How's this for two days in NYC history fifty-years ago this week:
March 15, 1972: The Godfather, one of the very greatest movies ever made, opened in NYC. It went on to become the highest grossing movie ever made (displacing the Gone with the Wind's 33-year run until it was displaced by Jaws in 1975), winning the Oscar for Best Picture, and defining American cinema and the darkness of the American dream forever after. Yeah, kinda important.
March 16, 1972: the very next day the Godfather of Soul, James Brown himself, went to Riker's Island and performed two shows for the inmates there. You can read the full story of how and why this happened here. It was a glittering, uplifting moment in time in an otherwise sad and difficult place -- a reminder that great culture can and should exist anywhere and for anyone.
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