Category Archives: cool

Ali McGraw – Chanel Promo

August 25, 2016 – 5:22 pm

Ali McGraw was in LOVE STORY, but she shined in THE GETAWAY with Steve McQueen. They were a cool couple. And those were a cool time. ps Jim Thompson adapted his novel of the same title for the screenplay. Cool. Shot by Sam Peckinpah. Ali’s character Carol Ainsley McCoy betrays him. That still doesn’t stop […]

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Poor Mickey

July 13, 2016 – 2:56 pm

Milleniums and Pokemon fans of all ages are going crazy about the new Pokemon GO game. The addictive throw-back to the 00s has finger-twitchers fluttering their thumbs over cellphones like bees over the flowers of Elysium. My flip-phone doesn’t allow access. But I still like Mickey Mouse. He has no games. No movies. Only the […]

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SANTA BABY – Eartha Kitt

December 18, 2015 – 7:02 am
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WHITE BIRD by It’s a Beautiful Day

February 24, 2015 – 7:53 pm

Maynard G. Krebs made me a beatnik, but songs like WHITE BIRD transformed me into a long haired hippie. David LaFlamme’s plaintive song with the greatest violin solo of the psychedelic era has me hankering for LSD, although listening to this classic by It’s A Beautiful Day is enough to flashback to those days of […]

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Steve McQueen How Cool

October 26, 2014 – 11:37 am

Steve McQueen was the coolest movie star ever. Sean Connery and Clint Eastwood are living icons, but Steve was the champion of cool. Dead or alive. As a child my brothers, sisters, and I attended Our Lady of the Foothills south of Boston. The parochial grammar school heavily tressed the Four Rs of reading, ‘riting, […]

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