20 Feet from Stardom
Carrie
Big Sur
Dashiell Hammett's The Dain Curse (complete mini series) (2 disc set)
The Many Loves Of Dobie Gillis: Season Two
Yo La Tengo Tree Doll
DVD and Blu-ray new releases January 14, 2014: 20 Feet from Stardom; Carrie; Big Sur; Dobie Gillis; Yo La Tengo, more!
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20 Feet from Stardom
Carrie
Big Sur
Dashiell Hammett's The Dain Curse (complete mini series) (2 disc set)
The Many Loves Of Dobie Gillis: Season Two
Yo La Tengo Tree Doll
20 Feet from Stardom
Carrie
Big Sur
Dashiell Hammett's The Dain Curse (complete mini series) (2 disc set)
The Many Loves Of Dobie Gillis: Season Two
Yo La Tengo Tree Doll
Pop tweets
American butter consumption is the highest its been in 40 years. Which is now also the average American lifespan.
— Stephen Colbert (@StephenAtHome) January 8, 2014
Bulletin: Kim Jong-Un willing to give up nuclear program to Harlem Globetrotters.
— Albert Brooks (@AlbertBrooks) January 8, 2014
Chris Christie is throwing aides under the bus. But the bus isn't going anywhere due to lane closures on the George Washington Bridge.
— Mark Evanier (@evanier) January 9, 2014
Pop focus: Mary Poppins 1964
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of its release this year, and the subject of a docu-drama about its creation ("Saving Mr. Banks"), "Mary Poppins" stands as one of Disney's live-action classics - perhaps the best and most acclaimed of the lot.
I enjoy the film and have watched it numerous times with my kids. I chalk up the appeal to a great cast -- Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, Glynis Johns, et. al. -- and strong, memorable music. The music was hugely popular at the time, which a number of recording stars covering various songs. Duke Ellington, for example, did an entire album of Poppins tunes, and Louis Armstrong and John Coltrane both recorded versions of "Chim Chim Cheree."
Poppins' creator P.L. Travers reportedly disliked the film and fought Disney trying to make it (which is the plot of "Mr. Banks"), and I must confess to having never read the original Mary Poppins books. Maybe I should. At any rate, below is a selection of film memorabilia and videos, including a documentary about Travers.
Original trailer:
World premiere:
Julie Andrews wins Best Actress for Mary Poppins:
BBC documentary: Secret Life of Mary Poppins
I enjoy the film and have watched it numerous times with my kids. I chalk up the appeal to a great cast -- Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, Glynis Johns, et. al. -- and strong, memorable music. The music was hugely popular at the time, which a number of recording stars covering various songs. Duke Ellington, for example, did an entire album of Poppins tunes, and Louis Armstrong and John Coltrane both recorded versions of "Chim Chim Cheree."
Poppins' creator P.L. Travers reportedly disliked the film and fought Disney trying to make it (which is the plot of "Mr. Banks"), and I must confess to having never read the original Mary Poppins books. Maybe I should. At any rate, below is a selection of film memorabilia and videos, including a documentary about Travers.
Original trailer:
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| Dick Van Dyke, Walt Disney and Julie Andrews |
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| Julie Andrews, Walt Disney and P.L. Travers |
Julie Andrews wins Best Actress for Mary Poppins:
BBC documentary: Secret Life of Mary Poppins
Captain Action: Marvel figure on the way
BBC Radio 4 spotlights Motown's spoken word label
Listen here.
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In 1970, Berry Gordy set up a Motown spoken word label. It was called Black Forum and recorded poetry, civil rights speeches, African-American soldiers in Vietnam and more, before closing in 1973 after eight releases.
In recent years, those releases have started to attract interest and some have been reissued. What has been revealed is a powerful testament to the African-American experience at a turbulent time in American society. Financial educator and spoken word record collector Alvin Hall listens to the recordings and talks to those who were involved in their making.
Pop culture roundup: Jack Kirby! John Buscema! Superman!
Here's an awesome Galactus pic by Jack Kirby via Cap'n's Comics:
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More great comics art: A tribute to Marvel artist Big John Buscema.
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Superman was a smash hit when he arrived in Action Comics in 1938, but it took the character's creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster more than four years of pitching the idea -- which they viewed as a newspaper comic strip -- before DC Comics paid them nearly nothing for the character. Why so long? And who, at DC, "discovered" Superman? Comics historian R.C. Harvey takes a long look.
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More great comics art: A tribute to Marvel artist Big John Buscema.
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Superman was a smash hit when he arrived in Action Comics in 1938, but it took the character's creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster more than four years of pitching the idea -- which they viewed as a newspaper comic strip -- before DC Comics paid them nearly nothing for the character. Why so long? And who, at DC, "discovered" Superman? Comics historian R.C. Harvey takes a long look.
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