![]() "It just hit me like a drug," he said.Īfter graduating, he headed to California, and got steady work in commercials. Put off by the travel involved, he enrolled in journalism classes at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, where he also signed up for a theater elective. I'm stuck at home with my kids, I thought I was going nuts, And I would look forward to just a minute or two with you every day.' And I think that's what comedy's about."īeginning at age 19, the 4'11" Jordan exercised racehorses. "I have people come up to me and say, 'You got me through that. I cut my hair because I couldn't get to the barbershop. I just talked about what are y'all doing? Here's what I'm doing. Its success amazed even him: "I didn't try to sell anybody anything. ![]() And I would always start it with, 'Well, how y'all doing?'" And I did two posts a day, I think, for 80 days. In 2022 he told "CBS Mornings" about adjusting to lockdown after staying with his mom in Tennessee. "Give me a good pandemic and I flourish," said comic actor Leslie Jordan (April 29, 1955-October 24, 2022). When I add black paint to a canvas, light reflects uniquely off the scar. I say black, but actually it's light that's key. When asked by "CBS Sunday Morning" in 2020, on the occasion of his 100th birthday, why black still moved him, Soulages replied, "Because its possibilities are limitless. ![]() He'd found his medium, and began to experiment with sculpting black paint on the canvas. Then, one morning in 1979, when he and his wife Colette were living in Paris, he noticed how reflections transformed the surface of black paint. ![]() His paintings – big, bold, and overwhelmingly black – have commanded attention since he made a name for himself in 1950s New York, then emerging as the center of the modern art world.īack then, like American avant-garde artists Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko, Soulages experimented with challenging abstract forms. | JOEL SAGET/AFP Uli Deck/picture alliance, both via Getty Imagesįrench abstract artist Pierre Soulages (December 24, 1919-October 26, 2022) became known as the "Master of Black," for bringing the mystery of darkness into the light. Right: A gallery view of Soulages' "Peinture 102 x 165 cm, 19 novembre 1990" at the Museum Frieder Burda, in Baden-Baden, Germany. 'Is that the one that married that girl? Well, forget about it, let me hear that song.' It takes their sorrow, and it takes mine."įrench painter Pierre Soulages in 2019. Any bad thought anyone ever had about you goes away. In 2015's bestseller "Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story," he described to biographer Rick Bragg the importance, to him, of being a rock 'n' roll star: "The show, that's what counts. Four years later he recorded another album of duets, "Mean Old Man," this time paired with Willie Nelson, Mavis Staples, Tim McGraw, Keith Richards and Sheryl Crow. King, George Jones, Chuck Berry and Neil Young. In 2006, in his 70s, Lewis' longevity was marked by the release of "Last Man Standing," an album of duets featuring such stars as Bruce Springsteen, Mick Jagger, B.B. In 1986, Lewis was among the inaugural class of inductees for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Lewis then reinvented himself as a country artist, in the 1960s, with such hits as "Another Place, Another Time," "She Still Comes Around (to Love What's Left of Me)," "She Even Woke Me Up to Say Goodbye," "There Must Be More to Love Than This" and "Would You Take Another Chance on Me." His European tour was canceled, and he was blacklisted from the radio. In 1957 two songs by "The Killer," Jerry Lee Lewis (September 29, 1935-October 28, 2022), burned up the airwaves, becoming Top 10 hits: "Whole Lot of Shakin' Going On" and "Great Balls of Fire," songs that showcased the Louisiana-born piano player's outrageous talent and energy – a force of nature inspired by sneaking into Black juke joints, and honed by his experience playing rockabilly, boogie-woogie and gospel.īut in 1958 Lewis' career suffered from the scandal of marrying his second-cousin, Myra Gale Brown (who was 13 at the time), while he was still married to the second of his seven wives. The Associated Press contributed to this gallery. | Bettmann via Getty ImagesĪ look back at the esteemed personalities who left us this year, who'd touched us with their innovation, creativity and humanity.īy senior producer David Morgan.
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