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Bob Dylan
1941-present
Bob Dylan Now: Timothée Chalamet Portrays Singer in New Biopic A Complete Unknown
Bob Dylan is the subject of the new biopic A Complete Unknown, with Oscar-nominated actor Timothée Chalamet portraying the music legend. Based on the Elijah Wald bookDylan Goes Electric!, the movie chronicles Dylan’s rise to fame as a folk musician in the early 1960s to his first folk rock concert with electric instruments at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. A Complete Unknown began showing in Imax on December 18 ahead of its wide theatrical release December 25.
Although Dylan wasn’t directly involved the movie, director James Mangold told Rolling Stone in November 2024 he had a major influence on the screenplay. The music legend offered feedback on the script and even wrote dialogue.
Ahead of its release, the 83-year-old expressed excitement for the movie and praised Chalamet’s acting kotletter. “Timmy’s a brilliant actor so I’m sure he’s going to be completely be
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The Story of the Hurricane
For members of a generation, Paterson and Rubin "Hurricane" Carter are synonymous with a song. But Carter's life is much more than what was condensed into Bob Dylan's 1976 protest song.
Early life
Born in Clifton, New Jersey, on May 6th, 1937, Carter grew up in Paterson. The fourth child of seven, Carter had a troubled relationship with his disciplinarian father. At age eleven, he acquired a criminal record for assaulting a man with a knife, and was sentenced to a New Jersey juvenile reformatory at age twelve. He escaped the detention center in 1954, climbing through a basement window. Two weeks later he told a recruiter that he was from Philadelphia to hide his New Jersey criminal record, and joined the United States Army.
Completing basic training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, Carter's first duty station was in West Germany. While there, he began his boxing career, joining the U.S. Army Boxing grupp. In just two years, he won the European
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First live sporting event broadcast on radio
On April 11, 1921, KDKA in Pittsburgh broadcasts the first live sporting event on the radio, a boxing match between Johnny Ray and Johnny Dundee. Pittsburgh Daily Post sports editor Florent Gibson calls the event, about four months before KDKA's Harold Arlin announces the first Major League Baseball game broadcast on radio.
The lightweight bout pitted Dundee, who was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1991, against Ray, who would later train and manage famed boxer Billy Conn.
In the early part of the 20th century, radio had been used primarily for two-way communication. The medium's popularity took a nosedive during World War I, when the U.S. military took over all airwaves.
But Harry P. Davis, the vice president of Westinghouse in 1921, saw radio as something more. He told Inventing American Broadcasting that radio was "an idea of limitless opportunity." On October 27, 1920, KDKA became the first licensed r