Marc Webb b. 1974 (Director, The Amazing Spider-Man)
Zack Ward b. 1970 (Transformers, Dollhouse)
Jack Thompson b. 1940 (Star Wars episode II: Attack of the Clones)
Richard Basehart b. 1914 died 17 September 1984 (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)
Many happy returns to the living on our list today. I gave the Picture Slot to the late Richard Basehart because Gypsy on Mystery Science Theater 3000 had a big crush on him.
Songs of the Future!
Prediction:
Toll the bell, pay the private eye
All's well, 20th Century dies.
Predictor: David Bowie, I Have Not Been to Oxford Town, from the album Outside, released 26 September 1995
Reality: The predictions are not really in the lyrics as much as they are in the liner notes. The premise is that many ritual murders will occur at the end of the 20th Century and art critics will be brought in, not to solve the crime but instead to decide whether or not the murder should be considered art.
Looking one day ahead... INTO THE FUTURE!
Sundays belong to The Martian Chronicles for the next few months, and tomorrow the first men set foot on the Red Planet.
Join us then... IN THE FUTURE!
not to solve the crime but instead to decide whether or not the murder should be considered art.
ReplyDeleteWould Jeffrey Dahmer count?
I really liked that album anyway.
Richard Basehart! Richard Basehart!
Yeah, Outside and Earthling were a nice return to the quality we expected from Bowie in the 1970s.
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