♫ Born on a mountain top in Tennessee Greenest state in the Land of the Free Raised in the woods so’s he knew every tree Kilt him a b’ar when he was only three. Davy, Davy Crockett, King of the wild frontier! Got to admit, I led a charmed life. I never had A-list HollywoodRead the Rest…
1977: Mazle tov! Madeline Albright, the first female Secretary of State, announces she just discovered that her grandparents were Jewish. 1994: Best Soap Opera of the year is pop culture favorite: 1991: You could have bet on it. Baseball Hall of Fame’s board of directors decide 12-0 to bar Pete Rose. 1987: Congress overrides PresidentRead the Rest…
You won’t read this anywhere else. The patriarch of Music TV is none other than that underrated hipster, Ozzie Nelson. The father of baby boomer heart throb Ricky Nelson produced the very first video put to music—Ricky rockin’ superimposed over a montage of land and cityscapes. You saw Travelin’ Man on The Adventures of OzzieRead the Rest…
“The mark of the historic is the nonchalance with which it picks up an individual and deposits him in a trend, like a house playfully moved by a tornado.” ~Mary McCarthy, writer “Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up.” ~Anonymous 2010: The box office for producer James Cameron’s Avatar surpasses his 1997 movieRead the Rest…
Julia, Julia, Julia. That’s all I ever heard. I was as popular with baby boomer gourmands as the great Julia Child. But I always seemed to be a second banana, then and now. We had a lot in common. We were the first big television chefs, before there was a Food Network. We never skimpedRead the Rest…
2010: Toyota announces 5.2 million recalls for a pedal entrapment/floor mat problem. 1998: News of the Clinton/Lewinsky affair is published. President Clinton vigorously denies all allegations. 1996: Golden Globes: Sense and Sensibility is the Best Dramatic Movie. Babe wins Best Musical/Comedy. 1994: Lorena Bobbitt is found innocent by temporary insanity for severing her husband’s penis.Read the Rest…
2011: Front page pop culture news. 94-year-old Zsa Zsa Gabor undergoes an emergency operation that costs a leg but saves her life. 1998: 100th episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 1990: America has a cow. The Simpsons premieres. 1985: Martina Navratilova becomes the third to win 100 tennis tournaments, joining Jimmy Connors and Chris Evert. 1980:Read the Rest…
“If you haven’t cried, your eyes can’t be beautiful.” I was an international baby boomer star and sex symbol of the 1960s, and beyond. What separated me from the pop culture “sex kittens” and “bombshells” celebrities of the era? In all due modesty, I was an actress. I became the first and only women toRead the Rest…
So contemporary. So 21st century. So wrong. Let’s return to ancient baby boomer times: A.D. 1973. A reality show used to mean National Geographic. Everyone thinks the pop culture genre was invented around 2000. It was re-invented. A daring series hit television in 1973: an out-the box idea to do live running footage of theRead the Rest…
2007: Apple Computer unveils the new iPhone. 1991: Odds man out. Due to his gambling history, Pete Rose is officially banned from the Baseball Hall of Fame. To this day, he remains in the Hall of Shame. 1989: The short-lived late night Pat Sajak Show premieres. It was back to the (daytime) Wheel in littleRead the Rest…
