I recently covered a mini-trend of fascinating and well-researched books lovingly that looked back at goofy super-heroes here. Now that we’re on the cusp of the debut of one of these books, Hero-a-Go-Go, it’s time to take a deeper dive. I cornered author Michael Eury and asked all those questions that I’ve been dying to ask him:
Ed Catto: You reminisce about Jill St. John’s role in the debut episode of the 60s Batman TV series. Isn’t this really the start of the Camp Age?
Michael Eury: Well, as I wrote in my introduction: “No, Batman did not create the camp movement of the Sixties. Yet Batman was its zenith, its very poster child. And from my perspective, it was a wonderful way to go-go.” I can’t pinpoint an exact beginning of the Sixties camp age (I doubt there was a single moment, but instead a growth,...
Ed Catto: You reminisce about Jill St. John’s role in the debut episode of the 60s Batman TV series. Isn’t this really the start of the Camp Age?
Michael Eury: Well, as I wrote in my introduction: “No, Batman did not create the camp movement of the Sixties. Yet Batman was its zenith, its very poster child. And from my perspective, it was a wonderful way to go-go.” I can’t pinpoint an exact beginning of the Sixties camp age (I doubt there was a single moment, but instead a growth,...
- 4/10/2017
- by Ed Catto
- Comicmix.com
It wasn’t that long ago that comics enthusiasts would cringe at all the silliness. It used to be so hard for comic fans to be taken seriously by the world at large. I vividly remember being so enthusiastic about those moody “serious” 70s Batman stories like Night of the Stalker (Detective Comics #439) or There Is No Hope in Crime Alley (Detective Comics #457). But I knew if I ever were to discuss these comics with any non-comics fan, I’d simply get an eye roll and sarcasm along with a “Holy Comics” pun or a “Pow, Zap, Wham” pantomime. There was no respect for comics.
In fact, this led to the adoption of the term “graphic novel” in 1978. Will Eisner coined the phrase to inoculate creative endeavors in sequential art (comics) against the public’s dismissive mindset for all comics.
Today, the world understands that not all comics are silly...
In fact, this led to the adoption of the term “graphic novel” in 1978. Will Eisner coined the phrase to inoculate creative endeavors in sequential art (comics) against the public’s dismissive mindset for all comics.
Today, the world understands that not all comics are silly...
- 12/5/2016
- by Ed Catto
- Comicmix.com
For nostalgic excitement there's no better '60s pop compendium than this! An impossibly eclectic mix of talent at the Santa Monica Civic, in a brilliantly produced live show recorded in the wonder of Electronovision! The lineup is incredible: The Rolling Stones, James Brown and Lesley Gore on the same stage? The T.A.M.I. Show; The Big T.N.T. Show Blu-ray Shout Select (Shout! Factory) 1964 / B&W / 1:66 & 1:85 widescreen / 112 + 93 min. / Electronovision / Collector's Edition / Street Date December 2, 2016 / 29.98 Starring T.A.M.I.: The Beach Boys, The Barbarians, Chuck Berry, The Blossoms, James Brown and The Flames, Marvin Gaye, Gerry and the Pacemakers, Lesley Gore, Jan & Dean, Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, The Supremes, The Rolling Stones Toni Basil, Glen Campbell, Teri Garr, Jack Nitzsche, Leon Russell, Phil Spector, David Winters. T.N.T. David McCallum, Ray Charles, Petula Clark, Bo Diddley, Joan Baez, Phil Spector, The Ronettes,...
- 11/5/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
[Brightcove "4804745844001" "" "" "auto"] Frank Sinatra Jr. - the son of late icon Frank Sinatra - died at the age of 72 on Wednesday. After following in his father's footsteps as a singer, Frank Jr. became a kidnapping victim in 1963. Barry Keenan, who had a connection to the Sinatra family, demanded a ransom for the legend's only son. Speaking to People in 1998, Keenan recalled the kidnapping and claimed to run into Frank Jr. at cocktail parties years later. Read People's original story here:He was in a haze then, flying to the moon on booze and Percodan, but Barry Keenan recalls indelibly the night of Dec.
- 3/17/2016
- by Richard Jerome
- PEOPLE.com
[Brightcove "4804745844001" "" "" "auto"] Frank Sinatra Jr. - the son of late icon Frank Sinatra - died at the age of 72 on Wednesday. After following in his father's footsteps as a singer, Frank Jr. became a kidnapping victim in 1963. Barry Keenan, who had a connection to the Sinatra family, demanded a ransom for the legend's only son. Speaking to People in 1998, Keenan recalled the kidnapping and claimed to run into Frank Jr. at cocktail parties years later. Read People's original story here:He was in a haze then, flying to the moon on booze and Percodan, but Barry Keenan recalls indelibly the night of Dec.
- 3/17/2016
- by Richard Jerome
- PEOPLE.com
Although this article doesn’t explicitly contain any significant spoilers, it is always advisable to watch a film before reading about it too deeply.
In his own words, the intended audience for Russ Meyer’s films was “some guy…in the theatre with semen seeping out of his dick.” His work in the sexploitation subgenre is credited with bringing nudity and sleaze into the American cinematic mainstream and his gravestone declares him ‘King of the Nudies.’ And yet his magnum opus has been reclaimed as a work of female empowerment, a subversive text that has inspired music videos by the Spice Girls and Janet Jackson, lent its name to a New York women’s bar and even been referenced in Xena and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Despite dismissing it after a first viewing in the mid-1970s as “retrograde male-objectification of women’s bodies and desires further embellished by a...
In his own words, the intended audience for Russ Meyer’s films was “some guy…in the theatre with semen seeping out of his dick.” His work in the sexploitation subgenre is credited with bringing nudity and sleaze into the American cinematic mainstream and his gravestone declares him ‘King of the Nudies.’ And yet his magnum opus has been reclaimed as a work of female empowerment, a subversive text that has inspired music videos by the Spice Girls and Janet Jackson, lent its name to a New York women’s bar and even been referenced in Xena and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Despite dismissing it after a first viewing in the mid-1970s as “retrograde male-objectification of women’s bodies and desires further embellished by a...
- 7/12/2015
- by Jamie Lewis
- SoundOnSight
In an earlier Hollyblog post, I reported that motorcycle film maven Peter Starr, now in his early 70s, has been busy promoting motor-scooter and motorcycle road trips for healthy seniors in Taiwan, and now his first foray into all this last year will be leading to more trips being planned, both in Taiwan and in California next fall. And one his friends who has signed up is Dean Torrence of the old 1950s/1960s rock duo ''Jan and Dean.''' Jan Berry, as readers might recall, passed away in 2004. Dean will come to...
- 3/4/2013
- by Dan Bloom
- The Wrap
Some clarification has come in with regard to Bruce Davison's part in Rob Zombie's upcoming The Lords of Salem, and along with that we have a bit of new casting news that's sure to get the hearts of those of you who grew up in the late 60's/early 70's pumping overtime. Yes, that is indeed Peter Brady whom you see in the latest picture posted by Rob on his Facebook page!
But first things first. Here's what Zombie had to say about Bruce joining the film:
I got some good news and I got some bad news. The bad news is that Bruce Dern has fallen out of The Lords Of Salem due to a scheduling conflict. But fear not! We have some great news.. Bruce Davidson [sic] has jumped in to save the day and we all couldn't be more thrilled!
Bruce is known to movie goers...
But first things first. Here's what Zombie had to say about Bruce joining the film:
I got some good news and I got some bad news. The bad news is that Bruce Dern has fallen out of The Lords Of Salem due to a scheduling conflict. But fear not! We have some great news.. Bruce Davidson [sic] has jumped in to save the day and we all couldn't be more thrilled!
Bruce is known to movie goers...
- 10/23/2011
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
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