Posts Tagged ‘sixties’

Metallica - Unforgiven

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

Set in 1880, it was filmed in1992, but it could have been made in the sixties or today, thanks to its universal nature, that kind ofuchroniathat director Clint Eastwood feeds into the story. Human nature, basic emotions, eternal themes, call it what you will, its all dealt with in a way that defies cinematographic thematic [...]

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Under The Scope: Kings Go Forth

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

Back in the early sixties when I served as a pfc in a Pioneer Battalion (Combat Engineers to you Army guys) we were taught a basic slump test for soil stability/composition. I don’t know squat about ceeement - maybe the base engineers or the air wing engineers did that stuff. Waaay too many of Clausewitz’s [...]

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The Naked Prey

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

Glamorous leading man turned idiosyncratic auteur Cornel Wilde created in the sixties and seventies a handful of gritty, violent explorations of the nature of man, none more memorable than The Naked Prey. As film scholar Stephen Prince notes on the discs excellent commentary track, Wilde has been unfairly overlooked in the annals of Hollywood history. [...]

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What Show Did Nell Carter Star In?

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

Former Gimme A Break actress Nell Carter dishes out plenty of advice as the court-appointed psychiatrist in the new fall comedy Reba. What a liberating time the hippy sixties were. Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.
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Richie Havens - Freedom (Woodstock 1969)

Monday, May 5th, 2008

In need of seed money for a festival and recording studio Lang and Kornfeld?s manager had come across the ad. Perhaps it was, but no one could have estimated the effect those three days would have on rock music and American pop culture. The Sixties culture called for a rejection of material and traditional comforts. [...]

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Ashley Zais, Miss South Carolina, Hired By The McCain Campaign

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

Ashley Zais, a recent Wofford grad, will serve as McCain’s intern coordinator at the campaign’s headquarters. Mitchell Zais, a retired Army general, and McCain became friendly after Zais published a piece in 2006 critical of how Rumsfeld’s Pentagon had handled the war. He comes home to find her overweight, disfigured and on crutches, and soon [...]

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WALTER SLEZAK

Monday, April 21st, 2008

Slezak was six foot six and on the heavy side when I learned who he was. Walter Slezak was on the show in the early sixties. His daughter Erika Slezak became a permanent fixture on the show. For those of you familiar with the show, Erika Slezak portrays Victoria Lord Riley Burke Riley Buchanan Buchanan [...]

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