Pop culture at its most disturbing
Last Friday would have been the 68th birthday of singer George Harrison, often referred to as “the quiet Beatle.” While Paul McCartney and John Lennon garnered the majority of the attention and headlines during the years the Beatles were active, mostly through their experimentation in the studio and their controversial interviews and lifestyles, George was content to sit in the …
he Telegraph’s new Entertainment page on Facebook is up and running! The Big Bend Arts and Entertainment page will keep tabs on the latest in movies, music, and live entertainment, both throughout the River Bend area and nationwide. Our team of entertainment gurus has been chomping at the bit to get this going, and we truly appreciate all of the …
In 1971, the Brewer & Shipley hit “One Toke Over the Line” hit #10 on the charts. Later that year, the Lawrence Welk show, in an obvious attempt to appeal to “the kids listening to that rock and roll thing so popular these days,” decided to tackle the “modern spiritual” (as Welk referred to the song). What resulted is one …
Up until the very week she died, actress and singer Betty Garrett was active, teaching classes and socializing with friends. The 91-year-old died Saturday of an aortic aneurysm. While a successful Broadway and MGM musical star, Garrett is probably best known for her roles as Irene Lorenzo on “All in the Family” and Edna Babish on “Laverne and Shirley.” As …
10 years after her last solo studio album, Stevie Nicks is back with a brand new CD, In Your Dreams, which will hit stores on May 3. Nicks, the husky-throated singer, songwriter, and member of supergroup Fleetwood Mac, has had more ups and downs than Elizabeth Taylor’s scale. In many ways the very epitome of the celebrity rock and roll …
o there I was, snowed in on a Saturday morning, with a bad case of cabin fever. The one thing that would have made things better would have been to turn on the television and see Wile E. Coyote get hit in the head with an anvil, or see “those meddling kids” solve a mystery, or even see the Banana …
Fans of the English synthpop band The Human League who have been waiting for 10 years for something new will be happy to know the group’s new CD, Credo, is set to hit stores next month. From 1979 through 1983, The Human League gained a fanatical cult following for its groundbreaking forays into dark, atmospheric synthpop. 1979’s album Reproduction is …
CHiPs star busted Larry Wilcox, best known as the “Jon” in the “Ponch and Jon story” on “CHiPs,” has been sentenced to three years of probation and 500 hours of community service for stock fraud. Wilcox, 63, was sued by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission in October of 2007, and he pled guilty to securities fraud last November. …
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