Let’s rewind the videotape and revisit a classic second in The Dick Van Dyke Present. Within the 1962 episode referred to as “Hustling the Hustler,” Mary Tyler Moore (as Laura Petrie) performs pool and sinks three balls in a single shot. The original plan was to splice in footage of a professionalfessional pool player making…
“Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 28, 1986” first appeared in print in Tornado Alley, a chapguide published by William S. Burroughs in 1989. Two years later, Gus Van Sant (Good Will Hunting, My Personal Private Idaho, Milk) shot a montage that introduced the poem to movie, making it at the least the second time the director adapted the beat author to…
The 80-second clip above captures a rocket launch, somefactor of which we’ve all seen footage at one time or another. What makes its viewers name it “the niceest shot in television” nonetheless immediately, 45 years after it first aired, could take multiple viewing to note. In it, science historian James Burke speaks about how “certain…
David Bowie all the time managed to look cool, even when he was being booked for a felony. In early 1976, Bowie was on his “Isolar” tour, pertypeing because the Skinny White Duke, a persona he would describe as “a really Aryan fascist sort — a would-be romantic with no emotions in any respect.” Bowie…