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The Boomer Hall of Fame: So Now It's Okay to Like the Bee Gees?
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The Boomer Hall of Fame. The best of what made us the baby boomer generation: heroes, elders, contemporaries; music, movies,books, tv, arts, science, stuff, insights, events. Friday, May 30, 2014. So Now It's Okay to Like the Bee Gees? Barry Gibbs, the last living Bee Gee, is playing to large crowds in a solo U.S. tour in 2014. He started in the huge Boston Garden, which is where I once saw the Rolling Stones. It's very big. Rolling Stone (the magazine) celebrates this with a collection. Two of the 13 Es...
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The Boomer Hall of Fame: December 2013
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The Boomer Hall of Fame. The best of what made us the baby boomer generation: heroes, elders, contemporaries; music, movies,books, tv, arts, science, stuff, insights, events. Friday, December 27, 2013. RIP 2013: The '70s and '80s. Among those we lost in 2013 that boomers will remember from the 1970s and 80s: Peter O'Toole. Seen here in his singular 1972 film The Ruling Class. The 1980s Surgeon General who spoke out on the health dangers of smoking; actress Marcia Wallace. Of The Bob Newhart. Dolby sound)...
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The Boomer Hall of Fame: R.I.P. 2013: The '70s and '80s
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The Boomer Hall of Fame. The best of what made us the baby boomer generation: heroes, elders, contemporaries; music, movies,books, tv, arts, science, stuff, insights, events. Friday, December 27, 2013. RIP 2013: The '70s and '80s. Among those we lost in 2013 that boomers will remember from the 1970s and 80s: Peter O'Toole. Seen here in his singular 1972 film The Ruling Class. The 1980s Surgeon General who spoke out on the health dangers of smoking; actress Marcia Wallace. Of The Bob Newhart. My unfiltere...
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The Boomer Hall of Fame: May 2014
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The Boomer Hall of Fame. The best of what made us the baby boomer generation: heroes, elders, contemporaries; music, movies,books, tv, arts, science, stuff, insights, events. Friday, May 30, 2014. So Now It's Okay to Like the Bee Gees? Barry Gibbs, the last living Bee Gee, is playing to large crowds in a solo U.S. tour in 2014. He started in the huge Boston Garden, which is where I once saw the Rolling Stones. It's very big. Rolling Stone (the magazine) celebrates this with a collection. Two of the 13 Es...
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The Boomer Hall of Fame: R.I.P. 2014: The 50s and Before
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The Boomer Hall of Fame. The best of what made us the baby boomer generation: heroes, elders, contemporaries; music, movies,books, tv, arts, science, stuff, insights, events. Friday, December 26, 2014. RIP 2014: The 50s and Before. From 1950s TV: comic genius Sid Caesar. Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., star of 77 Sunset Strip. From 1950s music: Phil Everly (left) of the Everly Brothers. Bob Crewe, producer for The Four Seasons and songwriter ("Big Girls Don't Cry."). Posted by Captain Future. Soul of Star Trek.
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The Boomer Hall of Fame: R.I.P. 2014 70s and 80s
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The Boomer Hall of Fame. The best of what made us the baby boomer generation: heroes, elders, contemporaries; music, movies,books, tv, arts, science, stuff, insights, events. Friday, December 26, 2014. RIP 2014 70s and 80s. Several fond figures from TV some boomers in the 70s grew up on: Ralph Waite, the father in The Waltons,. Dave Madden of The Partridge Family. Ann B Davis of The Brady Bunch. John Henson, puppeteer for The Muppets. Film lost Harold Ramis ( Ghostbusters. And filmmaker Wu Tainming.
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SHOPOPOLIS
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Consumer culture: past, present and especially the future.by the author of THE MALLING OF AMERICA. Wednesday, December 24, 2008. Recalling Christmas at Ye Olde Shopping Mall. But one difference over the years has become: many of those fond memories took place in a shopping mall. Routinely berated as cold, indistinguishable and soulless madhouses of over-consumption, these enclosed behemoths have increasingly become the locations of happy, wistful—and important—memories. And Malls of America.com. So peopl...
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SHOPOPOLIS
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Consumer culture: past, present and especially the future.by the author of THE MALLING OF AMERICA. Wednesday, December 24, 2008. Posted by Captain Future. Christmas at the mall. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Captain Future's Dreaming Up Daily. The Donald Chronicles: Rejecting the Hater. A fairly stunning poll of registered Latino voters by Latino Decisions gives Hillary a 70% to 19% advantage. She may not be so popular with the total elec. Soul of Star Trek. Trek50: When It All Began 4. New York Ma...
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SHOPOPOLIS
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Consumer culture: past, present and especially the future.by the author of THE MALLING OF AMERICA. Thursday, April 02, 2009. Once again, the shopping mall is doomed. The death knell has been sounded periodically since the 1980s, even before. The Malling of America. Was first published. Now the sudden and still continuing destruction/reinvention of the financial system and the severe downturn in the American and world economy- the Great Recession- seems to make it certain. Time Magazine hangs its obituary.