Guss who I dressed as in 1966 for Halloween? Leftover Zorro gloves and a...
Monday, 31 October 2011
Sunday, 30 October 2011
One of my very favorite memories of 1966 is going with my parents to see Don Knotts in THE GHOST AND MR. CHICKEN. I know Don, of course, as Barney on TV's ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW. This solo vehicle perfectly captures that Barney feel while thrusting him into the reluctant hero role he would end up playing in a number of surprisingly good and funny films throughout the decade. A major component of THE GHOST AND MR. CHICKEN's success was Vic Mizzy's...
Saturday, 29 October 2011
Friday, 28 October 2011
Thursday, 27 October 2011
Today, one can hardly flip through cable channels without finding a stand-up comic using every curse word you've ever heard (and a number you haven't!). A few of them are actually funny...sometimes. They can do it because Robin Williams and Richard Pryor and George Carlin did it first. And THEY could do it because Lenny Bruce got in trouble for it. Lenny Bruce died in 1966...and George Carlin started growing his hair lo...
Wednesday, 26 October 2011
CONTENTS FROM WIKIPEDIA"Sunjammer" (Arthur C. Clarke)"Calling Dr. Clockwork" (Ron Goulart)"Becalmed in Hell" (Larry Niven)"Apartness" (Vernor Vinge)"Over the River and Through the Woods" (Clifford D. Simak)"Planet of Forgetting" (James H. Schmitz)"'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman" (Harlan Ellison)"The Decision Makers" (Joseph L. Green)"Traveler's Rest" (David I. Masson)"Uncollected Works" (Lin Carter)"Vanishing Point" (Jonathan Brand)"In...
Tuesday, 25 October 2011
Scooter wasn't like Binky and Buzzy and all of the other Archie clones. No, Scooter was different. For one thing he was British! And he had a Beatle haircut! And...and...he rode a scooter! Of course all of those things were forgotten soon enough and Scooter became fairly interchangeable with Binky and his Buddi...
Monday, 24 October 2011
Sunday, 23 October 2011
It may look a little dated but FANTASTIC VOYAGE is still riveting today when one actually watches it. In 1966 it was amazing not just for its storyline but for most moviegoers' first major glimpse of former HOLLYWOOD PALACE girl Raquel Welch who would go on to become THE sex symbol of the decade. Wally Wood and Dan Adkins did the comic book adaptation and no less than Isaac Asimov novelized ...
Saturday, 22 October 2011
Friday, 21 October 2011
Last week Archie Comics announced what will be, I believe, the 8th or 9th attempt at reviving their 1940's superheroes. Once again modernized and this time digital only!There had been a couple of stillborn attempts over the past couple of decades as well as some monor appearances in Archie stories, PSA's and single page origin features in the various Digests. DC licensed the characters for their Impact line and then changed them beyond...
Thursday, 20 October 2011
Hard to believe now but the nearly completely forgotten series, THE TAMMY GRIMES SHOW, about a young, zany heiress, was expected to be a huge success in 1966. Created by George Axelrod who had written Marilyn Monroe's THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH and, also in '66, LORD LOVE A DUCK, its executive producer was William Dozier who had his hands full with BATMAN and THE GREEN HORNET that year. Tammy was a funny lady who had, oddly enough, originally been cast a couple of seasons earlier as Samantha on BEWITCHED, only to pull out at the last minute to do a play....
Wednesday, 19 October 2011
Tuesday, 18 October 2011
One of the biggest movies of '66 was THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING, THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING, a cold war comedy with, as seen here, some lovely Jack Davis art in its advertising.The plot deals with a Soviet sub that runs aground off the New England coast causing the locals to think they're being invaded. It was written by Nathaniel Benchley whose father had been a brilliant humorist and whose son went on to write JAWS...which wasn't very funny.The...
Monday, 17 October 2011
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