As I begin writing, it’s Sunday, Sept. 26, 2016, and Vin Scully is calling his last game at Dodger Stadium. It’s been a long goodbye between Vin and MLB all season long as the Dodgers go from city to city…
Vin Scully and the Measure of 67 Years
3. The Turbulence of 1968: RFK, MLK, Vietnam, LBJ
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Lyndon Johnson won the 1964 Election in a landslide, and managed to get landmark legislation passed early in his term. Yet, by early 1968, the Vietnam War had become so unpopular that Johnson decided not to run for a second term as President. Four days after he shocked the country by pulling out of the race, Martin Luther King was assassinated. Two months later, Bobby Kennedy was gunned down, and the Democratic Party limped into their Chicago convention, where open rebellion and brutal suppression broke out. It was the Year that Everything Changed.
2. Did TV Invent the Rock Star?
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On the second episode of the TV ROOM PODCAST, we notice that the phenomenon of the rock star came about just when the television was arriving en masse in American living rooms, and we wonder if this was mere coincidence or something more?
1. The Age of Television (1948-??)
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On the very first episode of the TV ROOM podcast, we discuss: What exactly is the Age of Television? What are its origins? How did it change us? When will we know it’s over?
4. The Summer of Love (Part I)
The Other Nixon (1930-2016)
Marni Nixon was a name that Hollywood did its best to keep out of the credits, even as she found herself in one after another cinematic blockbuster of Hollywood’s Golden Age that featured the likes of Ingrid Bergman, Audrey Hepburn, Sophia Loren, Marilyn Monroe, and a young Natalie Wood.
ROCKFORD FILES: “This Case Is Closed” S1 E6
A plane touches down at LAX. Moments later, Jim Rockford is striding through the terminal with cagy purpose and the feigned nonchalance of a man who knows he’s being watched. Rockford finds a payphone and reports to his client, a Mr. Warner Jameson. Rockford informs Jameson that something “a little weird” happened back in Newark, and that Jim will fill him in later. But first he has to go home, shower and change. It’s pretty obvious from Jimbo’s body language that whatever happened in Jersey has left him feeling uneasy and unclean.
Match Game 74, Episode 165
In the same way that Mad Men opened a door into the lives of 1950s squares and turned them into more interesting and fully-realized characters, Match Game gives us an unscripted glimpse into what was really going on behind the big hair and wide collars of 1974.
The Obama Interview and the 21st Century Horatio Alger Myth
For creatives in these challenging times, Marc Maron represents the Horatio Alger myth, the proof that despite the ever-dwindling odds of making a sustainable career in the arts, just by being yourself–as Marc Maron does–the world will reward you somehow…