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19/20, but I'm 50. That remote, though! My maternal grandparents had that model Zenith TV. It was in a pale wood cabinet with doors, and it had been VERY expensive when he'd bought it in 1964, the equivalent of $3100 today. I wasn't born yet. But when I was little in the 70s, I remember… Read More

It was a stage show in the UK first, on the West End in 1973. The creator, Richard O'Brian, was deeply influenced by glam rock (so thanks yet again, David Bowie!). Then it became a movie in 1975.

The Producers was a film first (1968), then a musical.

This was in the mid-70s: When I was little, my aunt who raised me was C O N S T A N T L Y mistaken for my nanny. I was a pale-ish child, and she was darker with more obvious African features (my father's side is white, my mother's is mostly black and Native American). in my Midwestern… Read More

"Will you STFU?!?!"

A well-tailored suit (and driving loafers with the gold bar across the front). Jeff Goldblum was always handsome, for example, but lately? He's killing it out here, looking like a zaddy in his suits and shoes. And yes, Bowie was another one who could rock all the suits from the time… Read More

★ It's a gorgeous and weird video, just like he was gorgeous and weird 'til the end. Who else would mix a Kendrick Lamar flavor with the weird squigglies of old 1930s Fleischer "Popeye" cartoons to make their art?

I'm a huge Monty Python fan. Huge. Like "I will quote <i>The Cheese Shop</i> at you" huge. And I feel awful about what Terry Jones is going through right now. But the time Terry Jones did blackface in "character" as a director of avant-garde film in the jungle (because "Hahaha,… Read More

Nope, no <i>actors</i> from when I was 10-12 in the early 80s "started up the motor", since I wasn't allowed to go to movies and or watch a lot of TV. Sometimes I'd sneak and watch music videos or other shows after my guardian was asleep. When I was 10 or 11, so 1980, I saw Daryl… Read More

<i>Preston Sturges</i> by Preston Sturges. He was one of finest storytellers in Hollywood during the Studio era, and his life was filled with amazing events. His free-spirited, bohemian mother Mary toted him around Europe when he was a boy in the early 1900s. Isadora Duncan was her… Read More