Edward Norton Found the Keys to Pete Seeger in ‘A Complete Unknown’: His Music Was Intricate and His Toilet Smelled
TheWrap magazine: Director James Mangold said, “Go out and mine Pete Seeger and bring me back a bunch of gold,” says the actor ...
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8 songs to remember Pete Seeger by
Pete Seeger didn't like singing by himself. It wasn't just that he contributed his tenor (and banjo picking) to two seminal folk groups — the Almanac Singers (with Woody Guthrie) and The Weavers ...
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Another complete unknown is Pete Seeger’s communism
Katharine Gorka and I argue in our book, NextGen Marxism, What It Is and How to Combat It, that the biggest split came when some protesters took up arms against ... and Pete Seeger was the ...
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Edward Norton on digging into the activism of Pete Seeger for ‘A Complete Unknown’ and annoying his kids with banjo-playing
As an activist himself, Norton said he “admired [Seeger] enormously” and felt an “alignment” with him, especially when he was in his early 20s. “He was the guy who cleaned up the Hudson ...
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Seeger Defense Attacks HUAC at Trial Opening
NEW YORK CITY, March 27--Balladeer Pete Seeger's long-delayed trial for contempt of Congress finally got under way today before Judge Murphy in a U.S. District Court here. The ten-count indictment ...
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RIP, Pete Seeger
Pete Seeger, a man for whom the modifier “legendary” seems hopelessly inadequate, had many Jewish associations in a career that spanned seven decades. Today began on a sad note with news that ...
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Jurists Convict Seeger On Charge of Contempt
NEW YORK CITY, March 29--Pete Seeger '40 was found guilty this after-noon on ten counts for contempt of Congress. He faces the possibility of up to a $100 fine and a year in jail on each count.