Was the late Jack Valenti -- famous Houstonian, former Lyndon Johnson aide, former head of Hollywood's MPAA, namesake of the Valenti School of Communications at UH -- as gay as a Sondheim song?We don't care one way or the other, but it appears the FBI did.The Washington Post reports this morning that through a Freedom of Information Act request, they got their hands on files showing J. Edgar Hoover (Irony Alert? Self-loathing gay alert?) investigated rumors that Valenti hosted gay parties in Hou
Forty-six years ago today, a group of teenagers gathered in a Portland, Oregon, studio to record a ridiculously simple anthem that would go on to become one of the most influential - and most misunderstood - songs in rock history. The group was the Kingsmen - none of whom was over age 17 - and the song was, of course, "Louie Louie," which sent shockwaves through the music world that are still being felt to this day.
As ubiquitous as it is now, "Louie Louie" spent the first decade of its l
