Posts Tagged with "80s"

Albert Goldman and Hunter Davies on Beatles Biographies

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

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Albert Goldman and Hunter Davies on Beatles Biographies

This is a two-part news program from 1989, where the author of the muckraking “The Lives of John Lennon” (just released at that time) debates Hunter Davies, the author of “The Beatles” authorized biography from 1968. Davies is very charming, and makes some very good points about Goldman’s tendency to veer off into—well, the nicest [...]

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Yet more for my reading list…

Monday, January 4, 2010

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Yet more for my reading list…

Ellen Langer is a psychology professor at Harvard. I must read this woman’s books! “In 1979, Langer and her students invited two groups of eight men in their late 70s and early 80s to go on a retreat for a week and spend time reminiscing about life 20 years earlier. “When they first showed up [...]

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A few thoughts on John Hughes

Saturday, August 8, 2009

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Last night at 11:45, my wife was in the bathroom, washing bits of Burbank off her face. I was in the bedroom twenty feet away, petting my cat, looking at the moon outside our window. Kate and I were doing the married thing, getting our stories straight after a long day. I’d just come back [...]

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Bit from Letterman (1982)

Friday, May 29, 2009

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Dennis Perrin forwarded me this great bit from the early days of Letterman. Dennis sez, “Starting at the 45 second mark, you’ll see Letterman writers Max Pross, Tom Gammill, George Meyer (in the Dallas Cowboys shirt, sporting an Amish beard), and then Andy Breckman, in the glasses and secular beard. And at 1:31, that’s head [...]

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In Heaven Everything Is Fine

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

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I’ve blogged about Peter Ivers before, the musician and provocateur who cut a legendary figure at late-60s Harvard, and was a confidant of Doug Kenney. I’d run across Peter in my reading every so often, and always suspected that there was an interesting story there. Now I know for sure thanks to a new bio, [...]

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Mike’s 80s Dance Party

Friday, December 21, 2007

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So I’ve finished the umpteenth draft of this Lennon/Beatles novel, which will be going out to editors after the first of the year. Positive mental imaging is, as always, welcome. For reasons much too complicated to go into here, I found myself browsing YouTube for songs I first heard at Chicago’s late, lamented Medusa’s, an [...]

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Food Repair

Wednesday, November 7, 2007

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Dennis Perrin unearthed this great old George Meyer sketch (from “The New Show,” Lorne Michaels’ ill-fated 1984 followup to SNL). I’d never seen it, only read it–it was collected in Laughing Matters, a very nice collection of written humor and cartoons edited by Gene Shalit.

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Lost Lennon Tapes podcast

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

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Somebody’s putting up the old radio show “The Lost Lennon Tapes” as a podcast. Originally aired on Westwood One in the late 80s. Perfect for marinating your brains, should you want to do that.

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Happy Fun Ball

Thursday, August 23, 2007

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The embargo continues. Twelve hours a day on this book. I’d work less, but my boss is a jerk. Meanwhile, behold the power of good writing. (Jon says he thinks it’s Jack Handey.)

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Newsbreaks for Wednesday

Wednesday, June 27, 2007

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Audio version is here. Variety reports that Hugh Hefner is set to be the subject of a new biopic. The movie will be called, “A Beautiful ‘Gine.” It’ll be directed by the guy responsible for X-Men: The Last Stand. Get ready for some really unique CGI. Hefner is a sort of sexual superhero. “Look! Up [...]

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