Here’s something I didn’t catch right away in the promotion for the Fantastic Four movie.
Category: Music
Forever Faithfully
He’s Baaaaaaaaaack!
Did he ever leave? Every Tuesday at 1 PM ET, Tomboy Hanks is in Playtone Records parking lot, playing records from the back of his station wagon.
Downtown Girl
Let’s chat with Petula.
Noteworthy Passings
Twin Peaks pushed the limits of network television beyond anything ever seen before. Co-created by David Lynch, who directed a half-dozen episodes, the series’ premise was shocking and it would never have aired if the subject matter hadn’t been presented in the surreal way that it was.
Jules Feiffer started in Will Eisner’s cartooning studio. His essay “The Great Comic Book Heroes” for Playboy in 1965 was well-timed for the Pop Art era. It was expanded into a popular and groundbreaking book.
Feiffer wrote the screenplay for the Mike Nichols movie Carnal Knowledge. Nichols talked Prue’s bestie friend, Cynthia O’Neal, into accepting a role.
The First Beatles Record Producer
A little instrumental ditty by Bert Kaempfert from 1962.
Kaempfert recorded and produced this little instrumental ditty in 1961.