Saturday, February 25, 2017

Award Winner

Monday, February 20, 2017

Traitor

Sunday, February 19, 2017

Last Gleaming

In 1983, your world champion Los Angeles Lakers hosted the All-Star Game inside their Fabulous Forum. (And man, was it ever). Chosen to sing the national anthem was Marvin Gaye. When Gaye was done, CBS-TV, the NBA front office, GMs across-the-league, and Reaganistas everywhere went bananas.

'Cause the man knew. It was over.

Sunday, February 12, 2017

Valentine's Tour

A happy document and curiosity: Valentine's Day 1962 and Mrs. John F. Kennedy gives us a tour of the White House. Video quality is not great (kinescope); and final proof that the early-60s were even worse than the middle-80s for female hairstyles.



Jackie running into her bemused husband toward the end is certainly the highlight.

Wednesday, February 8, 2017

A Little Bit Softer Now. . .


If the only decent thing Barry Levinson ever directed was Diner (1982) -- and it is -- that would be enough. Not only is the movie an enthralled valentine to a moment on the cusp of the 60s, it was also made on a cusp: right before the LucasBerg/MTV/Reagan era would begin, and destroy everything.

What a stable of unknowns: Reiser, Barkin, Stern, Guttenberg, Bacon, Tim Daly, Michael Tucker, the lovely Kathryn Dowling, Rourke. And not a pose or attitude in sight. . .