When they started, the reigning tastemakers at Rolling Stone considered them Beatles Lite. So it's okay to like the Bee Gees now? Finally? They suggest that David Bowie essentially copied the Bee Gees in his early albums. The accompanying paragraphs are laudatory.
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Rolling Stone (the magazine) celebrates this with a collection of YouTube versions of "13 Essential Barry Gibb Tracks," most of them from the Bee Gees, beginning in the late 60s. He started in the huge Boston Garden, which is where I once saw the Rolling Stones. In that regard it turns out they were science fiction, at least so far.īarry Gibbs, the last living Bee Gee, is playing to large crowds in a solo U.S.
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The difference may be that some of us were opened to possibilities of real science speculations in the Bell series and other documentaries by fictional stories in which an international team of scientists convinces leaders of a mortal threat to the planet, and the world unites to overcome the threat. Today, a lot of deniers count on the angry scoffing of what they would like to believe is the science fiction of the climate crisis.īut we're all facing its reality now. Imaginative stories that used scientific what-ifs got two basic responses in the 50s-very negative (from embarrassment to angry scoffing) and very positive, because the ideas as well as the action were stimulating. For me they came at an age that I wanted to be a scientist, before the realities of math overcame the romance of the scientist who saves the world, and not incidentally rescues the beautiful girl. I'm sure we were captivated as well by color if we saw these in school, as well as by the high level of filmmaking skill and familiar stars.
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The combination of FBI man on TV and sci-fi scientist gave him a weird sort of credibility with both adults and children. (You'll see just a moment of him in the above one-minute excerpt.) Baxter, and it's recognizing him that brought these all back to me) and a "fiction writer," played in this episode by actor Richard Carlson, who also directed it. The basic interplay in the film is between a science expert (Dr. Shot in technicolor, several of the films won Emmys in various categories.
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Smith Goes To Washington, Meet John Doe etc.) Disillusioned with Hollywood (and/or vice versa) in the Blacklist era, he used his science schooling and filmmaking chops to create these, which included technical as well as narrative innovations that became standard for both documentaries and feature films. This was the fourth and last of the specials produced and written by the eminent Hollywood filmmaker Frank Capra ( Mr. "The Unchained Goddess" about weather was the one that mentioned global heating, in a characteristically dramatic way. There were 8 of these specials made in the decade of 1954-64, each on a specific subject. If we didn't see them on TV, we saw them run from film projectors in school. I remember these programs, as I'm sure lots of Baby Boomers do. (I still have the paperback copy I first read then.)īut this video is fascinating in itself. Though as a high school student I knew of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring (which I saw on the Best Seller List in 1963), it was Udall's 1963 book, The Quiet Crisis, that began my education on environmental matters. This included a specific warning in a 1965 message to Congress by President Lyndon Johnson-when the far-seeing Stewart Udall was still Secretary of Interior (he was appointed by JFK), with responsibility for environmental matters before they got their own cabinet secretary in the Nixon administration. He gave more historical examples to show that global heating has been a topic of concern for longer than generally realized.