Desoto Times Tribune > News > Nesbit's Jerry Lee Lewis touring at 74Nesbit's Jerry Lee Lewis touring at 74
By ROBERT LEE LONG
NESBIT — After 74 years, Rock ‘n’ Roll pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis is still alive and kicking, celebrating his birthday Tuesday on the road as he promotes his latest release.
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In advance of his new album, Lewis recently released the single “Mean Old Man,” written by Kris Kristofferson.
The Ferriday, La., native and longtime DeSoto County resident has lived in Nesbit since 1973 when he moved into the sprawling Lewis Ranch off Malone Road. The Lewis estate soon became a tourist attraction with its piano-shaped swimming pool and antique car collection.
However, the singer closed the ranch to tours in 2006, citing privacy reasons.
Tourists were seen paying tribute to the singer as they snapped photos outside the ranch's gates last week.
Lewis, the last sole surviving member of the "Million-Dollar Quartet," a phrase coined by Sun Record producer Sam Phillips, has outlived contemporaries Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash, two children and several ex-wives.
Lewis has lived most of his life in his adopted state of Mississippi and has played local venues in recent years, including concerts at nearby casinos in Tunica.
Lewis still travels extensively. On Oct. 2 he is slated to appear at the House of Blues in Las Vegas. He most recently appeared in Brazil and has upcoming shows in the Czech Republic, Austria and Sweden.
His raucous, rowdy musical style catapulted Lewis to fame in the 1950s with his own unique brand of explosive piano playing. He learned to sing and play the piano at an early age in the old Assembly of God Church on Texas Avenue in Ferriday, a small, close-knit community across the Mississippi River from Natchez.
Lewis, who was one of the first inductees into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio, is also featured in an exhibit at the DeSoto County Museum in Hernando. The singer donated one of his traveling pianos several years ago along with a fringed jacket he wore on the "Tonight Show" to the museum in Hernando.
Brian Hicks, executive director of the DeSoto County Museum, said Lewis draws as many fans as those of John Grisham, a former DeSoto County resident.
"People go to Graceland and then they drive down to Nesbit to see Jerry Lee's house," Hicks said. "We have quite a few who come by to see his exhibit here."
Lewis keeps a low profile while at home in Nesbit, where he resides with daughter Phoebe. He is often seen driving one of his vintage cars around town and frequents the drive-through window at Happy Daze, a local retro-style restaurant.
Several weeks ago, Lewis was sighted on his front porch, perhaps contemplating his long career.
Although an early Rock 'n' Roller, Lewis turned to singing country tunes in the 1960s and then resurrected his career with a comeback in the late 1970s at rock and blues revival concerts across the country.
Lewis was featured as a performer at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards last year.
Rolling Stone Magazine ranked him No. 24 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.
Robert Lee Long: rlong@desototimestribune.com or at 662-429-6397, Ext. 252
September 29, 2009
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France 24 | Polanski vows to fight US extradition request | France 24
Reuters - Film director Roman Polanski, arrested in Switzerland over a U.S. charge of having sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977, will fight extradition to the United States, his lawyer said on Monday.France 24 | Polanski vows to fight US extradition request | France 24
Polanski, 76, who has dual French and Polish citizenship, was detained on Saturday after arriving to receive a lifetime achievement award at the Zurich Film Festival.
"He is in fighting mood and determined to defend himself," Herve Temime, Polanski's lawyer, told France Info radio, adding his client was stunned by the arrest as he was a regular visitor to Switzerland, with a chalet at the ski resort of Gstaad.
"We have begun by requesting his release, which should be done today in principle," Temime said. "There is no reason in law, or regarding the facts or in terms of the most basic justice to keep Roman Polanski a single day in prison."
A Swiss justice ministry spokesman said it was theoretically possible that Polanski could be released on bail, although that was very unlikely. "The criteria for bail are very strict," spokesman Guido Balmer said.
Polanski was initially arrested in the United States in 1977 and charged with giving drugs and alcohol to a minor, Samantha Geimer, and having unlawful sex with her. Geimer of Hawaii has since said Polanski should not face any jail time.
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner spoke to his Swiss counterpart Micheline Calmy-Rey to discuss the case, a Swiss ministry spokesman said. Kouchner also told French radio on Monday he was working with Poland on the matter and had written to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
During a visit to Paris on Monday, Swiss Economy Minister Doris Leuthard said the country had no choice but to enforce an international arrest warrant against Polanski.
"The Americans strongly believe that the arrest of Mr Polanski is necessary. That's for them to decide. Switzerland is simply a state where the police functions and where we treat all people in the same way," she told a news conference.
Leuthard rejected suggestions Berne had arrested Polanski to help patch up ties strained by a high-profile U.S. tax case against Swiss bank UBS, which agreed a settlement over charges it helped wealthy Americans stash assets in secret accounts.
"The two things have absolutely no connection," she said, and when pressed on the timing of the arrest referred further questions to the Swiss Justice Department.
Swiss authorities have said that in the past they only heard about Polanski's visits after he left the country.
Free Polanski?
The U.S. authorities have up to 60 days to make a firm extradition request, but Polanski can appeal to the Swiss Federal Penal Court of Justice.
Wearing red badges reading "Free Polanski", the Zurich Film Festival jury accused Switzerland of "philistine collusion".
"We hope today this latest order will be dropped. It is based on a three-decade-old case that is all but dead but for minor technicalities. We stand by and wait for his release and his next masterwork," said jury president Debra Winger.
Other members of the movie profession including Italian actress Monica Bellucci, French actress Fanny Ardant, president of the Cannes film festival Gilles Jacob and Hong Kong director Wong Kar Wai issued a petition demanding his immediate release.
Public opinion is divided. Responses to a Reuters blog on the Polanski arrest included those who opposed it as a waste of U.S. taxpayer money and people who supported the move.
"In my opinion it is totally right to arrest Mr. Polanski," wrote Otto Meier. "What he has done is awful and needs to be atoned."
Polanski has avoided countries with extradition treaties with the United States since fleeing in 1978. He has never returned to Los Angeles, where his pregnant wife, actress Sharon Tate, was murdered by followers of Charles Manson in 1969.
The director was originally indicted on six charges, including rape. He has insisted the sex was consensual but pleaded guilty to a single count of having sex with a minor and received a sentence of time served after spending 42 days in prison undergoing psychiatric tests.
Polanski fled on the eve of his 1978 sentencing because he believed a judge might jail him for 50 years. His lawyers tried and failed earlier this year to have the case dismissed after a documentary raised new questions of judicial misconduct.
Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley said on Sunday Polanski had received a very lenient sentence, which would never be achievable under today's laws.
"Some form of justice will finally be done," he said.
Born to Polish-Jewish parents on Aug. 18, 1933, Polanski spent his first three years in Paris before the family returned to Poland. He escaped when the Germans sealed off the Krakow Jewish ghetto but his mother later died at Auschwitz.
Polanski scored a huge hit in the United States with 1968 horror thriller "Rosemary's Baby", and another with 1974's "Chinatown", a stylish thriller starring Jack Nicholson that was nominated for 11 Academy Awards.
"Tess" (1979) also earned him an Oscar nomination, and Polanski finally won his only best director Oscar for the 2002 film "The Pianist", the story of a Jewish-Polish musician who sees his world collapse with the outbreak of World War Two.
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9:40 Diane Sawyer interview, conducted 10 years after Polanski's self-imposed exile from the United States. This is the only clip on YT besides Sundance Channel's Doc (which links here) with the Samantha Geimer story details from Roman Polanski's side.
Diane Sawyer snagged the scoop, and she asks a very nervous Roman (who actually asks to start the interview over) about his career, the holocaust, and of course the reason why he exiled himself: Samantha Geimer (Gailey) and the circumstances that led up to the trial, as well as the events which prompted him to finally flee the country.
There is discussion (painful to watch) of his last memories of his parents going off to the concentration camps, as well as insight into the Manson murders and their impact on him, his career, and how this may have had something to do with the downward spiral which ended up causing his actions with the 13-year-old Geimer.
Very interesting piece from 1987. Nowhere else online that I saw. I had it over at - http://www.dailymotion.com/mrjyn about two years ago, and just remembered it was there. i think it has about ten thousand views pre zurich-arrest.
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BBC NEWS | Africa | Albino killers 'should be hanged'
BBC NEWS | Africa | Albino killers 'should be hanged'Albino killers 'should be hanged'
Albino people live in fear in Tanzania and BurundiThe Tanzania Albino Society (Tas) has called for the men found guilty of killing an albino boy to be hanged publicly as a warning to others.
A court sentenced them to death for attacking the boy and severing his legs for use in witchdoctors' potions.
The BBC's John Ngahyoma in Dar es Salaam says there are more than 100 people on death row, but no-one has been executed in more than 15 years.
But Tas chairman Ernest Kimaya urged the president to endorse the sentence.
"I want other perpetrators to learn - seeing is believing," he told the BBC.
Mr Kimaya told Tanzania's Citizen newspaper that a public execution would also "show that the government is serious in its war on albino killers".
In the past two years, 53 albino people have been murdered in Tanzania.
Albino people, who lack pigment in their skin and appear pale, are killed because potions made from their body parts are believed to bring good luck and wealth.
The Tanzanian government has publicly stated its desire to end the killings.
In March, President Jakaya Kikwete called on Tanzanians to come forward with any information they might have.
Reprisal fears
Officials banned witchdoctors from practising, however many have continued to work.
Many of Tanzania's estimated 17,000 albino people are now living in fear, especially in villages in the north-west where the majority of the murders have occurred.
The case in Kahama on Wednesday was the first conviction in Tanzania for an albino killing.
Correspondents say there is also a fear of reprisal killings as witchdoctors and their clients wield a lot of power in their communities.
Witchdoctors in Tanzania and other parts of East Africa have made tens of thousands of dollars from selling potions and other items made from the bones, hair, skin and genitals of dead albino people.
They pay a lot of money for body parts.
In July a court in neighbouring Burundi sentenced one person to life in prison and eight others to jail for the murder of albino people whose remains were sold in Tanzania.
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