#TV Shows circa 1967

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Ultraman (1966) Human Specimens 5 & 6

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France Gall at the tv show 'Vergissmeinnicht' on German TV, Hamburg, Germany, circa 1967🌿🌿🌿

📸Gunter Zint

Via @isabelfutre on Instagram🌿

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Peter Tork, early 1980s (photo 2 taken in Japan).

“In addition to the [Studio 19] club shows, Tork and his band will play Sunday night [March 21, 1982] at Peaches Records in Clearwater at 6:30, 7:30 and 8:30 p.m. The Peaches shows were added because many of Tork’s fans are too young to be admitted into the club, said a spokesman for Studio 19.” - The Tampa Tribune, March 19, 1982

“Last weekend in Clearwater, Tork and his new band, The New Monks, broke up. Until then, his latest comeback attempt had been rolling along smoothly during the last 18 months. […] The breakup resulted from poor attendance at two Studio 19 concerts, an abruptly canceled canceled gig last Sunday and a flare-up resulting from an on-going friction between band and management, Tork said earlier this week. ‘It was the culmination of a long, slow descent,’ he explained. ‘It’s been a struggle. I thought things had been getting better.’ However, drummer Vince Barranco recently said that the band’s split-up is not final, just in limbo, pending working out problems with management. ‘Oh, it’s further out than limbo,’ Tork said. ‘The band is not intact, and not functioning.’ Calling from a pay phone at a YMCA in New York City, where he works out regularly, Tork said his trip to Florida, which coincided with the annual Monkees Fan Club Convention last week in Largo, has left him in less-than-enviable financial shape.
 He said the band members claim they did not get paid for the Clearwater concerts. ‘I’m broke,’ he said flatly. ‘I cannot buy a sandwich. Well, I can, but it’ll stop me from eating for two days.’ Tork said only bass player Paul Ill has served official notice of quitting the band. The rest are ‘not too anxious to get back to work,’ he said. Barranco, pianist Tom Myers and guitarist Phil Simon remained in Clearwater last week waiting to get paid for last weekend’s concerts from the promoter, Barranco said, adding that the break-up is not based on personal hostilities. ‘Peter’s a nice guy and all,’ Barranco said. ‘It’s strictly business. ‘I’m game (to rejoin) if everything’s comfortable,’ he said, noting relations between management and band members would first have to be cleared up. […] ‘When I left the Monkees, I found that I was not grounded,’ [Tork] said, referring to his lack of dues-paying and basic music industry know-how. ‘I wanted to learn the trade from the bottom to the top. In California, you can’t do that — there’s no middle ground.’ The small turnout at the Clearwater shows made him question his career direction. ‘I asked myself, “Do I not draw?” Maybe I overplayed my own value,’ he mused, ‘or maybe it’s Reaganomics.’ Due to cost of traveling, The New Monks have been giving small, well-received performances only in Boston, New Jersey and New York, shows featuring Tork on banjo and guitar. […] ‘Some reviews said “don’t do any Monkees material,“ some said “do only Monkees material,”’ Tork said. ‘We decided to call our own shots, but we don’t have enough consistency or experience.’’ […] [During Monkeemania] separating the musicians from the characters on the show was almost impossible. Cast as the dunce, Tork’s character undermined his formidable musical talent. ‘The Peter Tork character reached a lot of people,‘ he said. ‘He was an outcast — he lurched around, not getting hurt by his own bumbling idiocy.’ The character had a built-in protection system — that dumbfounded, naive look — that appealed to everyone, he said. One of Tork’s fondest Monkee memories came during a break in the filming for the pilot of their first TV episode, in which they had been pretending to play instruments. ‘We got them to give us power in the amps and we just started playing,’ he recalled, ‘and everybody started dancing.’ However, Tork is most proud of the second stage [of Monkees history], circa 1967. On ‘Headquarters,’ their third album, the group, for the first time, played almost all of the instruments. Other personal favorites from that period include ‘Pleasant Valley Sunday’ and ‘Goin’ Down,’ a one-take jam released only on the flip side of ‘Daydream Believer.
’ […] [I]n 1978, Tork started easing back into show business, circulating his picture in hopes of landing a spot on a sit-com but drawing few offers. 
After a brief stint as a strictly oldies act, he founded The New Monks, ‘and now here I am, broke in New York City,’ he said. But the 38-year-old [sic] singer is far from calling it quits. ‘I’m going to keep plugging,‘ he vowed. ‘I’m not done — this is my craft, my trade.’” - The Tampa Tribune, March 27, 1982

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happy circa one year anniversary of me listening to the camelot 1982 recording for the first time out of curiosity because I was looking for movies to record on tv since rte actually shows good movies around christmas and camelot 1967 was on the schedule so I decided to record it because it was a musical with an irish lead but instead of watching it I listened to the london cast recording and then I watched the 80s proshot without it making a significant impact on me but I could not stop listening to the music, it became my comfort album, and then I discovered the revival and jordan donica lancelot changed my brain chemistry and then, in desperation for more camelot content to fill the gaping void that had been opened up in me from knowing I would never get to see the revival, I finally watched the movie in may and I haven't been the same since.

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Enokida Michiko Membership Number 2

Date of birth: May 4 1967 Birthplace: Tokyo Height: 160cm Blood Type: AB+ High School: Saitama Prefectural Shiki High School Favorite subject: None Least favorite subject: None Club: Volleyball Favorite type of boy: cool, kind and not too square Least favorite type of boy: gloomy and stingy Hobby: studying, huh? No way! Favorite food: Snacks favorite color: Pink Favorite celebrity: Matsumoto Koyuki About myself: I can usually speak well, but on the show, I always irritate everyone with my pathetic speaking style. I'm sorry. (DUNK85 P82)

Enokida Michiko and her friend MECKEY at Saitama Prefectural Shiki High School's sports day, circa October 1985.

Mesaki Hirokazu, aka MECKEY, became friends with Enokida Michiko more than a month after she was fired from Onyanko Club for smoking. He explained that it was only because she returned from being an idol to being a normal girl that they could become friends. His nickname, MECKEY, was given by Enokida, and he likes it a lot and has used it for a long time afterwards. When he talked with her, he avoided the topic of Onyanko Club as far as possible out of concern for her. He was from the same city as Nitta Eri. When he was a junior high school senior, his homeroom teacher advised him to go to the local Saitama Prefectural Fukuoka High School, but he refused. Apparently he had been bullied and wanted to go to Saitama Prefectural Shiki High School where none of the boys from the same junior high school were there. He subsequently regretted a little that he didn't go to the same high school as Nitta, who went on to become a top idol, but he stated that it was even better that he and Enokida became friends. Mainly in the early to mid-2000s, he actively publicized both Enokida and his own friendship with her on his blog, on his message boards, and on Onyanko Club-related websites. Those who saw his activities regarded them as nothing more than brazen and idiotic self-promotion, and slammed him from time to time. His activities could certainly be described as a narcissistic promotion. However, he did so after disclosing a lot of his personal information, including his real name, place of residence, and place of employment. He must have been prepared in his own way, cuz it's an extremely rare case for someone to disclose such information on the Internet.

His personal blog. Summer Tree Road～In a small corner of Kamifukuoka http://blog.livedoor.jp/meckey_no2/archives/cat_354835.html

The following is a thread created for the purpose of slamming him. A number of people find MECKEY annoying http://www.nyahoo-jp.com/bbs/dobbsr.cgi?a=view&topic_id=1090389766

She was the leader of the smoking group and seems to have been in charge of the smoking group together with Okuda, with whom she was good friends.(TV Enokida) The members of Onyanko Club were forbidden to go to discos, but she frequently went there after the program.(TV Enokida) The program staff warned her repeatedly, but she never changed her attitude.(TV Enokida) She was fired from the group but was only suspended from high school for three days.(OnyankoA P98)(Kamifukuoka 154619) At the age of 30, she auditioned for the role of the Mitsui Re-House Lady on the TV variety show Asayan, but wasn't selected.(TreasureB P61) Since her surname was different, she seems to have been married at the time.(2ch1 135) Apparently she had a daughter and wanted her to be a part of the Hello Project.(This project means a group of female idols, including Morning Musume and others, produced by the Up-Front Group.)(Kamifukuoka 9356142) Then she became a department manager in a company called Paletone, which sells corrective underwear and cosmetics.(TV Enokida) Since she left there, she's been working as a single woman in a beauty salon during the day and in a hostess bar at night.(TV Enokida) So, even if she was married at the time she auditioned for Asayan, she must have been divorced afterwards.(Kamifukuoka 9356142) In December 2017, She appeared on the TV show "Bakuhō! The Friday" to talk about the scandal.(TV Enokida) In April 2023, she ran for city councilor of Wakō, the location of her beauty salon.(Election) However, she placed second from the bottom and was therefore not elected.(Election) She subsequently became involved with the anti-smoking movement, reflecting on her own underage smoking.(Enokida) Her attitude is in stark contrast to that of Tomoda Mamiko, who still smokes cigarettes without ever repenting.(Flash) These two seem to have been interacting with each other since they met again after 32 years on the TV show in 2017, though.(TV Enokida)

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France Gall at the tv show 'Vergissmeinnicht' on German TV, Hamburg, Germany, circa 1967. Photos by Gunter Zint🌸

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Baby Boomer Memories: The Golden Age of the Lunch Box

When I was growing up, school started in September, usually the day after Labor Day. For many of my era, one of the most enjoyable aspects of getting ready for a new academic year was choosing a lunch box.

In earlier times, people carried meals in baskets or pails. (In fact, the term “lunch pail” was still in use when I started school, when referring to a lunch box.) In the 1800s blue collar men began using sturdy metal lunch boxes at their work sites. Children wanted their own versions, and often re-purposed tins, especially those with handles.

Disney introduced a tin litho Mickey Mouse lunchbox in 1935, but decorated children's lunch boxes really took off after World War II. From the 1950s and 1960s through the 1980s, lunch boxes were more than utilitarian meal containers -- they were statement pieces that told your peers what you liked. This was especially important because in many cases there were few if any other licensed products available for television series. Companies producing school lunch boxes included Ohio Art, Themos, and Aladdin. Here are some examples from the golden age of the school lunch box.

“Davy Crockett: King of the Wild Frontier” lunch box from 1955, tying in with the 1955 movie from Walt Disney Productions starring Fess Parker. The film was edited from television episodes.

Metal “Mercury” lunch box. Project Mercury, which ran from 1958 through 1963, was the first human space flight program of the United States, and a critical part of the “Space Race” between the US and the Soviet Union.

This domed metal red barn metal 1958 lunch box was issued for years. I saw lots of them in the 1960s. The dome top worked well as a barn roof, and the design was not tied to a movie or TV series, giving it more longevity than many other designs.

This domed metal “Walt Disney School Bus” lunch box from the 1960s was very popular for years.

“Barbie and Midge” vinyl lunch box with thermos, early to mid 1960s. Vinyl lunch boxes were cheap to produce, as they were little more than thin vinyl over cardboard. (Over time the vinyl could stretch or rip, causing the lunch box to sag or peel, so good examples of vinyl lunch boxes are harder to find than their metal counterparts.) They were primarily marketed to girls, perhaps because of their purse-like appearance. I had a similar one in the first grade.

Vintage metal “Disneyland” lunch box, depicting the Jungle Cruise ride. Disneyland opened in 1955 to great fanfare.

Metal lunch box tied in with the 1964 Walt Disney movie “Mary Poppins.” I was the perfect age for that film when it came out! 

Metal “Flipper” lunch box. “Flipper “was a popular television show about a pet dolphin and its human family living in Florida. It aired 1964 - 1967.

I always thought this circa 1964 metal lunch box with a floral design and the name “Corsage” was pretty. Some of the girls I went to school with had this one.

Red plaid lunch boxes like this metal one were an enduring classic.

“The Munsters” 1965 Kayro Vue lunch box and thermos. Starring Fred Gywnne as Herman Munster and Yvonne De Carlo as his lovely wife Lily, “The Munsters” television series ran 1964 - 1967. 

“The Beatles” lunch box and thermos by Aladdin Industries, 1965. The Beatles were international stars by early 1964, ushering in “The British Invasion” of popular music. They made their film debut later in that same year in “A Hard Day’s Night/”

Domed metal “Lost in Space” lunch box by Thermos L.L.C, 1967. “Lost in Space” was a television series that ran 1965 - 1968. I never had this lunch box but I loved that show! 

“The Banana Splits” vinyl lunch box with thermos. Produced by Hanna Barbera, “The Banana Splits Adventure Hour” was a packaged variety show featuring four funny animal characters designed by Sid and Marty Krofft. Mixing live action and animated segments, it originally ran 1968 - 1970, then went into syndication 1971 - 1982. 

“Julia” metal lunch box and thermos by Thermos L.LC, 1969.. “Julia” starred Diahann Carroll as the title character, a widowed nurse raising her son alone after her husband was killed in the Vietnam war. The groundbreaking series, which ran 1968 - 1971, was significant for featuring an African American woman in a non-stereotypical role. Julia was middle-class, and not a servant.

My lunchbox ownership was actually quite limited. I had a black vinyl Barbie and Midge lunchbox with thermos in the first grade, when I attended a private school that did not have a cafeteria. My classmate Carol had a similar set, and cried when her thermos broke. Glass-lined thermoses were the norm back them, and opening a thermos to find it filled with glass splinters could be traumatic for a young child. Later on plastic thermoses solved that problem.

After first grade, I was back in public school and my mother wanted me to have a hot lunch of cafeteria food, so I no longer needed a lunch box. But I enjoyed seeing the lunch boxes carried by my classmates. This nostalgia is much like the fond regard I have toys I never owned but remember vividly from commercials and catalogs.

After the 1980s, the rise of the insulated lunch bag led to the decline of the classic lunch box. Thermos still makes them, though!

Vintage lunch boxes are highly collected, and some of the most sought after fetch very prices. Here are some resources for more information:

Collectors Weekly has a good article on vintage lunch boxes and thermoses.

Lunchbox.com is wonderful, with an excellent history of lunch boxes.

The Smithsonian has a fun history of Aladdin lunch boxes. 

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NYT Article about Joel Hodgson’s Riffing Class, 2012

Don’t Like the Movie? Let’s Talk About It

Joel Hodgson on ‘Mystery Science Theater’ and Riffs

By Paul Brownfield June 1, 2012

IT takes a certain kind of fan to recognize Joel Hodgson, creator of the cult 1990s Comedy Central series “Mystery Science Theater 3000,” and Shawn Queeney is that kind of fan. In his media and society class at Bucks County Community College north of Philadelphia, Mr. Queeney, an associate professor of communications, discusses the place of the “Mystery Science Theater” in the underbelly of cinema, and he and his wife spent a December evening watching Mr. Hodgson and friends perform their idiosyncratic comedy as part of the live B-movie heckling tour “Cinematic Titanic.”

So when Mr. Queeney spotted Mr. Hodgson at a restaurant not long after, he asked Mr. Hodgson to speak at his college. Mr. Hodgson agreed but later came back with a suggestion more befitting his sensibilities. And so was hatched one of the odder master classes ever offered in formal higher education: a workshop on the art and science of “movie riffing.”

On “Mystery Science Theater,” which began in 1988 and was integral to the early growth of Comedy Central, Mr. Hodgson played a janitor at a byzantine research lab who is sent into space, where he is forced to watch B and C genre movies with two robot companions named Tom Servo and Crow. But that setup, laid out in the theme song, was only the bones of the show. The meat each week was in the riffing, as Joel and his bot-pals, silhouetted at the bottom of the screen, commented on everything from killer lizard films like The Giant Gila Monster to cheesy instructional shorts like “Hired!”

“Hey, isn’t that the John Belushi biography?” Mr. Hodgson’s character says when the title appears. (Riff spoiler alert: It’s a reference to the book “Wired.”)

If “Mystery Science Theater” was part insult comedy aimed at movies, there was also something congenial in the show’s tone. (Perhaps it was the puppet robots, or that it was all being produced in Minneapolis.)

Six writers had to deliver a 90-minute episode every week, Mr. Hodgson said, with 600 to 800 riffs per movie, “when all the pistons were firing.” In devising the lines, no reference (Bella Abzug, Roy Lichtenstein) was too outré or rejected initially, Mr. Hodgson said. As he tried to convey to the students at Bucks, it’s best to brainstorm nonjudgmentally first and figure out what’s funny later.

Mr. Hodgson, now 52, left “Mystery Science Theater” in 1993 after, he said, a dispute with the executive producer Jim Mallon over the direction of a feature film based on the series.

Moving to Los Angeles, Mr. Hodgson landed a series of movie and TV deals while also keeping creative in more inimical ways. One of them was an event called the Super Ball, an annual “one-night World’s Fair” that Mr. Hodgson dreamed up with his brother, Jim, combining their interest in comedy, science and art happenings.

Mr. Hodgson, in this way, has long approached comedy as a chemist in a lab does, noodling with a drug protocol to make it more effective. In Minneapolis in the late 1980s he briefly taught a workshop called Creative Stand-Up and Smartology that was based on communication paradigms he’d read about in college. This was after he had earned appearances on “Late Night With David Letterman” and “Saturday Night Live.”

Years later he tried to rejigger the sketch comedy series format at HBO, where he made a pilot called “The TV Wheel.” Mr. Hodgson’s idea was to shoot the show live, with a camera that was locked down in the middle of a set that rotated like a record on a turntable. “Your TV doesn’t move, so why should the camera?” Mr. Hodgson said, explaining the philosophy.

Finally, in 2007, Mr. Hodgson, still regretful about leaving “Mystery Science Theater,” returned to movie riffing, forming the tour “Cinematic Titanic” with the writer-performers Trace Beaulieu, J. Elvis Weinstein, Frank Conniff and Mary Jo Pehl.

In class Mr. Hodgson kept things loose but wasn’t just fooling around either. In his travels with “Cinematic Titanic,” Mr. Hodgson said, he often meets people movie riffing à la “Mystery Science Theater” but live. “I was always curious what it would be like to participate with these people who wanted to get into it.”

The class was made up mostly of theater, film and video majors, and a number of them were involved in improv comedy, including Kyle Reichert, 21. “Every class he would talk about something new,” Mr. Reichert recalled, “what he would go through on a daily basis making the show.”

Mr. Hodgson’s first lesson was simple: When riffing don’t be a jerk. (He used a different word.) The 25 students in Riff Camp 2012 were divided into groups. They had two and a half months to complete a film’s worth of riffs before performing at the college’s spring arts festival. They also had to dream up a back story and set it to a theme song. One group, the all-female New Valkyries of Valhalla are Valkyries by day, collecting Viking souls, and students in a women’s studies course at Valhalla Community College by night.

That explains why they would be watching “Consuming Women,” an oddly spooky short billed as a portrait of the female consumer circa 1967. The other films Mr. Hodgson assigned for other groups — from the public domain Web site archive.org, which houses the Prelinger Archives— included “Pennsylvania Fish Commission,” a riveting 1950s tour of trout farming narrated by the commission’s decidedly un-emotive executive director, and the delicious University of California romp “Health: Your Posture,” about a girl ostracized by her peers because of bad posture.

“It had nothing to do with posture,” said Stephanie Drejerwski, 20, one of the riffers.

Mr. Hodgson instructed students not to riff more than once every three seconds, so that the audience could absorb each joke. As on “Mystery Science Theater,” scripts were time- and color-coded to indicate when the film’s narrator was speaking (“You need a thorough checkup by your family doctor to discover the cause of your posture defects”) and when the riff was interjected (“Sir? We don’t have insurance?”).

Though the practical application of a course on movie riffing seems negligible, Mr. Hodgson has perhaps hit upon something in the age of social media. Facebook and Twitter, among others, are portals not dissimilar to the sad, empty cinema where Joel, Servo and Crow watched bad movies, their riffs providing a sense of community.

Maybe that’s why “Mystery Science Theater” keeps enjoying afterlives. Michael J. Nelson, who replaced Mr. Hodgson on the TV series until it ended in 1999, offers RiffTrax, audio riffs to play alongside DVD releases of current and older films. The comedian Doug Benson, host of the popular podcast “Doug Loves Movies,” organized a live screening series in Los Angeles, “The Doug Benson Movie Interruption,” in which he and friends (like Zach Galifianakis, Sarah Silverman and Ed Helms) riff on a movie for the audience. And Kevin Smith, the filmmaker and inveterate podcaster, is starting a show on Hulu this week called “Spoilers.”

Mr. Smith was quick to note that this was riffing not like “Mystery Science Theater” but in the tradition of his first film, “Clerks,” in which the characters spitball about a movie everyone’s already seen, “Star Wars.” In “Spoilers” Mr. Smith plans to screen a current release at Universal City Walk in Los Angeles then take the audience to a nearby studio for what he sees as a live version of a movie chat room.

“I don’t think a movie discussion ever dies anymore,” he said.

Meanwhile, as alumni from Riff Camp 2012 prepared to perform this weekend at the Colonial Theater in nearby Phoenixville (the same theater where scenes from the original “ Blob” were filmed), Mr. Hodgson and his fellow “Mystery Science Theater” alums were busy putting together a “Cinematic Titanic” show set for July in Ann Arbor, Mich. They will be riffing on two 1970s films — “Rattlers” (rattlesnakes and nerve gas!) and “The Doll Squad,” which, Mr. Hodgson said, is about “a seven-woman army that was supposedly the prototype for ‘Charlie’s Angels.’” Set riffing engines to full throttle.

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Dolly Parton, la regina del country

https://www.unadonnalgiorno.it/dolly-parton/

Dolly Parton è la regina della musica country. Cantautrice e attrice, ha ispirato  artiste e artisti di ogni genere musicale e generazione, popolarissima e amata per la gran voce e talento, per il suo carisma, il suo aspetto appariscente e la sua autoironia.

Ha vinto undici Grammy e un Emmy Award, ricevuto due candidature per il Premio Oscar e una per il Tony Award.

Ha registrato più di 50 dischi in studio e venduto più di 100 milioni di copie in tutto il mondo.

Si è anche dedicata a molte cause umanitarie, ha aperto centri di riabilitazione per tossicodipendenti e una fondazione no profit che si occupa di combattere l’abbandono della scuola tra i giovani, che ha distribuito più di 175 milioni di libri a bambine e bambini in tutto il mondo.

È nata il 19  gennaio 1946 a Pittman Center, nel Tennessee, in una famiglia modesta e molto religiosa, suo nonno era un predicatore pentecostale. Quarta di dodici fratelli, molti dei quali sono diventati artisti, ha cominciato a cantare in chiesa sin da piccolissima.

A dieci anni aveva già cantato in vari programmi radiofonici e televisivi locali e a tredici ha inciso le sue prime canzoni.

Nel 1964, dopo il diploma, si è trasferita a Nashville dove ha firmato il suo primo contratto con un’etichetta discografica e cominciato a scrivere brani di successo per diversi musicisti.

Il suo primo album, Hello, I’m Dolly, datato 1967, ha immediatamente scalato le classifiche diventando uno dei dischi country più venduti dell’anno.

Nello stesso anno, ha iniziato un sodalizio, durato fino al 1974, col cantante Porter Wagoner, che la volle nel suo fortunato show televisivo e nei suoi dischi inanellando una lunga serie di trionfi.

Il suo primo grande successo come solista è stato con Jolene, incluso dalla rivista Rolling Stone nella lista delle 500 migliori canzoni di tutti i tempi.

Una delle sue canzoni più celebri è stata I Will Always Love You, ballata romantica ispirata allo scioglimento del sodalizio con Wagoner. Il pezzo ebbe un tale successo che Elvis Presley si dichiarò interessato a registrarne una cover. Cosa che non avvenne perché la musicista si rifiutò di accettare la clausola che garantiva a Presley metà dei diritti sulla canzone.

Questa scelta coraggiosa e inusuale per una donna, soprattutto a quei tempi, le ha portato, negli anni,  molti milioni di dollari di royalties, soprattutto quando il brano è stato reinterpretato da Whitney Houston nel 1992, diventando una delle canzoni più vendute e famose di tutti i tempi.

I suoi successi l’hanno portata ad avere un proprio programma televisivo, Dolly! e a produrre da sola i propri dischi.

Molte artiste e artisti hanno voluto reinterpretare, negli anni, i suoi brani.

Alla fine degli anni settanta ha iniziato a volgersi verso il genere pop che le ha spalancato le porte a un pubblico più vasto. L’album Here You Come Again, del 1977, ha superato il milione di copie vendute e fatto vincere il Grammy come miglior cantante donna di genere country.

Gli anni successivi l’hanno vista collaborare con numerose popstar e diversificare l’attività artistica.

Nel 1980 ha debuttato al cinema nel famoso film Dalle 9 alle 5… orario continuato (della cui colonna sonora faceva parte il suo singolo 9 to 5) che le valse una nomination ai Golden Globe segnando l’inizio della sua fortunata carriera di attrice di cinema e tv.

Grande imprenditrice non soltanto nel settore artistico, negli anni ottanta ha fondato il Parco  Divertimenti Dollywood, in Tennessee che, attualmente, dà lavoro a circa 3000 persone.

Dopo una serie di successi pop è tornata al country nel 1989.

Il brano The Day I Fall in Love, inciso in duo con James Ingram per la colonna sonora del film Beethoven 2 del 1993, ha ricevuto una nomination all’Oscar come migliore canzone originale.

Ancora oggi Dolly Parton porta avanti la sua produzione discografica collaborando con giovani musicisti.

Nel 2020, ha donato un milione di dollari alla ricerca per lo sviluppo del vaccino contro il Corona Virus di Moderna.

Nel 2021, ha vinto l’Emmy Award per la produzione del film Natale in città con Dolly Parton.

Il suo nome è stato inserito nella Songwriters Hall of Fame, ha la sua stella sulla Hollywood Walk of Fame e nel 2011 le è stato assegnato un Grammy Award alla carriera.

Dolly Parton è una delle principali celebrità del mondo dello spettacolo americano. Secondo la rivista Time fa anche parte delle 100 persone più influenti del 2021.

Oltre che per il proprio talento, si è spesso fatta notare per l’umorismo, l’umiltà e l’autoironia, per esempio per le battute in cui scherza sul fatto di essere bionda. Ha partecipato a numerosissimi programmi televisivi, e grazie al suo stile e alla sua personalità è stata citata come riferimento da molte drag queen e persone della comunità LGBT+

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Julie Newmar as Catwoman in Batman TV show, circa 1967

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France Gall at the tv show 'Vergissmeinnicht' on German TV, Hamburg, Germany, circa 1967. Photo by Gunter Zint🌻🌻🌻

Via @isabelfutre on Instagram🌻

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Book Repots & beginnings

In Elementary school, I always chose a book filled with nature and one year I chose The One and Only Ivan which is a children's book that is written from the point of view of a Gorilla forced into a small cage in the center of the mall. I must have been eight years old at the time but I remember the tears that stained my face from this poor creature's life. The book was written in a few short words but left a lasting impact of the sadness the animal must have felt from his only connection to the outside world was from the animals in cages near him till he was the only one left and heavily exploited due to his ability to paint. The book at the time really moved me. After that, I continued choosing books with a natural aspect which carried with me to this stage in my life where I chose to be an environmental major. The book was my start but it slowly transitioned into the tv shows and the music that I listened to too. Around this time I became obsessed with animal plants and the chimpanzee's show. I became obsessive with types of media that involved nature. This may be a completely random string of occurrences that just so happened to lead me to where I am today but I believe that the books I read as a child started me on my path.

https://www.amazon.com/One-Only-Ivan-Katherine-Applegate/dp/0061992275

A link to the One and Only Ivan for those of you that wish to read the book

Ivan the gorilla showing off one of his paintings circa 1980

IVAN’S Time Line

Ivan in his “home” in the B&I mall

1964: Ivan and his companion are sold to the U.S. and sold by wildlife traders to the owners of the B&I department store in Tacoma, Wash. The female sadly dies soon after arrival and Ivan Becomes a household pet.

1967: At 5, Ivan becomes to large and strong for the family to take care of and is moved to an indoor enclosure in the B&I department store where he is unable to leave for the 30 years . He spends his time becoming Tacoma's biggest attraction.(this is when The One and Only Ivan takes place)

1992: The B&I department store is facing bankruptcy and the owners face backlash because of Ivan lack of a naturalistic habitat. This leads to Ivan’s fans being upset over his glass enclosed room and other needs that aren't being meet. 

1994: Ivan’s treatment invokes national outrage with wildlife communities leafing to his owners donating him to Seattle’s Woodland Park Zoo. where he has trouble connecting with other gorillas and instead choses to become close to the staff.

Ivan happily enjoying his natural enclosure in the  Seattle’s Woodland Park Zoo

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How Apple and the Media destroy civilization

April 15 2020, Latest Apple TV series: A historic counterfactual (something that did not happen). What if, in the summer of 1969, the world watched and listened as a Soviet cosmonaut – Alexei Leonov, perhaps – became the first human to set foot on the moon? ... 

The event sets off a flurry of activity on Earth, including Ted Kennedy cancelling a trip to Chappaquiddick to head up a congressional investigation into the U.S. failure to be first. (This in turn avoids the car crash that killed Mary Jo Kopechne and scuttled any future presidential hopes for Kennedy.) The plot thickens in episode 3, titled Nixon’s Women, after the Russians’ second lunar landing includes a woman. NASA scrambles to follow suit, recruiting five female candidates that include an astronaut’s wife (Sarah Jones), a black woman (Krys Marshall) and a closeted lesbian (Jodi Balfour). And from here the show’s history starts to diverge substantially from our own, as ice is discovered at the moon’s south pole, and the U.S. and Soviet Union race to establish the first base there.

In the world of the Left, democrat Ted Kennedy is a hero (*) and women, blacks and lesbians (by leftist ideology, ”victims” of old white men oppressors) are the super-heroes. When young people watch these productions in geat numbers, they become indoctrinated and true believers in leftism. 

(*) In 1969, Kennedy left a party with one of the women, 28-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne. Driving a 1967 Oldsmobile Delmont 88, Kennedy lost control of his vehicle and crashed in the Poucha Pond inlet on Chappaquiddick Island. Kennedy escaped from the overturned vehicle, He swam to shore and left the scene, with Kopechne still trapped inside the vehicle. Kennedy did not report the accident to authorities until the next morning, by which time Kopechne's body had already been discovered.

Actual history: On December 24, 1968, in the most watched television broadcast at the time, the crew of Apollo 8 read from the Book of Genesis as they orbited the Moon. Astronauts Bill Anders, Jim Lovell, and Frank Borman, the first humans to travel to the Moon, recited verses 1 through 10 of the Genesis creation narrative.

William Anders:  We are now approaching lunar sunrise, and for all the people back on Earth, the crew of Apollo 8 has a message that we would like to send to you. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

James Lovell: And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

Frank Borman:  And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.

For All Mankind imagines a very different era of lunar exploration. Women astronauts feature heavily in the Apple TV+ series, set in an alternate 1969 in which the Russians made moonfall first. Chris Knight April 15, 2020, National Post.

It’s one of history’s great counterfactuals. What if, in the summer of 1969, the world watched and listened as a Soviet cosmonaut – Alexei Leonov, perhaps – became the first human to set foot on the moon?

It wasn’t a far-fetched idea during the Space Race. The Russians had already beaten their American counterparts to the goal of the first artificial satellite, the first man in space, and even the first soft landing on the moon, by a robot probe called Luna 9.

Had the Russian version of the Saturn V rocket, a bulky, balky beast called the N1, not failed four times in as many launch attempts, today’s nutty conspiracy theorists might be arguing that Russians had never landed on the moon. (As it stands, however, they’d be right.)

But for a fictional look at what might have transpired had the Soviets been the first to cross the cislunar channel, look no further than the Apple TV+ original series For All Mankind. And as it happens you can do so for free for a limited time, at apple.co/FreeForEveryone.

I take this step for my country, for my people, and for the Marxist-Leninist way of life

The first of the series’ 10 episodes sets the stage nicely, with Leonov taking that one small step and declaring, somewhat un-poetically: “I take this step for my country, for my people, and for the Marxist-Leninist way of life.”

The event sets off a flurry of activity on Earth, including Ted Kennedy cancelling a trip to Chappaquiddick to head up a congressional investigation into the U.S. failure to be first. (This in turn avoids the car crash that killed Mary Jo Kopechne and scuttled any future presidential hopes for Kennedy.)

The plot thickens in episode 3, titled Nixon’s Women, after the Russians’ second lunar landing includes a woman. NASA scrambles to follow suit, recruiting five female candidates that include an astronaut’s wife (Sarah Jones), a black woman (Krys Marshall) and a closeted lesbian (Jodi Balfour). And from here the show’s history starts to diverge substantially from our own, as ice is discovered at the moon’s south pole, and the U.S. and Soviet Union race to establish the first base there.

For All Mankind (not to be confused with the amazing 1989 documentary about the Apollo missions) is more than just an oddity for space fans, though it’s definitely that. The mix of characters both real (Colm Feore as rocket engineer Wernher von Braun) and fictional – the lady astronauts, each with a full-fledged backstory – make for some excellent drama. And it’s fascinating to watch the civil rights and sexual equality movements accelerate, even as gay rights get stuck like a capsule in low-earth orbit, going nowhere fast.

And without spoiling things, let’s just say that the series ends with a scene set several years into its future – circa 1980 – that made me glad it’s been picked up for a second season since its debut last November. No word on the release date, which may have been delayed by the pandemic.

The free period on Apple TV+ also features several other series, including the horror/thriller Servant, and Dickinson, starring Hailee Steinfeld as the American poet. There’s also The Elephant Queen, a nature doc about a pachyderm matriarch, narrated by Chiwetel Ejiofor. And there are several kids’ series such as Helpsters and Ghostwriter.

The Saturn V generated about 160 million horsepower. Snoopy has to make do with six birds. Apple TV And for younger space fans, Apple TV+ offers Snoopy in Space, a 12-episode series of eight-minute shorts that follows the famous beagle as he joins NASA, trains to be an astronaut, and travels to the International Space Station, the moon and beyond.

I admire his determination, but the record of dogs in space is not a good one; Laika, while a national hero in the Soviet Union, was the first life in space but also the first death there, when she expired after several orbits of the Earth. But on a lighter note, the series recalls the long relationship between the space agency and the late cartoonist Charles Schulz. In 1969 the Apollo 10 lunar lander and command module were named Snoopy and Charlie Brown, respectively.

The series provides fun facts about space travel – What’s an orbit? How far away is the moon? – and an introduction to such hardware as the ISS, Orion space capsule and rovers, helpfully pitched at the younger set. Though the cartoon does feature the occasional error, as when astronauts on the moon’s surface watch the Earth rise – in fact, the Earth never moves in the lunar sky.

But it’s a forgivable lapse, especially when set against a lovely no-after-you moment, when Snoopy and his avian friend Woodstock each want the other to take the first step on the moon. It’s an exhibit of grace that could have benefitted Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin – or indeed the former Soviet Union and NASA, erstwhile adversaries whose spacefarers now routinely share rockets and living quarters on the ISS.

As of this writing, the space station is home to three American-born astronauts and three Russian cosmonauts, all of them born in the USSR. Only one member of the crew is female, although the latest NASA astronaut classes have been a 50/50 split. And to think it only took half a century to get there.

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Taping a TV show in San Fran, circa 1967. #phillesh plays a broomstick instead of his bass in protest of the lip syncing arrangement. #jerrygarcia #gratefuldead https://www.instagram.com/p/B126vGcFC2c/?igshid=kaqz2nkyq510

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Celebrating 90: Collecting in the 1990s

Rosa Parks Visiting Mattox House in Greenfield Village, August 1992. THF125176 

By the early 1990s, museum staff decided that its mission statement about America’s change through time was both too oriented toward the past and too inwardly focused on the museum’s own work. 

In 1992, staff settled upon a new mission statement with three key words—innovation, resourcefulness, and ingenuity—that both aligned with Henry Ford’s original vision and provided better opportunities to impact and inspire current and future audiences. These three words shaped and energized collecting—to encompass such topics as social transformation, modern design, and the stories and objects connected with innovators and visionaries. The Museum would launch its first web site in 1995. 

Park & Shop Game 

In the 1990s, collecting objects that reflected social and technological history of the second half of the 20th century increasingly became a focus. This 1960 Park and Shop game--representing a typical shopping center of the era, complete with parking lot--mirrored the rapid suburbanization of the post-World War II era as people moved from cities into the surrounding new suburbs. This game also immersed children in an adult world of shopping and consumerism. - Jeanine Head Miller, Curator of Domestic Life 

Jam Dish and Spoon, 1900 – 1910 

In the 1990s curators sought out Arts and Crafts era objects—especially those made by women—such as this charming silver and enameled jam dish and spoon, made about 1905 by silversmith Mary Winlock. Winlock was educated at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in the 1890s, and in 1903 she joined the Handicraft Shop, an artist cooperative, where she sold her distinctive enameled silver and jewelry. - Charles Sable, Curator of Decorative Arts 

1906 Locomobile "Old 16" Race Car 

The Henry Ford's auto racing collection covers all of the most popular racing types in the United States, and it includes several landmark cars. None may be more significant than "Old 16," winner of the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup. This legendary Locomobile was the first American car to win America's first great international race, and it served notice that American-built cars were every bit as good as their European counterparts. Never restored, "Old 16" still looks much as it did at the time of that victory. We intend to preserve the car just as it is -- a rare and important survivor from motorsport's earliest years. - Matt Anderson, Curator of Transportation 

Photographic print - "Bar Mitzvah Portrait, circa 1925" - Hurwitz Studio (Photographer : Brooklyn, N.Y.) 

During the 1990s, the museum leadership actively sought to represent more diverse American voices at Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village. In response, a collections task force called for an increase in the racial, ethnic, and geographic diversity of the collections. Curators purchased images, like this one, that depicted the lives of African Americans, Jews, and immigrant populations. - Andy Stupperich, Associate Curator, Digital Content 

Environmental Enrichment Panel, "Girls," Designed by Alexander Girard for Herman Miller, 1972 

The Henry Ford's collection of mid-20th century design expanded as the century came to a close. In 1992, the Herman Miller furniture company donated a substantial collection of material designed by Alexander Girard, the Director of Design of Herman Miller's textile division from 1952-1973. Girard's incredible eye for color, texture, and whimsy helped transform the aesthetic of the modern movement. - Katherine White, Associate Curator 

“Lost in Space” Lunchbox and Thermos, 1967 

In the 1990s, the museum assessed its holdings and developed guidelines for future collecting. The acquisition of a group of pictorial lunchboxes in 1999 reflected a new focus on post-World War II America. Introduced in 1950, pictorial lunchboxes relate to mass media, merchandising, and the Baby Boomer generation. Curators selected lunchboxes representing current events and popular culture, especially TV shows and movies. -Saige Jedele, Associate Curator, Digital Content 

FMC Tomato Harvester, 1969 

Large machine designed to harvest a delicate crop - the mass-produced and processed tomato. Tomato genetic research in California made the machine viable but this machine was sold in Ohio to a northern Illinois truck farming family. The story is essential to conveying the massive scale required to put canned tomatoes on grocery store shelves. - Debra Reid, Curator of Agriculture and the Environment 

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France Gall at the tv show 'Vergissmeinnicht' on German TV, Hamburg, Germany, circa 1967. Photo by Gunter Zint🌸