Wednesday, July 31, 2013

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And Everything is Going Fine   Directed by Steven Soderbergh  Criterion Collection  I last talked with Spalding Gray at Wildberries Ma...
Monday, July 08, 2013

Boomer Elder: Steinbeck's 1960 America

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John Steinbeck was one of the first authors (as opposed to the first poems or stories) of literary reputation I read independently, and pr...
Friday, December 28, 2012

R.I.P. 60s-70s Arts & Entertainment

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Among those we lost in 2012 were these important figures in the culture of the 60s and 70s: Don Cornelius , creator and host of TV's S...

R.I.P. 1960s-70s The Big Stage

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Among those we lost in 2012 who influenced the shape of the 1960s and 1970s: Barry Commoner , whose 1971 best selling The Closing Circle...

R.I.P. 1950s and Before

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Among those we lost in 2012: Dick Clark, who started his career with American Bandstand in the 1950s, and remained ageless for decades....
Thursday, August 09, 2012

George Harrison by Scorsese

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Seen last year on pay cable, George Harrison Living in the Material World , a film directed by Martin Scorsese is now widely available on...
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Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Remembering the Bee Gees

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Robin Gibb died last week.  Partly because of the coincidence of Donna Summer's death a few days earlier, the Bee Gees retrospectives...
Sunday, February 26, 2012

Boomer Comedy in the Beginning: Sid Caesar

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Sid Caesar had a series of television comedy shows in the 1950s and 1960s. He's definitely an early baby boomer hero. He was an amazin...

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Writers for Caesar's Hour: (from left, front row) Gary Belkin, Sheldon Keller, Michael Stewart and Mel Brooks; (from left, back) Ne...

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Mel Brooks, who had also written jokes for the Admiral show, was soon added to the YSOS staff. Like the play’s character Ira Stone, he would...

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Larry Gelbart himself joined the team in 1955, with Caesar’s Hour. He’s supposedly the model for Kenny Franks in the play. His experience ha...

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Neil Simon All of this adds texture to the differences between the Max Prince Show in Neil Simon's play and Your Show of Shows. In ...
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Wednesday, December 28, 2011

R.I.P. Boomer Heroes

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Boomer Heroes who died in 2011 included these four exemplars.  Two are a little too old to be technically in the boomer generation, but the...

R.I. P. 1950s Pop Culture

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Among those we lost in 2011 are these pop culture figures from the 1950s: actor Delores Fuller (Ed Wood films), Elliott Handler (who named ...

R.I.P. More 50s

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R.I.P. in 2011 from the 50s: Sid Melton, Captain Midnight's sidekick; Anne Francis in Forbidden Planet , Dana Wynter in Invasion of the ...

Yet More 1950s

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Also lost in 2011 from the 50s: Randy Woods, impressario of Dot Records (Pat Boone, Fabian, etc.); actor Jane Russell; songwriter Jerry Lei...

R.I.P. 1960s

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Among those lost in 2011 from the 1960s: Suze Rotolo, artist and Bob Dylan companion on the famous Freewheelin' album cover; student ac...

R.I.P. 70s

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Lost in 2011 from the 1970s: Elisabeth Sladen, beloved companion Sarah Jane Smith on Doctor Who;  First Lady Betty Ford; Henry Morgan, Col...
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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