The sad and heartbreaking reality of Shelley Duvall’s mental health
“Oh, we went to a party, found a girl, and you’ve got to meet her. She is special!” Robert Altman remembered being told after screenwriter…
Television Archives: 11/2016
Comedy gold: The Beastie Boys’ hilarious ‘Hello Nasty’ late-night infomercial
Ad-Rock as John, the over enthusiastic audience member at a juice extractor demonstration. I was up late one San Fernando valley evening in 1998, channel…
A young Kate Bush performs in a musical fantasia from Holland, 1978
The opening music to Kate Bush’s career is in the key of C. One day, sometime in 1970, Kate’s father–a doctor by profession–showed his daughter…
Killing Joke, Nick Cave, The Damned & Billy Idol lip-synching for their lives on 80s television
Jaz Coleman of Killing Joke looking a bit confused about how the band ended up on German music television program ‘Musik Convoy.’ As a frequent…
Behind-the-scenes footage of David Bowie & Amanda Lear from ‘The 1980 Floor Show’
Soon after David Bowie’s brief “retirement” he was already busy preparing for his first big public appearance since (apparently) leaving showbiz. The 1980 Floor Show,…
‘Tricky Dick’ Nixon trolls Humphrey with the most avant-garde political TV ad ever produced, 1968
In the presidential election this year, Donald Trump has been happy to paint himself as the “law and order” candidate with much talk of American…
Floor plans of the homes from ‘Stranger Things,’ ‘Breaking Bad,’ ‘Mr. Robot,’ and other TV shows
Floor plans of the domiciles of fictional characters is not a new concept. As far back as the 1990s, an artist named Mark Bennett had…
Chrissie Hynde and The Pretenders get bombarded by cream pies (and worse) on kids TV show
The Pretenders giving zero fucks. If you grew up as a kid in the UK during the mid-70s through to the early 80s it’s a…