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Today’s “Flashback with Wes Britton”
Today’s “Flashback with Wes Britton” featuring Kieran O'Driscoll from the North American Jules Verne Society, with music by the fantastic Valentine Wolfe, is now available for your listening pleasure at: https://media.artistfirst.com/ArtistFirst_FlashBack_2024-09-14_Keiran_ODriscoll.mp3
Twilight Zone events!
2024 is a significant anniversary for three major American pop culture treasures: it’s the centennial of Rod Serling (born on Christmas), the creator/head writer (and greatest broadcast voice of the 20th Century) of the immortal television series The Twilight Zone (a fount of American pop culture itself) that celebrates the 65th Anniversary of its debut on October 2; and it’s the 60th Anniversary of John Cheever’s most famous short story, “The Swimmer,” published in the July 18th issue of The New Yorker. All three are being celebrated in two major screenings in the New York area—the first at The Westport Library in Westport, Connecticut, which is hosting a...
Q & A with Barbara Roisman Cooper -- Author of the "Great Britons of Stage and Screen" Series
barbara cooper great britons q&a
Q & A with Barbara Roisman Cooper -- Author of the "Great Britons of Stage and Screen" Series: As native Californian, what drew your interest to British film and stage notables? I was taking ballet at the time, and my parents took me to see my first British film, The Red Shoes. After that, there was nothing I wanted more than a pair of red pointe shoes. My parents indulged me, and I was hooked on British film. Then there was The Man in the White Suit, with...
Book Review - Tim Lucas' "Pause, Rewind, Obsess"
Book Review in "Forces of Geek" of Tim Lucas' "Pause, Rewind, Obsess" https://forcesofgeek.com/pause-rewind-obsess-one-mans.../ (Reviewed by Steven Thompson)
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH WILLIAM SCHOELL FOR SUPER-ACTION: THE COPPER AGE OF DC COMICS
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH WILLIAM SCHOELL FOR SUPER-ACTION: THE COPPER AGE OF DC COMICS Why are super-heroes suddenly so popular? Comics, movies, TV shows – what gives? Believe it or not there was a time when super-heroes were not so popular and series were dropped right and left in favor of horror, romance, and science fiction comic books. It was in the so-called “silver age” that super-heroes began rising again and it is a trend that continues to this day. Decades ago kids stopped reading comics when they, say, went to college, but when the comic books became more sophisticated in...