{"id":33051,"date":"2016-06-10T20:27:29","date_gmt":"2016-06-11T00:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=33051"},"modified":"2016-06-27T22:22:50","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T02:22:50","slug":"in-the-news-today-muhammad-ali-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/in-the-news-today-muhammad-ali-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"In the News Today: Muhammad Ali and More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.people.com\/article\/muhammad-ali-memorial-live\" target=\"_blank\">Muhammad Ali&#8217;s interfaith funeral was held today<\/a>, and it was an event worthy of the boxer known as The Greatest.\u00a0 Highlights included comedian <a href=\"http:\/\/www.si.com\/boxing\/2016\/06\/10\/muhammad-ali-funeral-billy-crystal-eulogy-video-speech\" target=\"_blank\">Billy Crystal&#8217;s funny and touching remembrance<\/a> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bOKCoctNk9A\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/screengrabber.deadspin.com\/rabbi-michael-lerner-brings-down-the-house-at-muhammad-1781776788\" target=\"_blank\">Rabbi Michael Lerner&#8217;s impassioned call for social change<\/a> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Cza0IY1h6VI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>&#8230; and the first eulogy, given by Ali&#8217;s wife, Lonnie Ali.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4h4-QHSUPOQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>If you missed the fascinating New York Times story on Lonnie&#8217;s relationship with Muhammad &#8212; including the photo of their first meeting in 1963 when he was 21 and she was six &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/nyti.ms\/1TXXp37\" target=\"_blank\">read it now<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been wanting to put together a list of Ali links the way I did for <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/david-bowies-1976-playboy-interview-and-other-links\/\" target=\"_blank\">David Bowie<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/rip-prince\/\" target=\"_blank\">Prince<\/a>, but there is so much good Ali content that I&#8217;m overwhelmed. I mean, the man accomplished amazing things in 10 seconds.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"imgur-embed-pub\" lang=\"en\" data-id=\"LRZwzN5\"><p><a href=\"\/\/imgur.com\/LRZwzN5\">View post on imgur.com<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center><script src=\"\/\/s.imgur.com\/min\/embed.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to do my best to pull together a reasonable amount of highlights though. Check back with me on Sunday!<\/p>\n<p>Also in the news today: It&#8217;s eighth publishing anniversary of ProPublica, the non-profit, non-partisan and non-ideological investigative-journalism organization. Yay!<br \/>\n<center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.instyledress.co.uk\/bridesmaid-dresses-uk\">?<\/a> Do you know what today is&#8230;. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idress.co.nz\/wedding-dresses\">?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s our 8th publishing anniversary! Things have changed a bit since 2008. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rTLTVMA6qv\">pic.twitter.com\/rTLTVMA6qv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ProPublica (@ProPublica) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ProPublica\/status\/741362427481055232\">June 10, 2016<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><\/center>As you might recall, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/site\/author\/paul_steiger\" target=\"_blank\">MrB was the founding editor-in-chief, CEO and president of ProPublica from 2008 through 2012<\/a>. He&#8217;s still the executive chairman, and he&#8217;s in the office every day. So many people thought ProPublica was a bad or even dangerous idea when it launched. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/awards\/\" target=\"_blank\">Since then it&#8217;s won three Pulitzer Prizes, two Emmys and a Peabody Award, among other honors<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/genius.com\/8641248\" target=\"_blank\">Twirling on them haters<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of anniversaries, it&#8217;s the 25th anniversary (OMG!) of the final episode of <em>Twin Peaks<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/naughty-stylish-audrey-horne\/\" target=\"_blank\">one of my all-time favorite shows<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/i\/moments\/741340874517446656\" target=\"_blank\">The Twitter Moments page<\/a> says the finale &#8220;has been deemed one of the weirdest and most disturbing finales in TV history.&#8221; I&#8217;ve been laughing to myself all day about that, thinking that one of the weirdest and most disturbing moments on television PERIOD was the <em>Twin Peaks<\/em> scene in which the Horne brothers devour brie-and-butter baguettes in a peculiarly lewd way. 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