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promo: caress their chest with a tea towel
Today is apparently “discreetly give the finger to people all day today” Not surprisingly, it follows yesterday which was “be gay for a day” which was marked by a lot of frottage and flirting overtures, but the clientele did behave … Continue reading
the 1950′s : early stirrings of disaffection
…and a list of some of the leading Hollywood movie stars of the fifties is enough to strike a chill into the heart of cineastes everywhere-Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, Kim Novak, Tony Curtis, Rory Calhoun, Rock Hudson, Debra Paget, Robert … Continue reading
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Tagged 1950's American cinema, Debbie Reynolds, Doris Day, Elia Kazan, George Stevens Director, James Dean, James Dean East of Eden, James Dean Giant 1956, John Steinbeck, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Rock Hudson, Shelby Legnon, The 1950's American culture, The 1950's decade
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the fifties: getting funky with disaffection
Must we be nostalgic about the 1950′s? Hardly the Golden Age many make it out to be. If we turn over the shiny stone, there were more than a few creepy-crawlers underneath… James Dean created a character who reflected the … Continue reading
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Tagged 1950's American Civil Rights movement, Arthur Shore, Autherine Lucy, Charles Mingus, David Dennis Freedom Rider, Freedom Riders, James Dean, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Martin Luther King, Orval Faubus, paul schutzer photography, senator joseph mccarthy, Thurgood Marshall
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if our memory serves us well
The social delinquent and adolescent rebel as artistic archetype. As long as one keeps rebelling, raging, one guarantees they can never change and grow old. Grow into maturity. It became one of the pathologies of the romantic movement, to die … Continue reading
happy days: manufacture of innocence
Halfway through the 1950′s , in the summer of 1955, Life ran an article entitled Nobody is Mad With Nobody.” In the text, in which, next to photographs of things like two car suburban garages marked “his” and “hers”, the … Continue reading
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Tagged Caril Fugate, Charlie Starkweather, elmo roper, Fred J. Cook, Friedrich Nietzsche, gil elvgren, Helen Levitt, James Dean, John Updike, jules aarons, kevin phillips, Norman Rockwell, president eisenhower, Richard Halpern, Rick Salutin, robert woodruff coca cola, Slavoj Zizek, the 1950's, Tim Roth, tim roth murder in the heartland
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spooked: after midnight
getting spooky. And it all began with Helena Blavatsky and her spiritualist movement, then assumed a distinct identity within popular American culture… Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): What do the Cramps, Gwar, Alice Cooper, Marilyn Manson, Blackstone the Magician, David Copperfield, penn … Continue reading
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Tagged bela lugosi, ben nelsom, ben nelson, blackstone, gwar, Helena Blavatsky, Helene Petrovna Blavatsky, herschel gordon lewis, James Dean, john waters, Marilyn Manson, Marilyn Monroe, ray dennis steckler, rob zombie, The Cramps, william castle
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CELEBRITY as COMMODITY FETISH: Recycle Those Tropes and Posers
For better or worse….Celebrities are not diversions for our society anymore; they are the basis of our social and economic lives.The worship of celebrity, for many is a religion fabricated and patented piecemeal out of the hollowness of some foregone … Continue reading
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Tagged Alvin Toffler, Britney Spears, Carl Jung, Chris Crocker, Daniel Finkelstein, David Sarnoff, David Willets, Ellen Burstyn, Glenn Beck, Grace Kelly, Greta Garbo, Guillaume Reymond, Gwyneth Paltrow, Henry Jenkins, James Dean, James E. Combs, Jean Burgess, Jonathan McIntosh, Marilyn Monroe, Michael Buckley, Neil Cicerega, Pauline Kael, Pop Culture Hackers, Robert Fulford, Sigmund Freud, Susan Boyle, Tay Zonday, Tim Smith
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