Sunday, May 17, 2009

Electric Memories

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There's a new Electric Company now, but the original is worth remembering and seeing again on DVD. See post below.

Hey, You Guys!

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Boomers who were kids in the early 70s probably remember The Electric Company best, and may even have learned to read watching it. Despite ...
Sunday, February 22, 2009

Gumshoe on DVD

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Finally on DVD, this gem from 1971. I remember Gumshoe as a 60s style romp with Albert Finney playing another working class hero, alongside...
Sunday, January 04, 2009

R.I.P. 2008: The Final Frontier

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Besides Arthur C. Clarke, one of Gene Roddenberry's inspirations in creating Star Trek, the Final Frontier lost other significant peop...
Saturday, January 03, 2009

R.I.P. 2008 (1)

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Some of the 50s/60s Boomer heroes and elders we lost in 2008: the incomparable Paul Newman, country singer Eddy Arnold, actress Beverly Ga...

R.I.P. 2008 (2)

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More folks we lost in 2008 who boomers will remember: singer-songwriter John Stewart (Kingston Trio, etc.), Isaac Hayes, 60s designer Yves...

R.I.P 2008 (3)

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50s/60s people we lost include: dancer Cyd Charise (seen with Gene Kelley and alone); Harold Pinter, one of the 20th century's great p...
Thursday, December 25, 2008

Classic Stuff: Merry Christmas!

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Maybe you got some of this stuff--or maybe you will this Christmas! One Christmas I asked for Robbie the Robot (he's on the right) but ...
Sunday, December 21, 2008

Classic Stuff: Hopalong Cassidy

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Before there was Davy Crockett, there was Hopalong Cassidy, the TV cowboy that first made a lot of stuff for young boomers in the early 50s...
Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Classic Stuff: Davy Crockett

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The Davy Crockett episodes on Disneyland caused the first youthquake of the baby boom era in 1954 and 1955. "The Ballad of Davy Crocke...
Monday, December 15, 2008

Classic Stuff: American Flyer

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This is the train I got one Christmas --an American Flyer steam engine (top row) with coal car, box car and caboose. Don't get me starte...
Friday, October 31, 2008

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poster for the 1953 Technicolor movie of The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells, which early boomers may remember. This year is the 110th anni...

The War of the Worlds

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This is the is the 70th anniversary of the famous Orson Welles radio broadcast of “The War of the Worlds” on October 31, 1938. This year is ...

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Orson Welles, performing in the 1938 radio version of The War of the Worlds.

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Early boomers may have heard stories about the 1938 broadcast from parents and grandparents. The broadcast is famous, of course, because a n...

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This book cover illustration gives a fair idea of how H.G. Wells described the Martian fighting machines in his 1898 novel, The War of the W...

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The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells was first published in 1898. In it, Wells shrewdly combined two topics that separately inspired a numb...

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The Classics Illustrated cover, the Alien Voices version (which I haven't heard yet) and a still from the 1953 George Pal version, avail...

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As for the other versions, it looks like the Classics Illustrated comic was issued in 1954 (though I'm not absolutely certain), so it ma...
Sunday, October 19, 2008

Across the Universe

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The best movie about the 60s made since the 60s so far is Julie Taymor's Across the Universe, which tells its story with songs composed ...