Jennifer Holliday

The performance that started it all : Jennifer Holliday's "And I am telling you"

Take all of today's voogling as an example of why DRM or digital restrictions rights management software or licenses are bad for our culture. Without Fair Use, we wouldn't have the little miracle I am about to present : Dreamgirl's original cast's performance of "And I am telling you" at the 1982 TONY Awards.

Matt Lauer had asked Jennifer Hudson if she had seen the performance. She said that the only reference to this song came from a Will Smith lip-syncing bit in one of his movies. She had only recently seen the 1982 clip AFTER years of singing the song and after filming her version of Effie.

Well, good thing for her because she made the role her own. But awesomeness for us that now we will have both versions readily available on the net.

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Wars are the clock ticking off the time of Israeli history: World War I; the "riots" of 1929 and 1936; World War II; the War of Independence, 1948; the Sinai Campaign, 1956; the Six Day War, 1967; the War of Attrition, 1969-1971; the Yom Kippur War, 1973; the Labanon War, 1982; the Gulf War, 1991. Not all these conflicts were equally significant in their cultural impact, and surely not in the same way, but together they create a ghastly rhythm in which every calm period is seen in Israel as a pause before future violence.

[Editor's Note: I would say this explains a great deal about Israel...and I would add that a similar statement could be made about Palestine]

— Ariel Hirschfeld, in his chapter in Cultures of the Jews, edited by David Biale