The fact that a younger generation has no idea who Karl Malden was brought home today by the many blank stares from co-workers and at least one name pronunciation that suggested the attemptee thought Malden was a star of the German cinema. What Malden was, was an Oscar and Emmy winning actor whose blunt face [...]
Michael Jackson was the last music superstar, transcending for a time the limits of age, race, orientation, and geography while selling 50 million copies of a single album. He had a knack for peaking, having achieved first stardom with his brothers in the Jackson 5 at Motown Records just as their brand of soul was [...]
Farrah Fawcett didn’t have to speak or move at all to be a sex symbol. There she was on my brother’s wall, as she was on literally millions of American walls in the 1970s beaming from her iconic poster – the best selling poster of the decade. Yes, there was also Charlie’s Angels, the silly [...]
Today a worldwide icon, an American sex symbol, and a music pioneer all died – any one of whom would have garnered a post. However the least noticed – Sky Saxon – is the one who probably had the most effect on my life. Here’s my take on today’s news in order of the decade [...]
The image of a squarefaced old man dragging his hovering house behind him through a dreamscape jungle feels pulled straight out of the deepest Fruedian recesses of the unconscious. Pixar’s latest triumph, Up , is packed with such images, along with the considerable voice talent Ed Asner as the old guy, Carl Fredrickson.
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