I mean Joanna Lumley, the incredibly talented actress who played Patsy in “Absolutely Fabulous”, one of my favorite TV shows…
Even though, in those years Pats and Eddie hit a little close to home on occasion….
Joanna Lumley really is more than Patsy Stone. She’s an incredibly talented British stage and film actress.
But she will forever be known to many as “Pats”.
Filed under Entertainment, Television
I can’t believe it’s been 30 years since this movie was released….
It’s not the best film in the world, but I do love it…
It’s a guilty pleasure…
Jacqueline Bisset, Candice Bergen, Hart Bochner….all in their prime.
It was the last film George Cukor directed and the first film for Meg Ryan….
Filed under Entertainment, Movies
A trip down memory lane for a few of us…
I kept thinking of missing albums, like Boz Scaggs “Silk Degrees” and Fleetwood Mac’s “Rumors” when I realized they were from the late 1970’s…
I am getting senile…
This has been the first rock roll decade without revolution, or true revolutionaries, to call its own. The Fifties witnessed nothing less than the birth of the music. The Sixties were rocked by Beatlemania, Motown, Phil Spector, psychedelia and Bob Dylan. The Seventies gave rise to David Bowie, Bruce Springsteen, heavy metal, punk and New Wave.
In comparison, the Eighties have been the decade of, among other things, synth pop, Michael Jackson, the compact disc, Sixties reunion tours, the Beastie Boys and a lot more heavy metal. But if the past ten years haven’t exactly been the stuff of revolution, they have been a critical time of re-assessment and reconstruction. Musicians and audiences alike have struggled to come to terms with rock’s parameters and possibilities, its emotional resonance and often dormant social consciousness.
The following survey of the 100 best albums of the Eighties, as selected by the editors of Rolling Stone, shows that the music and the values it stands for have been richer for the struggle. Punks got older and more articulate in their frustration and rage, while many veteran artists responded to that movement’s challenge with their most vital work in years. And rap transformed the face — and voice — of popular music.
via 100 Best Albums of the Eighties | Rolling Stone Music | Lists.
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Very interesting article…
Well worth clicking the link to read in it’s entirety…
In 1975, a Democratic Party emboldened by civil rights, environmental, antiwar, and post-Watergate electoral successes was on the verge of seizing the presidency and a filibuster-proof congressional majority. That year, the Rocky Horror Picture Show and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest were two of the three top-grossing films — the former a parody using the late-sixties sexual revolution to laugh at the puritanical fifties, the latter based on the novel by beat writer Ken Kesey. Meanwhile, three of the top-rated seven television shows were liberal-themed programs produced by progressive icon Norman Lear, including “All in the Family” –a show built around a hippie, Mike Stivic, poking fun at the ignorance of his traditionalist father-in-law, Archie Bunker.
A mere ten years later, Republican Ronald Reagan had just been reelected by one of the largest electoral landslides in American history, and his party had also gained control of the U.S. Senate. Two of the top three grossing films were Back to the Future, which eulogized the fifties, and Rambo: First Blood Part II, which blamed sixties antiwar activism for losing the Vietnam conflict. Most telling, “All in the Family’s” formula of using sixties-motivated youth and progressivism to ridicule fifties-rooted parents and their traditionalism had been replaced atop the television charts by its antithesis: a “Family Ties” whose fifties-inspired youth ridicules his parents’ sixties spirit.
The political and cultural trends these changes typified were neither coincidental nor unrelated, and their intertwined backstories explain why we’re still scarred by the metamorphosis.
MORE: Back to Our Future: How the 1980s Explain the World We Live in Now | | AlterNet.
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Lost in the 21st Century 