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Harry Belafonte memoir reviewed in NYT… Belafonte appears with Tim Robbins at Live Talks on Nov 28…
Harry Belafonte’s memoir, My Song is reviewed in the New York Times today by Garrison Keillor. Belafonte appears in conversation with Tim Robbins at Live Talks Los Angeles on Nov 28. Ticket deets here… Here’s an excerpt: Here is a gorgeous account of the large life of a Harlem boy, son of a Jamaican…
Read MoreHarry Belafonte sings duet with Stephen Colbert…we host Belafonte on 11-28
Belafonte appeared on The Colbert Report last night. The Los Angeles Times has a bit on it. Here’s an excerpt: Colbert pressed Belafonte on why he used his “banana-counting fame” to enact social change. “Why not just be rich and lusted after? That’s what I do.” Belafonte replied, “I thought that the community from which…
Read MoreHarry Belafonte documentary on HBO on Oct 17 (at Live Talks on 11-28)
Harry Belafonte documentary airs on HBO on Oct 17. Here’s a piece in Bloomberg on the doc. Here’s an excerpt: And he blended his artistry with activism, playing a key role in the civil rights movement alongside such leaders as the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. as well as then-Attorney General Robert Kennedy (whom he…
Read MoreHarry Belafonte, The Sunday Conversation in the LA Times….At Live Talks Nov 28
We host Harry Belafonte at Live Talks Los Angeles on November 28. Ticket info here. He appears on the Sunday, October 16 Los Angeles Times in The Sunday Conversation series. An HBO documentary, Sing Your Song, about him airs Monday, October 17. Here’s an excerpt: Most Americans alive today didn’t live through segregation in this…
Read MoreHarry Belafonte feature in USA Today. We host him Nov 28 at Live Talks Los Angeles
We host Harry Belafonte at Live Talks Los Angeles on November 28. His memoir, My Song, comes out Oct 11. USA Today had a feature on him today. Here’s an excerpt: But when this octogenarian sits down to discuss his new projects — a memoir titled My Song (Knopf, $30.50), out Tuesday, and the related documentary Sing Your…
Read MoreAn Evening with Harry Belafonte in conversation with Tim Robbins
HARRY BELAFONTE, one of the greatest entertainers of our time has led one of the great American lives of the last century. Join us for this special evening as this extraordinary icon shares his memoir, My Song — a story of his life, the struggles, the tragedies, and, most of all, the inspiring triumphs.
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