What were your favorite activities back in the 50s?
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Motorik
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Great performance. I particularly like the 'What's your name? What's your name? What's your name? What's your name?' bit. I would put my comb back in my hip pocket and jump in and join that.
Motorik
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'A king-size bust' indeed! I was thinking that myself.
Her beat poetry should make Gil Scott-Heron nervous.
It also reminds me a bit of Lux's little preamble:
Chicken Man
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Yeah, I spent the 50s shouting barely-veiled racist dog whistles from the pulpit, disguised as screeds against the evils of rock and/or roll.
PunkKitty
Horny bag of electric meat
You can still do that.
Gary Blanchard
beloved, local musician
The Fifties, like any other time, were not magical. Like any other time, there were many problems. However, when you are under ten years old, you form memories that stay with you; mostly you hold on to the pleasant memories. That is the joy of nostalgia; you can relive the joys and allow the negative to stay in the past. That is the difference between looking at the 50s as memories rather than history.
The question as stated asks about favorite activities at a certain decade; in reality the answer varies according to your age at the time. My parents obviously enjoyed different activities than I did at that time. If you weren't around, you either look at history books to see what the time was like, and discover a lot of the warts, or you look at TV depictions of the time and get an unrealistic view of the time. (I'm talking about you, Happy Days...!)
The question as stated asks about favorite activities at a certain decade; in reality the answer varies according to your age at the time. My parents obviously enjoyed different activities than I did at that time. If you weren't around, you either look at history books to see what the time was like, and discover a lot of the warts, or you look at TV depictions of the time and get an unrealistic view of the time. (I'm talking about you, Happy Days...!)
I went down another rabbit hole trying to find out whatever became of Phillipa Fallon after this movie, and found nothing but dead ends. There was an ongoing biography blog at https://phillipafallon.blogspot.com/ , but its creator seems to have vanished as well. He mentions that she passed away, but offers no details of when or how. But it sounds like her tomorrows were a king-sized drag.
The beat poem itself was written by Mel Welles, who played Mr. Mushnik in the original Little Shop of Horrors.
Denverdave
Resident Ragamuffin
Non-existence.
Motorik
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Cool rabbit hole! I wonder why her career ground to a halt? That Adam and Eve film sounds wonderfully shit. Mamie Van Doren, Paul Anka, and Mel Tormé together again, hot on the heels of Girls Town. Phillipa Fallon was in excellent z-schlock company.
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