Lamar Sorrento paints world only way he knows how
“Some people, their goal in life is to be their authentic selves. Most people never get there,” said a longtime friend. “(Lamar Sorrento’s) gotten there and gone past it, I think.”
Topic: Willy Bearden
RSSThere are 8 article(s) tagged Willy Bearden:
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May 2025
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August 2024
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The Sidebar: Willy Bearden on his memoir
The Memphis historian describes his new book as Mississippi Delta pool hall existentialism.
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July 2023
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Bearden: Three Months On: The Rolling Fork Tornado
“What is emerging in Rolling Fork is a story of both optimism and uncertainty. Can this community, which was already struggling, come back?”
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March 2023
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Of small towns and tragedies: Memories of Rolling Fork before the tornado
“I’m from Rolling Fork, Mississippi, in what I like to call the Deep Delta. It is the place that made me. It is the place that gave me the confidence to do all the things I’ve dreamed of and accomplished.”
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May 2022
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Meet Willy Bearden, fillmmaker, storyteller and limo-rider
Willy Bearden, who has been making movies and documentaries, writing scripts and stories and producing events of all kinds all over the world, is on this week’s edition of The Sidebar.
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August 2020
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This year ‘ghosts’ of Elmwood can visit you at home
Some of the Memphis figures buried at Elmwood Cemetery star in a film by Willy Bearden that will be streamed Oct. 10. Bearden's documentary includes a key role for himself as a former mayor of Memphis.
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January 2020
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Conaway: A life chock-full
On Saturday, there will be a memorial service for Norman Blackley – “Cap” to so many – at the Memphis Botanic Garden. The place will be chock-full of stories. And gratitude.
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September 2019
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Conaway: A Memphis life, saved in India
This country has the best medical care in the world, and only money and insurance makes it readily available, with few and far-between exceptions like St. Jude.
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