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Pat Boone on The Passion
Pat boone has 4 children and he divorced his wife shirley boone and now he hates her and wishes she go to hell and he also hates his 4 kids. (I think this person is confusing Pat Boone with Dr. Pat Boone, a marriage counselor and divorce expert.)
A more serious meeting of celebrities was when Mr. Boone was invited to a private screening of Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ." "After the screening was over, I turned and said, 'Mel, you're an apostle,' " said Mr. Boone, who has appeared in 15 films. "An apostle is one commissioned by God to tell the story and you are telling it more powerfully than it has ever been told or will ever be told, and you are therefore an apostle." "I consider it the most important film ever made. It is a film that is not only of gigantic proportion but one that changes life, that affects people's eternal destiny." It is all the more significant, he said, "because Hollywood has an open antipathy toward Christianity itself." "I knew that early in the game and therefore tried to be [nonconfrontational]," he said. "I know better than to collar people and try to force my views on people." [1]
[edit] hmmmm...
does "fewer in number than Elvis', but significantly higher in quality" belong in an encyclopedia. Doesn't look very subjective to me...
Boone was involved in Amway in the early 1990s, possibly earlier. He reached the rank of Diamond, apparently in 1994, and was featured in an issue of the Amway magazine from around that time. A fair amount about this can be found by Googling "Pat Boone Amway", or "Pat Boone Amway Diamond." =)=)=)=)=)=)=)=)=)=)=)what up where u at i'm the king of that
He graduated from Columbia University's School of General Studies in 1957. http://www.gs.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/newspages.dll/pages?sitename=COLAD&record=451&htmlfile=gsnews2.htm
[edit] Removed well-meaning, but inaccurate info from article
I just took this out of the article:
- While there were exceptions, notably Little Richard, most of the singers and songwriters whose work Boone used remained in poverty and obscurity despite his considerable success.
and replaced it with this:
- Pat Boone's pale covers gave attention to the more authentic original artists as Little Richard and Fats Domino, and to rhythm and blues in general. In addition, the songwriters and copyright holders benefited even when individual artists did not.
The only R&B songs not by Little Richard or Fats Domino covered by Pat Boone were "I almost lost my mind" by Ivory Joe Hunter, which Boone did a creditable job on, perhaps his best R&B cover, and "At my front door (Crazy Little Mama)", which was a one hit wonder however you slice it.
I was an R&B-mad teenager when Boone hit the streets and I hated him too for his wimpy ripoff versions of great songs, but from the 50-year perspective it is clear that this kind of cleaned-up handholding by white artists was a necessary stage in the development of the music. I have heard that Little Richard once hauled Boone up on the stage and announced, "This is the man who made me a millionaire" before performing "Tutti Frutti" with him.
At any rate, there is no case for saying Pat Boone left people in "poverty and obscurity" because he covered their songs. Best regards, Ortolan88 18:30, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
What editor out there has a problem with listing Pat Boone's acceptance of a Chair for the Performing Arts at our school. Every time a student adds the information, an editor (could only be from a rival school already on Wikipedia) deletes the information. For Pete sake, Wikipedia won't even allow our school a listing. What kind of prejudice are we experiencing here. What you don't like high schools or what? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.142.227.237 (talk • contribs).
