blindsided by a newspaper item revealing disparaging comments one of his employees made.
n “The Office,”9 p.m., NBC. Pam and Jim run out of excuses and must go to Jan and Michael’s house for dinner; when Dwight learns that Angela and Andy also are invited to dinner, his jealousy gets the best of him.
n “Eli Stone,”10 p.m., ABC. A vision of the future prompts Eli to take the case of Keith’s former client who has been denied parole; Matt’s efforts to win over Taylor lead to the case of two gay chimpanzees.
n “Without a Trace,”10 p.m. CBS. While Jack is in the hospital, the team searches for a heart-transplant patient and tries to figure out whether her curiosity about the donor who saved her life has anything to do with her disappearance.
n “Good Morning America,”7 a.m., ABC: Maximum satisfaction from 100-calorie foods; “green” kitchen gadgets.
n “Today,”7 a.m., NBC: Actor Jack McBrayer (”30 Rock”); author Dan Merchant (”Lord, Save Us From Your Followers”); author Rose Rock (”Mama Rock’s Rules”); jungle animals.
n “The Early Show,”7 a.m., CBS: Actor Josh Radnor (”How I Met Your Mother”); popular new beauty products.
n “Live with Regis and Kelly,”9 a.m., ABC: Guest co-host Pat Sajak; actor Josh Radnor (”How I Met Your Mother”); Domino magazine’s Chassie Post discusses reducing one’s carbon footprint.
n “The View,” 10 a.m., ABC: Republican presidential nominee John McCain.

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Palermo Hoping To Bounce Back
The Rosanero have enjoyed a season which has seen them floating around in the UEFA Cup places, only to let it slip after a poor run of form. The Sicilians still have a hope of playing European football next season and three points against Genoa will be a massive boost for Francesco Guidolin’s men. A 2-1 defeat to Parma on Wednesday night however certainly hasn’t helped Palermo’s cause. The Sicilians lost a dull game even though they had a man advantage. The next few weeks will be a huge test of character for both coach and players and a win against the Grifoni could mean the difference between playing in the UEFA Cup or watching it on telly.
Palermo are level on points with Genoa in the league and they will be looking to pull away from their opponents on Saturday afternoon. The Renzo Barbera outfit are only too aware of Genoa’s poor form on the road and this is perhaps their best chance of amassing three points as they race towards Europe. Palermo have been blowing hot and cold at home but they have only lost twice at the Barbera and thus no doubt they will fancy their chances come 3pm on Saturday afternoon.
Off the pitch it has not been as easy season for Palermo. The relationship between president Maurizio Zamparini and Guidolin has been turbulent ever since the coach came back to work for a man who sacked him twice in the past. There have been suggestions that the coach’s time on the bench is running out and anything less than a win could see him sacked for a record third time by the same club. All eyes will be on star striker Amauri, whether he’ll be able to keep his status as one of Palermo’s best players remains to be seen though as the Brazilian has gone through a drought period in front of goal.

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