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...Older Pop Culture
Headlines...
It was 40 years
ago today…
* San
Francisco Chronicle
* New
York Times
* The
Christian Science Monitor
* Akron
Beacon/Cox News Service
• Tupperware
a "tool for liberation"? (San Francisco Chronicle)
•
It's
official: National
Lampoon's Animal House a national treasure. (New York Times)
• The
new American temple: the home theater. (New York Times)
• Can
the impossible dream of a low-carb pizza ever become reality? (AP/Yahoo!)
• The
thrift-store LP find of the decade—of an artist who never really
existed. (New York TImes)
• Porno
stars infiltrate mainstream media; nation reels in shock for split second.
(AdAge.com)
• Original
Elvis studio tape to be destroyed for profit? (New York Times)
• Recent
passings in pop culture…
* Bob Keeshan, TV's Captain Kangaroo. (New
York Times, Seattle
Times, Mercury
News)
* Helmut Newton, populizer of fetish photography. (Deutsche
Welle, Washington
Post, New
York Times)
* Noel
Toy Young, first Chinese American fan dancer. (San Francisco Chronicle)
* George
Woodbridge, MAD Magazine illustrator. (AP/Newsday)
* Former
Tonight Show host Jack Paar. (New York Times)
• The Apple
Macintosh hits its 20th anniversary. (San
Francisco Chronicle, Mercury News: story
1, story
2, original
1984 story)
• Japanese
pop culture becomes global superpower:
* Washington
Post
* The
Japan Times
* The
Korea Times
* Sydney
Morning Herald
* Los
Angeles Times
* International
Herald Tribune (Bloomberg News)
* Japan
Today
• From
sacred icon to pop-culture product: Our Lady of Guadalupe. (Seattle Times)
•
From pop-culture product to sacred icon: The Simpsons. (Deseret News)
• Pop
culture reduced to subject of academic study. (Philadelphia Inquirer)
• Parents
naming children after pop-culture characters. Including Neo. (The Express
Times)
• A
farewell to 2003's dearly departed—and less well-known—pop-culture
figures. (gomemphis.com)
• Retro
knows no bounds: Vintage trailer homes attain hipness. (New York Times)
• Scrapbooking:
Why? (New York Times)
• Video
game nostalgia: Is it all about the gameplay? (Slate)
• Wrestling
as… art? (San Francisco Chronicle)
• Levi's
no longer "born in the USA." (Arizona Republic) (Star-Telegram)
• First
Vargas pin-up painting for Playboy stolen from gallery. (San Francisco
Chronicle)
• Space
Invaders launch new invasion, vow revenge.(Reuters/USA Today)
• Early
African American movies restored. (AP/Yahoo!) (Southern
Methodist University)
• Mickey
Mouse celebrates 75th birthday with more products to buy. (AP/miami.com)
• Pop
culture bad for kids.(New York Daily News)
• Pop
culture bad for women. (Insight On the News)
• Pop
culture bad for homeless. (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
• Beard
mania erupts at www.nationalbeardregistry.org (AP/cleveland.com)
• Magnetic
poetry hits 10th anniversary. (Knight-Ridder/ContraCost times.com)
• Looney
Tunes finally arrive on DVD—to some complaints.(AP/Yahoo!)
• A
history of CalArts, educator of this generation's greatest animators.
(San Francisco Chronicle)
• Sheb
Wooley, scribe behind "Purple People Eater," passes away. (AP/Yahoo!)
• Recreational
nudity goes mainstream? (Knight-Ridder/bradenton.com)
• Wham-O
decries David Spade (and his movie). (San Francisco Chronicle/AP)
• Santo
returns! (San Francisco Chronicle)
• Fifty
years of tabloid muckraking to be destroyed. (New York Times)
• Home
movies as history at the San Francisco Media Archive. (San Francisco Chronicle)
• Outdoor
movie theaters (not drive-ins) becoming more popular? (USA Today)
• Thomas Kellogg, designer behind the Studebaker Avanti, passes away.
(New
York Times, San
Francisco Chronicle)
• Of
all the brands to hate, why do so many people despise Starbucks the most?
(San Francisco Chronicle)
• Widescreen
cinema projects some anniversary retrospectives. (New York Times)
• Rubik's
Cube fanaticism refuses to get scrambled as decades pass. (San Francisco
Chronicle)
• Sam Phillips, the Memphis record producer who changed American
history, passes away:
USA Today; New York Times: 1,
2;
telegraph.co.uk,
NPR,
Rolling
Stone, mtv.com,
eonline.com
• Come
visit the Ernie K-Doe shrine! (New York Times)
• GI
Joe turns 40, fails to find someone to play with. (Reuters/Yahoo!)
• VH-1
declares Oprah Winfrey the "number one pop culture icon." A
nation yawns. (AP/Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
• TV's
original ethnic sit-com sees a revival. (New York Times)
• Volkswagen
retires the original, septuagenarian Beetle. (New York Times)
• Slot
machines pillage retro pop culture (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
• John
Strejan, "grand master" of the pop-up book, passes away. (New
York Times)
• Is
Playboy for old fogies? (New York Times)
• The
"TV Dinner" hits its 50th anniversary. (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Vatican
declares Harry Potter non-satanic; could evangelists possibly be wrong?
(AP/Yahoo!)
• Al
Hirschfeld, caricaturist without peer, passes away. (New York Times)
• Journalists
investigate the disappearance of Michael Jackson's nose. (Reuters/Yahoo!)
• Discoverer
of the rare jackelope passes away. (New York Times)
• Pop
culture to blame for the acceptance of older woman/young boy romances?
(Tennessean)
• The
Simpsons to become the longest-running sit-com ever. (eonline.com)
• British
Medical Journal studies Playboy centerfolds. (AP/Yahoo!)
• Bigfoot
stomps off to happy hunting ground. (AP/Yahoo!)
• "Bullwinkle"
animator dies in accident (Reuters/cnn.com)
• Hip-hop
snacks for your little homies are here. (AP/Yahoo!)
• Graceland
lifts ban on Elvis impersonators; nation rejoices. (gomemphis.com)
• MTV
pop stars help bring back burlesque? Sort of. (mtv.com)
• Smithsonian
lunch box exhibit goes on tour. (AP/Yahoo!)
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