You probably have heard by now that Jim Nabors got married in Seattle! – Jim Demetre Gomer Pyle, Television’s Faux Elvis, On a Date With the Colonel’s Daughter, by Jim Demetre, Celebrity Guest Blogger
Brilliant, unpredictable, hilarious and wholly American – I’ll miss Gore Vidal! – Jim Demetre
Does enchantment pour out of every door?
http://youtu.be/qAkubiZhly4 “To our Fans and Friends: As R.E.M., and as lifelong friends and co-conspirators, we have decided to call it a day as a band. We walk away with a great sense of gratitude, of finality, and of astonishment at all we have accomplished. To anyone who ever felt touched by our music, our deepest …
Here is a new music video from the band Longboat (Igor Keller) of their song “Beyond the Moon.” It embodies all the hopes and dreams of the post-war era. – Jim Demetre
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This may be the moment Frank jumped the shark. Most true Sinatra scholars point to his marriage to Mia Farrow and brief flirtation with facial hair (a sketchy goatee) in 1965 as the end of Sinatra’s career. A much smaller group – one that includes myself – looks at his 1967 collaboration with Jobim as …
1984 Democratic Vice-Presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro passed away today at the age of 75. The preppy kid from Greenwich was no match for the tough Italian gal from outer Queens. – Jim Demetre is a Seattle-based writer and the publisher and editor of Artdish. . .
Now there’s a houndstooth: – Jim Demetre
This is a moral issue. The fact that nearly 64% of the nation’s wealth is concentrated in the hands of 5% of the population is a scandal, while 80% of the population holds only 13% of the country’s wealth. Yet, the Right, particularly those with a “moral” agenda, concentrates its outrage on people’s sex lives …
Although she was made of felt, Miss Piggy – voiced and operated by Frank Oz – was easily the most sexually audacious television star of her time. On this day of Greek Independence, here she is on the Muppet Show singing “Never On Sunday” in 1978. Ζήτω η Ελλάδα! – Jim Demetre is a Seattle-based …
. As you know, I’m a big Dean fan and this is one of his very best clips. Small ensembles were really the best setting for Dean. My favorite album is probably “Dream With Dean” from 1964 where he sings with a quartet instead of the usual full orchestra. Listening to this song you also …
Buck Owens was the top-grossing country music artist of the 1960s. In his later years he often said that taking the job of “Hee Haw” co-host in 1969 (alongside Roy Clark) effectively ruined his career. This clip may shed some light on this statement. – Jim Demetre is a Seattle-based writer and the publisher and …
In the early 1970s, a surge of racial pride swept the United States and soon it found its way to the popular medium of broadcast television, where people of color had been entertaining the public since jazz pianist and vocalist Nat King Cole’s show debuted in 1956. The Civil Rights movement had elevated the status …
One of the legacies of World War II, with its enlistment of young men from across the United States for military service in Europe and the Pacific, was the integration of Southern rural culture – both black and white – into mainstream American life. The South, which had been largely isolated from the rest of …
. When most Americans think of actress and singer Doris Day (b. 1922), they imagine a virginal sweetheart or wholesome wife and mother – roles she often played in Hollywood and on television during her long career. But any contemporary glance at her legendary comedies with Rock Hudson reveal that the Doris Day of the …