Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Happy Birthday, Bob Dylan

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You may be forever young, thanks to permanent records and films,  but you're 70, which means you'll always be older than me and nowa...
Tuesday, May 03, 2011

Who Is Harry Nilsson?

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...And Why Is Everybody Talkin' About Him?

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Who is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin About Him?) is the title of a movie, and now a DVD, by John Scheinfeld. The title is a p...
Sunday, January 23, 2011

Sarge

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The 50th anniversary of JFK's Inauguration on January 20 begins a host of such anniversaries of the Kennedy years. Shortly it will be of...
Friday, December 31, 2010

R.I.P. 2010: the 50s

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Early boomers will remember them (l to r starting at the top): Art Linkletter (TV's People Are Funny ) Pernell Roberts ( Bonanza ), sin...

R.I.P. 2010: the 60s

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Early and middle boomers remember them from the 60s: Lynn Redgrave ( Georgy Girl), Robert Culp ( I Spy ), Ted Sorenson (Special Counsel an...

Kate R.I.P.

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Kate McGarrigle in 1976, when she and her sister Ann were first achieving recognition as the McGarrigle Sisters. They really blazed the trai...

R.I.P.: 70s, 80s

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Some of those we lost in 2010 who made the 70s and 80s brighter for Boomers: (l to r across) James MacArthur ( Hawaii Five 0), Irving Kirs...
Monday, October 25, 2010

Leaving "Leave It To Beaver"

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Barbara Billingsley died recently, setting off a surprising number of "End of an Era" stories--surprising because she and Leave It...
Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Heroes of the Greatest Game Ever

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Today is the 50th anniversary of what some experts call the best baseball game ever (and not all of them are from Pittsburgh)--the seventh g...
Saturday, October 09, 2010

Happy Birthday, John Lennon

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John Lennon would have turned 70 today. For a reminiscence , see this post at 60's Now . Click collage to enlarge.
Wednesday, June 02, 2010

Adventures of Superman, Baby Boomer Hero

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For more than seventy years and counting, Superman has been a hero in comic books, on the radio, in animated, low-budget serial and big bu...
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The first of the superheroes has been bending steel with his bare hands since 1932, in comics, animation, on radio and television and in mov...

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But early Boomers probably started, as I did, with the George Reeves television series, The Adventures of Superman. I knew nothing about Su...

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Look up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman! I made sure to watch every episode. I talked about Superman, and...

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This year, author Tom De Haven published a kind of tour of such adventures in their various media, in Our Hero: Superman on Earth (Yale.)...

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De Haven breezes through the early comic history, dwelling for awhile on the odd attraction of the first Action Comics cover (above.) But h...

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But as Superman became more popular, he became a commodity, a franchise, and so in the comics he became an upholder of the establishment: “...

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This Super-arc was repeated on radio and TV. As author De Haven notes, many of the film and TV conventions and characteristics common to Su...

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But he also returned to fighting for social justice: he was “ repeatedly unleashed...on religious bigots and the Klu Klux Klan during the l...