Category Archives: 70s

SCREAMS IN THE EARS – Billy Fay

February 22, 2012 – 1:33 pm
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KICK OUT THE JAMS by Peter Nolan Smith

February 20, 2012 – 5:21 pm

In the fall of 1969 my all-boys parochial school competed with the other Catholic high schools in Boston to sell the most chocolate bars for an arch-diocesan charity. The prize for most sales was a concert by a band from Elektra Records. Most of those schools were located within 128, while ours had access to [...]

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LITTLE GTO / NEW YORK BLONDES

February 17, 2012 – 4:34 pm
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FIRST ENCOUNTER by Peter Nolan Smith

February 16, 2012 – 1:04 pm

America was in a deep recession during the summer of 1974 and I had returned to Boston after a two-month hitchhiking trip across the USA to discover that banks and corporations weren’t hiring long-haired college graduates. I finally found work at the Shaba, an Israeli restaurant on Beacon Hill, as the cook. I had never [...]

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Ben Gazzara RIP

February 5, 2012 – 7:18 am

The actor Ben Gazarra passed away last week. He starred in TV and movies for over sixty years, but I will always remember him from his staggering honest role as a luckless LA strip club owner. The 1976 John Cassavetes film opens with Cosmo Vitelli paying off a gambling debt to a loanshark at a [...]

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