Mr. Fasano’s English Class

The Irish pop group Divine Comedy recorded a song based on “Bernice Bobs Her Hair.” Here’s a snippet from the song. Give it a listen.

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Shelly Duvall talks with Dennis Christopher during the filming of Bernice Bobs Her Hair in Nov. 6, 1975.
The following is from the Vintage book The Best Early Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald:
The idea for “Bernice bobs Her Hair” originated in a ten-page letter (circa 1916) that Fitzgerald wrote to his sister Annabel when he was [...]

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Yes, when the teacher is away, the kids will play. Witness the above video. I was out last month attending a funeral, so my journalism students took [...]

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A couple of months have passed since the “Once” duo of Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova won Oscars for their song “Falling Slowly” from John Carney’s independent hit of last summer. Now they have a brand-new track for another movie, which again is a bittersweet boy-meets-girl foreign movie.

The song is called “One More Word” and [...]

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Herbert von Karajan was an Austrian orchestra and opera conductor, one of the most renowned 20th century conductors. Karajan began his conducting career in 1927. After World [...]

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Muddy Waters 1915-1983
Muddy Waters was born on this day in 1915. He was an African-American blues singer and guitarist from Rolling Fork, Mississippi. His real name was McKinley Morganfield. As a teenager he began singing and playing traditional country blues on harmonica and guitar, and in 1941 he was recorded by Alan Lomax for [...]

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Jesse James 1847-1882
Jesse James, 1847–82, an American outlaw, was murdered on this day in 1882 by the coward Robert Ford. James was born in Clay County, Missouri. At the age of 15 he joined the Confederate guerrilla band led by William Quantrill and participated in the brutal and bloody civil warfare in Kansas and [...]

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Hans Christian Andersen1805-1875
1805–75, Danish poet, novelist, and writer of fairy tales. Reared in poverty, he left Odense at 14 for Copenhagen. He failed as an actor, but his poetry won him generous patrons including King Frederick VI. In 1829 his fantasy A Journey on Foot from the Holmen Canal to the Eastern Point of [...]

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