Gershwin appropriate african american music, with no attribution!

I absolutely, without a doubt believe a nurse would have given this ridiculous advice - still now, and especially then.

Samuel Clemens, his real name, was a 33.3 degree freemason, and not to be trusted.

Give me a break! He knew nothing about LOVE !

Professor can I give you a suggestion for a subject? I have been obsessed with Sylvia Plath since I was 17 but it isn't her mental health issues that I am interested in, that is a subject that has been written about for over 50 years and has been well covered, rather it is her husband British Poet Ted Hughes who I don't understand, 2 women committed suicide after he dumped them, after Plath he never bothered with fidelity again even cheating on his 2nd wife of 30 years, I think that we would call him a sex addict these days, I have read every book written about him and still can't get a grip on what made him tick, I will say that even the books that claim to be unbiased written about him do not paint him in a good light yet his children & many friends were devoted to him. Please give it some consideration.

I read history all the time I find it fascinating. But …. Imagine if this happened today and a woman saw visions and heard voices of god she would be put away for a really long time before she had the chance to go to war with another country

Pleeeease, it's /'ka:pri/ NOT /ka:'pree/

Rest in Peace.Painful loss❤🇰🇪.

How about a video on Rachmaninoff and his depression vs his music, etc.

WAR IS A RACKET

Gone too soon

Amy was insecurely attached to an unreliable partner and placed all her happiness in the hands of someone else.

What really happened...he died

Wow! He looked much older than 48!

How was he faithful to his wife when he transmitted syphilis to her?

Check out Robert Frank a photographer who roamed America in the 1950’s with a M3 Leica. Stunning B&W captures were put into a book called The Americans. Most definitely a recording of time here in the our country that we all should view.

John Wayne Gacy

Thank you ...recognize a tin type I've held my great grandma was Sam's step mother ...😮😊

Bipolar Disorder, an invented disease to fill the bank accounts of psychiatrists and pharma. My guess? At the bottom of Hemingway"s medical and mental issues: booze and the lasting effect of dysfunctional parents.

I think God arranged for Mr. Capone to get what was coming to him. In the Bible it says your sins will find you out (Numbers 32:23). We see that even in our current President, Mr. Biden.

What a horrible thing that happened to her. Wouldn’t have happened today.

I agree that alcohol was ever a necessary ingredient in any artist’s talent. I do object, however, to the implication that being promiscuous is a sign of some psychosis. That is an artificial moral judgment turned into a diagnosis of emotional or mental defect.

I always felt this was truth based ... it's too strong to be completely made up

Your story telling is fantastic.

Frida didn't have any of those supposed syndromes. The poor woman was perpetually plagued by pain unrelenting pain.

I just bet that once hero-artist Frida Kahlo met GOD in Person, knowing Frido she more than likely gave GOD an earful.

"I tried to drown my sorrows but the bastards learned how to swim;" classic.

When u said he was known as the man who didnt smile i wonder the expression poe face come from

Rest In Peace Miss Whitney Houston

It is interesting that Dick Diver ended up in Buffalo ,New York. Nancy Milford aside ,most literary critics see her as a talented amateur

He's just a Poe boy From a Poe family

Illuminati had a big roll if you don't get in to there program they destroy u..

You need better bookshelves

I don't like to spend time reading fiction, but his book "The Moveable Feast" was entertaining.

Miss her so much wish she could of gotten the help she needed RIP in the arms of Jesus ❤❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏🙏🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

I wonder if the Kennedy family still think this way about disable people.

Very interesting. Thank you for posting this.

Poe had a harrowing disappointing life and his losses of the women whom he dearly loved.

The original emo boy 😂

Gosh! I used to think it was hormonal, then that I was bipolar, now I think I’m ADHD but this video made me think I’m spectrum too. 😂 I know when we read Freud or psychology, we tend to think we’ve those ailments, and we all do a little at certain moments. But this really hits the nail! It’s unsettling and painful to realize I’m what people think… that I’m not quite there or that I’m slow or unsuitable… I do t drink nearly as much but I think alcohol worsens… Anyway, I wrote this not to say that 😂 but to ask about Eduard Munch … Egon Schielle… don’t remember spelling… Garcia Lorca, … Jane Austin in terms of death, it’s a mystery … Carrington! Dora ? She had such low self-esteem perhaps… to accept the relationship she accepted … Man Ray… the whole Weimar Republic! Juicy stuff! Otto Dix, Marx Beckmann, Hannah Hoch … Kantor, people know so little about Kantor! Artaud! Urgh… what’s his name … Passolini! Oh boy! His damning criticism of Mussolini’s fascism! But I think there’re depths there to discover about himself… How art reflects the individual’s neurosis or psychosis etc… Paula Rego! Phenomenal artist!

I have read From A to B and back again and it made me dislike him.

Hey professor i need information about Alexander , George Soros , Einstein, Thomas Edison

Awesome documentary. One thing that confounded me - her father kept rejecting her several attempts to connect, why would a father do this ? I think her sense of abandonment started there, and she spent the rest of her life trying to compensate.

Fine video. I learned lots--mostly that there is lots of video of the Gershwins and others from around then. Leonore Gershwin's name was pronounced Le--nor, with iambic stress u /. She would have smacked you in the beak had you put an "uh" at the end of her name. Lee's sister, Emily Paley ,was my Godmother. She was my path into the Gershwin mania. George played Emily's piano and I was supposed to inherit it but my mother had died and I inherited her pianos, one of which belonged to Leopold Godowsky--you need a hammer to press the keys down. With so many pianos I didn't need another Steinway. I had two of my own. Godowsky was as good as Gershwin any day of the week as far as I was concerned. I relinquished my claim on the Emily piano. Emily's husband, Lou, had been a teacher at Seward Park High School which Ira and George attended. Lou started to help a kid named Ira Gershowitz who was in love with poetry. Eventually after Lou met everybody he wrote lyrics for a few early songs by George. My mother, who was a dancer, was in the theatre when News of George's death hit. She said that everyone immediately started to cry. The people onstage stopped the show so the audience could know. More tears. In some ways, George was the musical theatre's last best hope. A tragedy that he died so young.

Thank you for this compassionate, thorough biography of George Gershwin. Had he lived today, his brain tumor would've likely been found early, and he may have survived. I will appreciate him all the more for what you have shared about his joyful spirit.

It goes without saying that BOTH her parents were HORRIBLE people smh

I stay far, far away from the mental health "clinicians". When I was 9-10 years old, I was misdiagnosed by not one but two supposedly "highly qualified" quacks. One was a psychiatrist and the other a psychologist. One said I was mentally retarded and the other claimed i was autistic and both said I had to be institutionalized. Thank God my mother had more sense than those two and refused their "recommendation" she also refused to give me psychiatric meds.. Both gave my parents a very grim outcome for my life, to them, i was a "hopeless" case that would never amount to anything, not even make it through elementary school.🙄 This was the 1970s. By the 1980's, I graduated high school with pretty darn good grades, became a medic in NYC. Then when the Gulf War broke out, I went into the Air Force as a medical specialist and when my time in the Air Force ended, I went on to get my bachelor's degree and into a corporate career. Got married and successfully raised my two boys. Oldest graduated in business & I/T 2 years ago and youngest is almost graduating college with a degrees in business and finance. over the years, and out of curiosity, had my IQ checked, several times, and sorry to disappoint those quacks, but I tested above average. Had my mother not had the intelligence level and common sense that clearly exceeded that of these two mental health morons put together, i would have ended up like Rosemary Kennedy. As an institutionalized guinea pig subjected, perhaps not to Lobotomy but certainly to electric shock "therapy" which was quite popular in the 1970s. No doubt I would have also been experimented on with a cocktail of drugs, a popular thing to do back in the 60s and 70s.

If she wasnt 27 when she died then she wouldn’t still be so famous

Can't see a mentally disabled person, leading an army twice her age, amd fighting bravely in battlefield, winning battles, getting injured, then again coming back to War. Most mentally disabled persons struggle with their own mind, in 4 walls of a room.

*Neal Cassady.