Jack Harkavy owns a 1938 Packard Eight, a 1954 DeSoto, and, as a professional driver, is regularly behind the wheel of high-end cars old and new that are used as props in major movies and television shows. Ask him what … Continue reading → More Galleries | 2 Comments How to repair...
BBC Proms: Booker T Jones: Green OnionsbyBBC MusiconYouTube Jones was still only a high-school student when he penned the indelible Hammond B-3 groove of "Green Onions," the first of a long string of hits like "Time Is Tight," "Hip Hug-Her" and "Soul Limbo" that dominated the cha...
50s and ’60s, I decided in the ‘60s what kind of science fiction I liked and didn’t like… anything that smacks of the grandiose worlds that get exploited in blockbuster movies or Netflix series. Compared to the opening of the first three or four minutes of the first episode of...
Movies and TV were really kinda nuts in the 80's. I loved it. The Great Wasteland! I see what you mean. Concerning fantasy/scifi fare, I think the same type of show was still around in the 70s, but unlike the 60s was usually cancelled after one season ...
Talbot had been outed. Someone had figured out that, earlier in his life, the activist onstage had inhabited the role of Gilbert Bates on one of the most popular TV sitcoms of the late ’50s and early ’60s,Leave It to Beaver. The in-joke on the sign was meant to lampoon one of ...
Talking Heads’ David Byrne is one of the few artists to actually pursue legal action against a politician for using his music without permission. Florida democrat Charlie Crist actually ended up paying Byrne an undisclosed sum of money and posted an apology video to YouTube. ...
Lord Krishna–in spite of all the obstacles placed in her way. The type of selfless devotion and sacrifice Meera-bai displays toward Krishna is the same type of devotion that Indian women in the chauvinistic climate of the ’50s and ’60s were expected to provide their husbands. On the oth...
Once you hear this sound in a song, you’ll never forget it. More popular in Bollywood songs of the 50s and early 60s, the castanets add a playful nuance on top of the base percussion provided by a different instrument. Tere Sur Aur Mere Geet (Goonj Uthi Shehnai 1959) ...
One of the first horror movies to suggest terror could be even more frightening when you can't see the danger, 'The Thing From Another World' set the template for countless imitators. An Air Force crew is stranded in the Arctic, where a flying saucer yields a towering alien being that'...