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RICHARD OXMAN ARTICLES ON HAND
Oxman's complex biographical journeys explain his uncanny ability to touch so many subjects. Born 9/21/42, Newark, NJ...reared in the Seth Boyden Housing Projects...growing up w Larry ("Tie a Yellow Ribbon") Brown, recording R&R out of Harlem on Fury Records. Jimmy Dean nutcase. Finagling/sick mom lived in hospital, postal supervisor dad manipulated records to make Weequahic HS till '60 possible; Univ. of Wisc.-Madison '61. Finagling/manipulating led too to working w postal service underaged. Rutgers Univ.-Newark B.A. ('63-'64)...where he studied w Lester Moore (Dramatic Art & Speech) & George Weber (Main Mentor, World's Expert in Chinese Bronzes of the Late Chou Period). Summer stock at The Parkway Playhouse w own NC radio show in '63...in Tom Wolfe country. College Prof from 21 to 31 at Rutgers, LIU, NY Institute of Technology, ETC. Theatre, Comparative Lit, Cinema History, ESL, ETC. M.A. fr Teachers College, Columbia Univ., Ed.D work at NYU, ETC. Teaching worldwide (all levels) three decades...Italy, Japan, ETC. Worked construction, NYC taxi, publishing, and all kinds of sales, incl. "art" on Maui. Journalist/Columnist on the Russian River (2 newspapers). Married 3X, children: NYC Noelle 34, Maui Aja 21 and Marcel 5 in Los Gatos, CA w current Sylvie-family. Cleared of bank robbery, absconding w company funds, bookmaking, deadbeat dadism ETC. (which is why he doesn't believe in bios) One wife a heroin addict, one a Jewish Princess. In Coppola film, Beckett set, Tennessee Williams' hotel, Watts' Houseboat, and Joe Strummer's dreams. Kid Gavilan's training camp AND Glenda Jackson's dressing room...Former lives include www.frenchpaintbox.com <http://www.frenchpaintbox.com/> and www.onedancesummit.org <http://www.onedancesummit.org/> . Currently providing underground theatre experiences in Paris, supporting Sylvie's Interior Design business, homeschooling Marcello, and writing...while trying to help everyone head off ecocide/genocide, ETC. Oh yes, he also impersonated someone for almost two years, getting the Israeli a degree at Columbia Univ., while running one of the first U.S. term paper businesses.
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NEW YEAR BAGEANTRY: THE RICHARD OXMAN - JOE BAGEANT (RICH/JOE) INTERVIEW, PART I Wherein the inimitable Ox meets the irrepressible oracle of the American hinterland...a must read, not only for its political value, but for the sheer poetry in these unvarnished exchanges.. |
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AS TIME GOES BY* WITH ANDY GOLDSWORTHY: A BREATH OF FRESH AIR "Environmental art" as practiced by Goldsworthy, surely as much a one-of-a-kind artist as you'll ever find, is difficult to do and even more difficult to explain...but The Ox tries and largely succeeds. |
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NEW YEAR BAGEANTRY: THE RICHARD OXMAN - JOE BAGEANT (RICH/JOE) INTERVIEW, PART II Memorable insights into the minds of two of the most original minds on the American Left...yes Virginia, liberals and legions of nampy-pambies aside, there is still a real Left in this nation, however miniscule, fragmented and confused it may still be... |
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Ringing in 1984 with Ward Churchill & Derrick Jensen: Bigoted Terrorist Supporters Make Sounds The longtime native rights activist and leader of the Colorado chapter of the American Indian Movement had written an article underscoring how US foreign policies in Iraq and its support of the Israeli occupation of the Palestinians played a role in the attack in inspiring the hijackers. He had the audacity to question whether the victims inside the World Trade Center should be described as "innocent civilians." |