Sunday, December 30, 2007

R.I.P. in 2007: 60s Stars

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Two classic film directors influential in the 60s died on the same day in 2007: Michelangelo Antonioni ( Blow up, Zabriskie Point ) and In...

R.I.P. 2007: 50s-70s TV Stars

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Merv Griffin's talk show in the 60s hosted many of the boomer era political figures, movie stars, writers and entertainers--even if Me...
Saturday, December 29, 2007

R.I.P. in 2007: 50s TV Stars

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Jane Wyman was a well regarded film actress who was among the first to make the transition to television drama. She appeared in various 50...
Monday, December 24, 2007

Alice in Disneyland

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Alice in Disneyland

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For Boomers, Alice in Wonderland became associated with Christmas through the good offices of Walt Disney. Even before his animated movie v...
Sunday, September 09, 2007

Classic Stuff

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I don't remember liking Sour Apple or Sour Cherry gum, or even trying them. I remember Beemans (Chuck Yeager's favorite when testing...
Tuesday, July 31, 2007

R.I.P. Elders

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The deaths of two classic film directors were announced within days of each other this week: Ingmar Bergman, whose movies deeply influenced ...

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Michelangelo Antonioni died at age 94. His films influenced many filmmakers and cinema buffs of the Boomer film generation, but he also made...
Sunday, July 29, 2007

Classic Stuff

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We played baseball a lot in the 50s. Catch in the "vacant lot" between houses, pickup games here and there. For the first few yea...
Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Elders

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Barry Commoner at 90. NYTimes photo.

Elders

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Barry Commoner He's one of the surviving first wave environmentalists, whose book, The Closing Circle was particularly influential in t...
Tuesday, June 05, 2007

Heroes

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Heroes

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RFK The anniversary of Robert F. Kennedy's death comes at a dark moment of intense political polarization, in a nation roiled by an unpo...

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1968 presidential primary campaign.

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He grew up in privilege, and his early meetings with black leaders were not warm. Yet by 1968, when Martin Luther King was shot and killed, ...

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Kennedy's first major speech was just after King's death, and after the violent riots that torched and destroyed significant parts o...

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RFK with some of his children and both of JFK's.

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In his next major speech, in Cleveland, Ohio, on April 4, he said this: "For there is another kind of violence, slower but just as dead...

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