Six degrees of separation from The Stylistics
Kylie Knott
The Stylistics are scheduled to give a one-off performance today at Kitec, in Kowloon Bay. The Philadelphia quintet (they've since shrunk to four members) were one of the best-selling soul groups of the 1970s, recording 12 consecutive top 10 hits, including the Grammy-nominated , and . In 1979, the group had a small part playing conservative army officers in the movie , directed by Milos Forman …
Born Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Amadeus Gottlieb Sigismundus Mozart in 1756, the Austrian composer had penned his first 30 symphonies by the age of 18. In 1782, Mozart married Constanze Weber, having tried unsuccessfully to court her elder sister, Aloysia. His father had not been keen on the match and the couple wed one day before his consent letter arrived in the mail. Much of Mozart's music has been used to score films, including 1994 drama , adapted from the novella by Stephen King …
The 16th president of the United States' term in office ended when he was assassinated in April 1865. Lincoln is perhaps less famous for having turned Thanksgiving into a national holiday in 1863, partly to celebrate victories in the bloody American civil war. In 2004, British mockumentary presented an alternate end to that conflict, in which the Confederates, not the Lincoln-led Union, won. The film was produced by Spike Lee …
