After computer graphics took over special effects in movies, the old way came to be called practical effects. Asteroid City has a cornucopia of wonderfully conceived and beautifully detailed models and miniatures.
“Freight Train” in the movie is a Skiffle record from 1957. It was released in England a few months before Paul McCartney joined John Lennon’s Skiffle group, the Quarrymen.
https://youtu.be/FRBRyl9XgrA
Dick Biondi’s family has announced that he died last week, on June 26, at age 90. On February 23, 1963, Biondi was the first American DJ to play a Beatles record, a full year before they came here. Biondi was on WLS in Chicago, home of VJ, the only record label that wanted the Beatles.
https://www.beatle.net/biondi-announcing-please-please-me/
Biondi’s passing will make Sunday’s showing of a new documentary about his life bittersweet.
In America, the Beatles were a phenomenon that lasted from their arrival in New York, February, 1964, until Paul’s breakup announcement in April, 1970. Just six short years.
I retired six long years ago, and with a click I can instantly return to that time.
“Time Passages” by Al Stewart is another song I remember well from my stint working in radio.
Kudos to Salon and/or Getty Images for getting Prue’s name right, but shame on them, because as presented at this link, the ladies have lost their pretty heads!
There, that’s better!
Y’know, Getty Images doesn’t really own the rights to many of the pictures they claim belong to them. They just slap on their name and call it their own. Getty didn’t specify the location where the photo was taken, but it was Twickenham Studios.
When another hundred years or so have passed, this has my vote as the Beatles song that will endure above all others.
What’s that being recited in the background? It’s a passage from Shakespeare’s King Lear.
Today is Prue’s birthday, and I am hoping to arrange something very special for her. I’ve had a “Why didn’t I think of this before??” brainstorm.
