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.
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.
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.
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…
City Hall 100 was ostensibly a celebration of the century mark of the San Francisco City Hall structure itself, but the reason people came out on this June 2015 evening was not for events that happened 100 years ago, but for what started 50 years ago when San Francisco entered the rock and roll era: People were there for the live music.
“You don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone,” Joni Mitchell. What Joni said is true both for eras–the 1960s, and for places–Sterling, Cooper & Associates, where the partners made their deal with the devil at the end of…
“Did you ever get the feeling you’ve been had?” The notion that Don Draper returned to advertising at the end of his extended road trip could have been presented in any number of ways. The fact that Weiner chose…
SEVERANCE? Mad Men episode titles may leave you guessing at first, but usually by the time it’s over, the title’s meaning has revealed itself and often in a subtly clever way. But a week has two weeks have now passed, and…
First of all, let’s put his epitaph right out front: Without Rod McKuen, there would be no Seasons in the Sun. Few poets live and die in Beverly Hills, but Rod McKuen did just that. This strange fact alone stoked…