Go Do That Voodoo That You Do – Harvey Korman

The way that gas prices are going up and as more people are trying to find ways to cuts costs I can’t help but think of the 1979 movie “Americathon.” The films premise is that sometime in the near future, the USA has run out of oil, and many Americans are literally living in their [...]

Say Goodnight Dick – Laugh-in’s Dick Martin

One show my mother would never let me watch in the late 60′s was “Rowen & Martin’s Laugh In.” She told me it had too much hippy stuff in it. The show was what all the kids at school were talking about so I really wanted to see it. When I did get to was [...]

Oscar and Emmy-winning director – Sydney Pollack

In Christmas of 1982 I was working for Cobb Theaters in Tuscaloosa, Alabama when I was lucky to play what would become one of my favorite movies. The film was called Tootsie, and it starred Dustin Hoffman as a respected but perfectionist actor on the verge of turning forty. Nobody in New York wants to [...]

Barbarella’s Blind Angel – John Phillip Law

One of the first VHS movies I can remember renting, once I bought a machine, was a 1968 film called Barbarella. It is a erotic sci-fi film based on the French Barbarella comics and starring Jane Fonda. Barbarella is famous for a sequence in which Fonda undresses in zero gravity during the opening credits. It [...]

Mr. Peabody Creator- Ted Key

Saturday mornings started really early in my house. My parents were not part of the morning but my little brother was. He and I would get up by 6:30. The rest of the week we would not want to get up till much later but Saturday was “Cartoon Day.” The multicolored animation would keep us [...]

Sex Sells – The Last of the Hammer Film Scream Queens

Many readers have heard me talk about watching movies on TV in the afternoons while I was growing up. They combined it with a game show to make sure you watched. Many of the movies the TV station played were low horror films made by Hammer Film Productions. This is a film production company in [...]

Soft Rock Superstar- Paul Davis

I cannot help but think of life in the 1970s whenever I hear the music of Paul Davis. His tunes still play in my head as I think back of those years. Many of Davis song are still played today on the many soft rock stations. His career encompassed soul, country and pop music, and [...]

70′s Soul Singer – Al Wilson

No matter where you go in the US you can turn the radio on and listen to classic rock or classic soul. The “classic” music format features a large but limited playlist of songs ranging from the early-1960s through the early-1980s with more emphasis on the earlier hits by artists associated with the loosely-defined “classic [...]