Sunday, February 16, 2014

Icons Connecting the Past and Future

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In the 1960s it was becoming clear that pop culture was becoming American culture. By now that seems perfectly normal. The media covers po...
Friday, December 27, 2013

R.I.P. 2013: The '70s and '80s

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Among those we lost in 2013 that boomers will remember from the 1970s and 80s: Peter O'Toole , seen here in his singular 1972 film ...

R.I.P. 2013: the '60s

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Among the many lost in 2013 boomers remember from the 1960s: astronaut Scott Carpenter, comedian Jonathan Winters , actress Karen Bl...

R.I.P. 2013: The '50s

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Among those we lost in 2013 who boomers remember from the 1950s:   Ray Harryhausen , master of stop-motion effects in many 1950s movie...

R.I.P. 2013: Stars of Our Fathers

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Most of us Boomers had childhoods and adolescences that included old movies on TV, including many from the 1940s.  So the stars of our fat...
Sunday, November 03, 2013

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Susan Sontag: The Complete Rolling Stone Interview  By Jonathan Cott  Yale University Press  Born in 1933, she was an academic and an ...
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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