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- RETROKIMMER: 1960S INVENTIONS ROCKED THE WORLD
- PATRICK DEMPSEY: JFK... RECKLESS YOUTH
- RETROKIMMER: AT THE MOVIES WITH CANTON BELANGER!
- BRIXTON KEY IS READING "CHARLIE SIX" THIS THURSDAY!!!
| RETROKIMMER: 1960S INVENTIONS ROCKED THE WORLD Posted: 12 Sep 2011 09:08 PM PDT  As I was doing some research tonight I found this invention timeline... Look at the huge inventions of the 1960s! Bar code scanner/video games/computer RAM/and a ton more... Lots of things we now use everyday some 40 years later.. Incredible... The Laser The halogen lamp invented. 1961 Space Flight Valium invented. The nondairy creamer invented. 1962 The audio cassette invented. The fiber-tip pen invented by Yukio Horie. Spacewar, the first computer video game invented. Dow Corp invents silicone breast implants. 1963 The video disk invented. 1964 Acrylic paint invented. Permanent-press fabric invented. BASIC (an early computer language) is invented by John George Kemeny and Tom Kurtz. 1965 Astroturf invented. Soft contact lenses invented. NutraSweet invented. The compact disk invented by James Russell. Kevlar invented by Stephanie Louise Kwolek. 1966 Electronic Fuel injection for cars invented. 1967 The first handheld calculator invented. 1968 The computer mouse invented by Douglas Engelbart. The first computer with integrated circuits made. Robert Dennard invented RAM (random access memory). 1969 The arpanet (first internet) invented. The artificial heart invented. The ATM invented. The bar-code scanner is invented. Read more on inventions HERE  |
| PATRICK DEMPSEY: JFK... RECKLESS YOUTH Posted: 12 Sep 2011 07:45 PM PDT  Yolanda Jilot and Patrick Dempsey JFK Reckless Youth is one of my very favorite DVD's... It is the story of John F Kennedy's early life up to the time he first ran for office in Massachusetts... Patrick Dempsey plays JFK and actually is very impressive in this role... Dempsey really captures the frail health and rowdy party boy the JFK was early in his life... Every one in this cast is great... especially Terry Kinney as father Joseph Kennedy... FULL CAST This film is such an exciting story and I highly recommend it....  |
| RETROKIMMER: AT THE MOVIES WITH CANTON BELANGER! Posted: 12 Sep 2011 06:29 PM PDT  Great news! Retrokimmer.com has a retro movie contributor Canton Belanger... Met Canton on Facebook and he does a lot of film screenings and has invited me a few. Last night the idea to enlist Canton popped in my head and he agreed to help out... So tonight we have 3 of Canton's film picks from the 1960s.... Love his insight and eye for detail.... So grab some popcorn and take a look at Canton's story.... xoRK  PLANET OF THE APES 1968 In the year 1966, a movie idea was pitched at 20th century fox. it has based on the novel by Pierre Boulle, but it went thru many changes and had it's budget cut down until much of it was different from the novel. a early makeup screen test was done with Charlton Heston,Edward G. Robinson and in a early role as a chimp...James Brolin. the innovative makeup earned John Chambers a Oscar. The screenplay was written by Rod Serling and Michael Wilson, Wilson was one of the blacklisted writers during the Hollywood communist hunt of the 1950s. four sequels followed it, each one not as good. Full Cast DR. STRANGELOVE 1964 A brilliant satire of the madness of nuclear annihilation, co-written by director Stanley Kubrick. a tour de force performance by Peter Sellers, he plays three roles, all of them very memorable. Sterling Hayden delivers one of the best written scenes in cinema as general Jack D. Ripper. with George C. Scott delightfully nutty as General Buck Turgidson and his fight with the soviet ambassador in the war room. Also the big as texas turn of Slim Pickens as a B-52 pilot riding a nuclear payload to atomic oblivion. and Keenan Wynn, the son of comic radio legend Ed wynn, as colonel bat guano. plus James Earl Jones in a early role. Full Cast  IT'S A MAD MAD MAD MAD WORLD! 1963 A comedic extravaganza of colossal proportions. nearly every comic or funny man was in it. From the silent and early sound era to the 1950s. Stanley Kramer manages to juggle many wild and outlandish chase scenes. beside the craziness of a bunch of folks after $ 350,000 in stolen cash, are the many fights an fistacuffs between Milton Berle and Terry Thomas, Jonathan Winters and Arnold Stang and Marvin Kaplan, Ethel Merman, Sid Caesar, Dick Shawn, Phil Silvers, Peter Falk, Spencer Tracy, Buddy Hackett, Edie Adams and many others. all proving it is a very mad world. The screenplay was written by a husband and wife team and won the Oscar for best sound editing. Full Cast |
| BRIXTON KEY IS READING "CHARLIE SIX" THIS THURSDAY!!! Posted: 12 Sep 2011 01:58 PM PDT  This Thursday my friend Brixton Key will be reading from his novel "Charlie Six"! Brixton was so lovely to send me an autographed copy of his book and I loved reading it! Iam such a fan of London in the 60's and that is exactly where Charlie Six begins.... Brixton's Reading will be: Next to the old Fab Mab in Rowland Alley 443 Montgomery Street, San Francisco Thursday, September 15th, 2011, at 6:15 PM Brixton Key's reading will be followed by a party at Specs Adler Museum Café, 12 William Saroyan Place, (Montgomery and Columbus Avenue)  |
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