Author Archives
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In the Future….Floating Cities! From The Seventies!!?
Lockheed Martin’s Fifties Monorail for swift, quiet getting about town. Whether or not it was timed for Earth Day, word came this week that Lost Angeles will begin reconstructing the world premier mass transit system it destroyed a half-century ago,… Read More ›
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Impossibly Rare Video Interview of Gone with the Wind’s Olivia De Havilland: at 94 years old, it’s “too much fun to live” A Big Scoop from Writer Tracey Jackson
Champagne coursing through her veins, writer Tracey Jackson has a mind so provocatively exciting she could distract a stuck elevator full of strangers from panicking. Jackson listens tightly, one eye on detail, the other on the big picture, balancing self… Read More ›
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Beyond Rehab: Celebrating Betty Ford's Legacy As She Turns 93
To the vast majority of people the words “Betty Ford” refer to the alcohol and substance abuse recovery center in Palm Springs. They should think that. The center was created in 1982 by the woman whose name it bears. It’s central… Read More ›
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Playing Presidents: The Actor JFK (and Jackie) wanted to Play him in the Movies, Part III
No President has had more versions of aspects of his life played out in film and television more than John F. Kennedy. The JFK character has appeared in a supporting role in any number of television biopics about others, from… Read More ›
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Playing Presidents: Good History vs. Good Drama and the Actor JFK wanted to play Him
With the mini-series The Kennedys in the midst of its consecutive episodes this week, the controversy it has engendered begs for a reminder of what it is – and isn’t. Good history does not always make good drama, and good… Read More ›
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Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In…With Nixon?
In 1960, Vice President Richard Nixon was beaten by Senator John Kennedy by a thin margin for the Presidency. Barely recovered from the flu when they debated, Nixon’s television appearance in the debate contributed to his defeat. In 1962, having… Read More ›
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The first “First Lady” Never Married the President: Recently Discovered 1860 Magazine first to Use the Title “First Lady”
Germaine Greer suggested the United States abolish it and Jackie Kennedy said it made her sound like a saddle horse, but as a recently discovered 19th century magazine article proves, the title of “First Lady” has been part of the… Read More ›
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Eleanor Roosevelt an "I Love Lucy" Fan?
For nearly a century now, familiar faces of politics and pop culture have been crossing paths at the mythical corner of Sunset Boulevard and Pennsylvania Avenue, the boulevard of dreams and the corridor of power, pausing briefly to pose for history…. Read More ›
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New York’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade: An Important Early Image
New York’s famous St. Patrick’s Day Parade is perhaps one of the oldest traditions celebrating an aspect of American diversity, an annual event which dates back to 1762. By eighty years later, with the first wave of massive immigration of… Read More ›
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